It was the man that Gray bumped into, the one with the glasses…
I debated opening the door at all but I know he heard the shower and the bathroom door open. So ignoring will only make him bother me more.
So I threw some clothes on from my luggage in the closet next to the door and put the chain on before opening it just a crack.
"Do you need something?"
"Is your fiancé home?" The image of Gray bumping into him surfaced in the back of my mind.
"No. why?" I watched the man sway and he made me question if he was sober… after going without a response for a while I decided I would try to close the door before he got any wise ideas.
"Okay well, imma just go bye." With that, I slammed the door and backed away. I got a glimpse of myself in the mirror and grimaced.
I'm glad that it wasn't Gray who knocked because I looked like a spilled pack of skittles… being so multi-colored only annoyed me so I changed to be more comfortable. Throwing on an oversized shirt and taking off my pants so I could go to sleep feeling comfortable. I didn't have time to throw on a bra and made no effort to throw one on now. After a while, the knocking disappeared and I decided to get comfortable in bed for the night. An hour later I was awakened by an even louder knock that scared me out of my sleep. I waddled over to the door quietly and noticed that… it wasn't the same man as before but I didn't recognize this man either. He had a bushy mustache and grey eyes. He seemed angrier… more adamant on getting in shouting things like "babe let me in" so that people passing by wouldn't question him but then my neighbors stepped out and I guess they noticed that something was wrong with what they saw.
Apparently, there was someone else standing just out of sight of the peephole and they called them out for being shady. They told them that they had the wrong room and that the door they were knocking on was an empty room. The man immediately stopped knocking and thanked the women for telling him, then he walked away then they turned to the second man and he started speaking with a heavy slur. The couple got annoyed and yelled at him to go away, and when he walked past the peephole I knew that those two men were in it together.
The couple leaned against my door and I thanked them through it. They calmly watched the men leave and then responded.
"Listen I feel like they will be back so we are gonna call the police to your room for you okay? We'll tell them what happened and you can give them details that you know okay?"
"Okay."
"Don't open the door. We have to leave now but please stay safe."
"You too, thank you." And with that, they stopped leaning on my door and left.
Not long after the men returned to pester me making creepy comments like "don't be scared we just wanna talk" "let us keep you company" and "I know you're in there show us your pretty face."
The pestering lasted for about half an hour before the police came up and scared the men away. When they came to knock on the door I opened it.
"Hello, ma'am we received a call about two men causing a disturbance to your room."
"Yes, that's correct. They just recently left and I watched them go that way." I pointed down the hall. "One had a green shirt, the other had... like a red one."
"So the two we saw walking down the opposite stairwell just now." He tapped his partner and started making their way down the hall "Thank you, ma'am, just stay in your room. We'll be back if we have any questions."
I sighed… so now I'm stuck in my room. Fifteen minutes go by and there is a normal knock on the door. I rolled my eyes and opened the door fully expecting the police again.
I should have used the peephole.
"Answering the door with no bra or pants on, damn she really is a slut." I froze up. I didn't mean to open the door for these two, they were just calmly standing at my door as if they were waiting for permission to enter… Well, one was the second one with the mustache was stepping closer like he fully intended to push me out of the way and make himself at home.
I stepped a bit back so that when I slammed the door I wouldn't be in the way. I counted to three in my head then I attempted to slam the door. I was so close but the second man stopped the door and tried to push it back open.
"Ah, ah, ah, gorgeous, keep us company for a while, will you? I'm sure you get asked that a lot."
"Go away, I don't know you."
"But we definitely know you, Ludo."
"Who are you, what do you want?" The entire time we were talking I was thinking of a good way to get him out of the room enough to lock the door and call for help.
"Don't worry Ludo… we'll be well acquainted soon enough. Now be a good hostess and let us in." I then got the bright idea of how to get him out of my room.
"Fine but you… you can't stay for long."
"We know, your fiancé will be back any moment."
I let the second man push a bit into the room before punching him in the throat and pushing him out. The first man caught my wrists so I kneed him in the balls then kicked him out of the room too. Slamming the door and pulling the chain on as well, you know… for good measure.
I subconsciously moved to the other side of the room and hid on the far side of the bed while trying to call Gray.
"You bitch open the damn door!"
"Let me in you fucking whore!"
"Open the goddamn door!" The first call went to voicemail. I quickly hung up and tried again.
Please pick up please, please.
The second call went through. I have never been so happy for someone to answer the phone. I quickly explained the reason I was calling so late and he immediately got into his car and started making his way over to me.
"I'm not fucking playing! Open up this goddamn door!"
I stayed hidden behind the bed trying to hold back the tears that were starting to blur my vision at this point. I was terrified. Every slam on the door made me jump and every yelled threat made me more and more worried why did all of this have to happen today.
I just want to go to sleep… Do creeps not sleep?
But then I heard the slam of a car door come from Gray's side of the phone, then I heard the lobby, then I heard the echo of the two men's voices. He was outside of my door and I quickly prepared myself to call the front desk for the police.
The mention of me being his fiancée made me start looking for the ring that I had brought along with me, but while I looked, the slam against my room's wall made me stop and pay more attention to what was happening on his side of the phone. The fact that he was alright made me get ready to put on a show. I readied myself at the door and waited for a moment, it got silent. I double-checked where Gray was through the peephole. When it finally got quiet I burst out of the door and almost tackled Gray kissing him deeply and greeted him like I hadn't seen him all day asking him about his day like I wasn't told what he was doing before he left.
To my surprise, my unwanted guests were gone and I did all that acting for nothing but it's okay… I got a kiss and a hug out of it. I needed that type of attention really badly.
I wonder if he could feel me trembling?
He and I walked into the room and he helped me calm down whether he knew he did or not. He threw my ugly ring as far as he could manage and promised me a new one which made my heart damn near explode. I placed my hand on his thigh because I just wanted to be in some type of physical contact, but when I did I felt him flinch a bit. When I looked at his face his gaze darted to the distant ocean and his face turned red. So I did what any woman does when she finds out she is distracting a man she's into… I teased him more.
I brought my hand high on his thigh and let my fingertips rest closer to his inner thigh. Then he warned me on how I should watch my hands so I brought my hand back down to his knee before standing up and spreading his legs by the knees. I paused a bit because I had two options come to mind. The first one was to get to my knees and unbuckle his belt and undo the button on his jeans before standing up and walking in the room, and the second option was to put my knee as close to his dick and balls so that every subtle movement I made he felt it and then whisper in his ear. I chose the latter of course. It distracted him so much he started stuttering. I then stood up and walked into the room.
Please follow.
He followed
He met me on the bed where we made out and… well you know.
The only thing that could say about that whole two hours was holy shit. He went feral and I loved it. His growls, his commands, his bites everything, they melted my brain and there is no amount of amnesia that will make me forget the feeling of being absolutely destroyed. It makes me a little hot and bothered just thinking about it honestly. But yeah… that happened… twice. Oh and note to self never put yourself in a vulnerable position when you're teasing someone bigger than you, he stole control right away, while still under me.
Fuck.
I'm getting too carried away… anyway… we went to sleep after taking a quick shower and got up the next morning.
"Hey, Aurora, time to awaken from your slumber." I opened my eyes just to roll them at him. He then stuck his hand out to me and immediately blushed, staring at the floor.
At first, I was confused, then I saw my reflection in the mirror behind him. My torso had bite marks and hickeys everywhere and hickeys and bite marks around my bandages on my neck.
"I don't think any dress casual clothing will cover all of that." He chuckled and looked kind of disappointed or ashamed.
"I don't mind it but I don't know what I can wear."
"If you don't want to go then you don't have to come. I'll pick you up afterward."
"No, I'll go! You look like you really want me to go. I'll just cover most of it up with makeup. Can you help me take off the bandage and put on a band-aid?"
"Yeah sure, here."
"Thanks."
After he helped take off the bandage holding the gauze in place he helped me tape a bandage over my stitches and I covered most of the marks around my collar and neck.
"Do I look okay?"
"Yeah, you should be able to wear a majority of the formal wear that won't lead to heatstroke." He smiled while he spoke to me. I couldn't help but feel safe when he looked at me like that.
"I'm gonna do my hair as prof- ow."
"What's wrong?!"
"It's my stitches lifting my left arm stings a bit. I guess the medicine wore off." he chuckled while taking the comb and brush from me.
"I guess so. Here I'll put your hair in a bun. Will that be okay with you?"
"That was my initial idea so I guess that's fine."
"Great minds think alike, I guess."
"That's always been true thus far." He finally started doing my hair and I closed my eyes. I always loved when others played with my hair. That's why I always tried to keep my hair soft and long, this was no different.
"Your hair is so soft and it smells nice, sorry if that's weird."
"No, it's fine."
"Okay cool." he then finished my hair and asked if it looked okay. I turned my face side to side and nodded.
"Yep, that looks great. I'm gonna go take my medicine, my neck is starting to really sting."
After I was all set and he was all dressed we were off to the store. We bought some formal clothes and then headed back to his place so he could change into the clothes he already owned. He pointed me to one of the spare rooms and I changed in there, taking in the beautiful condo… it was so big and spacious and Julian was working hard to keep things clean in the living room. Just before I could completely exit the room I got a call from my boss back in Delaware.
"Hey is this Luanne? Luanne Trainer?"
"Yeah, it's me Kev, what's up?"
"Hey, yeah so we just got an anonymous call telling us that you assaulted them and sent them to the hospital so I'm calling to tell you that you are fired and that your last paycheck will be mailed to you."
"Wait what!? That's not fair! You didn't even investigate, and an anonymous caller? Did that anonymous caller tell you that he went to the hospital for wounds given to him after I defended myself? Did he also tell you that he sliced the whole right side of my neck and sent me to the hospital needing stitches and now has a restraining order against him?"
"Well…"
"I guess not, huh?"
"You're still fired, we can't have you ruining the good name of our store."
"Are you fucking kidding me?!?"
"Goodbye."
"Don't you fucking da-" I lost my fucking mind once I heard the tone. There is no way in hell that snake bastard got me fired from a bar he doesn't even fucking go to.
I called back three times in a row and went straight to voicemail every time.
"You have to be fucking kidding me!" I debated throwing my phone then decided to do just that. I went outside and smashed my phone. I needed to buy myself a new one anyway.
"That fucking bastard got me fired from my fucking job… you know what? He wants to be petty I can be fucking petty too."
"What will you do?" I heard his voice and took a moment to calm down before turning to face him.
"I'm going to pay a little visit to a commanding officer." My jaw just continued to twitch while I thought of what I would say.
"I see. So then you will need a way onto base and back off. I can ask Julian to give you a ride to and from."
"Sure but not today. After he relaxes and thinks he's untouchable." I could swear that I heard him breathe a sigh of relief.
"Cool, so we're still on for tonight?" I smiled and grabbed his hand.
"We're still on for today."
"Okay then, well then we really should get going, I don't want to be late."
"Where are we going anyway?"
"A family day before the grand opening and office party."
"Office party?"
"It's the celebration on the higher upside of the company kind of congratulating me on the new grand opening."
"I see."
"So when is all of this happening?"
"Well… Today is a family day of sorts for the new workers of the bar here in Puerto Rico. Then Saturday is the grand opening, and then Tuesday is the office party."
"Busy schedule… but I didn't hear anything from tomorrow to Wednesday…"
"Are you asking me on a week's worth of dates?"
"Yep, sure am."
"Hmph well see. You'll need to behave for me today, okay?" He pulled me by the waist and looked me in the eyes. Of course, I melted under his gaze and nodded in agreement. He then leaned down and rested his chin on my left shoulder.
"That's my good girl, now let's get going shall we?" I felt a shiver down my spine as his voice talked me into a dirty place in my mind. I want to see his punishment. I let him lead me to the car we dove in, to get here.
I was in a daze of dirty thoughts the whole ride until we arrived.
"We're here Ludo. Are you ready?"
"Uh… Yeah, I'm ready"
"Just remember that no one else matters to me except you."
"Okay."
"Would you like to hold my arm or my hand?"
"For now I'll hold your arm but if it gets too crowded I'll grab your hand."
"Alright then." With that, we both got out of the car and he armed it and we started making our way into the bar… it was huge.
"This is all one bar? Holy shit."
"Yes, it's the biggest bar I own."
"Well, do you need to say a speech or something?"
"Kind of, I need to make the first toast, have any ideas on what I should say?"
"No idea on what you should say but if it's a toast everyone is going to want to drink so try to think of something short and memorable that everyone or mostly everyone can drink to."
"I see."
"I hope that helps."
"Yes, actually that helped a lot. Come on, let's make our way to the bar. Do you drink?"
I looked at him like he was dumb and he quickly realized why I was looking at him the way I was, and when he did he blushed and cleared his throat. He continued to greet everyone and lead me to the bar.
When we made it to the bar counter I froze. I knew the bartender. He was the bartender Kevin had sent here to work for the newly opened bar.
"Hey, Luanne! Will you be working here too?"
"No." I don't know why but Gray stepped in and ordered a drink.
" I'll have one of what she orders." I nervously smiled
"Are you sure? Luanne tends to order really heavy drinks, sir."
"Yeah I can handle my liquor, that's why my mixes are always heavy."
"I'll be the judge of that." he then turned to greet the people who called his name.
"Give me two of my specials."
"Are you sure? That drink is strong as hell, you're going to destroy his organs."
"Yeah, I'm sure he's a big boy he can handle it." Once he finished making our drinks I handed Gray one and he chugged it all down after about ten seconds then looked at the empty cup impressed.
"Make me another one?" the bartender looked at me and I shrugged and continued to sip my drink. Once he was done mixing the drink he handed it to Gray and he finished the second one just as fast as the first. Then he turned to me and saw I was still on my first.
"What's wrong, do you not like the drink?"
"No, no I just don't want to get too drunk."
"That's fair, I'll take one more please."
"I don't know… you're drinking those pretty fast, maybe you should get a shot of something else."
"Nah it's fine, one more of these for the toast then we can leave okay?" I looked at the bartender and shrugged. He just chuckled through his nose and mixed Gray's drink and passed it to him. I shot him a dirty look.
"What!? He's not visibly drunk so I can't cut him off. What if the drink doesn't hit him as hard as everyone else?"
"Trust me. I watched you mix every one of those. Handing him more is asking for kidney failure. I mean it no more." I gave him a stern look and sipped a little more of my drink.
He's going to need me to drive. I can't drink anymore after the toast.
"Alright, who is that guy? Why is he so popular?"
"Oh him, he's Gray."
"Wait! Gray Thompson? Like the boss and owner of this place, Gray Thompson?!"
"In the flesh. Why? You getting stage fright?"
"No, I'm fine, I'm just surprised." I tried to pay for the drink but he shook his head and gave it back. "Drinks are free for employees today. How do you know him?" I smiled.
"It's a long story."
"Mr. Thompson, it's almost time for the toast."
"Alright." He then turned to me and I handed him his cup and he smiled. "Are you coming?"
I smirked and took his hand and he led me on stage where he held me by the hip. I shined my signature smile while dozens of cameras flashed and videos were recorded.
"Alright you guys want a toast, well here's your toast. We work for the things we desire and fight to keep them going. So let every day be a battle worth fighting and every tomorrow a war worth winning." The crowd erupted in happy shouts and here's and everyone took a swig of their drinks. Then I and Gray walked off the stage and finished our drinks at the bar then said our goodbyes to everyone and sat in the car for a bit…
"Ugh. My head is spinning."
"Wait, are you alright? I knew it hit you hard." I touched his shoulder.
"Yeah, that drink was stronger than I thought."
"I know. I created it." He paused and looked at me.
"Wait really?"
"Yeah, also you drank that on an empty stomach. Come on let's get out and go walk to a close restaurant. Get you something to eat."
"I'm not hungry but I hope I didn't ruin your fun. I'm just not big on crowds, ya know?" I could hear him starting to slur and have trouble stringing sentences together.
I smiled. "I know I don't like them either. Come on switch with me, I'll drive us to the house."
"Okay."
"What is the address?" It took a few minutes to get him to tell me because the alcohol was finally setting in. I patiently waited and then drove us home where Julian helped me collect Gray and lay him down. Julian took off his shoes and I got him some water.
"It's rare he ever comes home drunk. Thank you for driving him back."
"It's my pleasure, it's new to be on the other side of the counter you know?"
"I understand, I set up a room for you next door so you can sleep too. It's only about 2:30am so you will still have time for your date."
"I think I'll stay here with him for a bit longer."
"Alright I will be back in a bit for requests for dinner so if you need me i will be in the room all the way down the hall."
"Thank you."
"My pleasure."