Chapter 4: The De Leon
Brielle
A few minutes later, After dinner, Hera dozed off like a child who just sucked from her mommy's breast, leaving me with the trauma of my Fantasyland. I was restless, tossing and turning, Dreaming of smoky Alexander's eyes, long legs, long fingers, and dark unexplored places, his smile, and good manly scent.
I woke twice in the night, my heart pounding. I scold myself. I punch my pillow and try to settle.
"Am I falling for a stranger?" I asked myself, knowing too well that he's rich and popularly intelligent, why did he buys the building of the small coffee shop.
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After the meeting between Mrs. Sicilio and Mr. Enrique De Leon, which she agrees with due to the conversation she had with Javier, he summoned me to come and see him in the De Leon company residence, so I went with Javier and Hera, but I still wonder why he called for me.
The De Leon company is located in the downtown heart of Palermo, Sicily.
An hour later
Hera explains to the receptionist that we're here to see Mr. Enrique De Leon, we were told he's not around but was promptly shown to a brown door privy to the left. nevertheless, Mr. Enrique is already occupying the largest offices in the building.
They told us that Enrique traveled to Japan and that he has not been around for weeks now, I was shocked.
Then who is the one that summoned me here? who was the one that meant up with Mrs. Sicilio in the morning? what's happening?
An over-keen marketing executive shows us up to the second reception hall, he's handsomely young and very nervous for some reason. I suspect it's Hera's beauty and commanding manner that disarms him because he's putty in her hands.
The rooms are elegant, understated, and opulently furnished, the company is bigger than my final examination grades. these people are really rich
"Follow me," the man commanded us, so we followed him.
"You can step aside now," Someone said from behind the man with him backing the three of us.
The individual was wearing a white shirt open at the collar and blue flannel pants that hang from his hips. His unruly hair is still damp from sweat or gel, whatsoever it was but his hair is dark black, wait a minute, Enrique's hair is dark brown. My mouth goes dry looking at him, he's so freaking hot from the back. He turned around to our widest surprise it was no other person than the man himself. Jace De Leon!
Jace is followed by a man in his mid-forties, all buzz-cut and stubble in a sharp dark suit and tie who stands silently in the corner, his grey eyes watch us impassively.
oh my God, what can be more appetizing than this? nothing.
"Ms. Damara, after all these years, we meet again." he extends his hand and I shake it, blinking rapidly.
As I touch his hand, I'm aware of that delicious current running right through me, lighting me up, making me blush and I'm sure my erratic breathing must be audible.
"We meet again after all these years? " my ears didn't get that right, have we meant before? I know we've meant before. I remembered those Neon eyes and those girly lashes, those thick dark eyebrows that girls could kill for, but still can't be recalled where or when.
"Mr. Jace De Leon, this is Hera Crimson," I mutter, waving a hand toward Hera who steps forward looking at him squarely in the eye.
" I knew it was not Enrique that answered you when you called it was Jace," Hera whispered.
"The persistent Miss Hera. How do you do?" He gives her a wide grin, looking genuinely amused.
"I'm fine, thank you, Mr. Jace ." She shakes his hand firmly without batting an eyelid.
"It's a pleasure," he answers, turning his neon gaze on me and I flush again. Damn it.
"But Mr. De Leon will do or SIR, not Jace okay?"
Immediately hate crawls in pretty fast. Hera nods like a dog pursuing his master request with a doggy smile. I can't believe this is the ratchet Hera.
"This is Javier Coral," I said, grinning at Javier who smiles with affection back at me. His eyes are cold when he looks from me to Mr. De Leon.
"Mr. De Leon!" he nods.
"Javier Coral," Jace's expression changes too as he appraises Javier then back to me.
"Will you walk with me, Ms. Damara?" he asks.
"Well, I don't-"
"She will be honored to take a walk with you!" Hera beamed at Jace then she furrows her eyes as if to kill.
I look shocked at her. "Sure," I responded, completely thrown. I glance anxiously at Hera who shrugs at me. I notice Javier scowling behind her.
"Good day to you all. Enjoy yourself and also you can entertain yourself at the lounge." Says Jace De Leon, as he opens the door, standing aside to allow me out first.
What is this about? What does he want? I pause in the office corridor, fidgeting nervously as Jace, oh I mean Mr. De Leon emerges from the office followed by Mr. Buzz-Cut in his sharp suit.
"I'll call you, Hector," he murmurs to Buzz-Cut. Hector wanders back down the corridor and Jace turns his burning neon gaze to me.
Crap... have I done something wrong?
"I wondered if you would join me for tea." My heart slams into my mouth. Jace De Leon. Maybe he thinks you haven't woken up yet, my subconscious whines at me in a sneering mood again I clear my throat trying to control my nerves.
"I have to drive everyone home," I murmur apologetically, twisting my hands and fingers in front of me.
"Hector," he calls, making me jump. Hector who had been retreating down the corridor, turns and heads back toward us.
"Are they based at the school hostel or Palermo resident?" he asks, his voice Cold and inquiring.
I nod, too stunned to speak. " he can take them to the airport. He's my pilot and also my driver."
"Mr. De Leon?" I called. "It's, not Milan, Italy, it's Palermo, Sicily and it's both insides of Italy!" I illustrated.
He nods. "Please, can you drive Ms. Crimson and Mr. Coral back home?"
"Certainly, sir, by car?" Hector asks.
"Drive them to the airport and use the plane, it will be faster," he commanded.
"Sir?" I slowly called. He turns to look at the face that distracted his conversation. "Sir, it's a Car thing, not a plane journey!"
"There. Now can you join me for tea?" Jace's eyes were cold without a smile line on his face. I frown at him still trying to accept his richness and diversity.
What does he want from me? I know only communicate only with Enrique not this cold, controlling plus a bossy elder brother, how did he know me? I felt something strange as he looked at me, his eyes say something that I can't picture.
His voice...his voice, he was the one who answered the phone when I called. I snapped at the thought of it.
"Erm, Mr. De Leon, Hector doesn't have to fly them home by plane." I flash a brief look at Hector who remains stoically impassive.
"Please give me a moment." Jace smirk a dazzling unguarded natural all-teeth-showing glorious smile. "Get up, and follow me!" he demands.
Immediately the door opens, he opens the door of the Dinny room so I can re-enter. I scoot around him to enter the room finding Hera in deep discussion with Javier.
"Brielle!" she rushed to me with an amused plus pressing the face. " I think he knows you," she added with no preamble whatsoever.
"What is going on?" She polled, Javier, glares at me with disapproval.
"But the statement he made, after all these years. ," she adds. I raise my hand in the hope that she'll stop talking by some miracle, she does.
"Hera, will you agree to fly home by plane?"
"Why?" she frowns curiously.
"Jace De Leon has asked me to go for tea with him." Her mouth pops open, Speechless Hera! savoring the moment. She grabs me by my arm and drags me into an empty conference room that's off the living area of the waiting hall.
"Hera, there's something about him." Her tone is full of warning. "He's gorgeous I agree but I think he's dangerous. Especially to someone like you and most of all he's my full-time crush I must presume that you know right, but I thought we were called by Enrique?" she voiced out in a signal whisper.
"What do you mean, someone like me?" I demand, affronted.
"An innocent like you, Elle. You know what I mean," she says a little irritated. I flush.
"Hera, it's just tea and we are starting our exams this week and we need to study so I don't belong." She purses her lips as if considering my request. Finally, she rolls her eyes.
"I'll see you later. Don't stay long or I'll send out search and rescue." He beams.
"Thanks." I hug her and walk past her to where Javier was standing.
"Thank you very much, Javier, I'll call you when I get home okay?"
he smiled. ''Are you sure that you'll be fine with him?" Javier whispers with protection lewd on his face.
"I'll be okay," I smile at him. "I'll call you soon as I arrive home!" I added.
This is the time to know where I knew him but why did he summoned me and ask Hector to drive them home without me?
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Chapter 5: The Suprise Brielle Where are you, Enrique? I glance at Jace and he gave me an encouraging but wry smile, revealing his pure white teeth. "Your glance gives me some sort of clue that you might be thinking about my brother. If I may ask, have you fallen for him?" he wheezes. "Who said I've fallen for your brother? he's not even my type to start with." "I think you're very self-contained," he mutters. how am I managing that? No way, I just lied about my feelings for Enrique. Am I just another kind of hedgehog? "Except when you blush of course which is often. I just wish I knew what you were blushing about." He sips from his cup. "Do you always make such personal observations?" I query him.
Chapter 6: The clubbing idea!Brielle"What did you say?" I wince my nose in a child-like form, knowing that she's undoubtedly going To freak out. I have known Hera for almost half of my life. She is a screamer."Hera?" I called in a breathe taking tone."Yes?" She replied with a sharp breath."Don't shout, don't strike me, don't do anything crazy. So, I'm going to repeat what I said again." I watched as she did an infusion of breath in breath out,"Okay, Are you ready? " I inquired with an explanatory face.She grinned, doing what the Chinese do with their hand to comfort stability. "Okay, I'm good, ""Do you remember the tall, handsome guy from high school with dirty blond hair with glasses on? " I raised my misgiving eyebrow at her for confirmation.
Chapter 7: The wrong timing!BrielleIt's hushed. The light is dimed. I was feeling so comfortable and warm. I slowly open my eyes, and for a moment, I'm tranquil. I have no idea where I am.The headboard behind me is in the shape of a massive decor of a naked male and female. It's oddly familiar.The room is large and airy and plushly furnished in browns and gold and beige. My idiotic brain struggles through its recent visual memories."Holy Molly! I'm in the De Leon hotel, in Jace's suite,"I have been in a room similar to Hera's, and it looks bigger than my high school grades.
Chapter 8: The tea hormonesBrielleMy hormones are raging, my skin tingles where his thumb traced over my face and lower lip, I feel like squirming with a needy, achy affliction, and I don't understand this reaction.Hmm... Desire. This is desire, and this is what it feels like.I scramble out of his bed, frantically searching for my jeans, he emerges from the bathroom wet and glistening from the shower, still unshaven with just a towel around his waist, and there am I."If you're looking for your jeans, I've sent them to the laundry, "His gaze is dark. "They were splashed with your vomit.""Oh." I flush scarlet. Why, oh why does he always catch me on the back foot?"I sent my helper out for another pair and some shoes, and they're in the bag on the chair.
Playlist- Cute I think you're cute, I think you're cute, oh yes I do, oh yes I do, you think I'm cute? Yes, I think you're ugly, girl I think will need to go out on a date, I'll pick you up at night and we'll do a little something, ~|DRAM|~ Brielle "Do people always do what you tell them?" I tense up. "Usually, if they want to keep their jobs," he says, deadpan. "And if they don't work for you?" I ask with fright inside of me. "Oh, I can be very persuasive, Brie. You should finish your breakfast and then I'll drop you home. I'll pick you up at Sicilia's at nine- fifty when you finish, We'll fly up to Milan." I blink at him rapidly. "Fly?" "Yes. I have a helicopter and a private boarding airplane."
Chapter 10: The magical thingsDOMINANT & SUBMISSIVEWhen you think he's not right for you, and he's too exquisitely hot for you, you later find out he's not just your side Values. After you realize you like them ~|Printerst|~BrielleJace opens the door to the black Mercedes Benz, and I clamber in. It's a beast of a car. He hasn't mentioned the outburst of annoying me. Bitch.I glance at him. Jace is his usual polite, slightly distant self. How confusing. he starts the engine and reverses out of his space in the parking lot. He switches on the MP3 player, and The car interior is filled with the sweetest, most magical music Alessa Cara 'Scars to your beautiful ' playing. My senses are in disarray. So this is doubly affecting and sends
Chapter 11: The heartbeats in Milan Playlist- I'm with you (AVRIL LAVIGNE) He is punctual, of course, and waiting for me when I leave my workplace. He climbs out of the back of the Lexus car to open the door and smiles warmly at me. "Good evening, Signorina Damara," he says. "Signor De Leon ." I nod politely to him as I climb into the backseat of the car. Enzo, his bodyguard, is sitting in the driver's seat. "Hello, Enzo," I say. "Good evening, Signorina Damara," his voice is polite and competent. Jace climbs on the other side and clasps my hand, giving it a gentle squeeze that I feel through my body. "How was work?" he asks. "Very long," I reply, and my voice is pudgy.
Chapter 12: The Audacity Contracts!Playlist - into youI'm into you and every little thing you do. I like what you've done to me, I've got no clue what it is you do, but all I know is I'll love you~|Sydney Ranae|~BRIELLEMy heart can't take this, and he said he doesn't do the girlfriend items. He just showed me a room for sex. Does sex have a private room? When? The way he glanced at me with his neon eye.I wander to the far corner of the room and pat the waist-high padded bench and run my fingers over the leather. The thought depresses me."You're a sadist? Is this the soft-will-hearted Jonathan Christopher I once knew or the new Jace De Leon that I just learned?""I'm a Dominant; I love controlling, I like being in power." His eyes are a scorching neon, intense."What does th