Episode 65

Riccardo's POV.
I'm greedy. I want everything I can't get from this woman who struck me like a lightening. I wanted to possess her, wanted to imprint on her, anything to tell her any everyone else that she's mine and would always be mine.
Her moans were fucking adorable and they turned me on even harder till my ability to reason probably knocked and I'm reaching for the switch to put the lights on. I slammed her against the wall as soon as the door slid open, reaching hurriedly over the walls to switch on the light. I felt her hands all over my body as she tried to pull off my shirt.
She's so impatient and that contributed to my hardness on the little buddy down below. I wanted to have her, taste her, eat her whole. I wanted to pin her against the bed and do things to her. The light comes on, and I kissed her deeper. Her make up are gone now. She breathed hard into my mouth and I held her tight.
I let my lips trail the line of her neck, enjoying the feel of her breath against my neck as she gasped for air.
I help her pull away my suit before discarding my inner shirt. I tried to undo her dress but it seemed impossible. What seemed so impossible to me seemed like a piece of cake when all she did was wiggle out of the dress.
She had no bra on as the dress was an off shoulders. She pushes herself up against me, her eyes begging me to take her right that moment. Not yet baby. I turned her around to the wall and grabbed hold of her breasts from the back. I heard her gasp with pleasure and I groaned in even more pleasure. The feel of her breasts against my hands always seemed to turn me on fast than anything.
I let out a satisfied groan as I felt the drip underneath her panties. The satisfaction with knowing that I made her that way. Spinning her around, I lift her up so she straddles my waist and continued a long kissing session till I laid her back on the bed. I trailed more kisses till I reached the lobes of her breasts and took each one on my mouth, sucking hard till I heard her scream my name.
Sliding a hand into her wetness, I heard her gasp "please. . . ." She begged.
I went up to her eye level and kissed her passionately while she ran her hand over my pants rims. In one second, I was pulling away my pants and in the next I was positioning myself between her legs. Hearing her sunkling in sharp breaths as I trusted in and out drove me on edge. We made love for the rest of the night, and I don't actually remember ever feeling this great in many nights before she came along.

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Ashley's POV.
I felt a sharp pain along my clitoris. I was barely awake but the pain threatened to wake me up from my slumber. I tried to ignore it, it'll go away but the pain shot through me again, this time causing me to unconsciously crouch my lower abdomen and squeeze my eyes. The pain sharply intensified, causing me to peel my eyes open and fully wake up. Ric's arm was still slumped around my raised hips as I laid on my left side, my back pressed against his front.
When I felt another shot of pain, I felt something very familiar. A trickling sensation between my legs. Damn it. I quickly rose to a sitting position, waking Ric on the process.
"Are you alright?" His sleepy voice asked as he rose to a sitting position beside me.
I just got my period and that is terrible right now!
"No, Ric," i quickly stood from the bed, one hand crouching my stomach and the other pulling the ends of his t-shirt that I was wearing down to cover my lower body. "I just got my period"
I saw the shock and surprise and fear in his eyes instantly. Then he blinked repeated, obviously out of the right words before saying " are. . . . Are you okay? Do you need some help?"
"I'll be okay. . . . . . . "
He stands up and hurried over to me "I. . . . I'll go get you something! Um. . . . . . Tampons or. . . "
"Don't worry, Ric, I'll rather get it myself" I started towards the bathroom.
"But you can't go like this"
I shut myself inside the bathroom without replying to his statements. I couldn't believe I completely forgot about my period! I made use of the toilet paper before dashing out and taking a taxi, ignoring all Ric's attempts to stop me from going alone.
I asked the cab to take me to the nearest cosmetics store where I presumed I'd purchase some sanitary pads. After getting off on the right place, I walked in. There's a smile African American woman with curly ringlets brown hair standing behind the sales counter. She beams me a smile the instant I stopped before her.
"Good morning" I greeted her.
"Good morning, ma'am. How may I help you?"
"I need sanitary pads"
"Okay, right over there," she pointed to my back "you can take a pick from the vareities"
"Thanks"
I hurried through the back and towards the sanitary pads section. I stood for a while, searching for my preferred pad product when my eyes glanced up and I caught sight of a family face through the corner of my eye. I looked full up to my side to see Victoria standing far, a broad smile on her lips. My heart skipped a beat frightfully. Today she doesn't look like that bad ass woman I'd met days ago, today she looks casual actually, dressed in a black leather pants with a matching knee-high boots and a white top. Still, she had a big amount of make up on her face.
"Hey there, Ashley," she called, walking towards me " I thought I saw you walk into this store"
"You followed me here?"
"Yes, I did"
"Why?"
"I need to talk to you" she stops in front of me, a man dressed in suits and dark shades tagging behind her. "I came to understand that you're Riccardo's woman" she continued. "I'm here to set a proposal with. . . . . "
"If you're thinking of asking me to talk Ric out of fighting for the project then you totally got the wrong idea, I would not do that"
She went silent for a minute before taking off her shades and speaking again "you see, Ashley. There are things you do not know, and even more to be left unsaid. Me taking that company from your boyfriend is me doing him a huge favour. This is for his own good"
"Ric can take care of himself, taking this project away from him doesn't show much you love him, it shows just how much hatred you have for him and I do not know how that came to be but all these is not the best thing to do"
"Exactly, you do not know where all these bad blood and hatred came to be"
"From what I know, you once adopted Ric"
"You are very correct, my dear. Indeed, there was a time when I loved Riccardo like my own son and nurtured him after his mother died. I took him, them in like they were my own children and what did he do? He went ahead to steal from me"
"What exactly did he steal from you?"
"Isn't it obvious? Manhattan project"
I stared back in confusion.
"He probably told you the project was his late mother's and I get it. I get where he's coming from but the best thing I can do now is take it away from him"
"You do not have to do this, victoria. You don't have to take this one thing away from him just for a mistake he made in the past. We all make mistakes all the time, we fail ourselves and other people. It's never enough reason to turn our backs on them"
"You're right about that, " she gives me a sweet smile " I really like you. Perhaps we could meet out and have a couple of drinks and talks?"
"That's by far the last thing I wanna do with you, victoria. Because when you leave here and I leave here, nothing gets settled, nothing gets changed, it's still gonna be you against Ric and him against you, the bad blood still remains and it goes on forever. I cannot do that with you knowing that you still have his project wrapped up around your fingers"
She laughs aloud "I'm sorry, " she said " think you're gonna feel guilty? For meeting up with me? Okay listen, I have a proposal for you. I said that earlier, didn't I? Why don't you come work for me? From all my men said about you, you seem to work pretty well. You even work for Riccardo, your boyfriend"
I felt like she added extra emphasis on the boyfriend but showed no acknowledgement. All I thought about was how she had people watching me even before I came to London, and I'd been a part of this for a longer time.
Work for her? What's with all these people always wanting me to work for them??
"I'm sorry, victoria, but I already got a job"
"I'm not finished yet, Ashley. You work for me and I'll give back manhattan to Riccardo"
I'd thought of a comeback to say to her if she still insisted on me working for her but after she said that, my words died down in my mouth and I just gaped at her. Give back the project? Was working for her all it took? Suddenly I didn't recognize myself anymore. But again there's that ringing question at the back of my mind. What the hell is she playing at?
"I know," she continued "you never expected this but I'm being totally honest right now."
Just then, I heard the call of my name from behind me. I turned around and as expected, found Ric standing at the very far end, a deep frown on his face as his eyes moved from Victoria to me. He walks swiftly to us, grabbing a hold of my wrist and yanking me behind him before fully turning his attention to Victoria.
"What the fuck are you going on about?" He growled.
"It's women's talk, Riccardo" she smirks at him before looking behind him to me and added " I guess I'll see you again, Ashley"
And just like that we watched her disappear with her bodyguard. Ric turns around to face me, his eyes digging into my face, as if looking for hidden informations.
"What the hell was she going on about?" He demanded, anger slightly lacing his words.
I had to face a big dilemma of deciding whether to tell him about what just happened or not. As I stared into his dark eyes and saw the anger in them, I knew it was a bad idea to tell him about his mother's working proposal to me.
Instead, I shook my head negativity and replied "nothing so important. She was just trying to have a conversation"
But I knew he knew more than he was asking.