Love’n’Lust

Belle closed the door behind her and leaned against it, breathing in slowly before going to the vanity in the bedroom to take a look at herself after keeping the purse in her hand. She went to the bed to sit and take her heels off.

‘I shouldn’t have told them.’ She thought to herself. Now she had to rethink her already-made decision. She really wanted to do what Ben proposed but now that Brie said it, she thought her cousin’s sister was right;

What if Ben just wanted to use her? What if he only saw her as a sex toy just like Brie said and not as a sex partner that she wanted to agree to be?

“Urghh!” She groaned, falling back on the bed and dragging her body up to where the pillows were set. Loo

She just laid there, facing the ceiling still thinking when her phone rang in her purse, she rolled her eyes with a sigh because now she had to get up to go take her purse from the vanity stand.

“Hi, Mrs. Johnson.” Belle greeted when she picked up the call, she hoped her boss wasn’t mad about her missing her call before now.

“Belle, are you okay?” She heard Mrs. Johnson ask, sounding really concerned.

“Yes, I am. I’m so sorry I missed your call earlier…”

“It’s okay, I just wanted to know you were okay, your sister called my phone, she said you had left home yesterday for a party that one of our employees h?”

“Yes, are you back home with her? If not, do give her a call, let her know you are safe, she sounded really worried when she called me.”

“I will, thanks for checking on me.”

“You are welcome, I should check on you in circumstances like this, you are one of the best recruits we hired recently.” Belle smiled when she said that.”Alright, take care.”

After her boss hung up, Belle went back to the living room and she saw Cherry walking around in one of the heels she had tested in the boutique.

“Belle,” Cherry got startled when she saw her.”I was only…..”She tried to explain to her but Belle wasn’t even offended about them going through the bags.

“Brie, you called my boss?”

“Well, I found her number on the letter you submitted as part of your resumé and thought I should call her, she was the only person I could ask about the supposed party you mentioned. I was worried.”

“I understand. At least, now you know where I will be when I don’t come home.” Belle said, she had made her decision, she was going to continue what she had with Ben.

*****

NIGHT. 1 1 : 3 9 pm.

Ben sat in his office, his assistant standing in front of his desk. He was going through the last files he has to deal with for the day, only after that could he leave the company.

“You have a soft copy version of these all set, right?” He asked his assistant and she nodded.

“Yes sir.”Upstodatee from Novel(D)ra/m/a.O(r)g

“Good. You can refile these hard copies, I have gone through them all.” He handed them over to her.

His phone which was on his desk at that time started to ring so he picked it up and excused his assistant before deciding to answer the call. He smiled when he saw on the phone’s screen that it was his mother.

“Mum.” He accosted sweetly even though his voice still sounded cold.

“Ben, how are you?” She asked making him snort through his nostrils briefly.

“You do realize that it’s almost midnight and you are calling your son to ask he is doing? Why are you calling, Mum?” He knew there was most likely a different reason his mother was calling this late, she probably set up another date with one of her friend’s daughters and wanted to tell him about it…. or did Jenna tell her about Belle. She couldn’t hear him but he sighed inaudibly.

“Don’t be like that Ben, okay? I called because I have missed you so much and you don’t even want to ever come around to see your father and me.”

“Mum….”

“Don’t deny it, Ben.” He heard his mum say again and he stopped making an effort to deny it.

“You know how busy I get.”

“No, you just don’t want to see your father.”  She said and he swung in his chair, smiling because he knew she was right.

“So you decided to call me this late?” He tried to change the topic and was successful with it.

“You are usually busy all the time I call, so I had to wait up this late to be sure your assistant doesn’t say you are in a meeting and can’t have your calls.”

“You didn’t have to, you know well that I can always take your call, Mum.”

“I didn’t want to disturb your working hours.”

“Mum, did you call earlier?” He remembered that his assistant mentioned having a missed call when he was having the impromptu meeting earlier in the day.

“Yes but don’t bother with that, when will come to visit your father and me?”

“Mum…”

“Don’t say you can’t come, just give me a date and I will have the cooks prepare your favorites.”

“…..” He knew he couldn’t say no to her now so he kept quiet for a minute.

“Ben?”

“Mum.”

“When do you want me to come see you.” He asked her because he wasn’t going over to the family mansion to see his parents but his mum.

“Tomorrow?” She said in an excited manner making him suspicious of her intention.

“Do you plan on inviting someone you want me to meet and magically get interested in?” He chuckled as he asked her and heard her laugh on her side of the call.

“No son, I just want to see you.”

“Okay. Tomorrow it is.”

“I love you.” He heard her say. He smiled because she was one of the few persons that could say that to him.

“Goodnight mum.” He replied before she cut the call.