Love’n’Lust

Ben was just done with an early meeting. He stepped out of the elevator that led to his private suite. Opening the door to his room, he took off his suit jacket and wore it on the arm of the mini sofa present in the room. He was taking off his wristwatch when he saw the shadow of a person behind the light curtains on the large balcony.

He walked over there and uncovered the curtains that were used to prevent too much bright light. He saw Alex. She smiled widely when he pulled on the curtains.

“Ben,” she uttered to his annoyance.

“Who let her in here?” Ben questioned after he had called for Randy and the other heads of security and they stood in a spread-out line.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

“I did,” Randy spoke up and got an immediate ‘on whose permission’ look from Ben.

“She came here with your sister, sir, so I let them both in,” Randy explained, hoping he didn’t get punished for it.

“Is Jenna here?” He turned his look to Alex and she nodded slowly.”Where is she now? Where did she go?”

“She liked this place so she went shopping,” Alex answered.

“Leave.” He commanded and the few men started to leave one by one. They all left till Alex and Ben were the only two in the room again.”When I said leave, I meant you too.”

“You want me to leave? I came here to see you.” She argued.

Ben looked away with disgust. He made a mental note to speak to Jenna, not to bring Alex with whenever she wanted to see him.

“Ben, don’t look away from me like that.” She pleaded and went in front of him.”Don’t you want to see what I prepared for you?” She tried caressing his face but he held her hands by the wrist to stop her.

“Leave, Alex.” He told her again, going to sit on the bed. He would ask someone to come throw her out but he knew that wouldn’t sit well with Jenna.

“You don’t want to take a look?” She asked him while unbuttoning the long coat jacket she wore. He didn’t look up from taking off his shoes while she spoke, he only looked at her when she turned the lock on the door.

At that moment, Alex bought a quick opportunity to show him what she wanted to. She took off the jacket and let it fall to the ground, exposing what she was wearing beneath it all along.

Ben’s eyes fell on her body, she was wearing a strappy outfit that barely covered many parts of her body. One of the red straps was fitted to cover both her nipples, and that was being held by a joining strap to her neck to hold it up. His eyes slowly evaluated her body from her neck to her feet. The straps were also covering the parts below her waist but very barely, he could see the v-shape of her vulva.

She slowly did a spin when she assumed that he was okay with what she just did. Ben got a back view of her, her fleshy big ass wasn’t covered at all.

“Don’t you miss this?” She asked him, biting her lips in anticipation of what he could do to her if she successfully seduced him.

Ben said nothing. She just saw him stand from the bed and walk to her slowly. She smiled, she was progressing with her plan. He put his hands on her shoulder and caressed her arm a little, then he made her move backward till her back was against the finely painted wall.

Alex bit her lips harder but then looked at his eyes, they weren’t hungry like she expected. She had been in bed with him once, she knew what his eyes looked like when he was in the mood to be with a woman.

He lifted her hands above her head, holding them both with just one of his, then using the other to grip her jaw. A fearful gasp escaped her.

He brought his face closer to hers, so close anyone who walked in would assume that he planned to kiss her but he was disgusted by her actions.

“This is the most pathetic you have ever been since I’ve known you, Alex.” He told her to her face.”Shameless of you to try and seduce me, what did you think? That I would get turned on by this?” He let his eyes degrade her body and outfit all together but somehow Alex found herself enjoying it.

He let go of her. Alex saw him return to where he sat before but he had already taken off his shoes so this time when he sat, he just looked at her as she stood there.

“Get on your knees,” she heard him.

A little confused by that order of his, she did as he said. She wondered where he was going with it because he just told her to her face that her seduction plan had failed woefully but now he was asking her to get on her knees.

When she was down on both knees, she saw him gesture to her to come to him using his index finger to call her forward. She decided to do as he said. She crawled to him, on both hands and knees, and saw a smile come to his lips. It was a degradative smile.

He stood again and went to her before she could get to him. With a light laugh, he shook his head and walked away from her towards the door leading to the bathroom, leaving her to freeze there in shock at his actions. He just walked out of her after asking her to crawl to him.

She shamefully stood from her knees. No one else was there to witness what just happened but she still felt like the shame could bury her alive.

*****

Monday morning.

Belle had the whole weekend to get over what happened between her and Nathan. She had packed her bags for the travel and just sat alone in her room, thinking of how chaotic it might get if Ben found out.

No matter how much she tried to forget it, it came ringing in her head when she wasn’t busy doing something, and the thoughts she had scared her sometimes.

She was still in thought when she saw the door to her room open. It was Ben. A big smile was on his face but she couldn’t reciprocate it. Ben noticed that and came to sit next to her on the bed.

“Are you okay?” He lifted her face by the chin. She didn’t say anything but stare at him for some seconds then she hugged him. She did that to take some guilt off her. Ben started to stroke her hair softly after she hugged him.

“Did someone do or say anything?” He asked again but got no answer so he sighed, he didn’t like when she got moody like that.

That day, after he called and she didn’t pick up, he sent instructions to one of his securities to come check on the house. It was reported back to him that she was safe so he assumed that she had fallen asleep but the report wasn’t completely authentic.

The man who had come to check on her saw Nathan’s car, and instead of reporting as he saw, he decided to say that she was okay, just because he was too lazy to dig more; he knew his boss would demand to know whose car it was outside the place if he had mentioned.

“Are we going now?” Ben finally heard some words from Belle as she separated their hug.

“Yes.”

****

In the private jet.

Ben watched Belle as she slept on the bed. She was acting unusual and he noticed. He had expected that she would be awake to ask a lot of questions like she usually did but she was asleep.

He sat by her and caressed her hair while trying to figure out what the problem was because there had to be a reason she was being unusual.

*****

City N.

The plane had landed and they had lodged in a hotel. Belle had become more lively since they arrived because she knew they would be going to a boutique for her to choose a dress for the event.

While they drove to the boutique, she glued her eyes to the car’s window, admiring all the beautiful things she could see in the new city she was in. They got to the boutique and she thought the outside decor looked fancy enough to tell what kind of clothes they had.

“Welcome sir, welcome ma’am.” One of the workers greeted them as the door was held open for them to pass through. Ben held her hands as they went in.

Belle thought it would be like last time where they just selected from the array of clothes but they were led to a separate room.

“Mr. Larkson,” A woman in her early thirties smiled warmly when they walked in.”Welcome, please you can sit here.” She ushered to a sofa present. Belle wanted to join Ben in sitting but heard the woman say: “Not you.” so she stood.

“Please come with me,” the woman opened an adjoining door. When Belle walked through the door, her jaw dropped in awe at the beautiful dresses that hung around. She thought it was like a secret place for selected dresses and she was right.

“You can look around, let me know which you would like to try. Meanwhile, I will try to suggest some too,” the woman smiled at her and went on to do as she proposed.

Belle’s eyes immediately spotted a silky black dress. It was an off-shoulder dress from what she could see and she loved such dresses.

“I like that one,” she went over to where it was hung.

“This?” The woman came to where she was, “You’ve got good eyes, this would fit you so well. Try it on?” The woman unhooked the dress from where it hung and handed it to her.

“Okay,” Belle took it before heading to change behind a changing curtain. Coming out after some minutes, she heard the woman gasp.

“O my gosh, this looks so beautiful on you, it’s like I made it for you specifically.” Belle heard her praise and went to look in the mirror to see for herself.

She smiled naturally the moment she saw how it looked on her. It had a split high up her right thigh to her waist, exposing her slender legs. She turned around to see how low the v-cut at the back of the dress was and saw that it stopped at her lower back, almost at her waist. It made her sigh.

“What’s wrong?” The woman had to ask when she heard her sigh.

“I don’t think Ben’s going to be okay with me wearing this.” She pouted sadly.”It’s kinda exposing too much.”

“Too much? It’s just your back and your cleavage and your thighs… okay, maybe it is showing a little too much but it’s okay to flaunt your beauty, I mean, the dress enhances your hips and all.”

“I know, it’s just… Ben doesn’t want me showing too much.”

“Are you sure? From what I know, Mr. Larkson would love you walking by him in this. You know what? Let’s not just conclude, come on, let’s show him, he would be dazed, you will see.” The woman opened the door for Belle to walk out.

When Belle stepped out, she couldn’t see Ben where she expected him to be seated. She scratched her head in confusion.

“Maybe he is outside, I will request him here, hold on.” She heard the woman and before she could say anything in response, the woman had left.

Once again, she had a chance to look at herself in the mirror present there. She really loved the dress but she remembered when Ben asked her not to wear anything too revealing.