New Beginnings (13 page)

“He won’t believe that.” Nick shook his head.

“I’ll send more letters, have his people intercept and read them.” Max grunted. “He’ll believe them. Trust me.”

“But what about Sophie?”

“Leave her alone.” Max glared at him. “I will be looking out for her. Stay away from her and my sister. And after you send Frank the messages, I expect you to leave town. For good.”

“Okay.” Nick took out his phone and opened it. He typed. “
Max’s fiancée’s name is Sophie. But it’s over. Max is so devastated that he left town. And now Sophie is mine
.” He handed the phone to Max and Max handed it back to him silently and nodded. Nick sent the message and they sat on the park bench and waited until he got a response, it came about twenty minutes later. “
Great news. Enjoy Sophie, she’s a vixen for sure. If I weren’t married I’d screw her myself. I’ll be in contact if I need anything else.”
Nick showed him the message and Max threw the phone to the ground before standing up.

“I have someone I need to go and see now but I expect to hear you’ve left town.”

“Take care of her, Max.” Nick looked at her with pleading eyes and Max could tell that Nick had had genuine feelings for Sophie.

“I always will. She’s my life.” Max leaned into Nick and right hooked him in the stomach hard. “That’s for my sister, you asshole.” He looked around him and walked away quickly. He needed to go and meet Alexis and take care of the paperwork for the adoption and then he needed to sit pretty while everything went through and then he could go back home and hope that Sophie would be willing to listen and take him back.

Chapter 17

Ella

“Hey Sophie, I just saw your missed calls. Sorry, I was out. Is Max there?” Ella tried to keep her voice upbeat not wanting her friend to know that there was anything wrong. It seemed like years had passed since they had been the two young girls who summered in Winterside and made prank calls.

“Hey Ella, I’ve been better.” Sophie sighed. “I need to tell you something.”

“Is Max there, Sophie? I really need to talk to him.” Ella’s voice was insistent.

“He’s not here, Ella.” Sophie sighed. “I just met up with Nick, or you may know him as Dr. Spencer.”

“He found you?” Ella gasped.

“It’s a long story but I think Senator Phillips is after Max.”

Ella sighed. “I know.”

“You know?” Sophie exclaimed loudly. “Why didn’t you tell me?”

“I don’t know.” Ella sighed. “But I have a plan.”

“What? Let me help.”

“You can’t help, Sophie. I’m going to The X Club tonight. I’m going to try and talk to Senator Phillips.”

“Oh Ella, you can’t go there.” Sophie paused. She didn’t want to tell her about her own experience with Frank Phillips.

“It’s okay, Sophie. I won’t be alone.” Ella’s voice was determined. “I’m going with Joseph. And before you say anything, he’s a good guy. Well, maybe not a good guy in love but he is loyal to Max. He’s going to help me.”

“I don’t like this, Ella.” Sophie’s voice was sad. “These people are powerful and dangerous.”

“I’ll be okay.” Ella tried to keep her voice calm. “I promise. Just stay home and take care of Jacob. Please.”

“Stay safe, Ella.” Sophie hung up and thought for a moment. There was no way that she was going to allow Ella to go to ‘The X Club’ with Joseph and just stay home. Not to protect her and not to protect Max. Someone needed to step up to protect Ella. She looked around and saw the wedding magazines on the table and sighed. Why couldn’t she have just read the magazines and planned a wedding? Instead she had to insist on going to the sex club and all sorts of chaos was in her life now. She picked up Maxwell’s letter and held it to her heart. “Oh my darling Max, I hope you come back to me.” She dropped the letter as she remembered something. Max had said he was going to meet Alexis today to get the paperwork. She didn’t think that he would skip out of town and not take care of that. So that meant he was still in town, which if she was smart she would have realized earlier. The letter he sent had come by courier and not by a delivery service. Sophie’s heart started beating fast, Max was still in town. Somewhere in New York, Max was doing something, possibly thinking about her. She looked out at the sky and blew a kiss to the clouds. “That’s for you, my love.”

**

“I don’t care about him, I don’t care about him,” Ella whispered to herself in the back of the cab as she checked her makeup on the way to The X Club. She wasn’t sure what to expect when she got there. And she wasn’t sure how she would feel seeing Joseph again. Her heart still ached to be with him. She loved that he got her and that he still cared about Max enough to stick his head out for him. She wondered what would have happened between them if he hadn’t been married. Maybe he would have married her. Maybe he would have cheated on her as well. She couldn’t allow herself to think those thoughts. The thoughts of what could have been. “I’ll get out here,” she shouted at the driver to stop a couple of blocks away from the club. She had arranged to meet Joseph outside of the club so that they could arrive together. “Thanks.” She jumped out of the cab and walked to the corner and waited for Joseph.

“Hey gorgeous.” He walked up to her looking debonair.

“Hi.” Her breath caught in her throat as she stared at him, all her emotions coming back to the surface.

“You look beautiful as always.” He couldn’t keep his eyes off her. She was wearing a light grey see-through top, her naked breasts were prominent beneath the top and her nipples were hard from the cold air. He looked down at the mini-skirt that barely covered her ass and grinned. “I take it you’re ready for the club?”

“Yes.” She grinned. “Aren’t you?” He was wearing a white shirt and a pair of cotton pants.

“If you’re asking if I have any underwear on, then no, I don’t.” He reached over and caressed her face. “I’ve missed you.”

She stared at him and looked into his blue eyes that were so clear and honest. “I don’t want to go down this road again, Joseph.”

“I’m sorry.” He frowned. “I just wanted you to know that my feelings were genuine.”

“For me or for your wife?” She said bitterly and turned away. “Let’s just go.”

“What’s the plan?” Joseph ran to catch up with her.

“We need to find Frank Phillips and I need to talk to him.” Ella’s voice was hard and determined.

“Is that a good idea, Ella? What are you going to say?” Joseph looked at her in concern.

“I have a plan, Joseph.” She stared into his eyes and handed him a pen. “Take this. It’s a video camera. When you see me with Frank, you need to point the tip at me and push the clicker down. It will record sound and video.”

“What am I going to be recording?” Joseph frowned.

“It doesn’t matter, Joe.” She sighed. “Please just do it. No matter what happens.”

“I don’t know, Ella.”

She pushed him against a wall and snarled at him angrily. “I don’t care what you know, or think or feel anymore, Joseph. You blew it. Do you understand that? Just do as I tell you.”

“Okay, okay.” He put his arms around her and pulled her in closer to him so that her chest was pressed against his. She allowed him to rub her ass for a few seconds before she pulled away.

“Let’s go.” She glared at him, happy with herself for being assertive with him. Once and for all she was done with Joseph trying to dictate their relationship. She was in charge now and she was going to make sure she got what she needed to get Senator Phillips to back off once and for all. They walked up to the building and she wondered if they had the right place. It looked like a desolate warehouse.

“This is it?” She looked at Joseph with a frown.

“I’m pretty sure.” He nodded and they walked around the building. It took them twenty-five minutes to find the entrance as it was hidden behind the trashcans. Ella took a deep breath and knocked on the door and kept a serious face as two security guards studied her and Joseph. She must have done a good job of fooling them because they let her and Joseph in without a word. The loud music and the many people who were engaged in all sorts of sexual activity immediately struck Ella; she’d never seen anything like it before. She tried not to think of Max at this club. He must have been in a really dark place if he had frequented this perverse place.

“Stay behind me but keep up with me,” Ella commanded Joseph and walked around the club. She grabbed a glass of champagne off of a tray and chugged it, she had a feeling that she was going to need to be drunk to get through the evening. She looked around the room to see if she could locate the senator. She’d looked at pictures of him online and she was sure she would recognize him if she saw him. He was handsome, with a superficial likeness to Max, dark brown hair, big blue eyes and a tall and sturdy stature. But that was where the differences ended. Philip had a cold vacant look in his eyes in all the photos she had seen. He looked wild. And some instinct inside of her wanted to tame him. She knew she was being irrational but part of her was looking forward to this evening, to seeing what all the fuss was about. And then she spied him sitting on a red chair all by himself. He was sipping, what she assumed to be a scotch or a brandy. She pushed her shoulders back and walked in his direction, conveniently tripping and falling on him as she walked past him.

“Oh sorry.” She laughed lightly as she stared into his eyes. “I’m awfully clumsy.” She let her breasts brush across his arm as she straightened herself and he looked at her in interest.

“No problem.” He looked away and she cleared her throat and tried again.

“May I join you?” She smiled and sat on his lap, pushing her ass into his crotch.

“I’m actually waiting on someone.”

“I’m sure they won’t mind if I wait with you?’ She brought his hand up to her breast. “It would be a shame if I came all this way for some fun with a handsome stranger and I didn’t get it.”

Frank grabbed her breasts through her top and squeezed them hard. His fingers squeezed her nipples and he whispered in her ear, “Well I don’t want to disappoint a beautiful girl.” He pushed her up and stood up himself. “Come with me.” He grabbed her arm and led her to a room and Ella made sure that Joseph was following them at a distance. She made eye contact with Joseph and he looked furious but she ignored him. She wasn’t his for him to get jealous over. It served him right that he would have to watch her with someone else. Frank led her to a dark room and Ella hoped that the pen camera had the infrared light capabilities that the spy website had promised when she bought it.

Ella felt Frank push her up against the wall and pull her skirt up. His fingers went to her pussy and she felt his rough hands rubbing against her clit roughly. She moaned as he slid his fingers into her and she felt her body trembling with excitement.

“She liked my fingers as well,” he whispered in her ear. Ella stilled at his words, unsure if she had heard him right.

“What?” She whispered.

“Your friend, Sophie? The one dating your brother. She enjoyed it when I fingered her as well.”

Ella pushed him away from her and gasped. “You’re lying.”

“I have a video.” He pushed her back against the wall. “I’m not sure what kind of game you’re playing here, Ms. Van Harkel. It was brave of you to come here but I’d have recognized you anywhere. Your brother had family photos in his dorm at Harvard.”

“Leave my brother alone, Senator Phillips,” she shouted in his ear and he stepped back. “Why don’t you get a life, you asshole?”

“Why don’t you stop sleeping around?” He grabbed her breasts and molded them into his palms. “Even at this moment as you are hating me, your body still wants to know what pleasures I am capable of giving you.”

“No it isn’t,” she lied as her nipples ached for his touch once more.

“I bet you want to know what it would be like to fuck me and Joseph.”

“No,” she whispered.

“Joseph come.” Frank called out to the man who had been cowering in the corner. Joseph walked over slowly and looked at Ella with hurt in his eyes. “Take her to the bed, you know you want to.” He pointed to a large bed in the corner.

Ella stared at the two men in front of her and closed her eyes. She didn’t know what to do. When she felt Joseph pick her up, she didn’t stop him. He dropped her on the bed and pulled her top off, falling to her breasts and sucking them eagerly. Ella wriggled on the bed and moaned as she felt herself growing wet. Joseph kissed his way down her stomach and pulled off her skirt before pushing his mouth into her pussy. She groaned and bucked on his mouth, feeling the pressure building up in her. She closed her eyes and tried to ignore the feelings of guilt in her mind. And then she felt the fingers pinching her nipples hard. She looked up and saw Frank standing over her playing with her breasts.

“Isn’t it wonderful to feel two men pleasing you at the same time?”

“No,” she whispered but she knew she was lying. She had never felt such intense pleasure in all of her life.

“I think you are lying, Ms. Van Harkel.” He grinned evilly and pulled his hands away. “But all good things must come to an end I’m afraid. As I told you before I have a meeting.” He smiled at her coolly and walked out of the room. Ella watched him leave with disappointment. But she didn’t have long to miss his departure as moments later she felt Joseph entering her. She clenched her legs around his waist and allowed him to slam into her hard and deep. His cock felt the same that it always had and she cried out as he went faster and faster. She felt her breasts bouncing up and down and Joseph rolled over so that she was now riding him. She closed her eyes and bounced up and down on him and imagined that it was Frank below her. As she pictured Frank’s face, she found that she was even more turned on and felt herself coming hard as Joseph climaxed inside of her. She groaned as she rolled onto the bed next to him and they lay there in the dark in silence. Things had not turned out as she had planned and she wasn’t sure if she could even trust her instincts any longer.