other than trying to recover.
Chapter 5
Emma sat outside Jason’s office, her whole body blushing fro m the conversations she had prepared all morning to discuss with him. She couldn’t believe she was this bold, but she had no choice. She needed that diary! Her mother’s clothes and jewelry gave her no clues to where her mother might be. Her wretched father must have known that! He’d only taunted her with the storage room filled with her forgotten clothes and costume jewelry and he’d known it. She could even picture him where she thought he was now, with flames leaping up around him and someone even poking him in the sides with a stick. At least she hoped someone was poking him with something! But even in Hell, she could see her father laughing at her, knowing she’d gone into that room with such high hopes and dreams of finding the one person who had genuinely cared for her.
Emma didn’t believe any of the stories her father had told her about her mother’s infidelity. Having been the recipient of so many of his tirades about her lack of morals and how she’d come on to every man, even a guy she passed while walking to the grocery store! No, she didn’t believe any of it. She’d been hurt when her mother had left. Devastated even. But when she’d reached her teen years and had gone off to school, she’d finally understood why her mother had left. The absence of the taunts and lectures, the yelling and demeaning accusations was euphoric!
But now, sitting in the formal, ultra modern waiting area of Montenegro Industries, she almost felt sick at what she’d have to discuss. She hadn’t seen Jason since the wedding which had been several days ago. So she had no idea what to expect from him.
“Come on in, Emma,” Jason said as he passed by the waiting area, heading towards his office.
As she followed behind him, she wondered if Jason would notice the different outfit she’d worn. She and Nancy had worked so hard to get rid of the excess fabric, to make it look like something a person her age would wear. It was still conservative, and Emma longed for the fashionable clothes she saw others wearing on the streets, but she didn’t have the money to buy those things. Yet! Hopefully, Jason would assist her with that problem as well.
Jason sat down behind his large, w ooden desk, waved to a painful looking black leather chair positioned in front of the desk, indicating that she should sit down.
“What’s on your mind?” Jason asked when she was finally settled. After that kiss at the wedding, he’d had to stay away from her. He wasn’t sure what had happened, but the lust that had shot through him at her soft, tende r lips, that tentative touch, it had taken him this long just to calm his body down.
Unfortunately, even now, as she perched on the edge of the chair with a file folder primly sitting on her lap and her face blushing like she’d just ran naked across the school auditorium and been caught, his body was reacting once again. That damn show of innocence had to be the allure, he thought.
“Emma?” he prompted when she still didn’t speak. With a sigh, he leaned forward. “Emma, I have another meeting in ten minutes. Either tell me what you came here to discuss or get out. I don’t have time for your games.”
Her eyes swung up to glare back at him, furious that he would call her meeting a game. “I need to get pregnant!” she almost shouted out. When she realized what she’d done, she gasped and put her hand to her forehead , trying to calm down. “That is to say, I really need to fulfill the terms of the contract. And since you are the only person who can do that, I would be sincerely grateful for your assistance to….speed things along.” She couldn’t believe she’d spoken so freely about a subject that was painfully embarrassing.
Jason almost
Chapter 5
Emma sat outside Jason’s office, her whole body blushing fro m the conversations she had prepared all morning to discuss with him. She couldn’t believe she was this bold, but she had no choice. She needed that diary! Her mother’s clothes and jewelry gave her no clues to where her mother might be. Her wretched father must have known that! He’d only taunted her with the storage room filled with her forgotten clothes and costume jewelry and he’d known it. She could even picture him where she thought he was now, with flames leaping up around him and someone even poking him in the sides with a stick. At least she hoped someone was poking him with something! But even in Hell, she could see her father laughing at her, knowing she’d gone into that room with such high hopes and dreams of finding the one person who had genuinely cared for her.
Emma didn’t believe any of the stories her father had told her about her mother’s infidelity. Having been the recipient of so many of his tirades about her lack of morals and how she’d come on to every man, even a guy she passed while walking to the grocery store! No, she didn’t believe any of it. She’d been hurt when her mother had left. Devastated even. But when she’d reached her teen years and had gone off to school, she’d finally understood why her mother had left. The absence of the taunts and lectures, the yelling and demeaning accusations was euphoric!
But now, sitting in the formal, ultra modern waiting area of Montenegro Industries, she almost felt sick at what she’d have to discuss. She hadn’t seen Jason since the wedding which had been several days ago. So she had no idea what to expect from him.
“Come on in, Emma,” Jason said as he passed by the waiting area, heading towards his office.
As she followed behind him, she wondered if Jason would notice the different outfit she’d worn. She and Nancy had worked so hard to get rid of the excess fabric, to make it look like something a person her age would wear. It was still conservative, and Emma longed for the fashionable clothes she saw others wearing on the streets, but she didn’t have the money to buy those things. Yet! Hopefully, Jason would assist her with that problem as well.
Jason sat down behind his large, w ooden desk, waved to a painful looking black leather chair positioned in front of the desk, indicating that she should sit down.
“What’s on your mind?” Jason asked when she was finally settled. After that kiss at the wedding, he’d had to stay away from her. He wasn’t sure what had happened, but the lust that had shot through him at her soft, tende r lips, that tentative touch, it had taken him this long just to calm his body down.
Unfortunately, even now, as she perched on the edge of the chair with a file folder primly sitting on her lap and her face blushing like she’d just ran naked across the school auditorium and been caught, his body was reacting once again. That damn show of innocence had to be the allure, he thought.
“Emma?” he prompted when she still didn’t speak. With a sigh, he leaned forward. “Emma, I have another meeting in ten minutes. Either tell me what you came here to discuss or get out. I don’t have time for your games.”
Her eyes swung up to glare back at him, furious that he would call her meeting a game. “I need to get pregnant!” she almost shouted out. When she realized what she’d done, she gasped and put her hand to her forehead , trying to calm down. “That is to say, I really need to fulfill the terms of the contract. And since you are the only person who can do that, I would be sincerely grateful for your assistance to….speed things along.” She couldn’t believe she’d spoken so freely about a subject that was painfully embarrassing.
Jason almost
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