Book 2
Thanks to WAA01, Killerarmyguy, and Taco for the edits.
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Chapter One
"Umm..." Drake Lucian, aka Dante Cole, his professional name, stood very confused as he stared at the rather attractive redhead at his door. It was his house (unofficially, his father's name was still on the loan as well as his mother's), ever since his father skipped out on fulfilling his agreements. Thinking he or his brothers would allow their mother to go into foreclosure. He hadn't spoken to his father since he walked out on them with his mother's sister and moved to somewhere in Asia. Not that he cared, he got the woman he had longed for forever since he was sixteen. What his father and his aunt did was their business. "I'm sorry, no, I don't," he apologized; he would have remembered someone as attractive as she was; then again, with all the whoring that he's done, that could have muddied his memories. Seeing the woman's face heat when Emma's moans began to filter down the stairs. "Sorry about that," Drake said, a little embarrassed as he stepped outside and closed the front door.
"It's... okay, I came unannounced; you had no way of knowing you'd have company," she said bashfully, remembering how hot he looked at the club that night while she was serving out drinks. Now, now that she was less than two feet away, she was drooling in her mind at how drop-dead gorgeous he was to her. "I'm Samantha Carter; by the way, we went to high school together," she introduced herself as she extended her hand to him.
"Wait, not Samantha Carter, the head varsity cheerleader?" Drake asked, trying to recall where he's heard that name before.
"The one and only," Samantha said with an alluring smile as she slyly eyed how his t-shirt hugged his chest. Detailing every muscle, remembering how he didn't have said body back in high school. Wondering just what he's been doing over the past few years. She couldn't help it as his cologne filled her nose, heat began to form between her legs. She had no idea how or when he got so attractive.
"So... why look me up after all this time?" Drake asked, noticing how her cheeks blushed and her blue eyes glanced down to her feet.
"Umm... can we like go somewhere to talk?" Samantha inquired, trying to ignore the sounds that were coming through his front door.
"Oh?! Yeah, they're probably going to be a while," looking around for her car, not seeing one, "did you drive?"
"No... I took the bus," Samantha said, a little embarrassed.
"Coffee good with you?" Drake asked with an arched eyebrow.
"Mmmhmm," Samantha hummed with a nod of her head.
"Okay, let me grab my keys," Drake responded as he reached for the handle of his front door.
"Sure," Samantha chirped. Mouthing the words 'Oh my God' as the front door closed behind him. Breathing out slowly, trying to calm herself down, she didn't think Drake would take too kindly to her coming on to him when she would be asking him for a favor. Turning her head as she heard his garage door lifting. Her jaw dropped as Drake's BMW 8 series backed out, watching how the roof lowered once he was out from beneath the door. She had no idea he had that kind of money to afford a car like that.
"Hop in; I know this nice little coffee shop close by where we can talk," Drake stated as he peered over at her. Keeping his smirk to himself, he noted how she was gawking at the interior as she slid into the passenger seat.
"Nice car," Samantha said, trying to control her voice.
"Thanks, just got it a couple of weeks ago," Drake replied as he backed out of the driveway.
"So... I heard you went off to New York," Samantha said over the wind.
"I did; I head back in early August. Did you head off on some wild adventure once high school was over?" Drake asked as he stopped at a stop sign, hearing his blinker ticking away, waiting for the cars to pass.
"I wish," Samantha sighed.
"What happened?"
"I didn't do so well in high school; I allowed myself to think I had it made. Stupid mistake," Samantha said sadly. "I wanted to go to some far-off college to expand my wings, to see what I was made of, you know?" Seeing him nodding in understanding, "But I partied too much, studied way too little; in the end I'm stuck here. What's New York like?"
"Crowded, very fucking crowded. Noisy. Expensive, but it has its merits," Drake answered, taking a left and heading towards the shop.
"Oh? Like what?" Samantha asked curiously.
"I don't think you want me to answer that," Drake responded with a sly grin on his lips.
"Oh, I see; got you some ladies up there, huh?" Samantha teased.
"Quite the few," Drake admitted. Wondering if he would be servicing the same women he had done before he had left for Italy.
"Don't take this the wrong way, yet I don't ever recall you being so well off with the opposite sex," Samantha said as she noted how the strands of his black hair moved through the wind as the late morning sun played along his face. Her heart fluttered as Drake laughed; she did like the sound of it which brought a smile to her lips.
"Yeah, that didn't start till the last few months of my senior year," Drake replied with a charming smile on his lips. His mind flashed back to the day he first met his Madam.
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