Seeing how you all like the 3rd person objective, I'm going to write this chapter in that way again, but I'll change perspective if I think it needs to be.
Fig-aruna: As I told you in my message, it's definitely not Jason Biggs. A guy who could go head to head with Laura Prepon needs to be as hot as her. Piper needs someone who can believably take her attention off Alex, seeing how disturbing Alex's presence can be.
HazelBellaBean: Be patient ;) I'm deciding what scene I'll put it in and if it's still appropriate to do so or how crazy i can get when I write. I want one more bdsm scene, we'll see.
Mz Fitz: I am psychic. And many other things... ;)
Continuation...
The first place Larry decides to take them is the coral garden in the middle of the sea, half a mile from Alex's island. Even though Larry has been overseas for years, he still knows the different islands like the back of his hand, and he doesn't fail to make it known how knowledgeable he is, offering every bit of information that one can know about certain parts of the islands they'll be visiting, the resources that can be found in each place, and the sea creatures living there.
From the way he speaks, you know that he's very smart and passionate about what he's talking about. He has also made great efforts in raising awareness and funds to rehabilitate the area and help fisher folks make their livelihoods more productive.
He shares all this information with the two ladies while on the way to their first destination, and Alex just hates how Piper is so impressed by all of it. She can see in the blonde's eyes how enthralled she is to know that this person is doing such good things for the environment, knowing how Piper is into everything that has to do with nature too.
When they stop in the middle of the sea to look at the different colors of the beautiful corals that are nearly touching the surface of the water, Larry assists Piper by holding her hand and waist so she can better see the sea life below.
After a few minutes, Piper tells him that she's seen enough, but when the blonde turns, she sees a very quiet and serious Alex looking at them. She wonders what's been going through the brunette's head all this time. Alex has been very quiet so far on this trip, eyeing Larry like she's silently shooting daggers at him, but Piper doesn't know what to make of Alex sometimes because in the short span of time she has been with her, she has noticed how quiet and reserved the brunette can be at times.
The two of them silently observe one another while Larry, oblivious to the tense atmosphere between the two, continues explaining to them how important the corals are to the fish and other wildlife.
Alex tries to conceal her irritation by acting like she's listening to everything that Larry is saying. She'll be damned if she let's anyone know that she's disturbed or even threatened by anybody's presence.
The next destination on their journey, Larry informs them, is the wishing island. On the way there, Larry asks if Piper wants to try to hold the wheel of the boat, and Alex rolls her eyes when she sees how Piper smiles and happily agrees to it.
Larry has also tried to engage Alex into conversation, but seeing how the brunette only answers in monosyllables, he decides to leave her alone thinking that maybe she's just not in the mood. This has not gone unnoticed by Piper, and she feels bad about how rudely the brunette is acting when Larry has been nothing but nice, showing them around and acting like such a hospitable host, so Piper tries to make up for it. When Alex doesn't respond to Larry, Piper answers for her and throws an apologetic smile with it.
Of course this makes Alex more furious, and if she could only throw Larry overboard, she would have done so long ago.
When it's almost noon, Larry decides to take them to the vanishing island so they can have their lunch there. Alex has visited the place before. There's a cottage in the middle of it, and when it's high tide, the whole island disappears, and the only thing that remains visible to the eye is the cottage that's standing on the island. It's a breathtaking sight, especially at night.
They serve the most delicious variety of seafood you can imagine in their restaurant.
After docking, Larry goes down first with Alex following him. Noticing that the steps are a little steep, Alex turns to hold out her hand to Piper, concerned that the blonde might stumble on her way off of the boat. But to her surprise, Larry, wanting to act like a gentleman, moves Alex to the side so he can take Piper's hand saying, "It's fine, I'll take her."
The brunette smiles at him with clenched teeth, but only a person who knows Alex very well can tell that she's fuming deep inside with the nerves that are showing in her temples.
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The food is superb, but Piper does not enjoy lunch one bit.
The two people she is having it with look like they are in two different worlds.
Larry is clearly flirting with her. It's so blatant she feels very uncomfortable, especially with Alex there. The brunette is not showing any sign that any of this is affecting her. But why would it, Piper thinks. She knows the brunette has a thing for her, but it couldn't be more than that. If there is, Piper would have seen at least some sort of reaction from her by now, especially when Larry asks if Piper's dating anyone.
Piper notices Alex looking up from her plate, but when Piper answers no, the brunette continues with her food as though she heard nothing. When Larry comments that he can't believe that such a beautiful lady like her could still be single, Piper nearly squirms in her seat while Alex continues munching on her food looking uninterested with what's going on at the table in front of her.
At the middle of lunch, Piper almost feels pity for Larry when he attempts once again to include Alex into the conversation by asking "Hey Alex, how are your parents?" But the feisty brunette cuts him off immediately by answering, "I don't like talking about them," and just drinks her wine, looking completely unapologetic with how curtly she has replied.
Larry just shrugs at Piper and continues with his food too. Piper thinks that he's being such a gentleman about it, not taking any offense at how the brunette is acting.
She, on the other hand, wants to wring Alex's neck.
What's wrong with her? Wasn't she the one who planned this in the first place?
When Larry excuses himself to go to the bathroom, the two of them are left in a very uncomfortable silence.
After a couple of minutes, impatient with how Alex is acting, Piper decides to break the silence by asking, "What's wrong with you?"
"Nothing," Alex answers, smiling then gulping down all of her wine.
"Are you enjoying your day of flirtation with our tour guide? Do you want me to ask if he charges by the hour as he does his boat too?" Alex adds. She knows that what she just said is below the belt, but she can't keep her anger contained anymore.
Piper can't believe what she just heard. Of all the—How dare she say that! "You're unbelievable!" she hisses at her.
"It's because you're so horrible that you can't believe someone is capable of being purely nice like Larry is being!" Piper adds angrily under her breath.
Alex is about to snatch Piper's arm after the blonde's last comment, but Larry struts in and asks "Everything all right, ladies? Did you enjoy your lunch?" totally unaware of the argument that the two are having.
He notices how flushed Piper looks and doesn't hesitate in bringing his hand to her cheek. "You look red, are you all right?" He asks looking so concerned.
"Yes, I am. I'm just hot," Piper answers immediately, pulling away from his touch. She feels shy with the attention that he's giving her and also more uncomfortable knowing that Alex can hear everything and knowing what she already thinks about it.
The two of them look like an engaged couple, looking lovey-dovey, with him concerned about her and Piper, loving all the attention that he's giving her. Alex can't take any of this anymore, so she suddenly stands up, but in doing so, she tips over her glass, making it spill all over the table. The brunette looks at it for a second then abruptly leaves the table, managing to say a small sorry then leaving her companions looking surprised.
But Piper is not surprised at all. She knows why the brunette is acting this way. But what she doesn't understand is why Alex was this angry. Is she jealous? Piper knows that Alex wants her, wants to sleep with her - that much she knows. Piper is so frustrated with her hostess because she doesn't understand a lot of things that are going on, but Piper has no choice because she needs her.
She acts on whatever she likes and takes whatever she wants, Piper thinks angrily. She may be helpless, but she won't be treated like she's a thing that the brunette owns. Even insinuating that she wants to sleep with Larry! That last thing makes Piper so angry that she thinks of showing the brunette that she can do whatever she wants and that she's not someone that the frustrating woman can just push around.
Larry is so good-natured that he doesn't bother letting that small incident dampen their trip. He's still talking like his natural positive self, even throwing jokes at Piper when they return to the boat, but he is careful to not bother Alex any further.
For the remainder of the trip Larry asks Piper to sit closer to the wheel of the boat as he tells her different stories about his explorations. Piper learns that like her, Larry also loves to travel a lot. She admits that he's handsome and has a nice body, not to mention also very charming. If she wasn't so confused over her situation, she might actually like him. But she can't even think of that right now when she feels like there's a large dark brunette cloud looming over her. Piper is used to being so good at controlling her emotions, but she's wondering and irritated at how she seems to be having that problem now when it comes to the brunette.
Her attention shifts to Alex who is sitting at the front of the boat, looking out to the sea, her dark long hair, blowing against the wind. The brunette looks so calm sitting there right now that Piper almost wants to join her. But she knows better and quickly turns her full attention to Larry again.
Larry takes them around for the islands one last time to see the sanctuary of giant clams before heading home since it's just on the way back to Alex's island. It's the first time that Piper has seen such creatures, and she is in complete awe over it. The clams are almost as big as she is, like giants! Like a true guide, Larry informs her all about the endangered clams and the efforts that the local people are making to save them.
Whenever Alex looks their way, Piper never fails to seem extra attentive to what Larry is saying and throws in extra smiles to boot. She even throws her head back when she's laughing at some of the things Larry says just to let Alex know how much she's enjoying her time with him. To show the brunette that she hasn't had this much fun with anyone ever since she arrived here. That will show her that she can't govern her every move, Piper thinks.
It's almost sun down when they head back, and once they dock at her property, Alex can't wait to get off the fucking boat. She overhears Piper telling Larry how she had the most wonderful time and thanking him for all that he did.
"It's nothing. I would gladly do it again if it's for you," Larry answers, and Piper smiles shyly in response.
Alex's jaw clenches into a tight line of rage. With deceptive casualness, Alex strolls past them, but her eyes turn icy with contempt when she realizes that Larry is about to take Piper's hand to place a kiss on it.
Too angry to attempt to hide her hatred, her head snaps to Piper, thinking of how the blonde must be dying to be with him, judging by the way she's looking at him right now.
Something shatters inside Alex, splintering all her emotions from rational control, and she stands behind Piper. When the blonde notices how Larry's faces changes upon seeing Alex's reaction to his kiss to her hand, she half-turns toward Alex.
"Take your hands off her!" Alex snarls, and with that she catches Piper's wrist in a vice-like grip and turns on her heel, dragging the blonde with her.
Piper runs, trying to keep up with Alex but not before throwing an apologetic look at Larry who looks completely puzzled at what just happened.
"Stop this! You're hurting me!" Piper pants, stumbling on the steps. Alex jerks her wrist up with such cruel force that a pain shoots from her wrist to her shoulder blade.
"How dare you!" Piper hisses, angry and embarrassed at being humiliated, hauled in front of Larry and manhandled all the way to the house.
"Who do you think you are?!" Piper cries.
"Who do you think I am?" Alex jeers. "Why I am a monster! By your own words, you said so!"
Piper stares at Alex, her mind in complete turmoil. She can't imagine why Alex is so angry over Larry showing her the slightest attention. She thinks that if she reasons well with her, the brunette will maybe understand and stop dragging her all across the lawn. She doesn't even know where she's taking her. "Why are you mad, Larry was just being nice. He—"
"Shut up!" Alex snaps. Her dark head twists toward her, and for the first time, Piper actually sees the savage, scorching fury emanating from the woman holding her. Her nice jaw is taut with rage and her mouth drawn into a ruthless, forbidding line. The brunette's contemptuous eyes rake over Piper before turning her head away.
Never in her life has Piper witnessed such controlled, menacing fury. Her shock fades to hurt and very slowly turns into fear.
"Where are you taking me?" she asks unsteadily.
Alex turns and stares at Piper's beautiful face. She wants to put her hands around her slender white throat and strangle her for flirting so shamelessly with Larry.
Piper looks for signs of where Miss Claudette might be, maybe she can help with this very unreasonable Alex, but there's no sign of her.
One of the maids rushes out of the kitchen, hearing that the Miss may have arrived. Piper opens her mouth to cry out but then chokes as Alex's fingers dig deeper into her flesh.
"Go to bed!" Alex snaps at the girl, who watches them pass with wide, disbelieving eyes.
After reaching her room, Alex effortlessly rips open the door, drags Piper inside and forcefully swings her onto the bed. She doesn't bother to lock the door, knowing no one would dare enter without her permission, afraid that she would become furious at them.
Piper stands up and tries to think rationally about how she can reason with the brunette. She thinks that maybe if she shows the brunette that she can really be her friend, she won't be like this.
Piper reaches for Alex's hands and says, "we can talk about this—" But Alex's hand clamps down on her slim hand, wringing a gasp of pain from her.
"I'm delighted that you're so eager to touch me," Alex drawls sarcastically, "because in a short while, you're going to have the opportunity to do exactly that."
Piper almost screams when Alex's hand clamps around her arm, jerking her closer to her. "Are you imagining Larry right now, holding you like this? Are you?!" Alex repeats savagely.
With a pounding heart, Piper realizes that she can't take her by surprise like what she did before because Alex is staring at her with the watchful eye of a hawk, nor can she overpower her.
"I hate you!" Piper bursts out.
Alex once again pushes her onto the bed. In frozen paralysis, Piper watches her stride past the bed toward the chair across the room. Alex flings herself onto one of the sofas, and minutes pass while she sits there, looking at Piper as if she were some strange, captive animal.
The silence is finally shattered by her order, "Come here, Piper." The few times the brunette has used her name, it always sends cold shivers to her spine.
Piper's whole body jerks. She shakes her head and inches backward along the bed toward the pillows, her gaze flying to the windows, then to the doors. Could she possibly reach one of them before Alex can stop her?
"You can try," Alex comments. "But I promise you'll never make it."
Swallowing a panicked sob, Piper sits straighter, struggling against the hysteria welling up in her throat, imagining what the brunette might be planning but trying to think straight in order to find a proper way out of this. Piper tries to reason once again. "About what happened with Larry earlier-"
"Say his name one more time," Alex lashes out furiously, "and I'll kill you, so help me God!" And then the brunette becomes frighteningly polite. "Now, are you going to walk over here to me unaided, or must I come and assist you?"
Alex lifts a dark brow at Piper, permitting her a moment to think it over. "Well?" She threatens, half rising from her chair.
Refusing to beg or to give the brunette the added satisfaction of subduing her, Piper rises from the bed. She tries to hold her head high, to look scornful and proud, but her knees feel like water. Two paces away from Alex, her shaking legs refuse to move again. Piper stands there, staring at her with tear-brightened eyes.
Alex surges to her feet. "Turn around!" she snaps, and before Piper can utter a protest, Alex catches her by the shoulders and whips her around. With one vicious jerk, she rips her dress down the back, and the sound of tearing fabric screams in Piper's ears.
Piper clumsily attempts to keep the slippery dress clutched to her breasts.
"Don't cover yourself from me!" Alex shouts as she catches the dress and tears it away from Piper's clenched fists.
Pain slashes across the brunette's features as her gaze sweeps over Piper's almost naked body.
Piper senses a certain weakness from Alex when she sees that expression. "Why are you doing this?"
"Because I don't want anyone else wanting you!" Alex shouts, all her efforts of controlling her emotions, completely forgotten.
Then it dawns on Piper that the brunette maybe feels more than just want for her. That and possessiveness are driving her to do this. Deliberately flirting too much with Larry is what drove the brunette to be like this right now.
Shivering, Piper stares hard at Alex's face, while her tortured mind desperately superimposes other gentle memories of her, trying to understand what's driving her to do all this. Even in her rage and irrational behaviour, Piper can see the pain that the brunette is feeling right now. Piper sees her laughing and joking with her while they were playing chess. Piper sees her as the little girl picking flowers around her parent's garden. She sees her this morning after breakfast, looking so tenderly at her while saying "...you were the loveliest, most enchanting creature God ever created."
Piper reminds herself that this woman in front of her is full of rage and want for her. She doesn't know how to handle the fact that she is also the one who saved her from the guys that were trying to kill her years ago.
She owes Alex her life. She needs to help the brunette so that she can maybe help her better too. But how? Alex is making it so hard, especially with what she's doing to her now.
Distracted by her own thoughts, she doesn't see what's coming when Alex all of the sudden takes her into her arms and pushes her into the bed with her, landing on top of Piper. Then the brunette's mouth comes down on hers, forcefully parting her lips in a deep, languorous kiss.
Despite feeling angry and humiliated, Piper's very clouded mind is trying to understand why the brunette feels that she has to punish her for what she did earlier. Why is there a side to her that wants to teach Alex that there is a way to make her do this without forcing herself on her? And why, right now, Alex's kisses disturb her so much that she doesn't want to struggle with it anymore?
The brunette frees her other hand to cup her breasts over her bra.
Alex kisses confuse her, but at the same time she can't understand for the life of her how she feels so alive with them. She has never experienced this kind of passion from anyone ever, and as disturbing as it may sound, Alex's touches are responsible for awakening this inside her.
Alex's mouth burns a hot trail down her throat to the pink tips of Piper's breasts. Alex has already worked her way to pull the blonde's bra down to her waist, her tongue teasing, flicking and then circling. Her actions turn gentle when she observes that Piper is not struggling as much anymore. Releasing the blonde a little from her tight grip, she closes her lips around her nipple, drawing hard, and Piper gasps with startled pleasure. Instantly her hands move down the blonde's thighs, then up between them to cover the soft mound of hair. Alex's fingers part her and then intimately explore her, sending melting, tingling sensations racing along her nerve endings.
Nuzzling her neck, Alex continues the arousing movement of her hand against her most sensitive part. The brunette traces her finger over her juices and circles her clit to smudge it with her wetness. Her skillful fingers move to linger and tease at the same time that by now, all Piper is feeling are shock waves of desire shooting through every part of her body.
Piper yields helplessly to the hot, searing need that Alex is expertly building within her, while panic is building inside her at the same time. But she can't stop the ecstasy that she's feeling now. She can't help it, no matter how hard she tries. She's melting under the brunette's touch.
When Piper looks into Alex's face, she sees that something is different, wrong in the way Alex is looking at her. For someone who might want her so bad, the brunette's eyes are totally lacking in warmth.
Alex's fingers move within her, and Piper moans in her throat.
"So you like that, do you?" Alex taunts in a low whisper. "I don't want you to enjoy this too much."
Alex lifts both her hands and holds them on top of her head while she positions herself on top of the blonde's body. Piper sees the brunette's harsh features before she rams, full-length, two fingers into Piper's tight core. Searing pain rips through Piper, and she stiffens as she braces herself for the agonizing pain that will come when Alex inevitably enters her again.
A sob escapes through her and when she cries "Please.." that throws Alex from her rage. She sees the blonde's hurt look. Piper isn't fighting anymore and just shows a very pained expression.
That's when she remembers everything.
It's like the darkness that was possessing her with this intense emotion of jealousy is lifted, and she remembers that underneath her problems with herself, with the extreme passions that she feels for the blonde, she's not in love with her, of course not, she tells herself, but she wants to take care of her.
But what is she doing now?
The pain never comes because Alex remains withdrawn and motionless.
Through a blurring haze of tears, Piper sees Alex above her. The brunette's head is thrown back, her eyes clenched shut, her features a mask of tortured anguish. As Piper stares at Alex's ravaged face, her body jerks with suppressed sobs until the burden of holding them back is more than she can bear. She is crying for so many things. For her situation. For her frustration. For wanting the brunette back when she knows she shouldn't.
Piper wants to be held, to be comforted, and irrationally, she seeks this comfort from her own tormentor. Shuddering on a lonely, convulsive cry, Piper reaches up around Alex and draws her against her.
With aching gentleness, Alex gathers Piper into her arms and shifts to lie beside her. Without a word, Piper turns her face into the brunette's chest and weeps, crying her heart out in harsh racking sobs that shake her slender body. Alex lies there, holding Piper's naked body, stroking the blonde's hair while punishing herself with each sound of her muffled weeping, lashing at herself with the tears that pour from Piper's eyes.
"I'm so sorry.." Alex whispers into Piper's ears.
Alex has never apologised to anyone before, but right now she swears she can spend her whole life apologising to the blonde if it would mean that she has the slightest chance of Piper forgiving her.
"Why did you-?" Piper sobs.
"I thought you wanted him... You looked like you were throwing yourself at him." Alex paused, trying hard to find the next words. "And I can't bear the thought of that."
"I wanted to punish you for it." Alex chooses to tell Piper the truth.
Abruptly, Piper's crying subsides. "Oh, you did, did you!" she hisses and tears herself from the brunette's embrace and rolls over to the other side to face the wall. Piper understands that Alex had done this to degrade her, the brunette's monstrous pride had demanded this unspeakable revenge over some imagined crime.
Alex reaches out to her, gently trying to turn Piper toward her. "If you'll let me," she implores, "I'd like to explain."
"Don't you dare come near me!" Furiously, Piper shrugs her hands off while still sobbing, a sound that seems to go on forever until she sinks into an exhausted slumber.
Alex lies there beside the only woman she has ever felt deeply for, helpless either to comfort her or regain her.
The brunette stares at the ceiling. How could she have done this, when all she had ever wanted to do was protect and care for her? Instead she has coldly and heartlessly humiliated Piper. Right now Alex feels like she has lost more than she had, for she has managed to lose the only thing she had ever really wanted to possess, this one headstrong, beautiful woman lying beside her. Loathing her.
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Very early in the morning John has to see Alex to talk to her about an incident that happened while she was away with Piper yesterday.
He had seen that there had been a breach on one of the property's fences. The barb wires had been cut, and it looked like someone had been there, wanting to get inside. He'd scoured the property looking for signs of whoever it was but didn't find any. That's why he had been nowhere to be seen when Alex and Piper returned from the trip the day before.
He debriefs Alex on all of this and details all the primary precautions that he and his men are completing in response.
"Your primary job is to protect Piper," Alex orders curtly. "I'll call someone and find out whoever this asshole is."
"Do you think Mendez is here?" John asks, alarmed.
"If he is, I will find out soon."
Mendez is a guy with whom Alex had a falling out and who was also responsible for telling the boss about Piper. He had always been jealous of Alex, and when the boss got mad over their failed operation, he offered to tell him about Piper, hoping to be pardoned from the boss' wrath. Mendez blames Alex for fucking up and losing him big money because of it. The last time Alex saw him, he didn't fail to let her know that he will get her for that.
Once John leaves, Alex bows her head and covers her face with her hands. Tired, angry, and frustrated over so many things, and now there is a chance that the people from whom she has been hiding may have found her.
Her mind is brought to Piper, and she remembers that the blonde could still be in her room. Her weariness disappears as she thinks of how their next encounter might be.
Imagine her surprise when she sees Piper standing in the doorway of the dining area with cold animosity written on her face.
"Can I have a word with you?" Piper asks simply without showing any signs of emotions.
Alex simply points the chair to her and waits for the blonde to be seated.
It seems like an eternity before the blonde finally speaks and when she does, her voice is calm.
"I want to leave. I understand my predicament. I will hide somewhere. Far from my family because I don't want them to get hurt. Another place, just not here," Piper says while drawing a deep breath with her last comment.
The blonde's words reverberate in the deafening silence of the room. Alex feels weak deep inside, and she doesn't know how to convince Piper to change her mind because it's her fault that the blonde has been pushed to decide this. But it's a terrible idea especially with what she has just learned from John. It's not easy to trespass her property with the amount of men that she has watching over it under John's supervision, but anyone could be watching their every move right now, waiting to spot a weakness.
She must think of a way.
"You can't leave. They are here." Piper's looks at her with a glint of alarm flashing through her eyes, but she remains reserved.
Piper feels horrible because she knows that Alex is right. She has nowhere to go. She knows that. But one more day living here with the brunette will drive her mad. Piper has no words for Alex. And to add to that, Piper knows that she's physically attracted to her even though she hates how the brunette goes about things.
"I have a proposition for you," Alex says. Out of solutions, this is the only way Alex knows that they can face this dilemma as well as her overwhelming attraction to the blonde, which she knows has not gone unreciprocated by Piper. Whenever she's in Alex's arms, she feels Piper responding to her.
"I want you," she tells Piper directly. "And from the times that I've shown you that, I know that you find me attractive too, seeing how you have responded to me."
"I'm the only one who can help you, no one else. We have to be in this together."
"I know I'm difficult to be with. But believe me, I may be many things, but only because of how badly I want you." Despite Piper's magnificent show of courage and lack of concern earlier, she is on the brink of tears.
Piper can see the truthfulness of the brunette's words from how she looks right now.
"Whatever it takes, just so I'll be free of this situation. And free from you," Piper swears. Not sure if it's the right decision but desperately seeking some peace of mind.
She'll do everything in her power to make the blonde feel the same way about her even resorting to this plan that she has only now hurriedly come up with, to change the blonde's mind from wanting to leave.
"I will give you enough money to live out the rest of your life, to start anew when all of this is over, if after two months you still wish to leave here."
"I don't understand," Piper says, scrutinizing her face.
"For two full months, you must agree to be my most obedient guest. During this time, I will endeavour to make myself uhhm.. shall we say, agreeable to you until the time comes that I have solved this problem." Alex counts the days that she thinks will give her enough time, to find a way to fix all of this.
"What?!" Piper bursts out before she can stop herself. Be agreeable to her? That could mean many things. The thought of Alex purposely trying to charm her is more than she can bear to contemplate, and the thought of her possibly doing all those things makes her face burn. With everything that's happened she's not sure if she can hold her growing attraction for the brunette. And two months of doing just that?!
"Afraid you'll fall under my spell?" Alex tries to use the blonde's competitive nature, unsure of what she's going to achieve with this but desperate to change the blonde's mind.
"Certainly not," Piper lies. If Alex tries to entice her, she knows she won't stand a chance. She has already glimpsed at how pleasing Alex can be. Anyone would be attracted to her, have you seen her?! The woman is gorgeous.
"I don't see any reason why you wouldn't agree to that proposition. It is all in your favour. I will be my most behaved self. I have to be as I don't want to lose this bet," Alex states. I don't want to lose you.
"I will bet you a large fortune that I can make you wish to stay. Maybe you're afraid you will lose? Or else you wouldn't be hesitating," Alex challenges Piper.
"Does being agreeable include you sleeping with me?" Piper asks hesitantly.
"I wouldn't say that that's not going to be a possibility," Alex boldly tells her.
Speechless with that possibility, Piper stares at Alex in disbelief, pink-cheeked.
Alex tries to assure the blonde. "If I force myself on you again, I will fail this bet, and I don't want that."
"This is crazy!" Pipers bursts out, standing up from her chair still in disbelief that Alex would propose this to her.
"I am crazy for you," Alex tells Piper in her alluring way. "I do not think two months gives me much time now that I think of it - let's change it to four months."
"Two months is more than fair!" Piper exclaims.
"Agreed," Alex baits her. "Two months of being your very caring hostess and you to me, and in return for that, shall we say, five million dollars?" She feels bad that she has to resort to this in order to get someone's affection, but this is her only chance. Piper leaving is not an option.
Piper feels dizzy with all of this coming to her. Five million dollars?! Five million dollars... is a fortune! She has never dreamed of having that kind of money in all her life. She could use the money to help her family. To start that new soap business that she had been wanting to open with her sister way before this whole mess started.
"I will give you my protection, but if I lose, think of the money as an offering from a friend. You can use it to start a new life." Alex suggests.
"Well..?" Alex inquires.
"Ok." Piper answers Alex but still can't believe how bizarre all of this is. "This is crazy."
"This whole thing has been a crazy arrangement from the start." Alex tells her.
"Now do I need to put this whole thing into writing or shall we trust one another to keep the terms?"
"Trust!" Piper repeated with a scorn. "I don't know if I could trust you."
"I trust you." Alex tells her very tenderly.
To be continued...
You have to know well the characters in order to understand what drives them to do what they did.
I dunno how readers will react with this chapter.
What do you think? Tell me. : )
All the places that I mentioned here during the island hopping scene where places that I have been to personally. Message me on tumblr if you want to see a picture of those places, and I will post them for you.
This chapter is for my new beta, Rosa! This is perfect. Don't look for mistakes anymore. :)
be ready for the next two months! The best is coming : )
