I'm so excited that people have read this story and like it. I have the story planned out, endgame already chosen, fluff soft moments, smut, and drama. I really love writing this story and writing Caroline and Conrad's relationship is one of the most fun relationships i've ever written they are so effortlessly that the scenes basically write themselves.
There is smut in this its close to the bottom.
Disclaimer: I don't own the vampire diaries or the summer I turned pretty.
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"Tell me a something." Conrad haphazardly runs his fingers over Caroline's bare thigh. He is laying at the bottom of the bed and she is laying at the top. Both of them are naked and just talking. This is completely different for Caroline and it kinda scares her but in a good way.
Caroline does not open up, she always just says she is fine and nobody asks questions. She just pushes down her emotions and plasters on a fake smile. She and Conrad have been sleeping together for a week and a half. In that time he has brought up emotions she has long buried because of her father.
"We're lucky Dorota gets here before everyone so she can pick up our clothes if we leave them somewhere after sex."
He chuckles as he says. "That's not what I meant." His fingers are drawing circles on her thigh. He wants to get to know her. Other then she lives in this mansion alone and runs a modeling company that's all he knows.
"You go first."
He notices she is avoiding the question. She won't even look at him her face is half hidden in a pillow its actually kinda cute and brings a smile to his face. He doesn't know what it is about her but he has never smiled this much." My father cheated on my mother while she was going through chemo and I found out, my brother Jeremiah still has no idea our father cheated."
Caroline looks at him he's so handsome like her he's holding things back. Unlike her he is sweet and nice where as she can be a bit of a bitch. She rubs his hairy leg.
No part of their bodies is off limits to the other. They love touching each other whether it's just one of them brushing a piece of hair off their face, or their soft hi's to each other. When they have sex it's this out of world experience they are so gentle and worship the others body.
"I'm sorry." She swallows she hates that she can't bring herself to reveal something after he told her that. She does tell him. "My parents were married in the loosest and only by word sense of marriage. I don't even think you could call it cheating since they weren't together or even living in the same country. My mother had her own boyfriend who is now my stepfather and I hate his son. My father he had dealings with a wretched woman and her demonic spawn."
Both of them are silent after that, Conrad is taking in what she just said and Caroline breath hitches her hand has started to shake, she regrets saying everything. She can't have a panic attack here in front of him. She closes her eyes and swallows trying to control her breathing. "It's late…. I need sleep tomorrow I start calling board members."
She gets into the bed and rolls over her back facing him. He lays down next to her and glances at her he feels horrible, he wanted to get to know her and now she is even more closed off. "I'm sorry."
It's silent for a couple moments that are killing Conrad. He sits up ready to leave, he is leaving the bed when he hears. "It's not your fault. It's…. Me…Opening up is hard for me to do."
That was a lot to reveal she never admits she is in the wrong. What is it about Conrad that makes her feel different. He heard the vulnerability in her voice and gets back in the bed.
As she rolls over to face him her phone rings she hits ignore and looks at him their faces inches apart. Now she feels bad she unintentionally hurt him. For the millionth time she curses her father for making her this way.
She cups his cheek and leaves a delicate kiss on his lips, their foreheads touching after the kiss her eyes closed savoring the moment.
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Giuseppe Salvatore was supposed to meet Colin when he got off the plane instead it's a young woman with jet black hair that totally looks dyed by an amateur. Her roots are brown and showing. She's in jeans and a sweater and kitten heels she looks out of place in New York City. "I'm a envoy for Mr. Salvatore until he gets here. I'm supposed to show you where you will be staying."
They pull up to the building he is staying in. When they enter the lobby they have to go over to the reception desk. "The key for the second penthouse."
Vonya comes out of the back room he was on his way out his eyes widen when he sees who is at the front desk. "Your not supposed to be here."
He goes to pick up the phone and dial when the woman stops him. 'She can't tell me what to do. She also does not own this city people come in and out all the time with out her permission. I'm not breaking any rules I'm also doing my job."
Vanya knows that Caroline should be aware of who is standing in front of him right now. This is the person who Caroline had the panic attack about. This woman would and has tried to ruin Caroline for just being herself. There is no telling what this woman is capable of. "Stay away from Miss Caroline."
"She won't even know I'm here."
Colin watched their conversation and has questions. When the elevator doors shut he asks. "You know Caroline Salvatore?"
The brunette/black haired woman lets out a sigh of annoyance her least favorite topic is Caroline Salvatore. "Unfortunately yes. That is all I wish to say about that."
The elevator doors open and the receptionist for the private residences sees her. "Get out. Your not getting up to that penthouse. Your still banned."
"That was so long away and what if I forgot something in that penthouse."
He tells her sternly and with no emotion on his face. "Then I suggest getting another one." He turns his attention to Colin. "Is she with you?"
Colin looks over at the woman who has her arms crossed and is glaring daggers at the receptionist. "No I just met her, but one of the apartments was rented for me Colin McNaughton, or Giuseppe Salvatore I don't know which one it would be under."
The receptionist looks on the list of private residences and finds it. "Yes its under Colin McNaughton and its Penthouse B."
The woman scoffs. "There's a second penthouse." Before she was rudely deported back to London Giuseppe had her in a one floor apartment. She is now in a hotel room, not even a fancy hotel like the Forbes hotel.
As Colin goes to the elevator that opens up into the penthouse's he tells the brunette. "As much fun as it's been watching people kick you out of places, tell Giuseppe if he wants to talk to me he'll have to come here and do it in person or I'm going back to Atlanta."
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Vanya tells Dorota who came in the lobby as he was leaving. Dorota looks back at him she must of heard him wrong. He shakes his head he was telling the truth. "I can't tell Miss Caroline she is actually happy. This might break her."
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"Nora do we know who the board wants to replace me with yet?"
"No but your father has been calling all morning." Nora had followed Caroline into her office and is now standing in front of the desk as the blonde sits behind said desk pulling up a rough cut of Brad's commercial in Fiji and Brett's photoshoot from France.
How did he get this number? She has been ignoring her fathers calls all week she doesn't need to hear how much of a disappointment she is to him even though she has done so much for he is never pleased. He wants not only a daughter but all his children to just blindly do as he says and that's not who his children are. Caroline's phone rings again and she hits ignore.
"Now let's send Logan Fell golfing or I know an amazing sailing instructor do you think he would, prefer that? Although I've never seen him smile in the week and a half I've known him. You've known him longer and said you've never seen him smile either. He might be incapable of joy.
"I think the golf trip would be perfect for him nobody to bother him."
"Roman Sienna I've heard that name before." Nora hands her a folder on Roman. As Caroline scans it she sees someone she knows. "His son who is named after him, we graduated together he was on the lacrosse team with my brothers. I'll have to call my brothers to make sure of this but I'm pretty sure his father was always on him to get into more charities. So I'll donate a large sum to his charity. Now Atticus Shane might just enjoy the castle tour minus the golf and last for the guys we have Gaspar Cortez who is the most handsome of the guys I will give him that so trip to any Forbes hotel."
Nora is writing all of this down when the phone rings again. "It's your father."
Caroline rolls her eyes and continues. "The ladies Josette Parker… wait a minute Parker give me her file." Nora hands a folder and Caroline scans down the family listed. "I knew it Kai Parker he was a friend in high school. He was the guy you ask when you needed something done. Eva Sinclair she's the youngest on the board. Besides me. She's our way in." Looking at her photo she does look familiar but she can't place it.
Nora adds. "I noticed a wedding ring on Eva's finger it was different from everyone else's she had a black diamond wedding ring."
"Couples massage, I know first hand it is hard running a business so a nice way to relax is a massage and if she brings her husband they can spend time together everyone wins. You make the appointments and I'll convince them."
Nora goes to her desk and the phone rings. It's Giuseppe again and she lets it ring at the same time Caroline's cell rings. "I swear to god if it's Giuseppe…" instead it's her brother Stefan. "Why is Giuseppe calling me?"
"What? He never calls you. Your lucky he talks to you the least." The Salvatore triplets father Giuseppe is not a loving father he does not have a tender father relationship with any of his triplets. He doesn't have a tender bone in his body. They don't call him dad or daddy it's father or they will just call him by his name Giuseppe. Caroline did call him daddy once and it was poison in her mouth but Giuseppe was with business associates and he was trying to portray the perfect family so having Caroline call him daddy was part of the role she had to play. After she played her part as the doting daughter she walked away with her best friend Katherine and they laughed and joked that it was like taking candy from a baby since they had to act like they were asking for permission to have a sleepover on a school night. While his triplets were in high school he would put all the responsibilities; make sure the staff was paid, the home and cars was clean, the bills were paid the charities had their donations and there was food in the house all on Caroline. On top of her school work, extra curricular activities, starting Royalty plus City business and her active social life.
He has only approved one person for Caroline to be with Klaus Mikaelson. Unfortunately Caroline broke up with Klaus six into their relationship. For most of their relationship was spent hiding from her brothers and it wasn't pretty when they found out. If she had stayed with Klaus she never would of started Royalty or grown into this business woman. Giuseppe still to this day wants his daughter and Klaus Mikaelson to be together he says it just is better for the public image. Doesn't matter that Caroline or Klaus have not spoken in over four years and are not friends anymore.
He absolutely hated when his daughter dated Chadwick Gekko he tried everything to get them to break up. He hates the whole Gekko family. The Salvatore family is one of the four richest families in the world. The Gekko family did not invest in his company the cherry on top of his hatred was that Chad's father was the first to invest in Royalty but still refused to invest in Giuseppe's company.
When his sons were ten he dropped them off at the crack of dawn on the other side of Central Park and told them to find their own way home. It was winter break they didn't have coats, gloves or scarfs. All they were in was plaid pajama pants and long sleeve shirts and boots. It was almost noon when the boys returned to the penthouse they were shivering so much Dorota didn't know if they would ever get warm. They had a mild case of frostbite on their fingers and noses. She wrapped them in blankets and set them in front of the fire with hot chocolate to warm up.
He never did something quite like that with Caroline instead he took her against her will to a support group for people with a sex addiction because he was led to believe that she had an addiction she did not and would not believe her when she told him she did not have a problem. He was also convinced at the time that she was pregnant and didn't know who the father was; She was not.
"I was almost held in contempt in our mock trial for his call. He left a voicemail saying we need to have a family meeting. Which was easier when we were in high school all his children were living under one roof and all he had to do was come to New York. Now I have to come in from Harvard, your fine in the city, Damon is traveling last I heard he and Klaus were in Machu Picchu. They lost Kol when he heard they were going to climb a mountain."
Caroline groans "Fine to save your lawyer career I will answer next time." She lowers the phone to tell to Nora who is at her desk getting bribes for the board. "Nora next time my father calls put him though. And have tequila or vodka on hand."
"I was told I'm not supposed to supply you with tequila or vodka."
The blonde sighs it could be one of three people who told her this. Zero, Jude and Dorota have seen first hand how dealing with Giuseppe makes Caroline stressed making her drink. In one week Caroline by herself finished an entire bottle of vodka and tequila. She only threw up once that week and that was because the vodka was the only thing in her stomach and she had just traveled and was extremely stressed and shaken up from a recent trauma.
"You have an assistant I feel bad for her."
The blonde scoffs. "She's amazing why did I never hire an assistant before. It would of made life a little easier. I probably wouldn't of missed as many debutant classes as I did."
"Still hard to believe your a debutant. The only reason you walked was because of mom and Cece being President of board."
"That night is still not my fault. Klaus shouldn't of tried to embarrass me. Thank you Brett for stepped in."
Stefan regrets bringing this up and quickly tries to get out of it. "Rebekah just got home I'll talk to you later."
Caroline runs a hand through her hair and Nora asks. "Do you want me to set up a sailing appointment for you too?"
The blonde can't help the smile that appears on her face. "I knew there was a reason I liked you. There's no need I have private lessons every night."
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A couple days later she likes to go into the photoshoot room and check on them. "Who's idea was this?"
"It's for an alcohol brand." Jed is currently in brown chaps and a black cowboy hat. Holding the bourbon bottle.
"No go change into a black cowboy outfit, Ben get into a white cowboy outfit get them guns they will be fighting over the last bottle of bourbon." Caroline looks back at her phone she was texting with Patrick, and finding out where in the world her uncle Sawyer is.
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"Can I help you?" Nora came back from lunch to find a handsome suit clad gentlemen in Caroline's office. She doesn't think he's here to do her harm since he's not riffling through the drawers. Just looking around the office.
"No just making measurements for my new office."
Today's board meeting Caroline is blindsided by her father sitting at the table. After the meeting she asks her father to walk with her."What are you doing here?"
"You wouldn't answer my calls, I didn't teach you to ignore me."
"You didn't teach me anything."
Giuseppe glares at her he also didn't teach her to talk back to him. That did not stick with any of his children. "Who do you think taught you to manipulate, it wasn't your mother."
Caroline rolls her eyes. "Uncle Peter taught us you were busy acquiring another business or hanging out with the spawn of satan." She pauses as she realizes that this is the first time she has referred to that person and not gone into a full body panic attack.
"Sybil is a nice woman I don't know why you treat her so horrible."
And there it is Caroline's breathing becomes swallow, her hand starts to shake, she places her other hand on it to try to stop it. She goes to say something but can't. She can feel her heart beating really fast.
"You don't have a response. I flew all the way out here do not ignore me. Just because you are older doesn't mean I won't cut you out of my will. The only reason your still in my will after this stunt we are standing in now is because of your mother."
She closes her eyes really wishing she was not in an elevator right now. She is trying to get her breathing under control. It's a struggle but she gets out. "You don't know her…..Why are you here?"
The elevator doors open and Caroline be lines for Nora's desk and whispers to her. "Alcohol now. Go get that bourbon bottle from the photoshoot I don't care."
"But."
The blonde glares at her. "Now!"
Caroline goes to walk into her office with Giuseppe on her heels berating her, she stops in the doorway. "Nora!" Could this day get any worse.
"Yes."
The blonde takes a breath. "Please find out why Mr. McNaughton is here while I deal with Mr. Salvatore."
Nora nods as she comes back from the elevator and ushers Colin out of the office.
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"Someone is writing a book about our family I need you to stop it."
Caroline's jaw drops seriously this is what he has been calling for the last week and half. This is ridiculous why does he put everything on her. She has two brothers they could do stuff too but no. He only trusts her to handle this. She has always held herself years older then she actually is.
"Seriously a new book about our family comes out every year. My favorite one was when I was a princess, although the one where I was compared to satan was rude and the one where I was the villain was pure fiction. I did enjoy the one where I was a bubbly vampire along with everyone else we were all vampires. Thinking about it in all the books I'm the villain or the one who is left."
Giuseppe sighs his daughter is not taking this serious enough. He has worked to hard to keep this family's reputation clean which has been hard with his wife divorcing him and marrying her high school sweetheart turned wanted drug lord who can not even step foot into America, and his children and their partying ways. Even though his daughter did start her own modeling business at 17 and did not tell him. They still loved a good party and would be seen in public underage drinking or getting into clubs. He's has in the past gave Caroline the responsibility to stop bad press about the family coming out but he would stop it too. So when this came around he just knew she would handle it.
"Do you know Aimee Bradley?"
"No she either was not significant enough to remember or I never met her why?"
"She wrote a book called lover of a Salvatore."
Caroline rolls her eyes at the title for starters seriously all the words in the world and you go with that. "Well she's not my lover. Stefan has been with Rebekah for years so that leaves one child left. And before you ask no I will not help you destroy this Aimee person I have a business to run. My days are busy, my nights are busy and my mornings are for getting over my nights and getting ready for my afternoons."
"Let's just hope none of your lovers write a tell all."
The blonde lets out a sigh she has been dealing with the snide remarks about her personal life all her life. She always ignores them she knows who she is and they can't convince her she is something she is not. "I've only been with a few people I've made more enemies then lovers. Let's not forget your annoying bitchy was a secret before you told everyone I'm sure you still keep in contract with could write a juicy book. Obviously I'm the villain; you would be the lying benefactor. Everyone knows that she would make herself the hero that conquers and frees everyone from the malicious evil villain."
Giuseppe scoffs. He does not know the extent of what happened between both girls he heard two very different stories. Even though he heard one story from all three of his children and the other story from two people he went against his children he knows they can be dramatic and lie. He will always defend the two woman against his children who try to ruin them. "There it is."
Caroline can feel her heart racing and her breathing getting heavy her hand beginning to shake again. "Please… leave my office."
As he leaves he turns back to her. "I'll see you at the next board meeting."
"What do you mean?"
Giuseppe's shit eating grin gets bigger as he informs her. "Nobody told you I bought a seat on your board."
Caroline takes a sharp breath. "Please leave."
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Giuseppe left but Nora comes back with the bourbon and Colin on her heels. "Mr. McNaughton won't leave until he sees you." She hands her the full bottle of bourbon.
Caroline pops the top and takes a gulp. "Send him in then you can go home for the evening."
"Your style is so drab I'm going to have to redo everything."
"That's cute but your not getting this office."
Colin smirks at her. "That's not really up to you but how did you put it oh yeah. Looks like I came out on top."
"Game on frat boy."
"You know I've never been to a frat house."
Caroline puts on that fake smile as she leans against her desk. "Oh we both know that's not true."
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"You up?" Caroline looks down at her phone she thought it would be her brother Damon returning her calls. Instead she smiles when she sees the text.
Conrad is sitting back on the couch in his living room when his phone rings. "Yeah I'm still at Royalty."
He runs a hand through his hair and smiles down at the text.
Caroline is taking a sip of the bourbon when she hears. "Rough night?"
After she puts the bottle down she glances at the doorway of her office and Conrad is leaning against the doors in jeans and a grey tee shirt under a blue plaid shirt. "You could say that you could also say rough week."
He comes over to her desk and leans against it next to her. They are inches from each other and their fingers find each other playing with each other his thumb is running over her fingers. "Do you want to talk about?"
"I don't want to bore you…. How have you been?" Nobody has ever asked Caroline to share her feelings and care about what is bothering her. Her brothers tried to help a couple times but that's just because they are her brothers.
She wouldn't be boring him he actually does want to know what is bothering her. He used to do the same thing, hold everything in and not let anyone in. It resulted in being moody and panic attacks. It was during the summer his mother found out her cancer had come back.
"I've been good, how have you been?"
"I'm fine. I'm glad you texted." It's an instinct to just respond with I'm fine for her. Nobody ever cared all they wanted was for her to do something for them. Caroline glances down at their fingers and how they unconsciously found each other and are just entwining.
He smiles down at her, but he knows she is not fine. He had thought about texting her a couple times this last week, his finger would hover over her number but then he second guessed himself. You can hear the teasing in his voice when he asks. "Are you saying you missed me?"
She chuckles. "Are you saying you missed me?"
He chuckles. He lifts their entwined hand and brings her over to the couch he sits down and she straddles his lap. While his hands go her waist her arms go around his neck playing with the back of his hair. Luckily for her, her mini red plaid skirt is short so it doesn't affect straddling him. She matched it with a long sleeve white silk blouse with a black and white tie around the neck and black louboutin's.
Conrad tucks a piece of hair behind her ear and softly says. "Hi."
"Hi."
Her fingers start unbuttoning his blue plaid shirt only halfway so she can lift it above his head. He feels her hands at the hem of his shirt and then it is being pushed up. He takes his hands off her only for her to lift his shirts over his head.
As she presses kisses down is neck and on his pecks his fingers fumble trying to find how to take this blouse off. She removes her lips from their trail down his chest and smiles at him he's so adorable. "Do you need some help?"
His face turns as red as her skirt she lets out a little laugh as she untucks her blouse and pulls it over her head. Her blouse joining his shirts on the floor.
Their lips connect as her hands slide down his chest and find the top of his jeans his hands slide down her body and cup her ass through her skirt.
They try to keep kissing when she has to stand up so he can slide his jeans down but they have to break the kiss which they both smile at each other while they are separated.
She slides down on his thick erect dick, neither of them have been with someone else this past week so they are worked up. She moans as she put an arm around his neck and starts to ride him.
He leans forward and starts pecking the outline of her breasts with kisses as his arms wrap around her waist. He looks up at her, her back arched and she is carefree at the moment her blonde wavy hair flowing down her back. She is so beautiful.
They are both worked up that it doesn't take much for a release. She leaves a passionate kiss on his lips as she cups his cheeks. He brings her closer to him as they kiss. They both smile into the kiss.
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"How do you do that?"
Conrad pulling his jeans back up glances over at the blonde sitting on the couch in her mini red plaid skirt and black lace bra. "Do what?"
"Before you came here I wanted to kill my father and a former classmate from Stanford. Mainly my father but I get your text and you show up, not just the sex but also talking with you I don't feel like killing anyone anymore."
He can't help but smile the way he makes her feel happy and herself is the same way she makes him feel. When they are with each other their problems seem to disappear. They have only known each other for at most two weeks but feels so much longer. "What do you feel now?"
Caroline swallows as she picks up her white silk blouse. She's never said this to anyone or really felt this way except with him. "Happy."
They lock eyes as he makes his way over to her. Towering over her they both smile at each other as he brings his hand up and brushes his knuckles softly down her porcelain cheek. She leans into his touch and closes her eyes.
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She slides the doors open and is meet with a unannounced unfortunately familiar face. She turns back to Conrad right behind her. "Can you give me a moment to deal with a nuisance."
He nods and she kisses him again wishing she could just stay here kissing him but instead she has to deal with this son of a bitch. "I swear this will only take a moment."
As she shuts the doors all happiness leaves her body and is replaced with annoyance and bitchy a familiar feeling. "What the hell are you doing here? How did you find this place and third who let you out of jail?"
The black haired guy in all baggy black jeans and sweatshirt. Reaches up and tries to runs a dirty nail down the side of her face. She moves her head out of his reach. "You know you missed me, you always do. You always miss the best you ever had. I forgive you by the way."
Caroline takes a breath it's decided right now she has to see their family lawyer tomorrow she is also trying not to gag his words are making her sick. "Unfortunately for you I haven't thought about you since our parents got married, what my mother sees in your father I will never understand. Best I ever had please it was one of the worst five minutes of my life. It's funny how you always forget to mention you were holding that I owed you over my head until I had sex with you. I'm glad you forgive me for taking a restraining order out against you."
His dirty fingers go to reach In her hair and she moves her head again. "Not the first restraining order you had to put out on alleged siblings is it?"
She glares at him. "No and your in violation of yours. Get out of my building, get out of my city. There's a whole world out there go sell your drugs and get caught somewhere else."
He smirks at her and it makes her skin crawl. "I want to stay right here with my sister."
"Step sister, I don't need you or want you here leave."
He tries to touch her again and she moves out of the way closer to the closed doors. "You needed me once. You'll always need me."
"I didn't need you then I don't need you now. Just leave and never come back."
"You love me."
Caroline is speechless the nerve of this guy. "Seriously I hate you almost as much as I hate that bitch."
He goes to try to run his fingers through her hair when his hand is stopped and she hears a familiar man's voice say. "I believe she has made it crystal clear she wants you to leave."
She closes her eyes great now Conrad is going to see that her life is not perfect she has skeletons in the closet and one Skeleton is standing right in front of them her step brother. She hates him so much.
Conrad puts a hand on Caroline's back and leans down to ask her. "Are you ready to leave?"