Chapter
Seventeen
JC
was flipping through channels on the TV when he heard the door open.
“Hello?” He yelled,
Kiora
appeared in the doorway of the living room, “Hey.” She smiled and quickly joined him on the
couch. Kiora sighed contently as she
snuggled into his body.
“A
‘hey’ is all I get after a week?” He
retorted and she kissed him quickly,
“Let
me nap for a little bit and you’ll get lots more than a hey.” She said snuggling down and closing her eyes.
“I
missed you Kee.” JC said softly and
wrapped his arms around her.
“I
did too, work sucks.” She mumbled, her voice barely audible because it was buried in
his chest.
“Take
a nap baby.” JC stroked her hair.
“Thanks.”
Kiora
woke up the next morning snuggled into JC’s chest.
“Man,
have I missed my pillow.” She yawned and
stretched, before snuggling back down into his arms. This was the one place she had been dying to
be all week.
“Nice
to know I’m missed.” JC pouted
playfully,
“You
are, trust me.” She grinned up at him,
“That was a great nap.”
“Nap?” JC scoffed, “You slept for
fourteen hours.”
Kiora
hadn’t slept much all week. Though she
wouldn’t admit it to anybody, she was pretty sure that it had everything to do
with the fact that JC wasn’t there to hold her.
“I needed it, thank you.”
“You
work too hard.” JC sighed wrapping his
arms around her.
“I
know I do.” She agreed. All Kiora did
was work, it was her life… until she met JC.
“Were
you at more clubs?” He asked, wondering
where his girlfriend was all week long.
Kiora
drew absent designs with her fingers across JC's chest, “A few, but most of the
time I was writing reports and finishing up research.”
“For the whole week?” JC frowned, wondering how much Kiora actually
did for her father’s company. He was
beginning to think that it was Kiora who actually ran the business instead of
her father.
“There
were a lot of them. I barely slept this
whole week.” She yawned again,
JC
sighed, “You’re going to burn yourself out.”
“Nah,
I’m used to this. It’s cool.” She looked up at him, “I like working in
spurts. That way I get a lot done and I
have more time to concentrate on other things.”
She said walking her fingers up his chest playfully to his lips. Using
her fingers, she traced them lightly.
“Could
I be one of those other things?” He said
huskily and bit the tip of her finger, drawing it into his mouth.
“You’re
the only thing I want to concentrate on.”
She said pulling her finger from his mouth and wrapping her arms around
his neck as her phone rang. Kiora
sighed, “But I need to get that before I can concentrate on you.”
JC
groaned, “Do you have too?”
“It’s
Russ, yes.” She grinned and rolled over
to answer her phone, “Hey shit head….Ha, ha…yeah I’m feeling better, thanks…no,
I left them on your desk……If you’d stop fucking your secretary on your desk,
you wouldn’t misplace so many things.”
She laughed out loud, “Yeah, okay Russ….Uh huh, I will, you too. Bye Russ.” Kiora rolled her eyes and hung up
her phone. She rolled back into JC's
arms, “That boy is going to be the end of me.”
She said playfully.
“You’re
really close to Russ.” JC observed.
She
shrugged a shoulder, “Yeah, we are. He’s
my best friend.”
“Did
you ever date him?” JC questioned,
She
shook her head, “No, never.”
“How
did you meet him?” JC asked as he
brushed her hair out of her face.
Kiora
laughed out loud, “That’s quite a story.
See, it’s hard to believe, but I was slightly wild when I was a
teenager.”
“You?
No way.”
JC chuckled.
“Yeah,
I know. Well anyways, I was sixteen and
working for my dad.”
“Wait
a minute, you worked for your dad at sixteen?”
She
nodded, “The business has been my life for as long as I can remember. It’s all I know.” She shrugged, “It’s a good thing I love my
work, huh?” She teased, “Anyways, Russ
came in to interview for something, I forget what, but I had just been with my
dad and he had completely blown me off, so I was pissed. I decided that I was going to piss him off by
embarrassing him. So, I walked by the guys
who were interviewing, saw Russ, who was the cutest one, climbed on his lap and
proceeded to make out with him right there.
Daddy was pissed off beyond belief, Russ was hired and we’ve been
friends ever since.” She grinned,
JC
mouth drooped in shock, though knowing Kiora, he really shouldn’t be. “You made out with him?”
“Yeah,
but that would totally never happen now.
Russ is like a brother to me.
I’ve known him for so long and know so much about him that there’s no
attraction between us.”
“Ahh,
okay, so I never have to worry about him?”
He grinned and traced her cheek.
“Never,
we’re just really close. We take care of
each other.” She admitted with a little
shrug.
A
light of recognition came over JC's face, “So you do have someone who takes
care of you.”
“Yeah, you.”
She smiled and kissed him, “Why that is, I still haven’t figured it
out.” She teased.
JC
didn’t think he could ever get enough of her smile. “Kee,” JC said caressing her face, “When you
care about someone, you take care of them.”
“I
know that.” She rolled her eyes, “I
guess I’m not used to someone other than Russ taking care of me. No one’s ever really wanted too.”
“That’s
so sad honey.” He whispered and
tightened his arms around her. He never
wanted her to feel that way ever again.
Kiora
saw the pity in JC's eyes and couldn’t take it, not from him. “Not really, I’m just self-sufficient.” She grinned, trying to change the mood of the
conversation.
JC
wasn’t going to let her, “Well, you don’t have to be with me. I like taking care of you.”
“Okay.” She said, “What are your plans for
today?” She said changing the subject,
she was emotionally tapped out and it had been a week since she had gotten any.
“I
was thinking of spending the day here in bed.
Wanna join?” He asked, wiggling
his eyebrows at her.
Kiora
bit her lip, knowing that was EXACTLY what she had in mind. She stretched herself on top of him, “That
sounds like heaven, cowboy.”