“What did you say to me? I’d brought some youth and vitality to your life. She could bring some more.” I winked.
“I’m going to forget we had this conversation.” He said, winking back at me and he walked away.
It wasn’t lost on me that as he did, he looked directly at Alexandra, who came running over to see if he needed anything. He did, and I hoped he realized that sooner, rather than later.
I turned around to see my men, yes I realized I saw them as that now—-my men—-they were wrapped around each other dancing.
I walked over and tapped them on the shoulders. “Is there room for one more?”
“Always,” they said and let me in their circle.
A month later, Chase and Todd had handed over the business to the new guy, Aiden Hall. They came home one evening with Chase holding a new movie in his hands.
“Are we watching your last porno tonight?” I asked him.
“Oh, we are,” Chase grinned. “I think you’re going to like it.”
We curled up on the sofa, me in the middle of the guys and Todd pressed the remote bringing the movie to life on screen. The story unfolded—-my story-—beginning with a woman being told she was no use in bed and leading on to her love affair with two men. I broke down in tears.
“Haley, did we make a mistake? We didn’t want to hurt you. We wanted to show you how we felt you’d changed. How beautiful you are.” Chase said, looking at me in alarm.
“That’s why I’m crying,” I replied. “I feel like I’m in a fairytale sometimes like it’s not real. You took me and made me be this confident woman I am now. You really did change a caterpillar to a butterfly.”
“Except we got you to spread your legs not your wings,” Chase quipped and it broke through my tears and I started to laugh.
“That you did.” I said, “and I’ll be forever grateful.”
“Ooh, how grateful?” Chase said with a wink.
I dropped to my knees. “Let me show you.”
Chapter Thirteen
Six months later
Haley
Todd and Chase had stayed on as paid consultants for a while at their newly sold business until Aiden Hall had someone trained to take over. I had sold all of King Park within the first week of the apartments being available and was working closely with Eli on a number of new developments.
But this week, we were on vacation, to our dream destination. We’d arrived in St Lucia, staying in a hotel with views of the Petit and Gros Piton mountains. Our suite was modern and well furnished with a beach-front location and 24 hour butler service. That night we had a table set out on the beach in front of our suite. It was set up underneath a wooden cabana, just a roof, and four pillars, with curtains that floated in the breeze but gave us a feeling of privacy. Lanterns gave us light and kept it all very romantic.
“So, here’s to our first night in St Lucia.” Todd raised his glass of red wine.
“Yes, let’s toast with strawberry cordial,” Chase said with a wink in my direction.
“Shut up.” I gave him a dirty look but then the edge of my lips curled in a tell-tale smirk. It was impossible to be mad with Chase for longer than thirty seconds.
“So, what’s everyone thinking we should do tomorrow?” Todd asked.
I looked over at the other cabana directly to the right of our suite. “I’m going to have a massage.”
“Oh, I’m definitely joining you on that one. What do you think, Todd?”
“I think I’m going to have a game of golf. I haven’t played in a while. I’ll leave you two to gossip while you’re being kneaded.”
r /> We relaxed in the warm breeze. It was decadent and romantic, being spoiled as someone else cooked and brought the most delicious food to our table. The staff let us know they’d turned down the bed. There was one bedroom and a sofa bed, but we’d explained we only needed the bed. If our butler had any thoughts about our arrangement he kept them to himself.
Thoroughly relaxed, we headed back into our suite for our first night in ‘paradise’, and we went through to the suite.