“Do you believe in fate, Maddie?” I asked her retreating back.
“No, Lucas, I don’t believe in fate.” She said with a twinkle in her eye. “I believe that chance favors the prepared mind”
I stood shocked for a nanosecond before I responded. “I’ll remember that for our next meeting, Sweet Maddie”
I sat back down with a renewed purpose. I had to be prepared for Maddie. She has had a life of upheaval and I want to ensure that she doesn’t run from me.
Maddie doesn’t know it, but this evening just gave me everything I needed to make her mine.
It’d been two weeks since I ran into Maddie and this morning brought new excitement unlike I have ever had.
Today I was implementing the plan to make Maddie mine and to bring her back to her father and his business. I know she may fight me, but with her family on my side, I know I won’t fail.
First thing is to get Maddie out of the bar she is waiting tables at and into a job befitting her status and education.
Her degree will allow her flexibility to choose a career, but so far, she seems to be happy slinging drinks and just existing.
From the conversations I’ve had over the last few weeks, I found out that Maddie has always been extremely smart but has a fear of getting lost in corporate America. Of possibly losing herself in her job. She didn’t care if she struggled for money, as long as she found the job satisfying.
I’ve grown more and more in love with her and I can’t wait until she is around me, under me and on top of me. I groan out loud at the thought of her perfect skin, flushed with arousal, begging me to take her and give her pleasure. My mouth on her sweet center, feeling her writhe under my touch. I wonder if she likes slow and gentle or hard and rough? Will she beg for me, wanting me like I want her?
I’ve craved her taste and I haven’t kissed more than the back of her hand.
That is all about to change. Maddie is mine and I will do whatever I have to do to have her.
I have job offers that will get her into the company without her knowing she works for Jason. Lisa and Joe said it would be a fight with her, possibly resulting in her shutting everyone out, including them. The last thing I’d want is for Maddie to feel cornered or threatened.
Maddie had a version of the truth that she adopted when she was a little girl. Never wanting to talk about it, she carried guilt and shame deep in her soul.
She was unwilling to listen to Lisa and Joe when they tried to steer her closer toward the truth. In her mind, Jason cast her and Sara out when Sara was dying and Maddie cannot get past that.
I wonder what her recollection of that night is, all these years later. I’ve heard Jason’s side of the story and Lisa told me Sara’s side. Only little Maddie was there and her young mind may have twisted the facts or she may be missing key information to understand what really happened.
I looked at my watch, grinning to myself. The courier should be delivering the job packets to Maddie right about now.
I picked up my phone and called Jason “Good morning Jason. I wanted to give you an update on what will be happening today and how I hope to proceed.”
To say Jason was upset when I had told him my plan, not only to bring Maddie into his life, but to make her mine, would be an understatement. We had met last week and he had taken a swing at me after hearing my declaration for her. Luckily, he taught me to fight, so I saw him telegraphing his punch and was able to deflect.
“If I didn’t respect you so much, I would fire your ass, Lucas. I don’t want your plan to cost me my daughter, just so you can get your dick wet. She isn’t like the girls you regularly screw and I won’t allow you to cast her aside when you are done with her. This could completely destroy any relationship I may have with her in the future! If that happens, you are a dead man.” He growls into the phone.
I understood his anger and I’ve explained how I felt about her to him a few times, but I am sure he’s just fearful ofbothof us losing her. He has already let me know he thinks she and I would be great together but warned me she probably has her mother’s temper and will fight just to be difficult.
“Stop talking like that about her. I know she isn’t anything like the girls I used to mess around with. I will tell you one more time, she is everything to me. I fell in love with her the first moment I saw her picture and I would move heaven and earth to make her happy. I’ve spoken with her Aunt and Uncle and told them my intentions. They gave me their approval, Jason, andtheyare the ones who raised her.”
I knew that last part was a low blow butfuck himif her thinks I just want to screw her and leave.
“Fuck you, Lucas. I know what they have done for her. I just want her in my life. She hates me and I don’t blame her. It just hurts to know your own daughter thinks you are scum.” I heard a sniffle and he cleared his throat.
I felt like shit. This man gave me a home when my own mother couldn’t handle me, taught me to be a man and gave me the tools and education to live a very comfortable life.
“I’m sorry. I know how hard this is on you and I’m just as stressed as you are. But I have faith this will work. Her job offers are being dropped off as we speak, and you have provided many different options of work for her. From stressful to simple, now you just have to sit back and let her come to us. This will all work out, I promise you.”
“I trust you and I’m sorry too. I know you would never mistreat her. Hell, I have never seen you like this with any woman, let alone one who you have only talked to once. I just want to put this all behind us and so we can start fresh. There is so much I want to tell her. So many places I want her to visit. Hell, I want to give her the world if she will let me.”
“Between us and her family, she will have so much love she won’t know what to do. We just need to get her into the company so I can begin to unwind all the lies and confusion surrounding all of this.”
“Okay. I’ll do my best to be patient, but do not let this drag out too long. Lucas, or I will take over.” He admonished before hanging up the phone.
