Apollo's 11

by Anna Collins

  "Darling, you look distressed what's wrong?" Emily touched my shoulder.

  "Nothing, just wondering when your dad is going to sell his company to me" I sighed.

  "Oh, don't worry, I will try my best to convince him. By the way, I just love your enthusiasm and...everything" she said in a husky voice pouting her lips awkwardly.

  She might feel that she was looking sexy, but I found it gross.

  I so wanted to escape this awkward and boring rendezvous with Emily. But how could I mess it up when she just promised that she would try to convince her dad? One bad behavior from my side and bam! Wyatt's telecommunications would slip away from my grip like running water.

  Emily was looking at me intently, suddenly her cheerful expression changed into a disturbed one "Robert, you said you two weren't a thing, then what is she doing here? And why is she coming to you?" she asked.

  "Who?" I curved my eyebrows and looked in the direction she was pointing.

  Freaking Hell! Was that Freya Lawrence? and why was she coming towards me, looking incredibly cute and delicious in a lavender crop top and floral white pants? This time, she didn't tie her hair, nice I liked it, long loose curls. Whoa! Robert Hudson! get a grip on your man parts, I advised myself she is just a girl, it's not anything you haven't seen or touched before.

  She stopped right in front of me, my black alligator diving shoes were only an inch away from her strappy white heel sandals. That's why she was looking a bit taller than the last time I had seen her, well, I hoped she wasn’t a huge fan of wearing high heeled sandals because that could give her joint pains. I shook my head, seriously, why did I even care?

  Quickly covering my soft expressions with cold ones "yes, what do you want now?" I asked. I was certain that she had regretted her decision of returning her job and the apartment to me and now she came to ask for it. Her hot head brought her in the problem, and her hot body is making me feel uncomfortable and why did the images of our passionate night just flickered in front of my eyes? no, it wasn’t passionate it was just....I had no idea.

  Her words brought me back "I want you" she said in a seductive tone that I had never heard before. And my jaw fell open in surprise, there was no way she could be doing this in a sober state. She hated me and the alcohol was speaking all that nonsense. But it did sound nice, coming out from those beautiful lips.

  "What? But you said there wasn’thing?" Emily shouted, breaking our beautiful connection.

  I gestured Emily to shut up.

  "Freya, you are drunk, go home. Do you have a car with you? Forget it I will ask my driver to drop you" I said holding her by the shoulder, the softness in my own tone surprised me.

  Taking a closer look at her I made out that she wasn’t as drunk as I had assumed. Then why did she say that? She chewed her lips and was inching close to me with a nervous expression on her face. Her eyes were forced shut.

  "Freya...you..umm" and she shut me up by pressing her lips against mine. As those rosy lips crushed against mine's for a moment I forgot to breathe and just stood stiffly. My eyes opened wide, both with shock and surprise and my mind got busy in trying to figure out if it was for real or just a drunken illusion of my brain. But her soft hands roaming over my arm told me that it was for real. This had to stop! I needed to move her away from me, maybe she wasn’t in a state to make a proper judgment but I certainly was. But why did all the strength in my tough body fall short to remove that slender girl from myself? I knew why because a part of me was wanting to grab her tightly by the waist and kiss her back so hard that her lips would get bruises of my name. Crap! those erratic thoughts, they never came with any other girl but for her. Freya, what did she do to me?

  I could feel the stirring of my erection as she circled an arm around me, her palm was firmly gripping my chin while her lips caressed my face. She bent me backward, kissing a tender trail down my neck as her tongue darted out to taste my skin. I placed my palms on her shoulders, wanting to push her away, but other thoughts were clouding my mind, how could this possibly feel good? I let out a gasp as she hummed on my lip.

  "No..." I gasped out, blinking away; but the haze clouding my mind pushed me back into the trance. My want matched with my need and my only response was to tighten my hold around her waist and kiss her back, hard and fast.

  Freya

  Okay, this was going nowhere according to my plan. My only intention was to rub my lips slightly against his dirty ones so that Emily could get the impression that Robert and I were a couple but it turned out to be this hot and sucking kiss. Shit! His scent was so amazing that I lost all my sane thoughts and ended up in licking him. And now when I wanted to end the kiss, I wasn’t able to fight his strong hold on my waist. I had expected a blunt push from him, instead he was kissing me back, sucking and teasing my lips, making me feel weaker with each passing second and the way his hand was roaming over my arm and back was giving me goose bumps. Gawd! That felt so good.

  His lips were so demanding, but every touch of him felt like a thousand sparks were running down my body. My mind was alive, it wanted to stop him, but my muscles weren’t moving and my lady parts were getting excited to feel the domination of his rough kiss.

  I had stopped kissing him long back, now it was only him who was kissing me. I dared to look at his face and again like that night, the monster had disappeared. It was just him, a gentle, caring and passionate guy. I was craving to see this side of him and a hint of a smile appeared on my face.

  His hands left my arms and grabbed my waist, pulling me closer, crushing me against his chest and my arms rose up to cling to his neck helplessly, as my fingers dig into his thick, soft hair, I guessed my reaction made him kiss me more deeply, his lips were now becoming more impatient but more gentle. The feel of his wet lips on my own and the feel of his strong arms around my defenseless body sent waves of pleasure in my whole being.

  Then he left my lips for a few seconds, that gave me the chance to catch my breath and he murmured something softly near my lips I was so lost in his closeness that I couldn't hear clearly what he had said.

  Then suddenly he broke the kiss off, but still keep hugging me and then gently parted himself from me, but still kept holding my waist he looked down at me, I looked up to his perfect face with dreamy eyes, my lips were still parted, almost swollen by his passionate kiss, like him I was still breathing heavily.

  As I lifted up my gaze and looked at his cold eyes, I got stunned as the reality of what had happened caught me and jolted me to the core. The sight of his cold and uncaring eyes pinched a needle across my heart and feeling betrayed by my own weakness, I pushed him away with all my strength, feeling that I, to some extent have been violated! And he backed off.

  I looked around touching my lips where his warmness was still very much prominent. Emily, Danny, and Rick were standing around us. Three of them were wearing the same expression. Their eyes had popped out and mouth had formed an O shape. They were still staring me and Robert like we belonged from a different species.

  I felt so ashamed that I wanted to jump into a well, and their eye-popping reactions were making it worse. Come on! They weren’t teenagers, they weren’t seeing a make out session for the first time in their life. Damn! that was so bad but why did it feel so awesome?

  Before I could turn to Robert to see his expression, he had left. One thing became clear to me that I was wildly attracted to Robert Hudson and I didn’t have it in me to deny it to myself. Jeez! I was doomed, getting attracted to a walking and talking disaster could never be a good idea.

  Unable to take the shame I ran out of the pub.

  Chapter Sixteen

  Freya

  "Stop smiling Danny, it's irritating me" I looked away, tightly gripping the mug of coffee.

  "Hey, don't be angry, I'm not mocking you. But that kiss. Ah! It was so damn sensual, you know Emily and I got so turned on that we headed back to my place and we did it" he whispered leaning close to my ear.

  "What? And she went with
you?" I turned to him, shocked and the pitch of my voice was louder. Everyone surrounding us at the office was giving me a stop-speaking-or-we-will-kill-you look. It was obvious for them to react in that way, here I was on my first day at my new work and instead of finding mistakes in the files that were about to webcast I was chit-chatting with my friend. Dude! I had some guts.

  Ignoring the obvious work freak crowd around us, Danny took a seat beside me "yes, we did it so many times" he informed, still smiling. "Hey, save the details of your shot and score home edition, my ears can't bear the dirtiness" I shrugged, turning my head to the computer screen.

  "Yes, our ways of having sex are dirty and awful only your Mr. Handsome billionaire can play the game properly" he squinted his eyes at me and got a sharp pinch from me in return.

  "Ouch, Frey! That hurts" he gasped.

  "Very good, you deserve it and don't you dare speak dirty again. You know it happened unexpectedly, I had no interest in kissing his dirty mouth" I frowned.

  "Oww! His mouth could n’t be that dirty, I saw that it was pretty skillful, well you know it better" he winked, teasing me.

  "Danny, I will kill you" I hit on his arm.

  He laughed "ok, ok jokes apart. I think Robert Hudson is into you, man! His eyes were closed when he was kissing you and men don't do that often. Think about it buddy, maybe he is not so bad after all" Danny patted on my shoulder and left.

  Leaning on my wooden desk, I thought about the mysterious and dark character of Robert Hudson. I wish I could know more about him, I wish I could know why he liked to punish himself. Damn! I hated those mysteries.But what could he be hiding? People only punished themselves after realizing that they have done something really wrong, something for which they couldn’t forgive themselves; what if it was the same case with Robert Hudson?

  Robert

  Sometimes I imagined myself as a lion, slowly closing in on my prey, ready to pounce...or a spider, spinning a web that would eventually trap my prey and leave them helpless. Winning over anything and anyone was my favorite kind of kick. No wonder I was planning world domination at the age of six. Ahh! childhood, those were good times. Being with parents and not having a care in the world. Well, not exactly, the world wasn’t a problem, but the dark tunnel of my past was!

  "Hello, sir, welcome to your new establishment. We are so glad that you chose to buy this company. Your smartness can take the name of our webstore to an even further level" the manager kept blabbering his words of ass kissing. Gary Ward, the manager of my new Webstore was grey-haired and grizzled, with an over enthusiastic nature. He was short and his voice and body language had a feminine ring to it, which somehow made me think that he was a gay. Well, that was none of my business. I invested in this web store because it was big and had a wide range of high-tech apps and planned to make it even bigger and better. I liked projects.

  The office building was comparatively spacious and the interiors looked tolerable as well. It was a refreshing change than the other web store offices that I had visited earlier in the day. I wanted to meet the staffs and technicians it was kind of a routine thingy to me.

  Several generous gazes and smiling faces of the female employees told me that the gray pinstriped jacket I was wearing suited me well.

  "Look how handsome he is! I have never seen a better-looking man in a suit" I heard some whispers behind my back and my lips curled into a proud smirk.

  "Mr.Hudson, how did you like our office environment?" Gary asked wearing his fake, I-am-here-to impress smile.

  "It's small but I can see that they are disciplined and hardworking" I stated.

  "And thanks to you and bigger authorities for not spreading the news about me buying this company. You know I had some issues with the tax agencies and the secrecy has helped me a lot. But now the time has come to announce my take over. I am going to rename it with my surname" I added, putting my hands back in my black trouser.

  "I think that will be a good thing, marking it as your own" Gary smiled.

  "I don't care what you think, it was an announcement" I shrugged, making my way away from him to the other side of the office.

  "very well sir, very well," Gary said at my back.

  Man! He was beginning to irritate me.

  There were cream-colored pillars all over the big working area of the staff, followed by the personal office rooms of the head engineers and management teams, they were vert anxious to catch a glimpse of me.

  After discussing my new business plan with them, I began to make my way towards the exit, that's when I noticed someone hiding behind a pillar. That seemed pretty odd; where as the rest of the staff weren’tgetting enough of me and she was hiding from me. Yes, I could tell that she was a girl because a part of her back was visible to me and I noticed a french braid. Her really long hair reminded me of Freya. Damn you Robert! How could she be here? I scolded myself, but decided to take a look anyways, just to clear my doubt.

  "Ya, it has been good so far. All the staff had lined up to see the new owner and I took the chance to escape and make this call. This is boring man! ok, love you too" I heard her speak. The voice, it seemed too familiar. No! It could be Freya, No.

  On leaning over my doubt got cleared it was Freya Lawrence, whose presence made me do strange things which I regretted later. Ahh! Double crap.

  She didn’t notice me as she was too busy in laughing and talking. Obviously, she won't notice me, it was her boyfriend on the line. The thought of her being intimate with someone else and hear her laugh at his jokes made my blood boil. And the next moment I found myself snatching away the phone from her and throwing it away on the ground. The force of my throw was so strong that the phone broke into pieces right in front of me.

  Chapter Seventeen

  Freya

  "This is an office, you come here to work, not to flirt with your boyfriend" Robert Hudson snapped angrily and walked away. He was just like a storm in my life who came to destroy everything that I loved. And now it was the turn of my favorite iPhone 6. I only knew what I had to go through to save money for this expensive piece of phone. I have been longing for that particular phone for so long, and I didn’teven get to spend a month with my beloved handset, all thanks to the monster in my life.

  Tears had formed in my eyes as I kept looking at the broken dead body of my phone. He killed it! God make sure to burn that dickhead in hell.

  "Poor Freya, this will be a history, no one has never been fired on the very 1st day of their job. You are a trendsetter" Gary clapped, his irritating mocking voice only added fuel to my anger.

  "Fire! Who fired me?" I turned to him, my voice quivering with fear.

  "Ah! Darling, it's not official yet, but you will soon get the termination letter because the handsome guy who broke your phone is our new owner. All the best" he patted on my shoulder and giggled then he left.

  Arghhh! Again! Is this guy some kind of a job snatcher? Because he kept snatching away every source of income from my life. Kate was so right. He was a bad omen who had covered me in his dark shadows. But I would not let him do that further, I said to myself and ran to the elevator. He might not have gone further, I said.

  Till the time I reached the parking lot, I was panting, following someone was really difficult. I wondered how could they do so easily in the movies. Freya forget about movies, concentrate on your real life villain, I advised myself.

  "Hey you, stop" I yelled at his back. He stopped and turned to me, giving me the chance to reach him.

  "What?" he spoke in an uninterested tone, never meeting my eyes.

  "Have you sworn to destroy my life? 1st you ruin my chances of becoming a reporter, ate away my job and now you killed my phone and are planning to snatch away my new job from me? And for that, you even bought the company? How long is your revenge game going to last?" I spoke without a pause and he stared at me with an amazed and shocked expression on his face.

  He leaned close to my face and looked at me in a way as if he was examining me. I
swallowed, moving away.

  "What..are you up..to?" I asked nervously. Eh, where was my bold and demanding voice that I used just now?

  He laughed, bringing his finger near his lips "I am trying to see if the loose screw of your brain has completely fallen out or not".

  "What do you mean, I am mad?" my eyes went bigger.

  "Then how can you think that I bought out an entire Webstore, spending thousands of dollars only to seek revenge on you? Who are you to me? You don't even exist for me!" He snapped rudely.

  "Only a terrible person like you can go to any extent to hurt someone. But you know what, I don't care. You want to fire me, fire me right away. I am sure I will be able to withstand this storm as well because I am a fighter and I don't get my kicks by giving pain to others" my voice sounded heavy because I was on the verge of crying but I controlled it somehow.

  The mean expression on Robert's face vanished, maybe he could see my pain through my eyes but I knew that someone like him would never reach out to ease anyone's pain. Bloody monster. He was silent.

  And I turned away, forcing myself not to break down in front of such a horrible person. I knew he would think that my tears were a sign of my weakness and would mock my softness.

  "Don't be ridiculous, he can't fire you like that" Danny exclaimed.

  "Dude, he is Robert Hudson he can do anything" Rick added.

  I flopped my face on the yellow pillow. We were in Danny's living room. He brought me and Rick to his place and was trying his best to inject some positivity in me. Considering the fact that he was a bachelor his small one bed room apartment was nice and clean. I liked his brown couch and cream colored wall. I wanted an apartment of my own. I frowned thinking about my failures.