“So, you buy two hotels and hire managers to do the rest. You are rich and you did tell me whatever I wanted, you’d give me. Well, I want two hotels to help my sister keep her family.” I look him square in the eyes and ask him for the first thing ever and wait to see if he will give it to me.
“Might I have a meeting with this man first, before I go getting into the hotel business, baby?” he asks me then pulls me to him and kisses the top of my head. “I will do it for you. I just want to see if I have to hire a real manager to oversee him or if he knows what he’s doing.”
I clap and giggle and kiss his face all over. “Thank you, thank you!”
He laughs as I kiss him then holds me back. “I suppose you want the American hotel to be in Clemson, so they spend more time with us, correct?”
I nod and he smiles at me. “I’m beginning to be able to read you like a book.”
“You are,” I say and cuddle into his side. “Man, this bed is little.” I have to readjust and end up lying on his left side or I’ll fall off the bed.
“I’m happy to have your attitude being more positive. It makes my heart go all bumpy.” He pulls me up even more on top of him and I hug him tight.
So, I’ve asked him for something huge and he’s agreed to it. Maybe this thing between us really is going places.
But should I really be incorporating my family into it, so soon…?
Chapter 6
CYPRIAN
“That’s a grand gesture,” Cami’s father says after we’ve told everyone our plan for keeping Catarina’s family together. “Peter is a smart man. I can assure you he’ll work hard for you, Cyprian.”
I find the whole family is all smiles and then I go and do a bit more. “I’m not a man who knows a thing about the running of hotels. I can make the investment but that’s about all I can do.” I turn to Carlyle. “Can I count on you to assist Peter with this endeavor? That can be your internship and if you like that kind of work, I can make you a permanent part of the business structure.”
He nods and I see his father looking at him with a ton of pride in his expression. “I sure would love that opportunity. Thank you!”
Catarina looks a little worried as she says, “But he’ll ask about where we’ll live.”
“In the hotel,” Cami says. “We’ll have the top floor, renovated to accommodate your whole family.”
Catarina nods then looks at me. “Are you some kind of an angel, Cyprian?”
I laugh. “Far from it.”
Cami looks at me as she laughs too and I know she knows I’m no angel. “Well, we’re off to go on a swamp tour. Does anyone care to join us?”
No one comes forward, so she and I leave her family behind to go see some alligators. We hold hands as we go out to borrow her father’s car and I open the passenger door for her. “My lady.”
She kisses my cheek then gets inside the car. When I get into the driver’s side, I find her gazing at me. “I love you more than you can imagine.”
“Baby, you’ve given me more in my life than anyone ever has. I feel like a part of a real family, for the first time ever. And it feels awesome.” I take her hand and kiss it then run the back of it over my cheek. “Thank you.”
“Thank you, Cyprian. Thank you for everything. The hard times and the good times. I’m the luckiest woman in the world.”
Watching her smile like she is, has my heart doing flips. “This really is the best feeling. Do you think we can really get your family around us in Clemson?”
Then her head falls and she looks down. “My mother and father will never leave my grandparents, alone. And they’ll never leave.”
“I’m sorry,” I say as I lift her hand back up to my lips. “But we can always visit a lot. I love them, Cami. They’re great. Next to visit is your grandparents. We can go see them after our swamp tour.”
She gets happy again as the smile returns to her pretty face. “Maybe things will go this well when I meet your parents.”
I nod and drive away but I have a feeling things won’t go as well as they’ve gone with her family. My parents are nothing like hers. She has a real family and I have a couple of people who never fully developed as grown-ups. That’s painfully obvious to me now that I’ve been around a real family.
“Can you be brutally honest with me, Cami?”
She nods. “Sure.”
“Do you think I’ll make a good father?”
She looks at me with a smile and sighs. “I do. I really do.”
“Can I ask you another question then?”
“Sure.”
“When do you think you can let me become one?”
She laughs and I find it a lighthearted sound. One that tells me she’s not that far off from the idea. “We’ll just have to see about that, Romeo.”
I shut my mouth and bide my time. She’s coming along much faster than I anticipated. Becoming a father might not be years and years away like she said it would be. Especially if we have aunts and uncles around to help care for our brood.
I look over at her and picture her with a swollen stomach, full of my baby and my cock stirs. I look away as that’s still a no, no. Damn this recuperation is taking forever!
Can I really wait that long…?
Chapter 7
CAMILLA
Our stay has extended to two more days, so Peter can fly in and meet with Cyprian. He’s having him flown over by private jet and Peter sounded impressed when I overheard him talking to Catharina on her cell.
Cyprian, Catarina, and I are using Papa’s car to pick up Peter from the small airport we flew into a few days ago. My family has taken to Cyprian better than I imagined they would.
“Is it odd that I’m so excited to see my husband?” Catharina asks us. “I mean, I know he’s had sex with another woman while I’ve been gone.”
“Let it go, Rina,” I tell her. “Trust me, you can get over it.” I look at Cyprian who goes pink with embarrassment.
My sister leans up from the back seat and pats him on the shoulder. “I could tell you were a bad boy. But you seem to have grown out of it.”
“Great,” he says as he seems at a loss for words.
We laugh a little as he pulls up to the airport and we see the black jet pulling in too. “Just in time,” I say as we stop.
We all get out and in moments my sister is hugging her husband as Cyprian and I watch them. “What a married couple can get through, huh, baby,” Cyprian says as he pulls me close.
“All I know is, you better never put my ass through that.” I pinch his butt a little and he smacks mine, lightly.
“Nor you.”
“Agreed,” I say as my sister and brother-in-law stop hugging and kissing and come toward us.
Cyprian lets me go as he steps forward, extending his hand. “Hello, Peter. I’m Cyprian Girard, CEO of Libertine Investments. It’s nice to meet you.”
“Likewise,” Peter says then stops shaking his hand to give me a hug. “How’s my gorgeous sister-in-law?”
“I’m fine.” I pat him on the back as we end our hug.
“Shall we?” Cyprian asks as he gestures to the car. “I’ve made lunch reservations at someplace called, The Grill Room that Cami has assured me is excellent food and a great place to discuss our business.”
Peter gives him a nod as he opens the door for my sister who gets inside, all the while gazing at her attractive husband. It’s no wonder she doesn’t want to share him. He’s an exotic beauty, that man!
I scoot across the seat to sit right next to Cyprian as my sister and her husband begin to make-out in the back seat. “Sorry about this,” I whisper to Cyprian as I turn up the music, so we don’t have to hear the heavy breathing coming from them both.
He leans over and whispers. “Get out your cell and make them reservations somewhere crazily expensive in the French Quarter for the next two nights. I think they need to rekindle their romance.”
I do as he says and find myself smiling all the while. Cypri
an is surprising me more and more with each passing day. He’s insightful and helpful, and just plain wonderful!
“I love you,” I tell him after I’ve received confirmation of the reservations at Ritz-Carlton.
He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a wad of cash. “Slip this to your sister when you get a chance. I don’t want to leave them downtown without any money.”
When I count the money, I shake my head. “Baby, this is too much.”
He shakes his head right back at me. “No, it’s not. Just give it to her.”
I place the cash in my purse and think he’s nuts but he has more money than I have an imagination of just how much it really is. If he wants to splurge on my sister and her husband, who am I to stop him?
As we pull to a stop in front of the restaurant to let the valet take the car, my sister has to pull herself off her husband and we get out and go inside. I find them both glowing and think I was dead on right with my idea of bringing him to her.
Once we’re seated, Cyprian begins to let Peter know what he has planned. We don’t want Peter to think this is just something to get him to do what my sister wants him to do. Cyprian tells him the plan and asks for his help.
Peter thinks he’s negotiating but he has no idea Cyprian will give him more than what he’s asking for. Just as Peter looks as if he’s trying to make a decision about what to do, I open my mouth, “He left out the most important part, Peter. You will be getting a share of the profits each quarter and that will go all the way down to your children when they turn eighteen. Fifty percent of the profits, to be exact.”
His dark brown eyes narrow as he looks at me. “You are kidding, aren’t you?”
Cyprian chimes in, “She isn’t. I wanted her to tell you. You see, I’m an investor, not a person who knows how to run a hotel. That’s why I’m willing to give you not only a salary but a percentage as well. Plus, I like your kids and want to give them something they can reap from what you sow.”
“This is much too nice of you. I can’t let you do this,” Peter says, making us all stop and look at him.
Cyprian nudges me. “Take your sister to freshen up, will you?”
I nod and tilt my head toward the ladies’ room. “Come on, sis. The men need to talk business.” As soon as we get out of earshot, I let her in on Cyprian’s gift. “My man has set you up good, Rina. You and your husband will be staying two nights at the Ritz.”
“What?” she says as her eyes grow in size.
We slip into the ladies’ room and I open my purse. “Here, put this in your purse. Cyprian gave it to me to give to you. He said you’ll need some money to have fun while you have a little vacation. I’ll help Mama with your children. Don’t worry. Reconnect with Peter and see if you can get him on board with this venture.”
“What if he doesn’t want to do it, Camilla?” she asks as she seems worried he might not.
“Do your best to talk him into it. It means a lot to the kids too. This will set you all up for your whole lives. If you do smart things with it, that is. But I’m sure Cyprian will help out with great ideas about how to make the business work. He keeps saying he knows nothing about the hotel business but the man can read things and instantly become an expert. He’s the smartest man I’ve ever met and I know brilliant doctors and scientists!”
“I hope he can talk Peter into taking this offer. I don’t know what I’ll do if he won’t take it.”
I don’t know what she’ll do, either…
Chapter 8
CYPRIAN
“Man to man, no judgment,” I say to Peter. “Why would you not accept this offer?”
“I have my reasons for wanting to stay in South Africa. It’s my home country. I want my children to be raised there. I want them to know my religion and heritage,” he says, making valid points.
“Clemson has a community where they can get that as well. You see, your children are half-American too. Shouldn’t they get to experience and learn about this culture as well?” I ask him.
His eyes keep darting to the side and I think he has other reasons to want to stay right where he’s at. “My family is back in Cape Town as well.”
“You’d have lots of vacation time. Anytime you needed or wanted to go for a visit, not only would you be able to take that time off, you’d have access to the company’s private jet to make the trip.” I pile it on thick as I can see this man has that other woman on his mind.
He looks at me for a moment then says, “I suppose my wife has informed you all about me taking a mistress.”
I nod. “That has nothing to do with this offer. You see, I am planning on marrying Camilla. I’ve never had a family and I’d like to help ensure your family has everything they need. Think of me as a brother, Peter.”
He nods. “I have many, many brothers, Cyprian.”
“I am sure you do. That’s wonderful for you. Such a large and loving family,” I say but find him shaking his head.
“Loving, no. Just large. But that’s all I know. Can I be honest with you?” he asks me as he looks over my shoulder for his wife, no doubt.
“I wish you would.”
“I am facing a lot of flak from my extensive family about my wife and her slowness to fill our family with more children. They’ve set me up with another woman. She’s more than willing to make sure I have as many children as possible. So, leaving my home now would cause a rift in our families. This woman is a cousin of one of my brother’s wives. A close family we’ve traded with for many generations.”
“While I see your dilemma, may I ask you if you love your wife?”
He looks at me for a long moment. “Where I come from a wife is an asset. Love shouldn’t enter into that agreement. She married me, agreeing to bear my children. As many as we were given. When she took birth control, she voided our agreement. I haven’t divulged that information to anyone. Nor will I. You want to know why that is, Cyprian?”
“Let me guess, because you, my friend, love your wife.”
He nods but says nothing as he takes a drink of his wine. After a long time, he says, “But I have never told her those words.”
“You should. You should live your life for you and no one else except that woman and your children. I was also brought up in a family who thought love had no place in our existences. They were wrong. I had been living life almost the same way as you’ve described. I used women for sex and gave them nothing in return. Until I met, Camilla Petit. She opened my eyes and my heart to a different, more fulfilling way to live. You should forget about what you’re leaving behind.”
“Can I even do that?” he asks. “I’m not sure I can.”
“When you have sex with your wife, have you found it more enjoyable than when you had sex with this new mistress?” I ask him as I hold his eyes to make sure he tells me the truth.
“I didn’t feel a damn thing when I bedded the mistress. Except shame. That’s the truth.”
“Here’s the deal, Peter. I love Cami and I love her family now too. Your family will leave you the hell alone about this. Would you like to know why that is?”
With a nod, he says, “I’d love to know why you think that.”
I wink at him. “Because you will be sending so much money home to them, they wouldn’t dare say a bad word to you. You know, afraid you’d stop sending them anything.”
“Just how much money do you think I can make off that hotel, anyway?” he asks me.
“Well, there will be two of them, actually. There will be another in Paris. You will only work there one month out of each year. But you and your children will get fifty percent of the profits off that one too. So, how much money you make is all up to you, my friend.”
“This is too good to be true,” he says and I nod. “See, I told you it was.”
“I do have a private condition for this,” I tell him.
“And that is?” he asks as he leans forward.
This is the whole reason I sent the women away. I’m not sure Cami nor
would her sister approve of my doing this. But I feel protective over her and her family, so I will do what I think I need to, for their protection.
“You and I will have a side agreement, signed and kept in my attorney’s possession. Only you, me, and my attorney will know a thing about it. It will state that, at any time, you take on another mistress or wife, you will lose everything to your current wife, Catarina. You will be deported, without a cent and without your wife or children. That’s my one condition. As long as you live by that agreement, you and your entire family will benefit from it. If you don’t, then you will go back to South Africa, penniless, without your family.”
“You’re a man who has more dark than light,” he says as he looks me over.
“I have a darkness, you don’t’ begin to have. You see, I have lived a life even worse than your own. I could’ve had love and companionship the whole time but it was kept from me. Now that I have it, I will do anything to make it stay in my life. Cami is my life and her family means the world to her and that means it does to me now too. So, I will protect them all, the same way I will protect her.”
“If I walk away, accepting nothing, then what?” he asks me.
“I wish you wouldn’t do that, Peter. Like I said, I will do anything to protect them.”
“Does that include having me killed?” he asks.
Shaking my head, I say, “Surely, you wouldn’t let it come to such a drastic thing. I am offering you wealth beyond your wildest imagination. A beautiful wife, who is willing to give you children. She’s merely asking for a small break in between them. A very fair thing to give, in my opinion. You will be beyond happy, Peter. Do the right thing, man.”
He drums his fingers on the table then looks up at me. “I have no choice, Cyprian. I will take your offer.”
I hold up my glass of wine and he holds his up as we tap them together. “Here’s to many years of being brothers-in-law, Peter, as well as business partners.”
He doesn’t say anything as he knows I have him by the balls. When my family is threatened, I’m finding I can turn into a ruthless man. But then again, isn’t Peter the same way.
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