by V, Krissy
“Really? Well you don’t want to work for him anyway, I heard he is a tyrant to work for and he always hits on the pretty girls. You definitely don’t want to work there” he spits these words out. I gasp a little, maybe I misread Caleb if this is his reputation as others see him, maybe I’m not the first he has tried to seduce. It upsets me a little, but I look at Felix and smile “No maybe not, I’d have to be offered the job first anyway, I’m only speculating”
After dinner we are sat on the couch with a glass of wine each when my phone rings, my heart flip flops a little as I think it might be Caleb, but then I know he wouldn’t ring me, he would text me. Felix looks at me as I rush to get my phone and answer it “Hi Tasha speaking”
“Natasha, hi this is Debbie from Clifton Associates, I hope it’s not too late to ring you. We were very impressed with you on Wednesday and the CEO agreed with us, you would be perfect for the job and we would like to discuss the terms with you.”
“Wow, that’s great news, yes that would be good” I say smiling at Felix and trying to tell him that I was being offered the job with the Clifton Associates.
“OK well we want to speed this up so can we email the details to you and then you can look over them and ring us on Monday morning, we are really keen to get you on board sooner rather than later” she says.
“That would be great, thanks very much. I look forward to receiving your email. Thanks again and goodnight” I hang up the phone and see Felix looking at me for clarification of which job it is I’m being offered.
“It was the job with Clifton Associates, they offered me the job, they are emailing the details over to me and they want me to look over them over the weekend and contact them on Monday morning” I say in one long breath because I am excited, I know I can't take the job with Caleb, so this is the next best thing.
Felix walks over to me and pulls me in for a hug, I flinch as I always do now when he comes near me, but I sink into his hug because he is happy, and life is better when Felix is happy.
“Well done babe, I knew you could do it. I’m delighted for you. I’ll go turn the computer on and then we can look over the contract together. You go open another bottle of wine and we can celebrate” he stands and walks towards the office.
“Felix can we go out and celebrate tomorrow with Kammie and maybe Luca, it would be fun” I smile, we always had fun when we went out with the gang.
“No, I don’t want to share you Tasha, if we go out we go out alone, not with anyone else, OK” he nearly shouts the last word and I know I need to back down. I don’t know when I will see my friend again, but I won’t be defeated though.
I walk into the kitchen to get another bottle of wine and I text Kammie to tell her I’ve been offered the job at the Facilities Management Company, she is delighted and wants to know when we are going out to celebrate. Great minds think alike.
“Felix wants to celebrate together if you know what I mean”
“Yeah I do, but tell him that he can’t monopolise you, we want to celebrate with you too!”
“We can go for lunch on Tuesday if you want, I can make sure that I have a long business lunch organised"
“Sounds good to me, but don’t bring the car, there might be some alcohol involved”
“Definitely sounds like a plan to me. See you in Piccolinos at 1.00pm on Tuesday yeah?”
“See you then bitch”
I laugh to myself, I don’t know how Felix will take my long liquid lunch, but for once I don’t care. Kammie is excited for me and she’s my best friend, he really can’t stop me seeing her. While I have the phone out I send a quick text off to Caleb.
“Hi I’m good, but just wanted you to know that the other company offered me a job this evening and they are sending the contract over for me to look at this weekend and I’m to go back to them on Monday morning”
“I know I should congratulate you, but I really wanted you to work for me Tasha, but if it’s what you want then congratulations. Keep in touch this weekend please”
He’s so demanding but in a nice way I suppose.
“Yes boss! LOL, I’m off to have some wine to celebrate, have a good weekend Caleb”
“Thanks, it would be better if we could go out and celebrate your news, but I know that won’t happen x”
I really have mixed feelings about Caleb, he just confuses me so much. I turn and Felix is coming into the kitchen with my contract, I quickly delete my messages from Kammie and Caleb and put my phone in my pocket. We sit at the breakfast bar with the contract, a pen and a glass of wine.
After about half an hour, my phone rings again, this time it is Helen from Blue Eye, I know what’s coming next!
“Hi Tasha speaking” I say.
“Hi it’s Helen here from Blue Eye. I hear your meeting with Mr. Hunt went well today, congratulations. We wanted to offer you the position here with us, but we just needed his approval, which he gave us this evening. Can we email the contract and terms for the position over to you for your perusal?” she asks.
“Erm yeah I suppose, sorry I’m a bit flabbergasted, yes, yes of course you can, thanks, talk to you soon”
I come off the phone and just look at Felix with my mouth open.
"Tasha what is it?" He asks.
"That was Helen from Blue Eye, they offered me the Administration Manager’s job and they're emailing the contract to me to check over" I say and reach for my glass and take a big gulp of wine.
"Wow Tasha being offered two jobs in one evening, that’s some achievement. You must have really impressed Mr. Hunt. What did you say to him? Did you insinuate you'd sleep with him?" He's in my face now. How did this lovely evening go pear shaped in just a few minutes?
"Felix don't start on me, I didn't insinuate anything and why did you not say that about the first company. Is that because you know the Operations Manager and didn't tell me. Did you make a deal with him or something?" I'm getting really mad. He's once again spoiling some good news that I've been given.
"Felix please just sit down, calm down and let's go through the contracts and see which one is better. We can do a positive/negative list if you want, please just be happy for me" I'm surprised when he backs down, I really didn't expect him to, that means he really is trying.
"Sorry babe, I just got jealous because I know Caleb Hunt is a player that's all" he sits back down and we spend the next two hours going over both contracts and finishing off the bottle of wine.
"Felix, I have to go to bed I'm exhausted I hope you don't mind" I kiss him on the head.
"No problem babe I'll tidy up and lock up then I'll come up too" he kisses me on the lips. I only allow him to put a kiss on my lips, I don’t let him put his tongue in my mouth. I’m not ready for that yet!
When I get upstairs I send a quick text to Caleb.
“Oh you are playing so dirty. I can’t believe you did that! That is so not fair!”
“What are you talking about ?????”
“You know damn well what I mean, Mr. Not So Innocent!!”
“I couldn’t let you think that we weren’t going to offer you the job, you deserve the job and that is nothing to do with me or what I think of you! You needed to be thinking about my position too"
“Well now I have to consider the two jobs although Felix doesn’t want me to take your job because you are a player and you might try to bed me ha ha”
“Oh I didn’t think of that what a great idea ha ha. Seriously though, you deserve the job and it should be given consideration. What are you doing now?”
“I’m getting ready for bed, I’m exhausted it’s been a very emotional day”
“What do you wear in bed?”
“Caleb, please! Don’t!”
“Sorry you can’t knock a guy for trying. Hope you sleep well Tasha”
“Night Caleb hope you don’t dream about me lol”
“Of course I will”
I don’t think he can be just a friend, but knowing that he knows he can’t have me, sur
ely a little banter won’t hurt. Will it??
I get into bed and take a sleeping tablet. I know I need to stop taking them but today has been emotionally draining. I quickly fall asleep. I have an amazingly erotic dream which feels so real.
When I climax in my dream, I wake up and see Felix above me sweating and fully sated "Baby that was amazing you were so horny, I couldn't resist. I stayed downstairs for an hour or so and when I came upstairs you were moaning in your sleep and you were masturbating. I watched you for a while but then I had to join in I couldn't keep my hands off you" he leans down and kisses me on the lips. Now I realise they were his lips I felt not Caleb's! It was all a dream!
"Felix get off me, you have to stop taking advantage of me when I'm sleeping for gods sake it's not right." I'm angry now, but mainly because I realise I wanted Caleb's hands to be caressing me and not Felix's.
He suddenly pulls out of me and rolls onto his side and then he's right in my face "You still don't get it do you Tasha? You're my wife and I'll have you anyway, anywhere with no questions asked. Get used to it babe!" He moves away and goes into the bathroom to clean up.
Great now he's pissed at me again, what next? Will I ever get a break from Mr. Aggressive. With that thought the bathroom door gets flung open and Felix looks really angry. Obviously he didn't go into the bathroom to calm down. His cock is big and hard again and he storms over to me, he grabs me by the hair and drags me off the bed
"Kneel in front of me Tasha, NOW!" He's shouting so I do what he says, my head is hurting and I can see a clump of my hair in his hands. I keep repeating in my head. I will not cry. I will not cry.
He pushes me backwards so that I have my back to the bed and he grabs my hair at the nape of my neck and pulls hard to make me open my mouth. With that he pounds his cock into my mouth. All I want to do is bite down on it, but I know that would be a bad thing to do. I take him as far as I can and I look at him with pleading eyes.
"Take it all bitch, did you really think I thought you were dreaming about me. I know you were dreaming about someone else. Tell me who it is bitch?" How he expects me to talk I don't know. He is pounding in and out of my mouth so hard it hurts the back of my throat.
"I want to be the one you think of when you're masturbating. Only me. Think of this moment when I'm fucking your mouth, that's what will happen again if I catch you masturbating on your own do you hear me?"
I nod my head and I try to say "Felix stop" but it just comes out all garbled.
"Oh babe that's amazing try and talk again that really turns me on."
I try to just say something and hopefully it will make him cum and then he might stop.
"Babe you are so beautiful right now with your mouth around my cock taking me all the way. I'm going to cum and you're going to swallow it all and then you're not going to say another word to me tonight. At all. Ok?"
I nod my head. That turns him on so I’m hoping this will be over soon. He throws back his head and pushes my head against the bed and sticks his cock as far down my throat as he can and then he cums. I start to panic because I can't breathe and I feel like I'm choking. I reach out and start hitting him in the legs, he just groans so I pinch him, he groans again. I start to feel dizzy and start to pass out. Everything goes black and then I feel light, a sense of floating. I welcome this feeling. maybe this is the end. Maybe this is where all the hurt stops._
Chapter 21
Luca's POV
WHO THE HELL IS ringing me at this time of night? For gods sake it's one o'clock, I pick the phone up and answer gruffly "yeah?"
"Luca, Luca it's me"
"What do you want Felix? It's the middle of the night"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry Luca, I need you, I need you to come over and bring Kammie with you." Felix says, he's crying "Please before something really bad happens"
He's panicked and crying, what has he done this time. I swear to god if he's hurt Tasha again I'm going to personally kill him.
"Felix, what did you do? Tell me she's ok!" I'm getting dressed, I know he's going to need me to go to the house. He doesn't answer me, this is going to be bad I just know it!
"Felix, Felix talk to me NOW!" I'm shouting, I need him to talk to me.
"Luca, I've done it, I think I've killed her" he's sobbing. "What will I do? I want her, I need her, Luca, I need you mate."
This sounds bad, what the hell has gone on. "Felix I'm coming, I'm just leaving my house, I'll be there in 5 minutes, quicker if I can, stay on the phone and keep talking to me ok" I know I'm pleading but he sounds like he's slipping away from me.
"Felix, FELIX, what did you do?" I'm shouting.
"I think I killed her" he sobs.
"What did you do and why do you sound strange Felix?"
"I need help Luca, I can't be without her!"
What the hell has he done to himself? He hangs up so I send a text to Kammie and she's meeting me there, god I hope Tasha's ok. I don't really want Kammie involved in anything like this, but just in case Tasha isn't dead I need Kammie to look after her.
When I get in the car I turn the radio on full blast and the song playing is Face Down by Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. I laugh, it is ironic that they are talking about a girl covering up her bruises with make up, telling herself that he loves her and won't do it again. I can't turn it off, I listen to it all!
I don't know what is waiting for me at their house, but as I'm coming down the road I see Kammie, pulling into the drive, I hope she waits for me before she goes in. She must have seen my car coming, because after getting out of the car she stops and looks at me, she looks really frightened. I pull up and jump out next to her. I grab her and pull her into me and kiss her on the head "Kammie, I don't know what's happened, but I need you to be strong for Tasha ok?"
She nods "Luca what if something bad has happened? What is going on in this house?" she's crying. I feel so bad that she has to be wrapped up in this, she doesn't need to see this. I know I'm being selfish, but I need her here too, for me.
"Come on baby, it will be fine, Felix will be exaggerating you know what he's like" I pull away and take her hand and drag her into the house, luckily we both have spare keys. It's quiet in the house, Felix hung up on me ages ago, then I hear it, I hear sobbing from upstairs. It's not Tasha though, it's Felix.
"Felix. Felix" I shout as I drag Kammie up the stairs two stairs at a time. When we get to the top I take hold of her shoulders and look her in the eyes and say "Kammie, I want you to stay here and wait until I've been in the bedroom and seen what is going on. Ok?" she nods her head, she looks so scared. I take a deep breath and walk to the door, it's unlocked.
I push the door open slowly because I don't know what I expect to see. When the door is fully open I can see the whole room has been trashed, it's like there was a robbery in here and they searched every inch of the room. The lamps are on the floor and all smashed, the wardrobe doors are hanging off and then I see it. I see the blood - it's smeared all over the walls. What the hell happened?
"Felix, Felix where are you?" I say looking around the corner, then I see him. I can't see Tasha anywhere. I run to him and find him sitting on the floor leaning against the bathroom door. His hair is wild, his eyes are wild and he is covered in blood. "Where is Tasha? Felix?" I'm shaking him, I need him to tell me.
"She's locked in the bathroom. It's better for her. Luca please help her" he hangs his head.
All of a sudden I hear a scream, it's Kammie, she's come into the bedroom "Kammie turn around and go downstairs and ring for an ambulance NOW." I look at her, she is as white as a sheet.
While I was talking to Kammie I noticed Felix's wrists, they are ripped to pieces and bleeding heavily. I find the closest bit of material that I can – a bed sheet - and rip it to make a couple of tourniquets to try and stop the flow of blood.
He tries to stop me "NO! Luca don't save me, I need to go to Tasha, I need to be with her" his speech is slurring. The ambulance better hurry up. I walk to the bedroom door and K
ammie tells me that the ambulance is on the way, I tell her that she needs to wait until the paramedics take Felix away and then I tell her to come into the bedroom with me but not to look at the room, that she is just to go in to the bathroom and help Tasha. She nods her head, she's so quiet, she looks so sad. All I want to do is hold her and make the pain go away, but I have to find out what is happening in the bedroom.
When the paramedics come, they see the condition of Felix and put him straight onto the trolley and carry him away, I go with him, he needs me. "Kammie, this paramedic is going to stay with you and Tasha, hopefully you can drive them to the hospital, if not he will call for another ambulance. I'll see you there, don't you dare go home without me baby ok" I kiss her, I can't help it, we need each other right now.
I follow the paramedic to the ambulance and when I get to the bottom of the stairs I turn and see Kammie looking at me with the saddest eyes I've ever seen.
Chapter 22
Tasha
I CAN FEEL MY body tingling, it's like I've got pins and needles, like I've been in the same position for a while. Where am I? What is happening to me?
I'm in the bathroom with a wet facecloth on my forehead. I start panicking and realise I'm in here on my own. Why? How did I get in here?
The last thing I remember is ...
What is the last thing I remember?
Felix.
Where is he? I look around me in the bathroom just double checking that he isn't in here with me, I must have locked myself in but I can't remember moving in here.
I take deep breaths in and out to try and calm myself down, I think I'm having a panic attack. Where is Felix? I think I can hear someone talking, I move slowly to the door so that Felix can't hear me moving around.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry Luca, I need you to come over and bring Kammie with you. I can't explain now, but it's urgent please" and then he starts crying "Please before something really bad happens" I lean against the wall and cry, this is bad. I try to stand up but I feel really weak and then I try the door handle and I realise it's locked from the outside. That means that he's locked me in the bathroom, why has he locked me in the bathroom? I'm not sure I want to leave the bathroom, at least I'm safe in here.
