Fortune Favors The Bold

CHAPTER NINE: SCANDAL IN THE NEWS

“What do you want from me?” Adonis croaked in a tight voice as the elusive detective once again invaded his study, the privacy of his home and his peace. She was once again wearing her white shirt and blue pants which seemed to be her uniform, and a matching blue coat.

However, there was something different with her stance. She looked bold and brazen, her slumberous brown eyes flashing with a fierce light as she stared back at him mutinously.

Her lean figure was tempting, and the memory of their illicit kiss immediately flitted his mind. The moment her lips had fused with his, he’d felt hot all over, like right now. He was uncomfortable, trying to grasp something beyond his reach. And he sensed a kind of restlessness which he couldn’t explain.

His most shameful and scandalous secret was exposed to her, and he was breaking out into cold sweats at the power she had over him. He knew very few to no honorable men, and even lesser females with a sense of righteousness. The mercenary people he espoused would not blink an eye before selling him out, why should she be any different?

Was she here to blackmail him? Or to admit that it was a matter of time before the disgraceful news became public to the world? Nobody would resist the temptation of selling out such a juicy story to the press. It was a matter of millions of dollars.

“The same thing you want from me,” she responded to his question in her slumberous and seductive voice and started to unbutton the top bottom of her blouse in a brazen manner.

He gulped but his throat still felt thick. “What are you doing?” he gasped in alarm, but at the same time a decadent pleasure filled him. Excitement rolled through him and his toes curled in breathless anticipation as the buttons popped one by one to expose the creamy delicious flesh. It was better than his imagination.

Flawless skin was displayed and when she parted the front of her blouse, a red laced bra came into view. Adonis was shocked that the plaid jane detective would wear sexy lingerie. It was a naughty side of hers he hadn’t expected.

“Showing you what you’re missing,” she whispered like a siren, her fingers brushing the mound of her breasts in opulent display. “Wouldn’t you like to play with me?”

His mouth drooled at the prospect of replacing her playful fingers with his lips and tongue, her taste filling his mind. He could literally taste her from behind his desk, but there was some invisible thread pinning him to his office chair. He couldn’t budge.

“Detective…,” he began hoarsely, but her hands moved to her buckle which she slowly undid causing cold sweat to break on his forehead. With deliberate torturous slowness, the belt was finally freed, and she unzipped her trousers.

She took her time to remove the upper part of the pants exposing matching red panties, which made Adonis release a gush of precum as he wetted himself at the innocent striptease.

“Yesss,” she hissed seductively. “I love the way you say ‘detective’,” she cooed by approaching him, and kicking the garment from her feet to expose long and toned legs. Perfect. She was perfect in her semi-naked glory state, her body toned in the right places.

Adonis found he no longer had any courage to rebuff her. His groins had hardened to a point where only she could soothe, and he found himself wanting to undress. However, before he could move, she straddled him with her long legs wrapped around, her sizzling core touching the place where he was most sensitive.

He moaned in pleasure as his hardened shaft rubbed against her warmth and he pressed harder to better feel her. Touching her like this felt like a relief – like a panacea he’d searched his entire life, but which had somehow escaped him.

“You like this?” she urged by grinding herself against him harder and he groaned as pleasure hit him from every side. In a desperate attempt to support himself, he gripped the sides of her butt, but the feeling of her naked skin inflamed him.

“Oh yess, yess,” he moaned in desperation as he held onto her, no longer sure whether she was his anchor or his doom. He felt more precum escaping his groin as he threw his head back to enjoy his submission.

Suddenly, it was no longer enough. He surged forward to unclasp her bra and nearly swooned in relief when the two cups fell from her body to display her pink n*****s. They looked appetizing and he grabbed one peak in his mouth sucking as she continued riding him.

While suckling on one delicious pink n****e, he brushed the other harshly with his thumb until they both hardened into rigid peaks. She threw her head backwards and with frantic fingers, he thrust aside her panties which was moist with her juices.

He never remember who unzipped him, but he felt his c**k sprung free from its capture and entering her moistness with agitated emergency. As his shaft was engulfed into her vortex, he jerked back when his phone rang in his pocket.

“Ignore it,” she ordered in a thick voice which he could recognize, but he frowned as he fumbled to remove the device from his back pocket. It was Benjamin calling.

In a flash, the woman who’d been moaning over him vanished and he connected the call with impatience. “Ben, what’s up?”

“Adonis, are you watching the news? Everyone is talking about it,” his secretary warned in a panicked voice, which was a far cry from his usual professional voice. Adonis closed his eyes in dismay.

“Please don’t tell me it’s what I’ve been dreading the most?” he muttered more to himself before disconnecting the call to see with his own eyes. With trembling hands, he switched on the T.V, and there it was!

It seemed that his worst nightmare was finally becoming true for Benjamin would only speak to him in such terms when there was an unsalvageable emergency. The news seemed to be flashing the same thing in a roll, with the reporter’s voice repeatedly echoing the same thing.

BREAKING NEWS!!! Nora Fortune’s illicit affair with her brother-in-law Elijah Fortune exposed!!!

SCANDAL IN THE NEWS!!! Nora Fortune, the recent widow of the late Mason Fortune is no longer mourning. In fact, she is the prime suspect in the murder of Mason Fortune! A steamy affair with her husband’s brother has been revealed – a love story which had been going on for years behind the poor man’s back.

YET ANOTHER SLANDEROUS FORTUNE!!! Affair between Nora and Elijah Fortune revealed – the Seattle police are suspecting one of the star-crossed lovers as the murderer of Mason Fortune.

Sweat trickled down his forehead as Adonis struggled to keep up with the latest turn of event. What was going on? How could his darkest secret be exposed in front of the entire world. It was that vile woman’s doing. She’d come to seduce him before making sure that his family was destroyed.

Turning back to search for her in the room, he was discomfited to find her fully dressed, and laughing at him. It was an echoing laughter which rang in his ears until he could no longer bear the sound.

He awoke with a jerk, sweat dripping on his forehead as he struggled to find the difference between his recent nightmare and reality. What the hell had just happened?

Breathing hard, Adonis reached out for his glass of water, glad that he was in his room after the familiarity of things had settled in. He’d been having a nightmare. None of that was true – his secret was safe. Gulping down the transparent liquid, he cleared his throat and mind from the remnants of the premonition but could not completely shake it off.

Frowning, he checked his phone to find nothing amiss, but the silence greeting him was not reassuring at all. He dialed Benjamin’s number, berating himself for being a sentimental fool.

“Ben, what’s up?” he asked roughly, pacing the Persian Tabriz carpet of his room restless in his wake. “Is everything fine?”

There was a pause at the end of the receiver. “Fine, boss. Why you ask?”

He cleared his throat once again, linking his hand on his neck to massage the pain away. It didn’t bring any comfort. “Nothing. Just checking on everything,” he replied casually, although he suspected Ben would not buy his lie. “Nothing in the press this morning?”

“Nope. The Fortune seems to have taken a backseat with the upcoming events of the Metz Gala 2021. Everybody is worried about who is going to be the best dressed celebrity. We’ve already announced that we’re giving it a miss this year since we’re still in mourning.”

Adonis registered the facetious information with half an ear, his heart still heavily beating with the bad dream he’d just had. It wasn’t like Adonis to freak out and made random phone calls. He was always efficient and productive, never missing a beat. However, that nightmare had thrown him out of his element.

“Other than that, I’ve found nothing important for the moment. I told you that I’ll keep you in the loop if I hear anything.”

It wasn’t that he didn’t trust Ben – they’d known each other for years, attending the same school and university thanks to his father’s generosity. In fact, Benjamin Foster was his closest friend. But, there was something still bothering Adonis.

Adonis hesitated for five full seconds before taking the plunge for the inevitable. “What about Detective Petrov? What is she up to?” he enquired faltering, loathing himself for not having the strength to resist asking the question.

“Oh the lady detective?” Benjamin repeated with enough speculation in his voice to change the intonation. “She’s on the move to Vancouver.”

That caused Adonis to jerk with a start. “Vancouver? Why Vancouver?”

“From the inside information that we have, she has a lead on your uncle Victor Alexander and is pursuing the trail.”

“Why am I not aware of this?” Adonis roared furiously, not sure whether his anger was directed at his secretary or that troublesome woman who was disturbing him without even trying to.

“Well, the trail is bogus since we all know that Uncle Alexander does not have the stomach to commit murder. That’s why I didn’t think you would be willing to waste your time down to Lexington.

“I told you to keep me updated of her every move!” he shouted unnecessarily on the phone before disconnecting in a rage. What the hell was she thinking taking a trip to Lexington without even bothering to inform him? Hadn’t they made a deal that he would be kept informed of the slightest detail on the case?

Something must have happened for her to drive to Vancouver, and he would demand to know where this was going. Could his uncle Alexander be the murdered of his father?

Pissed, he dialed his staff member and asked them to have his private jet ready as soon as possible. That sneaky little woman was in for a surprise. If she thought it would be so easy to dodge him, then she had another thing coming.