Her Con Artist

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Just one more and i am done.

I thought as my fingers ran over the keyboard, aching badly from typing for a long time. They felt like they are about to fall off. Eyes which were now burning, moving up and down from the bright laptop screen to the keyboard. Pressing Enter, click, the only sound heard in the empty office and i was done with my work.

The sound of this specific key made my heart flutter with so happiness that even a boy failed to do so over the years.

Boring life. Right?.

Sighing, i stretched my arms above my head and yawned with my neck stretched to right. Relaxing the taut muscles.

"Are you done?."

Quickly moving my arms down, fixing my ridden shirt, i looked up at my colleague who was my friend as well. Dalton who stood in front of my table with a tired look and messed up blonde hair.

"Yes, at last." I said, running a hand over my face in tiredness.

"Good. Transfer the files to me and let's get going." He said and sat down on a tiny space on my table.

Quickly sending the files to his email. I looked at the time on the corner of the laptop screen. It was 2am.

My eyebrows were lifted up in surprise.

"Did we really stay up this late today?." I asked him, opening the cap of water bottle, in intense need to soothe my scorching throat.

Dalton hummed while suppressing a yawn. His white shirt was all ruffled up.

"It's all your fault after all." He said, rolling his eyes with a teasing glint in his eyes.

I let out a embarrassed laugh and scratched my head.

Dalton and i were really good friends. One thing we both love is to tease and prank each other. Today it was my turn to prank him and you could say it didn't work out how it was supposed to. Due to which we got late, like very late and missed an important meeting. I was scolded by my head department and while Dalton was given a death glare by our CEO. Dalton was his Personal Assistant. We work in Mutlinational Company for past five years.

Edgar Malcom, CEO of our company is a mix of scary and kind. It all depends upon his mood. I met him twice and i almost s**t my pants. But he was kind too, helped me alot during my training here. He is around his mid thirties and was more handsome than boys of my age. If he wasn't married, i would have used my looks to make him fall for me.

What? Judgement much?

Whatever guys. I appreciate handsome men even if they are old.

Anyway, so our boss gave us extra work as a punishment for being idle. Shutting down my laptop and cleared my table by quickly piling up the files and putting them in a corner fo table.

Neat, that's how i like my table.

"Come on, lets go." I said, grabbing my coat and phone.

Together we walked out of the building and to our cars. Discussing things for the upcoming project we reached the parking lot.

"Night." He said and opened his car.

"Night buddy." Passing a smile, i sat down on my car seat. Putting my coat and purse on the other seat and put seat belt on. Starting the car, i drived my way out of the parking lot.

Music was blasting through my speakers as i drove, deep in my thoughts, when suddenly, an intense desire aroused within me.

I wanted a drink. Alcohol.

Without giving much thought, i made a quick cut to the other road, car making a screeching sound. Which was oddly satisfying. I saw a large sign of the bar- Lush Bar, which was made with blue and purple lights. Making it appealing to eyes.

I parked my car among a heavily packed parking lot. The bar must be really full today, assuming from the number of cars and bikes i saw outside. Pulling off my hair band, letting my long blonde hair rest against my back. Fishing through my bag, i found my maroon lipstick and using car side mirror, i applied a thick layer of it on my bare plump lips. The light makeup i did in the morning was no where to be found, rolling my eyes in annoyance at that. I smeared my pale cheeks with lipstick with the help of my fingers.

Trust me, fingers do a great job than make-up brushes.

Ruffling my hair to give them a bit messy look, i walked in the bar with my office clothing which consisted of blue jeans and white embroidered t-shirt.

Upon entering, the first thing hit me was strong smell of Alcohol and then sweating of the people who were dancing. Eyes swarming down the people, i squeezed past the making out couples and finally grabbed a stool in front of bar.

"Vodka please." I said to the man behind the counter.

"Right away, miss!." He snapped his fingers and went to grab the glass from the glass shelf.

I turned around on the bar stool and looked around once again, some people were dancing to the beat of the music while others. You can imagine what they would be doing. Other people were either grinding or dancing foolishly. Rolling my eyes, i thanked the bartender and took a sip of my drink. Deep in my own thoughts, i finished two glasses of vodka.

"You alone?." I turned around to my right from where the manly voice came from.

The voice belonged to a tall, lean man. His brown hair styled perfectly, grey eyes looked with mine and lips pulled up into a small smirk.

"Yes." I said, nonchalantly while gulping down last bit my drink.

"Ah. Would you like to have a drink with me?." He asked, without waiting for my answer he took an empty seat beside me. Opening the top button of his coat then passing his fingers through his hair.

Poking my tongue against my cheek, i nodded my head.

I observed him as he ordered drinks for us. Golden light brightening his features, the way he talked and moved seemed professional. Like he had a motive.

"I am Owen." He said, turning to face me

"Monica." I said, sliding my tongue over my teeth to pacify my curiosity, trying to solve this pizzle in front of me. He nodded his head and a piece of strand fall over his forehead.

It somehow irritated me. All i wanted to reach and brush it off his forehead.

"What is your motive?." I blurted out, my eyes still on that specific piece of hair strand which was poking his right eye but he seemed comfortable.

Weird. Or i was a weirdo?.

"Huh? What?" He asked, eyes curious, forehead creased.

I blinked my eyes, and looked into his eyes away from his strand of hair.

"I meant you came here not to just talk to me?" I asked, quickly grabbing the drink from bartender and took a sip of it. I bit my lip as burning liquid hit my insides.

"You think too much. You were all alone here looking so beautiful so i thought i could give you company." He said with a shrug while drinking his own drink.

With narrowed eyes, i nodded my head.

After having a few more drinks with my drink buddy, i came to know he wasn't as bad i thought he was. He seemed like a pretty nice guy.

"Oh, hey!." He waved his hand over to a group of people sitting a bit far away from us.

"Would you like to join us?. They are my friends. " He said as he stood up from the stool and looked back at me, waiting for my response.

"Sure" i said with a smile. He blinked in surprise and gave me a toothy smirk. I must have been drunk enough to pass him a smile.

You see i am not so nice and all smiles to people, only to those who are close to me.

Stumbling past wildly dancing crowd, we made it to where they were sitting. Their were five people in the group. They all were different from one an other.

"Hey guys. This is Monica." Owen said, his voice held excitement.

"Hello Monica!. I am Ella!." Blonde girl said cheerfully, a bright smile on her round baby face, extending her hand for me to shake it.

I nodded my head and shoke her warm hand.

"Please take a seat." A boy with glasses said, nodding my head, I sat beside Ella and looked at them as they stared right back at me.

"This is Josh." Ella said, pointing to the heavily build man next to her. He gave me one glance and continued drinking his drink. Tattoo's were inked on his arms and neck. Making him look good and intimidate at the same time.

"This is Lexi." Lexi gave a me small smile and I nodded my head in return.

"Russell." Ella said with a stern voice while introducing him. Russell glared at her as she glared back. Their interaction spiked interest within me.

"This is Keith, my little brother." Ella said with a small smile on her face while pointing towards the boy with glasses. He waved his hand at me and passed me a warm smile.

He and Ella were the only ones who warmly welcomed me.

Like i care. Duh

"This is Erik." She said, her voice held certain meaning to it. Like respect and care.

Erik had ash brown hair which were a bit messed up but suited his sculptured face. Sharp blue eyes staring right back at my hazel ones. A striking feature of him was a mole on his cheekbone under his right eye. Tattoos made their way up to his neck in a beautiful pattern. His aura held certain power to it. Making me yearning for him in a mysterious way, trying to look for loophole's.

"Would you like to have a drink?." Ella's voice pulled my attention away from Erik.

"Sure." I said, pushing my hair back, subconsciously.

It was maybe after two more drinks that i was out of my senses that i agreed to play truth and dare.

Ella was a bubbly one among all of us. Her energy was out of this world. Erik after gulping down his drink, he put the empty bottle on the table and spinned it.

It landed on Josh. He drank his drink nonchalantly.

"Truth." He said, his voice was gruff. It suited him perfectly. His massive muscles were bulging from his black t- shirt. He looked like a wrestler to me.

"He is a former wrestler." Ella spoke, breaking me out of my thoughts.

I blinked my eyes and found Josh's brown eyes staring at me with a blank look.

Confused, i moved my head towards right, where Ella sat beside me. She giggled as she noticed my confused look.

"You actually spoke out loud." She said, hitting my arm as she laughed.

I looked down at my arm where she hit me.

Did she just hit me?

No one dares to touch me. While this bubbly girl had the nerve to do so. I shoke my head to get rid of the thoughts and nodded my head. Cursing myself for speaking my mind, It usually happens when i am drunk.

Thankfully, they all didn't say anything about my blurting.

"I have a question!?" Keith said with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Josh nodded his head, indicating him to go on and ask him.

"You had s*x on the kitchen counter two days ago, right!?" He asked,

I froze on my spot, surprised. I was not expecting that at all.

"What!?" Lexi yelled, glaring at Josh.

I rose my eyebrow at that. She didn't seemed to be the angry one.

"Yes. I had, So what?" Josh said with a smirk and winked at Lexi.

She rolled her eyes and folded her arms above her abdomen. Owen and Ella laughed out loud while i sat with a blank expression.

"Ew. Come on, Josh. We eat there. It's gross." Ella said, hitting him lightly on the arm.

What's with her hitting others?

"I told you!. I saw them." Keith said excitedly to Russell who had a annoyed expression.

Erik sat there with a smirk and which made him look more handsome. Feeling my eyes on him, he looked back at me, dropping his face to a blank expression. He narrowed his eyes slightly at me, tilting his head to right as if he was trying to read me.

Too bad, i wasn't the one to be read easily.

Erik spun the bottle once everyone settled down and i felt his eyes on me. I looked up into his blue eyes and suddenly he smirked as the bottle stopped facing me.

"It's your turn." He said, his voice held a dangerous tone.

Bring it on.

I smirked and nodded my head for him to go ahead.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" Ella asked, eyes held excitement.

"I don't have time for this." I said, as i took a sip of my drink.

"Why?." She asked, confused. I felt eyes on me as they all waited for my answer.

"My turn finished. Spin the bottle." I said with a smirk.

Ella sulked while Erik smirked and looked down, Russell and Owen looked a bit impressed.

I was not stupid to fall for their tricks.

The game continued for a while where i had to do a dare. It was Erick's idea, he was anticipating i would deny it. But i smirked and stood up which led to a chores of hooting. I was supposed to lay on the bar table and hold a cherry between my lips and someone has to take it from my mouth.

"Mon-i-ca!. Mon-i-ca!" Owen and Ella hooted as i walked towards the bar. I felt people started to look at us and followed us towards the bar.

I pushed a women from my way, making her stumble, i laid down on my back. Facing towards to the crowd, Ella and Lexi stood holding arms and looked excited, Keith smiled and bit his lip anticipating what's going to happen next, Owen was taking off his coat, i narrowed my eyes on his actions.

He better not me kissing me.

I looked towards Erik who wore his resting blank face with his arms crossed over his chest as he waited.

"Here miss." Bartender passed a red cherry.

I held the cold cherry in my hand and laid with my arms under my head. My shirt has ridden up and exposing my stomach in the cold air.

People started cheering and hooting. The game was to win arm- wrestling among boys who wanted to take the cherry out of my mouth.

Owen came forward, i rolled my eyes, knowing he would love to participate. Next was a large man who had piercings all over his face. Making me cringe a little. I hope he better not win. Next came a man in suit who was handsome with tan skin and good build.

Why everybody here was build?.

In total six man came forward and stared the game.

Erik stood there in dark and just looked at the game with wrinkled forehead. Ella, Lexi and Keith were cheering.

In the first round, Owen win against the build men. Which made me surprised. I wasn't expecting that he would win. I was Impressed.

Next was the man in suit and the tattoo guy. This match was tough, both were trying hard, veins popping on their necks. Tattoo guy was cursing in spanish and the guy in suit was biting his lip.

This whole situation was kind of boosting my ego. I mean, these pretty men were fighting to kiss me.

I smiled as man in suit win and lofted his head to throw a smirk my way.

The next round didn't happen because one of the contestants had a girlfriend which came and grabbed his man by his shirt and dragged him out.

So the last match was between, Owen and man in suit. To be honest, i was rooting for man in suit, not because i was attracted to him. No, because i didn't want to kiss Owen.

They both sat with their sleeves rolled up to their elbows, making them look more handsome. I put the cherry in mouth and waited for them to begin the match. Keith was on his toes with excitement. They begin and both of them were good in the game. Hands move to right and in the other seconds towards left but never fully down on the table. Even i was now tensed, what is going to happen? Who is going to win?

Man in suit now held the table with other hand and put all his power to his hand and made Owen lose with a thud as his hand slapped against the table.

Everybody cheered and hooted for him. They both were sweating profusely. Owen looked angry and slapped his hand on the table, standing up he grabbed his coat and walked away.

Of course he was embarrassed.

The man in suit was handed a napkin, he wiped his sweat from his face and neck. Not going to lie, he looked hot doing that.

His grey eyes met mine and he walked towards me. Cheering and hooting got more loud as he stepped closer to me. His warm fingers caressed my cheek and pushed away my baby hairs. Oddly, my body remained relaxed to his touch. I haven't touch any male species over the past three years except dalton that's why my body was not reacting to his touch. He put his hands on the table beside my head and leaned down. My eyes closed on their own accord and i inhaled sharply as he got close enough. His lips touch mine and bite on them lightly and i opened my mouth to him.

His tongue licked my lip and then grabbed the cherry from my mouth and moved back.

I opened my eyes to look at him, smirking as he ate the cherry. He had lust in his eyes, which made me get disgusted at him. I sat up and grabbed tissue from the bartender and wiped my mouth off. Which led to chores of ' Boo' . Rolling my eyes, i jumped from the counter to the floor and fixed my ridden shirt.

Lexi and Ella came towards me and together we walked back to the seat. Leaving the man in suit standing there alone. Found the boys there already. I sat down and grabbed the water bottle form table and drank it quietly.

"It's okay Owen. " Ella said as she patted his arm, to which he shrugged her hand over. Making me chuckle.

He looked up at me and raised his eyebrow in question.

I shoke mt head and stood up grabbing my coat from the sofa.

"Thank you for tonight. I had good time here. Now i have to leave. It was nice meeting you all." I said and looked at them.

"Aww. I wish you could stay. It was fun knowing you and playing games. Do vist this place again, we are here often." She said, grabbing my arm.

"Sure." I said and removed her arm from mine and throwing one look at Erik. Who was looking at me with narrowed eyes.

Turning around, i flipped my hair over my shoulder and with a smile on my face i left the bar.

Taking out my phone from my coat pocket and looked down at time. It was 5 in the morning.

Thank goodness it was weekend.

Otherwise i had to wake up after two hours for office. Smiling as i looked forward at the weekend, i drove away towards my home.

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