C3 Our First Kiss
Our First Kiss
Catarina’s Point Of View
He kissed me.
He fucking kissed me. I’ve been waiting on that since I was thirteen. I made myself a promise a long time ago that Jaxon would be my first everything.
“I couldn’t help it. I’ve been wanting to do that since I got to know you.”
“I-I uh um me to.”
Nice stutter Catarina. Ugh.
He laughs.
“You okay there? Your face seems to be a little red.”
“I uh yeah I’m okay. Come on let’s eat.”
“Okay, hold on don’t move.”
He got out of the car. And walked around to my side opening the door for me.
“Thank you.”
He sends me a wink as he shuts the door, putting his hand on the small of my back while we walked inside the restaurant.
The line was long, we walked right past the restaurant. Looking down at her phone the hostess began to speak.
“We have no room for you if you do not have a reservation-.” She looked up straightened her clothes and put her phone away.
“Oh, boss we have the perfect table for you. Or would you want a private room?”
“The private room is fine. I don’t care that you're on your phone but don’t give an attitude or not show your attention when greeting the customer. If the job is too difficult then I may need to look for a new hostess.”
“Yes, boss. Right this way boss lady and her guest.”
I nodded and followed her to the private room.
“Do you have an idea of who you’d like your waiter to be?”
“Stacey would fine. Bring me a bottle of the Chateau d'Yquem from the year 1811.”
“Right away.”
With that, she walked away. I noticed Jaxon was staring at me.
“It happens to be the best white wine Jaxon. Why are you staring at me like that? “
“Nothing I like when you get in the boss mode it’s sexy.”
My face was redder than a tomato.
“Jaxon stops making me blush.”
I pouted.
“I can’t you are just too cute.”
He flicked my lip that was poking out.
Ian’s Point Of View
“How dare she say pretended to love me.”
The moment I found out that she was looking forward to getting divorced and she happy to be away from me, it made me no longer want a divorce.
What is wrong with me. I don’t love her so why do I care that she doesn’t love me? I’m currently in a meeting in my office. I simply can’t focus at all.
“The stats are down on all production. Ever since you divorced Catarina.”
The look on my assistant's face says she’s saying what anyone else would dare not say to me.
“How is that possible? She just signed not even two hours ago.”
“You know it doesn’t take long for news like this to get out, plus you walked outside in public hand and hand with Samantha going into her office.”
“That’s not possible. I had the area cleared.”
“Not clear enough. Paparazzi saw you and captured pictures they are now all over the internet with captions like, “CEO of Sunshine industries deserves better or she’s being cheated on this and that.”
“Damn it. What can we do for damage control?”
“The only thing that could work is that you get Catarina back.”
“Eh, I don’t think that’s going a possibility.”
“And why not? Just tell her you were having a mid-life crisis or something and that you didn’t mean to divorce her.”
“That’s not even a possibility in this life let alone the next one Beverly!”
“Why what did you do!?”
“I bust in on her when she was in some type of meeting, I smacked the divorce papers on her desk in front of her client. I didn’t even pay attention to if her client was and man or woman.”
“Okay and what else?”
“Why does it have to be and?”
“Because I know you and you're an asshole to every woman you think wants you in any way because you only have eyes for Samantha. So what did you do? “
“I told her that I'll be handing over her shares to her father's company to Samantha as a pre-wedding gift. And that's a bad thing why?”
“It’s not, it’s only a bad thing when you doing it for a woman like Samantha. She cheated on you it was a public scandal.”
“Well, things are different now. I can’t just leave her she’s pregnant with my child. I have to marry her.”
“What? Are you sure?”
“Yup. She told me plus she’s been throwing up.”
“Mhm. Do you remember that your company plummeted in a matter of hours? After that scandal?”
“Bever-.”
“No just listen.”
I gestured for her to continue even though my patience is running thin. I won’t allow anyone to talk bad about Samantha.
“The only reason you went back to being the richest male billionaire in Miami, is because Catarina's father sold her like trash. Even then you were still barely touching where you once were.”
“And what’s your point?”
“My point is that it was only when Catarina took over your books of the company that got you new sponsors did you start to touch where you once been. Even after you gave up because you were up to your ears in debt did Catarina continue to stay up at night until you were once the man you once were. And then at your reopening, she willingly played the dumb trophy wife, even though you and I both know she’s the reason you are where you are. Even after all that she didn’t ask for anything in return.”
I have never forgotten what she has done for me I’m forever grateful. But I couldn’t give it too much acknowledgment because I thought she was just trying to me to like her.
“I’m the reason I am where I am.”
She rolls her eyes.
“I asked her why was she helping you the night of your reopening a year ago. Do you wanna know what she said?”
“Sure.”
I said even though I already knew she wants me.
“She said, “she knows how it feels to live in a rich society to be looked down upon coming from a rich family and you're poor.” She said, “ she said it’s soul crumpling and that if she could stop someone from feeling how she felt all those years in that house that she would in a heartbeat.””
I never knew she thought that. Did I have her pegged all wrong?
“Did she say that?”
“She did. She’s an impressive woman you didn’t deserve her. Not only after bringing your company back she created her own from the bottom up making herself the richest female let alone business person in Miami. You notice I didn’t just say female. She’s the richest in the industry now. You fucked up you big time. In my opinion, Samantha can't even come close to Catarina. “
As if she read my mind she answered my question. No, I love Samantha, we’re having a child. We’re a family.
“I don’t care meeting over. Find a way to fix the problem without involving Catarina.”
“Oh, so you don’t care that Catarina was spotted entering her famous restaurant with a gorgeous tattooed man?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Check it out yourself.”
She handed me her phone.
I look at who posted it and it was Anonymous news.com everything they say always turns out to be true.
Damn it!
It says they are in a private room. And the writer even wrote kudos to her for not crying over a scumbag like me.
“A SCUM BAG LIKE ME? I’m a scum bag now!?”
“I mean what you did was pretty much scum bag shit. Plus you gotta admit even though you can only see the mans back. He’s hot!”
“I don’t care how hot he is. Find out who she was at the restaurant with!”
“But I thought you didn’t care?”
She asked with a smug look on her face.
“Just do as I say!
I gritted through my teeth.”
“Alright, fine don’t get your panties in a twist.”
She didn’t even allow me to step foot in any of her businesses except Sunshine Industries.
I wonder what she will say when she found out I haven’t signed the divorce papers yet.
Jaxon’s Point Of View
I’m on a lunch date with Catarina Jovie. Am I dreaming? Does she know it’s a date?
“What do I owe the pleasure to be on a date with the richest woman in Miami?”
“Th- this is a date? “
She blushed as she stuttered.
“Well, just a simple lunch date. But yes we can have a real one later when we’re both free.”
She nods.
“So how have been blue eyes?”
“I’ve been good. I’m even better today.”
I grabbed and held her hand.
“I’ve missed you. I’m sorry I haven’t kept in contact but once Taz told me about you marrying and falling in love with Ian. Even after he framed me for the illegal shit he was doing in his company when I was on contract with for my modeling. I couldn’t handle it so I distanced myself.”
“Firstly me marrying him was not by choice at all. My father forced me. The only real contact I had with Ian was in the first year of our marriage when I rebuilt his company from the bottom up. After the reopening, we didn’t see each other much. I didn’t love him or love him at any point. I was counting down the six years but he ended it three years early I’m grateful.”
“I’m glad he was dumb didn’t treasure my sunshine. You’re my treasure you understand me?”
Catarina Point Of View
“Yes, I-I understand.”
His words made me hot and tingly inside. What nobody knows about me is that I’m a Little.
A little is a mindset like a child mindset minus the bottle and pacifier and shit.
“Did he touch you?”
I was confused I’m sure my face showed it and he noticed so rephrased the question.
“Did you fuck him?”
My eyes went wide at his nonchalant, blunt behavior.
“No, he only has eyes for the blonde you seen in my office. I’m still a virgin.”
“Good girl.”
Once again his words made me feel hot.
