Love’n’Lust

“Is it always like this for you?” She asked, her voice more audible now than initially.”Do you always have to evade the press like this?”

“Sometimes.” He answered her question just before his phone began to ring in his hands, it was Jenna. He picked it up and put it to his ear.

“Are you really going to come?” Jenna’s voice came through and he thought she sounded worried.

“I will.”

“Really?” She sounded like she already concluded he wouldn’t be able to come.

“I will, Jenna.”

“When? When will that be? I can’t have my friends waiting, it’s almost one o’clock, it’s not even gonna be brunch anymore by then.” She complained.

“Don’t have them wait for me, you should start the party, I will join it when I get there.”

“Are you at the office?”

“No.”

“Thank goodness, now I know you will come. Once you are at the office, you usually don’t want to be disturbed.” She said making him chuckle.

“I will be there in thirty minutes or less, okay?”

“Okay,” Jenna said before hanging up.

Ben turned to Belle after his call, he caressed her face for a short while before looking out his own side of the window. He smiled, Belle was the reason he was going late to Jenna’s brunch party, he had decided to get dirty with her before preparing to leave the hotel.

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The car took a sharp turn and all Belle could see from there on were beautiful houses, if not to be called mansions. They were mansions actually, they all looked expensive right from their entrances, one could tell.

Belle wondered how much it would cost to own a house around there. The car reeled into one of the houses after driving along the area for a short while. They were now at Jenna’s house.

Once the driver stopped the car, he came down and hurried over to open the door to where Ben sat. Ben stepped out, he had his shades on because of the increasing brightness of the blinding light from the sun.

Belle opened the door herself this time before the driver could make it to her side to open it for her. She saw a man’s hand in front of her while she was still making sure her dress was okay. it was Ben’s hand in front of her, she looked up and met his handsome face. With a smile on her lips, she took his hand and they headed inside.

Belle’s neck almost went 360 as she looked around and admired the mansion they were about to walk into.

“Ben!!! you came.” Belle heard a woman call out loudly once they were inside the mansion. It was an excited Jenna. She ran to Ben and hugged him tight, the intensity of her hug almost making him stagger from his position.

He let go of Belle’s hand so he could hug Jenna back. Belle couldn’t wait to find out who this woman was but she knew she had to be family, there was a resemblance. As Jenna hugged him, her face was behind his back and she saw Belle, she didn’t notice her the first time she ran out to meet Ben and was more than shocked to see that he brought someone with him.

She knew that her cousin usually had his assistant hire a top model for him to take to plus one party but she was shocked it wasn’t because her brunch party didn’t require a plus one (and he brought one) but because she was sure she has never seen Belle. She was a top model herself and knew many of the top models in city S and so whenever Ben was taking a top model to a party, she knew who it was, he was going to come with but not today.

She began to think; maybe she was not a model, maybe he’s had a change in his taste for women or maybe she was a model but not a ranking or well-known model.

She stopped the hug and with a more enthusiastic look, she decided to ask in a whisper voice;

“Why didn’t you tell me, you were bringing someone with you?”

He smiled,

“I didn’t even know I was bringing her along, I honestly forgot about today and your brunch party. I had to ask her to come with me since I planned to spend the day with her.” He replied but not in the tone or volume of voice she asked, he didn’t have any reason to whisper.

“O my god, is she special? You finally decided to settle for someone?” Jenna whispered again but Ben just chuckled lightly.

“Let me introduce you to her.” He just said and turned to Belle who had been too busy admiring around her to listen to them and their conversation.

“Belle,” he called her attention, “meet Jenna.” He referred to Jenna with his right hand.”Jenna, this is Belle.”

“I’m his cousin, not a girl in his life,” Jenna told her excitedly, putting out her hand for a handshake. “I mean, I am a girl in his life but I’m not someone to stand in your way with Ben, you know what I mean.” She added when Belle shook her hands.

Ben shot her a look, he understood what she was insinuating to Belle. She was saying that she wasn’t one of the many girls Ben had once in a while and therefore wasn’t a competition for her(Belle).

Belle just smiled more even though she didn’t quite understand what Jenna just said and Ben was glad she didn’t.

“Please, the party’s over here,” Jenna said and started towards where she just pointed and Ben followed with Belle by his side.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.