Love’n’Lust

Belle went around the bungalow, checking the room’s out. It had three rooms and a master bedroom and a well equipped kitchen. After going round the rooms, she returned to the kitchen and saw Randy leaving the groceries he had gotten earlier from the store. Ben was leaning against the wall, with both his hands in his trouser pockets. He saw her and asked;

“How do you like the rooms?”

“They are perfect.” He smiled when she said that. Walking up to her, he stroke her cheeks, Belle had noticed that he enjoyed doing that. “Thanks.” She hugged him making his smile expand on his lips.

“It’s nothing.”

“Now to show you how spaghetti should taste like.” She teased him as she went to the open kitchen.

Ben walked behind her and stood by the counter, watching her as she started watching the vegetables. He decided to help out. After washing his hands in the second sink, he took out one of the knives from the wooden knife block that sat at the edge of the countertop.Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.

“What are you doing?” Belle asked when she saw him with the knife.

“I can’t cook but I can help out.” He picked up a tomato from the glass bowl she had put them in after washing. Placing it on the chopping board, he diced it while she watched.

“What? You just want to show me you can dice vegetables quickly?” Belle thought he was being a show-off with how he just cut the tomatoes. He smiled at what she just said, coming to her and separating her lips by pulling on her lower lip, he put a dice of the cut tomato in her mouth and kisses her afterwards. It was a short kiss.

He took up the glass bowl having the remaining uncut tomatoes and laughed at how she expected the kiss to be longer.

“Don’t do that,” she started to chew what he put in her mouth,”don’t kiss me if you’re not gonna do it properly.” She pouted after chewing.

“We have lot of time after now for that. Aren’t you hungry anymore? You know I can’t do anything to you on an empty stomach. You might just pass out.” He laughed.

“Well….” She bit her lips, taking the carrots she just washed over to him. She knew he was right. He fucked her like the world was ending and it was the last time he ever had to be with her so he really couldn’t do anything to her on an empty stomach, he liked her strong and ready whenever they had sex.

“Belle?” Ben just remembered something he had to ask her.

“Yeah?”

“Who was that you were talking with before Randy came to you?”

“Who?” Belle wasn’t fully attentive at first but was now.

“The man you were speaking with, does he work with you?”

“Oh. No, he doesn’t. I mean…. he does work with me but not with me, he’s a senior editor like Mrs Johnson. He’s practically my boss too, I just don’t assist him, I assist Mrs Johnson.”

“So he has no business with you?”

“Well, I wouldn’t say that. He could ask me to do things for him, things I do for Mrs Johnson but that would be if Eric is not available for some reason.”

“Who is Eric?” Ben asked.

“His assistant. Eric is Nathan’s assistant.”

“Nathan, is that his name? The man you were speaking with outside the building?”

“Yeah.” Belle nodded.

“You call him Nathan? You said he’s your boss, why don’t you call him Mr Nathan like you do to Mrs Johnson?”

“To be honest, I really don’t know, I guess it’s easier to just call him Nathan besides he says I could call him that and not Sir.”

“He said that, huh?”

“Yeah.”

“Do you like Nathan?”

“Huh?” Belle turned to meet brag inquiring eyes which had been staring at her while she stirred the pot.

“Do you like him?”

“Eww. No.” A calm smile washed over Ben’s lips with her reply.

“Do you know he likes you?”

“What?” Belle had to turn again from what she was doing.

“You seem not to know how pretty you are Belle. Nathan has interest in you.” Ben told her what he had noticed. He could tell when he saw Nathan hold her from leaving earlier, it was why he has Randy go there.

“No way he likes me, I mean…. he can’t, it’s not allowed, you can’t have anything going on in the office environment.”

“He can’t but he does. I’m happy you don’t like him too,” Ben told her words like they came to his thought but what he wasn’t telling her at that moment was that Nathan would have had to be painted out of the picture if she did like him too.

Ben didn’t know what it was but he couldn’t let go of this woman in the kitchen with him. She had somehow wrapped him down to wanting to please her. Even when he thought he was in control, he wasn’t. He didn’t love her but he wasn’t going to let someone else steal her from him. If that happened, he wasn’t sure how he could cope so he couldn’t let that happen. Belle was his now, whether he loved her or not, he believed that she belonged to him.

“Yeah, I don’t. He’s somewhat too intrusive, he wants to know everything. It’s why I don’t wanna ride home with him, he just asks questions about everything.”

“Stay away from him.” Ben didn’t want to take any chances.

“Like it’s possible,” Belle scoffed and got a look from Ben.”I work in an office next to his, he could come there anytime.”