Love’n’Lust

“Goodnight mum.” He replied before she cut the call.

Getting up from his office chair, he remembered he had told Belle he would call. Taking a look at his wristwatch, he saw that it was almost twelve, five minutes left till twelve.

He dialed her number and waited while leaning in front of his office desk for her to pick up the call with his phone to his left ear.

“Ben.” He heard her low voice and a smile reappeared on his face.

“Why are you still awake?” He asked because he knew how late into the night it was. He wasn’t even expecting her to pick up the phone and so planned to call her only once so as not to disturb her sleep.

“I was waiting for your call?” She bit her lips, still speaking in a low voice not to wake Brie or Cherry who were both beside her on their shared bed.

“What if I didn’t call like last time?”

“I guess I will just assume you were too busy to call.” He heard her say in her bedroom voice, the voice she usually had when she made low moans to his touch.

“Why do you sound that way?” He swallowed.

“How do I sound?” She asked genuinely wanting to know at first but realized after he didn’t reply anything.”Tell me?” She bit her lips, making her voice sound more seductive.

“Where are you right now?” He asked, his voice hoarse.

“Where else, I’m at home, I’m in bed actually.”

“I see. Do you have to go to work tomorrow?” He asked again even if he knew the answer to that question.

“Yes.” He heard her chuckle lightly.

“…..” He said nothing after that. He wanted to do things to her tonight, if possible, things that would leave her unable to go to work the next day.

“Why did you ask?”

“You know why.” He replied to her; he knew that she knew what she was doing to him.

His assistant walked just after he said that a gentle knock preceding her entry into the office.

“Sir, I….” She stopped when she saw that he was on a call.

“No, I don’t, tell me.” He heard Belle say, taking his attention back from his assistant.

“It’s late Belle, you should go to sleep, I don’t want you tired tomorrow.”

“Why? You are awake too, aren’t you?” She argued. When Ben didn’t say anything more for some seconds, she decided to do as he suggested;

“Fine, good night.” She said and hung up after, she didn’t want him to think of her as clingy so she did that even though she wanted to hear his voice more.

……

MONDAY MORNING.

Belle rushed into the building where she worked, she was late, she didn’t know how late she was because she forgot to put on her wristwatch while preparing I’m a hurry and couldn’t stop to check on her phone but she knew she was late.

She stopped when she got to Mrs. Johnson’s office. She needed to think of a good reason to say why she was late, that was if her boss, Mrs. Johnson was already in the office. She prayed she wasn’t. Taking a deep breath, she turned the doorknob slowly and entered the office.

Looking in that direction first, she saw the woman’s seat empty. With a sigh of relief, she placed her palm on her chest. She was glad Mrs Johnson wasn’t there yet, at least she didn’t have to lie about why she was coming in late. She couldn’t tell her about Ben because he was the reason she had stayed up that late, she was waiting for him to call like he said he would and he did.

“Belle.” Her eyes widened when she heard her name, it was her boss, she closes her eyes tightly and opened them immediately. Biting his lips nervously, she turned around.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

“Mrs. Johnson, good morning.” She greeted first with a smile, looking at the pregnant woman in front of her and trying to know if she(Mrs. Johnson) was just coming but she didn’t see her with her usual handbag so she knew she had been here since at the office and just left for a while or so.

“What happened, why are coming now?” She heard her boss ask with a not-so-angry but displeased expression.

“Mrs. Johnson, I…. I…” She couldn’t think of a lie fast enough so she resolved to what usually worked for her in cases like this.”I’m really sorry now, trust me, I will try not to let it happen again.”

Mrs. Johnson looked at her for a moment before walking past her to her seat. Belle’s eyes followed her as she did that. She picked up some papers and joined them together before holding them up.

“Here, staple these papers and return them to me.”

“Yes ma’am.”

“And please be fast, I need them right now.”

“Okay,” Belle said and kept her hanging purse on her desk before hurrying to get the staple from where she kept it the last time.

“Where is it, where is it, where is it?” Belle asked herself when she didn’t see the stapler. She looked back at Laura who was waiting for the papers.

“What is it?” She asked Belle, seeing that the papers weren’t getting stapled.

“I can’t find it where I last left it.”

“You are kidding me. You know what? Just go to Nathan and ask for his, hurry.”

“Okay,” Belle said and hurried to the door but paused and looked back at Laura.

“Why aren’t you going?”

“I don’t know who Nathan is,” Belle replied to her.

“Oh, you don’t? He uses the next office after mine, tell him you are my assistant and I want you to use his stapler.”

“Okay,” Belle said again and went to do as she was told.