CHAPTER 52 – HER LITTLE GIRL
Post-coital clarity hit Mackenzie once her clothes were back on and they were out of that intimate little booth that was permeated with the heat of their passion and the lingering sex hormones charging the electric air.
Her face was in a permanent state of heat and a rosy blush, as she could not forget how nasty things had gotten in there.
They were walking along the dimly lit parking lot, and her hazel eyes slid sideways to glance at Chase. But he was already gazing at her, shamelessly letting the heat and desire in his eyes shine through. The blush on her face increased ten-fold, and she abruptly broke eye contact.
“Mackenzie.” He said in that dirty seductive tone of his. “Would you like to come by my place?”
Her heart stuttered. Did he just invite her over? She could only tell her screaming and fainting female hormones to calm down, that she could not take up his offer.
She had kids to attend to, and they were more important over her giving in to her feminine urge to spend the night with a gorgeous man with a high sex drive who had all intentions of fucking her senseless. And they both knew it.
“I have things to do tonight. With my friends.” She answered.
Chase gave a slight nod, and unlocked the black Lamborghini when they got to it. They got it, and he eased it out of the parking lot and onto the road.
The ride was quiet, and Chase noticed that Mackenzie was pulling away again. She had become distant after she came, like she was caught doing something wrong. Did she think being with him was wrong?, Chase wondered.
His eyes slid away from the road to look sideways at her. She was curled in the huge leather seat, staring at her phone screen, biting her bottom lip in concentration as she texted someone.
Her friend, maybe. It had better be her fucking friend.
Chase remembered the feel of those soft lips of hers against his, those lips sucking the precum off the tip of his cock. He bit back a curse when he felt his cock begin to charge up again. He stared back at the road, and tried to keep his eyes ahead, and not on the woman at his side, driving him crazy.
Mackenzie was texting Charlotte, asking if her babies had gone to bed, but Charlotte told her that they were waiting on her return. Cameron had eventually fallen asleep, but Calista was insistent on staying awake because she had something to tell Mackenzie.
She had already received a mail from her kid’s school, informing her that the school was giving the school kids a break. So it was fine if Calista stayed up a little longer, she could make up for lost sleep tomorrow.
But then, Mackenzie remembered that Felicity had a video session with the school tomorrow to teach some kids. Although, Mackenzie was not sure how certain it was when the school’s kids are on break, but she did not want to take any chances.
Charlotte had informed Mackenzie that an Axford subsidiary had invited her for an interview. It was also the nanny’s day off, so none of her friends would be around early in the morning to take care of the kids and get them to play with the neighbors before someone returns home.
Mackenzie would have to do that, meaning she could not come to work as early as usual tomorrow.
She turned to Chase, ” I know it’s too early to ask, but can I come in later than usual tomorrow morning?”
“Okay?”
Mackenzie continued, “Well, I have to go see Mrs. Weston at the hospital in place of Charlotte, and my other friend, Felicity can’t go in place of her because she has an interview concerning a topic her blogs talk about with a school.”
She was careful not to give too much details of the school, because that was the same school her kids attended as well.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .
Chase remembered that Felicity was the one who had a blog talking about plants, clean and renewable energy, global warming and the likes. And he had specifically told the H. R to invite Charlotte for an interview at one of their companies when he got to know that she had been applying for a while.
Mackenzie was not really going to visit Charlotte’s mom. She would sort her kids out and just head straight to the factory, to start off her day immediately.
Chase responded, “Alright. Remember, I’m taking you home.”
She stared at him, but he only added, “Don’t bother to argue with me, Mackenzie. I’m taking you home and that’s final.”
She said nothing and leaned back into her seat. In no time, the Lambo pulled up at her house, and slowed to a stop.
He turned off the ignition and made to unbuckle his seatbelt but Mackenzie leaned up quickly, hurried unfastening her own seatbelt and pushed the door open.
“You can just stay in the car, and I’ll walk in. You don’t have to follow me.” She said and scrambled out through the door.
Chase watched with a raised eyebrow as she shut the car door and walked up the stairs to the front door. Now, his suspicions were confirmed. Her strange and evasive behavior made him decide that if she was not being threatened, then she was definitely hiding something.
What could Mackenzie be hiding?
He waited in his seat, watching her step onto the front porch through the tinted glass. However, when she opened the door, Chase saw her entire eyes and face light up so brightly with a smile so radiant, that he was stunned.
He had never seen her smile like that. Ever.
His mind began to throw all kind of explanations around, wondering who made her so happy to be back home that she smiled so brightly on opening the door. Was there a guy inside? Fuck, was Maverick back from his trip and inside the house right now?
Or was it her friends?
That seemed unlikely. Sure they were very close and literally sisters, but there is no way anyone would be that happy to see friends that they live with everyday.
Her face literally transformed from dim to radiant in seconds, and Chase was envious that he was not the one who brought that reaction out of her.
Mackenzie had long stepped into the house, but Chase was still in his car, unmoving. After today, her first day at work, he had seen that she was indeed a hardworking woman. A lot of women would take advantage of the fact that he was attracted to her, to try to slack off at their jobs and always gain special favors.
But not Mackenzie.
His assistant, Nora, had sent him hour by hour reports on her work performance, and it was sterling. Even the factory manager had commended her diligence and creativity in the report.
Only the panic attack had almost ruined the day, until he set it right in that bar, giving her the staggering pleasure she did not know she needed, to wipe off all worries from her mind.
After the sex, he was certain that she wanted him the way he wanted her and he was not being delusional and forcing things. But she had withdrawn back into her distant and evasive behavior. It bothered Chase. What was she hiding?
What in the damn world was she trying so hard to protect?
Why was she running away?
He turned the ignition back on and drove back into the road. A text popped up on his phone, and he glanced at it. It was the date scheduled for his father’s surgery next week.
He made a mental note to go visit his father at the hospital sometime tomorrow to see how he was holding up now that the surgery date had been confirmed.
Inside the house, Mackenzie smiled when she spotted Calista’s small body curled on a couch. The little girl perked up when she heard the door open and turned around to see Mackenzie.
She scrambled down from the couch as fast as her small legs could allow and hurried forward almost tripping over something on the floor, arms outstretched, “Mommy!!”
In that moment, Mackenzie’s entire world brightened. She hurried to pick Calista up into her arms, pressing many small kisses into her soft chubby cheeks. She did not pay much attention to whatever had almost tripped her baby girl, and subconsciously made a note to address it later.
For now, she was so busy cuddling her little girl. “How are you, my cute little baby girl? Hm?”
“I missed you so much, mommy..” Calista pouted.
Mackenzie pouted too, “I’m so sorry, baby. You know I have to work longer now. But remember we’ve been together for a long while before I started work, right?”
She felt bad making her little girl stay up so late just because Calista wanted to see her before falling asleep.