New Beginnings (The Billionaire’s Baby #4)(36)
Author: Helen Cooper

“Isn’t it wonderful to feel two men pleasing you at the same time?”

“No,” she whispered but she knew she was lying. She had never felt such intense pleasure in all of her life.

“I think you are lying, Ms. Van Harkel.” He grinned evilly and pulled his hands away. “But all good things must come to an end I’m afraid. As I told you before I have a meeting.” He smiled at her coolly and walked out of the room. Ella watched him leave with disappointment. But she didn’t have long to miss his departure as moments later she felt Joseph entering her. She clenched her legs around his waist and allowed him to slam into her hard and deep. His c**k felt the same that it always had and she cried out as he went faster and faster. She felt her br**sts bouncing up and down and Joseph rolled over so that she was now riding him. She closed her eyes and bounced up and down on him and imagined that it was Frank below her. As she pictured Frank’s face, she found that she was even more turned on and felt herself coming hard as Joseph cl**axed inside of her. She groaned as she rolled onto the bed next to him and they lay there in the dark in silence. Things had not turned out as she had planned and she wasn’t sure if she could even trust her instincts any longer.

Chapter 18

Max

His meeting with Alexis had gone easily. It scared him how easy it had been. She handed over the signed papers with no trouble and because she had listed him as the father on the birth certificate he didn’t have to go through Frank Phillips. Max stared at Alexis as she babbled on about something. He leaned in towards her and he realized that her pupils were dilated and she was high.

“Alexis, let me take you home.” He grabbed her arm and spoke to her firmly.

“Sorry Max, you had your chance.” She laughed.

“Alexis, are you on drugs right now?”

“Why do you want some?”

“I thought you stopped taking them after rehab?”

“What do you care?” she spat at him. “You never cared before when we were getting high.”

Max sighed and looked at the woman in front of him. She couldn’t believe that he hadn’t noticed how coked out she looked. He had been so caught up in making sure that Jacob was going to his and Sophie’s legally that he hadn’t even really paid attention to Alexis.

“I did you a disservice, Alexis. And I want to apologize.”

“You want to apologize to me?” She laughed hysterically.

“I’m sorry, Alexis.” He looked at her with pleading eyes. “Let me take you home.”

“Get your hands off me.” She pushed him. “I don’t give a shit about you Max. Don’t you realize that? I love someone else.”

“So why have you been coming after me?” he asked her quietly.

“Because I don’t want you to be happy. Why should you have the fairytale when I can’t? We were good for each other Max. We both used each other to numb our pain. I don’t care that you never bothered trying to find out what was wrong because I didn’t give a shit about you either or your precious little Sophie.”

“Alexis,” he sighed. “Please let me take you home.”

“I’m going to ‘The X Club’.” She grinned. “I’m finally going to get my man.”

“At the X Club?” He frowned. Who could she be in love with at the club? And then it struck him—what he should have realized all along. “Are you going to see Frank, Alexis?”

“I love him Max and he loves me and you can’t keep me from him anymore. You can’t stop us from being together.”

“I never stopped anything, Alexis.” He looked at her in pity. She wouldn’t be the first woman to get caught in the senator’s trail. Max had seen many women drop out of Harvard after Frank was done with them.

“He should have married me,” she cried out. “I loved him. I wanted him. Why didn’t he marry me?”

“You knew Frank before he married Gloria?” Max frowned, not really remembering them having met before the X Club days.

“He befriended Mitch one summer and we dated.” She looked at him with almost focused eyes. “I’ve loved him ever since.”

Max looked at her in shock. “Then why come after me, why drag me into this mess?”

She looked at him with pity then and cackled. “Frank hated you. I wanted to make him jealous. I wanted him to realize that he wanted me and had to have me. It didn’t work. He was the one who got me to convince you to try The X Club. Who knew you were just as f**ked up? Well, I did of course. Who else loves a stupid teenager?”

Max stared at her with anger on his face. “You used me?”

“You used me first, Max,” she screamed. “You never cared about me.”

“You tried to ruin my relationship, Alexis,” he growled at her. “You knew that Sophie was the love of my life and you have done everything you can to ruin that.”

“You ruined it yourself, Max.” Her voice was soft. “You’re a whore. A selfish bratty whore. I don’t care what happens to you or your ‘girl’.” She giggled. “I’m off to go get my happily ever after now.”

Max frowned. He wanted to just leave her and let her do whatever she wanted. But she was right, he had been selfish before and he had failed her. He had failed her as a human being who should care about the emotions of others. He knew what Sophie would do in this situation and sighed. “I can’t let you just leave, Alexis.” He grabbed a hold of her arm.

“Frank is waiting on me,” she screamed.

“Frank is married.” He looked into her eyes, trying to make a real connection so he could get through to her. “Frank is a senator whose goal is to become President, Alexis. He is never going to leave his wife for you. He is never going to marry you. You are never going to play happy family.”

“He loves me and he’s waiting on me at the club.” Her eyes flashed angrily at him.

“Then I’ll take you to the club.”

“I don’t want you to take me.” She struggled against him.

“You’re not going unless it’s with me.” He was obstinate. He owed her this.

“Fine. Let’s go.” She shrugged her shoulders and sang to herself. Max walked besides her with a heavy heart. How had he not seen how troubled she was before?

They drove in silence to the club. Max knew that this was the best way to make Frank believe that he and Sophie were truly over. He already had the second letter ready to be delivered the next day. He’d told Nick what courier was delivering it and he’d passed the information on to Frank. As far as Frank knew, Max’s life was in crumbles all around him. He knew this was all a game to Frank, he didn’t care about Jacob, and he didn’t care about Alexis. He just wanted to make sure that Max’s life was a misery. He didn’t really understand why Frank was so determined to bring him down, but he supposed some people were just mentally twisted. Now that he had the signed paperwork from Alexis, he had all that he needed to stop Frank. Alexis had signed paperwork that had signed all of Jacob’s rights over to Max and Sophie and acknowledged that Senator Frank Phillips was the birth father but was not interested in fathering the child. This paperwork along with the video and photos Max had in his safe contained enough damaging information to make sure that Frank stayed out of his life forever.