Chapter 28. His Sugar Baby

Jeremy and Riley left us to our privacy and closed the bedroom door.

"Hey, Lori... sorry baby. Please don't cry. I'm just still fuming. Why would you leave me? Why wouldn't you answer my calls and texts? I was worried about you. A million things could happen to you, I care about you. You have to know that, okay?"

He pulled me into his embrace, I felt safe already. His warmth, his heartbeat, the smell of his expensive cologne. He felt like home. He smelled like home.

"I'm sorry. I should've texted you that I'm safe. I just... I just couldn't face you. I'm such a mess, I never have this. This feeling is too intense for me. And with our contract, there's just so much that I could vent. I'm bursting, trying to hold all I have for you. But I couldn't, I'm so sorry." I rest my cheek on his chest, as he kept on holding me close to him.

"I like you, Lori, I do have feelings for you. Do not think less of yourself. You're a very beautiful young woman. I'm twenty