The Assassin’s Billionaire Bodyguard – Chapter 13
Joanie smiled brightly as she placed a round tray of crushed ice and six oysters on a half-shell in front of them. No utensils were provided. She had removed the single plate which had held the walnut and fig wrapped in prosciutto amuse-bouche and passed it to someone standing just outside the screen.
“Hors d’oeuvres for this evenings are oysters and pomegranate. As delicious as the dish is beautiful, the vibrant sweetness of pomegranate juice coupled with the salty brininess of the oyster will cause a flavor explosion on the tongue. Some scholars believe the fruit in the story of Adam and Eve was actually the pomegranate.” She smiled as if revealing a dirty secret, “perhaps the lady would entice her date to partake in a forbidden bite?” She stood preparing to walk away and then paused as someone passed her two flutes and turned back to put the glasses in front of them, “in keeping with a biblical twist, this is a variation of the cocktail, Nectar of the Gods. In place of the typical raspberry, we have substituted a house made pomegranate liquor.”
Isabella waited until the woman stepped away from the enclosed booth and looked to Cam with an exasperated expression, “come on, could this place be any more of a cliché? Oysters? Champagne?”
one is out to pull one over on you and just enjoy the ride?”
é.”
He grinned wickedly, “does the lady want to tempt me with the forbidden fruit?”
e night, I’m going to have you screaming my name and begging for me to feast off you.”
screaming it likely will be in running in
rds,” he smirked.
ter on the shell and shook it around the shell.
e doing.”
ds.” She paused as she took a tiny pomegranate seed in her fingers and held it up for perusal. “Although never this combination.”
e glasses and then downed the briny and sweet substance. Isabella
ink I do. It’s –”
Strange,” she finished his thought. “Maybe it’s a you-need-to-do-it-twice t
cocktail,” he made a
ing?” she taunted.
, “to the most beautiful woman in the room.”
apped her glass to his and took a sip
red, “it’s so sweet.
she urged him to take the shell in his hand. “Do the oyster again and then take a sip of the cocktail.”
tructed and let the flavors roll around on his to
r with the saltine
put in front of us or someone from the kitchen comes out like an angry mother on Su
plate?”
on your bones, or you’ll be alone like your Aunt Tilly until the day you die.”
unt Tilly.”
and died at sixty-eight from a heart attack. She was in bed with one of her companions when she passed. The three men got into a fist fight at her funeral over who she loved most. Joke was on all three of them because she left everything to her cat.”
as a scoundrel.”
est Christmas presents. When Raoul came out, she made him a sculpture of a naked man with a huge erect p***s she painted the colors of the pride fla
in the confined area. His laugh made her heart leap joyously and she couldn’t help but smile in response.
”
ed a few of the pomegranate seeds up with her fingers and dropped them into her mouth, “these I like a lot. If I had these,” she chewed carefully, “separate from these,” she pointed
s statement.
Isabella.”
aked.
things going in here?”
warmly at the hostess
“all good.” She kicked Cam under the table as he took delight in
clear these away,” she looked between them as if sensing Isabella’s embarrassment and then left.
nothing to get all choked up over. Unless you like choking?”
ew her cheeks were bright red, “you’re terrible.”
rs are an a
old.”
re? Forty’s creepi
nt home.”
p with a response.”
romise you won’t regret it.”
wo bowls. “This dish is a sweet potato and ginger cream soup. The aroma of ginger coupled with the creaminess of the root vegetables is an aromatic fusion of spicy and sweet. Enjoy.”
over the bowl, closed her eyes, and inhaled deeply. “Ginger is m
f the creamy broth and moaned, “I’m not sure who the chef is back there but this is amazing.”
s closing as she swallowed the creamy liquid and sighing contentedly.
. “Are you going to try this?” She turned her spoon upside down and licked the back of it, so not to waste a drop.
spoon so badly,” his voice was low and deep as he shifted in his seat. “When she set soup down, I almost laughed wondering how
am,” she whispered,
every damn drop of it please.”
er. “I feel like the subject in a voyeur film.”
ded,” he whispered back.
soup.”
I mig
laughing when he left the spoon, picked up the bowl and drank the soup. “You’re a child.”
such a turn on?”
exy and she laughed at his behaviour.
I encourage you to talk and relax for a few moments and enjoy the wine,” she left them alone again.
te and an even longer time since she’d been on one where she felt so comfortable. “I’m having a good time.”
comfortable with people I’m not familiar with and it takes me a long time to warm up. I tend to have my defenses up.”
e Isabella.”
glass to his lips and set the glass back down. “I meant it
?”
t your life is also busy. I don’t want to leave you waiting for me to return your call or have you wondering if I’m screwing someone else while you’re waiting on me to call you. Know, if you’re waiting for me to call and I don’t call right away, it’s business, not someone else.”
” he nodded.
ork home with me in the evenings. I also do a lot of special projects for Clara. Also, Edward Draxton has pimped out my services to a lot of his friends,” she saw his eyebrows raise, “I mean my brain not my body. I’m exceptionally good at my job and assessing risk. I’ve started to make a name with some of his international friends at assessing insurance and financial risk. He told to make sure I charge them obscenely and he set my first rate for me. He’s encouraged me to make money off my brain. He can be a weird old man but he’s quite good at sussing out someone’s strengths and then pushing them to explore them in all kinds of different ways.”
tionships?”
overprotective, and my sisters are always on my case because,” she shrugged, “to answer your question, I don’t date a lot and they think in order for me to be fulfilled I somehow need a spouse.”
eve them?”
ow many kids I want, and I say zero and then I get ghosted.”
responsibility and I have no regrets, but she’ll be an only child.”