Chapter 30 #2
“I guess Kai wasn’t the only person who had a sleepover,” Olivia commented as she pointedly looked at the floor, and when Honey saw all of the evidence of what happened last night— their clothes, the wine and champagne bottles, and the condom wrapper— she nearly slapped her forehead for being so irresponsible.
There was no point in even trying to come up with an excuse for why Nikos had been in her room when everything was so clear.
“Mom?”
“Yes, Kai?” Honey answered eagerly because she would rather not deal with Olivia’s sarcastic comments for the next hour.
“Are you dating Nikos?”
Her eyes widened, and even Nikos looked shocked. The only person in the room who seemed to find it amusing was Olivia, who laughed. Honey gave her sister a look before turning that same admonishing glare on her son.
“Kai,” she said in a chiding tone, not knowing how many times she had told her son to stay out of grown folks’ business.
“But I don’t mind if you date, mom. I like Nikos,” Kai said, and if her son didn’t look so earnest right now, she would be upset, but she couldn’t be.
Her face softened instead. She couldn’t be surprised that he was saying something like this.
These past months Nikos had been around a lot, so of course, seeing a man around her like this, he would assume they were in a romantic relationship, especially after seeing him come out of her bedroom.
To be honest, she was surprised about one thing, though— him being fine with it.
Kai had never liked any of her previous boyfriends before, so this was a first for him.
She just hated that she had confused him and would also have to disappoint him when she told him that wasn’t the case.
She and Nikos were employee and employer, and friends, though, at this point, she was starting to question if the second title could be any more after what happened last night.
“So, you give me permission to date your mom, kid?” Nikos asked, and though there was a cheekiness to his tone, there was also something serious there.
“Yep!” Kai said, smiling. “But you have to promise always to protect her.”
“Because I’m Cap?” Nikos said, winking, and Kai giggled, nodding.
“I always promise to protect your mother whether we’re dating or not,” Nikos said as he placed Kai down and held out his hand to shake. “I give you my word as a man.”
Kai puffed up his chest before eagerly shaking Nikos’s hand as if he were passing his mother off in marriage, and Honey could only stand there gaping because she hadn’t planned for her morning to go like this at all.
Honey cleared her throat and folded her arms together.
“I can protect myself,” Honey said, “and Kai, don’t you have homework you must turn in tomorrow for school?”
“Mom,” Kai whined as his chest deflated. Nikos laughed as he stood before ruffling Kai’s hair when his phone rang.
“Excuse me,” Nikos said before he answered the phone and stepped off to the side, speaking in Greek.
He always did that whenever he had one of his important phone calls that involved that kind of business.
Honey took that opportunity to clean up the mess they had made, starting with specifically grabbing Nikos’s clothes.
By the time he finished his call, the wine glasses were in the sink, and his clothes were neatly folded.
“I’m sorry, but I have to go,” Nikos said, sighing, but though he seemed disappointed, she was relieved. She hadn’t wanted to be rude and kick him out of the door herself, so this saved her the trouble of doing it. Plus, she had a feeling it wouldn’t be easy to get Nikos out of the door on her own.
“Do you really have to go? We didn’t even get to play the game yet,” Kai whined, and Nikos ruffled his hair affectionately.
“We’ll hang out together next time, and we’ll spend the whole day together,” Nikos said, and Kai cheered.
She hated being the bearer of bad news, but she had no plans to let that happen.
But instead of saying that and disappointing Kai, who was satisfied with knowing that there would be another day for him to hang out with Nikos, she grabbed a bag from the closet and placed Nikos’s things inside while Nikos said his goodbyes to Kai and Olivia.
“Here,” Honey said as she passed him the bag when he reached the front door.
“I’m sorry,” Nikos said. “If it weren’t important, I wouldn’t go.”
He sounded sincere, and Honey ignored how his words made her feel as if nothing else could get in the way of him being with her. But she quickly shook away those thoughts.
“It’s fine,” Honey said because it truly was. She wouldn’t be able to think with Nikos here, and that was exactly what she needed to do— to think about how she would proceed with her relationship with Nikos.
“Goodbye, Nikos,” Honey said as she tried to close the door, but he stopped her, wedging his foot in the doorway. Honey lifted a brow.
“We will talk about this,” Nikos told her, his eyes incredibly blue and his tone very serious which made her blanch before she folded her arms together.
“We already talked about it,” Honey said, seeing no reason to discuss it further. “There will be no other time.”
Nikos smirked. “Wanna bet?”
Honey rolled her eyes. “I hope you savored last night because it won’t happen again.”
“I don’t think that’s true at all,” Nikos said, grinning. “And I think even you know that too.”
Honey didn’t respond and looked away, which caused Nikos to chuckle.
“See you tomorrow, Honey,” Nikos said before he leaned forward and pressed a kiss against her cheek. Honey immediately threw a punch, but Nikos was already out the door and down the hall.
Honey slammed the door behind herself and turned to see her sister, who gave her a pointed look. Kai had already headed into his room to get changed.
“What?” Honey exclaimed as she went into the kitchen to clean the glasses.
“For someone who finally got some last night, you seem very prickly,” Olivia commented as she sat on the island.
“I’m not prickly.”
“If I touched you, I’m pretty sure I would get stabbed,” Olivia joked, and Honey chucked a glare at her sister, who laughed and held her hands up in mock surrender.
“I’m joking,” Olivia said. “But I really don’t get why you would be upset right now. Was it bad?”
Honey sighed because she wished she could say that was the case, but there was no way she could ever lie about sex that good being bad.
She still felt wet between her thighs and could remember how it felt when Nikos was deep inside her, whispering naughty words in her ear as he fucked her long and hard into her sheets, telling her that now when she slept there, she would only think of him, and she had a feeling that would be the case.
“That’s not it,” Honey murmured, and Olivia’s eyes widened before she laughed more.
“Wow. So he isn’t just a pretty face and can back up those words,” Olivia mused, shaking her head wryly. “Then that makes me even more confused about what the problem is.”
“It’s complicated, and it was just a drunken mistake. We’re not even in a relationship,” Honey explained.
“You could have fooled me,” Olivia said, and Honey looked at her sister, shocked.
What had she done to make her think they were in a relationship when she had just started to admit that they were friends?
“You guys are always spending time together. I wasn’t even surprised that he was here today.
I was just surprised to see your clothes on the floor. ”
“We don’t spend—”
“The entire ride here, all Kai talked about was Nikos and all the fun they were going to have when he came over as if it were a set-in-stone thing,” Olivia said. “He likes him a lot, and let’s be honest. Kai wasn’t always receptive to your other boyfriends.”
Honey pursed her lips, even though her sister was right. Kai hadn’t necessarily been close with her exes before, but he got along with Nikos very well. Though, she suspected that was because of how childlike Nikos could be around Kai. It allowed him to be comfortable with him.
“Nikos seems like a nice guy who is always here to help you. Honestly, he is like your superhero,” Olivia said, and Honey rolled her eyes. Superhero, her ass. Though, he had helped her out countless times before without expecting anything in turn. She couldn’t deny that.
“He’s fine, has money, and gets along with your son. It can’t get any better than that. So, what’s the problem, Hope?”
That was the thing. Olivia would never be able to understand her position because she didn’t know about everything happening at the club.
She didn’t know that Nikos had practically fucked every dancer at the club, and now she had become another notch on his belt.
She couldn’t admit it out loud, but it hurt her pride.
Now, she felt no different than anyone else, and to be honest, that was a hard pill to swallow, remembering how she prided herself on being the only girl in the club besides Amber, who hadn’t done anything with Nikos.
On top of that, she couldn’t imagine herself with Nikos and didn’t even know what he wanted.
For all she knew, he wanted the same kind of relationship he had with the other girls at the club— fuck buddies.
And though sometimes she wished she had someone in her bed at night, and the sex had been good, she didn’t want to be Nikos’s fuck buddy.
Just the idea of it put a bad taste in her mouth.
And if Nikos wanted something more serious, she couldn’t imagine that either.
But the biggest problem she couldn’t explain to her sister was the devil hanging over her shoulder the moment she stepped into the Gentlemen’s Club— Antonis Tsagkarakis.
It had been months since he had gone into a coma, and at first, she had been very wary, feeling like he could pop over her shoulder at any instant.
And slowly, as time passed with Nikos in charge and Antonis out of sight, her wariness ebbed away, but that didn’t mean it still wasn’t there, lingering in the back of her mind.
Nikos was Antonis’s nephew, and for some reason, Antonis was fixated on her.
If he ever woke up, she was positive he would show Nikos no mercy for what they had done tonight, and even worse, she feared what he might do to her.
He was already insane enough to think he could possess her. That meant he was capable of anything.
The problem was that there were too many problems that she didn’t care for.
Besides, she didn’t want to mess up the relationship she had with Nikos now over something fleeting like sexual attraction.
She could admit that she was attracted to Nikos.
Any woman who saw him would be. But she didn’t want to allow that attraction to be the reason why it was difficult to come to work or for it to change the good working relationship she had with him.
“There isn’t a problem. It was just a drunk night of sex. Nothing more and nothing less,” Honey said, shrugging as she dried her hands.
“We’ll see if you’ll be saying that when you see Nikos again tomorrow,” Olivia said knowingly, and Honey cut her sister a glare. She would say the same exact thing that she told Nikos today.
There won’t be a second time.