Revengeful Deceptions by Ursula Dukes

Teddy and Stephen will
always be with you Dominique, and as long as you remember that you can and will
move on. Now get going , you've got an office romance
to continue today. One that will hopefully end up with you falling madly in
love and you don’t want to be late do you?”
    Dominique knew her friend was
right. But you don't know that Adam is Brandon's brother she thought to
herself, I wonder if you'd change your mind if I told you. But Dominique
had a feeling that her best friend would still stand by her feelings, she would
tell her that as long as Adam wasn't involved, then there would be no reason why she shouldn’t get involved with him. “Alright,
alright, she said. “As usual Pam, your right and I’ve kept you long enough.
Thanks again for the advice.”
    “Your very welcome, but Dominique?”
    “Yeah?”
    “It’s all well and good that you’re
thanking me for my advice my friend, but do me a favor and follow it will ya?”
Pam said with sincerity in her voice.
    Dominique couldn’t help but smile
hearing her friends reassuring voice, the voice of reason.
    “Will do Pam, will do.”
    Dominique felt a lot better once
she had gotten off the phone with Pam. While getting ready for work, she went
over all the previous days’ happenings. My first day on the job and I made a
friend, tackled the work load, and met a guy who I had great sex with.
Something’s gotta go wrong, she thought to herself as she headed out the
door.
    Adam arrived at work early; he had
to be in court in a few hours and needed to get a jump on some of his cases.
Plus he was anxious to see Dominique, he felt awful leaving her last night
especially with her being so upset but what could he do? She had asked him to
leave and even though it was hard for him to do it, he respected her wishes and
walked out the door. What are you so afraid of Dominique? He wondered to
himself. He was trying very hard to play it cool, this being a new job for her
and all but she was making it very difficult for him. He just couldn’t seem to
get enough of her, especially after last night, and what were the chances that
she would land a job at his father’s law firm. If he had never believed in fate
before, he certainly did now.
    Adam’s father knocked on the door
to his office.
    “You’re here early,” he said giving
his son a weary smile.
    “Yeah, I’ve got to be in court
today so I thought I’d get a head start.”
    “Son, I need to speak to you about
the conversation we had yesterday,” he said, closing the door to his son’s
office.
    “I don’t think there is anything
else to talk about dad, do you?”
    “Son, I just wanted to say that I
was wrong and you were right.”
    Adam could not believe that his
father was giving up so easily. This was a first.
    “Wow dad, I have to say, this is
the first time you have ever admitted defeat so quickly, what gives?”
    “Nothing gives son; I just thought
about it and decided that you were right.”
    “Wait, did mom put you up to this?”
Adam knew that anytime he and his father had disagreed, his mother was always
the one who tried to make them reason with each other.
    “What? No, your mother doesn’t even
know about our conversation son now listen, Dominique seems like a lovely woman
and she certainly is very beautiful, but I want you to understand that the moment
her work or yours for that matter starts slacking, I will have to put a stop to
whatever it is that you and she have, is that understood son?”
    “Yes dad, but you don’t have to
worry about that.”
    “What do you mean son?” Jonathan
questioned.
      “Dominique has made it clear that she wants
nothing to do with me, but I know there is something there and I’m not giving
up, I know what I want and I want Dominique.  And for the record dad, I
worked my ass off to get where I am today and I think we both know that it
wasn’t my idea to work in your firm, there were a lot of other offers from all
over so maybe you should think