The Deal by Helen Cooper Page A

landlord would not care about her bad luck in love when it came time to pay the rent. She stood there in the bathroom drying herself and then remembered she had no clothes in the room asides from the sexy nightdress. “Just my luck.” She mumbled to herself as she opened the door.
     
    Richard was still in the room sitting on the bed when she left the bathroom. “Took your time didn’t you?” He smiled. “You should have let me in, I could have scrubbed your back or your butt.”
     
    “No thanks.” She glared at him, while trying to decide what to do. She walked over to the bed to find her nightgown and he held it up in his hand.
     
    “Looking for this?”
     
    “Give it to me.” She snapped.
     
    “What?” He stood up and held it above his head. She clutched on to her towel with one hand and tried to grab the nightgown with the other hand.
     
    “Just give it to me Richard.” She snarled at him. He looked down at her and grinned. He felt himself growing hard just staring at her. She didn’t know it but her boobs were about ready to spill out of the top of the towel and he was enjoying the view.
     
    “That’s not a nice way to talk to the man who pleasured you all night.”
    “Don’t you feel bad about what you did? To your own brother?” Her voice was filled with disdain.
     
    “Hey, he was your boyfriend. You’re the one who broke his heart.”
     
    “He’s your brother!” She tried not to let him make her feel guilty.
     
    “It didn’t seem to me that you were really that interested in him. I did him a favor.” He smirked at her. “I mean, let’s be realistic, if it wasn’t me you were fucking last night, it would have been David.”
     
    She slapped him hard. “How dare you.” She forgot about her towel in her rage and it dropped to the ground. She only realized she was standing in front of him naked when she saw his pupil’s dilate and heard the intake of his breath. He dropped her nightgown to the floor and drew her towards him, crushing her lips against his. She felt her breasts brush against his wool covered chest and she giggled.
     
    “I’m sorry,” She laughed. “The wool in your sweater is tickling me.” She wriggled away from him and she saw something in his eyes when she laughed that looked almost like fondness.
     
    “I’m not sure what that says about me when a naked woman laughs when I kiss her but I’m not going to examine it too deeply.” He laughed alongside her and picked up her nightgown. “Here, take this and go change. Everyone is out right now so the coast should be clear.” He reached over and kissed her long and hard. “We can talk later.”
     
    “Talk about what?” She pulled on her nightgown quickly.
     
    “Our deal.”
     
    “I’m not interested in any deal.”
     
    “We’ll talk when you get dressed.” He slapped her on the ass. “Now get out of here before I ravish you again.”
     
    She hurried out of the room and didn’t look back when she heard him laughing at her. She didn’t know if she would be able to stop the diatribe from spouting out of her mouth once she got started.

Chapter 2
     
    Louise got dressed quickly and packed her bags. She tried calling a cab company but hung up when she heard the cost of a cab back to New York. There was no way she could afford them. She sighed as her stomach growled. She figured she might as well go and get something to eat before she figured out how she was going to get out of the Beekman mansion. She felt like some sort of harlot and didn’t want to stay around to find out exactly what the family had been told by Ben.
     
    She wandered down the stairs and made her way to the kitchen. She saw David eating an apple as she walked in and her heart jumped into her throat. What would he think of her?
     
    “Morning Louise, have a good night.” He smiled at her while chewing.
     
    “Uh, yeah. Thanks. I was just looking for some breakfast.”
     
    “You must be starving. You and Richard were the