AllFreeNovel
Share Us
That gets my attention as he finishes dressing. He makes sure we are presentable. I pick up my coat and drape it over the chair. I move to clean the table, my cheeks turning bright red.
“Leave it. It is where I sit, and now I have the best memory in this very room.”
He opens the door and undoes the blinds. After ten minutes, he sends a message on his phone and it must have been Janine because she opens the door with a file in her hands.
She narrows her eyes at Kalum, and then she gives me a knowing smirk.
“I’m not going to give you shit because that woman was escorted out of the building and asked to not return, and the breathy moans that could be heard by the elevator had Melissa biting her lower lip.”
Kalum gives her a grin. “We were talking, and I was making sure Aura was aware that she is the woman I’m seeing and no other.”
He moves the chair back to the spot I was spreadeagled, and he gives me a wink. Butterflies swarm my stomach. Is he making us official? Are we dating?
Janine slides the folder to him and takes a seat on the far right. He opens it and takes out a bunch of documents.
“This is a proposition I have for you. I know you are overwhelmed with making your jewelry by hand, but since you have so much demand, it would be good to try out a pop-up store for you to sell them here in New York. I have found the best spot, and Janine will help market it.”
I nod and look at the address and it’s an exclusive part where there are boutique shops, but I don’t have the money or enough supply to sell them. There is no way I could pull it off.
“I love the idea, Kalum, but I don’t have the money or supp—”
He interrupts me. “Money is no problem. I will give you all the money you need. I want you to have this. You have been doing it for years and there is so much demand.”
“I don’t have the supply for a store.”
“I do,” he quips.
“What? How?”
He scratches his brow and then looks at Janine. His gaze lands on mine again. “I bought most of them.”
I shake my head, not quite getting what he is saying. Did he just say he bought most of them? How? When?
“How?”
“Since high school. I bought most of them. Every time you put them up on that craft website. It was me. I have boxes of them all made by you.”
I frown. All this time, it was him. All the money I made, it was him.
“Why?”
“Because I needed to feel close to you in some way and it was the only way I could have something you made. Something that came from your hands and I hoped that maybe in the time you were making each and every one of them, you would think about me. In a way, maybe I thought one of them could have been for me. I only had one you made me, and it was the only piece that I wore that mattered.”
“Oh,” I whisper softly.
I don’t know if I should swoon or cry. Not from sadness but from the sweetest thing I have ever witnessed. A man like Kalum, who wanted something that was so special to me that I made to belong to him.
Janine fans herself with the manilla folder. “I’m about to cry. This is someThe Notebook-type shit right there. Who would have thought you were such a romantic? Jesus, you’re making me want to go straight and I like women.”
“Um, you want to sell them?”
“Only certain ones. They will be exclusive ones, and we will market ‘Made by Aura’ as a brand. Your brand and your identity. This is who you are.”
He moves closer and points to the paper like the CEO he is, the power coming off him is why he is so successful in business. It takes my breath away at how smart he is.
“How would I pay you back?”
“Trust me. The speech you made at the track has made you quite the girl next door who was taken advantage of, and the demand for your bracelets under your name is quite the trend right now.”
