Sigh...I'm hopeless...but this idea had been in formulation for many years in many variation so yah. Next in the lineup is Gilded in Gold 9-10, then The Dark in Your Blue Eyes, By Night, My Love, and then Stone Cold Steele. Since this is a new idea the continuation depends on how much you guys like it so comment and rate and let me know. And i promise this is the last of my new ideas until I have one of my regular series finished first (i. e. the ones mentioned above). Edited by the wonderful Wanting2bdesired who gave me the idea for the title.
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Chapter One
Four-year-olds were a rambunctious, savage lot. Or that was the conclusion now firmly entrenched into Constantine Selvaggio after having spent the entire weekend with his nephew. His recently divorced sister had come to America towing her son and promptly informed him that he was to act as a father figure. Being the younger twin, therefore already familiar with Constanza's methods of torture, Constantine had given in grudgingly, if not gracefully.
He barely knew anything about children, aside from his own formative years, but these days he was lucky to remember the night before. He hadn't been to his apartment for the past week and just this morning he had found himself beside a stranger, a woman, thankfully. Then Constanza had called him to come pick Zach up to take him to his school's fair where she would pick him at two. That had been three hours ago and the kid's fair was still in full swing. Constantine had spent the last half hour in a smelly, sweaty moon bounce trying to avoid getting trampled on by little dirty feet and sticky little hands.
"Uncle Connie!" Zach yelled out and jumped right on top of Constantine, bringing him flailing down onto the sticky plastic. He groaned and slowly pushed up on his elbows, wincing more from nickname "Connie" than the impact.
"Oi!" Constantine yelled and rolled over, bringing the young imp under him and began a tickle fight to the death, an evil grin marring his features. Zach howled in laughter and shot out kicks at him, which Constantine easily defected.
"Uncle, uncle," Zach finally yielded.
"Uh uh, what's the magic word?" Constantine taunted, smirking down at Zach's red face.
Letting out a great gust of air, the boy finally said "Uncle Constantine."
Constantine nodded and let his nephew up, the boy glaring up at him the whole way.
"Not cool man." Zach pouted as he got out of the moon bounce. Sending up a prayer to god that Zach finally got tired, Constantine immediately followed. Zach waited for him outside, his foot tapping impatiently.
"C'mon, Con, let's go to the rainbow ball pool!" Zach exclaimed when he say one of his friends run by heading for the small pool where thousands of colorful balls. Without waiting for Constantine's assent, Zach went after his friend and Constantine could hear both of the boy's screeching as they jumped into the pool.
He was going to kill his sister if he actually survived this evening. Taking out his phone, he saw that he had a missed call from his uncle, but it was from his uncle's business phone. Curious, he pressed on the voicemail icon and was just about to read the speech to text feature of the voicemail when a shoulder knocked into him.
"Hey, I thought you were supposed to look at my kid, not your phone," Constanza chided, but she didn't look angry.
Constantine snorted. "That thing you call your kid is a menace."
She grinned proudly and nodded her head. "I've taught him well."
"So what the hell took you so long?" Constantine asked as he checked his phone again, quickly reading the message.
"Sorry, my shift got extended but I made some killer tips. This one guy gave me a hundred dollar tip...you're not listening to me are you?"
Constantine absently nodded his head as he texted a reply back at his uncle. "You wore a low cut dress and in awe of your assets, a poor sap paid you a hundred."
Huffing, Constanza pushed at her twin. Of course that was exactly what had happened but the way Constantine said it...that just rankled. And Constantine smirked because he'd worded it like that just to pay her back for sticking him with her kid for longer than five minutes. He'd learned today that he was not cut out for being a father figure, being any kind of figure at all.
"Was that Uncle Sergio?"
Constantine nodded just as he got a message from his uncle texting him the time and requirements of his newest assignment. He raised an eyebrow at the last part and wondered what kind of client he'd be dealing with tonight.
Looking over Constantine's head, Constanza read the message and frowned. "Boxers and blindfolds? Constantine, you know mother is not going to like this."
"Mother does not need to know."
Constanza sighed in exasperation and shook her head. "Why can't you get a normal job at a Starbucks or Abercrombie and Fitch or something? You've certainly got the body and the lack of brains for it."
Constantine chuckled, pitting his phone back into his pocket. "I don't need brains for this job either. Plus it pays a hell of a lot more and I happen to love driving my Audi."
"Pfft, yah but in the other jobs you wouldn't be sticking your dick into strange women," she protested.
Constantine cocked a brow. "I worked at A&F. What makes you think I didn't use my dick?"
"You're disgusting."
"You brought up my dick."
Constanza grimaced and pouted. "Let's stop talking about your dick."
"Deal. I've got to go now, I need to make my appointment." Constantine was already taking out his keys as he took a few steps towards where he'd parked his car.
"Have fun, or whatever. I'll tell Zach he scared you off."
Constantine waved goodbye and checked his Rolex. The very expensive Rolex one of his regular clients had given to him as a gift. He'd found that he was just not cut out to work a nine to five job and he was just plain, damn lazy. He was already having sex like a maniac before his uncle had come along and offered him a safer alternative. One that actually offered him money over the occasional free lodging he'd get from his hookups. But since the business was in the family, at least on his uncle's side, Constantine's whole family knew what he did. And they did not approve.
His very traditional minded mother thought Sergio was the very devil and that he was trying to entice Constantine into being one of his disciples. Constanza disapproved as well but she knew better than to throw bible hell fire on him anytime he came within five feet. She'd seen how strained the relationship with Constantine and his mother was. She knew she couldn't change her brother's mind. Constantine's father had stopped talking to him altogether, fearing that his son's taint would touch on his new and perfect little minivan driving family.
Constantine snorted as he got into his car and revved up the engine, the purr of the engine soothing his nerves. It shouldn't matter what his family thought of him, it was his life and he was going to live it as he saw fit. He'd be proud of the mistakes he made because he made them.
Shaking the morbid thoughts out of his head, he screeched into LA traffic, ignoring the angry honks aimed his way. He hurried towards his luxury apartment, uncaring of the speed limits and focused his mind of his new client. Being the nephew of Anonymous's CEO had its perks. Usually his uncle would take a forty percent cut as the finder of the client and for providing the environment where the interaction would take place. But for Constantine, Sergio had made an exception. He only took ten percent out of Constantine's cut and so for one night's work he'd be getting enough to pay off the new tablet he'd bought and then some more.
Life was good, life was perfect. It was a mantra he told himself as he finally reached his apartment and got ready for tonight.
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Primrose Dayan ran both hands from her temples into her hair, wondering for the hundredth time if she was really doing this. Was she really going to pay for sex?
The confirmation email in front of her said so. That and the sizeable chunk out of her bank account that was nonrefundable said yes she was. They queue on her YouTube list showed the many documentaries she'd watched about women that paid for sex with men and things to do and what not to do. The one prevalent rule seemed to be don't fall in love or form any kind of emotional attachment.
Fisting her hands in her hair, she pulled until she was a few inches away from snatching herself bald. Gradually relaxing her hand, she massaged the sore spot.
She couldn't do this. Screw the money; she was not humiliating herself like this. This was the worst idea she'd ever had and she was stupid and idiot...