Revengeful Deceptions (34 page)

 
“You’re going to have to give her time son;
she walked in on you kissing your ex-girlfriend. That's a lot to absorb and now
that she's returning to work it will be ...”

“Wait back up Dad; did you say that
Dominique is returning to work? When did this happen?”

“Well maybe if you weren't fooling
around with Renee, Dominique would have had the chance to tell you herself,
“Muriel said in her most sarcastic tone.

 
“Adam, Dominique has made a lot of changes and
she's ready to come back to work. Had you not put yourself in that asinine
situation, she would have told you that she was sorry and that she loves you,
that's why she was so anxious to get back home after our spa trip; she wanted
to get home to you. But you certainly ruined that didn’t you?” Muriel said
before storming out and slamming the door to her husband’s office.

   “You’re going to have
to try to win her back son, make her feel like she is the most important thing
in the world to you.”

“She is the most important thing in
the world to me Dad, I messed up and I’m going to fix it. I don’t want to have
things become like...”

Adam hoped his father wouldn’t
catch on.

  
“Like what I did to your mother right? You can go ahead and say it Adam.
I admit I made my mistakes and disrespected your mother, but thanks to
Dominique we are more in love now than we've ever been. You know, we'll be
celebrating not only our wedding anniversary this coming weekend, but our
renewed commitment to each other.  And we expect both you and Dominique to
be there, so take some advice from someone who’s been there, tell Renee to stay
the hell away from you and fix this with Dominique son,
fix
it before it’s too late.”

Dominique ignored the calls and
texts from Molly and Muriel asking if she was alright. She loved her friends
dearly but had no desire to go over what had happened only hours ago. Not only
was she going to have to see Adam at work but she was expected to go to Muriel
and Jonathan's anniversary party.
She couldn’t not go
;
she couldn’t do that to her friend. Muriel had been there for her and she
wasn’t going to let Adam stop her from congratulating her friend.
You can do
this Dominique, you’re not the one who did anything wrong,
She told
herself.

Adam arrived at work early, he
wanted to be able to see Dominique and hopefully get a chance to talk to her
before things got busy. It was her first day back on the job and he was sure
that she would be inundated with work.

Dominique wanted to look her best.
Not only for her first day back at work but to show Adam what
he was
missing. She chose a snug fitting black pencil skirt
which she paired with a turquoise body hugging cardigan and a pair of black
suede pumps.
This ought a get his attention,
she told herself as she
turned around in front of the full length mirror.

Dominique was welcomed back by her
co-workers and the moment she arrived at her office she felt as if she never
left. Yes it was just a simple clerical job but it was one that brought about a
sense of normality in her otherwise chaotic world. Who knew that a job she
accepted in order to seek her revenge would turn out to be a job she so
desperately needed.

Dominique saw Adam the moment she
and Molly entered the conference room for the morning meeting. His eyes were
bloodshot and he looked as if he hadn't slept.
Serves him right,
thought
Dominique as she glanced at her husband. If anyone knew what was going on, none
of the co-workers showed any signs of it as each individual went on about their
daily work. Dominique was thankful no one had mentioned the fire or losing the
baby, she hoped to put those things behind her and now she wanted to
concentrate on repairing, if she could, she and Adam's marriage.  

Goddamn she looks good enough to
eat,
thought Adam as he stared at his wife. She was torturing him he was
sure of it and even though he didn’t get any sleep last night, seeing Dominique
looking like her old self caused him to fill with desire, he wanted her so bad
he wasn’t sure what to do about it.

He wanted to take her into his office,
clear off the desk and make love to her. But given the circumstances of her
hating him for what he'd done he thought she might object.
Maybe I’ll start
with flowers and a lunch invitation,
he thought to himself as he ordered
red and white roses.

Chapter Thirty Three

Adam's emails to his wife went
unnoticed, if it did not have to do with work, she automatically deleted the
messages. Finally, not being able to stand it any longer, he made his way to
her office.

“Dominique I keep trying to email
you but you keep deleting them,” Adam stood frustrated in the doorway.

“That's because they aren’t work
related and if they aren’t work related I don’t have to read them, what do you
want? Shouldn’t you be making a play date with Renee?”

“Dominique there's nothing going on
between Renee and me. I came down here because I wanted to ask you to lunch, we
need to talk and we can't do it here. Please let me take you to lunch
Dominique, you’re still my wife and I want to take you to lunch.”

Dominique knew she should refuse
him, but he looked so pitiful that she accepted his offer. Just hearing the
word “yes “come out of her mouth made his heart skip a beat. “Dominique thank
you for accepting my lunch invitation, you won’t regret it I promise. Where
would you like to go? I’ll take you anywhere you want to go,” he said
excitement filling his voice.

Anywhere
as long as I’m with you
, was what she wanted to say. “It doesn't really
matter; I probably won't have much of an appetite to be honest.” Was what came
out of her
mouth.
“Okay, okay; shall we go to that
little Italian restaurant around the corner? Say about one o'clock? I'll be
back here at one and we'll go to lunch okay?”  Adam smiled at her. He was
so happy he could barely contain it.

“Yes Adam, one is fine,” Dominique
smiled back. She would go to lunch with him but that was all, in her heart she
had already forgiven him but she wasn’t about to let him know that. She'd wait,
she would tell him how much she loved him during his parent's anniversary
party,
it
was four days away. And she hoped to last
that long, she wanted him back at home, and back in bed next to her.

“Dom, I’m so glad you’re going to
work things out with Adam,” said Molly, who had been worried about her friend.
“You two have been through too much together to give up now and as long as that
skank Renee stays away, you guys will be alright.”

Dominique laughed, “Oh don't worry
about her, if she even so much as shows her face around here, I’ll have her
thrown out on her ass. It's not that I don’t trust Adam, it’s her I don’t trust
and if she thinks she can get her claws into him, she is sadly mistaken. I’ve
got no problem telling her that if I ever run into her again. But, she would do
best to remove herself from the picture all together.”

“You got that right Dominique but
for right now you need to focus on you and Adam, no one else matters and this
lunch date is a start, just don’t be too hard on him Dom.”

Dominique smiled a sly smile. “We'll
see Molly, we'll see.”

As one o'clock approached, Adam was
right on
time
. He and Dominique walked the two blocks
to the restaurant. Adam felt like a teenager when he held out his hand to his
wife and she reached for it and held on tight. After they had talked and ate
lunch, they talked some more.

Dominique told Adam that she still
needed time and that she wasn’t ready for him to return home yet. “I respect
your decision Dominique and I know it’s been hard on you and I want to spend
the rest of my life making it up to you. We are going to have our happy ever
after and if you think about it, things have gone so horribly wrong in our
lives, that they can only get better. We're going to have a family again
Dominique.”

“Adam what if I told you that I
didn’t want to try anymore to have a child, I mean what would you say to that?”

“Dominique I would say that I
understand if you don’t want to have any more children.”

“Yes but would you resent me for
that Adam?”

“No Dominique, you've been through
a lot and you've lost two kids already, I wouldn’t want to put you in that
position again unless you were completely positive that you wanted to try
again. That question, am I to take it that you don’t want to try again?”

“No I do. I want to start a family
with you, but I want to work on us. We need to work on us. There can be no
Renee in the picture Adam, I won’t stand for it. If I so much as see her around
you or if you call or text her or anything like that Adam, I’ll leave you. It's
that simple.”

Adam threw up his hands in
surrender, “She's gone, she's no longer in the picture,
you
have my word.

I am so sorry that I hurt you
Dominique, can you please forgive me?”

“Adam, ever since Sunday I have
tried to get that image out of my head, and it's going away, it’s going away
slowly, but it’s going away. Please don’t rush me into forgiving you, I just
want us to be able to move past this and that’s why I'm not ready for you to
come back home but I will be soon, I promise. I just need a little more time Adam.
I love you with all of my heart, but I need to make sure that I can forgive
you.”

He smiled. "Baby, that's all I
needed to hear. You will never have to worry about me doing anything remotely
asinine every again, I promise.”

“Well my husband I hate to say it
but if we don’t head back they might wonder what I’ve done to you,” she winked
and held out her hand to him.

“Adam you have an amazing wife,”
Neal told him while they sat in Adam's office going over paperwork.

“Yes I do, but I’m afraid in a
stupid moment of weakness I didn’t realize just how amazing she is.”

“Well now you do buddy so take care
not to forget.”

Dominique fought hard against the
urge not to invite Adam home sooner rather than later. She was in need of his
touch, a touch that she sourly missed. “I know I’m doing the right thing,” she
told Molly while they were out shopping for dresses for the party.

“You are Dom, and I happen to know
for a fact that he hardly ever leaves the penthouse once he gets home from
work.

So I think it's safe to say that
Renee is out of his life for good.”

Dominique smiled as she picked out
a short, chocolate colored sequined cocktail dress. “Well let's hope so because
I told him that if she ever came around him, I’d leave him. Now let's try these
dresses on, I think I found one that'll knock his socks off,” Dominique grinned
at her friend.

Adam stood shaving in front of the
bathroom mirror. He wanted to look his best, not only because it was his
parent’s anniversary party but because he wanted to impress his wife. He hoped
that seeing him would cause her to change her mind and invite him home, it had
been months since they were together intimately and he was tired of pleasuring
himself, he wanted to feel her, taste her, be inside of her, over and over
again.  Adam had sent a letter along with a small gift to his wife and he
hoped that she would read it before the party.

Dominique sipped on a glass of wine
as she got ready for the party. Molly and Neal hired a car so that they
wouldn’t have to worry about drinking and driving. The knock on the door came
just as Dominique had slipped into her dress. A young delivery man whistled
when she opened the door.

“Ah, I have a delivery for a Mrs.
Caruso?” The young man said through his gaping jaw.

“Thank you; Hang on a sec while I
get you a little something.”

An even bigger grin came across his
face when Dominique handed him a twenty dollar bill.

“Thank you ma'am and enjoy your evening.”

Dominique wondered what was in the
package with no return address. She read the letter first.

Dominique,

I want you to have this gift.
Last Christmas because I was being an ass, you gave it back. But I want you to
know that I kept it in the hopes that you would want to wear it. If you are
wearing this tonight Dominique I’ll know that you’re willing to give us another
try. If you aren't well, let's hope that doesn't happen. I love you Dominique
and I can't wait to see you, with or without the bracelet, although I hope and
pray it’s with, and if you do decide to wear it, I want to make love to you and
I want you wearing nothing but this diamond bracelet.

All my love forever,

Adam.

  
She smiled as she fastened the bracelet on her wrist.  Tonight she
expertly applied her makeup and spent hours on her hair.  It was worth it,
the end result was stunning. The sequin cocktail dress was the perfect length
to show off her legs and hour glass figure, and the matching sexy sling backs
she chose she was sure would drive Adam crazy.

“Dominique you look amazing!” Molly
and Neal exclaimed.

“So do you guys! Molly that dress
looks amazing on you!” Molly had chosen a black velvet cocktail dress with
intricate beading along the plunging neck line.

“And Neal, you look hot in your
tux, god you two make the perfect couple.” Dominique beamed.

“So will you and Adam once you come
to your senses and take him back.” Molly said reassuringly. “And that's what's
going to
happen
tonight right Dom?”

Dominique showed Molly the bracelet
and told her the story behind it.

“Dominique that is the sweetest
thing! You'd be a fool not to take him back, his taste in jewelry alone is well
worth it,” Molly giggled

“Don't fret Moll, I have every
intention of taking him back but I’m still going to make him squirm a little,
at least I think I am,” she giggled.

Neal shook his head as he led the
ladies into the party.

Muriel and Jonathan looked as
gorgeous as ever as they greeted their guests and lead them into the large
ballroom. Walking in, one would have thought it was a wedding reception.
Beautiful floral centerpieces adorned each table and the bar would be serving
top shelf drinks all night long. The disc jockey was playing soft jazz. Candles
and autumn greenery shone and draped everywhere. The gourmet food buffet was
delectable with every delicacy one could imagine, from sushi to grilled steak,
hearty and delicious food. 

Adam was at the bar when he saw
Dominique walk in. She looked stunning in her cocktail dress, he immediately
got hard. From where he was standing he couldn’t tell whether or not she was
wearing the bracelet.
Maybe she didn’t even get it,
he thought to
himself as he began to worry.
Only one way to find out,
he told himself
as he made his way over to her.

Adam decided to take a chance, he
slowly came up behind her, placed his hands around her waist and kissed her
gently on the neck and whispered in her ear. “You look absolutely stunning
Dominique.”

Dominique smiled as she turned
around and noted how deliciously handsome he looked in his tuxedo.  When
she did, Adam could see that she was wearing the bracelet. A smile crept across
his handsome face as he acknowledged it and held her wrist.

“Just so I’m sure, does this mean
what I think it means?” He asked palms sweating from nervousness.

“Yes Adam, yes it does.” She threw
her arms around her husband as they held a very lengthy kiss.

“And here I thought we were the
one's celebrating,” grinned Muriel as she wrapped her arms around her husband
with joy.

“Dominique, you have no idea of how
much I missed you,” Adam whispered.

“I've missed you too baby.”

As the evening came to a close,
Adam's cousin Nicole had convinced the young couples to stop at a dance club
nearby.

“Nicole I haven’t been to a night
club in ages, but I’m game if Molly and Neal are.” Dominique said, a bit tipsy
from the wine.

“Are you kidding?” said Molly,
“We'd love to go, we've got the car all night so what are we waiting for, let's
go.”

Adam laughed as he helped his wife
into the car.

The music was pumping so loudly
when they entered the club that Dominique and Adam both had to cover their
ears.

“I told you it’s been ages since
I’ve been to a night club!” Dominique shouted.

“Oh don't worry, you guys will get
used to it!” Nicole shouted back.

While Nicole lead the way up the
stairs to a lounge area. Adam couldn’t help but notice several male patrons
looking at his wife. You can look but don’t touch; his icy glares clearly sent
the message across.

While the couples went out onto the
dance floor, Dominique decided to share a moment alone with her husband.

“Adam, thank you for coming out
with us, I know this isn’t exactly our thing.” She laughed and kissed him fully
on the lips.

He held her kiss before responding.
“Dominique there is no place I’d rather be, okay that's a lie I can think of
one other place,” he said with a sly grin.

“Well does that mean that you'd
dance at least one dance with me Adam Caruso? You know we haven’t danced since
our wedding day.”

“I suppose I could do that for you
sweetheart,” he grinned as he led her to the dance floor.

Four songs later the group returned
to their tables, hot, sweaty, more than tipsy and ready to go. Just let us make
a trip to the ladies room.” Dominique told the guys.

“Might as well order another
drink,” said Neal, “Did you see the line for the ladies room?” He joked.

“We won’t be that long, sit tight
boys we’ll be right back,” said Nicole as she gave her boyfriend a kiss on the
cheek.

Dominique was glad the wait was
short for the ladies room and as she opened up the stall door she saw Renee,
she was applying makeup to her already cake laden face when she turned and
stared at Dominique. By this time Molly and Nicole had come out as well.

“Well, well, well isn’t this cute,
what is it ladies night for you all?” Renee said in a sarcastic tone.

“What happened? You leave your
husband again Dominique?”  Dominique let out a snicker, “Not that it's any
of your business, but he’s here with me.”

“Well I can't say that I’m
surprised, when he was with me, we went out dancing almost every night.”

“Don't you mean he watched you
dancing every night because you certainly look like a cheap, slutty, two bit,
dime store stripper who can't get her own man so she has to try to steal away
others.
”

Dominique stood mere inches away
from Renee now as she said, “Listen Renee, I’ll make this simple, you stay the
hell away from my husband. Do you hear me? Stay away from my husband and get
your own goddamn man.” Dominique shouted angrily.

  
Renee swallowed hard as Dominique turned and walked away.

“No one talks to me that way,
especially some nobody like you. You haven't heard the last from me Dominique
and I think you forget I had your husband first. If you want my sloppy seconds
be my guest, it's all you can get anyway,” Renee shouted as she shoved her
makeup back in her purse and stomped out of the ladies room.

  
“If he's your sloppy seconds why are you trying to come back for thirds
huh Renee?” Dominique shouted after her with Molly and Nicole by her side.

 By the time the ladies
returned from the restroom, Adam could tell by the look on his wife's face that
something was wrong. He hadn’t seen Renee in the night club and when Dominique
told him what was said in the restroom, he reassured her that he wanted nothing
more to do with Renee.

  
“Oh I know you don't babe, we've already had that discussion. I was
taken a bit off guard seeing her but I’ve said what I needed to say and I think
I got my message across loud and clear. So what's say you and I go home, I’ve
missed you,” she whispered while giving his ear a nibble.

“You took the words right out of my
mouth,” he let out a low growl.

    
It was almost three am before they were dropped home, the night was
pitch
black but Adam and Dominique were wide awake.

“I'm glad your home baby.”
Dominique let out a playful moan as she
lead
him to
the bedroom, shedding her dress along the way.

“So am I baby, so am I,” he said as
he pulled his wife into a warm embrace and kissed her. “I want you so bad
Adam,” Dominique moaned as they tugged and pulled at each other’s clothes. The
love making was erotic and wild, as both were so hungry for the other that it
felt as if they were holding their breath and with each touch and thrust, a
release would escape them.

  
Dominique had never wanted him as much as she did tonight. They both
realized how long it had been since they were together and that thought excited
them even more as they made love again. Just as the light of dawn began to peek
through the sky, the two lovers fell asleep spooning.

Chapter Thirty Four

Things soon returned to normal for
Dominique and Adam. They found themselves catching up on newlywed life and
enjoying each and every moment of it. Adam had a difficult case that he was
working on involving rival gang members; there had been an armed robbery where
the store owner ended up getting shot and wounded.

He was able to I.D. the suspect who
was now in custody and Adam's client, but he was maintaining his innocence
claiming that a rival gang had set him up. He was claiming that the actual
perpetrators had donned the gangs color and robbed and shot the convenience
store owner. Adam believed his client and was hell bent on proving his
innocence. Neal was sent to do some investigating for the case and it had
proven to be a bit dangerous going into gang territory. Dominique had found
herself helping her husband as best she could, by going over any paperwork she
could find and spotting if any, minor errors.             

Even though he had to work
extra-long hours on his current case, Dominique liked the fact that they were
able to get their lives back to some kind of normality. They had formed a
strong friendship with Neal and Molly and had managed to take time out to go to
dinner with their friends at least once a week. Dominique liked the thought of
Adam and Neal becoming close. Since they were working closely on Adam's case,
they had gotten to get to know one another and found that they had a lot in
common. Neal was very good at what he did and because of his thorough
investigating, what he found worked for the client's benefit. With the case
coming to a close, they were hopeful that the jury would come back with a not
guilty verdict.

“I'll be glad when this case is
over and done with; I’ve never felt so exhausted.” Adam hinted as they sat
together at dinner one Friday night.

“Yeah, I hear ya, these guys are
bad news Adam, you don’t know what I had to go through to get that info man,
talk about gangsters, these guys don’t mess around and what’s worse, they've
got no problem shooting a man in the street just for looking at them the wrong
way.
  
Yeah I’ll be glad to see this one
done and over with.”

Hearing that frightened Molly,
“Neal, you don’t think that there will be any retaliation from either gang do
you?” She asked concerned with what she'd been hearing at the office.

“I hope not, but you never know
with these guys, but I don’t think there will be any problems, these guys are
in court all the time. What do you think Adam, has your client said anything
about retaliation?”

Adam took a sip of his drink. “No
he hasn’t said much except that he's paying me a lot of money and that I better
get him off or else.”

“Adam honey, you never told me
that, Adam that sounds like a threat, please be careful around this guy, who
knows what he's capable of,” Dominique put her arm around him.

“I will Dominique, this isn’t my
first case, I think I know what I’m doing,” he snapped.

“No one said you didn’t Adam.”
Dominique was unsure about what had gotten into him, he'd been very short with
her a lot lately, and it had to be the stress of the case.

“Adam, are you sure you don’t want
to just call it a night and go home and get some rest, I think you've earned it
after the week you've had,” said Neal, who could sense the tension and see the
exhaustion in his friends face.

“No, I’m out, we're out and it's
dinner time, now
who's
hungry?” Adam knew he was being
rude to his wife and friends but he hadn't wanted to go out to begin with. But
Dominique insisted, saying that she never gets to socialize with her friends
anymore since everyone was so busy with the case. She basically forced him into
going, and it didn’t seem to matter to her that he was exhausted. He wanted to
eat dinner, go home and go to bed.

After the meal, Molly and Dominique
excused themselves to the ladies room, and while they were gone, Adam and Neal
were sitting at the table talking sports when Adam heard someone calling his
name.

“Adam? I thought that was you, are
you two here alone?” She asked quickly turning around to make sure.

“No we're not Renee, and might I
suggest you leave right now? Look I don’t mean to be rude but neither I or my
wife and friends want anything to do with you so please leave Renee.”

Adam was too tired to have to deal
with his wife and Renee.

“I'll leave after I get my hug
goodbye Adam,” she said moving closer towards him.

“Renee I’ll say it again, please
leave.”

  
Renee placed her arms around him and hugged him.

“I know I am not seeing what I am seeing.”
Dominique said, the anger instantly coming to a boil inside of her.