Chapter Four: The Cabin Up On The Hill

James POV

As Rose pulled out of the driveway and sped off I felt a firm hand on my shoulder. "You did well son. You did well. Not gonna lie. You sure did pick this one." Gabriel said as I looked at him and smiled. "I wasn't worried at the slightest." I say as I look off in the direction where Rose left in. "James please make sure to be gentle with her." I hear Marisol say. I turn to face her. " Just make sure your doing what she wants and not what you want." Marisol said as I nodded. "Thank you Marisol. That was very helpful." I looked over to Luke is was leaning against the door frame and headed back inside. "So, brother your getting hitched." Mark says as he places his arm around my shoulders. "That I am." I said as Gabriel and Marisol headed inside we did too. As I got to my room and took a shower I went over my bed and grabbed my tablet. I started to look up jewelry stores with the best quality rings. I was gonna make her mine no matter what. Maybe I was getting ahead of myself. But I was gonna make sure that I married her, no matter what the cost.

Morning

Rose POV

As I work up hearing the annoying sound of my alarm.I got annoyed as always. "Oh come on!" I hit the button on the clock making the noise come to a stop. "Thank the lord." As I started to stretch to start my morning. I had a long day ahead of me. Not to mention the event Marisol invited me to. As I got up I went straight to the bathroom striped and went inside the shower. Once out I wrapped myself in a towel and dried my hair putting my hair cream and hair flipping to get it's curl. Once I waited for that to dry. I walked towards my wardrobe and grabbed my scrubs. I was multitasking, as I put on my scrubs I looked on my phone at the latest from StarBee's new drinks and decided to get some coffee before I go to work. I balanced my self and put on my white converse ever so gracefully. As I finished any touch ups I grabbed my work bag and my binder and went out keys in hand. Once in the mustang and rolled up to the nearest StarBee and ordered my favorite drink Strawberry Frappe-chino. As I paid for my drink I rolled out and onto the busy road. Today was going by smoothly. I parked in my usual spot and got out locking it. I waltzed in the hospital as I clocked in. I made sure to greet to Kristin. "Good morning miss Mendoza!" Kristin said as I smiled. "Good morning. How are you today?" I responded. "I'm good. Hey can I ask you a question?" Kristen asked. I nodded. "She leaned over the counter and motioned me to do the same. I got close enough to where she started whispering in my ear. "Is it true that you and Mr.James are a thing?" Kristin whispered as I shook my head. "No, why would you ask that?" "Well, the other day he brought flowers and was asking about you. Then the nurses are talking about how James invited you over for dinner with his family yesterday." My eyebrows rose up. "Listen Kristin, I want to make something real clear."

This catches her attention. "Me and James are not a thing but if we were we wouldn't make it public unless we both felt comfortable with it. Either way I highly doubt he'd want to get with me that quick." I say as Kristin nods. "Thank you for telling me.I'll make sure the other nurses get the same message." Kristin says as I smile waving goodbye towards her and make my way towards the elevators. I pressed the up button calling the elevator and waited patiently for my ride up. I then got a text from Sofia.Your telling me all the details! I laughed at the sudden messaged and replied Meet me in my office. Once I heard the elevators ding I looked up seeing the doors open. I walked in and pressed the button for the 8th floor. The doors closed and I was alone to my thoughts. Once in there I sighed. I finally had a time to relax for a few seconds before officially starting my hectic day. Once those elevator doors opened Chaos had officially started. "I NEED THOSE FILES ASHLEY!" I hear Miranda yell from across the room. "I NEED THOSE LAB RESULTS HANNAH!" I hear another nurse say. "Aye mierda..." I curse under my breathe as I walked into the nurse station. "Alright, Lucy what do we got." Lucy handed me 5 thick binder. "Oh fuck me..." I say as she looked at me and mouthed me too. I smiled at the relate-able state and started heading to my office. Once I opened and closed the door behind me. "HOLA PRIMAA!" I about jumped outta my skin. "WHAT THE FU-" I look to see Sofia in my chair. I sighed in Relief. "You fucking scared the shit out of me!" I yell as she started laughing holding her stomach. "Low-key I think I might piss myself ." Sofia said in between laughs. "It wasn't that funny now get outta my seat cause mama has work to do." I said as Sofia moved out of my chair and into the one in front of me. "You promised me you would tell me everything that happened yesterday!!!!" She complained. I then sat down in my chair and placed the 5 binders in front of me. Sofia's eyes widened. "Damn, they really wanna fuck you up." Sofia states as she places her chin on her palm. "Hardy har-har." I say rolling my eyes as I open the first binder and start signing page after page. "So, are you gonna tell me the details or are you gonna make me miss my entire shift for no reason?" "So, I went to Jame's house." I start as I continue to have my eyes locked onto the pages in front of me, and my hand continuing to sign papers. "AAAAND?" She says. "I met everyone in James family." "I need DETAILS BITCH!" Sofia says as I chuckle. "Once I pulled up to the house I wasn't imaging the size to be so big. It like twice the size of the white house and I'm not exaggerating." "Well, their pretty wealthy people so I can see why they spent a lot of money on the house." Sofia says as I nod. I take a moment and look up to face her. "Gabriel didn't like me at first but I beat him 4 rounds in dominoes and now he is apprently giving me a check of 6 billion." I say looking at my computer and at the screen. I had 5 unread emails. " HE'S GIVING YOU 6 BILLION DOLLARS?!" Sofia yells in shock as I nod. I click the first one and it's an email from Gabriel. " If the winner won all 4 rounds of Dominoes they get the 6 billion." I say as I read the email with my chin in my palm:

Hello Ms.Mendoza, This is Gabriel, I will be giving you the the 6 billions dollars Via Paycheck. So it will immediately deposit into your bank account. See you at the house.

P.S Marisol misses you and sends you kisses.

I smiled at the thought that Marisol Misses me. "AHEM!!!" I looked to see Sofia at the edge of her seat and have the urge to kill me with her eyes. "What?" I ask as she rolls her eyes. "THE STORY!" She shouts. "Oh right." I go back into my train of thought. "So, basically we ate dinner first Marisol, Gabriel's wife started asking me question about where I work and I answered her and then we found out we both were Cubans and we talked for awhile about our families. Mark is pretty interesting. James is very..Flirtatious-" "Flirtatious in what way??" Sofia said interested. "He...Uh..." Wow this is weird..."We kinda made out in the backyard balcony?" Sofia squealed. "OH MY FUCKING GOD MY BABY IS GETTING A SUGAR DADDY!!!!" I rolled my eyes. "Listen Sofia. Don't get me wrong. James is a great guy. Handsome, Charming and-" "Loaded!" I looked at Sofia. "What?!" I shook my head. "I just feel like if he wanted us to be a thing he wouldn't make sexual advances so soon." I say as I place my head in between my hands already getting a headache. "Do you like the guy?" "Yea." "Well then if you think your not ready just tell him to take it slow. Make him do what you want." I look at Sofia. "Damn, looks like I did leave a mark on you." Sofia and I laugh together hysterically. "Marisol invited me to an event tonight." Sofia gasps. "What are you wearing?" I shrug. "Bitch you better find out what your wearing when you get home!" I nod. Through the day Sofia helped me with the rest of the binders then went to her shift. It was then time to make my rounds. I had to get Lab Results and Diagnose some patient and Prescribe medications.

Evening

Rose POV

As I was finishing my last round I noticed a room out of the corner of my eye. I stopped and walked by it. It was a coma patient and beside him looked like. "Luke?" I mumbled I almost saw him turn around but immediately moved away from the door frame. I sighed in relief as I got out of the way quick enough. I then peaked around the corner and It was him. I saw his jawline and his eyes. I also saw him place a hand on the elderly man that was probably in his 40s or 50s. I decided to leave before he saw me. I didn't want him thinking that I stalking him. I sighed and decided to head towards my office grab my stuff and go home.

Once I was home I Immediately got ready for the event: taking a shower, doing my makeup, making sure my hair was wavy.I decided I would wear something that I haven't worn since I bought it. I walked over to my closet and opened it up. I started pushing through dresses and found the one. It was a short red dress and I had red heels to match.

As I looked in the mirror I was surprised I looked really fucking good. Even though mama got back. I did a little twirl and a dance to show that I still got it. Once I was done celebrating my accomplishment of looking good. I grabbed my keys and headed out towards Marisol & Gabriel's house. I did get some info about James and his brothers through Marisol. James has his own condo downtown that overlooks the city. But he stays home whenever he isn't doing anything. Mark just got back from the military so he's staying in his room til his dream home is ready. Luke is a mystery cause Marisol didn't tell me much. She just said he really keeps to himself and disappears and sometimes doesn't come back for days or weeks. I really wanna get to know him more.As I pulled up to the William household I parked my car and as I got my bag I saw everyone waiting for me. "Better not keep them waiting." I say as I get out of my car and lock it. I walk over towards the family and immediately greeted by Marisol. "Mija you look stunning!" Marisol says smiling as I laugh. "You look amazing yourself!" I to her looking at her outfit. She was wearing a short white dress with a lace trim and a v dip exposing some of her cleavage with a fur jacket and white heels to top it off. "We need to go shopping some time!" Marisol says as I smile. the boys were looking fresh too. Gabriel wore a Black Tux, James wore a White tux, Luke wore a black tux but with a white shirt that had the top few buttons un-done. Mark wore a fresh black paints and a dark purple shirt that had a few buttons-undone. "all of you look amazing!" I say complimenting the boys as they smile. "We best get going before we're late." Gabriel said. "Rose you'll ride with James, Mark and Luke with go together, and me and Gabriel will ride together as always dear." Marisol says as Gabriel smiles. "Meet you all there." Gabriel says as they go to their cars. I follow James to his car. It was was a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster. "Wow." I said as I saw his car. "$3.3 million." James said as I looked at him with my jaw dropped. "Your kidding!" I said as I looked at the car it was priceless. Marisol and Gabriel went into the white rolls-royce phantom. Mark went into a silver Porsche 918 Spyder. Luke went on a black motorcycle I had never seen before parked right beside Mark's car. James opened the passenger door for me as I sat down. As he closed the door for me we walked around towards the driver's seat. Once inside we buckled ourselves and James started the engine. One by one we went out the gates.

Once on the road "So, how do you feel?" I turn to James. "What do you mean?" I question. "Your boss's son invited you to dine with us and now your going to an extravagant event that only millionaires go to." James says as the car stops at a stop light. He turns to me. I shrug. "I could honestly care less." I look at him. "No offense but I wouldn't care if you were the prince of England." "Ouch." James says ending in a smile turning towards the front. "I'm really happy I had this opportunity to come with you guys. I really don't know how to repay you." I as I start thinking of ways to gift them. "I could think of one." James says turning towards me with one hand on the wheel. "And what would that be?" I say as he leans in "You can repay me with your body." He says seductively into my ear as I raise me eyebrows in disbelief that this boy just said this shit to me. The light turns green and he leans away smiling facing forward. "What? Was I little too forward?" James asked as I tried to think of a way to put my words in sentences that he would understand. "I just didn't think you'd be VERY forward. You've only met me a few times. And are already-" I felt his hand gently place itself over mine. I looked down. My hand was on my knee. "I've actually met you multiple times. I'm sad you don't remember." James says as I go into shock. "When?" I asked. "A few years ago when you did your interview, a few times in the halls, and a few more times in the cafeteria." James says as I process this. I start remembering little bites and pieces. Him being in the line behind to to order a coffee and him paying for me, me dropping papers in the hall and him helping me pick them up, the first time I'd ever been in an interview and him calming me down and giving me advice. I always thought he was Gabriel's secretary or something. "You remember now?" James asked as the car came to another stop. "If you think about it." He leaned in to whisper in my ear. "We really were fated together." I hear James say as he places his lips on my neck. "James..." I felt his right hand travel up my leg and onto my thigh. I struggled a to get out of his grip. "Don't struggle..." He says as his lips trail down my neck. I try to think of anything that will stop him. He had his left arm around me neck. I can already feel his lips trail down to my collarbone. I then see a slight but of hope. "James.." "Yes?" "The light's green." I say as I feel his lips curve into a smile. He leans away and steps on the gas. "We'll have more time at the party to get to know each other better." James says as I nod a tiny bit and look forward.

As we get to the event, it's at a huge white event hall. Loads of Limos and cars to be seen being parked Valet. I saw Mark, Gabriel, Marisol and Luke waiting on the side walk for us. As James parked he stopped the car, got out and opened the door for me locking the car behind us as we started to walk.

"What do you think?" Marisol asked. "It's amazing! I've never been to these kind of events before." "It will be fun I promise! Loads of gossip." Marisol said as we both giggled. "You'll get to experience how rich people are at events like this. So if you see a snobbish guy come find me and I'll knock him dead." Mark said busting out his flexing skills. "Pipe it Mark you just want to get into a fight." Luke says with his arms crossed not even surprised. "As ling as he doesn't kill anybody." Marisol points out. Me and Marisol started to walk in and the boys followed behind us.

As the night went by Marisol introduced me to various rich cubans and we had a laugh. It was about 10:30pm when I felt a tap on my shoulder. Me and Marisol had been talking for hours non stop. I turn to see James. "May I borrow Rose for a moment?" Marisol nodded. James grabbed my hand and started out towards an Balcony area. Just us two alone. ALONE. James stopped us near the balcony railings as he spoke. "So, where did we leave off." James said as he pulled me in close to his body. "James can't we do this somewhere else?" I asked as he started kissing my neck. "James please..." I said as I started to protest. I sighed and rolled my eyes. He started to grab at my thigh going up towards my butt. "James, please." I said as I looked at him.

"James!" Me and James turn to see Luke. "Father wants you. It's urgent." James looks at me and then looks at luke with a smile. "We'll continue later on." James said as he placed a hand on my shoulder. My eyes widened and he left. I sighed a big one of relief. "Thanks." I managed to to say. "Don't mention it." Luke says. I turned towards the balcony leaning against it with my elbows. "Why didn't you tell him anything?" Luke asked.

 I shrugged. "I don't know James that well. And people with money can do a variety of bad." I paused. "Don't take this the wrong way but I really wanna keep my job. If that means James has to touch me in a flirtatious way then I'll do it. I'll make sure he doesn't go far but." I sighed. "I get it." I felt Luke walk beside me. "James can be stubborn with getting what he wants. Sometimes it blinds him." Luke says as he looks out in the distance. "I'm gonna assume James is the player of the family?" Luke chuckles and then turns to me. "More like used to be. Once he met you everything changed." Luke says as he pulls out a cigarette. "You mind?" He asked and I shook my head as he pulled out a light and lighted the cigar. " I won't say too much but James isn't going to stop." Luke says with the cigarette in his mouth. He looks at me with his serious blue eyes. I sigh crossing my arms. "Well then I'll just have to find a solution." "And what's that?" "I'll let you know when I figure it out." I say nervously chuckling. "You don't have a plan?" Luke asks in disbelief. "I never have a plan. I just go with the flow. Yeah I may have some plans here and there but I like to live on the side of many possibilities and many routes." I say as Luke laughs. "You really are something." Luke says blowing the smoke from his lips, as I smile. "Hey Luke, can I ask you something?" "Sure." "Is Marisol your mom?" Luke shakes his head. "No, she's just Mark's mom." "What about James and you?" "We have different mom's." "Oh." I say as I put pieces of Marisol's story together. She said that Gabriel and her met in cuba. They had a fling,  she ended up pregnant,  Gabriel was promised to another,  but brought Marisol back with him. He ended up having two other girls pregnant and ended up being alone with two boys. That's when Marisol came to his aid and stood by his side. He ended up  with 3 boys and married Marisol. "Wheres Jame's mom?" "Somewhere in Europe I guess. Gabriel doesn't talk about his past love life. James doesn't even know what she looks like." he says leaning against the balcony blowing the cigarette smoke into the air. "Wow..." I felt really bad. "What about your mom?" "My mother passed away." "Luke, I'm so sorry! Gah, I shouldn't have asked too many personal questions." I feel stupid. "Don't get worked up about it. It's alright." Luke says as he places a hand on my head. "I didn't know much about her so it's okay." Luke says as I look up at him. "I didn't realize you were so fucking tall." I say trying to lighten up the mood and change the subject.Luke magically  starts laughing. "Your just now noticing?" He says with a smile. I never seen him smile so brightly  until now. "Your smiling!!" I said as he laughed. We talked for a few more hours, we had so much in common, I felt like we really had a connection. "So would you rather have a bear for a friend or a jaguar?" "Are you being serious right now? "Yes! pick one!" Luke chuckled. "Alright. alright, I'd pick the bear." He said as he throws his cigarette on the ground and steps on it. "What!?" I laugh. "Why would you go with the bear?" I asked. He thought for a second. "Well, the bear because he's be more easier to tame than a jaguar running at you full-speed." Luke says as I'm astonished. "Well, Damn, Okay." I say giggle at his answer. "What's so funny?" He asked as I looked at the sky. "It's been awhile since I could maintain a laugh-able conversation with a man." I sigh. "All I ever do is work to get money, Stress about bills, pay them on time or early so I don't have to deal with it later, I really never had time for fun." I say as I think about the last time I had fun." I look towards the garden down below. I hear Luke chuckle. "Well, if your looking for fun. You can always call me up and we can ride to any place you want." I smile toward Luke. "I'd like that very much." We had a stronger connection than what me and James had. "So, another round of 20 questions?" Luke chuckles. "Alright." He says with a smile.It was like we were two magnets being pulled together. "Hey, I have an idea." "What's that?" "Wanna ditch this joint and go somewhere else?" "Somewhere else?" "Yea." I looked at him suspiciously. "What?  you don't trust me?" I looked at him with a smile. "Hmm, I don't know. Do I trust you?." He scuffs and smiles at the end. He stretches out his hand. "Do you trust me?" He asks again as I smile. I grab his hand as he leads me away from the crowded room and onto his motorcycle. Once he starts the engine of his bike we ride off into the moonlight.

Away from the noise, and away from the city lights he rides his bike up on a hill. The motorcycle comes to a stop as he pulls up on the side walk of a lovely garden. "Whoa!" I say as he gets off his bike to come help me off. "Luke, this is beautiful!" I say smiling walking towards the garden. I kneeled down to one of the rose bushes and watched the Butterflies land on them. I could hear Luke's footsteps treading behind me.I turned to him and smiled. "This belonged to my mother." He says as he sits beside me with his back against the concrete wall carrying the rose bush. "She did an amazing job." I said as I watch the butterflies. "I make sure the garden is tended to." Luke says as he looks up towards the butterflies. "Well, at least your doing your part of keeping her memory alive." I say turning to him with a smile. "My father told me to spread her ashes on the garden so she could always be in her happy place." He says as he looks down towards the grass. I put a hand on his shoulder. "Your mom would've loved you even if she was still alive." I say as he looks at me. "How would you know?" He questions. "Because I already love the Luke I see." I say as we stare into each other eyes. Luke starts leaning in and I do the same. As our lips touched I felt Luke place his hand on my cheek. I smiled as I placed a hand on his arm. We were both so passionate about the kiss. That we ended up making out for a few minutes before Luke leaned away to get us some air. We both gasped for air as Luke placed our foreheads together. "Let's continue this somewhere else.." He said as I looked at him and nodded.

I followed him as we got onto his bike and  rode  further up the hill to a Cabin. Once he parked we both go off and went towards the door. "Luke, what is this place?" I asked as he pulled out the keys. "This is where Gabriel and my mom spent most of their days." Luke said unlocking the front door. "I usually come up here alone." "But, your not alone. " I say as we walk in and I turn towards him. He loos the door behind and quickly takes off his jacket, swiftly walking towards me. He places his lips firmly on mine and I wrap my arms around his neck. He decides to pick me up by my thighs and puts my back against the wall. I feel his lips trail down towards my collarbone as I moan softly. I gently pick Luke's head up and we stare into each other's eyes  for a few seconds before he leads us both into the bedroom. He places me gently  down on the bed and hovers over me. As we both help each other strip whiling kissing never breaking the kiss. As we both lay naked embracing each other under the sheets we continue our conversation. "How long ago was it." Luke looks towards me as we both interlock our fingers. "My mother passed away when I was 4." Luke says as he looks at me. I stare at his eyes and place a hand on his cheek. "You were so young..." I say as he begins to caress my cheek never breaking eye contact. "That I was..." Luke says as he leans in to kiss me again. I feel his lips cover mine. "James will be pissed."I say as Luke chuckles. "I don't he'll be pissed. I think he'll be stubborn enough to do whatever it takes to make you his." Luke states as he caresses my cheek once more. "I honestly can't believe your related to him." I say as he chuckles. "I can't believe it either." He says with a smile. "I'll promise one thing though." Luke says as he grabs my hand and interlocks fingers with me."What's that?" I ask. "I'll make sure he doesn't take you away from me." He says as he leans in to kiss me once more. Throughout the night we lay naked under the sheets, as  we talk to each other, morning comes.