Page 1 of Unofficial

Chapter One

Jessica Massey walks up the front steps of her boyfriend's condo and smiles at the red brick building. She loves just about everything historical, and his building was constructed nearly two hundred years ago and converted into housing. As an architect, she appreciates the craftsmanship and style more than the average person. She's been told more than once by people that she focuses too much on the little details of buildings, but she thinks they're crazy not to appreciate the work that went into creating something so gorgeous.

Even though she loves the old details, she still appreciates the modernized interior and sleek appliances along statement walls. As much as she finds the history interesting and feels the need to preserve it, she also knows working with wood-burning stoves and ice boxes isn’t as efficient as it once was in this modern age. Real hardwood floors span across all units, and the kitchens have been adorned with state-of-the-art appliances and high-end finishes complete with granite countertops. It’s absolutely gorgeous inside and out.

Connected to the condo is an amenities building that serves as an enticing extra for the pricey homes, and it consists of a moderately-sized gym, spa, pool with a jacuzzi, juice bar, and small convenience store. When she first saw Kade Finely's home, she was amazed at how easily it felt like a penthouse versus a condominium, and the extras made it feel much more luxurious. If she didn't already own her own home, she'd consider buying one of the condos still for sale. Who can beat a free gym with a juice bar?

She and Kade have been dating for the past five months, and when he called to cancel their date because he has the flu, she needed to stop by and bring him some homemade chicken soup. The same soup her father made her every time she was sick before he died. She swears it has healing properties, and she hopes the splash of love she threw into this batch helps make him feel better. And hopefully he sees the love she has but hasn't verbalized just yet. It still feels too early to tell him she's fallen head over heels in love with him.

Rather than ring the bell to avoid possibly waking him, she bends down and flips over the welcome mat. Taped to the very middle is his spare key, which he had to use one night when they were out drinking and left his keys in his pickup. At the bar. Across town.

The moment she steps into the entryway, she feels something isn't right. She'd expected dry heaving, maybe vomiting, or snoring as he rested. What she never expected to hear was panting. As she steps closer to the kitchen, her suspicions are confirmed: The pants aren't from someone ill. She hears two sets of pants, and neither appears to have any type of sickness.

Her entire body freezes as she steps into the entrance of the kitchen to see Kade's bare ass thrusting into a busty platinum blonde like a jackhammer while her hand reaches up and holds onto the cabinet for dear life.

"Oh, yes!" she cries out.

Her breasts, at least two cups larger than Jess’s, flop around, and her panting turns into moaning. Her eyes look up to the ceiling, and Jess sees the familiar look of a woman about to find her climax. With Jess's boyfriend.

"Yeah, baby," Kade grunts and continues to move his hips quickly, his hand gripping her hips.

Walk away, Jess. Walk the hell away.

As much as she wants to move and run as fast and far as she can, she can’t move either of her feet. Or blink. They're having sex on the counter where she's set the countless breakfasts she's made after spending the night. And now it seems dirty. Too dirty for the most important meal of the day.

And she and Kade have never had sex in the kitchen. She's not opposed, but he never seemed interested in taking it outside of the bedroom. Now, though, she can't help but wonder why he wanted to with the busty blonde and not her. Why is this girl kitchen-sex material while Jess is only bedroom-sex material?

Behind the woman's bare bottom sits the coffee pot Jess taught him to use properly when he'd given her a cup of tar the morning after she spent their first night together at his place. Next to it, all the coffee syrups, toppings, and the ground coffee and coffee pods reside in the homes she made for them in containers that weren’t too girly for a man’s kitchen.

Why is this your focus? He's screwing the hell out of this woman on the counter... who cares that you arranged the coffee accessories?

It's like watching a car accident, and she can't take her eyes away even though she wants to reach into the drawer to her right, find a spoon, and gouge them out in this very particular moment. Being blind seems like it would be easier to deal with than this situation right now.

The woman looks familiar. Very familiar. Why does Jess know her?

BAM! Jess's stomach drops when it hits her. This woman showed up on his phone the other night when Kade ignored a call. Like any normal person would do, Jess asks who she was, and he said her name was Lena. His cousin. Apparently, he has a very different relationship with his cousins than she does with hers.

Lena's eyes open and lock with Jess, who knows she stands there like an idiot holding a glass container of soup in her hand. Even with Kade covering most of her body, she can tell the woman has killer curves. Curves Jess wishes she had.

"Oh my God!" Lena cries and covers herself with her hands.

"That's it," Kade mutters and doesn't seem any wiser to Jess's presence.

"Stop it!" she screams and points to Jess. "Who is that?"

He whips his head around, and Jess's eyes shift from Lena’s to lock with his. For a second. Then she looks back at Lena. The woman's attractive in a way Jess can appreciate, and she has some modesty as she struggles to cover herself before hopping off the counter to find the discarded clothes.

"Jess?" Kade asks. "What are you doing here?"

Holding up the container, she feels stupid. So freaking stupid. "I, uh... I brought you soup. You know, because you said you had to cancel our plans because you had the flu."

"You have a girlfriend?" Lena exclaims and comes back into view with most of her clothes on.

Seriously, is she a freaking swimsuit model or something? Her body looks just as good clothed as naked.

"He never told me he had a girlfriend. Jess, is it? I swear, I'm not a homewrecker."

"You're Lena, right?"

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