The Billionaire's Dirty Dancer

Divine Jackson sat down in her last class for the week trying very hard to listen to what the lecturer was saying , nothing was getting through because she was so exhausted .

She grabbed her coffee cup and emptied the milk tea that she had bought on her way into the campus earlier .

This was bad , she always made sure her milk tea did not finish before she was ready to leave campus because then she got cranky and nothing the lecturers said ever made sense .

Divine felt it again, the eyes that she always felt on her during class .

It had been going on for a while , she would feel someone staring at her but she never looked back because there was just too many people sitting behind and she would rather not draw attention to herself by turning around.

Someone asked a question regarding the mid semester assignment he had given them and Divine sat up straighter , she had also been having issues with the assignment .

The lecturer told the guy that had asked the question that if he had read the previous notes , he would not have issues with the assignment , so Divine quickly drafted a couple of notes that she needed.

1. Go through the last class's note again.

2. Finish my draft on the mid semester business analysis assignment.

3. Drink some fucking water.

Divine wrote the third one down as she noticed the flaky , pasty feel her palm was giving her .

She was probably really dehydrated or maybe she was just over exerted , she had never really been great at knowing when to stop,she just worked till she broke down or something worse happened.

She put her pen down and looked back up at the lecturer that was giving them yet another assignment to do when she was still defaulting on the last one .

Divine groaned deeply into her hoodie, she groaned a little too loudly and the whole class seemed to have heard because they all began to chuckle.

Divine raised her head slowly, avoiding their eyes as she smiled apologetically.

The lecturer had stopped what he was doing and was looking at her sternly .

" Miss ? ", he called stiffly , his voice cold over the public address system of the lecture auditorium .

Divine jumped on to her feet, upsetting her books and thankfully empty coffee cup as she did so.

She bent down to pick her things , earning more chuckles from the class as she huddled around clumsily .

" Sir ? ", She replied quietly.

The lecturer took off his glasses and began to rub his temples , closing his eyes for a second before he opened them again to regard Divine .

" Does my class bore you so much ? ", He asked in an obviously snarky manner.

Divine shook her head hurriedly before realizing that he wanted her to talk .

" No sir , I am sorry ", She apologized, hoping that he might just stop talking if she did.

Standing and having everyone's eyes on her was beginning to get at her.

Her palms were getting sweaty and her vision hazy , she needed to sit down or fall into a pit or just dissapear from all of their memories .

The lecturer shook his head and turned back to the PowerPoint presentation he had been reading from , he stared at it disdainfully for a few seconds while Divine debated seating down or waiting for him to say something to her .

" Fuck it ! ".

Divine jumped a little on hearing the teacher curse via the public address system , the whole class waited with bated breaths as the lecturer forced his glasses down his face , grabbed his lecture materials and stomped out of the class .

The class waited till he was completely out of the auditorium before they broke out in whoops and cheers .

" Thank you , Jackson !!! ".

Someone screamed from another part of the class and it immediately became a chorus as they all began to thank Divine and escape the class .

Divine smiled nervously and fell into her seat , she waited anxiously for most of them to leave the auditorium before she hurriedly began to pack her books into her bag .

As soon as she was done , she swept the path to the exit of the room to make sure she would not encounter any body as she tried to run out , it was safe so she stood up and began to speed walk out of the class .

As she walked , she caught sight of a guy somewhere at the back of the classroom staring at her.

His stare was piercing just like the one she had been feeling during the class , so she stopped to stare back at him , she had never noticed him before .

He was handsome with blonde hair cut very short and several piercings , one in his nose, one on each ear and blue eyes that made you want to stop when he focused them on you.

Divine realized that she had been staring so she quickly ran out of the auditorium and down the hallway that led out of that block , she found a trash can and threw out her three coffee cups before she resumed her walking .

She ran over to the row of bicycles that would take students out of the campus and ran to the very edge where her baby was packed .

She fetched her keys and put on her helmet, she glided on to her motorcycle smoothly and started her engine , letting her baby purr to life .

She waited a few seconds for the purr to settle her nerves before she rode out of the school , earning grunts from people as she rode recklessly past them .

Tate Stephens arrived at his Business analysis class thirty minutes earlier than the time scheduled for the class to begin and hours earlier than any other classes that he had ever attended .

He yawned as he settled down at the back of the class , next to his best friend Marcus who was smiling like a fool .

" I think we are too early , She is not here yet ", Mark observed as he swept the wide auditorium in search of the reason Tate never missed a Business analysis class .

Tate made himself comfortable and yawned again , of course she was not here yet .

She always came early , exactly fifteen minutes before the class was supposed to start , Tate had decided to come much earlier so he would just have more time to relax before she came in .

Maybe if he was relaxed enough , he would eventually talk to her today .

He yawned again and Marcus laughed loudly .

" Man , when last did you sleep well ? You have been yawning really crazily for a while now ", Marcus again stated the obvious .

Tate frowned , wondering when last he had actually slept well .

It had been days since he had slept at night but in some sick way , the longer he had not slept for, the happier he was because he knew that when he eventually collapsed from the exhaustion , he would probably sleep for two or three straight days .

He had given up on sleeping normally and could only wait till his body shut down everytime it could not take much more .

He opened his eyes and looked at his phone screen , She would be here in three minutes .

He raised the screen of his phone higher to see if his hair was okay and his face did not look like he was some sleep deprived hobo which was exactly what he was .

He could hear Marcus chuckle from his side , he laughed at him every time but he still followed him to class early every single time so Tate did not have to wait for her alone.

There was really no point to checking his reflection because she never looked at him or anyone for that matter .

A few seconds till when she would walk in and Tate found himself sinking into his seat , it was like he wanted her to notice him and at the same time , he did not want her to notice him .

She walked in at that moment and Tate held his breath as he watched her walk .

She was completely covered again , wearing sweats that swallowed her entirely , leaving only a little of her face exposed .

Her eyebrows were light and dark like they had been drawn by a master animator's deep stroke , her lashes long and thick and fluttering as she surveyed the class for where to sit .

Her eyes were slightly slanted and deep cut and a strange colour , they were a bright blue that was almost purple if the light was just right , strange like her name and were like two human magnets that just held you hostage till she blinked and then you could escape.

Her lips were full and red , she was always licking them , her small pink tongue darting out to dance over them ever so often .

Tate's exhaustion was immediately gone as he waited for the moment that always made his day and possibly his week .

It came immediately as she chose to seat where she always sat ,she swivelled to the left and the hoodie of her sweatshirt fell open slightly , revealing very little of her hair that she covered up back in a few seconds .

But In those few seconds , Tate had seen her voluminous black hair bounce to life from behind her , crowning her head like a goddess come to life .

Tate drew a deep breath , holding his breath till she settled down and her coffee cup covered the rest of her face .

" Breathe man !! ", Marcus said mockingly from his side and Tate did exactly as he was told .

He turned to Marcus and smiled excitedly , suddenly filled from the very brief encounter that could not even be considered an encounter .

Marcus was all smiles .

" Look man , I am not judging you but I honestly do not know what you see in her , I mean her whole face is covered and the little that is visible , she always covers it with that gigantic ass coffee cup ", Marcus whined like he always did and Tate ignored him like he always did .

" I also do not mean to judge you but your crazy girlfriend and her touchy friend are incoming ",Tate whispered harshly .

The girls giggled as they approached them in a cloud of perfume and snarky laughs .

Marcus's girlfriend swooned and fell into his legs while her friend moved to sit next to Tate , kissing him deeply before she sat down .

Yes , The bitchy friend was someone he was currently fucking.

" Tate babe ? ", Amber called through her nose .

Tate turned slightly to regard her but she already had her lips ready and pulled Tate into a kiss that Tate imagined was with Divine.

He put his all into it , wanting to impress Divine and only stopped when people began to hail him.

Amber looked flushed and he already knew she would be waiting for him when he got back home .

The lecturer walked in and Amber finally left him alone so he could stare at Divine as much as he wanted for the next two hours .

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Tate held his breath again , longer than he had ever done , she was looking straight at him and noticing him .

This was his time to do something but Tate was just frozen there , she suddenly jolted like she just realized that she had been staring , she turned and hurriedly walked out of the class .

" Man, she was just looking at me , right ? ", Tate asked Marcus , he had to be sure he was not hallucinating .

Marcus laughed heartily and slapped his chest .

" One hundred percent dude , absolutely ! ".

Skip Hamilton sat in the top shareholders seat at their companies quarterly review with all eyes on him .

His personal assistant , Cher was giving a presentation on their stocks and market for the past three months and Skip had his hands crossed as he listened .

He needed it to be good , he had worked so hard and worked everyone hard for it but the stock market did not of course care about their hard work .

Cher had stopped talking and was now looking at him , he moved his mic closer .

" Is there a problem , Cher ? ", He asked tentatively .

Cher shook her head slightly .

" No sir , it is just that you looked troubled , I was wondering if you wanted me to stop ? ", Cher inquired .

Skip shook his head and gestured for her to continue , crossing his legs and lacing his crossable fingers .

" Since the last three months , the shares at Hamilton electronics have seen a fifteen percent increment , the shares of H&M entertainment have seen a twenty- two Percentage increment , the shares at Ham Foods have also seen a seventeen percentage increment and lastly , the shares at Hamilton global have also jumped by eighteen percentage ", Cher announced .

Skip pumped his fist into the air while the other employees and shareholders broke into a round of applause that had Skip's head soaring , this was what he was talking about .

Cher had stepped down leaving Skip to end the session with a brief word .

Skip once again pulled his mic closer , drawing closer to it so he could give the final speech .

" Good day employees and shareholders of Hamilton corps , pending this good news , I would like to say just one word to you all ...", Skip waited for his words to make the necessary impact .

" Let's fucking party !!!! ", Skip screamed into the mic .

The room erupted in more cheers and Jack joined them as he ran out of his seat and out of the room , followed closely by Cher .

" Cher , have them get the plane ready for flight , I will be living for California to celebrate and call up the guys, tell them to be ready if they want to have fun ", Skip instructed before going into his office .

" Sir , how about Las Vegas ? The conference for Monday is there , wouldn't it be easier ? ",Cher asked him.

Skip nodded, considering it.

"That's good,tell the guys about it",he instructed.

He closed the doors and picked up the remote that controlled the lighting , changing it to a dark mode before flinging the remote somewhere else and getting out of his suit jacket and shirt , a bottle of whiskey was waiting for him with a glass cup that already had ice cubes inside , Cher always knew the right time to get him drunk .

Skip poured himself his first glass and immediately drank it , letting the cold burn of the liquid rush down his throat like liquid fire , he exhaled softly from the burn and smiled happily .

He was happy that he had managed to bring the company's shares to the highest profit margin they had ever experienced but he was even happier over the freedom that bought him .

Making the company millions of dollars on a monthly basis ensured that regardless of what he did , the company's shareholders and management said nothing about how he had inherited and not earned it, even when he had dating and partying scandals , they just rushed to cover it up , that was what you earned when you made deals and money for people like he did .

Skip's phone interrupted while he was ruminating and staring out the glass windows of his office that was on the one hundred and fiftieth floor .

He picked it up and checked the caller ,an unknown number .

For safety purposes , his security details usually advised him not to pick up his phone alone , especially with unknown numbers but Skip had told them several times where they could shove that idea .

As soon as he picked the phone , Skip heard a loud whoop from over the phone and intense noise that could only be from a club or anything associated with a DJ , he put the phone on speaker so he could hear better but all he could still hear was loud cheering .

" Skiiiiiippmm !!!! ", Someone whined loudly over the phone .

It was one of his best friends and business partner , Matt Fillis and he was partying so loudly and so early , not that Skip was a model citizen either.

" Where the heck are you man ? It is so fucking loud there ! ", Skip exclaimed into the receiver amidst the noise coming out of it .

Skip chuckled and hiccuped twice before speaking .

" Man , I have no idea where I am buy I remember coming to Milan this morning , one of the girls here must have stolen my phone because I can't find it , I borrowed someone's phone and already dialled a couple of wrong numbers , Why is your phone number so hard to remember ? ", Matt whispered into the phone .

Skip only rolled his eyes , hoping that his friend was okay even though he was being typical Matt .

" Anyways , that is not what is important ,what I want to know is how the meeting went , do I get you for the next week ? ", Matt asked hopefully .

Skip chuckled .

" Yes man , fucking greatest increase the company's ever seen. Hell, you get me for the whole month , get to Drey and ask him to get you to Las Vegas , we are lighting Las Vegas up ", Skip yelled into the phone while his friend whooped incessantly before Jack ended the call .

Drey was Matt's personal bodyguard that had been provided by his family , he was chill and as silent as a block .

Drey walked into the room .

" Sir , the plane is ready for you and I was able to reach everyone except Matt , a lady picked his phone , spoke Italian and told me I was welcome to call the Interpol on her , I told her that he could have given her shares with apple ", Cher stated laxly .

Skip laughed and stood back up , picking his jacket as he moved .

" Come on Cher ,get more excited , you are going on a break for one month ", Skip said to her as he walked out of his office .

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When the plane landed on Skip's family's private airstrip in New york a couple of hours later, he found his friends already waiting for him , they had all come with their individual planes and were currently drinking in Matt's plane .

Skip climbed up the ramp , staircases and finally into the cabin and a champagne cork immediately flew past his face before the spray reached him , he laughed heartily , Matt was shirtless and did not look like the picture that people might have had of him a few hours ago .

Matt was the ultimate party dog , he could sober himself up in two hours .

Then there was Carl and Alex , their other two friends.

" Man , Las Vegas is wonderful and the best part is this extreme VIP only club I just got wind of , the strippers there are insane and that is where our party begins ", Alex announced loudly , he was the hoe of the group .

That was a lie , they were all hoes because they immediately began to whoop loudly at the prospect of how great this night would turn out to be .