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Erotic fantasy/romance. NSFW. Jasmine, a successful businesswoman, has achieved everything in life, both professionally and personally. Her life is quite perfect: four children, a great business, plenty of affairs, no lasting relationships. Or is it perfect?
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PREFACE
LIFE
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PREFACE
PREFACE
I personally believe in giving back. I'm not well-off by any means but I like to share the bit I have. I'm a member of various environmental organizations to which I donate monthly, and there's one local one where I also participate actively.
If I had more time, I'm sure I'd also engage more but I can barely cope as it is.
I sell my surplus gardening produce (mostly berries, figs, apples and rhubarb) at very fair and affordable prices, and it's fresh, ripe when picked and grown organically. I sometimes give it away for free to people in need.
It's little enough but it's something.
My family and I live on a micro farm, meaning we don't have any farm animals but we do have something amounting to a petting zoo: We have rabbits, cats, one dog, gerbils and geckos.
I'd love to have chickens but we haven't gotten round to fixing up the coop and getting it ready for chickens. The rabbits are currently inhabiting that space.
I am truly passionate about organic farming. That's why it so often features in my stories.
But it doesn't really matter what I'm passionate about. It's more important that you're passionate about reading my story.
So go ahead, get started and enjoy!
LIFE
LIFE
December was the busiest month of the year for Jasmine, especially this year as people seemed to have less and less money and to be more and more dependent on soup kitchens and the help of good samaritans.
She extended her lunch break four times every week to hand out blankets and sweaters to the homeless that she bought at flea markets. Jasmine was all for recycling to put as little stress as possible on the environment.
In addition, she gave away dried fruit and cartons of juice from her family's orchard. They always had more than they could consume and they were happy to share it with those who needed it and could not afford to buy it at the stores.
So far, Jasmine had been lucky in life and she intended to reciprocate as much as possible, which for her encompassed being in touch with those who needed her help instead of only donating money to charities. She did that, too, but only to local ones where she could see first-hand how her donations were used. And where she could pitch in if needed.
She grew up on a small farm some miles away from Kelowna, BC, with five siblings, most of whom still lived in the vicinity and dropped in to see their parents multiple times a month, just like Jasmine. Her parents only had chickens, otherwise they focused on growing fruit and vegetables; primarily for their own needs but occasionally selling to friends and, in later years, for Jasmine to hand out for free.
Jasmine took a keen interest in growing organic medicinal herbs and making her own hand lotions, shower gels, shampoos and so on. She was teaching herself about botany and the effects of medicinal plants in her free time and studied chemistry after having finished senior high.
In her personal life she had not been as lucky as in her professional one. Actually, lucky was the wrong word. It was more that her personal life tended to be chaotic and spontaneous, where she frequently permitted herself to be guided by her emotions instead of sound reasoning.
When she was twenty-four and traveling through South America for half a year, she got pregnant in a hot and passionate one-night-stand with a complete stranger because the condom broke. Unfortunately, she did not become aware of her pregnancy until it was too late to have an abortion.
She never regretted having had a daughter in her early twenties, and her son Bruce only four years later, but she could not deny that it had been very hard to raise them as a single parent starting a body and skin care product business from her parent's farm. Without their help she would have failed. Hugely.
They looked after Dalla and Bruce when Jasmine developed new products in her lab, threw launch parties or went to meetings to pitch her ideas. In the end she ditched the meetings and began selling from the farm instead where she opened a small shop. Her persistence paid off, she became known by word-of-mouth and expanded, building not only a sizable walk-in customer base but especially an extremely successful online business. She eventually rented and then bought a building with a downstairs shop in downtown Kelowna.
She rented out the apartment directly above the shop, and she and her three children lived on the top floor.
Now in her late forties, Jasmine's business ran smoothly. She had two employees, one of them her eldest daughter Dalla. Her second oldest, Bruce, was in his last year of high school. Dana was a sophomore and Danielle, the little one, a fourth grader.
It was Friday morning and Jasmine was in a meeting with Danielle's principal, Eileen. The two had known each other since Dalla started elemtary school and Eileen had been the youngest principal in the history of their school. Initially, there had been much criticism due to her relative inexperience but those voices were quickly quieted when they realized how competent Eileen was and how well she could handle both students and staff.
Jasmine and Eileen had been discussing the nativity play, and Jasmine had taken on the responsibility of preparing the parents of this year's changes. Everyone knew her and she was well liked so chances were good that parents would be open-minded when it came from her. Especially considering her personal history.
To support inclusivity and tolerance, the traditional narration of the birth of Jesus Christ had been replaced by a modern Christmas play in which Santa Claus was going to help the queer community get accepted by the town they lived in.
The school's ethics teacher, Mr. Sanders, had proposed it after having discussed it with the students first to hear their opinion. They had been thrilled and enthusiastically helped to bring the play to life.
Eileen had flyers printed that Jasmine was to hand out in her shop. And in the week before the play there were going to be conferences for every grade where Eileen, Jasmine and Mr. Sanders would give the parents detailed information and answer their questions.
After another half hour of chitchat Jasmine said her goodbyes.
As she was walking down the hallway someone called out to her, „Jasmine, is that really you?“
She turned around and tried to recognize the man who had addressed her but failed.
„It is,“ she answered. „And who are you?“
The man approached her and smiled.
„Douglas. We attended the same uni but I was a couple years ahead of you. You participated in some of my workshops. I noticed you in the crowd of students because of your radiant smile. I even worked up the courage to ask you out once but you just gave me a weird look and shook your head.“ He chuckled.
„Nah, I still don't remember you,“ she replied and shrugged.
„That doesn't surprise me. My hair was quite long back then and I kept dying it black because I couldn't reconcile with my natural copper color. Silly, I know.“
Jasmine looked him over. His hair was curly and short and shone a beautiful copper streaked with a bit of gray. He also sported cute freckles on his nose.
„However,“ he continued, „you know my wife, Becca.“
That name rang a bell indeed. Becca's twin boys joined her daughter's fourth grade after summer break. Before moving to Kelowna they had lived on the east coast but Douglas's work, still in the field of chemistry, had brought them out west. Jasmine now recalled having chatted about it with Becca.
Becca stopped by her shop a few times a month to buy hand lotions, shower gels and shampoos but on occasion she would also join a special event at the shop.
Since branching out into essential massage oils in the summer and also working on producing lubricants, although that was not common knowledge yet, Jasmine had also commenced organizing events.
