Black: Part 3 (Black Series) (6 page)

Now it’s time to move on.

“It’s almost just like the place that we first met… Do you remember it?” I ask.

A tiny smile appears on his face.

“Like it was yesterday…”

His response sends an unexpected rush through me. Maybe he remembers that day with as much fondness as I do.

“I was thinking that, if we’re going to start over, then we should do it for real.” I fix him with a suggestive, little smile before adding, “Besides, it’s not like we’re going to be doing much of anything else for the next few weeks…”

His face darkens and I bite back a giggle.

“You don’t really mean to make me—make
us
—wait for a month, do you?”

“That’s exactly what I mean to do…”

“Christ, woman,” he exclaims. “And I can’t even jerk off? I’m going to have to talk to my doctor about this—that can’t possibly be healthy!”

I lower my voice.

“You can talk to your doctor all you want, but I’m sticking to my guns. And you know I’m well within my rights…”

He lets out a frustrated sigh and waves a hand.

“You don’t need to remind me—I already agreed, didn’t I?”

“Yes, you did. And you’ve been very good so far.” I give him a satisfied look, and then my eyes narrow. “You
have
been good so far… right?”

He fixes me with an angry look that nearly sends another round of giggles through me.

“Yes, I’ve been good. And I can’t say that my cock is very happy about it. He’s got a mind of his own, and lately he’s been awake more often than usual.”

I bite my lip at the thought of Calvin’s cock. He might be behaving himself but I’ve been having my own fun. If he had any idea of just how much fun I’ve been having he’d be pissed.

“I’m sure your cock could use a little rest and relaxation time. It won’t kill him.”

“I wouldn’t be so sure about that.”

This time I’m unable to bite back the giggle. Thankfully, Calvin’s face spreads into a smile of his own.

I know I’m asking a lot, and I can’t even begin to imagine the sacrifice he’s making to prove to me that he’ll really do whatever it takes. He’s trying his hardest to make up for everything that happened before. He’s trying his hardest to win me over again.
 

And I’m not ashamed to admit… it’s working.

Calvin

The cab we’re sharing pulls to a stop outside of what must be Sofie’s place. I slide the man a twenty and we climb out onto the sidewalk. Her apartment building isn’t what I’d call a dump, but it’s been a long time since I’ve lived in a place like it.

Sofie on the other hand…

She’s wearing one of those dresses that comes midway down her leg and flares out at the bottom. I’m not sure whether or not she’s showing off her legs on purpose but my cock gives a hard lurch every time I get a glimpse of them. The years haven’t even touched her figure. She’s still as impossibly beautiful as she had been the night we first met. No. She’s even
more
beautiful.
 

Just being around her is difficult. I want to spend every waking moment with her, but I don’t know if I can survive a month of that kind of torture.

We come to a stop outside of her building. Sofie gives me an expectant look.

“So am I going to get a second date?” I ask.

The lights of the city reflect off the smile she beams up at me. My heart slams hard in my chest. Yes, she’s still the most magical creature I’ve ever laid my eyes on. I want nothing more than to throw her over my shoulder and whisk her off to bed so I can make her mine all over again.

She scrunches her lips and gives me a thoughtful look.

“I’ll have to think about it and let you know…”

“So you’re going to be calling all the shots?”

A devious little smile tugs at the corner of her lips.

“We both know that you like it when I take control…”

Images of Sofie on top of me, her tight hips grinding and riding me, go flooding through my head and my cock lurches in my pants. But I quickly force those kinds of thoughts away. She’s got another thing coming if she thinks it’s going to be
that
easy to get under my skin.

I give her one of my charming smiles. Time to show her how it’s really done…

“And what makes you so certain that
you’re
going to get a second date?”

The devious smile diminishes for a moment before she’s able to force any sort of recovery. She leans in a little closer. I can’t help but notice the way her hips sway when she does.

“I don’t think you’ve
ever
told me no…”

She runs her finger down my chest. The feel of her touching me, even through the expensive fabric of my cotton shirt, sends an excited chill prickling up my back. I suck in a sharp breath and the look on her face grows more confident.
 

Damn her
.

I give a casual glance up at her building.

“Maybe you should come back to my place? I promise the view will take your breath away…”

Her brow rises and she tilts her delicate, gorgeous chin to the side.
 

“And what makes you think we’re going to be alone in
anyone’s
apartment tonight?”

I push myself closer to her. As the distance between us melts away, there’s an almost magnetic pull that overcomes me. The closer I am to her the closer I want to be. And the harder it is to stop myself from wrapping my arms around her, right here and now, and pulling her into me.

“If I remember correctly, I’m not the only one who has a hard time saying no,” I say, leaning in to whisper it in her ear.
 

Sofie’s body tenses when I get that close. But to my surprise, she recovers and nuzzles her nose against the side of my cheek. It’s only the barest of touches, but it’s nearly enough to send me over the edge.

My cock springs to life, stiffening until it’s like a steel rod caged in my slacks. Sofie doesn’t let up—she doesn’t give me a chance to compose myself.
 

“Is there something you had in mind?” she asks.

The entire world around us fades away.

Her voice is so sultry and suggestive that it forces my cock to strain angrily in my pants. It wants me to flip her around and take her from behind right now. It wants me to demolish her pussy over and over until she can’t even walk straight. And afterwards, it wants me to carry her back to my place so we can do it all over again.

Warning bells are going off somewhere in the back of my mind. But they’re so distant I barely even notice them.

“I want you, right here and now,” I breathe, deeply. My voice is dripping with need. I completely abandon trying to play it cool, and I don’t care.
 

Sofie bites her lower lip. The look on her face sends my hopes soaring. Is she actually considering it?

“That sounds fun.” Her hand slides up until her fingertips graze along my cheek. My heart is pounding so loudly in my chest that it nearly deafens me to everything else. “But it might be…” She gives a quick glance down at the massive bulge in my pants. “…
hard
.”

Her eyes on my cock makes it strain even harder.

“I’d move the world for you—nothing can stand in our way. We can do whatever we want.”

Her gaze lingers on my cock. She’s still nibbling on her lower lip. Does she realize what this is doing to me?

“But there’s only one thing…”

“What is it? Nothing can stop us.”

She leans forward and presses her body against mine. Her hip mashes the full length of my enormity between us. The extra strain is nearly enough to bring me to the point of completion.

Christ, I need to be inside of her
right now
.

“It’s just that…” She licks her lips ever so slowly. “We have an arrangement…”

In a single instant the entire world comes crumbling down around me.

A playful smile appears on her face. She winks and takes a step back, releasing the tension from my cock. The sudden distance between us feels like a cliff that I’m dangerously close to falling off of.

Anger flares inside of me. She’s been fucking with me this whole time.

“Is this some kind of game to you?”

She gives a playful little shrug of her shoulder.

“I’m just having a little fun.”

My eyes narrow.

“Your kind of fun isn’t much fun at all.”

Her tone loses some of its playfulness.

“Don’t forget… I’ve been in your shoes before.”

I hold my hands out in front of me and draw her attention back to the bulge in my pants. My cock is still angry and demanding freedom.

“And what do you propose I do about
this
?”

She lifts an eyebrow and makes sure she gets an eyeful before returning her mockingly playful gaze to me.

“Well, you’re not allowed to touch it. So…” She shrugs a shoulder and tilts her head to the side. “…Walk it off?”

My jaw tenses and I pinch my lips together. The first thing that nearly comes out of my mouth won’t go over well. It’s all a test to see if I can actually follow through on the arrangement. She’s doing all of this on purpose just to torment me.

I take a few deep breaths to calm myself before giving any kind of response. She already knows she’s getting under my skin, but there’s no reason to make things worse by lashing out.

“So this is how it’s going to be?” I ask, finally. “We’re going to play by all of your rules and then I’m going to get tortured mercilessly as a reward?”

Her eyes dart skyward and she pretends to think about it for a moment.

“Yeah, that sounds about right.” She gives me a dry look. “You didn’t think you were going to get off easy, did you?”

I bite back a growl. I know she’s right. I know I deserve all of this and more. But does she have to make tormenting me sound quite so enjoyable?

“That’s the problem… I’m not
getting off
at all…”

Calvin

Damn her.

Damn her for doing this to me.

Getting me all turned on like that wasn’t an accident. She knew damned well what she was doing. That was probably the whole reason she wanted to go out to dinner in the first place… She wanted to lure me out and slip past my defenses so she could test me.

Well, if that’s how it’s going to be, I’m going to be a lot more prepared the next time around.

I pace around my expansive condo to work off some of the tension. My cock is still hard and angry. Weeks have gone by since it’s been fed and it’s looking for any reason to explode. It would be so easy to reach down and take it in my hand right now. Just a few quick tugs is about all it would take before I erupt.

But I can’t…

A growl rolls out of me, but it doesn’t make me feel any better.

I’m still upset with myself about what happened in the past. I’m still beating myself up over it. I should have known better than to get myself mixed up in that situation. I should have been able to see a different way out of it—a way that wouldn’t have resulted in Sofie getting hurt.

But my vision had been clouded.
 

I’d never felt anything like the way I’d felt for Sofie back then. The way I
still
feel about her. The thought of how she would react if she ever found out about my arrangement with Renae scared me into wanting to do anything possible to make sure she wouldn’t find out. It had been the wrong decision… but it had taken her running away from me to realize it.
 

Sofie is right.

I deserve every ounce of the torture that she’s giving me. I did the crime, and now I have to do the time. But I can handle it. My cock has been calling the shots for years, but it’s time to show it who’s really in charge. If Sofie wants to torture me endlessly, then bring it. I can take whatever she has to give me.

In a month, she’ll be taking everything I’m going to give her.

Sofie

Aimee’s jaw drops open in complete surprise. She gapes at me for a few moments before she’s able to form words.

“You
can’t
be serious…” she says. “Let me get this straight… First you make him promise that he can’t get off for a month—not even with himself—and then you make it even worse by trying to seduce him and get him all worked up?”

The smile on my face spreads even wider. I give her a quick nod.

“That sounds about right!”

She shakes her head.

“I can’t believe you, Sofe.” The incredulous look she shoots me seems out of place on her face. “On the one hand I’m proud, and on the other I’m scared for Calvin’s safety.”

I let out a laugh.

“Hey now, I’m not giving him anything he doesn’t deserve in the first place. And besides, it’s kind of fun getting to know him again. We’ve both changed a lot over the years and I don’t want to just jump into the physical stuff.”

Aimee rolls her eyes.

“You can keep all of that emotional nonsense… give me the hot, steamy sex.” She fixes me with a suggestive look. “And Calvin looks like the kind of guy who knows exactly what he’s doing.”

She’s probably right. I probably am missing out on a good time. But there will be time for that in the future—once I’m certain that we really can make things work again. And besides, I don’t really want to think about Calvin knowing exactly what to do in bed. I don’t want to think about all of the practice he’s probably had since we were together.
 

“How are things going with Logan, anyway?” I ask, changing the subject. “You’ve been spending a lot of time with him.”

“It’s going fine,” she says, too quickly.

I frown.

“Anything you want to talk about?”

She gets an uncertain look on her face.
 

“No, it’s nothing like that. It’s just… I don’t know if I’m ready to be
serious
with anyone. That’s all…”

I give her a playful smile and nudge her with my elbow.

“So things are getting
serious
?”

This time her face nearly tightens into a cringe when she looks at me.

“I don’t know. I guess. Relationships always just seem so…complicated.”

It’s obvious she doesn’t want to talk about whatever is really bothering her. I’ve never seen her act this way about a guy before… she must really like him. But she’s an adult, I’m sure she’ll figure it all out sooner or later.