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Chapter 6

Cole

"Damn." I closed my eyes as I pressed my hands to the cold marble sink in front of me. The taste of her release lingered on my tongue, and as much as I hated to wash it off, I still had a good chunk of the day to walk around and mingle with people.

I leaned over and rubbed soap over my lips before splashing cold water on my face.

My body ached painfully for far more than she'd given me, but the moment was about building trust. She might be pissed that I'd gotten into her panties, but she seemed like a logical woman. She'd come to the conclusion that our little rendezvous was far more giving than it could have been. She was the focus of the moment, not me.

I patted my face dry and slipped out of the bathroom, leaving the sign on the door and walking toward the main lobby to find Sam.

"Hey. About last night." The blond from the night before stopped in front of me with a frown on her pretty face.

"Heather, right?" I smiled and slipped my hands into my slacks.

"Yes, but I wanted to apologize. I haven't drank since graduating college, and last night was the reason. I feel like shit for what happened."

"For going home with me, or getting sick?" I gave her a smirk and chuckled as her cheeks turned pink.

"Both?" She glanced around. "I shouldn't have done it, and yet I can't stop thinking about how good you look without all these bothersome clothes on."

"Oh yeah?" I tilted my head to watch her closely. She was pretty, but Alexis was stunning. Had Heather not seen me and Alexis locked together against the wall when she walked out of the bathroom, or had she been too out of it?

"Absolutely. I should make it up to you. You know, me fucking up the night last night." She shrugged and bit her lip, trying hard to look cute.

Cute didn't win a spot in my bed.

"I appreciate that, but I think I learned my lesson last night too. I hadn't let myself relax since my wife died, and I think maybe I made a mistake in trying to." I let out a tight chuckle, telling the truth and yet feeling the painful effects of doing it. "Wine leads people to do crazy things. Enjoy the conference, Heather."

I patted her arm and moved over to a large group of guys, hoping for a better conversation than one where I had to explain why I wasn't willing to pull out my cock and hit replay on one of life's jokes.

I'd promised myself my whole fucking life that I would fall in love because of my mother sleeping around on my father, and the one time I messed up... I found the woman of my dreams. The diagnosis for stage four cancer was a post-wedding shocker and within six months, all I had was a memory to keep me warm at night.

Everyone had a mountain to overcome and I would help them do it. As long as it meant I didn't have to stare mine in the face ever again.

*

"What's the plan for tonight, boss?" Sam patted my back as we walked through the lobby later that evening.

"We're having dinner with the people from Vandrake. Their CEO is a great guy and quite a character, though you couldn't tell it by looking at him." I smiled over at Sam and moved up to the hostess stand.

"Mr. Alexander. Glad to have you this evening. Are you meeting-"

"Cole. Over here." Jackson moved up beside the hostess and motioned for us to join him.

"I'm meeting him." I gave the girl a smile and followed behind Jackson as Sam moved up beside me.

"Am I coming to this dinner too?" He lifted his eyebrow at me. He was antisocial like a motherfucker.

"Yep. You are." I turned back to see Alexis already seated at the table, looking like the temptress she was. Her long hair was pulled back into a low ponytail, and her lips were a dusty pink that beckoned my attention.

Where fucking was the word I would have to use for what we'd done over the last two days, I couldn't help but feel the desire to make love to her. She was struggling with her past and whatever shitty decisions she'd made, but I couldn't fathom letting that stop me. If I had to break her down to build her up, I was going in as deep as she could fit me.

"Look who's joining us tonight!" Jackson laughed loudly as the other people at the table perked up and started to welcome me.

Poor Heather looked ill that I was there, and Alexis simply gave me a sweet smile and extended her hand.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Alexander." Her voice was firm. She was in business-mode, and I was surprised by how much it affected me. A pair of black-rimmed glasses and a sexy nightie underneath her tight skirt and button down shirt and I'd blow with nothing more than a touch.

"Please, call me Cole." I pulled her hand to my mouth and kissed her fingers as everyone at the table ogled her.

Her cheeks turned pink as she tugged her hand back. "Great. Nice to meet you Cole."

"Alexis is single." One of the girls beside her perked up. "And such an awesome catch."

"Stop it." Alexis swatted at her as everyone chuckled nervously.

I turned to Jackson and leaned back in my chair. "So you won the bid today, hm?"

"I did. I'm incredibly excited. What's your schedule look like?"

"Wait." Alexis spoke up. "Did you bid on Cole?"

"He sure did, and he won." Sam picked up his glass and turned his attention on the rest of the table. "I'm Sam by the way. I do Cole's heavy lifting. I tote around his ego."

I gave him a look and turned my attention toward Alexis. "I might have to take the sweet single girl out for a drink when I come to visit."

She shook her head and laughed. "Not a chance, Mister."

"Damn," I mumbled, winked at her and turned back to Jackson. "My schedule is up in the room, but we can figure that out later. Tell me instead what your answer was this morning when I asked what you wanted more than anything else. We can go around the table. You guys are going to love mine."

"You already said yours." Alexis pulled my attention from Jackson again.

"Right, but I kinda got that already. I have something else in mind now."

*

The dinner was great, and the company even better. Alexis seemed to calm down a little after everyone joined into the conversation and I stopped pushing her buttons. I was sad to see her go just before dessert, but understood it all too well. She wanted something she was afraid to reach out and grab. Whether that was me, or the right to feel comfortable with her sexuality, I wasn't sure.

We wrapped things up with Jackson and walked to the bar to join another group of people who called us over. Sam was being his usual cheeky self, and I tried to stay interested in the conversation, but it was a moot point.

I wanted her. More than I had wanted anything in a long time. It should have been the first sign to run from the room screaming, but I'd never been one to back down from anything I wanted.

"She's over there." Sam nodded toward the bar and smiled at me.

I found her and pursed my lips as I breathed in deeply. "Tell me no."

"Would it work if I did?"

"Fuck no." I turned my back to the group and caught her eye before she turned and put her back to me. It was endearing. "Why do I want her so fucking bad?"

"Is she denying you?" He turned and pressed his shoulder against mine.

"Not really. She wants to, but she's bending with a little bit of pressure."

"Have you guys fucked?"

I glanced over at him and rolled my eyes. "I'm not kissing and telling. Idiot. This isn't college."

"Thank God. College was way worse than this. Now we only have a million women to beat off of you with a stick. Back then it was a hundred billion."

"At least." I handed him my drink. "I'll find you later."

"Good luck," he called after me.

"I don't need it," I mumbled and moved up to stand just behind her, whispering softly against the back of her hair, "come upstairs and let’s finish what you keep starting, tease."

"Tease?" She turned and smirked, stealing some part of my resolve to just let lust lead us where it may. I was going to fall for this one. I'd seen the moment I fell for Mina a million times in my head since losing her. I was standing at the edge of something terrifying, and yet I would keep pushing until she belonged to me. Even if it meant losing her too.

"Here." I handed her the extra key to my room. "Now."

"I'm not this woman, Cole. I know I've done a few stup-"

"What woman would you be referring to, exactly?" I licked my lips and took a step toward her, not really giving two shits about who might be watching us. We were single, consenting adults.

"The kind of woman you're looking for." She handed me the key back and walked off, leaving me standing there with my heart racing due to her nearness.

I breathed in deeply, turned and followed her to the other side of the room, stopping beside her and handing her the key again.

"I was the one pressed into you last night, Alexis, remember? The one you rocked against? Trying to take more of me inside of you." I turned to face her as she looked up at me with a mixture of anger and red-hot passion in her eyes. "I know what you want. Come try to make it fit. I won't tell anyone about what you're after. One more night. You can give up one more night for massive amounts of pleasure."

Her eyes moved down to rest on my cock as she growled. "Stop. You’re preying on my weaknesses and you fucking know it."

"Grab it. Feel how fucking thick it is. Think of how nice it would be to be stretched open for the first time in your life. To wonder if you can take something so fucking huge and fit it inside your tight little-"

She stepped closer and grabbed my erection, surprising me a little. Her eyes fluttered closed as she bit out her response through clenched teeth, "One more night, then never again."

"One more night." I jerked her hand off my cock and gripped it tightly as I walked with her to the elevator. She'd promised the night, but I was going to make damn sure she woke up with nothing on her mind but the next time she could find herself pinned to the bed beneath me.

She only thought she wanted control. She just needed the right man to remind her of how fucking good it felt to give it up.

Chapter 7

Alexis

Bastard. Cole Alexander was a complete bastard and that's all there was to it. His sweet, kind, loving disposition was the biggest crock of shit I'd ever seen in my life. Jackson would be mighty disappointed to hear that I had no intention of looking up his story. I could care less what his past looked like. It was a fucking lie at best.

"Do you have condoms?" I walked into the room behind him and reached out, gripping his belt as I pulled him to me. He hovered over me, clearly far too big of a man to be pushed around by a small woman like myself, but I was going all in. He wanted a night to remember? I was giving it to him. He might have gotten the bid to come to Vandrake for a couple of days, but he wouldn't be seeing me unless I was required to be there. It was tonight and nothing else.

My past was too tainted to have me pulled back into the far end of the cesspool, where he seemed to enjoy watching me drown in desire.

"I do. I bought them this morning in hopes that I could talk you into coming back up here and spreading your legs for me." He reached out and gripped the back of my neck tightly, pulling me in and leaning down to consume my mouth.

His words were naughty, but the soft sweep of his tongue into my mouth was tender as if there were something beneath the surface that he wanted me to tease out of him.

No thanks.

I lifted to my toes as I finally got his belt undone and worked at the buttons on his shirt. "You taste good."

"I taste like you." He licked at my mouth and moved back to finish working on his shirt. "Take your top and skirt off and get on the bed. Hands and knees. Leave on your bra, your panties and your heels."

"So fucking bossy. Why should I do what you want me to do, Mr. Alexander? Does everyone fall for your 'move a mountain' bullshit?" I pulled my shirt over my head and reached back to undo the zipper on my skirt as he pushed his shirt off his thick shoulders and pulled his undershirt over his head.

He chuckled and reached out, brushing his fingers over the tops of my breasts as he licked at his lips. "You're so angry. So fucking feisty. Why is that Alexis? Am I holding you against your will?"

"Nope." I turned and put my back to him before bending over and sliding my skirt over my hips. I bent at the waist and lifted my ass in the air, letting him know quickly that I was more than capable of putting on a show just like he had, only mine wouldn't be filled with false promises and hope. "You have something I want. I just plan on using you and walking away."

His tight grip on my ass surprised me, and I gasped and started to stand only to be forced back down by his palm in the middle of my back.

"No. Stay like this. It's beautiful." His words were whispered across my lower back as he moved down to kneel behind me. "So incredibly gorgeous. You know that though, don't you? I'm not the only one playing games here."

"No clue what you're talking about, but the blood is going to rush to my head soon and turn me into a raging bi-"

"Hush. Put your hands on the nightstand and arch your back. Stop bitching and relax. You want this and you're not as tough as you think you are." He ran his hands over the back of my thighs and up to squeeze my ass. I was almost glad I'd thought to wear my black G-string after cleaning up from my last encounter with him. "You smell so good."

Chill bumps broke out across my skin as he breathed in deeply and brushed his nose over my mound.

"We already did this part," I moaned and arched my back harder. I'd not had a good lover in far too long, but plenty of shitty ones. Maybe Cole had the ability to burn away the memories and replace them with something far better.

"I like this part. I'm a man who enjoys the taste of a woman's release." He licked around the edge of my panties as I groaned again. "Seems you don't mind too much."

"Tease." I slid my hands farther onto the nightstand and spread my legs as he slipped his fingers into my panties and brushed the back of them over my wet skin. "Fuck."

"Soon. A long night of fucking, if you can keep up." He leaned in, pulling my panties to the side and gyrating his tongue over my skin as I stiffened and tried not to press against him. Letting him know how badly I wanted to belong to him for the night would just add to him being right about me. And he wasn't.

"Suck harder," I barked out and closed my eyes as he followed my instructions beautifully. The intensity of his lapping mixed with the strong grasp he had on my ass left my heart racing, my body edging toward orgasm far too quickly. I tried to pull back, but he held me in place and shifted my hips to gain better access to my center.

"Come for me, pretty girl." He pulled at my ass, opening me farther as he moved up and ran his tongue along the length of me before moving back down and rubbing the pad of his finger over my ass. "Will you let me in here?"

"No," I whispered and pressed back to take him in my body.

He groaned softly and teased me with long strokes of his tongue. "I think you will. I think you want me there."

I want you everywhere.

I cried out as my body climbed the last few steps to the edge of the cliff before diving off and leaving me panting for air. I gripped the sides of the nightstand and pushed back as he grumbled something against my body and pressed his finger deep inside of me. The world exploded in a myriad of colors as I rode the high for as long as I could.

"So hot. Fuck, you're so hot, Alexis." He stood up and removed his hands from me as I squeezed my eyes closed tighter and tried to think through the immense pleasure pumping through my veins. I wanted to be his whore, his girl, his anything if he could just make me forget everything with the touch of his hands. And it would seem that he could.

I turned and moved down to my knees as I reached up and unbuckled his pants. "My turn."

"I think that's a good idea. If we're going to be lovers, I need to know that you know how to handle a cock." He reached down and touched the side of my face as his expression softened.

"Don't. We're fucking tonight and that's it. Leave that soft shit for someone else." I tugged his slacks down and leaned forward, brushing my lips along the thick outline of his cock. "Magnificent."

"I'm glad you like it." He moved back and tugged his underwear off before moving back up and sliding his strong fingers through my hair. "Breathe through your nose and only take what you can."

I laughed and got off my knees before moving to the bed. "Come stand here at the edge and don't tell me how to give head. You don't even know me."

He nodded and walked toward me. "Very true. Forgive me. I've just never met a woman that can handle me."

"Good. I like being a first in anything I do." I laid on my stomach and moved my face toward him as I reached out and gripped his thick thighs. Desire pumped through me and scored my insides as I ran my lips over his sack and nipped softly.

He gasped and gripped a handful of my hair, pulling hard as I glanced up at him. "Be careful."

"Trust me. I trusted you in the bathroom today. Return the favor." I pulled against his hold on my hair and stroked him once. "I'd never hurt a man when he was vulnerable."

He laughed. "Why do I find that hard to believe?" He gripped his cock and brushed the tip of it over my lips. "Stop making new promises and fulfill the ones you've already uttered."

"Right." I licked the thick head of his shaft before leaning up and taking him in my mouth until my lips hit the soft black hair that cradled his dick.

"Fuck. Alexis. Seriously?" He tugged at my hair and reached down, jerking me up and pressing his lips to mine passionately. I didn't have a chance to say anything before I was on my back and he was crawling on top of me.