by Angel Devlin
"Jodi." She held out her hand. "Jodi Griffin." She pointed to the back, "and this is my business partner Ella Cassidy."
Ella was no longer transfixed with her design. She was outright staring at me. It reminded me of The Terminator when it loads up all its victim's statistics.
"Would you like a coffee?" Ella asked. "I can pop and get you one from next door."
Jodi turned to her partner, a crease appearing between her brows.
"I can see why you're doing so well. Fantastic designs and great customer service. But no, thank you. I must be going. It was nice to meet you both."
I left the store, though I didn't really want to. I wanted to accept the coffee.
Chapter Four
JODI
"Who the fuck was that?" Ella said. Ella hardly cussed so this was a grand statement.
"A customer." I said blasé though my hand was still trembling from where it had clutched his. Oh my, a hottie had walked into the store. A total sex god. Dark blond hair, short, but a little tousled on the top. A pale-blue t-shirt that stretched over a gym-honed physique. Those biceps. I'd had to resist having a squeeze. His jeans hugged his ass. He looked casual, but his clothes were designer. Plus, he'd said his mom needed an outfit for a gala.
Yet now he'd gone and I might never see him again. What had happened to my Carpe Diem? Seize the day? I'd seized up, hardly able to speak.
"Did he have a wedding ring?" Ella asked.
"I have no idea. I didn't look." No, he didn't.
"Jodi. A hot guy came walking into our store. It's up there with a Second Coming. You should have asked him to come through and be measured and have checked out that inside leg."
"Well, I didn't and now he's gone." I said, kicking the bottom of the counter.
The phone rang, so I picked it up and listened as the personal assistant of the buyer of Juniper's Department Store, asked for me and Ella to come to a meeting on Friday morning with the buyer and Alexander Green, the owner.
I accepted and put the phone down. Once more I was shaking.
Ella rushed over to me. "Is everything okay? Was it bad news?"
I shook my head. "Ella, that was Juniper's. Their buyer wants to meet with us, and so does Mr. Green himself. They want us to bring our design portfolio as they have a project they wish to discuss with us."
"Are you shitting me?" Ella screamed, jumping up and down.
"No. Oh my god, Ella. Our designs could be in Juniper's."
I thought about what that guy had said about expanding the store. What a coincidence that this had happened not minutes afterward. It wasn't expanding our boutique; it was a way we could keep what we had and yet still grow, by selling our designs. If Juniper's liked our ideas, then their team could outsource the actual dressmaking. My stomach flipped with excitement. I wished the dude had stayed for a coffee, he'd have been here to hear our exciting news. Then again, it was probably supposed to be top secret. Or, maybe he'd been a scout? That was it; I'd bet he was here looking for the store. One of their employees. Shopping for mom, indeed!
"I'm going to go and tell the girls next door. Fancy an iced-tea?" I asked Ella. Really, I was hoping that the gorgeous customer would either be outside, maybe delayed by a call to his cell, or he'd have followed the delicious aromas to HappBeanness.
I was disappointed to find no sign of him, but I made myself feel better with a cappuccino and a triple chocolate cookie, and the thought that, you never knew, he might be in the store or even the meeting on Friday if he worked there.
Chapter Five
JODI
Friday.
Ella and I stood in the lobby of Juniper's and I took a deep breath. I was shaking with nerves. Ella didn't look much more confident. I looked around me. I should be concentrating on the pitch but instead I was looking for hot spy guy. And then, oh jeez! He was there, walking toward the same elevator as us!
He saw me and smiled. "Well, hello. What are you two doing out of the boutique?" He was dressed in a suit today. It was dark-blue, a midnight kind of color, and he had on a pale-blue tie, and a crisp white shirt.
"I knew it! I had a feeling you were a spy for Juniper as soon as they called straight after your visit."
He put a hand to his tie loosening it and cleared his throat. "A spy? Erm, yes, you got me. So, I guess I have to confess now that I know why you're here?"
Ella turned to me. "We should get going, we don't want to be late."
We were an hour early, what was wrong with her? I was trying to talk to hot guy.
"There's an hour yet."
"But I don't want to chance it. What if the elevator gets stuck or something?"
Seriously?
"Err, why don't you go up ahead, Ella? I'll follow you shortly."
I couldn't fail to catch the smirk on her face. "Ohh-kay."
"I'll make sure she gets there. I know the code to the private staff elevator at the back. Much nicer. No queues." Hot guy said.
I beamed. "There you go, I'll follow you up." I repeated.
Ella held her hand out to hot guy. "Nice to meet you, Mr.…?"
ALEXANDER
"Alex… erm… Emerald." Fuck, I couldn't say Green, not now Jodi thought I was a spy. However, I saw the moment Ella realized who I was. Her eyes widened and her jaw dropped open.
I shook my head at her.
"Okay, well, it was good to meet you, and I hope to see you again very soon." She took a portfolio from Jodi and headed to the elevator.
Dear God. I had one hour. One hour to make it count. To make this woman fall for me before she realized I was potentially her new boss. Because I just knew that Jodi wouldn't risk their business deal for her own selfish gain. It was apparent in the way the women worked together.
"Would you like to grab a quick coffee?" I asked her. "I promise I'll get you to your meeting on time. Mr. Green never gets there until the last moment anyway."
She chewed on her lip. "Okay then. Which floor is it on?"
I pointed to the back of the store. "Tenth. We can take the private elevator. It's much nicer."
JODI
He was there in front of me. I couldn't believe it. He did something to me I couldn't describe. It was like our chemicals reacted to each other or something. Seriously, I just wanted him to drop his pants and fuck me, right here, right now!
What the hell was wrong with me? Had I not been laid for so long, I'd gone nympho?
There was one thing I was determined about. I was getting a date with him before this hour was over. I was absolutely doing that. Should I kiss him in the elevator? There was that scene in Fifty Shades of Grey where he slammed her against the wall and kissed her passionately. I wanted that in my life.
I followed him into the elevator and the doors closed. He pressed for the tenth floor and he smiled at me.
Do it.
DO. IT. JODI.
Carpe Diem!
ALEXANDER
Thank you Ella Cassidy for the best idea ever. For being the overcautious person you are. For reminding me about the thing that can happen in elevators. Not often, but entirely possible.
I stopped the elevator.
"Oh shit. This happens sometimes." I informed my fellow passenger. "The elevator is stuck." I pretended to call a number on my cell.
"I'm calling about the private elevator. Oh you saw it. Really? Around an hour? Okay."
I looked at Jodi's anxious face. "There's been a glitch and they need the car to stay on this floor for an hour, but they can't open the doors and let us out. You're not claustrophobic, are you?"
"No." She answered. "Err, do they have cameras in the elevator? Can they see us?"
"Only in the public ones." I lied. I had access to footage from this elevator. It was connected to my office computer and heavily passworded. "So don't worry, if you want to have a panic attack or scream, go right ahead."
I wasn't expecting her to launch at me, her mouth fastening on mine.
Chapter Six
JODI
My mouth was on his. Is this where he asked me what the hell I was doing and then I had to sit in the car with him for a whole awkward hour until we got rescued?
You didn't think this through AT ALL JODI. You jerk.
Then his hands came around the back of me; one fisted in my hair and he pressed his mouth firmly against mine. His tongue fought for entrance in my mouth and I opened my lips and allowed him inside.
The kiss broke and he looked at me. "Fuck. Jodi."
"I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me." I apologized, looking at the floor.
He raised a brow. "You don't want to carry on?" His voice had gone gravelly.
"Do… do you?"
"Hell, yeah. But I asked you. What do you want, Jodi? I need to be clear on what it is we're doing in here." His breathing was coming harder.
What did I want him to do?
Kiss me?
We're trapped in an elevator for an hour, no witnesses, Jodi.
"I want you to fuck me." I told him.
Did I really just say that?
ALEXANDER
Was I in a dream?
This had to be a dream. Because the woman I was currently lusting after had just asked me to fuck her in this elevator.
Well, I hoped never to wake up.
I took her purse out of her hand and placed it on the floor. Then my hands were shrugging her jacket off her shoulders. Next, I lifted her pale pink top from the waistband of her gray pencil skirt and pulled it over her head, revealing a white lacy bra holding creamy tits. My hands reached around the back of her skirt undoing the button and lowering the zip. The material fell to the floor until she was standing there in just her lacy underwear and her heels.
I took off my own jacket, shirt, and tie while she watched, and removed my shoes, socks, and pants, until I was standing there in my boxer briefs. Then I met her lips with mine as I pushed her back against the elevator mirror, dropping to my knees.
I rubbed my fingers over the delicate material of her panties and Jodi began to groan. Heat met my fingers, and pulling the material to the side, I ran a fingertip through her slick core.
"You already wet for me, baby?"
She lifted her hips up toward me in answer. "More."
I pushed two digits inside her, and leaning forward, I licked her clit with my tongue.
"Oh my god." Her hands ran through her hair. Her eyes were closed but mine weren't. I wanted to watch this woman come apart as I felt her tremble over my mouth. I removed her panties.
I fucked her with my fingers and when I realized she was close, I bit her clit. She screamed, "Alex," as she juddered over me. She tried to escape away from my mouth, but I held her ass cheeks firmly in my grip as I tasted every bit of her honey before I stood up.
"Oh my. That was incredible." She smiled at me. "Alex, you have to believe me. I've never done anything like this before. To be honest, I don't have much experience, so if I'm not very good, please don't make fun of me, but—"
Her hands reached the waistband of my boxers where my erection was clearly advertising it's availability.
I clasped her wrists in mine. "Good. I'm glad you're not experienced. It means there are less men for me to be jealous of. I wish you were a virgin. I wish I was claiming your innocence right now, so that's what I'm going to imagine. Now let me tell you how to suck my cock." I guided her wrists to pull down my briefs, my cock jutting out in front of her.
"On your knees." I commanded.
She dropped straight down and looked up at me for further instruction. Goddamn it, I could have come right there and then just from that wanton yet vulnerable gaze.
"Open your mouth."
I slowly pushed inside the wetness of her mouth and it was warm. Very gently I glided in and out, careful not to push right to the back of her throat. I could teach her in time all the ways she could take me deep, but now I wanted to build her confidence and show her how to get me off.
She held me at the base and began sucking, breaking off to run her tongue around the glans.
"Oh yeah, just like that."
She carried on sucking and licking. As I felt myself build up toward climax, I gently placed my hand in her hair and guided her mouth quicker.
"Now's the time to let me go if you don't want to swallow." I warned her, loosening my grip. She sucked harder and faster, and the eyes that looked up at me were determined.
"Oh God, yes." I shouted as my cum hit her mouth and I emptied my balls into her. I watched as she swallowed and then licked around her lips.
"Did I do okay?" She asked.
"You did better than okay. And now it's time for your reward. Stand up and face the mirror."
Her eyes met mine in the reflection. I flicked open her bra and discarded it to the floor. My hands came around the front and grasped a breast each. Jodi pushed back against me as I kneaded her tits, while we watched our mirror images. Lowering my mouth to her earlobe, I bit her ear gently, moving down to nibble on her neck. Goose bumps covered her skin and her breasts pushed against my palms.
Using my knee, I pushed her thighs apart. My cock was ready to sink inside her. Releasing her breasts, I guided my cock to where she was ready and wanting. As I teased the head at her entrance, Jodi pushed back against me, so I sunk in slightly. She wanted it? She could have it.
I grasped her shoulder with my left hand as my right hand held my base as I thrust inside her, hard, all the way in. Slamming her into the elevator wall, her breasts met the mirror.
She gasped. "Oh it's cold."
"Really? Because right now you seem so very, very hot from where I'm looking."
I fucked her so hard her feet came off the floor. My hands gripped her thighs as I drove inside her. It felt like coming home. My balls tightened and I came inside her, as I flicked her clitoris and took her over with me. She collapsed against me and I took us both down to the floor.
"Tell me you don't regret what just happened?" I asked her.
She shook her head. "Never. In fact, I hope we have time to do it again before we're rescued."
I laughed and checked my cell.
"Oh we have time for a lot more fun yet."
Picking up my tie, I wrapped one end around her wrist and the other to the bar below the mirror. Then I picked up my belt and tied her other hand to the bar. Once again, I had her facing the mirror so she could see everything.
I rubbed my fingers in her pussy, gathering her juicy wetness and then I rubbed that wetness into her asshole.
She tensed. "Are you going to…?"
"Only if you want to, baby. I can just tease you with my fingers. But I want you to know that one day I will claim that ass. I will be your first there. Your first and your last." I slipped a finger inside her gently and I felt her relax as it went past the tight muscle within.
"I want to."
"Good."
I inserted an extra finger, moving it around, letting her get used to the feel of me there. When I took my fingers out she was so wet that her juices were soaking the top of her thighs. I rubbed every bit into her ass. Then I rubbed my pre-cum around my cock.
Positioning myself behind her, I told her to relax. Then I pushed a little way in.
"It burns."
"Yeah, you need to get used to me." I pushed a little more. "Tell me if it gets too much and you want to stop."
She took a deep breath and I knew she was relaxing her body to accept me. A few more pushes and I was inside her. "That's it, baby." I caressed her clit and her heat with my fingers, pistoning a couple together and fucking her with them. Her eyes that had been watching us intently in the mirror closed as she lost herself to the ecstasy of the sensations. My cock was fastened tight within her, each thrust an exquisite sensation.
When I came, I came so hard I thought I'd have a cardiac arrest and Jodi seemed the same. I turned her to face me and kissed her hard, then wrapped her in my arms. I felt her legs tremble next to mine so picking up my jacket I wrapped it around her shoulders
and took her back down to the floor.
But a few minutes later, Jodi became a different person altogether. Gasping, she placed a hand across her mouth. "What on earth am I doing? I have an interview with the owner of this store any minute and I'm fucking one of his staff in the elevator instead of preparing for this business meeting that could change my life."
I pulled her closer to me, but her body tensed and she jumped up. She wiped herself with her panties and placed them in the back pocket of her purse before quickly dressing. "What time is it? My meeting is at eleven."
I glanced at my wristwatch. "It's a quarter-to and I'm sure the elevators will be back working shortly." I quickly dressed too, trying not to think about the fact she was going to sit in a meeting with me shortly with her pussy bare under her skirt. I walked over to her and gathered her in my arms. This time she fell into them. "Do you regret what we did?" I asked, dreading her answer but needing it anyway.
She let out a massive exhale. "No. I just wish that my seductive bravery had emerged at a different time; like in a bar maybe? You know, somewhere more appropriate."
I grinned as I looked down at her. "Well, I'm glad it happened here. But a bar? I'm happy for that to be next. Pass me your cell."
She went into her purse and took out and handed me her cell. I typed my number in and texted myself.
"I'll be calling you. You can bet on that. Don't regret taking a chance and living life, Jodi."
She raised up on her tiptoes and kissed my cheek. "I don't regret it. I just can't believe I'm going to a meeting freshly fucked. What if everyone can tell?"
"There's a restroom just outside the elevator. Hopefully you'll have time to freshen up."
Moving us around so her back was near to the control panel, I pressed buttons and got us moving again.
