LAWSON (A Standalone Billionaire Romance Novel)

by Kristina Weaver

  Then he took his hand away, leaving her wanting more. She looked at him sitting across from her. There was a smile on his lips.

  Back at the house, Sasha put on her last outfit. Tight leather pants and a sheer oversized t-shirt. She was to get in the pool fully dressed, Thomas was to lean down and plant a sexy kiss on her lips. Sasha thought of his lustful looks when she’d been wet after the shower and realized this last shot was going to turn him on. Fully on.

  She flashed him a look as she lowered herself into the pool.

  “Okay,” Joe said in his London accent. “We need you to dunk in the water then emerge out like a mermaid. Thomas, you kiss the mermaid, okay?”

  A mermaid? Sasha couldn’t help but find it a bit corny. But she was aching to see the look of arousal on Thomas’s face when she emerged drenched and glistening.

  Once the camera was set up, Sasha dunked under the water. She could see Thomas shimmering above her, his reflection obscured by the rippling water.

  Then she rose up. Thomas’s eyes blazed with a desire so fierce her whole body shuddered with sexual want. He took her face in his hands and guided her lips to his. The moment they met, it felt like a bomb had exploded. The attraction was electrifying, the need, the arousal. All those looks he’d been giving her, the arousal that he had built in her over the last few hours, it reached a crescendo in that kiss.

  Sasha sunk into him, her mouth moving hungrily, desperate for more. Thomas reciprocated, matching her desire with his own. Her heart slammed in her chest and she couldn’t stop herself from moaning.

  “Great, that’s a wrap,” Joe said, but his voice sounded like it was coming from a million miles away.

  Thomas certainly hadn’t heard it. His mouth was latched to Sasha, tasting her with his tongue, wanting her, needing her, needing more and more of her. Sasha felt that the only thing that existed to him in the whole world at that moment was her and the sensation of her tongue against his. She could feel the warm exhalation from his nostrils on her cheek and felt the vibration of the moan that escaped his throat run through her lips.

  It was only when Tina - lacking any kind of normal social skills - approached and extended her to shake, that Thomas seemed to break from his trance. He moved away, leaving Sasha’s lips parted, swollen and tingling with sensation.

  Thomas shook Tina’s hand then Sasha did, too.

  “Thank you,” she said breathlessly to Tina, hardly able to stand the sudden absence of Thomas. “For the clothes.”

  Tina just looked at her with a bemused expression, then turned on the spot and headed towards Pippa. Pippa led Tina and Joe into the house.

  As soon as they were gone, Sasha looked up at Thomas.

  “You win.”

  “I do?”

  “You made your point. I want to fuck you. Right here. Right now. So take off your clothes and get in.”

  Sasha didn’t care that they were completely exposed. That if the security guards and Pippa peered out the window they would seem them. In fact, that just made her want it more.

  “And what happened to never again?” Thomas teased.

  “Never again went out the window when you spent all day shooting me sex eyes,” Sasha replied.

  A smirk tugged at Thomas’s lips. “But it’s not what you want. What you want is for me to get attached. Is for me to forgive you and be your actual real boyfriend.”

  “I didn’t do anything to be forgiven for,” Sasha contested. “So maybe it would be more accurate to say I want you to get over yourself and fuck me.”

  “Even though I’m still mad at you.”

  “That doesn’t make a difference to whether we have great sex or not.”

  “It matters to you.”

  Sasha thought of Pippa’s breezy attitude, of her ability to turn a crisis into a mere inconvenience. What was there to get so dramatic about really? On this beautiful island with the sun setting and reflecting off the water, nothing seemed important. Sex could be sex. It didn’t have to be love.

  “Who said it matters to me?”

  She ran her hands through her wet hair, knowing it would make her even more attractive to him. Thomas sucked air between his teeth, almost as though he was wincing. He wanted her so much and she could tell. He was just trying to wind her up. To make her beg for it. To make her mad but still want to fuck him. To prove his point.

  And it was working.

  “Don’t you remember telling me to take what I deserve?” Sasha said. “Well what I want is your cock in my mouth.”

  Thomas’s jaw clenched. She was getting to him and she loved it.

  She pushed back from the edge of the pool and stood in the centre so that he could get a better view of her whole body. She peeled the wet top off. In the last photo shoot she had worn another sheer design. She’d had no bra beneath so her breasts were immediately on display for him.

  Thomas bit his bottom lip at the sight of her wet, glistening flesh. She dunked her head again to make the water droplets run in rivulets between her breasts.

  “Get in and fuck me,” she said.

  Thomas raised an eyebrow. “That’s what you want? Just sex. Just fucking.”

  Sasha stared him straight in the eye. “Just sex,” she repeated. “Just fucking.”

  Thomas lowered himself to a crouching position. “Take off the rest of your clothes.”

  With a surge of arousal, Sasha did as he commanded. Her body was throbbing with anticipation as she peeled the wet clothing off.

  “Come here,” he said when she was completely naked.

  She swam to the side to the pool. The water was cold on her searingly hot skin. She pushed her breasts against the cold tiles and looked up at Thomas. There was a fire of lust burning in his eyes. He took her face in his hands, just as he had done for the shoot, and pressed his hot mouth against hers. Just like before, the kiss was electrifying. But unlike before, it didn’t need to stop. They could follow the commands of their bodies right to the point of pure gratification.

  Thomas worked his hands around Sasha’s body, making her quiver. He massaged her wet breasts, stroked her hips and waist. She gasped. Heat spread from between her legs. She was wet and ready.

  Thomas pushed her back, leaving her mouth wanting more. He locked his intense stare on her then dipped his hand into the water and pressed his fingers against her clit. Sasha’s mouth dropped open at the blazing desire in his eyes as he watched her reaction to the movement of his fingers.

  Sasha gasped and pressed her tongue against her top teeth. She inhaled deeply then let the breath out with a sigh.

  Thomas’s fingers circled her clit. Then in one fluid movement, he slid his fingers inside her. She was wet, hot and ready. Sasha squeezed and gasped. His thumb massaged her clit whilst his fingers roved around inside her. She moaned with pleasure.

  Sasha could see Thomas’s bulging erection straining in his pants.

  “Let me taste you,” she said.

  Thomas’s eyes widened with arousal. He took his hand out of the water and sat back. Sasha carefully removed his penis from his pants with her hands. The whole time, he never stopped watching her.

  As Sasha’s mouth enveloped his erection, she realized this was the first time she’d given Thomas head. All the times before he’d been intent on making her come first, multiple times, even, that his own orgasm was almost a happy coincidence, a by-product of him giving her the exact sex she wanted. She had no idea what he wanted and this was the first time she’d had the opportunity to find out. The joy of having him completely at her mercy was almost as amazing to her as the joy she felt she was at his. The power was addictive. She wanted more.

  She moved her tongue along his shaft, feeling it pulsate beneath her as the blood rushed to her touch. Thomas groaned and wound his fingers in her hair. Responding to the cues of his body, she took more of him into her. His moans became louder. Every noise he made made Sasha’s body quiver with arousal.

  She began to move her head faster, to suck harder,
to do everything she could possibly think of to make Thomas emit more of those amazing noises. His grunts, his moans, his gasps, each one made her spasm with pleasure. Every time he whispered, “Jesus Christ,” or “Dear God,” in his English accent it made her even wetter.

  “I’m so close,” Thomas whispered.

  Sasha moved away and took his penis in both her hands. “I want to see you come,” she said, applying pressure and rubbing her thumbs across the tip.

  The moment the words left her mouth, he did. Hot semen burst from his cock and onto her hand. It ran down the length of her arm.

  “Fuck,” Thomas cried, throwing his head back. “That was… fuck that was good.” He puffed air from his cheeks then took in the sight of her. He raised his eyebrows. “Your turn.”

  Just then, a voice made them both jump. It was Pippa, standing at the door, a smirk on her lips. She was holding the telephone.

  “It’s Crystal,” she said. “She wants to talk.”

  Chapter Fifteen

  Even from the other side of the globe, Crystal was still messing things up. Thomas’s conversation with her lasted an excruciatingly long time. The whole while Sasha was desperate to have her needs satisfied. Her arousal was only maintained by the sight of him through the glass windows pacing up and down and gesticulating wildly.

  As the time drew on, she’d decided to go inside. She didn’t want to disturb Thomas but she couldn’t exactly stand in his garden dripping wet forever. Sheepishly, she retrieved her clothes from the pool bottom of the pool and climbed out.

  As she entered the house, she found Pippa sitting on the plush leather sofa listening intently to the conversation taking place in the background. When she saw Sasha, she handed her a towel.

  “Darling, you look like a drowned rat.”

  “Thanks,” Sasha said, towelling off her hair. “So, how’s it going?”

  Pippa crossed her slim legs. “Well, she heard about the lawyers coming tomorrow and decided to negotiate some kind of deal before it gets to that stage. I think she’s convincing him to drop the charges on the condition she goes into rehab.”

  “Oh,” Sasha said. She didn’t know how to feel about that. Crystal’s actions had turned her life upside down. She’d humiliated her and cost her her career. Shouldn’t she pay for it?

  “How’s it going with you two?” Pippa said, wiggling her eyebrows. “I saw your naughty escapades in the pool.”

  Sasha bit her lip. “I don’t know. Things are progressing…”

  Progressing into a weird power-play. But they were two consenting adults. If that’s what did it for them, that’s what did it for them. Teasing, tantalizing, taking command. Fighting and fucking. It was just how things worked between them.

  “Good. Keep at it.” Pippa grinned. “No pun intended.” Then her eyes flashed with mischief. “Shall I tell him you’ve gone to bed?”

  Sasha knew what she was suggesting. But Sasha knew Thomas wouldn’t want to sleep with her after his conversation with Crystal. He’d be too stressed. And anyway, she’d satisfied him already, there was no reason for him to come to her now, was there? He’d proven his point.

  “Actually,” Sasha said. “I think I will go to bed. To sleep. I’m exhausted.”

  “I bet you are,” Pippa said with a smirk. Then she smiled kindly, “I’ll see you in the morning.”

  In her room, Sasha looked at the sexy Amore outfits she’d modelled that day. Black leather, lace, and see-through fabric. This was who she was now. Her old fashion sense didn’t factor into Thomas Lloyd’s world. Was she little more than walking advert? Or did she like this new version of herself? The one that was exploring her kinky side, the was experimenting with sexy new looks, that was learning how to fuck when she wanted to for the pure pleasure of it rather than some vague desire for companionship.

  Maybe should care more about the changes she was going through, but the truth was, she didn’t. Nothing felt like a sacrifice when the payoff was steamy sex sessions with Thomas. She still had the taste of him in her mouth and the yearning for him in her groin. But thanks to Crystal, she hadn’t got to enjoy a climax. And thanks to Crystal, Thomas was unlikely to be in the mood to give her one.

  She knew she should be more sympathetic. The fire that had scarred Thomas was the reason why Crystal had spiralled into drug use. If she could feel sympathy for Thomas, then surely she could feel it for Crystal too.

  Sasha went into the en suite bathroom and stripped down. She looked at her body in the full length mirror. She was hot. How had she never noticed before? She’d tried wearing mature, professional clothes for work. Though they’d shown of her body, they’d never eluded to her sexual prowess, a prowess she was now only beginning to understand.

  She got into the shower and began washing the chlorine and Thomas’s spunk off her skin. As she lathered her body she thought about Thomas, about his cock, about the sex they had that took her to places she never knew she could go. She slid her hand down to her clitoris and began pleasuring herself.

  Even masturbation had been reinvented by Thomas. She felt no shame anymore. She didn’t even feel the need to be quiet. She had every right to do with her body as she desired.

  “Well that’s hot,” a voice came from the door. Sasha turned. Thomas was standing there, lounging against the door frame. “Don’t stop on my account.”

  Sasha turned the water off and stepped out of the shower. She was naked and dripping wet, a state that she knew Thomas found irresistible.

  “Did you want something?” Sasha purred.

  Though his eyes burned with arousal, Sasha could tell he wasn’t here for sex. She couldn’t help but feel a little disappointed.

  “I wanted to talk to you,” Thomas said.

  Sasha narrowed her eyes with bemusement. Talking seemed like the sort of thing a couple would do, the sort of thing people who were attached to each other enjoyed. Talking wasn’t something two casual sex partners should be getting involved in.

  “Okay…” she said warily. “What do you want to talk about?”

  “My sister.”

  “Oh.”

  Sasha wrapped a towel around herself then went into the bedroom. She sat on the bed and began towelling off her hair. Thomas took the armchair opposite.

  “Hard conversation?” Sasha said.

  He shook his head. “You have no idea.”

  Seeing Thomas sad and vulnerable made Sasha’s heart ache for him. But that wasn’t something she was supposed to feel. It was an emotion she couldn’t reconcile with the sexually liberated woman she was attempting to be. Sex, not affection, that was the new Sasha, wasn’t it?

  “She’s agreed to go to rehab,” he said. “As long as we don’t press charges.”

  Sasha nodded. “That’s okay.”

  “It is?”

  She shrugged. “She’s your sister. You love her and have to do what’s best for her.”

  Thomas shook his head. “You haven’t been online yet today, have you?”

  “No, I haven’t,” Sasha said. “And I don’t intend to. Thomas, I don’t care what people are saying about me. About us. None of it matters.”

  “She ruined your life.”

  Sasha smiled and picked her towel between her fingers. “My life doesn’t feel that ruined to be honest with you. I get to be here, in this beautiful house, on this beautiful island. I get to fly in private jets and model for magazines and eat lobster and drink mojitos. And I get to fuck you.”

  Thomas’s eyebrows drew together. “Is that all that matters to you now? What about your job?”

  “What about it?”

  “When I met you all you cared about was working.”

  “That was before I realized what it felt like to orgasm three times in a row,” Sasha quipped.

  But Thomas wasn’t smiling. A moment passed as he looked at her stony face. “I shouldn’t have brought you here,” he said finally.

  The abrupt change in the course of the conversation made Sasha’s mouth dropp
ed open. “What?”

  “You’re changing. You’ve lost sight of who you are.”

  “No,” Sasha contested. “I’m becoming who I was all along. The person I denied myself.”

  “You really think that?”

  Sasha couldn’t believe how condescending he was being. “I know that, Thomas.”

  Thomas sighed and shook his head. “I shouldn’t have done this to you.”

  Anger rose through Sasha. “Then why the fuck did you? Because you want sex on tap? Because you knew I just can’t say no?”

  Thomas narrowed his eyes with disdain. “Wow. You really don’t think much of me.”

  “You haven’t give me much reason to feel differently.”

  Thomas ran his hands through his hair. “Sasha, I brought you here because I want you...”

  “...For sex,” she interrupted, crying out.

  “For more than just sex!” he shouted back.

  Silence fell around them. Thomas’s face was red with passion. Sasha panted.

  “I want to forgive you,” Thomas said. “Because I want to be with you. Actually with you. For companionship. Friendship. A relationship. Not just for a PR stunt.”

  Sasha exhaled her anger. “You can have me,” she whispered. “You always could. The only person holding you back is you.”

  Thomas gazed into her eyes. “I know that. It’s just… with what happened with Crystal, with all the women in my life, I’m finding it hard to trust people. My own sister showed my scars to the world.” His face screwed up with anguish. “That’s why I immediately thought the worst when I saw you with that man. Crystal, the media, the way people use you up and spit you out, it’s made me paranoid.”

  Sasha felt a twinge of guilt. He wasn’t paranoid to think there was tension between her and Chris. There had been a kiss. But it was meaningless, hardly even reciprocated. Thomas was opening up to her, the last thing she needed to do was confirm all his fears.

  “You need to take a leap of faith,” Sasha said. “Or you’ll be stuck in that place forever.”