“How can I help you?” Shannon asked as she looked at her.
“How can you help me indeed?” Keisha asked and she seemed to be sizing her up. “You and Nate seemed a little too close when I walked into the penthouse the other day and then suddenly, I could no longer gain access to his place anymore.”
“I’m sorry about that,” Shannon said in a soft voice as she leaned against one wall.
“Well, you should be, missy, because you screwed up my plans,” she said. “We were supposed to have Thanksgiving with my parents this year. It was supposed to be a surprise.” Shannon took a long deep breath.
“Like I said, I am sorry things turned out like that for you.”
Keisha flipped her hair over her shoulder and looked at Shannon from head to toe.
“What the hell makes you so special, Shannon Leigh Michaels? I mean you are just a waitress and a fat one at that…” she started before Shannon frowned.
“Wait a minute, lady,” she started but Keisha was a little too busy hurling insults to notice.
“I just don’t understand how and why Nate would want to have you instead of me, an international model. And by the way, you should know that I am willing to ride or doe for my man and by that I mean that I will literally cut a bitch!” By this time, she was moving closer to Shannon.
“Who the hell are you calling a bitch, bitch?” Shannon asked. Keisha would have probably expected her to move back when he began moving towards her but Shannon stayed put.
“Is everything alright out here?” Shannon heard Mika’s voice behind her.
“You know what you are, Shannon Leigh Michaels?” Keisha started as she looked ta Shannon from head to toe. “You are a sad blob who will never be able to get anything she wants. So enjoy your five minutes of fame because once Nate’s done feeling up that cushion ass he will remember what real sex feels like and…” Shannon couldn’t listen anymore. She was about to slap Keisha when Mika rushed to her side and held her hand steady.
“Don’t…stay cool,” Mika said in a whisper as she held Shannon’s hand in hers.
An insincere smile played across Keisha’s lips.
“Listen to your friend, she seems to have a good shoulder on her head,” she said as she looked at Shannon. “Unlike you,” she added before she walked past the two of them.
“What a class A bitch!” Mika said as she turned around to look at Keisha who was now getting into a white Range Rover and drove away. “Who the hell was that?” she asked as she looked at Shannon who by now had an angry tear rolling down her cheek.
“Whoa…what’s going on? What did she say? Who was that?” Mika asked, her voice full of concern.
“Cover my table, please,” she said as she walked away from Mika.
“But you didn’t tell me what happened,” Mika called out but Shannon never stopped or turned around.
Chapter 6
When she woke up on Saturday morning, Shannon was still in a foul mood and a little angry with herself. She hated that she could not put Keisha in her place. She walked to the kitchen and grabbed a bowl, a bottle of milk and a box of cereal. She then walked to the living room and sat down in front of the TV.
“Crap,” she cursed under her breath when she realized she had not carried a spoon. She made her way back to the kitchen and grabbed a spoon from the dish rack. She was about to sit down when she heard a knock on her door. ”Clearly the universe doesn’t want me to have breakfast,” she thought to herself as she walked to the door.
“Do you make a habit of opening the door without confirming who is on the other side?” Nathan asked when she opened the door. She forced a smile as he stepped forward and kissed her softly. “You look exhausted.”
“I just woke up,” she said. “You want to come in?”
He walked in and she closed the door behind him before she made her way back to the living room.
“Is everything okay with your phone because I have been calling and texting you,” he said as she sat down and poured her cereal into the bowl.
“I know,” she said. She then poured some milk and then took a bite.
“Is everything okay?” he asked as he looked at her. She shrugged and took another bite before he sat down next to her. She hated acting like the dramatic bitch but she had always been known to wear her feelings on her sleeve. She was about to take another bite when Nathan took the bowl away from her and placed it on the table. “Why don’t you talk to me? Tell me what’s on your mind.”
She looked at him for a long minute and tried to speak but she just couldn’t.
“Please talk to me, baby,” Nathan said again.
“Keisha came to the restaurant,” she finally said when she found her voice.
“I’m sorry, what?”
“You heard me. She sought me out and she found me,” she said before she reached for the bowl.
Nathan ran his fingers through his thick hair and sighed.
“I should have known,” he said in a soft voice as he reached into his inside jacket pocket. She watched him as he made a quick call. “Maxwell, hi…yeah I know...listen, I need a restraining order.”
“What are you doing?” Shannon asked as she looked at him. He placed a hand on the mouthpiece and looked at her.
“Protecting you,’ he said in a soft voice before he pulled his hand from the mouthpiece. “It’s for a girl, Shannon Leigh Michaels. Keisha has been harassing her…yes, the model.”
Shannon reached for her bowl and took another bite of her cereal as she listened to him making a deal with his lawyer. By the time he hang up, she was already done with her cereal. She put the bowl down on the table and looked at him.
“Is she that crazy that I need a restraining order?” she asked and Nathan sighed.
“Honestly, anyone crazy enough to do what she did…” he looked up at her and shook his head. “I cannot take that risk.”
There was a long quiet minute as she looked into his eyes.
“Can I get you something to drink? Coffee? Juice?” she asked as she stood up and began walking to the kitchen.
“Actually I came over to know what you are doing today,” he said. She turned around and shrugged.
“Nothing really. If I didn’t have the day off I would probably be looking forward to going to work but such is life,” she said in a cynical tone. He exhaled loudly as a smile played on his lips.
“You are angry with me, aren’t you?” he asked and she shrugged.
“Well, when the shoe is on the other foot, let me know how it feels,” she said. She put the bowl in the sink and turned around. “And why do you need my schedule all of a sudden?”
He slowly walked up to where she was and slipped an arm around her waist pulling her close to himself. She looked up into his eyes, her lips slightly parted.
“You need to understand one thing, Shan,” he started as he stroked the side of her face with his index finger. “I would never ever hurt you and anyone who tries to will have to go through me first.”
She shook her head and sighed.
“What do you want from me, Nate? It’s been years and ]…” her voice trailed off when he gently backed her up against the counter and took a long deep breath.
“Do you have any idea what you do to me, Shannon?” he asked in a whisper. “You…you are everything I have been looking for all these years.” He gently held her neck and pressed his forehead into hers. “I told you once and I’ll tell you again. I’ve waited too long to lose you now.”
He looked down at her and began lowering his head to kiss her. She stood on tip toe and closed her eyes when he brushed his lips against hers. She exhaled into his mouth when he pulled her even closer, almost as if he could not get her close enough. A moan escaped her when she felt him slide his hand lower to cup a feel of her ass.
When he finally pulled away, she was almost breathless. She opened her eyes and looked into his eyes. She hated what she was feeling. She had felt it before, the feeling of being wholly committed to
someone almost as if nothing else in the world mattered. The feeling of having your heart totally feel like it is beating for something else, for someone else. The last few times she had felt like this…it always ended badly and she didn’t even feel as strongly for them as she did Nathan.
“I’m scared,” she suddenly said in a soft voice.
“Why?” Nathan asked, still stroking her hair. “What are you so scared of?”
“I don’t want to get hurt. I can’t…I can’t feel that again,” she said and he forced out a laugh.
“Do you know how many people I have tried being with, pretending that they could take your place?” He asked in a whisper. “You…you have my heart, Shan. You have always had my heart.” He kissed her forehead softly and then pulled away.
“Why did you come here? And why were you asking about my plans?” she asked.
“Because I want to take you to New York with me,” he said and she raised an eyebrow over the other.
“Excuse me?” she asked.
“You heard me. I want you to come down to New York with me,” he said again before he kissed her again. This time, he was not giving her short kisses. He was kissing her so deeply and so passionately, she could feel the goosebumps on her skin. He slipped a hand under her shirt and held her bare waist making her sigh into his mouth. He was slowly raising his hand higher and higher getting dangerously close to her breast, making her shiver. He pulled away from her lips and began kissing her neck as his hand went higher, cupping a feel of her generous mound. She gently pushed his hands down and he pulled away.
“You okay?” he asked in a whisper.
“I’m fine. I just…” she bit her lip. She didn’t know how to tell him that she was still not comfortable with him looking at her naked body. “I’m fine,” she said again as she slowly began unbuckling his belt. Her hands were shaking as she slowly pulled the zipper down. She looked up at him and then got on her knees before she pulled his briefs down revealing his already hard cock.
“You don’t have to do this,” Nathan said as he tried pulling her to her feet but she shook her head.
“I want to,” she said softly, her hand on his chest.
She was looking at him as her hand slowly slid down his chest. She slowly got down on her knees and kissed his left thigh and then his right one before she made her way upwards tracing her kisses to his waist. She held his already stiff cock in her hand and looked up briefly before she gently ran her tongue on the head of his cock. He whimpered when he felt the warmth of her tongue running along his length. She was teasing him and she loved every single minute of it. When she finally took him into her mouth, he let out a loud gasp. She allowed him to sink himself deep in her throat before she pulled back. She had never really considered going down on someone so large and long because she didn’t think she could handle the girth but without even wanting to, she was taking his entire length: sucking, licking and nibbling and he was leaning against the counter with his head thrown back taking everything she had to offer.
“Slow down, baby,” Nathan begged as she went on but his pleas only seemed to fuel her motions. She was sucking on him harder than ever almost as if her life depended on it.
“Shannon,” he begged again. “I am going to cum.”
But that was exactly what she wanted him to do. She intensified her rhythm as she stroked him with her hand and with the wetness of her mouth until she felt him exploding inside her mouth. She pulled away and dabbed the sides of her mouth with her thumb and index finger.
“Now,” she started as she got on her feet. “We can go to New York, if you were serious about it in the first place.”
Nathan looked at her and forced out an exhausted smile.
“Of course I was serious.”
Chapter 7
Throughout the hour long journey to New York, Nathan had been wondering what kind of world he would be stepping in. He had asked Lee to find him a new property and he just wasn’t sure what he had found on short notice. For all she cared, Lee could have got him a townhouse…something he didn’t really care for.
When his driver pulled up in front of a townhouse in the Upper East Side, a smile played on Nathan’s lips.
“Of course he did,” he said under his breath and Shannon looked at him.
“Did you say something?” she asked and he smiled.
“We’re here,” he said before he leaned forward and kissed her softly.
“This is where you spend most of your time?” Shannon asked when he had got out and opened the door for her.
“Not really,” Nathan said as they walked up the steps to the front door.
“What do you mean, not really?” she asked, looking around.
“This is a new place, actually,” he admitted and she turned around genuinely surprised.
“New place as in you have never been here?” He nodded. “Why?”
“Well, I just acquired the property because I want to make sure no one bothers you,” he said.
“Keisha?” she asked and he nodded.
“She used to stop by my place every time she was in New York. She didn’t know about my place in Virginia until some time back...I really wish I hadn’t.”
“You couldn’t have known what was going to happen,” she said in a soft voice.
“Still.” He pulled her into his arms and smiled. “I still feel like I have a lot to make up for.”
“And how do you intend to start?” she asked.
“I don’t know about you but I am starving. How about we make our way down to Del Posto?” he asked and she frowned.
“I don’t have anything nearly as fancy for such a place,” she said and he kissed her again.
“Why don’t we find the master bedroom first? I made sure my PA left a little something for you there.” He took her hand in his and led her up the stairs all the while fighting the urge to pin her against the wall and just have hos way with her.
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Nathan had always known that there was something women loved about spas and salons and he knew that the best way to start off his magical weekend with Shannon, was an afternoon at the spa. By the time his driver brought her back, Nathan could almost feel Shannon’s confidence in the room. She seemed to be glowing and ever so relaxed. Her curls had been straightened out and her hair was now flowing luxuriously on her shoulders. She had on a black sleeveless knee length dress and a pair of black strapped heels.
“You look…spectacular,” he said when he saw her.
“All thanks to you,” she said, smiling. “And you don’t look so bad yourself,” she added as she looked at his perfect grey suit and a burgundy shirt.
He slowly walked towards her and held the back of her neck.
“I just want to take you right now,” he said as he looked into her brown eyes. He reached behind her and pulled down her zipper.
“Nathan?” Shannon asked in a soft voice.
“You are too damn sexy right now,” was his answer. He lowered his head and kissed her softly before he pulled away and took her hand in his. He was quiet as he led her upstairs to the master bedroom. As soon as they got there, he pulled her to himself and claimed her lips in a hard, hungry kiss that left him breathless. His tongue forced its way into her mouth as he slid his hands down her lower back. She moaned into his mouth as he dug into the folds of her flesh with one hand and brought the other one around to caress her breast through the fabric of her dress. By the time he pulled away, his erection was obvious by the bulge in his pants and hers by how hard she was breathing.
He put his hands on either side of her waist and looked down at her.
“You drive me crazy, Shannon,” he whispered as he pressed his body into hers. She was breathing hard and heavy as he slowly began pushing the dress off her shoulders. She shivered lightly when he pushed the dress all the way down to her waist and slowly pulled back.
“The light,” she whispered. “Put it out.”
Nathan looked at her and shook his head.
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“No I want to see you,” he said as he pulled her back to him. “You are all mine. Every beautiful curve, every little flaw. I want to see you,” he said again as he pushed the dress further down until it gathered around her ankles. She was looking right at him when he put a hand behind her neck and pulled her towards him. He nibbled, licked and sucked at her bottom lip before he slipped his tongue into her mouth. She moaned softy when he suddenly pulled away and turned her around, holding her against himself. He gently swept her hair off to one side and began kissing her shoulder and then her neck.
He quickly undid the clasp of her bra and pulled her bra off letting her tits fall free. She shivered when he filled his hand with her breast making her nipple harden almost immediately.
“Tell me what you want,” he said in a whisper.
“Take me,” Shannon said. “Take me right now.”
He smiled and kissed her shoulder again before he traced his kisses down her spine until he got to her waist. He could feel his cock straining against the fabric of his boxer shorts. He gently nudged her forward so that she got on to the bed. She was lying on her back as he stripped off his own clothes revealing his pulsating cock.
Shannon spread her legs as he joined her on the bed, kneeling in between her legs. He looked down at her as one hand slowly ran down the side of her body. He then brought his head down and took in her nipple making her gasp loudly. He let his hand go down to her core and she moaned as he stroked her wetness. She was arching her back as he claimed her breasts and pussy over and over. He knew that if ever there was a moment she was ready for him, it was at that moment. The way she was moaning and moving under him, he knew that she was ready but he wasn’t. Not just yet.
Nathan pulled back and looked down at her as he stroked her slit. He was loving how her face was responding to the pleasure he was giving her and her pussy was soaking up the bedding. He pulled out his fingers and she whimpered. She reached for his hand and raised his fingers to her mouth. She looked into his eyes and licked his fingers clean and for a moment, he could have sworn he felt his cock twitch. He then got his weight on her. Her wetness rubbing against him was all the encouragement he needed. He suddenly pushed himself into her making her gasp loudly. He raised his head and looked down at her.
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