“It’s very good, Karena,” Alex said to her as he nodded and chewed.
Kari beamed. “You really like it?”
“I love it! It’s very tasty. Taste it, Jordan.”
But Jordan wasn’t feeling it. “No, I’m good,” he said with a smirk on his face. “You go ‘head on. Eat to your heart’s content. You can have mine, too, if you want.”
Alex and Kari laughed. “You are not getting up from this table,” Alex warned with a grin, “until you clean your plate.”
“Ah, come on, Mr. Drakos! Cleaning plates is kid stuff. I’m no kid anymore!”
“You heard him,” Kari said. “Clean that plate.”
“No fair. Two against one,” Jordan said. “No fair!”
But he eventually tasted it, and he liked it too.
But after dinner, after Alex excused himself to the living room to make a few business calls and Jordan and Kari were clearing the table, Jordan leaned over to his mother. “Is he going to take you to his house tonight?” he asked her.
Kari glanced at her son. “Why?”
“I just don’t see where it’s necessary.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means he doesn’t have to take you all the way to his house tonight. He can sleep with you right here, in our house.”
Kari frowned. She did all she could, in this new relationship with Alex, to keep their bedroom action away from Jordan. “Who says he sleeps with me, Jordan?” she asked.
“Come on, Ma. Why else would every time he comes to town he picks you up and keep you with him all night? I’m young, but I’m not stupid!”
Kari smiled. He sometimes, in his insightfulness, wasn’t all that young either. “I don’t know what he’s going to do,” she said. She just knew he was definitely going to do something!
“I’m going to shoot hoops with the guys in a few. Then we’re going to the arcade, so it’ll be late before I get back.”
“Not all that late, Jordan,” Kari said. “It’s a school night.”
“I won’t be late like that, but I won’t be right back. That’s what I mean.”
Kari knew exactly what he meant. He was willing to do his part to make sure his mother didn’t blow the chance for them to keep a man like Alex Drakos in their lives. That was what he meant!
But Jordan had a deeper meaning too. “I just want you to be home when I get back,” he said. “That way, I’ll know for certain you’re okay.”
Kari realized how much that incident at the diner affected her son. He was still worried about her, even though the lady in the car died. But the fact that the lady had tried to harm her, and that lady had once been a mistress of Alex’s, was what kept Jordan unnerved. Kari smiled and ruffled his soft hair. “I’ll be sure to be home when you get back,” she said.
CHAPTER TEN
Alex completed his business calls and made his way back into the kitchen. “Where’s Jordan?” he asked as he stood on the side of the center island.
“He went to shoot hoops and play at the arcade with his friends,” Kari replied. She was prepping the dishes for the dishwasher. “He’ll be back.” She said this and then glanced back at him.
Alex started to ask if she was ready to go to his house, his dick was calling, but when she glanced back at him with that sensual look she had about her that always turned him on, he knew he wasn’t going to make it home. His dick was calling!
He made his way over to her and stood behind her. “Need some help?” he asked as he placed his hands on her hips.
“With these dishes? No,” she replied.
“What about with other things?” he asked as he began rubbing her hips and rubbing his aroused penis against her tight ass in her tight shorts.
Kari almost closed her eyes at the feel of his dick against her; at the feel of his hands all over her. “Depends on what those other things are,” she said.
Alex leaned down and began kissing her on her neck. “Other things,” he said. “Sweet other things.”
Kari stood erect and leaned her head to the side, giving him maximum access. He began unbuttoning her shorts. “You like sweet things, don’t you, Karena?” he asked her.
“I’ve been known to have a sweet tooth every now and then,” she responded, milking up his kisses.
“Then I think,” Alex said as he pulled down her shorts and panties, dropping them along her ankles, and as he placed his hands between her legs, “you’ll like this.” He began rubbing her vagina.
“Ah,” Kari said as her breathing became panting. “Ah!”
Alex was rubbing hard, and kissing harder, and Kari turned to face him.
He found her mouth and began kissing her even harder, as she wrapped her arms around his neck and they both succumbed to the passion.
Alex lifted her onto the drainboard above the dishwasher, with her slippers, shorts and panties automatically falling on off, and he opened her wide. Then he knelt down and began kissing her just as passionate between her legs.
Kari leaned back on her elbows and leaned her head back even further as his kisses turned into sucks that turned into long, slow licks that sensualized not only her clitoris, but every inch of her womanhood. She could feel the fire of his tongue!
Alex could feel it too. He was a man who used to give oral as quick foreplay. Nothing excited him about it. Until he tasted Kari. Now he couldn’t get enough of her. Now, whenever they came together, he was eating her almost as much as he was fucking her. When he started, and that taste overtook him, he could hardly stop.
The only thing that ever stopped him was the urgency of his cock calling. He had tented so bad inside of his pants that he was about to tear a hole in them if there was no release.
He didn’t want to stop. But for that urgent matter, he could have gone on all night. But he did stop, and he lifted her up and into his arms.
Kari wrapped her legs around his body as he carried her out of the kitchen. Their passion was so high that they began kissing mouth to mouth as he carried her through the living room, down the hall, and into her bedroom.
He closed the door behind them, placed her on the bed, and then quickly began removing every stitch of his own clothing. Kari began rubbing his thick penis when he exposed it, and he got on the bed on his knees, saddled her, and moved up to her mouth.
When he put his penis inside of her mouth and began to mouth-fuck her, Kari, the undisputed queen when it came to giving him exactly what he wanted, took over.
He didn’t have to guide her. He didn’t have to direct her. She knew exactly what to do. And this time, it was Alex who could hardly contain the intensity of her masterful work. He had to hold onto the head board as Kari sucked and licked him. The intensity was that great.
But it couldn’t last for long. Alex wasn’t about to cum in her mouth. He wanted to be inside of her when that pleasure came.
That was why that wonderfulness had to come to an end too. In bed, Alex steered their ship.
He lifted her blouse. She was wearing no bra. And then he sucked her breasts with the same vigor he had sucked her vagina. But as he sucked her, he entered her. He didn’t have to guide his penis inside of her either. He entered her with a slow glide in. And then, because she remained so tight and right, a sudden push.
Kari’s breath caught, and she arched, when that push came. Alex’s thickness filled her so completely that she felt as if a balloon had expanded inside of her. Only his balloon was hard and thick and wet.
But as his precum mixed with her vaginal juices, and as they both could hear the sound of that mixture and feel its slickness, he sucked her breasts even harder and wrapped her into his arms.
They made love for nearly half an hour. Alex never thought he could possibly last that long whenever he would first enter her, and that night was no exception. But once inside of Kari, and once he felt every ridge of her sweet womanhood, it was stopping that became the harder task. There were no premature ejaculations. There was no sudden rush of cum.
Being inside of Kari felt too good. So wonderful that he had to control it. So wonderful that he slowed his roll, laid on top of her, and enjoyed every stroke.
He fucked her so long and so hard that they both were drenched inside and out. Inside with their mixture. And outside with the sweat of their labors.
And both were laboring. By the time they were about to cum, Kari’s feet were on Alex’s bare ass, and Alex’s bare ass was pumping her so hard she thought he was going to explode inside of her.
And he did. When she had her orgasm, he had his release. And it felt like an explosion of hot lava for both of them.
But Alex was still fucking her. He was still getting in what he just knew would be his last push in, his last gyration, the final moment of their love making. But he kept on pushing and gyrating and love making. He didn’t want it to end. Until even he had no choice.
Until he had no more push, gyration, or love making within him.
A few minutes later, as they were laying arm in arm, what happened that morning came up again. From Kari. She still had so many questions! “Did your men find out anything new about that woman?” she asked him.
Alex smiled. “Other than everything she’s ever done her entire life you mean?” he asked her.
Kari smiled. “Yeah, other than that.”
“They found out she was in financial trouble.”
Kari looked at him. “Major trouble?”
“Super-major. To the point where she had to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for her cosmetics company. She owes half of America. She was in bad shape.”
“But why would she take it out on me? I don’t get that.”
“She was at the groundbreaking ceremony, remember? She saw when I got you out of the crowd and took you up on stage with me. Jimmy said she looked angry as hell when I did that. She’s going down, you and I are going up. I don’t know, darling. Some people just have that jealousy within them. It can make some people very bitter.”
“But who would be bitter and jealous if love wasn’t involved? I mean, who does that? Did she love you that much?” Kari asked him.
“Love me?” Alex had a look of alarm on his face. “That woman didn’t love me! No woman ever had. Except you.”
Kari’s heart swelled with emotion when he made that statement, and she smiled that warm, wonderful smile Alex always enjoyed viewing.
“No,” he continued. “It had nothing to do with love. She might have claimed it did. But it couldn’t have. We fucked a few times. That was the full extent of our relationship. I almost didn’t even remember that woman. Love had nothing to do with it. I’m certain of it.”
Kari snuggled even closer against Alex, and he held her even tighter. But she wasn’t as certain as he was. Men could be very careless with ladies’ hearts. They could think it was no big deal at all. Just fucking. When it was the world to the lady.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
The next morning, Kari woke up in a state of panic. The last thing she remembered from last night was when she fell asleep in Alex’s arms. She remembered having a very good, serene night’s sleep. But she had no idea if Jordan made it home last night, or if he walked in on them naked, asleep, and in bed together.
Her bedroom door was wide open. She could see that. And she knew Alex had undressed her downstairs last night, and he left her clothes where they fell. Did Jordan come home and see her discarded clothes? Did he see them?
She turned over, to see what Alex thought, but to her shock he wasn’t even in bed still. That didn’t help her anxiety at all! Did something happen with Jordan and he decided to go and handle it himself? Did he leave last night?
She got out of bed quickly. Another shocker: she wasn’t naked as her last memory from last night had recalled. She was wearing her nightgown. Had she awakened and put it on herself? Or did Alex do that?
As soon as she hurried out of the room, she began to get answers to her questions. Firstly, the guest bed across the hall was unmade, as if it had been slept in. Secondly, she heard the sound of male voices in her kitchen. And they weren’t distressful sounds. But, she dared to hope, jovial sounds!
She hurried up the hall, and across the living room to the center island. To her great relief, Alex, fully dressed in one of those expensive suits he left at her house, was standing behind the island sipping coffee. Jordan, fully dressed in khakis and a blue polo shirt, was sitting at the island eating cereal. They were talking, not about some issue from last night, but about basketball! Kari was happy.
“He’s good,” Alex said, “and he has a mean three-pointer. But I wouldn’t put him in the elite category.”
“But you have to, Mr. Drakos,” Jordan responded. “Westbrook is averaging a triple-double nearly every game this season. He’s on fire since Durant left! If he isn’t elite, I don’t know who is.”
As Kari approached the two men, she began looking for her discarded shorts, her slippers, and, she was embarrassed to admit, her panties! But when she didn’t see them, she realized what undoubtedly had happened: Alex woke up last night, hopefully before Jordan made it home, and removed her clothes from the kitchen. He also put that nightgown on her, and he spent the rest of the night in the guest bed. That would be so like Alex that Kari assumed it was exactly what had happened. She relaxed completely for the first time that morning.
“Good morning,” she said as she entered the kitchen.
Jordan and Alex both smiled when they saw Kari.
“Hey, babe,” Alex said.
“Hey, Ma,” Jordan said. “You look like the weather witch.”
As Alex laughed, Kari only then realized that her hair was all over her head and she undoubtedly looked worse than the weather witch!
“But we love you anyway,” Alex said jovially, and was immediately surprised he had said it. He was not the kind of man, ever, to toss out that four-letter word so easily. But he’d never met a woman like Kari before, or a great kid like Jordan. He wasn’t taking it back.
Kari appreciated his shout-out, and she understood what it took for him to say it, but she smiled, waved, and headed right back down the hall. Love or no love, she was going to shower, dress, and pull herself together before she made any return appearances.
Alex decided he and Kari should go to breakfast together before he made his way to the construction site and she made her way to her office, so they piled into his Mercedes-Maybach with Alex as driver.
Jordan was over-the-moon as he sat in the middle of the backseat. Although he was belted in, he was leaned forward the entire time, running his mouth. It wasn’t his first time in Mr. Drakos’ Maybach, but it was the first time that Mr. Drakos, along with his mother, was driving him to school. He felt on top of the world. And kept running his mouth!
Until some girl he liked sent him a text. He leaned back in his seat, forgot about the grownups, and focused all of his attention on responding to her.
Kari smiled and shook her head. “That’s my boy,” she said, and Alex laughed. “Now maybe we’ll get some peace.”
“That boy can talk, can’t he?” Alex asked.
Kari laughed. “Yes, he can. Yes, he can!” Then she looked at Alex. It was the first time she had a chance to discuss last night. “You remember what I wore last night?” she asked him. She needed to be sure he was the one who put her clothes away.
“That was taken care of,” Alex said as he drove, and then glanced at her. She smiled. It was confirmed!
“And your guest bed was very comfortable” he added, if she still had doubts. “I was almost asleep when Jordan made it home.”
Kari exhaled, leaned back, and relaxed. Alex had been his father’s fixer back in the day. He knew how to handle things. Kari needed to remember that.
But Alex had already moved on. “You and Jordan have a fresh security team,” he told her.
Kari looked at him. “Fresh? You mean as in new?”
Alex smiled. “Yes.”
“Why would I need a new team? What happened to the old te
am?”
“They dropped the ball, Kari. That’s what happened to them. They should have known who Courtney Tyson was.”
“But how could they have known who she was, when I didn’t even know?”
“The names of every woman I’ve ever been with were placed in a database. Whenever they encountered any unknown woman around you, talking to you, following you, whatever, they were directed to take a quick photo and run that photo through the database. They would have gotten a hit if they had done their jobs. They would have been able to intervene before it had gotten out of hand, out of serious hand,” he added, glancing again at Kari, “if they had done their jobs.”
Kari understood what he meant, and then nodded her head. She wasn’t about to argue with a man who was looking out for her best interest. “Who’s in charge now?” she asked him.
“Jimmy Hines.”
Kari looked at Alex. “Jimmy Hines? The chief investigator for your entire corporation? You’re putting him in charge of my little security detail?”
“Yes.”
“Isn’t that a significant stepdown for him?”
“Yes.”
“I’m sure he doesn’t like that at all, Alex.”
“I’m sure I don’t care,” Alex responded. “He’s the best I have. I’m putting the best with you and Jordan. He’s running the show from this end.”
Kari’s heart swelled with love for Alex, and she stared at him until he looked at her once again. “Thanks,” she said, heartfelt.
Alex reached over, took her hand, and squeezed it. Anything for my woman, he wanted to say. But he wasn’t anywhere near that sentimental yet. He let his hand-squeeze speak for him.
Then his cell phone rang. It was on Bluetooth, connected to the car. When Matt Scribner’s name and number came up on the car’s screen, he pressed the button. “Matt, hey,” he said. “What’s up?”
“We’ve got trouble, Alex. Big trouble.”
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