My Blackmail Baby: Billionaire Bad Boy Romance
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“Sure,” Gloria agreed and her disappointment faded in an instant. “I can do that.”
“Great,” Mark responded. “Just make your way there and I’ll see you when you arrive.”
Her words brought the conversation to an end and she then went about closing the store as quickly as she could. She set off along the sidewalk after locking the door and saw the bus she wanted coming to a halt at the stop. It meant breaking into a run to catch it and she was gasping for breath when she got on. There were only a few people on board, and after paying the fare, she easily got a window seat to watch the passing New Orleans cityscape as the journey got underway.
The bus stopped at a few stops to pick up passengers, but Gloria paid little attention to them until she heard the sound of a crying baby. She couldn’t help watching as the mother sat down and tried to calm the child, but looked away quickly. It only made her think about the concern she was having, but as usual she shrugged it away quickly.
“It might be nothing,” she said in a quiet voice, but didn’t really convince herself.
She returned her attention to the passing scene and it was only when she got close to the stop she wanted that she got to her feet. When she stepped down to the sidewalk, she set off on foot to walk the rest of the way to Mark’s apartment. She looked up when the light drizzle of rain started then quickened her pace in the hope that she would miss the worst of the weather. It wasn’t to be as the rain came down heavier and by the time she got to the apartment building she was drenched.
“Bloody great,” she cursed when she walked in the lobby area. She moved across to the concierge’s desk and smiled ruefully at him. “Could you let Mr. Godfrey know that I’m here,” she told him. “Gloria Thompson.”
“Just go on up,” the man said then picked up the phone to make the call.
Gloria didn’t need to be told twice. She made her way across to the elevator and the doors opened straight away when she pushed the button. In seconds she was heading up and she saw Mark waiting for her at the open door of his apartment when she stepped out to the hallway.
“The concierge told you then,” she said when she got to him.
“Yeah,” Mark replied with a grin. “He said something about a drowned rat trying to get up to my apartment.”
“Shut up,” she complained as she snatched the towel that was being held out to her.
“Go and have a hot shower,” Mark told her when she was inside. “Give me your clothes and I’ll hang them up to dry.”
Gloria nodded her head and toweled her hair as she walked towards the guest bathroom. She stepped inside and closed the door before stripping off her wet clothes. There was a white robe hanging on the towel rack and she put it on before opening the door. Mark was standing waiting and their eyes met when she held out her clothes. She half expected him to knock them from her hand and come in the bathroom, but he simply smiled and took them.
“The food is almost ready,” he told her. “Just come along to the kitchen when you finish.”
“OK,” she agreed and watched him walk off.
She couldn’t help the slight despondency that came over her, but suspected that Mark was still dwelling on the events of the divorce meeting that afternoon. There was nothing she could do about that for the moment and she closed the door again to have a shower. The hot water warmed her up after the soaking she suffered in the rain and she remained under the jets for a few minutes to just enjoy them. When she finally switched off the water, she got out of the large cubicle and grabbed a towel to dry herself. All there was to wear was the robe, so she put it on and cinched the belt tightly around her waist. The hem was a few inches above her knees and the fact that she was completely naked below the white material was slightly arousing.
“Get your mind of sex,” she told herself when she glanced in the mirror. “Hasn’t that given you enough problems already?”
She tucked her damp hair behind her ears then ran her fingertips across the light brown skin of her cheek as she stared at herself in the mirror. It wasn’t exactly the appearance she wanted, but she was stuck with it now. Turning away from her reflection, she walked across to the door to let herself out to the hallway. The delicious aroma of the food came to her before she even got to the kitchen.
“A man of many talents,” she teased Mark when she walked in the room.
“I can cook,” he said and smiled. “Take a seat and I’ll even serve you as well.”
Gloria was aware of the robe sliding off her leg when she sat, but made no attempt to cover herself up. She noticed Mark’s glance down towards the smooth skin of her naked thigh when he put the plate down on the table in front of her and she wondered if it was giving him ideas. On previous occasions they could barely keep their hands off each other when they were in the apartment, but for once the mood was subdued. He put his own plate on the table then sat down and there was silence for a short while as they ate. It was Mark that eventually spoke first.
“How was your day?”
“Not as bad as yours by the sound of it,” she replied.
Mark let out a sigh and there was a rueful smile on his face when he looked at her.
“I wish the divorce was over and done with,” he said. “I can’t seem to get Karen’s claws out of me. It makes it difficult to get on with my life, with her presence constantly hanging over me.”
Gloria couldn’t help asking the question that flashed through her head.
“Where does that leave us?”
“In limbo,” he replied. “I want us to be together, but it’s not exactly going to be easy for the moment.”
Gloria let out a sigh and started to pick at her food. It was nice to hear that he wanted to be with her. With the divorce stretching out for months into the future and showing no signs of coming to an end, however, it didn’t leave them in a great position.
“You don’t want Karen finding out about me, I take it,” she went on.
“For your sake as much as mine,” Mark replied. “She’s a spiteful bitch that would probably just look to use our relationship to her advantage in the divorce. She’d make me out to be some sort of womanizer and more than likely drag you in to the middle of something you really don’t want to be involved in.”
The pair of them went silent as they tried to eat, but they managed only a few mouthfuls.
“I need a drink,” Mark eventually said and got to his feet. “Do you want one?”
Gloria shook her head, but gave up on eating too and stood to follow him when he walked through to the lounge. She walked over to the window to look at the lights of the city and was still standing there a couple of minutes later. When she moved across the room, she saw Mark sitting brooding in an armchair. His glass was already empty and she suspected that he probably finished the whisky in one or two gulps.
“Do you want another one?’ she asked him.
He smiled when he glanced up at her and held out the glass to hand it over. Gloria moved to the liquor cabinet and opened the bottle of whisky to pour some. She walked to where Mark was sitting and saw that he was deep in thought.
“Anything I can do to take your mind of your troubles,” she said and sat down on his lap.
“It’s just nice to have you here,” he replied. “Why didn’t we meet years ago?”
Gloria shrugged her shoulders as she handed over the glass of whisky and watched as he downed almost half of it straight away.
“We’re together now,” she went on. “Isn’t that all that matters?”
She moved position slightly to make the robe slip off her thigh. Mark looked down at the pretty sight and immediately settled his free hand on it. The soft touch of his fingertips stroking on her bare skin was enough to awaken her desire and suddenly getting intimate with him was all she could think about. There was no doubt he was feeling the same when he stretched out his arm to put the glass he was holding down on the coffee table. It was something other than alcohol he wanted and Gloria shivered as his fingers cre
pt higher on her thigh. She was the center of his attention now as he leaned forward for a kiss.
She could taste the whisky on his lips and it grew stronger when his tongue slipped in her mouth to brush against hers. It wasn’t what she was concentrating on though. Her focus was on the soft caress of his fingertips on her naked skin. The way she was sitting was keeping her thighs pressed tightly together and she was excited by the way Mark began trying to force his hand between them. She shifted position so she could move her legs apart and gasped as his touch slid higher.
There was a thrill to the way the erotic action was bringing his erection alive so quickly and she squirmed around on his lap as the hardness pressed against her butt. Her gasp came out louder when Mark’s fingers found their goal and the touch on her already swollen lips made her groan. She was easily opened up and the wetness of her lust enabled his fingertips to slip inside. Their mouths came together hungrily in another kiss and his delicious touch in her pussy slid deeper still as their longing for each other erupted to life.
Gloria squirmed around to move forward and the penetration of stiff fingers slid against the soft skin of her inner depths. The kiss became ever more passionate and she squeezed her thighs together. The way it trapped his fingers inside her made her shudder and she pulled out of the kiss and gasped.
“So hard,” she let out under her breath as she wriggled around on his lap.
Her movements also made his fingers stir around inside her, but she groaned as he slowly withdrew his hand from between her thighs then pressed his lips on her neck. He slipped his hand inside the robe and the slippery sensation of his wet fingers on her belly brought out a fire that grew hotter as sensual kisses continued to play on her naked skin. She rocked her head back to expose her throat and groaned again as the touch on her midriff slid higher. In seconds her breasts were being groped and the rough touch of fingers sinking in her soft curves brought out her arousal even more.
Her chest heaved as Mark tweaked and pinched at her nipples then dragged the material of the robe aside to completely expose her breasts. The caress of his lips on the side of her neck was sending shivers down her spine and she closed her eyes as her exhilaration climbed. They were losing themselves to the delights of each other’s body and unable to control their emotions. Gloria looked down at the disheveled robe and brought her hand on top of her lover’s as he continued to fondle her.
“We should go to the bedroom,” she said.
Mark let go of her breasts to grab her hips and held on tightly to grind his erection on her butt. She squirmed and wriggled to rub herself on him until the desperation for more came over her. It was a struggle to get up from his lap as he continued trying to hold her down, but she finally managed it. The robe hung open to reveal a swathe of naked skin, but the belt still held the sides together at her waist and the white material covered her groin. She saw that’s where his gaze was.
“Is this what you want to see?” she asked.
He licked his lips as he watched her reach for the belt. The tease of revealing everything to him was turning her on and her heartbeat quickened as she undid the knot. The ends of the belt hung down when she was finished and the sides of the robe parted to expose her naked body. Mark reached out to her, but she stepped away and crooked her forefinger. As she kept walking, she beckoned him after her and her breath rasped out when he got to his feet and did just that.
She managed to get out of the living room without being caught, but Mark wasn’t to be denied what he so obviously wanted. He managed to grab her wrist just as she got to the bedroom door. Gloria was pinned against the wall in the hallway as he kissed her and the robe was being dragged from her shoulders before their lips even parted. She let the material slip off her arms and it dropped to the floor at her feet.
The next kiss wasn’t on her mouth and her head cracked against the wall when Mark’s lips found the sensitive skin of her throat. Her breath was ragged as the kisses slid lower and her legs began to shake. She pressed herself against the wall as her lover’s lips found a nipple and brushed over it. The flourish of hot arousal surged through her veins to make her tremble even more and it was a struggle to stay on her feet as her knees weakened.
Mark looked up as he circled his tongue around a nipple. Gloria waited for the pleasure of him taking it in his mouth, but he seemed hell bent on teasing her into submission and licked across her chest to work his tongue around her other dark bud. She was desperate for more as he continued to move his head back and forth and started to beg for it. He still made her wait until he finally took a stiff nipple in his mouth and firmly sucked on it.
Gloria let out a groan as she was gripped by the sensual flush of pleasure. She brought a hand up to slide her fingers in Mark’s hair and clung on as he used his mouth and tongue to ravish one nipple after the other. The desire for more eventually overwhelmed him and he kissed down her naked skin as he dropped to his knees.
The fluttering of Gloria’s muscles under the attention of the kisses made her inhale sharply and she pressed herself more firmly against the wall. She was losing control and they weren’t even in the bedroom yet. The fact that Mark was taking her in the hallway outside showed that he was in thrall to his lust and he flicked out his tongue to slide a wet trail down between her parted thighs.
Gloria squealed as he pushed at her legs to spread them wider apart. She put her hand on his head as it buried between her thighs and the touch of his tongue sliding along her wet slit was a sensual torment that quickly made her cry out. Her body shook as the licking became rougher to open her up and the wetness of her pussy coated Mark’s tongue as he dipped it inside. She groaned as it came out again quickly and looked down at the man lavishing attention on her body.
“Open yourself up and show me,” he ordered her.
Gloria succumbed to his will in an instant and slid down the wall slightly to bend her knees, so she could part her legs wider still. Her breath came out in ragged gasps as she eased wet folds of skin apart to spread herself open using one hand and pulled up with the fingers of her other to expose her clit. She was putting herself completely at the mercy of Mark and loving every second of it. His tongue touched on her clitoris to make her groan and he teased around the erect nub before licking roughly across it. The tantalizing flush of heat showed what she was about to get and she closed her eyes tightly as she tried to keep on her feet.
Mark concentrated his efforts on Gloria’s clit first before sliding his tongue lower to the wet entrance of her pussy. The sweet taste was driving his hunger for more and he buried his head right between her thighs as he plunged his stiffened tongue inside. He was lost to the thrill of the moment as he lashed eager touches around and tried to slide them even deeper inside her wet cunt. His lips were glued to the slick skin as he gave his lover pleasure and it was only the struggle for breath that finally brought him to a stop.
Gloria’s legs were now shaking so much that she couldn’t hold herself up and she collapsed down to sit on the floor. The immediate kiss trapped her head against the wall and she needed to push Mark away to catch her breath. He got to his feet and she saw the way his rampant erection was bulging in his pants.
“Move forward and show me,” she said with a smirk as she looked up from where she was sitting.
It got her what she wanted and when Mark stepped towards her, she reached out to caress a touch up his inner thigh. Her hand slid higher as he began to unbutton his shirt and she watched as the muscles of his torso were exposed. She was already getting to her knees when he dropped the shirt on top of the robe. It gave her the perfect view of him loosening his pants and she grabbed at the material to drag it down his legs. The swell of his erect cock strained against his underwear and she enjoyed the tease of him pulling the waistband away from his skin to glance inside.
“Let me see,” she said.
The elasticized waistband snapped against his skin when he let go and it was Gloria that grabbed at the underpants to tug them down. S
he was confronted by his throbbing manhood and her tongue slid around her lips as she stared.
“What you going to do with that?” she teased him when she glanced up.
“I was about to ask you same question,” he shot back.
Gloria’s legs were still shaking as she got to her feet. Her hand wrapped around his erection as she tilted her head up to him and he gave her the kiss she wanted. She stroked her hand along his stiff shaft as their lips remained locked together then used her grip to lead him inside the bedroom when it ended. The door crashed shut and she was trapped against it when Mark kissed her yet again. The hardness of his cock dug in her belly as he pressed his body against hers and they both let out gasps when their lips came apart.
Mark stepped away and Gloria immediately grabbed his stiff shaft again. It made him groan as she worked her fingers along his full length and she expected to be dragged to the bed when she let go. Another passionate kiss rocked her head back instead and it wasn’t the bed they moved towards. As soon as her butt knocked against the dressing table, his hands grabbed her hips as he lifted her up to sit on the wooden surface. He used a knee to ease her legs apart, so he could move in between and she could see that she was perched at the perfect height for him to fuck her.