The girls loosened up with the help of the abundance of alcohol that was flowing throughout the evening. A couple women were dancing by the pool and a couple inside the pool. Samantha was happy that everyone seemed to be getting along really well. But as the evening continued, she started to worry about Drake a little bit. Surely he and Sophia had heard the music by then and would have come down to join everyone.
“Scarlett, would you mind knocking on Sophia’s door to see if Drake and she would like to come join us?” Samantha asked.
“Sure.”
Scarlett didn’t want to interrupt Drake and Sophia, but she was willing to give the door a light tap and just let them know that there were food and drinks downstairs if they wanted to join. As she got to Sophia’s door, it was still extremely quiet in the room. Scarlett knocked lightly and waited, then she knocked again.
There was no answer.
Out of curiosity, Scarlett turned the doorknob slowly and opened the door. She was careful to be quiet so she wouldn’t interrupt them if they were in the middle of something. But Scarlett didn’t even know if they were home or not. They could have left when no one was paying attention.
As she peered into the room, she saw Drake and Sophia curled up on the bed. There was a mess of food on a table near the door and some shower towels near the bed. Scarlett couldn’t help smiling. They looked like they had had quite the afternoon.
She made her way back down to the party and over to Samantha.
“They are passed out on the bed. Looks like they had themselves a little food sex and then collapsed from exhaustion. I didn’t wake them up.”
Samantha just laughed.
“I guess it’s just a girls party for tonight. Drake did say he was extremely tired earlier. I’m glad he’s getting some sleep.”
“Yeah, I didn’t think Sophia was going to let him sleep at all today,” Scarlett joked.
“Me neither.”
The two women grabbed a drink from one of the trays that Lou’s helpers were walking around with. For a brief moment, Scarlett forgot that she was in a house trying to get the attention of a billionaire away from six other beautiful women. For that brief moment, Scarlett felt like she was just there with a friend.
“Should we make a toast?” Scarlett asked.
“To new friendships.”
“To new friendships and exhausting nights of sex,” Scarlett teased.
The two women clanged their cups together and downed their drinks as they walked and laughed together. Neither Scarlett or Samantha was the type of woman who had a lot of female friends, but the ones they did have, they kept around for a very long time.
Chapter 6
As Drake woke up, he felt his whole body ache from the last few days. It was dark outside, and he groaned as he swung his feet over the edge of the bed and glanced at his watch. It was nearly nine o’clock in the evening, and he and Sophia had slept almost five hours. It was just what he needed though, and he stretched to get his blood flowing again.
“What time is it?” Sophia asked, starting to wake up as well.
“It’s almost nine o’clock.”
“What? No!”
Sophia jumped up out of bed and looked out the window at the party going on down near the pool. She had slept right through all her evening plans with Drake and now it was time for the pool party. She couldn’t hide the disappointment on her face.
“It’s alright. Let’s go grab some food, and then we can do whatever it was you had planned next,” Drake said as he stood next to Sophia by the window.
Drake grabbed Sophia’s face and pulled her lips up next to his. Gently he kissed her and their mouths moved together in harmony.
“Let’s stay here,” Sophia said shyly.
“Anything you want,” Drake said, going back to kissing her.
Sophia didn’t want to give up their time together and loved the way he looked right into her eyes when he kissed her. It was like he was looking into her soul. Not very many men in her life had ever looked so deeply into her, and Sophia really wanted to stay there with Drake forever.
They both looked down at the pool party, trying to decide what to do next.
Victoria looked up from the pool at the two of them and waved for them to come out to the pool. Sophia and Drake waved back. They had been seen, now they had to make an appearance.
“OK, but we can’t stay down there too long. I don’t want to waste our time together,” Sophia said as she kissed Drake gently on his neck.
“Sophia,” Drake said, pulling her naked body closer to his. “We haven’t wasted our day at all. This was one hell of a day.”
Drake leaned down and kissed Sophia. He could tell she was upset about missing out on time together and wanted to make sure she didn’t feel bad about their night at all. It had certainly been a memorable day, and he wanted her to feel that as well.
Their day together had been filled with intimacy and excitement. They bonded and got to know each other; Drake needed Sophia to know he wanted her and would give up an evening with all the other women just to stay with Sophia.
“Let’s stay here. We don’t even have to go down there,” Drake said, falling back onto the bed.
Sophia looked out at the pool and remembered what it was like on the days that she did not have a date with Drake. She had wanted desperately to see him, even if it was only for a few minutes. She wanted to be a bitch and keep the other women from seeing him, but she decided against it.
“Alright, let me get dressed really quick, and then I’ll be down. Why don’t you go ahead without me?”
Drake slipped his jeans and T-shirt on and gave Sophia one last kiss before making his way down to the party. He felt refreshed and was excited to say hi to the other women. Especially Emily, who had slipped out of his bed so early that he hadn’t even had the chance to say goodbye to her.
“Look who decided to join the party,” Victoria said as she greeted Drake near the back door.
“How are you, Victoria?” Drake said with a quick hug.
“I’m doing good. I still have that gift from the sex shop I want to show you some time, you just come see me any time you get a chance,” she said with a smile.
Drake hadn’t forgotten about that sex shop. He still wanted to know what it was Victoria had purchased there. Yet he didn’t imagine that he was going to have much free time for the rest of the week.
Each of the women had become very territorial over their time with Drake, and he totally understood where they were coming from. But it meant that dinner or other events in the evening were getting increasingly difficult to attend. He was glad that Sophia had decided to stay upstairs for a little bit so he could make the rounds and say hi to the other women without feeling bad about it.
His next stop was a straight line to Emily, who he found sitting and talking with Allison. Drake hadn’t spent much time at all with Allison yet, and he was looking forward to having a quick conversation with her before their day together tomorrow.
“Hello ladies,” Drake said, sitting down with them.
“Oh, we were just talking about you,” Emily said as she looked at Allison and her face flushed red.
“Hopefully, it was all good?”
“Yes, of course,” Emily replied.
Drake turned his attention toward Allison for a moment.
“Allison, I hear we have our date tomorrow. Do you have anything special planned?” Drake asked as he gently touched her hand.
Emily watched their encounter and suddenly felt much less shy about what she and Allison had been talking about.
“I can’t tell you what I have planned or it wouldn’t be a surprise. But I can tell you that Sophia won’t be invited,” Allison said as she nudged Emily.
Drake saw that it was pretty obvious that Emily had told Allison about at least part of their night together. He didn’t mind at all. It was actually pretty nice that Emily had a friend in the house that she could talk to about their date. On the other ha
nd, it was also really strange that Emily had told Allison since their date was coming up next.
But everything about the week in the house was strange. There was no normal way to have a weeklong date with seven different women. Drake wasn’t about to worry too much about anything the women chose to say or not say to their fellow housemates over the week they were there.
“I’m excited to see what you have planned,” Drake said, kissing Allison on the cheek. “Would you mind if I talked to Emily for a moment?”
“Oh, of course not. I’ll see you in the morning, bright and early,” Allison said.
Allison knew that Drake was going to be exhausted from all the women waking him up and keeping him up all night. She was perfectly fine with getting a good night of sleep and then seeing Drake in the morning. She also thought it set her up as an understanding woman, which she was, and she wanted Drake to see that.
“Emily, you left before I woke up this morning. How are you?” Drake asked as he held her hands.
“I’m sorry for telling Allison, but I just had to tell someone. I had so much fun last night.”
Drake instantly felt relieved as he saw the smile cross Emily’s face. He had worried that the evening was overwhelming to Emily and she had left because of that. It was nice to see her smile and that she had had just as much fun as he had.
“No worries. It’s your experience; you feel free to talk to whomever you would like. I also expect to read a tantalizing tale about it in Playboy soon.”
“Of course. It will be the first article I write after this week is over. I might even start writing it with some of my free time the next few days.”
Drake rubbed Emily’s hands as he looked into her eyes. He really did like her, but there was still something missing. He had liked all three of the women he had been on dates with so far, but none of them left him sure of his decision. Drake hoped that one of the women would leave him with no doubt about what decision he should make.
“I’m going to go visit with some of the other women for a little bit. You enjoy your night.”
“You too,” Emily said as she watched Drake walk away.
Drake approached the other pair of women sitting together; Cynthia and Lauren. Cynthia had her dark brown hair pulled up into a bun and was wearing a bikini that showed off all of her curves. She was a plus-sized woman, but she had all the right proportions and all the curves that Drake liked. Then there was Lauren. Her bubbly personality shined, no matter what time of day it was. She had platinum blonde hair and green eyes. Drake couldn’t remember a time she hadn’t been giggling.
“How are you lovely women doing tonight? Looks like you have been enjoying the pool,” Drake said as he sat across from them.
It was the first time he had felt like he had time to actually talk with some of the women since the first evening and the dinner party. Also, it was nice to get out of his bubble from his day with Sophia and share some time with the other women.
Lauren just giggled and shrugged, but Cynthia looked Drake right in the eyes. She had powerful eyes that really could command Drake’s attention. He was drawn to her and was excited at the prospect of spending some time with her on their day together.
“Yes, we had fun tonight. Hopefully, you did too?” Cynthia said as she grabbed a drink that sat next to her.
“Well, Sophia and I decided to take a bit of a nap because I was exhausted and we just woke up. I’m glad we didn’t miss the whole party.”
“Me too,” Lauren said, grinning from ear to ear.
“What did you two do with your day today?”
Cynthia wanted to make sure the topic of her argument with Emily didn’t come up, so she quickly took control of the conversation.
“We had a fabulous day. All of us getting to know each other and talking about life outside of here. It was great,” she said as she stared Lauren down.
Lauren knew instantly that she wasn't supposed to speak at all about the argument that had happened earlier in the day. But Lauren didn’t really care at all; she figured Drake had much bigger things to worry about than whether the women got along or not.
“How was your day?” Lauren said with a little giggle under her breath.
Drake couldn’t tell if she knew what he had done with Emily or if she was just her normal giggly self. It was hard to tell with Lauren. He had to remember to look in her file before their date so he could get to know her better. Drake suspected she was giggling out of nervousness, but she also seemed like a genuinely happy person. It was refreshing to be around so many cheerful spirits. Drake was again very proud of the choices Samantha and Robert had made.
Just then, Drake looked up and saw Robert coming out the back door of the house with a stack of papers he handed to Samantha. Robert turned and tried to leave, but Drake wasn’t about to let that happen.
“I’m going to catch up with Robert now. You two have a great night,” Drake said, not waiting for a response before jogging over to catch Robert. “Dude, where are you going? I haven’t seen you in days.”
“I just needed to drop some papers off with Samantha for you to sign later; I can’t stay,” Robert said as he continued to walk into the house.
“ You can at least have a beer and a conversation with me.”
“No, I need to go. I’ll see you next week. Good luck.”
And just like that, Robert was gone. Drake had a pit in his stomach and instantly wondered if there was something going on. Robert never acted that way, and it was clear that he was trying to avoid Drake. He needed to talk to Samantha.
Samantha was engrossed in conversation with Scarlett, and Drake paused to watch them as they talked. Both women were oblivious to the fact that he was watching them. He loved it. They laughed and talked with each other like they were old friends. Scarlett seemed very comfortable with Samantha.
“It looks like you two are having way too much fun,” Drake said as he approached them.
“Yes, Scarlett was just telling me about her last date,” Samantha said.
Drake looked intently at Scarlett and her breasts. He couldn’t help himself. The size FF breasts were like beacons guiding his eyes to look at them. He tried desperately to look away, but his eyes just kept going right back to them.
“I can’t imagine you have ever had a bad date.”
“Oh, I’ve had lots of them. The last one was a man from my building. He was an accountant. He started jerking off under the table at dinner,” Scarlett said as she and Samantha both broke out into laughter.
“What did you do?” Samantha asked, tears starting to form as she was laughed so hard.
“I unbuttoned one of my buttons so he could finish faster, and we could leave.”
Drake just sat in awe as he looked at Scarlett and her response. Then he broke out laughing with both of them. Scarlett sure did have a good sense of humor, which was a huge plus for him. At first, he had thought she was a bit of a prude, but he was starting to think she was just a very put together woman who kept quiet a lot of the time. He was eager to see what she was like when they had some more alone time together.
“I better let you two talk business. It was nice seeing you again, Drake,” Scarlett said as she got up.
“I’ll see you tomorrow for breakfast,” Samantha said.
Drake looked at Samantha and raised one of his eyebrows.
“Are you playing favorites?”
“No, I’m coming over to the house to make breakfast with all of the women in the morning. But I do really like Scarlett. I don’t think she’s right for you, though.”
“What? Why not? I thought you picked her?”
“I did. But the more I get to know her, the more I realize your lifestyle is not something that will suit her at all. She’s not out partying and going to clubs. She is all grown up, Drake.”
Drake took offense to what Samantha said, but he couldn’t figure out a way to tell her without sounding like a total hypocrite. Just because he had spent the last few years partying
and sleeping around, didn’t mean he wasn’t interested in finding a woman like Scarlett or any other woman from the house that might want to settle down. Drake didn’t know what settling down was going to look like for him yet, but the whole reason he had all seven women in his house was because he wanted to find that partner that could complement him. He hated that Samantha thought Scarlett was too good for him.
“So you think I’ll ruin her or something?” Drake said defensively.
“No, I don’t think she’ll like you after your date. I think you will have fun, and I think she’s a wonderful woman and you are a wonderful man, but I just don’t think the two of you are right for each other.”
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