by C Standing
“I don’t appreciate being ignored, Rick.” Her hauntingly familiar voice announces as she struts into my office like the entitled bitch she is. “When I call you, I expect you to answer.”
Patsy peeks her head around the door, undoubtedly sensing the tension between us. “Can I get anyone a drink?”
“Bring me a coffee.” Sadie snaps her fingers and barks her order, like my assistant is some fucking lapdog, only here to serve her.
Fire rages in my veins at the blatant disrespect in her voice, and I force myself to remain calm.
“No, thank you, Patsy.” I plaster on a smile and stand, shoving my hands in my pockets so I’m not overcome with the need to strangle my ex. “Miss Cavendish won’t be here long.”
“Why aren’t you answering my calls?”
I walk over toward my window, taking in several deep breaths, and willing myself to stay calm. “Because you have nothing that I want to hear.”
“I’m the mother of your children,” she hisses, snootily.
I spin around, fucking furious. “And when’s the last time you saw them, huh? When’s the last time you went to one of Christian’s football games, or read Skylar a bedtime story?” My blood roars through my veins. “Don’t you fucking dare play the mother card just to get to me.”
The fact she’d use Christian and Skylar as a tool to get me to speak to her is fucking diabolical.
Rolling her overly made-up eyes and pissing me off even more, she pulls out the chair opposite me and takes a seat. “Whatever. Look, I want to see you. I think considering all the hell I put my body through to give you those two demons, you could at least take me to dinner.”
I grit my molars. “The only thing you’ll be getting from me is a restraining order.”
Standing, Sadie saunters across the room, cutting the distance between us. “Come on, baby. You don’t mean that.” She trails her finger down my tie.
Surely she’s realized by now, I’m a man of my word.
And I mean every goddamn word I say.
Disgusted, I snatch her hand and shove it off. “I’m not your goddamn baby,” I seethe, wanting her as far away from me as possible. “And don’t fucking touch me.”
There’s only one pair of hands I want on my body, and they belong to the sexy little spitfire waiting upstairs for me right now.
Unfazed, Sadie perches her ass on the desk, leaning back in a provocative manner, and crossing her legs. “Don’t be like that. You have to admit, we were good together—” Her gaze catches and narrows on my IPad and the live security feed still recording.
Fuck.
I’d been so busy eye-fucking River, I’d completely forgotten to shut the feed off.
“Well, well, well.” She spins the tablet to get a better view, her beady eyes homing in on the unsuspecting woman swimming laps in my pool. “I see you’ve already found yourself an early Christmas treat to keep your bed warm.”
My jaw flexes as I force myself not to react.
I fucking refuse to let the woman get the better of me.
“She’s a pretty young thing, I’ll give you that.” Her blood-red nails drum idly along the screen. “Have you fucked her?” Sadie looks up at me, her gaze judgmental. “Why, you old dog. You have, haven’t you? Does she know about your… sexual kinks?”
Considering the way I had her choking on my cock in the early hours of the morning, and she’d woken up soaked and hungry for more, I’d say she loves it.
My fists clench at my sides.
Don’t react.
Don’t fucking react.
“That has fuck all to do with you.”
Realization dawns in her eyes. “You care for her.”
Goddammit.
Snapping to action, I yank the tablet out of her grasp, shut it off, and throw it onto my chair. “You need to leave.”
She doesn’t move. “What, couldn’t find anyone your own age to satisfy your sick little fetishes? Had to go after a younger model?”
I block out her poison. “Leave. Now.”
“You know it won’t last, right?” She hops off the desk, her bony hand gripping my shoulder.
I recoil away from her. “Keep your goddamn hands to yourself,” I spit. “You don’t get to touch me.”
Christ. Why didn’t I just stay in bed with River?
My feet eat up the three strides to my desk.
“Maybe not,” she purrs, trying to sound sexy. “But I used to. Do you remember how fucking hot we were the night we met?” Her breath is in my ear now. “How you fucked me like an animal on Marks’s balcony. Do you remember how tight my pussy felt milking your big, hard cock?”
Thanks to the amount of alcohol I’d consumed, I barely remember anything about that night.
Thank fucking God.
The last thing I want is visions of a time in my life I’d rather forget.
“I bet she doesn’t work you over like that, does she?”
My blood pressure rises the more she badmouths my girl. It’s one thing to talk smack about me, but bring the woman I love into it, and I’ll rain a hell down on you like you’ve never felt before.
“Maybe I’m not making myself clear.” I grab her purse and push it into her chest. “Take your poisonous tongue and your venomous words, and get the fuck out of my office.”
River’s everything that’s good and bright in the world; I won’t have Sadie and her toxic whirlwind diminish or take that from her. Not because of me.
I storm toward the door, gripping the handle so hard, I’m shocked it doesn’t crumble under the pressure.
A slow, cunning smirk forms across her face. “She won’t love you, you know.”
“Enough!” I slam my hand into the door in frustration, making the glass panels either side rattle. “Whatever fucking game you’re playing stops now,” I tell her, not bothering to fuck around. I’m in no mood to deal with her bullshit today. “Stop the calls. Stop the goddamn texts. And stop treating my staff like shit for doing their jobs. I don’t. Want. To see. You.” I punctuate the words with a hiss.
Hooking her purse over her shoulder, she flips her bottle blonde hair. “I’ll leave for now, but don’t think you’ve seen the last of me.” She steps closer and presses a kiss to my cheek.
A shudder of revulsion rolls through me. “Stay out of my way, Sadie. I won’t tell you again.”
“Enjoy your mediocre Twinkie while it lasts.” She winks and blows a kiss, before walking, sashaying out the door.
The second she’s gone, I slam the door so hard, one of the panels cracks. Charging over to the bathroom attached to my office, I wet a piece of tissue and angrily scrub at the lipstick marks staining my cheek.
Why the fuck I ever slept with her, I’ll never know.
I must’ve needed my goddamn head examining.
Finally ridding myself of her presence, I march back into my office and press the button on the intercom.
There’s only one place I want to be right now, and it isn’t here.
“Patsy, I’m taking the rest of the day off. Please reschedule my appointments.”
“Yes, sir. Will you still be attending the Gala this evening?”
Fuck.
I’d been so wrapped up in my feelings for River, I’d forgotten all about it.
“I’ll be there.” And I won’t be going alone. “And call someone to fix my damn window.”
We’re lying in his bed after another intense round of sex, my head resting on his sweat-slicked chest as he runs his fingers up and down my arm.
I’m sated and lethargic, and all I want to do is spend the next few hours sleeping in his arms, but I can tell something’s wrong.
He’s been tense and distracted since he walked in earlier, and it’s worrying me a little.
Is he having second thoughts?
Have I outstayed my welcome?
Lifting my head, I peer up at him. “You’re awfully subdued, City Boy.” I run my finger over his stubble. “Everything okay?”
His mood is a complete switch to the man who left this morning. Hell, he’s not even the same man who barged through his front door two hours previous, and fucked me like an animal in his Jacuzzi.
The moment Rick flies through the door and rips off his tie, I know something’s off. There's a darkness and a determination in his eyes I haven’t seen before.
Prowling toward me with a hunger that sends a fierce wave of desire over my body, he fists his shirt and tears it clean off.
My pussy clenches and my nipples tighten in anticipation of how those powerful hands will take control and dominate me.
I fucking love the way he dominates me.
“I was hoping you’d be in there.” His voice is rough and brass as he stands on the edge of the Jacuzzi, loosening his belt, and unzipping his slacks. “I want to feel those pretty lips around my cock, sucking me deep.” Eager to please my man, I move to my knees, crouching before him as he wraps my hair around his knuckles, and shoves his length into my mouth. “Swallow that dick, baby. Drink every fucking drop of my cum.”
He must’ve been worked up, because within a matter of minutes he's spilling into my mouth, choking me on that delicious cum.
“Fuck,” he growls, shucking off his work pants and stepping into the water. “I’ve thought about you all goddamn morning.” Rick crushes his mouth to mine, taking my lips in a searing and toe-curling kiss. Gripping my ass firmly, he lifts me against him, and slaps the skin there. “Tell me you’ve thought about me.” His ravenous mouth moves to my neck.
“You know I have,” I breathe.
In a force that’s commanding but not quite bruising, he drops me to the tiled floor, spins me, and pushes me up against the side of the Jacuzzi.
“Stick your ass out and spread those sexy fucking legs for me.”
Anxious to feel him, I do as he instructs and brace my forearms on the edge.
On a groan, Rick drops to his knees behind me and parts my ass cheeks. “That’s Daddy’s good girl.” He smacks me again and nips at the now tender flesh. “I’m going to fuck this beautiful ass one day,” he vows fervently, stroking the puckered hole with his thumb. “But for now, I want this tight little cunt creaming around my cock until you’re screaming out my name.”
Closing my eyes, I whimper and jerk against him as his hot tongue strikes my throbbing clit, teasing me and bringing me closer to my release with every furious lash.
However, the second his tongue connects with my ass, my eyes spring open, startled.
Holy fucking shit.
That’s new.
Instinctively, I pull away from his mouth for the briefest of moments.
Not happy with that in the slightest, Rick reaches around and swats my tit, before gripping my hips and hauling me back onto his mouth. “Don’t you fucking dare push me away,” he mumbles, licking me from pussy to ass. “This is my fucking body, and I’ll do what I please with it.”
“Rick,” I pant, my body humming with arousal. “I can’t take it, it’s too much.”
“Yes, you can.” He swirls his tongue around the forbidden area. “You’ll take everything I give, and you’ll love it.”
I mean, he’s not wrong.
I do love it.
I just feel like I’m about to implode.
Before I can even blink, he’s smoothing his hands up my body, and kissing the dimples in my back. I feel his cock nudge my opening. “I can’t fucking wait. I need to be inside you, baby.”
“Yes,” I keen, throwing my head back as he drives into me in one fluid motion.
Suddenly, we’re frantic as we make love. He’s fucking me hard and fast, the hot water splashing violently around us his balls slap against my ass with each brutal slam.
“Cum for me, Rick,” I moan, sensing he’s not far. Dipping my hand between us, I cup his heavy sack. “Fill my pussy with your hot seed.”
His fingers bite into my hips as he lifts a leg onto the edge of the jacuzzi, getting a better angle. “Fuuuuck.” Rick drills me harder. “You want Daddy’s baby in that beautiful body?”
Hell, I must be sick in the head.
Because his words should alarm me.
Fuck, they should terrify me.
But as he pistons into me, giving me everything, all I can think about is my stomach growing round his child.
Fuck, I want that so much.
As taboo as it sounds, it sends a thrill of exhilaration straight to my core.
“I know you do, sweetheart,” he goads, still relentless in his pursuit to make me scream. “Gaaah.” Rick’s ruts against me. “Such a dirty little bitch. Always greedy for Daddy’s cock. I can’t wait to pump you so fucking full of my cum I bet you wouldn’t waste a single drop, would you?”
My jaw slackens as he rams into me with such a force, my body jolts.
Growling, he yanks my hair back and lays a stinging slap on my ass. “Fucking answer me.”
“Yes!” I shriek, barely holding on as he rides me.
“Yes.” Thrust. “What?” Thrust.
“Give me your cum!” I cry, shuddering around his cock.
“Don’t worry, baby. I intend to.”
Five punishing drives later, he’s spilling inside of me, coating my walls with his hot cum.
My body tingles and warms all over against just thinking about how he dominated me.
My man pissed off is easily one of the sexiest things I’ve ever seen.
Rick sighs and kisses my forehead. “I’m sorry, baby. I didn’t have the best morning.”
“Well, you certainly made up for it this afternoon,” I tease, stroking my foot up and down his leg. “You were insatiable.”
“I always am when it comes to you. I could live in you and it still wouldn’t be enough.”
I grin up at him. “I wouldn’t have a problem with that.”
Chuckling, he swats my ass. “I fucking love that about you. You’re just as hot for me as I am for you.”
“Too fucking right.” I slide my hand down his body and palm his semi.
I honestly can’t get enough of this man, and it has nothing to do with the fact I hadn’t had sex in over a decade.
It’s him.
It’s him I want.
Blowing out a breath, he snatches my hand and flips me onto my back until he’s cradled between my legs. Resting his forehead on mine, he nuzzles my nose. “How do you manage to make a fucking shitty day seem less shitty than it actually is?”
I lock my arms around his neck. “I don’t like seeing you stressed.”
He kisses my collarbone. “Being stressed is a given in my line of work.”
“Doesn’t mean I have to like it. If I can take your mind off whatever’s bothering you, then I will.”
“All I wanted to do was be here with you.” He brings my hand to his lips. “I never want to be anywhere else.”
“Rick,” I murmur, getting his attention. “What’s going on? Why do you seem so solemn?”
He takes a deep breath and kisses my knuckle. “I saw my ex this morning. She came into the office.”
Oh.
I don’t know why, but the mention of his ex has the guards around my heart going straight back up. “Did you know she was coming to see you?”
He nods and my heart sinks a little.
Is Sadie the ex?
Has he been talking to her while he’s been with me?
“She’s been calling and texting nonstop, but I never answer. I have nothing to say to her.” His eyes find mine, and I can’t help the little seeds of doubt that start to grow. “Normally I’d ignore them, but she somehow found out I’m in the city, and decided she wanted to see me.”
“Did you want to see her?”
I mentally brace myself for the answer. If he’s about to tell me that he’s getting back together with her, I’m out of here.
Rick scoffs, looking at me like I’ve gone mad. “Baby, I never want to see her. She’s a conniving bitch who tried to ruin my life.” His words reassure me a little
, but also make me want to gauge her eyes out for trying to hurt him.
“Then why did she come to see you?”
Better yet, why did he let her see him?
“I wanted it to stop. Circumstances in my life have changed. I didn’t care so much about the calls and texts before, because she had nothing to use against me. She couldn’t touch me. But things are different now. I have a weakness and I don’t want her to exploit it.”
I find myself holding my breath as I ask, “You have a weakness?”
His fingers lightly stroke my hair. “You, baby. You’re my weakness. I’ve never wanted anything in my life as much as I want you, and if she got wind of that, she’d make it her life’s mission to destroy you. I’d die before I let that happen. I’ve finally found the woman I want to spend the rest of my life with, and I'll be dammed if I’m going to let her poison come between us. I will protect you with my life, River. Make no mistake about it. If she comes for us, I’ll make her regret the day her mother ever gave her life. I’ll fight whatever she throws at us, come hell or high water. I fucking refuse to let her take you from me.”
Okay, wow.
I need a second to process everything he’s just told me, but first I need to erase the look of fear on his face.
Nudging him, Rick rolls onto his back, taking me with him. I’m straddling his cock, but there’s nothing sexual about the way we’re holding each other. This moment between us isn’t about feeling good or getting each other off, it’s deeper than that. More meaningful. We’re sharing a powerful and intimate connection that can only be found by two people who care immensely about each other.
I take his hands in mine, lacing our fingers together. “You need to wipe that look off your face and get the notion out of your head that she’s going to come between us.” I lean down and kiss his lips. “I am.” Kiss. “Not.” Kiss. “Going.” Kiss. “Anywhere.”
His piercing green eyes collide with mine. “You’d better not.”
“Hey.” I tilt his face up. “Come on. Give me some credit. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’m a pretty hard nut to crack. It’ll take more than a scorned ex looking for a little revenge to break me.” He smiles and my heart takes flight. “Besides, where’s the Rick I met the other day? The guy who’d burn down cities and murder guys just for looking at me?”
