by Mae Martini
She gave him a crooked grin, and she started to make her way to the bed as she took in a breath at his gorgeous physique. He was all sinewy muscles, hip bones clearly defined. She marveled at his beautiful erection, pointing in her direction, in-between his finely defined quads.
“Stay there,” he said, indicating the window, as he walked to her.
“People could see in.”
“No.” He shook his head. “We’re too far up and the windows are tinted.” He turned her back around and gently pushed her up against the glass. He nuzzled her neck as he said, “You can see out, but no one can see in.” He raised up the back of her dress and took pleasure in looking at her heart shaped ass with two dimples above it, thinking about how much he wanted to spank it. He knew he could make it good for her, but he held off.
He wrapped an arm around her and moved his hand down to between her legs and pulled her lower body back to him, so her back was arched. He massaged her clit and she moaned.
He whispered by her ear “Don’t you feel naughty now?”
“Yes,” she said, barely audible, as she threw her head back and enjoyed the sensations he caused.
He moved his hard-on into her and moved his hips in a circular motion as he thrust his fingers inside her. He sucked in a breath at the sound of them working through her wetness, then pulled away and quickly opened the condom and covered his cock.
No more waiting, no more foreplay. He shoved inside of her and she gasped at the force of which he thrust. He pushed enough to bring her body up and she found she was standing on tippy toes
He moved in and out of her in long slow strokes. He heard her whimper as she bucked into him.
“Oh, baby, you feel soooo good,” he said. “I think you should wear dresses like this for the rest of our time together. I love the easy access.”
He brought his hands up to her breasts again and fondled them.
“Ahhhh, yes. More,” she said, bucking harder into him. She was delightfully pleased that he wanted to spend time with her, even if it was only for a lay.
He changed it up. He moved in and out in short, quick strokes, then paused inside her and circled his hips, then he repeated the routine as he pinched her nipple and pressed on her clit at the same time.
She let out a little scream and he chuckled. “I don’t know how thin these walls are.”
She froze. “Your friends?”
“No, baby, it’s okay. Their room is on the other side of the penthouse.” He upped his strokes. “Let me hear you.”
“Ah… ah… oohhh, yes, yes,” she moaned as she bucked, wildly, into him.
He could feel her on the edge. With one hand, he expertly caught her clit from under its hood and pinched.
She screamed again and he felt her legs tremble. As she came, he felt her muscles clamp down on him and he let out three loud grunts as he thrust hard and came. His legs, too, trembled as his seed filled the condom.
They stopped moving, each, trying to catch their breaths. He nuzzled her neck. “That felt awesome, darlin’,” he whispered in her ear.
“Yes,” was all she could say, breathlessly.
He pulled out of her and she moaned at missing the fullness of him. He walked to the bathroom to dispose of the condom and when he came out, she was dressed again and standing by the wall of windows, watching him.
She didn’t know what to do. Did he expect her to leave now, or stay? She was nervous. She hoped he would ask her to stay.
“Take it off and come to bed,” he said.
She slowly smiled and peeled down her dress. She stepped out of it and left it right where it was.
At one point, in the middle of the night, Gia woke him up by stroking his cock.
He opened his eyes and raised the corners of his mouth while his cock grew hard.
She tore open a condom and slid it on him, then sunk down and rode him. Gently grinding on him at first, back and forth, but when he placed his hands at her waist and helped her, her moves became frantic. After they came, he pulled her upper body down to him and kissed her long and slow, while he caressed her, playing with her hair. Man, she felt good on him, skin to skin.
“Mmmmm.” He broke the kiss. “I’m getting soft, baby, better take care of the condom.”
She slid off of him and he got up and went to the bathroom to dispose of the condom. When he came back to bed, she was lying on her side and watching him intently. He climbed into bed and brought his lips down to hers.
He gently rolled her over to her other side and threw an arm and a leg over her and brought her tight against his body and they fell back asleep.
Chapter 5
Cord sat on the couch as he strummed his guitar and softly sang ‘Imagine That’. Rory sat in a chair with his feet up on the coffee table. Jake walked, from the kitchen area, to them with a bowl of cereal in his hand and a spoon up to his mouth.
“Did you bang that chick last night?” Rory asked.
“Shhh. Keep your voice down. She’s in my room.”
Cord hit a bad note on his guitar as he looked up to Jake. “What the fuck? Why’d you bring her here? If Annie finds out-”
“Oh, Geez. Stop worrying about her.”
“No, Jake. I worry about my wife not trusting me, and Rory too, who is in a committed relationship with your sister, I might add, should not have to worry either.”
Jake looked from Cord to Rory, who nodded his head in agreement with Cord.
“Hey, might I remind you that you two wanted to come. I was perfectly happy to come here alone, but no, you had to come along.” Now his voice grew loud. “Thought I’d go off or something, being alone here.”
“Yeah, that’s right. You haven’t been acting yourself since Jennie left you. And yeah, guess what? Your friends give a shit about you.”
Jake’s voice grew even louder. “I told you, I don’t need you to worry about me. I’m perfectly fine. If I want to mindlessly fuck that woman’s brains out here for the next two days, I’m going to, whether you like it or not. It’s none-” He stopped as he saw first Cord then Rory stare at something behind him.
Jake knew by looking at his friends’ faces that she was there too. He mumbled a curse to his friends as he put the cereal bowl down on the coffee table and turned around. She was in the doorway of his room. He walked over to her and she dodged around him, and half walked, half ran to the door of the suite.
“Wait,” Jake said as he grabbed her arm.
“Let go of me. I’ll scream rape so loud if you don’t.”
“Gia, no one is gonna hear you.” He knew he said the wrong thing when her eyes went wide and she struggled.
“Gia. Let me explain.”
But she wasn’t hearing him. “Don’t touch me! Please, don’t touch me!” she screamed.
“Jake, let her go. You’re scaring her, man.”
Jake swung his head around to Cord then back to her and saw the fright in her eyes. He took a breath and reluctantly let go of her.
She stared into his eyes a moment longer and then went to the door and opened it and walked out. She stood by the elevator and realized she needed the key card to operate it.
Knowing she’d need the card, Jake came out with it a moment later and saw her crying. He wanted to put his arms around her and hug her but he didn’t. Cord was right. He scared her.
They locked eyes as he put the card in the slot. He’d hoped she’d seen he was sorry. When the elevator door opened, she took her eyes off him and she stepped in and hit her floor, then kept her eyes down, looking at her feet.
When the elevator door closed, Jake made a fist and punched the wall of the door of the elevator. He stood there a moment, then walked back into the suite and into his room without saying a word to his buddies.
“What the hell was I thinking?” Gia asked herself in her room.
She had gotten out of the elevator on her floor with tears in her eyes as a group of young guys were getting on. They took a moment to look at her. One of them aske
d her if she was all right, but she just ignored him and swiftly walked to her room.
I can’t believe I was that stupid. Fucking Vegas, she thought to herself, even though she knew it was she and not the fact that she was in Vegas that she had acted so wantonly. There was just something in that man that got her heart aflutter and she thought with her libido instead of her head. Well, no more. She’d never make that mistake again.
She heard the knock on the adjoining door and opened it.
“Hi, where’d you spend the night?” Lauren asked before she realized Gia had watery eyes. “Oh honey, are you all right?”
“Yes. Yes, I’m fine.”
To Gia’s relief or was it dismay, she had not run into Jake anymore for the remainder of her trip, until the last moment.
After she placed her bags in the trunk of the limo that came to pick the girls up and take them to the airport, she walked to the back passenger side and before she got in, she took one last look around at the strip and the hotel she stayed in. She did a double take when she saw Jake staring at her from the lobby on the other side of the glass doors. She thought he mouthed the words ‘I’m sorry’, but she couldn’t be sure. She turned her head and got into the limo.
Jake had roamed around the hotel for the last two days hoping to run into her without any luck. He thought about camping out outside her door, but he didn’t want to scare her anymore than he had already. When he did finally see her, she was getting into a limo. They made eye contact and he mouthed the words ‘I’m sorry’, as he picked up his pace to try to get to her. When he saw her turn and get into the limo, he stopped and blew out a breath in frustration. He watched as the limo pulled away.
Chapter 6
“Hi Lydia,” Gia said as she walked out of the elevator and onto the floor of her office. Lydia was her assistant.
“How was your trip?” Lydia asked all excited.
Gia smiled as she put three twenty dollar bills down on Lydia’s desk. “Good, thanks.”
“What’s that?” Lydia asked, referring to the money.
“Your winnings.”
“Shut up! You won that?” Lydia was beaming from ear to ear. Happy that Gia had agreed to take her ten dollar bill and bet with it.
“Yep. At least one of us did well.” She chuckled.
“How much did you lose?”
Gia thought about how much she lost. Not the one hundred and fifty dollars, but the cowboy who made her toes curl with mind blowing sex and who got the butterflies deep inside her to take flight every time he talked, or looked at her. “A lot,” she said with a sad smile. She would have liked to keep things going with him. But, she also knew, whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.
Lydia pulled open the bottom drawer of her desk and took out her wallet to put her winnings in it. “There’s a surprise waiting for you in there,” she said to Gia as she reached the doorway of her office.
Gia acknowledged, but didn’t say anything back as her jaw dropped when she saw a vase of white orchids sitting on her desk. She walked over and sat in her chair, studying the flowers. They were beautiful with lush green fronds and baby’s breath strategically placed around them. She saw and reached for the envelope pinned to the pretty pale pink paper that was around the flowers. She pulled out the card and read:
‘Hope you had a good flight back.
I really did enjoy meeting you.
I can’t get you out of my head. Please call me, 830-555-4243.
I truly am sorry – Jake Warner’
Gia just sat there, reading the card over and over again and thinking about him. She wanted to call him, to hear what he had to say, but she opted not to, yet she stored the card with his number on it in the middle drawer of her desk and caught up on her work.
After work, Gia met up with her surfing friends at Huntington Beach. It’d been a while and she missed it. Never did she feel as free and alive as when she was catching a wave. It cleared her head and she needed to clear it of Jake Warner.
****
Jake and the boys had left Vegas a day after Gia did. They all couldn’t wait to leave and get home. Jake had had enough of Cord and Rory meddling and ruining it for him and what could have been with Gia.
Cord couldn’t wait to get back to Annie and hold her, and Rory couldn’t wait to see Calista again.
The day they left, Jake sent orchids to Gia’s work place, having remembered she’d said where she worked and having overheard her say they were her favorite when he first met her and she was talking to some girl who asked her opinion. He hoped she didn’t get mad, but he had no other way of getting them to her. He gave her his cell number and hoped she’d call him.
When he got home, he was worse than when he left. Annie was expecting a calm, relaxed Jake, instead, she got an uptight jerk-off and she let him know it.
When he snapped at her because she went over the grocery budget by fifty dollars that week, she got in his face, and with her finger poking his chest, said. “Listen, buddy, I think I did all right. Things are getting more and more expensive and you’re just going to have to deal with upping the budget.”
Jake sighed. “I’m sorry, Annie. I’m just a little tired is all. We’ll go over the budget again. You did well holding down the fort alone.” He smiled at her and she hugged him.
“What’s going on, Jake?”
“I met someone in Vegas and your dickhead of a husband got all upset because I brought her back to the suite. He said he didn’t want to make you angry with him if you found out a girl was in the suite.”
“Ooohh, he said that?” she asked all googly eyed.
Jake chuckled and shook his head as he walked into the kitchen of the Elm.
Cord walked in through the front door and saw Annie standing in the middle of the large living room. She turned around and flung herself into her husband’s arms which he had opened for her. After they kissed for what seemed like an eternity, she relayed Jake’s anger with him.
As Jake ate a piece of chocolate cake that Annie made on a regular basis for the guests at the inn, he looked up to see Annie and Cord walk into the kitchen.
“How’s it going, buddy?” Cord asked.
Jake just grunted as he ate another fork full of cake.
“I’m sorry, Jake. I panicked. I didn’t mean to fu..um, mess it up with you and Gia. Is there anything I can do?”
Jake looked from his cake to Cord and sighed as he pushed the plate away. “No, but thanks anyway.
The rest of the week moved by slowly for Jake. He couldn’t get Gia off of his mind. Each day, he’d hoped was the day she’d call. He threw himself into mindless work. There was enough wood chopped for the fireplaces to last two winters. He cleaned the pool every day, even after the pool boy, who came in on Wednesday to clean it, did.
On Friday morning, Jake called Morgan and Co. in Austin, asking for Gia Lomusco. The girl who answered the phone said that Gia had to cancel her trip this week. Jake hung up the phone, disappointed. In fact, the following Friday he called again, and again, the girl said that Gia would not be there that week.
She did offer to give him the Irvine office phone number. He declined. He already had that number, having looked it up online, and when he called, the woman who answered the phone the first time said she wasn’t in and she transferred him to Gia’s voice mail. He didn’t leave a message. The second time he called, the woman said Gia was out in the field that day, whatever that meant.
He hung up and sighed. Time to give up on her and move on, he thought with great disappointment.
Chapter 7
“Okay. Everything is prepared for the morning and I am out of here,” Annie said to Jake as she picked up her purse and made her way to the front door of the Shady Elm. “Are you coming to Roxy’s tonight?” she asked him.
“Nah. I’m heading to Austin. I have a date tonight,” he said quietly.
“Gee. Don’t sound so happy,” she said sarcastically.
“Yeah. I don’t know why I even asked h
er out in the first place.”
Annie walked over to Jake and hugged him. “I miss you, Jake. We all miss you. I mean, I see you all the time at work, but it’s not the same thing.”
“I know, me too. I don’t know. I’m just…. I don’t know.” He sighed. “Have a good time, sweetheart. Say hello to the gang and tell Cord I’ll be there in the morning to start training the new pinto.”
“Okay. Oh, wait till you see him, Jake. He’s beautiful.”
“Yeah?”
Jake enjoyed training horses when Cord got overloaded. It was one of Jake’s passions, although, lately, it had become therapy.
More and more, he had missed the ranch he grew up on when his father was alive and well. He had passed by the place a few times and saw that it looked run down. He was sure no one was living there or taking care of the place anymore. He envisioned himself there, having his own horse training business. He also saw a woman and children there with him.
“Yeah.” She placed a kiss on his cheek, then walked out the front door.
What was he doing? He didn’t want to go on a date that night. He didn’t know what he wanted. What was he thinking? This girl didn’t shut up.
Randi wasn’t even his type. He’d met her the week before when she and her friends came into Roxy’s. She told him all about work. She worked as a quality assurance assistant in a steel factory, AYS Systems. He thought of Gia. No, that wasn’t the name of the company she worked for. Damn, he wished he could see her again. It had been four weeks. He tried, but couldn’t get her out of his head. As that night went on and he became more and more buzzed, he asked her for her number.
He decided to call her as a way of moving on, but he was pissed that he had asked her to go out before he found out where she lived. Shit, Austin. He didn’t want to have to drive all the way there for a date he didn’t want to go on.
