Julian got out of his seat walking towards her with serious intent. "I don't know, you tell me. What happen to you this morning?"
Clarissa is confused by Julian's behavior. "What on earth are you talking about?"
Julian gathers her into his arms carting her off to his personal washroom. He didn't say another word as he gently set her down on the counter next to the washbasin. "Why didn't you tell me some fool tried to run you over this morning?" He takes off her jacket and places it on the chair. He reaches to unbutton her blouse when Clarissa pulls back from him.
"What in the hell has gotten into you? A car bumped me this morning, and I tumbled and scraped my knees." She lifted up her skirt to show him her knees. "See it isn't a big deal."
Julian didn't believe for one moment that this morning's bump is an accident. Someone tried to hurt Clarissa, his woman. His fingers skimmed across her braised skin. Her knees were red and puffy, a mere abrasion, but the incident still angered him. "Did you put any antiseptic on your knees?"
Clarissa grabs his face, pulling him closer for a kiss. "Julian I'm OK, I cleaned my knees with soap and water." The moment he touched her, she wanted to feel his fingers stroking her elsewhere, bringing her to a swift orgasm.
Julian couldn't miss the catch in her voice as he touched her knees. She needs him as much as he needs to be inside her. He deepened the kiss and brushed her skirt up exposing her lacy panties. Just as he suspected, her pussy is already wet for him. He opened the cupboards of the counter and pulls out a first aid kit. He gently cleans her scraped knees and applies antiseptic ointment to them too. "We have to make sure they heal properly. I have a feeling you do some of your best work on your knees."
Clarissa slugged him in the arm, "I guess we'll have to get creative."
Julian eased her panties pass her knees carefully avoiding her damaged skin. He paused to admire her body as he pulls the piece of lace down her legs, over her shoes, and pockets them. "Thoughts of loving you have been on my mind since leaving you this morning." He scooted her ass to the edge of the counter giving him perfect access to her pussy.
Clarissa loved that she could make Julian feel out of control because he did the same thing to her. "There's no reason to wait."
Julian got on his knees, placing her legs over his shoulders and set into action as he laved her pussy with his tongue. He'd performed oral sex on all of his lovers to prep them for culmination. However, the taste of Clarissa is necessary to him as a man showing love to his woman, not just a means of bringing her off. He stroked her clit as his tongue labored back and forth in her hot core. He refused to stop until he tasted her cum.
Clarissa pushed her mound against his mouth; she's so close to coming. "I'm almost there Julian." Julian continued to ravish her with his talented tongue. He tipped the scales my adding two fingers. She couldn't contain her screams of rapture as an incredible orgasm shakes her body.
Julian captured every drop of her essence with his tongue. He dropped his pants, donned a condom, and rolled it up his heavily veined cock. Her legs fall from his shoulders as he stands between her legs. He grabs her ass with both hands surging his cock into her warm, tight sheath. Making love to her last night showed his control, but now it's time for fucking.
"Oh shit Julian!" Clarissa wrapped her legs around Julian's waist as he rode her hard. His face flushed and his eyes burned with desire. He pressed his lips in a straight line as if he were trying to hold himself back. "Don't hold back on me baby, I can handle everything you have to give." Julian lifted her off the counter slamming her back into the door as he screwed her until she almost passed out.
Her arms were around his neck as she held on for dear life. Julian's mouth merged with hers, his tongue duplicating the actions of his cock. Clarissa comes again, with Julian following a few minutes after. He ripped her blouse open and pulled down her bra exposing her erect nipples. He gives equal time to her breasts, sucking and biting until he hears her moan.
After several moments of high-octane sex aftershocks, Julian pulls out of her loved soaked pussy. "Oh God Julian, the things you do to me make me crazy. I don't think I'll be able to walk back to my office."
Julian disposed of the used condom and tried to put Clarissa's clothing back in order. He didn't want to cover her body. He wanted to put her on his sofa and start all over. "Honey I'm sorry, I lose all sense of control when I'm around you."
"Why don't you let me freshen up? If you stay in here any longer, I'm going to beg you to take me again. Before you leave, I want my panties back."
Julian pulled the dainty piece of lace from his pocket placing it in her hand. "You should give up wearing panties, especially when you visit my office."
"Okay, I don't know what type of women you hang around, but only the biggest skank would come to work without panties."
Julian gently touched her face. "I honestly did call you up to my office for lunch. It's your fault I can't keep my hands to myself. You're too damn irresistible." He lets Clarissa push him out of the washroom, and he went to call Ivan.
"What do you need boss?"
"Ivan I received notice that someone tried to hit Clarissa with a car this morning."
"Whoa Julian! This is the first I'm hearing about it, McHale isn't the culprit. We've been tailing him since his arrival to Chicago."
Julian runs his fingers through his hair in frustration. "I'm not sure that morning's incident is an accident, I want that security detail on Clarissa to start now."
"I'll get right on it Julian. Miss Marks okay?"
Julian sighed, "Just a few scrapes, but I can't take a chance Ivan. I have to ensure her safety." He hangs up the phone as he hears the door to the washroom open. Clarissa comes out no worse for wear, but the mere sight of her has his cock stiffening in his pants.
Julian stands up and ushers Clarissa over to the table on the other side of his office where lunch awaited them. Clarissa takes off the covered dish and the aroma of lasagna and garlic bread permeates the room. "Oh this smells delicious." She sits down and begins to eat as Julian pours her a glass of ice tea. "Thank you Julian lunch is lovely. If I eat all of this food, a nap may be in order."
"Baby my sofa is quite comfortable, you can nap on it anytime you like."
"You take such good care of me."
"Taking care of you is exactly what I'm going to do."
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Chapter 11
Clarissa makes significant strides in decoding Lacey's alphanumeric filing system. She even comes across a personal file that she hasn't read yet. She makes a copy of the personal file, adding it to her files with the intention of reviewing it later. She narrowed two hundred files down to fifty, representing companies being tested for water and soil samples this year. She did her research and finds out that a company who violates EPA standardization policies could face fines and punitive damages from 25 million dollars up to 100 million dollars.
She pressed her lips, closed her eyes, and rubbed her temples. If a corrupt CEO or executive manager of a manufacturing company knew that EPA testing results would cost them of millions of dollars, what is the value of a scientist's life? Clarissa feels deep in her soul that Lacey Hamilton accident is indeed murder.
Clarissa went back to reviewing Lacey's personal file; she comes across a document listing her team members that may come in handy later. She also finds a virtual diary. At first Clarissa feels weird about reading Lacey's diary, but what did it matter now that Lacey is dead? She may even find some pertinent information.
She's leaving for Orlando tomorrow morning, and Clarissa is a little perturbed that Julian hasn't called. She just finished packing when she hears a knock on her door. She hurried to the door with the anticipation of seeing Julian before she leaves town. She opens the door to welcome Julian into her arms, only to find Julian there with two pizza boxes in his hands and Micah, grinning from ear to ear.
Clarissa hugs Micah and ushers him into her condominium as Julian follows close behind. He gives he
r a quick kiss on the lips on his way into the kitchen. "How are two of my most favorite men doing tonight?"
Julian put the pizza boxes on the kitchen table, giving her an inquiring look before pulling plates off the shelf. "You mean we're not the two most favorite men in your life? Who's our competition?"
Clarissa winks at Micah before responding, "My dad and brother Raymond are you only competition. I don't know if that's a fair comparison they're family."
Micah sits down at the table taking a plate from his from his dad. "We could be your family too."
Clarissa couldn't miss longing in his young eyes. Her heart just melted for this child. "Well the men in my family wash their hands before dinner." Both Julian and Micah rushed to wash their hands at the kitchen sink. She opened the refrigerator to pull out the makings for salad. She makes a salad for all three of them, pours fruit juice for Micah, and grabs Cokes for her and Julian.
She laughed when she placed a salad in front of Micah. "The men in my life eat their vegetables as well." The conversation at the table was full of life and never stilted. It reminded her of the family dinners she shared with her family as a child. She liked being around Julian and Micah. The love between the two is evident as it should be between father and son.
"Uh, Rissa."
Clarissa looked up from her plate. "Yes sweetheart." She could tell that Micah has something vital to ask her, but he just didn't know how. She looked at Julian for guidance he just blew her a kiss.
"Go ahead and ask her son."
"Well I have this recital in a couple of weeks, and I hoped that you'd like to come."
"You really want me to be there?"
"More than anything."
Clarissa is becoming attached to Micah; he's everything a parent would want in a child. "Of course I'm coming to your recital. I wouldn't miss it for the world, just let me know the time and place." She looked at his empty plate, "Come with me Micah I want to show you a new game I'm creating. You can be the first to try it out."
"What about me?" Julian pouted, pretending as if he were a third wheel.
"Well you can start by loading the dishwasher and cleaning up the kitchen. Then maybe you can join me and Micah in the playroom."
"Playroom?"
"Julian, you should know more than anyone how much I like to play."
Clarissa never stopped to wonder what her playroom would look like to a child. She thought of her playroom as an oasis where she could be in her own world. She has a pool table, air hockey, three game stations, a 42-inch flat screen television, and a couple of old school arcade games."
"Wow! This room is so cool."
Clarissa couldn't contain her laughter at his excitement. "I'm glad you like my playroom. This is where I come to relax. Most of my thinking and creating take place in this room. I created a new game called Darkonian Quest. The knights have a quest to destroy the wizard so they can claim his kingdom as their own. The wizard is extremely crafty, and he sets up many traps that can either kill them, or have them face the monsters and other minions that help protect the wizard's castle."
"Can we play your new game?"
"Sure. We can play as teammates or adversaries. You decide." Clarissa gave Micah a few minutes to decide.
"Let's play as a team until I learn the game, then we can play as adversaries."
"You're on partner." She hands Micah a controller as he stands in front of the flat screen waiting for her to start the game.
They were concentrating on the game and didn't hear Julian enter the room. He's happy to see his son and his woman getting along so well. Clarissa is the first woman that Micah has formed an attachment to with the exception of Aunt Reva. He's such an impressionable child he would never expose him to a woman who isn't going to be a key factor in their lives.
Julian stared at Clarissa's flat stomach imagining her pregnant with his child. If he could put in an order, he'd ask for a baby girl. He's pulled out of her reverie when Micah is so tickled that he falls on the floor laughing. A wizard popped on the flat screen promising to crush them. A wizard who bore a remarkable resemblance to Julian.
"So now I know what you do in your spare time."
Clarissa laughed at the expression on Julian's face. "Well I did you favor; usually when you don't get your way you stick out your lip and pout like a little boy. That doesn't make for a terribly scary wizard." If anything, her comment made Micah laugh louder.
Julian picks Clarissa up, pins her against the sofa and tickles her. "Stop it Julian I can't stand being tickled."
Micah still laughing comes to her aid and jumps on his father's back knocking him to the floor. "Rissa we are knights from Darkonia we must defeat the wizard."
Julian falls on the floor and lets his son have his way. Micah's laughter is contagious and he finds himself laughing too. "Okay I give."
Micah sits on the sofa next to Clarissa, placing his head on her shoulder. She is content to let him lay on her; she touched the soft curls on his head. "My hero. I have a dessert fit for a knight in the kitchen. I baked chocolate chip cookies last night, and I think I may even have some vanilla ice cream."
Micah was impressed Clarissa created games, and she could bake cookies. "Can get dessert now?"
Clarissa stands up, holding out her hand to Micah, "There's no time like the present."
Julian happily watches the pair leave the playroom together. He wanted to sell Clarissa on the idea of marrying him, and Micah may have just tipped the scale in his favor. He gets off the floor and follows them into the kitchen. Even evil wizard's like chocolate chip cookies. By the time he gets to the kitchen, Micah is sitting next to Clarissa making ice cream sandwiches.
Clarissa handed Julian the zip lock bag of cookies. "If you want ice cream I can dish you up some."
Julian pulls a cookie out of the bag, noting the cookie's size, which is bigger than the palm of his hands. He bit into the cookie, and thinks he's in heaven. "This is the best cookie I've ever tasted! How did you get it so big?"
"Sorry, that's a baker's secret."
Clarissa loved watching her men enjoy dessert. Oh my, did she actually just call Julian and Micah her men. If only it were true. She liked spending time with Micah, but it would end when her relationship with Julian ended. Julian is an excellent lover and father, but he doesn't seem to be the marrying type.
Micah finished his dessert quickly so he could go back to the playroom. "Rissa you can make me cookies any time. Can I go back to the playroom now?"
"Go ahead sweetheart."
Julian looked at his watch it's getting late, and he needed to get Micah home. "I can give you a few minutes son, but we're going to have to leave in a little bit, you have school tomorrow."
Clarissa and Julian watched him bounce out of the room. "Kids use to get Good Friday off."
"Not anymore. We leave for Rockford tomorrow evening to visit my aunt and uncle. I'll stay a few days, but Micah is staying for a week. They're the only relatives we have, and they're like grandparents to Micah. I'm hosting a party for a new client and I'd like for you to be my date."
"I would be honored, Mr. Ross. When is it?"
"Next Friday, I'll pick you up at seven."
"I'll be ready and waiting."
Julian gets up and pulls Clarissa out of her chair. "Walk me to the door."
Clarissa wished they could stay, but Julian's right, he needed to take Micah home. "Thank you for stopping by. Tonight with you and Micah is like being part of a family."
Julian engulfed Clarissa into his arms. "Micah and I enjoyed being with you. I can give you the family you want Clarissa." He lowered his right and over her stomach pressing it lightly. If you marry me, I'll give you as many children as you want. I'm not getting any younger, and I would like to have more children."
Clarissa couldn't ascertain if Julian is serious. "I'm surprised that you would take another chance on marriage, especially since it your first go around didn't end well."
Julian cupped her face
in his hands, "Donna and I were practically kids when we married. This thing between us is more than an affair. If what we have is just sex, I wouldn't bring Micah around you. He hasn't been around my previous lovers. You're mine Clarissa, and I know that you want to get married and have a passel of children. I want these things too, and I want them with you."
Clarissa wanted to believe Julian, but her track record with men isn't that illustrious. "Julian, marriage is too big of a risk." Julian gives her a grin full of temptation.
"The fact that I would consider marriage should tell you how indispensable you are to me. I would love to spend the night and give you the proper send off, but Micah and I have to leave." He keeps his arm around her shoulders as he called out to Micah. "Micah! Come on son, it's time for us to leave."
Micah comes barreling out of the playroom. "Aah Dad, can we stay a little longer."
Clarissa moves out of Julian's arms and speaks directly to Micah. "I enjoyed having you in my home tonight. Next time you come over, I'll make dinner for you and your dad and we can spend the whole day in my playroom. I could use your insight on how to finish Darkonian Quest before I send it into pre-production."
Micah launched himself into her arms hugging her tightly. He wished that Clarissa would marry his dad and become his mother. "I can't wait to come back. Have a good trip Rissa."
Clarissa kissed his forehead, "Thanks sweetie. I hope you have a good trip too." Julian opened the door and Micah wave one last time before leaving.
"I want you Clarissa, marrying you would be a small price to pay. Think about that while you're gone." He kissed her before leaving shutting the door behind him.
After locking the door behind them, Clarissa rested her back against the door. She has deep feelings for Julian, but she didn't know if what they have between them could sustain a marriage. She trusted that Julian is telling her the truth. From the beginning, he's been honest about his intentions to claim her as his woman. Lord help her! She is ready to accept everything he's offering.
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