“This is my brother Daitaro,” Raiden introduced. “Dai, this is Rochelle.”
Daitaro smirked but bowed his head slightly in greeting. “It’s nice to meet you.”
“Hello.” Rochelle shivered against Raiden’s chest. “I should leave you two to talk.”
Raiden didn’t release her. He didn’t think he could. She glanced over her shoulder at him but he only smiled at her. She shook her head, kissed his chin and let her go. When she disappeared from the room, he looked over at Daitaro.
His brother leaned in. “She isn’t the kind of woman I would’ve pick for you but the way she looks at you says so much.”
“How so?”
“Her eyes said more in that brief moment than any words could.” Daitaro took a drink from his tea cup. “And I think that’s all a big brother can ask for his baby brother. The truth is I don’t know if you could find a woman here that would ever look at you like that. Her eyes lit just from seeing you. She barely even looked at me.”
Raiden felt pride surge through him. He lifted his head to stare at his brother. “She loves me, Dai. She is just scared.”
“Of?”
“I don’t know.”
A short silence filled the room before Daitaro broke it. “So what happened to her clothes?”
Raiden looked at his brother who was now smirking. With a chuckle, Raiden got up and grabbed some crackers. “What do you think?” He stuffed one into his mouth and chewed. His eyes never left his brother’s face and he instantly saw understanding cross Daitaro’s face.
“Oh no! My baby brother is a freak.”
“Oh shove it.” Raiden laughed before walking back to the counter, returning to his seat. “So that is why I didn’t answer the phone. Besides, afterward we both passed out on the floor. I have to find out what hotel she’s booked in and go over there to grab some clothes for her.”
Daitaro nodded. “I’m happy for you, Otouto.”
“Arigatou, but we still have a far way to go till I can seriously consider her mine. We have to deal with the distance thing.”
“Well both of you have a business that needs you in the country to run at least half the time. Why not split your time half and half between both countries?”
“What happens if this works out and we have children? Where will we live?”
“That, my dear brother, is the bare bodkin of it all, isn’t it?”
“I really wish I hadn’t made you read Huckleberry Finn. Yeah, so as you can see we have a ways to go before we can truly say we’re together.”
“It’s not that complicated, Zero. Think about it. You have a woman in that room…” Daitaro peeked over his shoulder then leaned closer to Raiden. “A woman that has this look when she sees you obviously feels deeply for you. Don’t throw that away. I live here, I’d be happy to look after Emiko-San when you’re in Canada and I’m sure she’s got friends who she could count on when she’s here. Don’t let something as trivial as distance take away your happiness.”
Raiden thought about Daitaro’s words of wisdom. His brother stood up. “I’m going to leave you with your lady,” Daitaro explained. “I’m going to tell Nia that you’re fine. Give me a call when you can.”
Raiden reached over to touch his fist gently to Daitaro’s and the older Rei walked out the door. He sat there for a while longer then walked into the bedroom to see Rochelle sitting on his bed still wrapped in the sheets. With a smile, he kneeled against the bed crawling up close to her and kissed her. He slowly peeled her from the sheets to savor the taste of her against his tongue before lifting his head. “I have an idea.”
She smirked. “Does it involve me and my—” she gasped when Raiden took one of her nipples in his mouth and sucked against it.
“I’ll take that as a yes. But we have to think about my clothes and your family seeing me walking around in one of your sheets.”
Raiden moaned and shifted to the second breast. Before taking it between his lips he looked up at her. “I know. But why do you need clothes? I’m only going to tear them off anyway.”
“You big freak!” She laughed. “What about when people visit?”
“Oh all right.” He kissed her nipple, and then her chin before rolling onto his back and grabbing the phone. He dialed and locked eyes with her.
* * * *
When she walked in and saw another man sitting across from Raiden, Rochelle thought of running. She wasn’t sure how Raiden would introduce her. When he hauled her into his arms and introduced her to his brother indescribable pride surged through her. But it embarrassed her not being dressed the first time she met a member of his family.
Rochelle giggled and let the sheet fall away from the rest of her body. On her knees, she unzipped his pants and reached in for his cock. His eyes widened and she simply laughed and licked against the head of it.
“Koibito,” he grunted.
With a smile, she opened her mouth pulling him deep to the back of her throat. She stared at him, desperately trying to concentrate on the phone call. She began bopping up and down on him.
“Hi, Tae, I need—need a favor—oh God! No—I’m fine…”
He spoke on the phone in rapid, raspy Japanese but she didn’t mind. She had a mission. She wanted him to explode before her eyes, but when making love with Raiden nothing went as planned.
Rochelle loved the taste of him leaking against her tongue; hot, tangy and delicious. She completely forgot about his phone call, closed her eyes and allowed herself to enjoy pleasuring him. She clawed against his bare abs and purred when he groaned her name. She glanced up to see his phone call had ended and laughed.
“You tease,” he accused.
“Want me to stop?”
“I want you to ride it.”
Rochelle shivered at his vulgarity. “Oh, Zero. You are so naughty.” She stroked his dick in a tight fist while taunting him. He grinned at her and folded his arms behind his head.
“Not until I’ve had time to buy the handcuffs. Now, climb on, and ride my dick.”
She didn’t let him ask a third time. The way he looked at her made her want to do things she never thought she would ever want to do with a man—like climbing over him, forcing him to eat her. With that thought, she climbed on and he gripped her hips. She reached back to guide his hardness into her and couldn’t help the scream that escaped her lips. She looked down into his eyes and he grinned at her.
“Ride me, baby,” he ordered in a fierce growl.
Bracing her hands against his chest, she began, slowly at first. Letting her head fall backward, she rotated her hips, pulling him deeper into her and moaning his name with each inch that sank within her. She felt her orgasm coming as he reached up and sucked one of her nipples. She held the back of his head so his mouth stayed where she wanted and jerked against him harder.
“Rai—” she panted. Her chest heaved and she could feel herself gushing around his cock. Her hands fell to her side, her head fell forward and then back as her eyes widened.
“More, baby?” Raiden asked her.
“Oh hell yes!”
* * * *
Raiden grabbed her around the waist, forcing her backward on the bed. He spread her legs with a greedy smile and allowed his tongue to work. He sucked at her, lapping at her juices and flicking his tongue over her tender clit. He felt her fingers in his hair pushing his head down, sinking his tongue deeper into her. He loved that but he wanted to dominate. Taking her hands from his head he held them down at her sides. Glancing up at her briefly he attacked her again—pulling her pussy lips into his mouth and bathing them with his tongue. He watched her come again as her body started bucking wildly. He released her hands and clutched her hips, holding her in place. She tried pulling her abused clit from his mouth but he wouldn’t allow it. He licked and sucked against it until one orgasm turned into another and she clawed at his neck, crying his name.
When Rochelle slumped back against the bed, Raiden licked his lips and crawled up her body. He
aimed his cock at her entrance and slammed his hips forward. He held himself deep within her. “Open your eyes, Rochelle.”
“I can’t—it’s so good. Please fuck me!”
“Open your eyes.”
When she shook her head, gyrating her hips against him, Raiden smirked and began withdrawing. She gripped his hips but he took her hands away and held them over her head. “Look into my eyes, Rochelle. I want to see what they look like when you come.”
She finally met his gaze and he sank into her again. Her pupils dilated, her mouth opened in a silent gasp and her nose flared. He smiled, surging into her over and over. Her hips writhed against his, meeting each thrust powerfully.
“That’s it, Baby, fuck me back,” he teased her.
“Raiden…”
Silence tore through the room except for the bed creaking each time he pushed into her. Her mouth opened, but she didn’t make a sound. His hips pumped harder and a whimper left her. He let her arms go and pinched one of her nipples. She cried out arching upward and Raiden felt her muscles clamp around him. He grunted, flipping his long hair from his face.
“Shit, you’re so wet!” he cried out. He fought off his orgasm but couldn’t. He simply exploded within her causing another climax to pulse through her. Raiden held himself above her, enjoying the way her velvet wetness convulsed around him. He fell to his side beside her and pulled her to him.
“I really do love you, Koibito,” he whispered to her. “I know you don’t want—”
“I want,” she interrupted. “I really want.”
Raiden closed his eyes with a smile on his lips, his cock already growing again.
They tried to sleep, but the door bell rang. She looked up at Raiden and moaned. He smiled at her and she sat up to allow him to climb from the bed. She watched his ass while he hauled on his pants. Still too sated to think straight, she shrugged and fell back against the bed. Muffled voices carried from the door and she wondered what was happening. She smirked at what happened to them before blushing and burying her face in the pillows. It dawned on her that they had sex twice without protection and she could be pregnant. Her eyes widened and she wanted to cry. When he returned she sat up in the bed with the sheets covering her breasts.
“Zero,do you realize we’ve made love twice without—”
“Don’t worry, I’m clean—and you’re worried you’re pregnant.” He placed the bags he carried into the room beside her and sat on the other side of her. He took her hand. “I’m ready. Would having my children be horrible?”
“Are you serious?” Rochelle arched a brow and faced him. “It wouldn’t be horrible at all—that’s not what I’m saying. What I’m saying is that we haven’t even decided what we are yet.”
“I have decided, Rochelle. You’re the one denying it.”
“And what are we?”
“We are lovers, friends—you are my itsumademo.”
“Itsumademo? What’s that?”
Raiden smiled at her and Rochelle felt her insides melting. “It means you are my forever. I really wish when I say I love you, you believe me.”
“I want to—and I am beginning to more and more every day.”
“Tell me about the last man that told you those three words.”
Rochelle wrapped the sheets tighter around her. She suddenly didn’t want to talk about it but she had to explain to him why this terrified her. Getting up she walked to the window and leaned against it.
“About a year and a half ago,” she began slowly, “I had just opened Hayes and I figured the time had come for me to have someone in my life. I met Jason at a club Maylee and I went to and he said all the right things. I mean, he was clean cut, handsome, had ambition—or so I thought…”
“What happened?”
Rochelle turned her eyes to him and bit against her lower lip, debating if she should continue. He nodded at her and she turned her gaze out the window at the beautiful garden his bedroom overlooked. “I didn’t want to rush into anything so I put off sleeping with him for a while. Well aside from the fact that I was scared out of my mind to sleep with him—of being naked with him. But one night I decided I would—he’d been patient, hadn’t pushed the issue so he deserved a reward right? So I planned it for weeks. I ordered lingerie from my favourite online store. I bought wine, and cooked him a nice meal.”
“Sounds like a good time. What was the problem?”
“Well, when he came over and saw me in lingerie, he rushed out the door.” Rochelle stiffened, staring out the window. “I guess it was the last thing he wanted to see. Then after I cried for a few days, I called him to give him a piece of my mind and to get closure. I found out the reason he never pushed for sex was because he wasn’t sure he wanted to have sex with me. After that, I just—closed myself off.”
“But you weren’t scared of me—”
Rochelle smiled sadly and turned to look at him. He looked so damn sexy sitting on the bed. She bowed her head. “I didn’t have a choice. My body didn’t give me one. I knew from the moment you showed interest—even before then—I wanted to rip my clothes off and that scared me more than anything else.”
“I’ve listened to you, Koibito. Now you listen to me. Not every man will see what I see in you. I see a fire in those big, brown eyes that turns me on so desperately that I lose myself sometime when you look at me. I see a body that I can pleasure, that I can feel in my arms. You deserve so much better than what this other joker put you through. You cannot define yourself by what he did—and I refuse to have you paint me with the same brush. He was a kid who didn’t understand that a woman is a woman no matter her size. Come here.”
Rochelle hesitated. Not because she didn’t want to be held but because she needed time to take in what he just said to her.
“Baby,” he called softly. She heard the bed give under his weight and looked up. He’d risen from the bed and walking towards her. She allowed him to pull her into his arms and caress her back.
“Some men don’t appreciate the beauty that is the woman’s body. I, on the other hand, am happy he was an idiot because if he hadn’t done what he did, I wouldn’t have you in my arms right now. Call it selfish. Don’t get me wrong I’m sorry you were hurt but I am happy you are with me.”
Rochelle felt tears streaming down her face and she turned into his chest. He whispered against the side of her head, kissed her ear. She shivered against him and smiled even through her tears. “Thank you.”
“For what?”
“For actually loving me—and not what I can do for you.”
“Who says I don’t love what you can do for me?”
Rochelle yanked her body from his arms but when she looked into his face he grinned boyishly at her. She smacked him in the arm and he grunted in obligation.
“I love it when you smile at me, Rochelle. The sun shines when you do.”
“You’re corny.”
“And you’re sexy,” he retorted.
Grinning, she shook her head. “You’re incorrigible. What’s in the bags?”
“I got you something.”
“For me?”
“Open them.”
Rochelle gave him a suspicious look but rushed to the first bag and opened it. Japanese writing decorated the outside of the bag in red and gold. She pulled out the tissue paper and peered in. Arching a brow she glanced at Raiden who smiled at her lovingly. “Zero, what did you do?” she reached in and pulled out the first thing and unfolded it to reveal a beautiful, sky blue top with a plunging neckline. She grinned.
“I knew the colour would look amazing against your skin,” he whispered, sitting down on the bed.
She smiled and continued going through the bags and eventually she had a pile of clothes on the ground including panties and everything she might need. She stood up and tackled him on the bed.
“Damn! I should buy you things more often!” Raiden chuckled wrapping his arms around her. “I love this way of thanks.”
Rochelle smiled at hi
m. “Thank you.” She kissed his lips. “Though I could have just gone over to the hotel and got my stuff.”
“Yes but you, in my car naked, would get us both arrested.”
She arched a brow at him. “How’s that?”
“I would have to have you ride it on the side of the road.”
Rochelle shivered against him with a grin. “You’re dirty.”
He rolled them over and looked down into her eyes. She smiled up at him and for the first time Rochelle realized true happiness. She felt like floating because of him. She turned her face away from him grinning. Love felt so good that it made her want to cry.
“What is it?” he asked her.
“You make me happy,” she admitted before looking up into his eyes. “You make me want to smile all the time—you made me love you.”
The look that came to his face made her heart soar. Without a word, he bowed his head and took her lips.
Chapter Ten
The next morning, Raiden kissed her good-bye and went to work. After he left she watched him through the window and grinned. She could learn to get used to this. She walked into the kitchen wondering what to do. She thought about going out but she forgot to ask him for keys to get back in the house. If she left and locked herself out she’d have to wait for him. Pouting she wandered into the den and browsed the books. Raiden seemed like an avid reader. She pulled out a large, leather, black book that did not have a name on the binding and placed it on the desk. Flopping into his leather chair, she pulled it open. Her eyes widened. She thought it might be porn or something. But his earlier drawings were inked and sealed off in protective sleeves.
“My man drew these,” she said proudly. She turned the pages surprised at Raiden’s wonderful talent. Each drawing got better and better. When she finally closed the volume and slipped it back in its spot on the shelf, she felt absolutely giddy. She decided to give her best friend a call.
Maylee had asked her to call as soon as she settled in her hotel room and Rochelle had forgotten. Moaning and palming her forehead, she hurried into the kitchen searching for her purse. She finally found it in a corner beside the counter and smiled. Grabbing it, she dug through it for her cell phone and snapped it open. She dialed Maylee’s number and waited.
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