Chapter 23

When Rosalee saw who entered the office, her jaw dropped open, and she got to her feet. “If you’re here to see Ace, he isn’t in the office right now.” She couldn’t believe that Evan had the nerve to show up here.

“Hello, doll, I must say you look absolutely stunning today, and I’m not here to see him. I’m here to see you. You and I should have a talk.”

“We have nothing to talk about, so you can just turn around and leave. Oh, and don’t call me doll.”

He ignored her words to leave and sat down in the chair in front of her desk. “I’m here to ask a favor from you.”

“Whatever you want from me, you can forget it.”

Again, he ignored her words. “Ace refuses to go against our father’s wishes and give me all of my money now. I no longer want it in installment payments. It’s my money, and I want it now.”

“That has nothing to do with me,” she said and sat back down.

“I want you to convince him to give it to me.”

“Even if I wanted to, he won’t change his mind. The reason your father did it the way he did was he knew that you would blow all that money. This way you’d be set for life, but for the life of me, I don’t understand why you don’t get off your ass and do some kind of work or invest what you do get into a business. Why do you insist on traveling and buying expensive items when you could be your own boss?”

His eyes grew dark with anger, and he pounded his fist on her desk. “I have worked, worked my ass off until the day the old man died, and I got my first check. That money belongs to me, and I want it now, and you are going to help me get it. My brother seems really smitten with you, and I’m sure when you spread your legs for him, you can get him to do anything.”

She wasn’t about to put up with his foul mouth. “I want you to leave, and if you don’t, I’ll call security to throw you out.” She didn’t like the look in his eyes and felt a little scared. “Were you the one that sent me a dead rat?” As scared as she was feeling, she had to ask.

A nasty smirk crossed his face. “A dead rat, now why would I do something like that?” He stood up and stared down at her. “I suggest you have a talk with Ace and convince him to give me my whole inheritance now, or I promise you, you’ll be sorry.”

After being threatened, she was convinced that he was responsible for the dead rat, but still had to wonder if Clarice was in on it too. She sat there nervously tapping her pen on the desk, not being able to concentrate on her work. She didn’t know how long she had been sitting there when Ace came in. Getting up, she ran into his arms, feeling so protected when he wrapped them around her.

“Baby, what happened now?”

“Evan was here.”

His body tensed up; he knew that if Evan showed up here so soon, it only meant trouble. “What did he want?”

She could feel how his body tightened up, and so did his hold on her, so she moved out of his embrace. “He said he wanted me to convince you to give him his full inheritance now.” She wasn’t sure if she should tell him that Evan threatened her, but when he told her to tell him everything, she decided she’d better. “He said if I didn’t convince you that I would be very sorry.”

He put his hands on her shoulders and pulled her back towards him. “Oh my God, that son of a bitch threatened you. I’m going to kill him.”

“He didn’t exactly threaten me in so many words, but it sure seemed like he did,” she said, letting him put his arms back around her.

This is what he was afraid of happening when people found out they were a couple, especially Evan and Clarice. Now he wished he had kept them a secret, but in doing that, he would have lost her anyway. He was worried as to how far his brother and ex would go, but threatening the love of his life was really crossing the line. “I can’t let this go on any longer. I’m going to give Evan what he wants, and as for Clarice, I will talk to her and see what it will take to get her out of our hair.”

She moved from his arms to look at him. “No, I don’t want you doing that just because of me. You said it was your father’s wish for him to only get his inheritance in stages. It’s like you once said that if you gave it all to him, he’ll blow it all in no time and would come back wanting more money from you.”

“If I get my lawyers working on it and make sure there’s a clause in there stating that once he’s given the money, he can no longer come after me for any more or for any part of the business.”

Well, needless to say, she felt terribly guilty that he was going to do it on her account. “Don’t make any rash decisions right now. Just wait for a while, and maybe when those two get bored, they will stop playing these games with us.”

He went and sat down on the edge of his desk and ran his hand over his face; he felt mentally exhausted. “I don’t know what to do.”

She went over and got between his legs, putting her arms around his neck. “I hate seeing you this way. But we’re a team, and we can get through anything that they throw at us. We just have to be strong and stick together, and whatever they do, we mustn’t let them break us apart.”

He put his hands on her waist and pulled her even closer. “You’re not only beautiful but smart. Let’s get out of here and go home.” A smile finally crossed his face. “Our new kitchen table should be there by now, and I can’t wait to try it out.”

“Me too,” she said enthusiastically. But then, when she saw him wiggling his eyebrows, she knew that he was talking about something totally different than what she was thinking. “Oh my God, you're talking about sex, aren’t you?”

All he did was wink as he told her to get her purse so that they could leave.

When they arrived home, they were pleased to find the old kitchen table was gone and the new one in its place. She went over to examine it closely. “This is even more beautiful than it looks on the site.” When she saw him removing his tie and he had a sexy grin on his face as he started walking towards her, she decided to play a little hard to get. She kept her distance from him as she continued walking around the table, her fingers trailing the contour of the edges.

By this time, he had removed his tie and jacket and watched with humor as she slowly inched away from him every time he got closer. The way she was looking at him with a smug look on her face turned him on. “Why do you keep moving away from me?”

“I'm just making sure that there are no scratches left from when they delivered it.”

“Really, is that what you're doing?”

“Well, what else would I be doing?”

“I think you're teasing me, walking slowly as you caress the table and that cute little smile on your face.” Now he was standing at the end of the table looking across at her. “You look so damn sexy. Do not make me chase you any longer.”

She jumped up onto the table and made her way toward him. “I like it when you chase me, it gets me so hot and bothered,” she said when she got closer to him. Before she could say another word, she let out a squeal when he grabbed a hold of her and laid her down on her back.

“It’s very naughty of you to tease me, now you must pay the consequences.”

“What are you going to do to me?” As if she didn’t know.

With one hand on the table supporting himself, he hovered over her. His other hand ripped open her blouse and placed it away from her breasts. “You’re about to find out.” His lips came down on hers, his tongue made its way inside her mouth, and tickled her tongue with his. He then moved his lips down to her neck in between her breasts, his free hand went under her skirt and between her legs. He yanked down her panties and placed his hand over her pussy. He rubbed and slowly slipped a finger inside her and let out a groan when he felt how wet she was. He knew she was wanting him to continue when her hips started moving and her moans grew louder.

She found something so sexually stimulating in the way he was stroking her. And then when he pulled out his finger and got off the table and then grabbed a hold of her ankles and slid her down closer to the edge of the table and before she knew it he had placed his face over her wetness and his tongue and mouth were doing things that had her squirming and screaming out his name. He never stopped surprising her with the different positions and different places he would make love to her. He was such a wonderful lover, always giving her pleasure before getting his own. By the time he was done, she was totally drained. Only she knew he was not done with her yet and she couldn’t wait to have him inside her. There was something about his cock moving inside her that felt so good that there were no words to explain it.

After he was done having his dessert, he smiled down at her as he wiped his mouth. He loved eating her pussy, everything about it he liked. “Now that I had my dessert, it’s time for the entree,” he said, picking her up he tossed her over his shoulder and carried her upstairs to their bedroom. Her skirt was still up past her ass and when she told him to put her down, he gave it a light slap. “Quiet woman or I will spank you again.”

“Oh,” she let out a squeal when he spanked her. He had never done that before and when he did it turned her on and she could feel the wetness pooling once again between her legs. “Oh, what are you doing to me?” She deliberately spoke so that he would spank her ass again and to her pleasure, he did.

He realized at that moment that she was a little bit on the kinky side when he noticed she liked him spanking her ass. Knowing this, he knew that they could start doing more things to spice up their sex life. When he got her upstairs, he was not gentle as he tossed her down on the bed like a rag doll and quickly discarded his clothing. By this time, he was so horny and his cock hard as it had never been before. He wasted no time in ripping off her clothes, yes ripped them. He was a little rough but not enough to hurt her, and she didn’t seem to mind at all, but it wasn’t the usually gentle and sweet lovemaking they usually did.

Her heart was pounding, butterflies in her stomach were dancing like crazy, and her breathing became ragged. She had never seen this rough side of him before, and to be honest, she liked it. “You’re such a beast,” she said when he climbed over the top of her.

“Am I being too rough?”

“Hell no, I like this caveman side of you.”

“I’m glad to hear that because I was hoping that eventually, we could spice things up a notch. I do promise you that I will never hurt you, but things are going to get a lot hotter.”

“What exactly do you mean?”

He started kissing along her neck, and his hand massaged her one breast. “For starters, I am dying to tie you up so that you are helpless when I devour you.”

“You mean like using handcuffs and whips and stuff like that. Just so you know I’m not into any physical abuse.”

He lifted his head to look at her and smiled. “I would never hurt you that way. I’m just thinking of handcuffs and a couple of other little things for your pleasure and enjoyment as well as mine.

“Well, in that case, I’m all for it. So, are you going to continue being a caveman, or are you not planning on making love to me?” she said, tracing her fingertips over his shoulders.

“Oh baby, I haven’t even begun yet,” he grabbed ahold of her wrists and pinned them above her head with one hand, and the other one moved down between her legs. “I’m going to ride you hard, so hard and fast that you will not be able to walk tomorrow.”

That night he made love to her, but it didn’t stop there. He took her a couple more times, the last time he had her straddle him while he lay on his back and let her do all the work this time around. “Damn girl, you sure know how to ride.” He couldn’t believe how many times he was able to get it up by just taking little breaks in between. Not only was he madly in love with her, their sex life was out of this world, and never a dull moment. All thoughts of Evan and Clarice disappeared from their minds as they enjoyed each other.