A Billionaire BWWM Romance 4: The Proposal (9 page)

“
I
should keep doing it if it means I will be getting this every
minute,” he teased.

“
Come
on, I kiss you all the time,” she said.

“
Want
to sit in the living room with me?” he asked.

“
Sure,”
she said as they walked out of the dining room. She sat down next to
him and looked at him. “Can I ask you something?” she
asked. Steven smiled and shrugged.

“
Did
I offend you? You know with the marriage talk?” she asked.
Steven looked at her and shrugged.

“
You
were expressing yourself,” he said. “I don’t mind
you keeping it real with me,” he added. She smiled and leaned
her head against his shoulder.

“
Sometimes
you are a bit too gangster for me, babe,” she said as she
looked at him. He smiled and kissed her forehead. “But
seriously though, I always dreamed of getting married to that perfect
man, but of late I have been having my reservations. It’s like
I got the last good man left.”

“
So
you wouldn’t mind being my wife someday?” Steven asked.
Julie smiled and shrugged.

“
Maybe,
but we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it,” she said
as she took a bite of her dessert. “This is delicious.”
All Steven could do was smile even though he couldn’t hear
anything she was saying. He was all out of romantic gestures. He
needed to consult with Dana and Meg. Stat!

*****

“
I
am telling you it was a disaster,” Steven said to Dana. The two
were at Meg’s place. They had decided to conveniently meet
there at exactly the same time they knew Julie would be busy. Meg sat
up in bed and looked at Steven.

“
What
the hell happened? Did the chef put the ring in the wrong glass? Or
was it supposed to be a cake? I don’t remember,” Meg said
looking at Dana.

“
It
was supposed to be a chocolate soufflé,” Dana said. “So,
what? Did the waiter screw up? Did some poor girl say yes to a
question a man who never wanted to ask her in the first place?”
she asked. Steven smiled and shook his head.

“
Well,
for starters the restaurant never worked out because Juelz had a best
friend emergency,” he said. Meg frowned and buried her head in
her hands.

“
I
ruined my own best friend’s engagement,” she said in a
muffled voice.

“
Actually
no. I was determined to do it so I went back to my place and made
dinner…” “What did you make?” Dana asked
cutting him short.

“
What
does that have to do with anything?” he asked.

“
Well,
the platter matters. You cannot ask a woman to marry you over mac and
cheese,” Dana said.

“
True
that,” Meg agreed nodding. Steven shrugged.

“
Fine
it was duck. I made pan fried duck with raspberry sauce,” he
said.

“
I
don’t even know if that dish has any kind of aphrodisiacs, but
it just sounds sexy,” Dana said. Meg smiled at Steven.

“
Yeah,
there is no way I would say no to raspberry duck sauce,” she
said.

“
Pan
fried duck and raspberry sauce,” Steven corrected her. “And
she didn’t say no,” he added. Meg’s eyes grew wide.

“
So,
you’re engaged?” she asked excitedly.

“
No.
What part of ‘it was a disaster’ did you not get?”
he asked looking at Meg.

“
This
is the point you tell us what went wrong,” Dana explained,
looking at Steven.

“
Well,
apparently most of her close friends and family have had really bad
luck with marriage. So she doesn’t really think very highly of
the marriage institution,” he said.

“
And
she said this during dinner?” Dana asked. Steven nodded.

“
Oh
yeah, and I was just sitting there with the ring in my pocket feeling
like an idiot,” he said. “And my sister almost ruined
everything because she called Julie last night and I had to grab the
phone and make sure she didn’t jump the gun.” Dana and
Meg exchanged looks.

“
So
she actually said that she doesn’t want to get married?”
Meg asked.

“
In
so many words, but she did say she didn’t want anything to
change,” he said.

“
Meaning?”
Dana asked.

“
Meaning
she wants us to remain happy,” he said. “It’s
almost like our happiness streak will end the moment we walk down the
aisle,” he added. Dana shrugged.

“
I
don’t know Davenport. Don’t you think that maybe you are
reading too much into this? I mean she does love you and she wants to
be happy,” she said.

“
Yeah,
Steven. I’ve known her longer than you have, so believe me when
I tell you that, that hard outer shell she has is just a mask she
wears to cover up her true self,” Meg said. “And you guys
are not Sadler and I. You are probably better than Dana and her
husband and those two have the best relationship I know,” she
added.

“
Aww,
thanks,” Dana said with a smile.

“
Think
of what’s important to her and then make that your grand
gesture,” Meg said. Steven looked at her and smiled.

“
So
what’s the most important thing to her?” he asked. Dana
and Meg looked at each other and smiled.

“
That’s
easy. Family,” Dana said. Meg nodded.

“
Think
of something Davenport and then let us help you get that woman,”
she said with a smile.

“
What
are you talking about? We’ve had time to ourselves,”
Julie said smiling. She and Steven were having breakfast at Amelia’s
on Monday morning.

“
No,
we’ve been having a lot of sex lately. We haven’t really
had any time to just sit and talk, like we’re doing now,”
he said as he sipped on his tea. She looked at him and then leaned
forward.

“
Are
you complaining, Mr. Davenport?” she asked with a smile. He
shook his head and took her hand in his.

“
If
I ever tell you that we are having too much sex, there is a gun in my
safe. You know the combination Use it on me, right here,” he
joked as he pointed to his forehead. She smiled and shrugged.

“
So,
what exactly are you saying?” she asked.

“
Remember
what happened two weeks ago when we were set to have a movie night?”
he asked. She squinted and shook her head.

“
The
trip you took to DC?” she asked. He nodded.

“
And
then that weekend when we were supposed to go to the Poconos?”
he continued.

“
I
had to go home for the weekend. But in all fairness, we made up….”
Julie started before he shook his head. “No we didn’t, we
just had a whole lot of sex that made us both late for work on
Monday,” she added. She gave him a guilty look. “Maybe
you are right,” she said.

“
And
that is not all. Last week’s dinner plans?” he asked.

“
Hey,
I came over and had that delicious duck you had prepared for me,”
Julie said before she sipped on her coffee.

“
Yes
I did, but how do you know I didn’t have something else planned
for later?” he asked. Julie raised one eyebrow over the other.

“
Did
you?” she asked.

“
No,
but I could have had plans,” Steven said quickly. She looked at
him and smiled.

“
So,
what do you have planned for later?” she asked.

“
Today?”
he asked. Julie shrugged and nodded. “Nothing really but I
thought we would have something special this week. Wednesday,”
he said.

“
Wednesday?
Wouldn’t it be better to have it on Friday or Saturday?”
she asked.

“
It’s
a bank holiday on Wednesday. So I thought the only way I would get
you is in the middle of the week,” he said. Julie looked at him
confused.

“
What?”
she asked.

“
I
know you were probably going to sleep in and then watch some reruns
so instead I decided to get you and everyone you love on a
mini-cruise,” he said. Julie raised an eyebrow again.

“
You
have a boat?” she asked.

“
There’s
a lot you don’t know about me Miss Parker. Stick around,”
he said. She pushed a strand of hair behind her ear and looked at
him.

“
You
know what? I won’t even ask,” she said as she looked
around the table. She picked up her bag and rummaged through it
before she looked up. “Have you seen my phone?”

“
Maybe
you left it at my office,” Steven said as he threw a few bills
on the table. “Maybe we should go and get it or I can bring it
later,” he said. She shook her head.

“
There’s
a number on there that I need. I have to get it,” she said as
she stood up.

“
Alright.
We’ll take my car. Terrence will drop you here so you can get
yours,” he said. She smiled as they walked out. “Do you
have any idea how sexy you look in that dress?” he asked in a
whisper when he slipped an arm around her waist.

“
I
know. You told me that in the morning when I wore it,” Julie
said as she looked at him. Steven looked into her eyes and smiled.

“
Well,
you sure are sexy, Miss Parker,” he said as he opened the car
door for her. “The office Terrence,” he said when he got
in.

“
Yes
sir, Mr. Davenport,” Terrence said and then started the car.
Julie was smiling all the way to Steven’s office because she
had a plan all along. She was happy that she had her phone on silent
mode. She wouldn’t have wanted to give away her secret plan.
When they got to Steven’s office, Steven went right to looking
around for her phone.

“
I
am not really sure where it could be. Is it possible that you might
have left it in your office or your car?” he asked after he had
looked in all the possible places. She grinned and shook her head.

“
I
talked to you in the elevator on the way here, remember?” she
asked as she locked the door. Steven looked at her when he saw her
closing the blinds.

“
What
are you doing?” he asked, looking at her. She turned around and
undid the brooch button that held her wrap around dress together at
her hip. She smiled at him as she pulled the two sides of the white
floral dress apart and then let it drop to the ground, gathering
around her ankles like white petals. She stepped out of the dress and
walked towards him slowly. “The building across…”
he started saying before she tugged on the chord that brought the
curtains together. Steven looked at her and smiled.

“
I
hope you don’t have any urgent meetings in the next hour,”
she said in a soft voice as she stood in front of him. Steven looked
at her and smiled before he shook his head. She smiled and slowly ran
her fingers down his chest. “Good,” she said before she
leaned forward and kissed him deeply as she undid the buttons on his
shirt. She pulled away and looked into his eyes as she worked on his
belt buckle. Even in
the
dimly lit room, she could see the way his pupils were dilated. A sure
sign of his arousal. She pushed him against the desk and then got
down on her knees.

“
Julie…”
he said as she pulled down his boxer shorts. She smiled and looked up
at him as she held his already hard member in her hand. She stroked
him gently and then leaned forward to kiss the sensitive tip of his
cock. Steven threw his head back and moaned softly as she began
taking his entire length inside her mouth. She then pulled him out of
her wet mouth and circled her tongue on the tip of his cock. He
looked down at her as his cock disappeared in her mouth over and
over. She was taking every bit of him, every last inch. She moaned
softly as she positioned herself to take in his entire manhood making
him shiver. “Julie…you are going to make me cum,”
Steven said in a low voice. But that didn’t slow her down. If
anything, the words only fueled her. She was taking him harder and
deeper and he was holding her head against his crotch. She went on
pleasuring him orally until it reached such a point when she felt
that he’d had enough. She pulled away from him and looked at
the monster she had helped create. “Come up here,” he
said. It was more of a command than a request. He held her by the
waist and then turned her around getting her on the desk. He wasn’t
even looking at her anymore. He quickly pulled her panties down and
looked at her as he spread her legs. He then kissed her deeply as he
pushed himself into her. Julie exhaled into his mouth as he began
moving in and out of her.

Julie
wrapped an arm around his shoulders as he began moving himself in and
out of her, slowly at first and then faster as he went on. She was
trying hard not to moan or scream, but it seemed almost impossible.
And Steven knew this. So he kissed her again as he began thrusting
into her harder.

“
You
feel so…perfect,” he said breathlessly when he pulled
away from her. She held on to him as he went on pushing himself into
her. It was all too perfect. It was all so right.

“
Baby…”
she moaned softly as she felt her impending orgasm beckoning. He held
her tightly and thrust into her harder and deeper until he felt them
both explode at the same time. Their passion entwined and became one
just as he kissed her. When he pulled away from her, she was shaking.
He looked at her and smiled.