Frenemies With Benefits (Geek To Chic Book 2) (15 page)

Good thing Alex had
left his beer in the living room because had been drinking it, he was sure it
would have come out his nose.
 
My dad called me a man whore
.
 
His only response was a shameful nod.
 
“Glad you are not going to argue the
point.
 
Now, Izzy is a good girl.
 
She is not like the other women you trapes
around with.
 
From what your mother has
told me she is not the type of girl you have a meaningless affair with.”

Alex had to interrupt
his father’s speech at that moment.
 
“Are
you giving me the ‘
what are your
intentions’
, speech?
 
I think that is
supposed to be from her dad not mine.”
 

“Well her father isn’t
here to give it, so I am taking it upon myself to make sure you do not hurt
this girl.”
 
George huffed, although his
cheeks were a little pink showing he was a little embarrassed by the topic.

“Dad, I promise, my
intentions couldn’t be more honorable.
 
Remember that story you told me about how you knew mom was for you the
first time you kissed her?”
 
His dad
nodded with a smile on his face.
 
Alex
leaned forward towards his dad, lowering his voice, to be sure he was not
heard.
 
“I never believed you, about the
love at first kiss BS, until I met her.”
 

George sucked in a deep
breath, nodding again.
 
“Well then, you
better find a way to make her understand that.
 
Let’s go eat before those boys eat everything.”
 

The two men stood and
walked out the door and into the dining room.
 
Izzy gave him a small smile as he entered the room.
 
Yep he needed to make her know, that he
planned on keeping her for well beyond the month.
 

Friday night at
last!
 
Work had been a disaster this week
for Alex.
 
With the France deal about to
fall through he had spent more time on the phone than he had spent actually
doing his work.
 
Derek had agreed with
the high profile client that he needed to personally come out and work on site
for them for a month.
 
He would be taking
Roni with him.
 
She would be there to run
inference between Derek the asshole CEO and the client.
 
She would be the face the client knew best by
the end of the month.
 

Derek had also wanted
Alex to attend the first few meeting.
 
He
had given Derek a bullshit excuse of needing to be at the office since Roni
would also be gone.
 
Derek didn’t blink
at the excuse.
 
He nodded his agreement
and wandered back to his office.
 
In
reality Alex didn’t want to be away from Izzy.
 
Even if the trip was weeks away.
 
He wanted their relationship to be well, a relationship before he
traveled without her.
 

Briefly, the idea of
asking her to accompany him to France had flittered through his mind.
 
He envisioned them site seeing between his
meetings and making love in the hotel suite at night.
 
Of course that was before his mind snapped
back to reality.
 
He couldn't take her to
France, not without setting off a shit storm of questions from their
friends.
 
Plus their stupid deal required
him to keep his mouth shut about the two of them.
 
Nixing all hope of dragging her off to
France.
 

Alex was not going to
waste one minute he could spend with her traveling for business.
 
The month would be over before he was
ready.
 
Shaking off the bleak thought,
Alex returned to work. He read his quarterly reports, typed a few emails, read
over the France contracts.
 
Nothing was
keeping his thoughts from the woman he longed for.
 
Rubbing his eyes, he leaned back in his
chair.
 
Cover his face with his forearm.
 

As if someone knew he
was trying to relax for a minute, his office door flew open and strong
footsteps headed for his desk.
 
Alex
pulled his arm away from one eye just enough to see Phin sit down in his guest
chair.
 
“Please come in, no need to
knock.”
 
Alex’s voice was less than
welcoming.
 

“Thanks man.”
 
Phin leaned his lean body back in the small
guest chair and put his feet on Alex’s desk.
 
Phin was by far the most laid back of all of them.
 
No matter what was said or done to the guy,
it rolled of the man’s back like water off a duck’s feathers.
 

“Since you have made
yourself comfortable, what the fuck do you want?” Alex asked, clearly
annoyed.
 
Was he taking his frustration
with Izzy out on Phin?
 
Hell, yes!
 
And he didn’t give a damn.
 

“Fuck, who has your
panties in a twist?” Phin questioned with a laugh.
 
“I only came in to tell let you I decided, as
self appointed social director of our group, we are all going to the bar
tonight.
 
So untwist your panties and be
ready to head out in an hour.”
 

Just as he was about to
tell Phin to go fuck himself, Jemma walked in.
 
She was cute in her own way.
 
Short and curvy.
 
Before her mom
got sick she was rather uptight and demure.
 
Never spoke her mind, hair always in a tight bun.
 
Now her hair was down, and she always told
Derek what a shit head he was being.
 
About time that happened. Derek needed to be kept in line when his
asshole side came out to play.
 
“Hi,
boys.
 
Am I interrupting an important
business meeting?”
 
She asked, eyeing
Phin’s feet on his desk.
 

“Phin was just telling
me we were all heading to the bar for a drink in an hour.”
 

“Your desk was my next
stop, my lovely.”
 
Phin winked at
her.
 

“Always the flirt,
Phin.”
 
Luckily Jemma never took Phin’s
constant flirting to heart.
 
He was a man
whore to the extreme and didn’t need any more female attention thrown his way.
“Are the other girls going?”
 
Jemma demanded,
pushing her thick glasses back in place.
 

“I haven’t made it that
far.
 
Maybe you can help me by rounding
up the ladies and I will work on the men folk?”
 
Phin inquired, standing as he did.
 
The man towered over the small assistant.
 
Alex noticed how close Phin was standing to
Jemma.
 
It appeared he didn’t like having
even one female not fall at his feet and was doing his best to garner her
attention.
 
Alex shook his head.
 
Clearly what he saw at dinner that night at
his parent’s house was emotion over Jemma’s mom being sick and not feeling
between her and Phin.
 

Jemma stepped back,
rolling her eyes at Phin.
 
“Sure, I will
ask Roni when I pass her on my way out and I will send a text to the other
girls.
 
See you in an hour.”
 
She began to leave his office, before she
stopped and turned back.
 
“I almost
forgot, I need the quarterly reports for Derek.
 
Are you done reviewing them?”
 

“He was just in here
why didn’t he ask?”

She shrugged and rolled
her eyes again.
 
“Because you know the
man can never think that far ahead when it comes to anything beyond code.”
 

All three laughed at
the accurate description. "I'll send them to both of you, after Phin and I
have looked them over."

With a nod of
acknowledgement, the two left his office together.
 
Phin teasing her about if she was actually
going to work up the courage to talk to the bartender she had a thing for.
 
Alex was tapping his foot with nervous
energy.
 
He waited ten minutes until he
sent Izzy a text.
 

Alex:
You going tonight?

He set down his phone,
hoping she would text him back soon.
 
If
she wasn’t going he would have to find an excuse as to why both of them weren’t
there.
 
He needed an excuse that didn’t
alert anyone to their bedroom activities.
 

Izzy:
 
Yep. Behave tonight! Remember our deal!

Alex:
 
I am truly hurt.
 
I always behave.
 

Izzy:
 
If pinching my ass is behaving we need to
establish some more rules.
 

Alex:
 
Rules, rules, rules.
 
You teachers are full of rules.
 
Maybe you can punish me for being a bad boy
later.

Izzy:
 
How about this for punishment.
 
If you don’t behave tonight, you go home
ALONE.

Alex:
 
Behaving is boring.
 
But I had planned on going home with a demon
pixie tonight.

Izzy:
 
Strike one, three strikes and you and your
hand have a date tonight.

Laughing he agreed to
behave and put his phone away.
 
He did,
however, plan to push the limits of behavior as far as he possible could.
 

An hour later, he left
his office to head to 5280 to meet up with everyone.
 
He hoped to catch Izzy in the parking lot
before they headed in.
 
If he had to
behave, he needed a proper welcoming.
 
Parking
near the side of the building, he tapped his fingers on the steering wheel as he
looked around for Izzy’s car.
 

As he stepped out of
his Porsche, beeping the locks and slowly made his way to the entrance. He
needed to stall to wait for Izzy.
 
He
needed to touch her, kiss her, before he endured hours of being in the enemy
zone with her.
 
Pulling his phone from
his pocket, he intended to look busy until she arrived.
 
By the time he looked up she was standing in
front of him, a dark look to her eyes.
 

Before he could u
tter
a
word she pushed him against the building.
 
Her small hands latched into his shirt, pulling him close for the most
passionate kiss he had ever experienced.
  
She was in complete control of the kiss, and he loved the fact.
 
For the
moment, he was fine with following her lead.
 
Her tongue
invaded his mouth.
 
They both
moaned.
 

"You should greet me like this every time we
meet." Alex whispered along her lips.

She pulled away a little to look up
into to his eyes. "I have this strange reaction to you. Every time I see
you, I either want to run you down with my car or kiss you until you can't
remember your name." She nibbled his bottom lips a little. "Since the
first option is illegal and we have agreed to be frenemies with benefits for a
month," she shrugged, "I thought the latter option was the best way
to go."
 

He quickly switched their positions,
pinning her against the wall.
 
They pawed
and kissed every inch of each other. When her small hand gripped his dick
through his jeans, he almost lost all sense of where they were. "Fuck our
friends. Let's go to my place or hell my car and continue this." He almost
pleaded. His hips rocking into her hand of their own accord.

She laughed before kissing him
senseless again. With one final hard stroke of his cock, she slipped out from
between him and the wall. "That my dear frenemy was a teaser. You behave
and keep us a secret and I will finish what we started.
 
Open that big mouth of yours and you get to
pick if your left or right hand will be your date for the evening."
 
Izzy vowed, winking at him.
 
He watched her walk away noticing the extra
sway in her hips.

Shaking his head, he took a moment to gain control of his
body before following her into the noisy bar. How was he ever going to make it
through a night out with their friends after a greeting like that from her?
 
She was pushing his control to the
limit.
 

Walking to the tables in the back near the pool tables he
spotted their group of friends.
 
He took
a moment to look at them.
 
Examining each
of his friends and each of the girls, his mind tried to match them up together.
 
Short one girl, the couples didn’t match up
correctly.
 
He wondered how Derek had
matched each of them for the bet.
 
And
who was the mystery girl?
 
None of the
guys or girls seemed particularly interested in each other beyond
friendship.
 

With the exception of
Collin and Caroline that was.
 
They stood
close together, near one of the high top tables, leaning into one another
talking.
 
He decided to see just how
close Collin was getting with his adoptive sister.
 
“Hey guys what’s up?”
 

Now that he was closer
he could see that C wasn’t leaning into flirt or whisper sweet nothings to
Collin, no she had her pissed off to the max face on.
 
“Nothing.”
 
She snapped.
 

“What the fuck crawled
up your ass?”
 
Alex smarted off back to
her.
 

“I don’t want to talk
about this with you because you will agree with him!”
 
She stabbed Collin in the shoulder with her
long slender finger.
 

Collin rubbed the area
she just stabbed a little.
 
“Let’s see if
he agrees with me or not.”
 
Collin stated
crossing his large arms over his chest.
 
Without taking his eyes off of Caroline he addressed Alex.
 
“I think she needs to sell that crappy house
of hers and move into a house that isn’t trying to kill her on a daily basis.”

C kept her eyes trained
on Collin just the same as he had her, mimicking his stance.
 
“And I told him that I loved that house, and
that it just needed a few repairs.”