Risking It All (15 page)

“We haven’t set a date or place, yet?”

“Newly engaged? Well, congratulations!” Cindy tu
rned to walk out the door. “I’
ll let Mr. Insley know that you two are ready to get started. He’s finishing up with another closing, so he should be in here in about fifteen minutes.”

“Thank you, Cindy,” Julissa said.

“Congra
tulations,” Quinton said, dryly, as soon as the receptionist closed the door.

Julissa turned to look at Quinton. “Quinton, even though this only became official last week, it was bound to happen. Michael and I have been together for three years.”

Quinton shrugged.
“The timing certainly came at a
strange time.”

“Strange for you maybe. Our three year anniversary is a few weeks away.”

“Like I said, congratulations on your
engagement and your
three year anniversary.”

Julissa looked at him for a while as he pretended to be going through all the papers in his briefcase. Damn! He was so goddamn fine,
even when he looked frustrated.

She pursed her lips, sighed, and then looked away. So, it was going to be like this now between
she and Quinton. He was giving her
the cold shoulder.
He knew what he was dealing with when he met her.

“I take it that you’re settled with your new job and a place to live?” Julissa asked, trying to pass the time.

“I accepted the job offer as a software engineer. I start in a week
and a half
.”

“A place to live?”

“I’m at the hotel. I would like to look for a home, but I don’t want to bother you or anything. I don’t know, you might be busy planning your wedding or something,” Quinton mumbled.

“Quinton!” Julissa spoke his name as if she were reprimanding a child. “Can we keep a business relationship? I already promised that I will help you with whatever you need from me when it came to real estate. Please, I want to help you.”

Quinton
shook his head. “I’m sorry. I shouldn’t be acting this way. I don’t want you to
think I’
m a total jerk. I do have a few listing
s
that I circled in the paper this morning.”

“Good, well I have some time after the closing. Maybe we can go have lunch somewhere and I’ll get those listings from you.”

“Thank you.”

Mr. Insley entered the conference room with his assistant and both arms filled with paper work. Julissa put her game face on because she knew it was time to get down to business.

They both had smiles on their faces when they walked out of the lawyer’s office. Julissa had just closed on her first commercial property, expanding her experience and enhancing her resume and Quinton had just bought his first income-producing property in Georgia to add to his real estate investments.

“Can I follow you to the restaurant across the street for lunch?”

“Sure,” Quinton stopped in from of her car. “Actually, that paper I told you about…I left it at the hotel. Can we stop by and get it first?”

“Uh-sure…why not?”
She needed to make a quick business call anyway. This would buy her at least a half hour to take care of some other much needed business.

“There’s also a nice restaurant inside the hotel. The food they serve there is really good, too, if you can remember how it was at Christina’s wedding.”

“Oh, yes, that food was good. Why don’t
we have lunch at the hotel instead of coming all the way back here
?”

Quinton nodded.

**

Quinton pulled his r
oom key out of his pants pocket.
“Would you like to wait here in
the lobby? Or come up with me?”

Julissa looked around in the hotel at all the people gathered in the lobby and waiting in line outside of the restaurant for lunch. “I think I’ll come up.”

She followed Quinton
into the elevator, up to his room which was on the twelf
th floor—
the highest floor in the hotel. It was also where Christina and Richard was offered a penthouse suite to store their suitcases and change clothes just before heading off to the airport on honeymoon.

When Quinton opened the door and gestured for her to go in, she looked in awe at the extravagant furnishings of the penthouse suite that lay before her. The room resembled a large condo, complete with full kitchen and mini bar, living room, work area, and bedroom and bathroom area sectioned off by a wall. It was a corner suite, so the huge floor to ceiling windows let
in
plenty of light. She only need
ed
to
look down and she could see the hustle and bustle of cars on the busy downtown streets and sidewalks going about their business.

“This is nice. I see why you’re in no rush to move,” Julissa said.

“Ex
actly.” Quinton
laughed
.
“Comes complete with room service,
daily laundry, breakfast in bed…
I’ll miss
all
that.” He
walked over to the work area and picked up a rolled up newspaper from the desk. “Here it is. I circled about four properties this morning.”

Julissa was only half paying attention. She was in front of the big windows, admiring what was going on below them. It
even amazed her to see men
across the street on top of a building doing some type of construction or repair work. She didn’t notice that Quinton had moved right behind her until he spoke.

“This is what keeps me occupied throughout the day. If I get bored, I just get up and look out the window.”

“I see why.” Julissa realized that he was so close that she could smell his cologne. “I
think that maybe
we can manage to find you a home with a nice view
…if you like that type of thing. You’d have to give up the
room service and breakfast in bed every morning
though
.”

“What about a home complete with all of that. Breakfast in bed, nightly room service, maybe a little massage therapy once in a while, a beautiful woman to share it with…” His face was only inches from hers.

“Now, that, Mr. Brennan…I cannot promise you.”

“You can’t promise me any of it, Ms. Lorenzo?
” He kissed the side of her face and suddenly bro
ught his hands up to rest on
her hips.

“Not exactly,” she whispered, raising her face to accept his soft kisses.

“What about the part…” He stopped talking to bend down to kiss her neck. “…the part about the beautiful woman.”

Julissa turned around and met his intense glare. He never released his grip on her waist. The moment his lips met hers again she
was in complete heaven. H
e was kissing
her
and once again causing so many emotions to course through her body. She shouldn’t be here. She should push him away and say no. Nothing inside of her wanted to say no. Everything inside of her wanted this man
. She wanted him
wi
th all her heart.

H
er hands went to capture his neck, pulling him in further for a more intense kiss. They pulled away only to catch their breath.

“I want you, Lissa.”

“I want you, Q.”

That was all that he needed to hear before he took her lips to his agai
n. This time his big hands pulled
her body in
to his firmly. She could feel his
package growing in the seat of his pants. He lifted her up
by the waist
and she immediately wrapped her legs around him. The groan that escaped from his lips confirmed that he was extremely aroused by her
action
. He carried her in his arms, but
he never made it to the bed
. With one arm
still holding her up
,
he shoved everything
off the desk onto the floor. He plac
ed her on top of it and moved his lips down
her neck.

As he was kissing her, Julissa managed to get the tail of his shirt from out of his pants. She had wanted to feel his chest for so long and now she was actually g
etting the chance to do it. S
h
e ran her hands across him, confirming
that every ripple
was well
defined, just as she suspected.

“You like that, don’t you?” He separated himself long enough to pull his shirt over his head in one movement, causing her to breathe inward sharply.

She had never done to a man what she was about to do, but she just couldn’t help herself. The man looked too good and she wanted a taste. She leaned forward and began kissing his hard chest, running her fingers across the flat nipples. He held his head back, allowing her free reign.

In the process, her eyes focused on something else. The huge bulge in the front of his pants looked like it was just dying to be freed of the zipper that held it in. Before she knew it, her blouse was being pulled over her head. He wasted no time, kissing and licking what he could around the silk b
ra that created a barrier over
her breasts. He
expertly licked and sucked the plump softness beginning at the top.

Quinton peeled her bra straps do
wn her shoulders and moved
one nipple up and down
with slow strokes of his tongue
.

“Oh.” H
er back arched forward, causing the entire nipple to fill his mout
h. His mouth on her
felt
exquisite. Her entire body trembled
and her pussy ached. She had never felt it before, but something needed to be done to make the ache go away. She tried to squeeze her legs together
, thinking
that would cure the hurt in her core, but he used his palms to pry her legs back open again and pressed his dick up against her stomach. He was hard like a rock.

“Is this what you need?” he asked.

“Yes…please…do it quickly…I need you now,” she whimpered.

Slowly, he began pulled her white lace b
ikini-cut panties down her waist and even further
down her legs. He lifted her skirt over her hips. Without taking his eyes off hers he reached down and caressed her pussy with his hand. It felt so lovely, bare skin against bare skin, as he caressed the apex
betwe
en her legs
. He stroked
her until he had c
oaxed her legs completely open
. She almost bucked off the edge of the desk, when he i
nserted his finger into her
pussy.

“Your pussy is so wet.” He moved
his finger in and out
of her. Her hips moved in sync with his digits
. He added another
and sucked on her neck at the same time.

Julissa thought she was in heaven. No one had ever given this m
uch attention to her pussy
.
Ever.
He pushed his fingers in and out, as deep as they would go, and she arched her back feel
ing the
tension building inside her
.

“Faster?” he asked
.

S
he moaned. “J
ust like that.”

He turned his fingers over, so that his palm was facing upward, and then moved another finger, his thumb, over her clitoris.

“Oh, my God,” she cried out
.

His fingers began moving in circular motions over her clit as the others moved in and out of her pussy.

“Oh, Q…don’t stop
…”
She was almost there;
she could feel it.
Could it be possible that she could experience her first real orgasm with a man?

The ringer on her cell phone scared the shit out of her and she jumped up off the desk quickly as if they had been caught. “Oh, shit! What am I doing?”

“What’s wrong?” Quinton asked.

S
he snatched up h
er blouse and adjusted her bra.
“What are w
e doing?”

“Isn’t it obvious?” He looked totally confused, standing there in a pair of pants, with a
dick that had suddenly gone semi-erect
.

Julissa pulled her blouse over her head, straightened up her skirt, and ran her fingers through her hair a couple times. She grabbed her purse and headed towards the door.

He followed her
.
“Where are you going?”

“Home.”

“What about lunch?” He held out his arms to his sides.

“The lunch hour is over, Q. I’ve got to go.”

And with that she was gone.