Risking It All (29 page)

“Don’t be sorry. Those are the kind of comments I got back then, by the way.”

“We all look so funny when we’re young.
I didn’t mean to be rude.”

“It’s okay, Lissa.
” Quinton smiled.
“I’m a grown man now.”

It was not okay. She just made fun of Quinton to his face. How was she supposed to know? She assumed that since he was so damn fine, then he must have been just as good-looking as a boy.

“I have some pictures that I want to show you of me when I was young. I’m sure that you’ll get a pretty good laugh off those.” Julissa flipped the page to the next picture. There were pictures of him with other boys and girls. He
looked the same in every one of them
, except that he kept getting taller and it was more apparent that puberty was taking over. However, he still hid his handsome face behind the wire rimmed glasses and smiling pictures turned to pictures with no expression on his face.
He’d grown into a gorgeous man.
No on
e would ever guess
that the boy in these pictures was the sexy man sitting beside her today.

Quinton handed her
another album.
“I was teased pretty much all through day school, middle school, and high school. My parents moved to Florida and I attended community college in Florida. Would you believe that I didn’t lose my virginity until my sophomore year of college? Not only was I teased for that, I was teased for not having any
self-confidence
at all.”

“There’s nothing wrong with losing your virginity late. I didn’t lose mine until three years ago,” Julissa added. She began flipping through the second album. This album was of him surrounded by computers and electronics. It looked like he was working on something. There were also several pictures of him labeled Programmers Only Club. There were also pictures of him standing alone with trophies and accepting several certificates at competitions. “What are the first place trophies for?”

“Science projects. Programming competitions.”

“When did you lose your glasses?”

“After I left
college, I wasn’t much for taking pictures. T
he same year I graduated
, I discovered that if you were smart and treated females really nice, then some of them would give you what you need
ed…
if you know what I mean. My girlfriend at the time was a freshman, Lola. She was a preacher’s daughter, but she asked me to take her virginity because she wanted to have had sex just like the sisters at the sorority that she wanted to pledge to. So, being a guy, not getting much sex, I took it. Lola pledged and was accepted in the sorority and she was also the only freshman on the cheerleadin
g squad. Even though her boyfriend was
the
popular
quarterback, she came to me over and over again for sex. Not only did she proposition me for sex, but so did her other friends.

I didn’t understand why any girl would want to have sex with me and I was just a geek with big glasses and a nice smile. Her friend, Paula, told me the answer. They had fallen in love with my penis. Never having seen another man’s penis
up close and personal
in my life, I didn’t understand what she meant. Paula, blond and not the smartest person in the world, said, in her words, exactly, it’s big and you know how to work it.
”

Julissa laughed. “You sure do.”

He chuckled. “So
that’s when I realized that I could be jus
t like the football players
they wanted to be seen with and all the other jocks they wanted to marry. Five months later, I had gained thirty pounds and could bench press more t
han some of my competition
. I began lifting weights every day of the week, several hours a day. The only thing left to do was lose the glasses with the help of Lasik surgery. It’s wonderful what a little motivation and
self-love
will do. So…here I am.”

Julissa looked at him without saying anything. Taking in everything that he had just told h
er. “I admire that determination, Q.
I understand you a little bit more. But, I have one question?”

“Yes?”

“You’re still smart and you treat me really nice and I guess
I give you what you need. D
o you find pride in sleeping with females whose boyfriends are a bit lacking in some areas?”

“What?” Quinton chuckled nervously
.

Julissa made a straight serious face. “I didn’t think that was funny.”

“No, I don’t find pride i
n that. I like having my women
to myself. It’s not my fault that those females weren’t as truthful as they should have been with me.”

Julissa frowned.

“I didn’t mean it like that. You’ve always been truthful with me, Julissa. I know that.”

“Yo
u still slept with those women
even after you found out the truth, didn’t you?”

Quinton nodded.

“How do I know that you’re not playing a game with me?
Using me?
”

“Playing a game?”

“Yes, how do I know that I’m not just some girl that you’re using to increase your pride? Doesn’t it do
something to your pride to
know that my relationship and my sex life is lacking, and I come to you because I know what I don’t get at home is here?” Julissa was yelling now. She was bothered.
Furious
! “You sensed that Michael and I were having problems and you enjoyed that. You took advantage of that, didn’t you? How do I know that you’re
not playing games with me, huh?
How do I know that you’re not taking me for one those sex hungry females who crave big dicks
and rough sex
and you give them what they want so they can keep coming back to y
—
.”

Quinton stopped her yelling by kissing her mouth closed. He kissed her with such force that Julissa thought he was angry to
o
. His lips massaged hers and before long they were tonguing each other.

“How do you know I’m not playing games? Is
that what you want to know?” Quinton
picked her
up in both of his arms. “
Is that what you need
to know?” He
kissed her neck and shoulders as he took her up the stairs to the first floor and then up the spiral staircase.

“Q
, I just want to know that this is for real.”

“It is for real, baby. I’m for real.” Quinton used one arm to open the door to his master bedroom.

“Q, I want you, too. But, there’s more to us than sex. I can feel it, but I want to hear that from you.”

Quinton placed her in the lounge chair next to his bed. “Sit there.”

“W
hat are you doing?” Julissa was confused as he reached in his nightstand. Instead of pulling out the box of condoms that she knew were there, he pulled something else out that was hidden in the palm of his hands.

When he came back over to the chair, he picked her up, sat down in the chair
, and placed
her on his lap. “You love me, Lissa?”

“With all my heart, Quinton. Do you love me?”

“Cross my heart
.” Quinton opened his palm and revealed the diamond ring in the center.

She gasped and her hand went up to her heart, as it felt like it had stopped beating. “Quinton, what is this?”

“It’s premature. But
I want to show you that I am not playing games with you.”

“Q, it’s beautiful,” Julissa took the ring that he offered her.

“I don’t know what to do now, Lissa.
” His Adam’s
apple
bobbed as he swallowed.
“
This is the part when I’m supposed to ask you to marry me and you’re supposed to accept the ring on your finger. But, I’ve never proposed to a woman who already had a ring on her finger. As a matter of fact, I’ve never proposed to any woman at all.”

“Oh, Q.” Julissa hugged him. “I would accept your proposal in a heartbeat.”

“Then
you will marry me
some day?”

“Yes.” Julissa reached down and pulled Michael’s ring off her finger.
The ring she should have never accepted.

“Does that prove that I
’
m not playing games?”

“Yes, it does.”

Quinton picked up her
hand and kissed it. “Y
ou go and do what you have to do with him. I will be waiting right here for you. And when you co
me back, we can start our life. T
ogether.” He slipped his ring on her finger. “This is what I want
.
It will be if you want it to be.
” Then, he slipped the ring back off.
“
But, first, you go and take care of your business.”

Quinton kissed the inside of her wrist. She had
no idea a kiss there
could arouse her.
He moved to
her neck, licking and sucking, making her moan and she grinded her puss
y over him. She was straddled him, pressing her pussy against his erection
. His groans were proof that he wanted more. So did she. She pulled the straps to her tank top down and arched he
r back, bringing his lips to her breasts
.

Quinton
eagerly caressed and sucked on the little aching buds. He sucke
d aggressively and lovingly on her
plush skin
. She knew that she had
the
hickies to prove it, but she didn’t care. He squeezed both breasts together and licked the nipples. She moaned.

“You like that?” he whispered.

“Oh, yes.” She was working her pussy over his erection like she was giving a lap dance.

“Something else needs attention, doesn’t it?”

“Yes.”

Quinton popped the buttons on her jeans and pushed his hands down into her jeans and massaged her flesh. At the same time, he still suckled her nipples. “Yo
u want my tongue to make you come
…like this.” He flicked his tongue quickly over her nipples.

She shuddered.

He found her clit and used a finger to massage her clit. “And you want me to suck on your clit…like this.” He took a nipple into his mouth and sucked gently.

She hissed.

“And you
want me to fuck you
…like this.” He pushed his finger up ins
ide her wet pussy and pumped
.

“Oh, Q…I need you so bad. Fuck me, right now.” The
tension inside her built
rapid
ly. S
he needed something more.
Wanted it.
The sensation of his tongue against her
ultra-sensitive
ni
pples and the massage that he delivered
to her clit was a
ll she needed
. Her orgasm was powerful, as she shuddered helplessly above him.

He caught her lips in his and kisse
d her until she was done
.

“Oh, Q. This pussy is so wet. I want you to fuck me hard,” she purred.

“I’m gonna fuck you
good and hard
,” Quinton removed his finger from her jeans and placed it up to his lips.

She watched, extremely turned on, as he licked her juices from his fingers.

She leaned forward and licked too, their tongues touching. “Then, do it, Q. Fuck me.”

Julissa
kissed him.

“I will fuck you.
” Quinton lifted her straps back over her
shoulders, covering her breasts.
“But
not right now.” Seeing that her nipples were still hard, he kissed both of them through her top. “You go take care of your business. And after you have done that, you come back here. You come here to me and I promise you that I will take care of my business. I will fuck yo
u any way you want me to
. I promise.” He lifted himself so that they were both standing up now. “Now, go. Go do what you have to do.”

Julissa frowned like a little child whose mot
her just told her that she couldn’t have any chocolate ice cream
. “Q? Why?”

“Don’t worry, Lissa. We’re gonna finish what we started because I know you’ll be back. Very soon, I hope.”

Quinton kissed her forehead and led her out of the bedroom. He led her all the way down to the foyer, out the door, an
d helped her in her car. He
must have seen her
looking at the front of jeans, madly. She wanted him. Why would he do something like this to her?

He smiled.
“Don’t worry. I’ll be here, ready and waiting, when you come back.”

“Fine.” She slammed the door and began backing out of the driveway. The last look she took of Quinton before she turned away was of him with that sideways smirk on his face from his childhood.