Chapter 20
Andrès
ONE MONTH LATER
“Bae, where are you?” I called out, walking into the house.
When I didn’t find her downstairs or hear her, I headed upstairs to the master suite.
“Bae, where are you?” I called again. Her car was in the garage, so I knew she was here.
“I’m in here,” she called out from the bathroom.
I headed inside and found her soaking in the bathtub, reading a book.
“Are those for me?” she asked, looking up when I stood in the doorway.
“I mean, there’s only you and me, and they’re damn sure not mine.”
She stood in the bathtub and danced. Bubbles bounced and jiggled off her breasts and hips. “Those tulips are beautiful, baby.”
“Glad you like ’em. I’m gonna put them in some water. Don’t slip your ass up and fall in that tub,” I warned as I headed out of the bathroom.
“I’m not, but ooohh, can I see the box?”
“You will when I come back,” I called over my shoulder.
I chuckled at the sound of her groaning. Once I’d placed the flowers in some water, I returned with the little jewelry box in my hand. She was soaking in the tub once more, pretending to read but doing some major pouting.
“You gon’ sit there and look sad, or are you gon’ open this box?” I asked, extending the box to her.
She eagerly set her iPad on the side of the tub and accepted the box. She opened it, and her eyes watered the minute that she saw the eighteen-karat white-gold mood bangle. It was set with diamonds that curved along the angle of her wrist.
I removed it, and before I placed it on her wrist, I showed her the inside. She read the inscription. “The day I married my best friend.”
“And our wedding date is engraved underneath.”
“I see that. God, I love you so much.” Tears poured down her face as she stared at the bangle as I placed it on her wrist.
When I finished, I leaned in and kissed her passionately, letting her know that my heart was completely hers, and I would never risk losing her again.
“You’re my world, and you always have been. You’re my best friend, my confidant, and the one who encouraged me to go for it all. Without you, I never would have accomplished all that I have. Because of that, I want to pour back into you,” I explained, removing my cufflinks from my shirt.
“What do you mean?”
“I went to see my attorney today. In fact, I’ve been seeing him quite a bit lately.”
“Is everything okay, babe?” she asked, watching me closely with a concerned look as I sat on the edge of the tub.
“Never better. I’ve invested in your future.
As of today, you have five percent ownership in mine and Silas’s company, with Silas having fifty percent and me having forty-five percent.
And in my urban wear line, you have thirty-five percent, and I have fifty-five percent, and Silas has ten percent. ”
“What? Why?” she asked, sobbing.
“Because that’s how much I love you. No matter what happens in the future, I want your future to always be secure.”
“I’m secure as long as you’re here.”
“Now you will be, even if anything happens to me.”
“Let’s not talk about that, okay?” she asked softly.
I bobbed my head. “Okay. So, other than this evening, how was your day?”
“Extremely busy, but my executive assistant spent the day going over résumés for the executive positions, and we have whittled it down to twenty-two.”
“That’s wassup.”
“You should have the final résumés on your desk by next week, Mr. Jones,” she replied sweetly, laughing.
I removed my shoes, kissed her lips, and asked, “Why didn’t I do this sooner? You’ve only made my workdays much easier since you’ve been there.”
“Yep, and it’s only been two weeks.”
We laughed, and I undressed. When I finished, I removed the iPad from the side of the tub and set it on the counter.
“What were you reading?”
“NSFW.”
“What’s that?”
“An erotic romance by this author, Egypt Cynaé. A boss and her right-hand man have lots of kinky sex in the office, while she’s being blackmailed by her former boss and trying to save her business.”
I climbed into the tub and faced her. I lifted one leg and asked, “Are you practicing and getting ideas for us?”
“Baby, that book has nothing on the things I’m about to do to you.”
I chuckled and replied, “I hope so.” I sucked her toe in my mouth, and she slipped down in the tub with a deep moan.
“I was worried,” she confessed when I removed her toe from my mouth and massaged her foot.
“About?”
“I thought that I would be starting over from scratch. I’m almost thirty, and everything I worked hard to accomplish in my twenties went down the drain with that layoff. I thought I would have to start all over again.”
“You never would have had to do that. You’re not in this alone.
I’m right here with you. We’re doing life together.
That’s what marriage is all about, and I get that it’s hard for you to depend on someone, but you don’t have to be independent anymore.
You’re a married woman with a husband who wants to provide for you, make life easy for you, and usher you into your soft life. ”
She laughed. “You make it sound like I’m a kept woman.”
“Never that.”
“Thank you for what you did though.”
“You’re welcome.”
“I did have an interesting moment.”
“What was that?”
“I came across June Pak’s résumé on my desk.”
“The woman you said took pride in firing you.”
“One and the same. I gave her the honor of giving her a phone interview today, although I hadn’t done that with the other candidates.”
“And?”
“I told her that I appreciated her submitting her résumé but that we have more qualified candidates. We’ll have to pass.”
“Damn.”
“I’m not working with her, Andrès. I don’t trust her, she doesn’t respect me, and I’d be asking for trouble.”
“I’m not questioning you, Mrs. Jones, Chief Human Resources Officer.”
We laughed, and I leaned forward to lift her from her seat. “I have a special assignment for you.”
“What’s that?” she asked as I lowered her onto my lap.
“Ride this dick.”
“My pleasure, husband.”
I slid my fingers through her folds and parted them, as she slowly lowered onto my length. She was warm and slippery inside. Her soft folds cloaked my dick like a second skin, and gahdamn, I wanted to explode immediately.
Those honeyed eyes stared brightly back at me, and I could see all the love shining from inside.
Life hadn’t been easy for me for a long time, but once I made up my mind to make my focus getting back to Kalliope all those years ago, nothing else mattered.
Not the year that I spent in jail, the disappointed looks from my dad and stepmom, having trouble getting a job after my release, or even the bullshit that Mercedes took me through.
The only thing that mattered was that I put in the work those ten years, I kept my head up, and I made it back to my woman. Now I could give her everything that she wanted and needed, and the only thing that I needed in return was her heart.
My hands gripped the curves of her waist as she rode me deep and hard. Our bodies were locked in tight as one, and I always wanted to feel like this with her. She was comfortable, she was familiar, she was home.
I gripped the back of her head and pulled her to me so that I could taste her lips and her mouth. Our tongues dueled as she pressed further into me to deepen the kiss. I licked the inside of her mouth, which was as warm as her pussy.
“You like riding this dick, baby?” I asked as she slid up and down me slowly.
“Mm, fuck yeah.” She moaned as she twerked all over me. I captured her nipple in my mouth and sucked hard. She gripped the sides of my head and cried.
“Fuccckkk meee,” she cried out.
She lifted, and I thumbed her clit and worked it in circles. When she plunged down again, I thrust up hard and fucked her hard and fast. Her warmth locked around me, coaxing me deeper. I slid down in the tub and pushed up into her.
“Ohh shit, Drè!” She shrieked, digging her nails into the flesh of my shoulders.
“You feel so fucking good.”
She rose to the tip and climbed off me. Turning around with her back to me, Kalli lowered slowly down my shaft once more.
She leaned forward and planted her hands on the bottom of the tub.
With precision and the perfect bounce and arch, she rode my dick, rising and plopping back down on it.
Her ass bounced against my thighs when she lowered, and her pussy glistened, coating my dick as she rose.
“Damn, baby. You feel so fucking good.” I grunted through my teeth.
She twerked on my dick and showed off skills that I didn’t know her ass had. In no time, she had coated my dick with her nut, and she had pulled my seed from within me.
I kissed her down her back before she climbed off me. We washed our bodies and left the bathroom to lay in the bed together.
“What was so hard about your day?” she asked.
“We ran into some issues with the permits, a contractor fell through, and some of the materials that we ordered were supposed to be delivered today, but we found out they are on back order. Someone fucked up and didn’t let us know that.
So, we’re having to push shit back, and that costs time and money. ”
“It’s going to be okay, baby. I’m sure that it will work out.
You and Silas do great work, and I believe that God will reward your efforts.
Just because there is a delay, doesn’t mean the blessing is denied.
When this facility opens, I bet it’s going to be the best location you have, earning the most money. ”
“From your lips to Big G’s ears, babe.” I kissed her forehead and then her lips before I smacked her on the ass.
“I have something for you,” she announced.
She was sprawled across my body, and she slid her hand underneath the pillow. When she pulled it back out, she held an oblong stick in her hand.
“You took a pregnancy test?”
“Yes. I took five of them, and they all read the same. This is the very first one that I took. It announced that you’re about to be someone’s daddy, sir.”
“Baby, you lying?”
“Nope, and you’re going to be an amazing daddy.”
My heart swelled in my chest, and I thought of all the things that I would do with my kid that my dad or Leon hadn’t done with me.
Tears sprung to my eyes, and she climbed over me to face me and wrapped me in her arms. I held her tightly, kissed her nose, and whispered, “Thank you for making my dreams come true.”
“Drè, you’re my dream come true,” she replied before she kissed me.
Damn! I was about to be somebody’s father. This was the greatest gift in the world, aside from claiming my wife’s heart.