Chapter 26 Calum
Calum
I stand in the apartment I’ve bought just for seeing Kaia, staring out at the Manhattan skyline. The lights are starting to flicker on. It’s the deepest part of winter and the sun will be down soon.
Behind me, the apartment is decorated lavishly. A huge white bed takes center stage, a stripper pole is set up one one side, and a whole wall of sex toys faces it from the opposite end of the expansive room.
Everything is just where I want it.
But looking around this incredibly expensive space makes me think of Kaia’s apartment. How opposite the two places are, how diametrically opposed.
Maybe that’s the next step. I can offer to have Kaia move in here for a while. Turning to look around the space, I sigh.
It would probably be better if I offered to let her redecorate the place too. It’s a perfect fuck palace right now but I doubt Kaia would actually want to live here…
Right on cue, Kaia appears through the large front door. She’s wearing a short yellow dress and one of the coats that I bought her from Bergdorf Goodman. Her cheeks are bright pink from the cold. She ducks her head and comes over to me, leaving her purse on the bed.
“You summoned me,” she says shyly, smiling just a little.
My lips twitch. “I did.” Walking over to her, I reach out and take her by the waist, pulling her against my body. She drops her head back, looking at me expectantly.
I cup her jaw, flick my gaze down to her lips, and ever so slowly kiss her. Her lips are warm. Her warm honey scent rises to my nose, enveloping me.
I grip her tighter. This girl drives me insane without even really trying. If I weren’t so fucking broken, I would be thinking about making a longer term arrangement with her. A year, maybe.
When she finally pulls back, her lips bee-stung and her hazel eyes glimmering, she offers me another shy smile. “I think there is something that I should tell you about.”
I push out a long exhalation, taking her by the hand and leading her over to the bed. Kaia looks at the bed and glances at me, biting her lip. I can see her doing the math.
“I’m not about to fuck you,” I tell her bluntly. “Even though your dress tells me I should think twice…”
I sit down on the bed, pulling her down onto my lap. She straddles me, sucking in a breath. I kiss her, unbuttoning her coat and pushing it off her arms.
“Calum…” she says. The way she says it, a warning mixed with a plea, says that she wants me.
I can feel it in the way her hips press against mine. Smell arousal coming from her body. Taste it on her lips.
Good. That’s just how I imagined it would be in the days before I finally fuck Kaia. I nip at her lower lip, digging my hands into her hair.
God, she makes my cock so fucking hard.
“What were you saying?” I whisper, my tone teasing.
She surprises me by putting both hands on my chest and pushing me back. I gaze at her, arching a brow.
She flushes. “I have to tell you about the run in I just had with Honor.”
It takes my lust-filled brain a few seconds to make the correct connections and change tracks. I clear my throat. “What now?”
Kaia eases herself off my lap and onto the bed beside me. “I was just walking down the street, minding my own business when she confronted me. She gave me the phone numbers of a bunch of ballet companies in other cities. She said to call the one I wanted and they would take me immediately.”
I narrow my gaze on her face. “That doesn’t sound like Honor.”
Kaia screws up her face. “She said that she wants her spot in the company back. And that she wanted… well, you. She said she wants to date you.”
My mouth opens. I try to digest that information. “I… she… what?”
Kaia wrinkles her nose. “She said I was in her way. And if I didn’t transfer this week, she would… kill me?”
The end of her statement turns into a question. I squint, trying to make sense of what Kaia is telling me. “Honor threatened you?”
She ducks her head and nods. “Yes.”
“And she said… that she wanted her place back at the company?” I repeat.
She nods. “Yes. She accused me of stealing it. She also said that you are the only reason I got the position.”
My mouth pulls down into a frown. “That’s not true.”
Kaia rolls her eyes. “I think you’re focusing on the wrong thing. She really wants her spot back. And she wants you on her arm as well. She’s willing to make threats over those things.”
I reach out, sliding my hand along Kaia’s jaw. “I wouldn’t take her seriously. Even if she feels that way, the NYB would never take her back. And I’m… preoccupied.”
The last part sounds stiff. Puzzlement flashes across Kaia’s face.
“Preoccupied?” she echoes.
Jesus. The last thing I wanted today was a referendum on whether I’m happy with the woman I’m basically paying for sex. I close one eye, screwing up my face.
“I am content with how things are,” I say. “I call you, you come over, we both have a little fun.”
She squints. There is no way of telling how my statement landed. She is quiet for a moment then she clears her throat.
“So what should I do about Honor?”
I shrug a single shoulder. “Nothing. I’ll deal with her directly.”
Her eyebrows lower and a frown tugs at her lips. “That’s it?”
I reach out and grab her by the waist, pulling her closer. “I promise. I’ll take care of it. You have nothing to worry about, okay?”
Her mouth pulls into a thin line. “Okay…”
My lips twitch. “It doesn’t sound like you trust me.”
Her cheeks go bright pink. “I didn’t say that.”
I look down at her, brushing a lock of her hair back. “You should have a little faith, beauty.”
Her eyes scan my face as she bites her lip. I wait patiently while she makes up her mind.
“Okay,” she says at last. “I will.”
One corner of my mouth kicks up into something resembling a smirk. “Good. Now are you ready for your present?”
Her eyebrows hunch. “My present?”
I bite my lower lip. “Yes. You will have to perform for me first, though. It’s been a while since you stripped for me, beauty.”
Her eyebrows raise slightly. “That’s it? I just told you I was threatened by Honor.”
I quirk my lips. “And I’m telling you to forget about that and dance for me.”
She narrows her eyes but gets off the bed, taking her heels off. I get the idea to jump up and grab a pair of vibrating panties off the wall.
I wiggle my eyebrows at her as I make my way back to the bed and sit down. “I want you to wear these, Kaia.”
I hand them over to her and watch as she draws the silky waistband apart. It takes her a second to figure out what they are.
“Are these…” Her intense hazel gaze sweeps up to me. “Is there a vibrator in these underwear?”
I grin and lay back, putting my arms behind my head. “I want you riding my lap and begging to come first. Then I’ll give you my present.”
She licks her lips nervously.
I tilt my head. “You’re supposed to trust me, remember?”
Two spots of heat appear in her cheeks. She just nods, turning around. She shimmies out of her white lace thong and steps into the bright red one instead.
She turns around, a little perplexed. “I don’t know how you turn it on…”
I smirk and hold the tiny remote control up for her to see. “Don’t you worry about that, beauty. Just come here first and sit on my fucking lap like a good girl.”
She pales at that, sucking in a breath. She comes up to me, hesitantly trailing her fingers along each of my knees. “Is there music?”
A simple tap of my phone is all it takes and then notes burst into the air. I reach down and adjust my hard on, which is tenting my pants.
“Come on, darling,” I whisper.
Kaia straddles my lap, sinking down on top of my cock. As soon as she presses her hips against mine, squeezing my cock that is wedged between our bodies, I hit the on switch.
Kaia actually squeals, her eyes widening as the vibrating panties start to do their work. I don’t miss a beat. Taking her hand, I slide it down between our bodies until it touches the vibrator.
“Show me how good you are, Kaia. Guide it to your clit,” I command.
Her hazel eyes land on me for a moment. She licks her lips again and then moves the vibrator lower. I know when it hits the right spot because her whole body shudders with sensation, her eyelids sinking halfway closed.
Kaia gives the breathiest moan. I unzip my dark slacks, reaching in and pulling out my rigid cock. Her breathing hitches as she watches me stroke myself up and down a few times.
Her eyes flit up to meet my gaze. “Can I… I mean, I’ve never touched one…”
“You want to know how to stroke my cock, beauty?”
She flushes a little. “Please?”
I draw in a deep breath. Until now, I’ve always been the one in control, always been the one giving myself pleasure. It’s usually better that way.
Easier for me, anyway. Less messy, less… emotionally entangled.
But here, with Kaia looking at me so innocently, I nod slowly. “Leave your hand on the vibrator. I want you to make yourself come, Kaia. But if you want to feel my cock, I won’t say no.”
Taking her free hand, I fold her fingers around my cock, mimicking my own grasp. At first, it feels odd. Having someone else touch me is…
Unusual.
But soon I force myself to relax, closing my eyes. I keep my hand over hers, guiding her tempo and grip. It feels fucking good.
I open my eyes and look down at her working the vibrator against her clit. “You want it to go faster, beauty?” I grit out.
She bites her lip. “Can it?”
Her eyes widen as I turn the remote up two clicks.
“Oh! Fuck, Calum!” she says. “Jesus, that feels so good…”
I slow my hand, gently removing hers. Then I fist my cock and work my fist up and down my length with punishing speed. “Tell me how much you want me to fuck you, Kaia. Tell me what you think about when you’re in bed alone, touching your clit…”
God damn. This is so much better already than jerking off alone by myself, thinking about Kaia sucking me off.
Her eyes drift closed. Her legs spread a little wider. “You, Calum. I think about you. I wonder… I wonder what it will feel like the first time you stretch me out…”
That image is too powerful for me. I come suddenly and without warning, shouting her nickname.
“Fuck, beauty! Fuck!”
I thrust upward, pulsing my release out onto her stomach, guiding our bodies together. For a second, I can’t even think or speak.
I come back to myself after half a minute to find Kaia still splayed out on my lap, pressing the vibrator against her clit and rocking her hips against it.
I withdraw the necklace box from my pocket, cracking it open. Inside lies a thin platinum chain, hung with the most exquisite diamond pendant I’ve ever seen.
Kaia pauses when she lays eyes on it, her body freezing up. “Calum, I—“
I shush her, moving her hair aside and clasping the necklace around the slim column of her throat. She touches the pendant, awestruck. “It’s beautiful.”
I pull her down to kiss her lips, pressing her whole body against mine. “Just like you. Now just relax…”
I flick the remote, turning it up two more notches. The panties are now vibrating so hard that I can feel it buzzing against my thigh.
Kaia closes her eyes and kisses me desperately, needing to come. She thrusts and rocks her hips, her fingers pressing the vibrator into her clit.
“Oh, I’m going to—“
She spasms violently, her whole body convulsing, her mouth dropping open. She howls with pleasure, panting when she’s done riding the wave of ecstasy. Only then do I turn off the device.
Only then does Kaia open her eyes, dropping a kiss on my lips. We lay together like that for a long time, drifting, unwilling to break the intimacy of the moment.