Chapter 48
Chapter Forty-Eight
Sebastian
T o say I was embarrassed and feeling like the biggest idiot on the planet would’ve been an understatement. Because of my mother’s rage and manipulative bullshit, she got her moment to attempt to get back at me for putting her and my father in their place. Even though I was grateful for Jake and Collin’s assistance, I was still agitated that I looked like the world’s biggest clown up on that stage, which was the reason I tried to avoid all this shit in the first place.
“I have nothing to say to you,” I told my mother.
I held tightly onto Darcy’s hand, trying to leave this damn venue and seriously considering disappearing to Mexico for the rest of my life.
“Do you think this is a game, son?” she barked, cornering me before I could narrowly escape the room. “What kind of?—”
“Again, I have nothing to say to you,” I responded, and then her eyes fell on Darcy.
“You and those childish men are responsible for my son’s embarrassment at an event that he should’ve?—”
“You’re wrong,” I interrupted her attack on Darcy. I had nothing left to say to the woman, but I wouldn’t stand here and let her direct her fury at Darcy. If I didn’t stop this now, it would happen behind my back later, and I wouldn’t allow that. “This stupid event only turned into a circus because you thought throwing me on that stage was okay.”
“This event was not my idea,” she kept her eyes focused on Darcy. “It was yours.”
Darcy squeezed my hand to stop me from speaking on her behalf. “It was,” Darcy said. “And while it raised more money for the winery than I could’ve ever imagined, I never would have expected you to use your own son to accomplish that. That’s what all of this is, isn’t it? The Asters, taking their name and using it for profit? Sadly, in this case, it was brought about by the exploitation of your son at your hands. I find that more disrespectful than auctioning off wealthy bachelors to women who would gladly pay to date them for a charity fundraiser.”
“Watch your tongue when you speak to me,” my mother snarled.
“She’s correct, and you know it,” I said. “Your decision to expose my personal life to everyone in that room tonight is unbefitting a woman of your influence and status. In fact, I find it more abhorrent than you find my relationship with Darcy.”
“How can you possibly defend this woman?” she snapped.
“I am in a relationship with her. Why wouldn’t I?” I said with disgust. “Unfortunately, your days of cherry-picking potential partners for your children are over. We have our own lives, and you and Father have yours. Times have changed, and I would appreciate it if we kept our relationship strictly based on our mutual business.”
“That is your wish?” my mother said threateningly.
“My wish? No. I would’ve never wished for it to come to this, but I have been given no alternative,” I said. “Now, Darcy and I are leaving. My only hope is that your nonsense tonight has not tarnished our family name and turned us into a laughingstock.”
“I have no idea how this has been turned on me,” she glared at Darcy while saying that.
“I would imagine it was because you humiliated your son,” Darcy said. “The sad part is that I initially came up with the idea to auction him off at this event because I couldn’t stand him. I wanted to knock his ego down a peg and put his arrogant ass in its place. You , however, did it to get him away from me, and in doing so, you insulted him, yourself, and pretty much your entire family. It’s sad because I did it angrily, knowing it would insult him, and his mother, who loves him, did it to stake a weird claim on him.”
My mother looked at me, “Do not think I put you on that stage for any reason other than to keep you surrounded by women who appreciate who you are. My motive was not to insult you, my dear.”
“That may not have been your motive, Mother, but it has turned into a circus that proved your selfish possessiveness of your family is an embarrassment to all of us. When word reaches Dad, he’ll be most displeased by how people have interpreted this night.”
“The man your father went into business with has a crude, homosexual brother, and you expect me?—”
“That’s enough!” I snapped. “Good night, Margot.” I moved briskly from the room, thinking about planning a meeting with Jim in the morning to discuss the fallout from this event.
“Are you okay?” Darcy asked as soon as we entered the privacy of the elevator.
I wanted to yell in anger at what had happened since I walked into that ballroom, but instead, I found that I was doing a fantastic job of keeping my wrath buried inside. What a goddamn joke, and I was the punchline. My mother should be so fucking proud of herself for hosting her first grand-scale event on the West Coast and giving everyone who’d had a stupid interest in our mysterious family a reason to go home confused about why they ever cared at all.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if Jim backed out of his business dealings with my family after tonight’s events,” I finally said. “What a fucking stunt.”
“Are you kidding?” Darcy said with a laugh. “Jim and those guys love shoving shit like this right back at people who act like your mother did. He knows it was bullshit,” she said, prompting me to look at her and find refuge in her stunning blue eyes for the first time tonight since being pulled away from her.
“It’s not only how my mother behaved,” I said. “It’s just who my fucking family is. Jim had already dealt with these antics when John suddenly resigned from his position at the hospital. He left Jim and all his colleagues and patients inconvenienced when my family pressured him to vacate his job.”
“This is nothing like that,” Darcy said while the elevator doors opened, admitting us to the floor of rooms I’d reserved for privacy, which I didn’t realize I would need until now.
“Sadly, it is. What’s worse is that I was part of John resigning and moving back to our family home. I behaved no better than my mother did tonight.” I rolled my eyes at that truth as we walked into the room, and I shrugged off my jacket and loosened my bowtie.
“Don’t do this to yourself. Everyone at my table enjoyed the entertainment,” she said, walking into the bathroom and disappearing behind the door.
I ran a hand through my hair, becoming more irritated that I’d let everything get to me so badly.
“Jake and Collin were itching to get under everyone’s skin, and they did. Those two are a lot of fun, and if Jim wasn’t?—”
I pushed the bathroom door open and saw Darcy standing in front of the mirrors that lined the walls in front of the shower. The toilet was in its own closet on the other side of the bathroom, making the massive spa tub and glass shower look like a room in a day spa.
Darcy smiled at me through the mirrors as I leaned against the open doorway and crossed my arms. She brought her delicate fingers up to remove her left earring and then loosened the pins that held up half her blonde curls in the impressive style she had done her hair in.
“If Jim wasn’t what, gorgeous?” my mind had officially dumped all the chaos from the night and was allowing my dick to lead on all fronts.
Darcy smirked, most likely knowing my expression would have her in my arms within the next few seconds. “If Jim was going to back out of any dealings with your family,” she turned and leaned against the marble counter, “he wouldn’t have stopped it before his brother and Collin got too carried away.”
“You are the most beautiful woman I’ve ever known,” I said in a low voice, stalking toward the only thing I wanted now. I brought my hand to her face, her cheek easily resting against my palm. “I am done with this night, but I’m not done with you,” I said, turning her to face the mirror. “All I want is you.”
She moaned softly as I used one hand to unzip the back of her dress and the other to guide the dress down to the floor. I cupped one of her full breasts with my hand, using the back of my fingers to graze down over her taut stomach. Once she stepped out of her dress, I stopped her from leaning back against my chest and ran my hand over her bare ass, her thong being the only material left that kept her from being fully exposed to me.
My eyes locked with her seductive ones, watching every expression and movement on her perfect face as I gently pulled her thong down to gain access to her perfectly shaved pussy.
“You want this, gorgeous?” I questioned, brushing my fingers over her clit and watching her lick her bottom lip while pushing her ass back into me in response. “Fuck yeah, you do,” I said with a greedy smile.
My lips went to her shoulder, and my fingers went to work, massaging in firm circles around her most sensitive swelling point, which I wanted to take with my mouth and tongue. I resisted my craving and instead dipped my fingers into her dripping wet pussy, warm and more than inviting for my cock, which Darcy kept grinding her ass against.
My eyes never drifted from watching her through the mirror while I worked with her pussy to gain pleasure from her responses to the ecstasy she was feeling. She moaned as her clit continued to swell, making my dick dripping wet with the desire to feed its aching need to be inside her tight pussy.
“Oh, Seb,” she said, her head rocking back onto my shoulder as her pleasure began waking up more desire in her.
“I love it when you call me that, gorgeous,” my lips and teeth grazed her neck, then her ear lobe.
She moaned in response and chewed on her bottom lip. She was the sexiest woman I’d honestly ever known. Getting her off like this as I watched through the mirror was an absolute turn-on. I loved that I finally had a genuine woman who enjoyed fucking in every way we chose and who wasn’t shy about allowing me to see how much pleasure she took from it, too.
It all served to heighten my sensual appetite, and I couldn’t resist the urge to be inside of her. I used my knee to part her legs in front of me and gently pressed my hand on her back, bending her forward and allowing me to free my dick as my pants fell to the ground. I pulled my cock into my hands and slid the tip up between her legs and along her warm, slick opening.
“I need you inside me,” she breathlessly begged.
Her eyes were pleading with mine as she braced herself by planting her palms on the mirror in front of her. I pushed deep into her, bringing her hair into one fist as my other hand cupped her breast.
“Play with yourself, baby. I want to see you…” I stopped, nearly coming the moment her hand went to her clit, and immediately after, she reached to her entrance and ran her fingers under my cock where I was unable to fit myself fully inside of her. “Fuck, yes,” I panted, her hands reaching to caress my balls. “Holy fuck. You’re perfect,” I said, sliding in and out of her, allowing her fingers to add additional sensations to what I was experiencing buried in her tight, wet pussy.
“Keep rubbing your clit, gorgeous,” I said breathlessly, smiling in response and knowing that she literally had me by the balls.
Just before I allowed myself to succumb to the ecstasy I was feeling, I managed to prevent myself from coming and move her hand up to her clit. “Seb,” she said playfully, smiling and breathless.
“Nice try,” I played back with her. “I want to watch you come while I fuck you,” I arched an eyebrow at her, “and while you’re coming,” I said, still thrusting in and out of her, “you’re going to call me Seb over and over while begging for more.”
Her fingers took over, rubbing her clit to get her back into the fervent moment that I was experiencing. I watched her eyes gloss over while her mouth dropped open, panting in perfect rhythm to my deep thrusts.
“I want all of you inside me,” she whined, drunk on pleasure.
“I don’t want to hurt you, baby,” I said, my lips capturing hers when her head turned to the side to kiss me and beg for more of me.
“You won’t,” she pleaded.
My tongue slid into her mouth, watching me fuck this flawless beauty deeper like she wanted out of the corner of my eye. Her lips broke from mine, and her moans were louder the deeper I pushed into her. My fingers rolled and pinched her hard nipples while her ass moved in circles, pressing back into me.
“Fuck,” I warned, feeling my release was coming with or without her this time.
That’s when she groaned out in pleasure and nearly screamed as her pussy clenched down onto my dick as it shot cum deep into her perfect body. We both cursed and fucked harder while riding out this pleasure. Our lips found each other’s in a zealous kiss, lighting everything inside me on fire and sending me into a wild frenzy, needing and wanting more. We weren’t just going to fuck here in front of this mirror all night. I was going to take this perfect woman to bed and go to great efforts to hear her call out my name in pleasure for the rest of the night.
This was precisely how I wanted to end this night. Even though the benefit went sideways in more ways than one, at least this part—the part I did have control over—was going perfectly my way. And it wouldn’t stop after one orgasm, either.