TWO MONTHS LATER
After the trip to Turks and Caicos, I not only opened Camilla’s office suite in the former office building for her again to work in whenever she didn’t want to work out of the other building, but I also moved her into my home.
She still had her house, and she was working on turning it into a wellness center for the community, but I wanted her in my bed all the time as well as in every room in my house.
I seldom wanted to be there if she wasn’t.
It wasn’t even something that we discussed, but a gradual transition.
We would have dinner out at a restaurant, and I would just take her back to my house.
I would arrange a date night, and we would plan to spend the weekend together, and it was always at my place.
I had been to her home a few times to spend the night, but we seemed more comfortable at my place.
As the construction started on her house, she just quit staying overnight there.
She would go by there with me to see the progress on the place, but she always returned home with me.
One day, I sent a crew over to pack all her things and bring them back to my place.
She had been shocked that evening when she drove to my place only to find her things already there. I was worried that she would think I was being too presumptuous and controlling, but she had jumped into my arms and thanked me.
Camilla had shared that she had been thinking about discussing it with me and packing and moving her items, but she had always been too tired.
After we returned from our visit to Turks and Caicos, we had her sister and best friend over for dinner so that we could officially meet one another. A couple of weeks after that, we had gone to dinner at her parents’ home so that I could meet her mother.
Thankfully, everyone seemed to be on board with the direction our relationship was moving. I had checked on my father a few times, and while he wasn’t going backward, his progress was taking longer than either of us expected, but he wasn’t giving up.
Regent, Jett, and Kanaan had been over to meet her as well. They eased up once they realized that she wasn’t a threat any longer.
“I like that idea, baby,” I proclaimed after Camilla had finished speaking.
“You do? I was hoping so. I got the inspiration while we were in Turks and Caicos with all the photos that I took.”
We were having dinner on the rooftop of my office building.
Camilla had finished up an hour before I had, and she had taken a car over to my building since I had driven her to work this morning.
When she arrived, I was in a meeting. She had gone to the rooftop to have cocktails, and I joined her when I was finished.
We were discussing her magazine, and she had shared with me that she wanted to start another magazine under the current one, where the focus would be expats and their adjustment to living in other countries, specifically any country outside of America.
I had invested in her by giving her 25 percent ownership in one of my smaller realty companies.
That, paired with her transitioning her home into a wellness center, would generate her own passive income.
Camilla was clear about wanting to maintain her working status when I first mentioned investing in her.
We had talked about children more while we were on vacation, and she had shared that if she were to get pregnant, she would want to take time off a month before giving birth and not returning until our child was three.
I was clear that if we had a child, they would never attend boarding school or live with anyone other than us. That was when she shared that she wanted to expand her income so that she could afford to take that much time off when she had kids.
Having her own businesses would allow her to do that. She could generate passive income with her house becoming a wellness center, as well as what she earned from the realty company. I supported her dreams and her financial independence, but it didn’t mean that I wouldn’t take care of my woman.
Two other women had meant the world to me at a time in my life. They always expected me to take care of them, and I had. Now that I had a woman who insisted that she take care of herself, I wanted to spoil her even more.
The server on duty tonight came by and refreshed our drinks.
“Mr. Blackwood, would you and Ms. Valentine like anything else from the kitchen?”
“No, thank you. This is all. You have all done an excellent job tonight, and you’ll all receive bonuses for your service. Y’all can leave for the night.”
“Thank you, sir.”
I nodded and turned my attention back to Camilla.
“I’m already looking forward to our next vacation. Is that wild?” she asked, propping her chin in her palm as she stared at me.
“Not at all. I’ve been looking forward to it too.”
“Before our vacation, when was the last time that you took one, Jabari?”
I frowned and sat back in my seat thinking about it.
I shook my head and pulled my fingers through my beard.
“Honestly, Cami, I don’t know. I haven’t really taken vacations.
The last seventeen years since I started my first commercial property, I’ve traveled a lot.
Each time I traveled, if it wasn’t for business, I was conducting business while I was away.
Being with you was the first time that I shut out the world and let Elian and the others handle everything. ”
“Good for you. I’m hoping you can have plenty more of those in your future.
You work hard; you deserve it. After going through so much in your younger years, coming from the very bottom of the barrel, and fighting and clawing your way to get here, it’s the least you deserve. You should treat yourself, baby.”
I turned my drink up and finished it off. “I know.”
She looked around the rooftop and giggled.
“What’s so funny?”
“I was thinking about my first time coming up here. I never expected to run into anyone that late at night, especially not the owner. I was pissed off at your condescending attitude, but look at us now, baby.”
I reached across the table and lifted her hand to my lips. As I stared into her eyes, I kissed each of her fingers and winked at her. “Yeah, look at us now; it’s been eight months.” I settled back in my seat again and then expressed what was on my mind.
“We met here eight months ago today, but it wasn’t the first time that I saw you.
I was in a mergers and acquisitions meeting the first time that I saw you, and I knew that I wanted to know you.
I was determined to meet you. When you came on the rooftop that day, I knew my life would be forever changed.
I believe that our paths are forever intertwined and will continually evolve into something greater.
” I knelt in front of her and continued.
“Camilla, I have everything in this world that a man could want, except for true love. You opened my eyes to what that looked and felt like when you sacrificed everything to be with me. I want to ask you to share my empire with me. Will you marry me?” I opened the box to show her the exquisite diamond ring that I had specifically designed for her.
Tears formed in her eyes, and she nodded.
I needed to hear her words, not just her nonverbal cues.
I needed to hear Camilla say that “yes, she would marry” me.
After all that I had been through, I never thought that I would arrive at this place in my life, but at forty two I had, and I wanted it all—wife, babies, and her entire heart.
Camilla was speechless for the first time. She kept bobbing her head, and her hands covered her mouth as tears poured down her face. I stood and pulled them down.
“Baby, I need to know if you’re in this. Will you marry me?” I repeated.
“Yes, Jabari. Yes, I’ll marry you. I didn’t see this coming, especially after the difficult road we traveled, but there was no better destination than here. My heart is so full right now,” she confessed as she stood and threw her arms around me.
When she kissed me, it was with slow intention and a promise of a lifetime of trust, love, and sacrifice.
I pulled her sweater dress up and over her head. We stood by the outdoor fireplace on the rooftop, and I knew that we were alone. Our building was the tallest in the area, so I wasn’t worried about anyone seeing us.
I unhooked her bra and removed her panties before I stood back and stared at her in the stiletto boots that she wore.
“Someone may come up here, Jabari.”
I slowly allowed my eyes to roam over her before they rested on her gaze. “Not tonight. A building-wide memo went out informing the tenants that it was shut down for the night. I also have a lock code on the door tonight that no one else can access except for me.
“What took you so long to tell me?” she asked, teasingly as she walked toward me with those hips swaying.
She pushed me back down into the chair I had occupied, and she climbed in my lap. Our kisses were loud and hungry as she ground against me. My hands gripped her ass and spread it apart as I lightly rocked upward.
“I think you’d better take those pants off, Mr. Blackwood. Someone is missing me.”
She reached between us and unzipped my pants before she freed my erection. It felt so happy in her hands that my dick jerked and grew some more at the touch of her hand.
My woman climbed off my lap, lowered to her knees, and stared up at me. “Mr. Blackwood, would you please fuck my face, sir?”
“Gladly.”
I stood over her, untied my tie, and bound her hands behind her. I slid my dick into her wet, waiting lips. She hollowed her cheeks and slowly sucked me deeper.
“Aww fuck,” I groaned as my hips pumped, enjoying the way that she took me in.
Only moments later, I was doing exactly what she asked.
I fucked her face while she knelt and took it.
My pumps were hard, fast, and furious. After a while, I released her hands, and she played with my balls, and her other hand fingered her treasure.
The sight of her on her knees in nothing but her stiletto boots and finger fucking her pussy was all I could take.
I pulled out of her mouth and let my load explode all over her face and breasts. She licked away what she could and sucked the remnants off my dick.
The minute that she finished, she stood, grabbed her purse, and removed wipes from within. Camilla cleaned her face and breasts before she tackled me.
She sat in her seat, spread her legs, and fingered her pussy while I watched. She was leisurely about it, and there was no rush. We were enjoying the night and what had transpired between us. We were looking forward to married life and a lifetime of happiness together.
I was turned on by the fact that she was beautiful, sexy, smart, aggressive, independent, and determined. But watching her finger fuck her pussy really turned me on. My arousal had returned in no time, and I couldn’t ignore what I wanted from her.
I stood from my chair, grabbed her, and lifted her into my arms. We kissed greedily and wildly as I walked backward to my chair. When I dropped down into it, Camilla grabbed my dick and pressed it against her slick heat.
I slowly slid up into her, and it felt perfect, like everything that I needed at the end of a long day filled with meetings and business negotiations. She was what I wanted to end every day with.
Camilla was warm and wet around me. My nuts ached with the need to release inside of her. She had taken control for the first time, and she was riding me and fucking me like she was slutting me out tonight.
I didn’t mind; she could do it. My baby grabbed the back of my neck and covered my mouth with hers. She controlled the kiss, letting her tongue lead the way as she showed me how to kiss her, and she rode my dick with wild abandonment.
“Cum up in this pussy, Jabari. Give me everything that I need. Let me feel you fill me up with so much cum that I wonder if we’re going to have triplets or quadruplets. I need you, baby.”
Her words were crazy, but they were everything that I needed to release into her fat, warm muff.
“Thank you, baby,” I muttered repeatedly in a low whimper.
It was the first time that I had ever been fucked, and I loved it. This woman had come in and changed my life, but I loved everything about it.