Chapter 18
Chapter Eighteen
Jack
“You seem distracted and like something has your mind fully occupied,” Levi glances at me as we chug our beers.
“You know I’m headed overseas tomorrow. Are you going to miss me or something?
” He teases me, and I just shake my head.
The fact of the matter is that I can’t stop thinking about Katherine and the sex we’d had in the office earlier in the week.
I’d spent every day waiting and hoping for her to come back for a repeat, but I’d heard nothing from her. And it was pissing me off.
“Of course I’ll miss you when you’re gone,” I laugh too loudly. “Is that what you want to hear, Levi?” I lean back in the booth and look around the bar. “The truth of the matter was that I was just thinking about work and some different projects I have going right now.”
“Oh, the hotel deals?” Levi leans forward, his blue eyes bright. “Any winners so far?”
“I think so. There’s a hotel in a place called Coconut Beach, it’s an island off the coast of Florida, and the numbers are fantastic. I’m almost positive I’ll be signing a contract to purchase the property in the next two weeks or so.”
“Great, that sounds fantastic. Sorry, this is Sebastian calling me. I have to take it. I’ll be right back.”
“I’m not going anywhere.” I take another sip of my IPA, grab my own phone, and decide to text Katherine. It’s almost been a week since I’d had any contact with her, and I was eager to see how she was doing since our passionate lovemaking.
Jack: How’s it going this evening?
Katherine: Who dis?
Jack: Very funny…Katherine, or should I say Dave Chappelle.
Katherine: I wish I was as funny as him and that I had as much money as him.
Jack: I think I have more.
Katherine: Showoff.
Jack: I know! :)
Katherine: Pity you aren’t as funny though.
Jack: Word has it that I’m a better lover.
Katherine: I wouldn’t know. Never slept with him.
Jack: Free tonight?
Katherine: Uhm…no…the girls and I are chilling.
Jack: Watching a movie?
Katherine: Something like that.
Jack: Wanna come over afterwards? Make sweet passionate love.
Katherine: Jack Heathcliff can make sweet passionate love?
Jack: I don’t just bang.
Katherine: I’ll take your word for it. As nice as the offer is, I can’t. Late night with the girls.
Jack: You’re missing out. I can order pizza and ice cream.
Katherine: I have four tubs in my freezer, so you ordering them is not a flex.
Jack: I’d love to lick ice cream off of you.
Katherine: I’d be too sticky.
Jack: I’m going to make you sticky anyway. :P
Katherine: Really?
Jack: Hey, I’ll be sticky as well. We can shower together.
Katherine: No thanks!
Jack: And here I was thinking you’d say yes please.
Katherine: You wish.
Jack: I do…
Katherine: Well, sorry, but I have to go now…
Jack: Call me later?
Katherine: We will be up til late.
Jack: I’ll wait up.
Katherine: I’m not coming over.
Jack: Was it that bad?
Katherine: Yes…okay no, but I don’t want you to think that this is going to be a thing…we’re not going to be enemy banging.
Jack: I think the term is hate banging and I don’t hate you, so for me it was never that.
Katherine: It was a lapse of judgment. A mistake.
Jack: Then make more mistakes. I’m still thinking of you on your knees blowing me. That was hot.
Katherine: I’m out.
Jack: I’d like to be in…
Jack: It was a joke, Katherine.
Katherine: You’re not funny and I may call you later. I shall see. Night.
I look up and see that Levi is back, and he’s standing there with a weird expression on his face. I stare back at him and wait for him to say something.
“What is it?” I finally ask, annoyed by the knowing look on his face.
“Who were you texting?”
“Why?”
“I’m just curious.”
“Why?”
“Because you had a shit-faced grin the entire time you were texting away, and I’m just curious as to who you were sending messages to. I’ve never seen you look so excited before.”
“That’s because you’ve never seen me in the bedroom.”
“Thank God.” He shudders and takes a seat. “I ordered us another round, by the way.”
“Awesome. Thanks.” I sit back and put my phone back in my pocket. “Call was okay?”
“Yeah, it was nothing big. Just some contact information for my trip to the UK. Do you have any recommendations for places to eat in Bristol?” He pauses, and I see his eyes narrow for a few moments. “Do you know if Brielle is getting married?”
“Brielle? As in Katherine and Willow’s friend?” I ask him in confusion.
“Yeah.” He nods and looks at something near the door. “For some reason, I thought she was single.”
“I thought so as well, but I’ve never really said much to her.
Why?” I twist around to see what he’s gazing at, and my jaw drops when I see Katherine, Brielle, and Marina standing there in short skirts, fur boas, with lots of glitter on their skin, and headpieces that read Bridesmaids and Bride.
“What on earth?” I frown as I think about my last messages with Katherine.
Hadn’t she said she was at home watching movies with the girls, or had I totally made that up in my head?
“Why don’t we go over and say hello and see which one of them is getting married?
” I jump up, my heart racing. I’m not going to bother saying that it couldn’t be Katherine.
She was not the sort of woman to be banging me on a Monday while engaged to someone else.
And she’d told me she was single. Levi and I both head over to the girls, who only seem to notice us as soon as we are next to them.
“Mr. Heathcliff, hi. Levi, hi.” Marina is giddy as she sees us and gives us both a big hug. “Fancy seeing you here.”
“Indeed,” I say and look over at Katherine. “Enjoying the ice cream, I see.”
“I will be. Later.” She winks at me, and I take a step closer to her. She looks amazing, and all I want to do is rip her clothes off.
“I thought you didn’t like lying.” I shift closer to her. “I thought you were at home watching movies.”
“And I thought you were at home, asking me to come over.” She shrugs and then shows me her phone screen. “Technically, I didn’t lie. I said nothing about movies, you did.”
“Technically, I still want to fuck you tonight, so we’re all good.” I stroke the side of her arm. “You look hot.”
“Thank you.” She blushes and I tug on her hair.
“Marina’s getting married?” I ask in surprise as I look over at her. She’s bouncing up and down while Brielle and Levi discuss something.
“No, it’s for an audition.”
“Huh?”
“She’s trying out for a play where she would be a zombie bride, so she wanted to go out and see how she was treated as a real bride first.” She giggles. “That’s just how Marina is about these things.”
“But she’s not a real bride.” I press my lips together. “Is Marina crazy?”
“Maybe a little bit.” Katherine laughs loudly. “But aren’t we all?”
“Most likely.” I nod and grab her hand. “You want to dance?”
“You like to dance?”
“Not really, but I’m here with you, and well, there’s something enticing about dancing with a beautiful woman in a packed bar. Almost reminds me of the first night we met.”
“But we didn’t dance. You introduced me to your brother.”
“Stupid mistake,” I say, pulling her into my arms. I start moving back and forth, and she goes along with it. “Did you all buy all the glitter in the city and put it on your bodies?”
“Maybe.” She nods as we sway back and forth. “It’s edible.”
“Ooh, I am a bit hungry.” I press my lips against her neck and lick. I immediately start gagging at the synthetic taste. “It’s not particularly delicious though.”
“Aww, well that’s a shame.” She rubs my lips with her thumb. “They were full of not so delicious glitter,” she says by way of explanation. “I didn’t want you to have to keep tasting it every time you had a sip of your drink."
“Why aren’t you thoughtful?”
“I try to be.” She grins. “But it only ends up being true about 99.9% of the time.”
“Pity,” I say as I wrap my arms around her and bring her in closer to me. “Isn’t it funny that you were just protesting against seeing me tonight, and yet here we are.”
“You got lucky,” She throws her head back and laughs. “I’m a little tipsy, and tonight I vowed to have fun, so here we are.”
“Here we are. It’s almost like fate that we were both at this bar tonight.” I step backwards so that we’re in a dark shadow of the club and then move her back against the wall. “Like we were meant to be here doing this right now.”
“Doing what?” She asks as she wraps her arms around my neck.
“This,” I say before pressing my lips against hers.
I slip my tongue inside of her mouth and kiss her passionately.
My hand runs down the side of her body, and I lift her up.
She wraps her legs around my waist, and I grind into her.
Her breasts bounce against my chest, and I growl into her mouth.
I feel like a primal predator ready to devour every inch of her.
“Let’s get out of here,” I whisper raggedly into her ear.
“I need to be inside of you.” I slip my fingers between her legs and rub her clit against the silk of her panties.
She’s already wet for me. I look into her eyes, which are wide and full of lust. I slip a finger inside of her, and she gasps as she starts moaning.
“Jack, I…” She closes her eyes and whimpers as her body shakes at my touch.
“Katherine…” I lean forward and blow in her ear. “We can fuck here or at my place. I’m down for either.” I move back slightly and kiss her again. “What’s it to be?” I ask her softly, and she moans with a small smile.
“Let’s get out of here.” She says finally.
“That’s what I thought you’d say.” I grab her hand and head towards the exit. “By the way, why have you been ignoring me all week?” I ask her casually as we slip outside.
“I didn’t want you to think this had anything to do with me wanting money for me or my family.” She looks over at me. “I didn’t want the lines blurred by doing stuff in the office with my boss.”
“I see.” I nod and think about her call with her sister and my offer to help. She wasn’t upset about that, was she? “So you want to keep it out of the office?”
“I want to be able to discuss office stuff in the office?” She says as we head toward a cab. “And sex stuff outside of it.”
“I’m down with that.” I pull her towards me and kiss her hard. “And seeing as we’re out of the office, let’s get down to sexy time business.”