CHAPTER 7

“Keep scowling like that and you’re going to have wrinkles, and all those girls that keep chasing you will now see how ugly you are”, Eddie said

“stop teasing me old man, you caused this mood, you know”, I replied still scowling.

“Well I was tired, you had enough sex to last you for the whole week, yesterday in the morning for that matter”, he said turning to fix me with one of his stares, this one I called “daddy stare”, he gave it when he was giving his grownup advice.

“Didn’t too”, I threw back knowing I was sounding like a child who had his candies snatched from him but I couldn’t help it.

Yesterday, after work we were supposed to go visit a friend’s club, newly opened, so it was pretty new, that means everyone will be wanting to please me to get me to open my wallet, but no grumpy old Eddie had to cancel at the last minute, because of a headache, I mean who still used headaches as excuses these days, and I didn’t get any sex, no lap dance, no fun, nothing.

“You sound like a big baby Devon, and quit calling me an old man, we are the same age”, he said glaring at me, but almost immediately, he started smiling, mischievously too.

“What are you up to?”, I said, turning to face him fully in the elevator, “you better cancel whatever you’ve done Eddie, I’m not forgiving you this time”, I said almost serious.

If you knew this smile, you’ll understand my worry, I mean he rarely used it, one of the times he did it was at college, when he was teasing me about my sexuality, when I drunkenly slapped a guy’s ass at a party, we reached my house that day (since I stayed off campus, in my own apartment), and he had all sizes of male strippers, worst he told them I was shy and I liked to pretend I wasn’t into guys and shit, that it was a turn on for me, so they kept on stripping and shoving balls in my face and trying to touch me no matter what I said, they didn’t stop till I actually threw up on one of them, then they understood that it was really my stupid friend’s prank and they finally left me alone, suffice to say I didn’t speak to Eddie for a whole week, and had to sanitize my house every day for a week while I stayed at a hotel.

And now he had that smile, “tell me Eddie”, I said coming closer to him, so I could intimidate him with my size, but before I could someone was speaking.

“Mhm, gay, rich and handsome, this has got to be my best day on earth”, I turned around immediately, and noticed two things at once, the elevator had opened and the red head, no way, the FREAKING RED HEAD WAS RIGHT HERE IN FRONT OF ME, with one of her beautifully plucked eyebrows raised up, but damn she was beautiful up close, she had her hair packed in what I often heard some of my girlfriends call a messy bun, she had eyes that I couldn’t decide whether were green or gold, wait, that was wrong, one had the gold more while the other had more green, a darker shade though, her nose was just perched rightly, she had the type of nose you felt like biting, she had full lips, no not just full, kissable, I suddenly felt very hungry and I knew what I wanted to eat right away, I let my eyes roam down her body and my eyes almost fell out, she wore a wrap gown alright, it was pink so it made her look innocent yet there was nothing innocent about the way her boobs peeked out, not to a point where she looked like a call girl but just enough to make you want to fall down her dress.

I raised my eyes back to her face, and saw that fuckable mouth shaped in an o, wow, what did I miss, I hope they didn’t have a full conversation while I was practically gaping like a besotted fool.

“Devon Black”, I said as I stepped off the elevator and stretched my hands for her to shake.

“Raina Elvis”, she said taking my hands and giving it a firm shake, nice.

I nodded to Eddie so he could leave us alone, before Raina and I turned to walk to my own office, I saw him smile, the bastard knew she was here, I’ll get him back for sure.

“So, I don’t know a Raina”, I said looking at her again, this time slowly and more obviously, not like the other time was not obvious.

She just smiled as we reached my door, I went ahead and opened it but I didn’t move so she had to rub against me a little to get in, fortunately or unfortunately (I couldn’t decide yet) as she was passing, her heels shook or something and she was falling into my hands, and then I caught her, that was when I got a look at her “fuck me shoes” in bright red, oh damn, she wore those heels that were pencil high and had the sandaly kind of thing and her blue painted nails were peeking out, I wandered how she wore so many colors so well, she looked absolutely breathtaking.

Okay time to get up I thought but before I could carry her, the damn wrap dress fell open and, fuck me, where those grater belts?

My office that was always too cold and entirely too big, felt so small and hot, I quickly let go of her and went to the window which had a glass window from top to bottom to show the streets below, when I got there I started removing my tie and unbuttoning a few buttons, damn I was hard, and I couldn’t get the image of her in grater belts and those damn red heels and nothing else out of my mind, oh boy I was in trouble.