“Nothing”—except you. And that would make me sad. Very sad.
A quizzical look flashed across his face. “Everybody’s got somethin’ to lose. This is my lucky shirt.” Jay seductively unbuttoned his shirt, exposing his chest as if he were Taye Diggs in How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Damn, Jay was definitely finer than Taye. My heart raced. “Not winners.” I’m never losing anything again, especially Jay. I kicked my slip-on heels in the air, one at a time.
Jay caught them, flexed, gazed into my eyes, and then confidently replied, “Then let’s do the damn thing, woman. Winner claims his or her prize.”
Was he talking about rock climbing or climbing me? It was too late to back down, so I mounted the wall adjacent to his muscular body, pretending I was straddling him while trying not to touch him; else I’d forfeit before we started.
The operator pressed a button, and the mechanical wall gradually rotated downward. Jay was cool, his movement fluid. Each time his foot raised higher, his dick hung lower.
My left foot slipped off a rock so big I could’ve damn near sat on it.
He smiled. “Looks like you should’ve kept on those heels.”
“Forget you, Jay.” I regretted calling out his name, when I noticed the vultures buzzing around to prey upon my man. Reaching up, I gripped the first rock in sight, then yelled to the operator, “Speed it up!”
Jay grinned, easing his way up the wall, as if the operator hadn’t increased the speed at all, while I scrambled.
Suddenly, I realized I hadn’t worked out in almost a month. Unfortunately, my meds didn’t give me a boost.
I’d just found my pace when Jay yelled, “Faster!”
By now a crowd had gathered behind us, I’m sure, to literally watch Jay’s sexy ass make love to the wall.
I’ve got something for these sideshow hussies. Climbing sideways, I wrapped my leg around Jay’s waist and crawled onto his back. My arms were now choking his neck.
Jay kept climbing. “You are so precious. I guess this means I’m your daddy.”
Playfully I bit him in his back. Jay moaned a most provocative moan, and that shit turned me on so much my pussy puckered.
Surrendering, Jay let go and stumbled to the mat. He looped his arm around my waist, rotating my body in front of him, and I wrapped my legs snug about his waist. “Damn, woman, bite me again.”
Breathing in his face, my lips almost touching his, I asked, “So did I win?”
“Only if you bite me like that later.” The softness of his lips came to mine. “Shit! Let’s go,” he said. Jay lowered me to the floor.
I paused when my pussy grazed his dick. Instantaneously, my hips jammed into his dick before sliding down.
“I like that shit.” Jay eyed my ass as I gathered my shoes.
Smiling up at Jay, I didn’t ask where we were going, hoping our date—I mean outing—was over and my hotel room was his final destination. Within a blink of my eyes, my man disappeared from view when a woman’s ass slid right in front of my face.
“Jay, right?” She didn’t wait for his response. Pleasantly, she continued, “You look just like Jimmy Jean-Louis. We met last night…at Zanzibar…Nikki.”
I knew I shouldn’t have called out his name. Besides, how many hints was this Nikki woman going to give before Jay opened his mouth? I’d heard the women in Baltimore were bolder and less tactful than the women in D.C, but damn, this trick totally disrespected me. Keeping my mouth shut, I stood in their space, trying to recall if I’d seen her at the club. She didn’t look familiar, but after this episode, I’d never forget her face.
Wrapping his arm around my waist, Jay shook his head, speechless, and hunched his shoulders at this Nikki woman.
“Hi, I’m Nikki,” she said, this time extending her hand toward me.
Ignoring Nikki, I leaned into Jay, snuggled my arm behind his back, placed my hand on his stomach, and seductively asked, “You ready, baby?”
As he turned away from Nikki, Jay’s eyebrows lifted and then his eyes widened, as if he was saying, Sorry, Nik.
Well, I didn’t feel sorry for her at all. Nor was I going to compete for what was already mine. If Jay wanted her, she would’ve been his date.
As we walked away, the woman waiting for Nikki said loud enough for us to hear, “I can’t believe you let him play you like that.”
Racing around Jay, Nikki handed him his business card and flipped it over to his cell phone number written on the back. “I won’t be needing this.”
Do not get mad, Ashlee. If you show her that she’s pissed you off, she’ll get the satisfaction, and you’ll end up hating yourself.
Ignoring Nikki for the last time, we continued our stroll. Why couldn’t she just let it go, leave him alone? Obviously, Jay wasn’t interested. He was being polite, and she’d definitely made her point. I intended to continue having an enjoyable evening with my new man.
Jay held my hand as we walked along the pier. He stopped in front of the paddleboats. “Wanna ride?”
I stared at the yellow boat. Hell yeah, but not that thing. This man knew what he was doing to me, but I wasn’t going to give it up to him that easy. “But the sun is going down,” I protested, “and we haven’t eaten yet.” I teased my stomach, closer to my pussy than my navel.
“I know.” He led me inside the boat. “I’ll feed you…eat you too. Later. Now have a seat.” Jay sat behind me and straddled his thighs around mine.
“This is not how you’re supposed to ride a paddleboat. Besides, who’s going to paddle?”
“Who’s your daddy? I won, remember.”
“Well, if I’m paddling, we’ll float the entire time.” And we did.
Jay leaned my head against his chest, untied my hair, and massaged my scalp. My eyes rolled to the back of my head. The tingling sensation crept along my skin, when Jay snuggled his dick in the groove of my spine.
“Ashlee, you’re wonderful. I meant what I wrote on your card. Now that I’ve met you, I am closer to my dream.”
“I don’t live here, Jay.”
“I’m not surprised. Isn’t this how it always happens? Well, I wish you lived here.”
“I love Dallas,” I lied. If I never went back, that would be okay with me, but eventually I had to attend another court hearing.
“Well, I could love you.” Jay’s words traveled into the fading sunset. He continued to knead my shoulders, occasionally tracing his fingertip to my cleavage.
I had to have him. Untying my top, I cupped his palms over my breasts.
Jay squeezed my nipples between his thumbs and pointing fingers and caressed my breasts. He gently pressed his lips inside my ear, whispering, “You are so beautiful.” Instantly, I came.
When the moonlight replaced the sunset, I’d drifted for so long I hadn’t realized we were back at my hotel.
“I enjoyed you, Ashlee. Hopefully I can take you out again before you leave.”
There goes that word leave again. No. No one’s leaving. “You’re welcome to come up to my room, that is, if you don’t have other plans.”
Smiling, Jay handed the valet his keys. He had to know how sexy he was, but he was more attractive ’cause he acted clueless. I couldn’t stand men who spent more time in the mirror than me.
When I unlocked the door, Jay came in and stood in