by Nikki Bella
The elevator runs had also become frequent.
It seemed the more I tried to avoid the man, the more he was everywhere.
So much so, that the weekend Jess and I had spent roaming around New York City for a much needed break, Dunlow was there at one of those artsy little cafés where you sat outside and had coffee and hoped that crows didn’t shit in your coffee and bagels.
I was pretty sure, this was the last place he wanted to be, but somehow he was there.
I had become furious after this.
There is one thing pursuing a person and then there is being after them.
I was not going to give into Dunlow so easily.
The last time a man had tried this hard to get me to notice him and sleep with him, he had ended up with a restraining order and I had moved out of the state.
Sometimes you just have to do things.
Of course taking out a restraining order against one of the richest men in New York, was not exactly in my best interest.
The firm would probably kick me out the first chance they would get and then I would be a disgraced employee who would have nowhere to go.
I at the moment had no prospects of being unemployed in a very expensive city, that I could not afford.
Maybe Jeremy would take me back.
But after our last conversation I wasn’t so sure that he would, but if I showed him just the right amount of leg, maybe he would.
Who knows? But this was not a chance I was willing to take.
A week later he had called me up again to his office to discuss the Soderman account which we had handled a few days ago.
Was I even supposed to give him an update?
I had just been here a month ago and I was still learning the ropes of this place.
Nevertheless, despite trying to rack my brain for every possible way out, I went downstairs, dreading what was about to come.
Maybe I should report him to HR, and they can take it up.
But I was no snitch, who couldn’t handle her boss’s attention.
Other women in the office were dying to have a piece of the man himself. And here, this man was literally serving himself on a silver platter and I wanted no piece of it.
Maybe the magic of the steel grey eyes does not work on me, I thought to myself as I walked off the elevator on the sixth floor, where everything happened.
“Go right in Ms. Strope, he is waiting for you,” Dunlow’s every happy secretary Stacy pointed towards the door, while cradling a phone in the crook of her neck and trying to eat a sandwich.
I took a deep breath and stepped into the office, dimly lit and cool, it started to creep, me out a little.
Why was his office lit so dimly in the middle of the day?
Maybe he has a migraine or maybe he is just fucking around with me.
“Take a seat, Alexis,” he said from behind his desk.
I walked up to the desk and sat down on one of the chairs.
The very same chair that I had occupied, a few days and ago when Dunlow, had enquired about my nonexistent love life.
“So what has been happening with the Soderman account?” he asked me in a commanding voice.
Taken aback but still determined to show that I was not going to give in that easily, I replied.
“I thought Mike Hadderly had already gone over the accounts with you two days ago?” I said.
“Its two days later and now I’m asking you,” he said leaning a little in front on his desk, exhibiting a great interest, while his eyes took the usual scan.
“Well it still stands where it was two days ago. Nothing has changed,” I said hoping that would be the end of the conversation and I would be out of this place.
He stared at me for a few seconds before pushing back his chair and getting up.
He then walked over to the other side of the desk where I sat and came and sat on the edge of the desk, right in front of me.
He stared at me with those deep steel grey eyes, his musk clogging up my senses.
Must fight this, I cannot and will not have this man, so easily get away with this.
Getting closer, he put his finger under my chin and turned it upwards towards his face.
“I don’t think you understand Ms. Strope what you have done,” he said in a dangerously low whisper.
“You have made the fatal mistake of walking into my life and have made every waking moment of my life a living hell,” he continued.
“I am not used to having no control over myself, but you, you have done it,” he said and let go of my face and sat himself straight on the desk.
“So here’s what I propose, why don’t you make it easy for me and say yes to me, so that I can get sleep at night and maybe, just maybe walk into this office tomorrow, with no need to call you into my office for no odd reason at all,” he finished off his monologue and waited for the effect to sink in.
Without a second thought I pushed back my chair and stood up, almost tumbling in the process.
“How about no?” I said defiantly and crossed my arms.
“I’m not used to getting a no from a woman,” he said with a slight grin.
“First time for everything, I guess,” I said and turned around to leave.
Almost on the verge of leaving, I turned around and said, “Also it would be very nice and maybe just a tad but better for your self-respect if you stopped following around or have somebody do it for you,” I said.
Amused he didn’t move an inch.
“Because the last thing you need is for everyone to know you’re going to stupid lengths to get a girl, who you are interested in just fucking and then discarding the moment you’ve had your fun”, I said angrily and walked out of the door.
Chapter 23
Nathaniel
Still staring at the door where moments ago, Alexis had walked out, I was a bit taken back by what she had said.
There was no denying that I was infatuated with Alexis Strope.
From the way she walked to the way she did all her work with that no nonsense attitude, she was a breath of fresh air in this office.
Sure having women fawning over you sounded like fun, but sometimes it just got boring.
How many times was one of the interns accidently going to drop her pen so I could have a perfect view of her butt?
Or where a shirt, so low cut, that left little to imagination?
Or accidently run into me, at the same gym as me wearing the skimpiest work outfit available at Nike?
Alexis was nothing like that.
From the first day she had made her mark. Not just with her work, but also with the way she looked.
Auburn hair and those eyes which you could get lost in for minutes.
But at the same time she was also proving to be more difficult than usual.
I have had my fill of difficult women but this one was just getting harder and harder to handle.
There were only so many times I could get her to come down to my office, only to have her walk away without me making a single move.
And “accidently” running into her in elevators was also becoming tiring, with someone always riding in the car, making it impossible for me to grab her and give her the Dunlow, elevator edition.
Having someone track her or at least have some sort of call up whenever she was in a nearby area was also becoming a bit tiresome.
The amount of shitty hippie coffee “made with love and unicorns” I have had in the past few weeks was enough to get me off coffee forever.
No this was not going to happen just like that.
I needed her in a place where she just couldn’t refuse me and I needed that girl away from her, who seemed to be always accompanying her.
But having her followed might just soon get me a restraining order or could get me thrown in jail.
Yeah right.
I chuckled to myself at the thought of being behind bars.
Orange is definitely not my color.
Just then my phone r
ang; it was Sam on the other end asking me if I had plans for the night.
Alexis Strope.
“You need to come with me, you’re my wingman,” Sam said.
“Sam you can get any woman you want, you just need to put that brain of yours to work for something other than putting famous people behind bars,” I said sniggering.
“Ha ha,” he said in a sour tone.
“Nine, and don’t be late,” he said and the call ended.
Great another night, another useless club with drinks with fancy names and sex with a stranger that no one was guaranteed to remember the next day.
Sighing I walked back to my chair and plopped myself down.
I needed to do something and something fast.
But for the moment I was down for another mindless party with Sam and whoever his newest “love of my life” for the week was.
God, that boy needs to find someone and fast.
Maybe I’ll just get lucky with Alexis somehow and then maybe I could stop fantasizing about her.
“Sir, your three o clock is here,” Stacy’s voice floated through the intercom.
“Tell them to come at four,” I said, hoping that was the end of the conversation.
“You’ve already moved it twice, in one day,” she said.
I made an ugly face,
“Coming” I said and stood up rolling down my shirt sleeves, ready to sit through another hour, of “why we are the best clients you’ve ever had” meeting.
Chapter 24
Alexis
The nerve of that man!
Thinking he could just get away with anything that he wanted.
Yeah well Dunlow you might think you can have everything that you want this is something you won’t.
Jess’s made up face, bought me back to reality.
Of course she wanted to go out tonight.
Well I will just have to cancel it, again.
“So what’s new with you?” Jess asked looking at my face.
“Dunlow”.
“Ahhhhhh Mr. Dark and Dangerous, what’s up with him?” she asked, clearly very interested in him.
“He asked me out”, I said flatly.
“Have you been doing drugs again?” she asked with a concern.
I make a face and launch into the whole scene at lunch today.
The amount of time Jess’s eyebrows went up, they would have become like that only had I not eventually stopped telling her the tale.
“So what are you going to take up on his offer?” Jess asked.
“Are you mad? He’s New York’s very own version of the bad boy. I do not want anything to do with him,” I said clearly trying to end the conversation.
“He also happens to be one of the richest men in New York, with an amazing taste in women………well not always,” she adds with a pause.
The prospect of saying yes to Dunlow needed a lot of thinking; in fact it was out of the question.
“You know what you need, you need a night out,” Jess says.
I look up at her.
‘Don’t you have work tonight?” I ask her.
“Not really, I covered for Danny last week. She is doing mine tonight,” she says with a smile.
“Go put something on that doesn’t scream death and despair and let’s go,” she said pulling me off the couch.
Still not totally into the whole going out plan, I reluctantly get up and change into a dress and a pair of my most comfortable heels.
My face was still screaming death, so I applied another layer of lipstick and put a hand through my hair.
Ready to face the world.
Jess’s idea of way to relax was nothing more than a club where according to her the best nachos were sold.
Nachos and a club didn’t really bode with me well, sounded like a very shady place.
Turns out, the place was not as shady as I thought it was. It was pretty nice with the usual amount music and people moving about and enough lighting that you weren’t exactly blind, but you weren’t exactly one hundred percent in the spotlight either.
After a couple of rounds of drinks, Jess dragged me to the middle where everyone seemed to be nodding to Machine Gun Kelly.
After some time of dancing, I walked to the side to take the place in, it seemed a hip enough place with old men cozying up to much younger girls, who seemed to be enjoying the attention and the drinks that were I constant supply to them.
Still taking in the “young women and sugar daddy, episode 1”, my eyes caught a tall man staring back at me, wearing a look of amusement.
It took me a second to figure out who that man was.
Dunlow.
What was he doing here? Didn’t he have a much fancier and richer club to go to or perhaps one where paparazzi were more readily available?
I rolled my eyes at him, before he started to make his way towards me.
Just as approached me, Jess appeared at my side out of nowhere.
The lopsided grin that she wore, said it all.
“I’m going to go and get a drink, do you want something?” she asked still grinning like an idiot.
“Uhhhhhh no, but I think it’s time to go,” I said while grabbing her elbow.
“Why don’t you stick around for a few minutes, it looks like you have company”, she points towards Dunlow who was enjoying me being uncomfortable.
“Also Rick and I are going to go”, she said moving away.
I wore the pained expression that she knew very well and still chose to ignore.
“Are you following me now?” I turned my attention to Dunlow who was still wearing the stupid look of amusement on his face.
“No, we just happen to be in the same place at the same time,” he said with a smirk.
“Let’s get out of here,” he said while tugging on my hand.
“Uhhhh yeah I’m not going anywhere with you,” I said pulling my hand away.
“Is that right? Let me tell you something Alexis”, he says while leaning in a bit too close for my liking, “I get what I want”, he says.
I looked at him as if he had gone mad and then follow his resigning.
I had to admit there had been mad sparks every time Dunlow had been in the room, especially when his steel grey eyes took a look at me from top to bottom.
Airport scanners did a far worse job then his eyes did.
I see him texting on his phone, as I stand next to him as the wind around flaps my skirt.
His car pulls up and he opens the door waiting for me to get inside.
Chapter 25
Nathaniel
As I wait for her to climb into the back seat, all I could think about what I would be doing with her.
Time to give the lady a little taste of the Dunlow magic.
I climb in after her and signal the driver to drive.
She took in the exterior finally settling her eyes on me.
“So what’s the plan then?” she asked making herself comfortable beside me.
“For starters, Ms. Strope, where would you like to do it?” I asked point blankly.
The twinkle in her eyes gave it away as she put her hand bag to one side and jumped onto my lap and straddled me.
This was all I needed as she started running her hands over my chest, slowing unbuttoning my shirt.
I put up my index finger to give her hold one sec signal, and pressed a button to roll down the barrier mirror between us and the driver.
“Drive around until I say so,” I say to my driver and roll the mirror up again.
I look up to Alexis who wore a very determined look on her face.
With a smile, she went back to what unbuttoning my shirt, stopping as soon as she reached my belt buckle.
I held her by the thighs, pushing up her dress slowly past her knees, past her thighs, past her panties, past her navel and up to where I could feel her ribs. I held it there as I placed my tongue on her soft creamy skin and let my mouth explore the dips and curves of her body. She placed her hands
on my shoulders, and apart from the quickened breathing, she barely made a sound as I let my mouth wander. Soon, her hands gripped my shoulders and she shivered as I traced my fingers along her inner thigh, inching slowly towards the center of her wet panties. I tucked my thumbs into the waistband and pulled them down, pulling her legs apart so I could reach down between them and place my tongue on her clitoris. She gasped and I looked up to find her biting her lip with her eyes closed expectantly. I moved away and her eyes flew open, “No don’t stop,” she said urgently but I stood up and when she leaned close I ignored her and proceeded to take off my jacket and tie. She looked at the tie and coyly said, “Are you going to tie me up?” but I tossed the tie aside along with my jacket and I went on to remove the shirt she had unbuttoned. She reached out to place her hands on my chest and stomach but I grabbed her wrists before she could and said, “Turn around.”
She was clearly startled, but she turned around slowly, and I unzipped her dress from the back, watching it fall to the ground in a crumpled heap. I kicked it away and relished the sight of her curved spine as I traced my hands along the curve of her waist, reaching her bra which I proceeded to unclasp. As that too fell to the floor, Alexis tried to turn but I held her in place and said, “No, don’t move.” She stopped fidgeting and stood still as I pressed my body to hers, feeling her warm skin against mine. I pressed my pelvis against her ass so she could know that I wanted her badly, but I could control myself until it drove her to the point of madness. I held her ass in my hands, and moved down between her legs until my finger was right at the opening of her slit and as I moved it around I could feel just how wet she was. Her entire body was quivering against mine and she whispered, “Please, just go in.” I smiled widely and nibbled lightly on her ear as I said, “Not yet,” and took my hand away. I caressed her ass again, and lightly slapped it. She gasped and I did it again, harder this time. “Bend,” I demanded and she bent over the seat, placing her hands on it while her ass was reaching up towards me. I unbuckled my pants and let them drop along with my boxers. My raging hard-on rose to greet her perfectly round ass and it ached to enter her, but I knew I had to make her beg me to go inside.
I geared up for another round of teasing as I started to reach between her legs, but suddenly she spun around and said, “Enough playing around- I want you.” She pressed herself up against me so I could feel her breasts pushed up against my ribcage as she threw her arms around my neck and kissed me hard. She bit my lip as I gasped- I wasn’t expecting this from her and I was pleasantly surprised. She fell to her knees and held my penis in both her hands as she brought her mouth close and seductively licked the length of it before she popped the tip into her mouth, and looking up at me, she sucked on it hard. I steadied myself- suddenly I felt very weak in the knees and I held onto her shoulders to steady myself. She bobbed her head up and down as she took the whole thing deep into her mouth and moved faster and faster- I could see her breasts moving with her and all I wanted right then was to push her down and fuck her. And so I did. She cried out as I suddenly pushed her to the floor and got on top and then she smiled and opened her legs, I pulled them further apart and was about to push my way into her when I suddenly paused and looked at her, lying on the floor with her legs wide open waiting for me, and she looked so beautiful. “Fuck me,” she moaned softly and I smirked before I pushed my way into her and she opened her mouth wide and arched her back as I made my way inside.