“So, you did a lot of horseback riding when you were a kid?” Zander asked. “I believe you mentioned that earlier.”
“Oh, yeah. I was really into it. My aunt had a stable and there was a horse there that I took a shine to, so every Saturday morning for several years I would go out there and ride until almost noon. Then my mom would take me out for pizza.”
“That’s fantastic,” Zander said. “It’s great for a kid to develop a passion that early on for something. Do you still ride?”
“No, I haven’t ridden for years,” she said.
“Why not?”
“Well, I had been riding for about three years and I was starting to get really good. I thought I might actually enter some competitions, but then I fell off my horse Holly one day and broke my ankle. I developed a fear of it and I just never really went back. Eventually the fear went away but by then I was into softball and basketball, you know other girly pursuits and I just never got back into it. But it’s funny you ask because I’ve been toying with the idea of starting up riding again. But lessons are expensive and as far as eventually getting a horse of my own, that is a fat chance.”
Zander smiled. “Well, maybe one day you will get the chance to ride again,” he said.
“I don’t know,” she replied. “I’ve got too many other things going on. I’m not sure I could even find the time or the energy.”
Zander hated to see Ember when she occasionally got down on herself. “Well maybe it’s time you made a change,” he said.
“Like what?”
“I don’t know; that is up to you. What did you used to dream about when you were a kid? What did you want to be?”
“I wanted to be Xena Warrior Princess for a while, but then that died out. Since then I haven’t really thought too much about it. I mean when I was in college I thought I might end up being like a business manager and maybe one day own my own business. I’m the type of person who hates being told what to do; I hate having a boss, you know? So, if I could do anything it would be something on my own that I’m in charge of. The problem is I have no idea what business I want to own and operate.”
“Well, I’ve found the best businesses are the ones that revolve around a passion you have,” Zander replied.
“Are you telling me you have a passion for real estate?”
Zander laughed. “Yes. I have a passion for transforming crap houses into dream houses, even though I don’t do the work myself anymore. I work with architects and designers to make these visions come to life. It’s really very fulfilling and rewarding. I love to take startup companies that have a lot of promise and potential and turn them into goldmines. So, yeah, I do love what I do. It’s not just about the money.”
“Ok, well I will definitely do a bit of soul searching and see what I come up with,” Ember said.
She was leaning over slightly right then and Zander was catching an eyeful. He smiled and looked up at her. She caught him looking and continued to allow him the privilege.
“Well, that is definitely a passion of mine,” he said.
“Oh, I’ll bet,” Ember replied in a seductive tone. “I bet you wish you could do something with those right now, don’t you?”
Zander was surprised by the question. He wondered how much of it was the alcohol and how much she just loved to flirt. It was one of the most surprising things about her that he never would have guessed upon first meeting Ember—she was an incredible flirt. And he loved it.
“I figure we could do a bit of an even swap,” Zander replied. “I do have something that you would like to do something with. It might involve your mouth, your chest, and your sweet, juicy, box.”
Ember giggled. “Now, if you are trying to get me hot and bothered I will remind you that you don’t have to try very hard.”
“I say we continue this party elsewhere,” Zander said.
Ember agreed.
“OH WOW!” Ember exclaimed when she stepped foot into Zander’s mansion.
Zander could not help chuckling at her reaction as they stepped in through the front door. She instantly started jogging from room to room as if she were a child in the most extraordinary funhouse in the entire world. It was hysterical to watch. Even Ben thought so.
“Sir, do you require anything further of me tonight?” Ben asked.
“No, Ben you may retire,” Zander said.
With that Ben left the room heading upstairs to his own room.
“Wow, I could totally get lost in this place,” Ember said. “How does one person live here?”
“I like my space,” Zander said. “Besides it’s the biggest and the best around so of course it has to be mine.”
Ember laughed as she came close to him. She planted a sweet kiss on his lips and held onto him, resting her head on his shoulder. The limo ride to the house had been a fun trip. The moment they hit the car he’d ordered Ben to take them to the house and then put up the divider.
Without any hesitation, he and Ember began making out ripping at each other’s clothes. It didn’t take much before Zander pulled up her dress, pulled down her pants, and he was inside her from behind. She was so tight, putting her legs together to create an even tighter seal with her special lips, closing around his thick, fully engorged flesh as he pounded away towards final release.
He already could not wait to get inside of her again, but he thought he might take things a bit slower for now. It was always easier to do without a bullet in the chamber, so to speak.
“Come on,” Zander said taking her by the hand. I have something to show you.
He escorted Ember down the hall into a back room which she was surprised to see was his billiards room. He loved it there. When he was home he spent most of his time in there, perfecting his game of pool and even playing a few darts.
“Wow, that is the nicest pool table I have ever seen,” Ember said.
Zander smiled as he walked over to the bar and began to mix them a few drinks. “Since I was a kid it was my dream to own a great pool table. I’ve been really into the game since I was about eight years old. My grandpa had a table in the basement and when it was warm enough I would go down there and play rack after rack with him. I’d play even when it was really cold; I didn’t care.”
“So, are you like a pool shark?” Ember asked.
Zander finished mixing together the long island iced teas and handed one to Ember.
“I am pretty good, but I’m not good enough to be a professional at it or anything. I mean those guys really study the game, they know all the theory and geometry behind it. I never wanted to learn any of that because to me it turned the game into some mathematical thing. Believe it or not, I’ve never liked math. The only math I like is counting money,” Zander said.
“I can definitely understand how that would take the fun out of the game,” Ember commented. She took a sip of her drink and smiled. “Wow, you made this extra strong. I’m starting to think you want to get me drunk.”
“Well, I’m drunk; I figured you might as well be,” Zander said. “Anyway, when it came to pool I just liked to play and go by feel, by instinct. That was the way the guys in the pool halls played. That’s what it was all about.”
“So, you spent a lot of time in pool halls?”
“Yes, I used to. For the longest time that was my thing, when I was in college anyway. During the evenings and weekends, between classes if I had a long enough break. There was a reason my grades in college sucked so bad I almost got kicked out. But I guess it didn’t matter since I had plans to go into business for myself.”
“Uh, oh. Did you not do your homework?” Ember asked teasing.
“Hardly ever,” Zander said. “I hardly ever went to class to be honest with you. Like a lot of people, I would study the book a week before the exam, show up and take the test. College is kind of lame when you think about it. It teaches you very little about life I found.”
Ember laughed. “I have to tend to agree with you,” she said grabbing the rack fro
m under the table and beginning to rack the balls.
“Oh, you want to play a game?” Zander asked.
“I do,” Ember replied.
Zander broke the rack of balls hard and they scattered across the table sinking three; two solids and one stripe. He chose solids to start with and systematically ran the table.
“Want to go again? Maybe you might get a shot this time,” Zander said.
Ember looked at him and shook her head as she walked towards him. “Actually, I was curious to take a little dip in that Jacuzzi you told me about,” she said.
Zander smiled and led the way.
He took off his clothes and then dropped his boxer shorts to the ground before climbing into the hot water. It felt scalding against his more sensitive areas but he was willing to ignore the pain to gain the pleasure that was coming. Besides he was too distracted by Ember’s sexy, nude, curvaceous body as she slipped into the hot, steamy water in front of him.
She moved over to his side and wrapped her arms around him, kissing him softly on the lips.
“Hey, there,” Ember said. She moved her hips against his dangling member and he felt it instantly respond, getting harder by the second.
Her hot breath was now on his ear as she nibbled his lobe. She was so soft, so smooth… he just ached for her in every possible way. Zander wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her even closer to him, her nipples rubbing against his as he enjoyed her seduction.
“You like that?” Ember whispered in his ear as she kissed him softly on the nape of the neck, moving upwards to his ear lobe. She took the bottom of his lobe in her mouth and then her tongue moved up into his ear wiggling in and out of it slowly, her warm breath invading him. He took a deep breath enjoying every bit of pleasure that she was willing to give him.
Her hand was now around his cock. She was squeezing it slightly and moving up and down on it. He was getting so hard now… his balls were beginning to ache with anticipation of the sweetness that was sure to come soon…
Zander moved his head to face her and kissed her hard on the mouth, grabbing the back of her head and pressing her lips close to his, opening his mouth to allow his tongue to move into hers, soliciting her own tongue to come forward and join the party.
His other hand was grabbing her ass, squeezing and rubbing which she loved. He’d learned quickly that she loved to have her ass played with and he was more than happy to oblige. He smacked her hard under the water enjoying the vibrations and the sensations.
She giggled slightly as she continued to squeeze him and rub him up and down, paying very special attention to the head. Her forefinger and thumb encircled it and squeezed it tighter at the top, moving up to the tip where she lightly grazed it with her finger, teasing him.
Zander decided to tease her as well. He swiftly moved his fingers to her crack, slipping into her box of pleasure. It was moist, wet, and tight. He then quickly pulled out of there and stuck a finger in her back door. Her eyes widened slightly with surprise, but she did not stop him.
She kissed him softly on the lips instead and smiled as she leaned backwards and grabbed his hand, forcing the finger further up her rear.
“Use two,” she said.
He did, slowly inching two of his thick fingers into her back door. She continued to work his thick tool up front becoming more aggressive with her stroking of him. He knew that if this kept up he was going to finish all over his nice Jacuzzi and he wouldn’t want that…
Zander loved the texture of her back entrance. It was amazing how at this stage of a relationship one could constantly be surprised by the other person’s boundaries and their open mindedness.
He was so hard now… he was so ready…
Zander decided he did not want to wait any longer. He grabbed Ember’s hips and lifted her upwards slightly to escort her down onto his hard cock which slid into her sweet, wet opening. She was so tight around him and ready for what was to come.
He leaned back against the wall and let her move up and down slowly rocking, slowly bucking together as he moved in and out. He was getting even harder now and she was getting even tighter, her body grabbing him and pulsating along every single pleasure center. He knew it would not be long now.
Zander pulled out of her and quickly leapt behind her, shoving his hard rod deep into her from behind. She cried out in pleasure and surprise as she began to pump he harder and harder. He pulled her hair hard, keeping a fistful of it tightly in his hand.
“Yes!” Ember cried out.
Her large breasts were shaking violently as he thrusted into her going deeper and deeper into that tight wet pool of sweetness.
“AAAGH!” He groaned loudly as he climaxed deep inside of her, holding the last thrust allowing every drop of his hot, salty seed to pour into her waiting pool.
He is legs were still shaking five minutes later.
Zander was awakened by his phone vibrating beside his bed. At first, he thought he had forgotten to turn one of his alarms off that he set for the work week, usually between three and four in the morning. He usually took at least a half hour to get up and get going, so he always set the alarm too soon.
But it wasn’t an alarm. It was a text from Harrison.
Zander almost ignored it and went back to sleep but he opened his phone to see what the guy wanted. Why wouldn’t the guy just get out of his life?
The three days are off the table. Either you come to my office right now and sign the contract or I will leak all of the pictures everywhere within three hours. The choice is yours.
Zander groaned in anger as he leapt out of bed.
It was time to show that pig who was boss.
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Ember
Ember heard something from down the hall. She bolted up in bed forgetting temporarily where she was. But then it came back to her. She was in Zander’s bed in his house. Everything was ok. He was probably just getting something to eat or drink. She laid back down and closed her eyes.
But then she heard the car leaving down the driveway. Quickly she bolted out of bed and looked out the window. She could see his Ferrari speeding away from the home in the predawn hours. The darkness outside was just barely starting to fade.
Where was he going in such a hurry? And at this hour? Why would he leave without saying something to her? It didn’t make sense.
That’s when she noticed a flashing light on his house phone’s answering machine. She didn’t know he even had a landline. It must have been a rich thing to have both nowadays, but then again, they were kind of far from town. She was not sure how good the cell reception really was around here.
For some reason, she could not explain she found herself walking over to answer that message. The seeds of doubt that had already been planted in her from the rocky hurdles that she and Zander had already experienced, the past mistakes she’d made with me—it all came together right then to force her to take a look at that phone.
She checked the call history and the last call on the phone was from Club Privaat from earlier in the evening. It was before they had even gone out for the evening.
Ember was stunned; she couldn’t believe that this was happening. He was still communicating with these people. He must have kept his account active there or maybe he really was staying in business with that guy he pretended to hate.
She calmed herself down and tried not to get angry. But her mind was going crazy again. She kept hearing Liza’s voice of reason in her head telling her not to jump to conclusions. She knew that she loved this man and she wanted to give him every possible benefit of the doubt that she could here, but it was not working. The more she stood there thinking about it, the angrier she got. Why was this happening? It seemed that everything was conspiring to tear them apart. The minute that she started to feel comfortable and happy with the way things were going this came back up again.
She felt stupid. She had forgiven him twice and admitted that she was wrong on both accounts. Now here it was plain as day; he was st
ill going to be involved with Club Pivaat and he was going to do who knew what with how many random women?
Ember grabbed her things, called an uber, and quietly left Zander’s mansion. On the ride home she did not talk, ignoring the driver who kept trying to make small talk which included lame attempts at flirting. She was not in the mood at all.
She couldn’t stop thinking about it all. Why was she so gullible? Was it her problem? Should she even be mad at him?
Yes. She absolutely should be mad at him. He’d made her a promise and now he was clearly breaking the promise. Of course, she hadn’t even asked him to stop the business deal he had with Club Privaat. She was not even worried about him being around all of those women or going back to the club and bidding on women in the auctions; she trusted him when he said he wanted to be with her.
But when he obviously tried to hide things from her then she had no choice but to become suspicious. When Zander told her he was not going to invest in Club Privaat she was amazed at how relieved and happy she was. Until that point she had not consciously thought that she was threatened or at all threatened of it. But when she was totally relieved that Zander would no longer be around that temptation she knew that she was scared and she was a bit paranoid.
That’s all she’d dismissed it as, was paranoia.
But then when her paranoia started to come true she knew that she was right for feeling that way. Her gut instincts had always been right. Looking back on her previous relationship with men who had treated her this way she knew there was something wrong then and she tried to tell herself that she was being paranoid and overreacting. But then it happened and it made it all the more devastating that she did not listen to herself.
She did not want to make that mistake again.
When she got home she told Liza what happened. This time her friend did not try to talk her out of it.
Ember had made the decision; she and Zander were done.
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