The Baby Package

by Sarah J. Brooks

  “Yeah, like a schoolgirl thing that’s hung on too long. It’s okay. I’ll grow out of it, I’m sure.” She laughed and pulled all the way away from me.

  She couldn’t leave thinking this feeling was something she had to grow out of. Hell, I wanted her so bad at that moment that my pelvis was literally still pressed up against her as the rest of my body slowly pulled away. I replayed what Zelda had said to me at the office. I ran over all the things I knew Kevin would say, but none of it mattered as I pressed Anna against the door and feverishly kissed that neck of hers I’d been so close to touching.

  “I think I’ve got a bit of a crush too,” I said softly between my kisses.

  The freedom of knowing I had the same feelings was enough for Anna, and she dropped her bag and wrapped her arms back around me. This time I grabbed her ass and picked her up as her legs also wrapped around me, and I held onto her as we moved over to the couch. I sat down with her on top of me as our lips zeroed in on each other’s, and we passionately kissed.

  My body throbbed with so much desire that I was certain she could feel me through my pants. Her legs spread around me, and only those small pieces of fabric were separating us. It was enough to make me want to throw her down on the couch and thrust myself inside of her that instant.

  Anna’s hands held onto my face as we continued to kiss and let our bodies move together. The slow rocking of my hips was met with the equally paced rocking of Anna’s. Our kissing slowed from the feverish mania that we had started with to a much more romantic pace that we could sustain for longer.

  “I want you so bad,” Anna said softly as she moved her hair to one side and then kissed me again.

  It had been years since I’d heard a woman so clearly express her desire for me. Being married, I’d never really heard it at all. Even though Elizabeth and I had a pretty good relationship, she never seemed passionate about making love. And the other women I’d dated weren’t at all attached to me or in tune with that emotional desire. Up until I heard those words come out of Anna, I wouldn’t have thought I even cared if a woman said them. But there was something so honest in how Anna approached her feelings about me—something so genuine that it instantly turned me on.

  “Girl, I’ve wanted you since the second I saw you in that damn pink bikini last summer.” I laughed.

  “The tiny one?”

  “Yeah, I can’t believe people even make bikinis that small.”

  “Are you talking about the time I saw you while I was out getting the mail? You barely talked to me that day.”

  “That’s because all my blood had left my head and gone to my other region, and I couldn’t think straight.”

  “Jason!” Anna laughed and pushed me as she leaned back a little. Her pelvis pressed up against me, and I felt my body pulse even harder at the movement. “You didn’t act like you wanted me.”

  “You looked like a lot of trouble, and I was going through a rough time. I think you had some friends over to your house that weekend, and you were all in the backyard. I mowed my yard twice just to get a closer look.”

  “You did not!” she protested and pressed against me again, but this time I grabbed her ass and held her pelvis tight against my body.

  “I did.”

  “You wanted me back then? Why have you stayed away then?” she asked as she reached down and grabbed onto me so her hips could grind against me better.

  “I… um… I didn’t want to be a dirty old man,” I admitted.

  It was the truth. She was obviously young; I didn’t know her age for sure, but I knew she was about half of my age. To be honest, I wasn’t even sure she was legally an adult, and it freaked me out how much I wanted her. It was fun to flirt and very fun to watch her walking around in her tiny bikinis, but it was all a fantasy world and nothing at all what my reality looked like.

  “You aren’t that old,” Anna said as our eyes locked onto one another, and I continued to hold onto her hips as she ground them against me.

  “Yeah, I was stupid.”

  “I should tell you something,” Anna said as our hips moved harder and harder against each other. “Don’t freak out, though. Okay?”

  “I can’t promise not to freak out,” I said as I pulled her down toward me and held onto her hair as I kissed her neck. “What is it?”

  Anna paused and enjoyed my kissing as she seemed to be trying to tell me something. Her hips slowed, and I felt like it was getting serious, but she seemed not to want to look at me as she kept her head near my lips and her neck exposed to my mouth.

  “I’m a virgin,” she muttered softly.

  Certainly, every man had a fantasy about having a virgin, and I was no different. But at that moment, the gravity of her words weighed heavily on me, and I instantly stopped moving her hips against me.

  “We all were at one time,” I managed to say and then pulled her lips to meet mine. Of course, I didn’t want to make a big deal out of it. I didn’t want her to feel like this was a big issue, but it was a huge issue. It changed everything. A girl’s first time was so major and so important to them, and it was obviously important to her if she had saved herself until she was nearly twenty years old.

  “You’re freaked out, aren’t you?” Anna asked as she laid her head on my shoulder and I wrapped my arms around her. “It doesn’t have to be a big deal. Really, I just wanted you to know because… well, I come off a little strong, and I really have no experience in that department.”

  “You, a little strong?” I laughed and pushed her away so I could look at her.

  “What? I know what I want, and I go after it. You can’t blame me for that.”

  “You want me to be your first?”

  “Hell, yeah,” she said and then kissed me hard as her hand started stroking me through my pants. “Right now. Let’s go to your room,” she teased as her hand squeezed me.

  “I think,” I started to say but was distracted by the delicious feel of her hand on my body for a good minute before I could finish. “I think you and I should go on a real date.”

  “A real date? Like a dinner?” Anna asked and was a little shocked at my request.

  “Yes, like where we sit and talk to each other and actually have a conversation without getting naked,” I teased but still let my hands move up and down her body as I held her there on top of me.

  “We don’t have to go on a date you know. This doesn’t have to be anything more than a fun night together. I’m okay with that. I’m fine with just a night.”

  I was pretty sure Anna was telling the truth, and she would be just fine. For as many horror stories as I’d heard about dating younger women and sleeping with them, I didn’t think Anna fit into that stereotype. But her admission to me was a big deal, and going on a date wasn’t just for her, it was for me too. I was no longer the kind of guy who could just take a girl’s virginity and not think twice about it. I’d grown up over the years, and I knew if I was going to be this guy for her, it was going to be damn special.

  “So. you’re saying you don’t want to go out with me? It’s okay,” I teased as I faked being hurt. “I’ll get over your rejection someday. It might take a few years, though, and maybe some intense therapy.”

  “Oh. stop it,” Anna said and hit my chest again.

  “You hit me a lot.” I laughed and held her hand against my chest. “I think I deserve a real date. Even if it’s just to pay me back for all the beatings I’ve taken.”

  “What about work? Do you want me to quit? I don’t have to work there; it just makes my father feel better with all the uncertainty.”

  “No, you’re not quitting your job. You are really good at it, and there’s some major stuff going to happen soon with your dad’s company. I’ll need you around.”

  “Okay, so I’m going to be your assistant, and we are going to go on a date?” she asked and raised an eyebrow of concern.

  “Admittedly it’s probably not the best choice, but I can’t go on trying to hide from you all week—it�
�s killing me,” I said as I pushed her off of my lap and sat her next to me. She barely weighed anything and quickly curled up with her legs on the couch as we continued to talk. “Could we take things slow and try and get this deal settled with your father?”

  "You were purposely ignoring me?” Anna said as her mouth dropped open, and she went to hit me again but then stopped short and pulled her hand back.

  “Hell, yeah, I was. Look what happens when I stop ignoring you,” I pointed to my obvious hard on bulging out of my pants. “You are really hard to ignore, you know.”

  “You don’t even know what a relief that is to hear. Wow, I was starting to second guess everything,” Anna said as she lay back on the couch and stretched her legs over my body, but as her foot ran into my pulsing member, she decided to sit back up. “Okay, so you want to wait until I leave before we go on a date?”

  There was no way I was going to last two months, and I knew it. She sat there looking at me with her gorgeous blue eyes and perfectly formed lips – it was all I could do to actually take a break from kissing her. Nope, I didn’t want to wait two months.

  “Let’s just take it easy and see how things go. But we could go on a date; that wouldn’t be the end of the world.”

  “No, it wouldn’t be,” she said and then kissed me on the cheek. “I better get going, though. I do need to get a little sleep before work tomorrow.”

  “Okay, I’ll let you leave this time.” I stood up and held my hand out for her, then pulled her up with me. As I led her back over to the door, there was an overwhelming sense of calm for me. We had finally settled what this was between us and even decided on a plan to move forward. It was a bit exciting yet calming all at the same time.

  “See you tomorrow,” Anna said, and I pulled her next to me and gave her a light kiss.

  “Drive safely, darling.”

  She walked slowly out to her car and turned around a couple times to wave at me. There was a bounce in her step, and I felt a little bounce in my step too as I finally closed the door. It was invigorating to have a girl like Anna around me. Yet I was utterly terrified that she was still a virgin. Wow, that was a bombshell that I just hadn’t expected.

  Chapter 10

  Anna

  I could barely contain myself as I tried to walk calmly to my car and pull out of the driveway. I put my phone on speaker and dialed Lilli, but when I realized it was after midnight, I quickly hung up. She wasn’t going to be awake still, and I knew it. So, I dialed Patrick because I desperately needed someone to share my excitement with, and I couldn’t wait the thirty-minute drive to get back to the apartment.

  “Patrick,” I yelled into the phone. “Patrick, I didn’t throw myself at him, and I still made out with him. Oh, my gosh.”

  “Mom, is that you?” he cheekily replied.

  “Patrick. I was leaving my parents’ house, and Jason asked me to help him. I helped him, and then I was making out with him. Then I ended up telling him I was a virgin, and it freaked him out a little bit but not a whole lot. Basically, he asked me out on a real date, but we can’t do it right now, and we are going to keep working together. Oh, my God, I think my face is going to explode from smiling so much,” I babbled on and on without giving Patrick a chance to answer.

  “Mom, if this is you, I can’t understand a thing you’re saying,” he continued to tease me.

  “Patrick!”

  “Okay, okay. I’m not sure I am tracking what’s going on, but I’m super excited for you because I can tell you are excited. Are you on your way here?”

  “Yes.”

  “Okay, you can tell me all about it when you get here. Keep your hands on the wheel and concentrate on your driving. I’ll see you soon,” he said and then hung up on me.

  It was probably a good thing that he refused to have the conversation with me while I was driving. I was really excited and could hardly concentrate on the road, let alone keep trying to explain to him what had happened.

  My legs tapped with excitement as I drove down the interstate to my apartment with Patrick. Everything was coming together. There was a huge sense of relief that Jason and I had this connection, and it wasn’t just made up in my head. I wasn’t this girl who was throwing herself at a guy wanting him to like me—no, he actually did like me.

  I probably shouldn’t have told him I was a virgin, but no one really knew it, and I’m sure he wouldn’t have guessed it by the way I was flirting with him. In the moment, it just felt like the right thing to say, and I was relieved to have gotten it out of the way. Sure, he didn’t decide to carry me off to his bedroom and make love to me that moment, but I could live with what we had going on. And a real date seemed like a pretty damn good idea.

  When I got to my apartment, the dark night air had engulfed everything, and there was an unusual number of stars in the sky. I stopped for just a moment to look up and admire the sky and then watched as a shooting star jetted across right in front of me. Quickly, I closed my eyes and made a wish. Not a wish that I would have made as a child, but a reasonable wish that a grown woman would make.

  I wish for an amazing first date with Jason.

  I said my wish softly under my breath and opened my eyes to see Patrick standing in our window and looking down at me with anticipation. He motioned for me to hurry up and get up there, and I did just that—taking two steps at a time and running up the stairs until I burst through our door.

  “Finally, geez, what were you doing out there?”

  “Patrick, I’m in love,” I said dreamily as I spun around our living room with my hands out. “This has been the most perfect day ever.”

  “I thought you texted me earlier that this was a horrible day?” he asked as he smirked at me.

  “No, no, no, it’s now a perfect day. It’s ended on the most amazing note.”

  “Okay, tell me all about it,” Patrick said as he slapped the spot on the couch next to him, and I plopped down to tell him every last detail.

  I was so relieved to have Patrick there to listen to my blabbering. We talked for nearly an hour before I finally crawled into bed to get a few hours of sleep before I had to work the next day. As I closed my eyes, I still felt the hurt in my cheeks from smiling and laughing so much throughout my evening. A feeling of euphoria drenched my body with happiness, and I could honestly say I hadn’t felt this happy in a very long time.

  By the time my morning alarm went off, I felt more rested than five hours of sleep had ever felt. I bounced out of bed and into the shower before grabbing a work outfit that I’d been dying to wear. This skirt was slightly shorter than I should wear to the office, and the blouse was sheer enough that I could have worn a tank top as well as a bra. But I felt on fire as I slid my slinky lace bra on and buttoned up the red silk blouse over it. You could see the form of my breasts, but I wasn’t showing too much cleavage. As I slipped the skirt on, I wiggled my hips and pulled the zipper up and looked in the mirror at my ass just to make sure the skirt covered it all.

  The game was officially on now that I knew how Jason felt for sure. For just that one day, I was going to look like sex on heels as I took full control over what was going on with Jason and me. The teasing and flirting in the office was about to go atomic.

  When I got to the office, I walked with purpose to my desk and sat down to get started on my work right away. I finished one of my projects before Jason even arrived at the office.

  “Good morning, Ms. Cook,” he said with a mischievous smile.

  “Good morning, Mr. Hartley,” I replied.

  I stood up and leaned over seductively as I grabbed some papers from the other side of the desk. I’d tried this little move when I first started working with Jason, but it hadn’t had much effect on him. This time I got a much better response, though. I felt his body move a step closer to me as the front of his pants gently touched my ass.

  “Can I help you find something?” he asked, pretending like he was trying to be helpful.

  There wasn’t anyone
else around, but it was a good cover story in case someone happened to come by. I pushed my ass back toward him just a touch before turning around with the papers in my hand.

  “Here’s a copy of that report you had me working on,” I said in a little bit of a huskier voice than I normally used. It was fun to play this game with Jason, and I suspected the next few weeks of work were going to be a hell of a lot more enjoyable than the first month had been.

  “Thank you. I can’t wait to read them,” he said as he moved away and stood in the doorway of his office. “That’s one fine skirt you have on there.”

  “This old thing?” I teased and spun around.

  As I spun, I saw the elevator door open, and Zelda got out with Kevin. They were engrossed in a conversation, but I quickly sat down and pretended to be working so they wouldn’t see how much I’d been flirting with Jason.

  “I’ll talk to you later. Email me, though,” Jason said with a quick smile before he went over to talk to Kevin.

  The two men looked like they went straight to talking about business as a serious expression crossed Jason’s face. I tried to listen in on what they were talking about, but I couldn’t quite figure it out. Sometimes I could understand the business mumbo jumbo they were saying, and other times it sounded like they were speaking in a foreign language.

  I went back to working with a new level of intensity. I wanted to finish another project purely so I could walk into Jason’s office and hand it to him. Jason was really busy throughout the day and constantly went from his office to several other people’s offices. It was nice to see him coming and going like normal again and not trying to avoid me.

  Every time he walked by, I stopped typing for just a moment as our eyes locked, and he went into his office or left his office. There were no words, just an intense attraction that was building up more and more throughout the day.