Raw: Book 1

by Michelle Maris

  Michael slapped Jeremy’s shoulder, “Congratulations, I knew she liked you.”

  “You did?”

  “Yeah, from day one I could tell.”

  “How?” Michael surprised Jeremy with his insight because not even Jeremy saw it coming that early on.

  “I always thought Madison was a snob, but when you came into RAW, I saw her open up a little bit, and I realized she wasn’t a snob, she was shy.”

  “Yeah, she’s shy,” Jeremy agreed and took it no further. Madison wasn’t exactly shy. She experienced severe stress when forced into social settings but if it came off as snobbery or shyness then so be it. Jeremy didn’t care what other people thought about Madison; all he cared about was making things easy for her.

  “Let’s grab some breakfast and then we’ll meet in Bevy’s office. We’re going to take over the empty office down the hall behind the staircase, so we’ll bring all the files in there. Then we’ll sit down and go over the details of our new roles.”

  “I’m looking forward to it.”

  Jeremy went back to Madison’s apartment to have breakfast with her. When he got there, Madison bent over as she looked for something in the refrigerator. She shot up when she heard the door close. A smile stretched across her face when Jeremy walked further into the kitchen.

  “How did it go?” She asked as Jeremy wrapped his arms around her waist.

  “Everyone’s happy, especially Michael.”

  “Oh good, and did you have to answer and questions about your living arrangements?”

  “Yes, Michael asked more specifics, and I told him I’d being living on the other side of the mansion.”

  “And?”

  “I told him we were dating. He suspected we would be from day one.”

  “Really? I’m surprised he had such insight.”

  “Either way, I’m glad that’s over, now on Wednesday, I need to tell the women I’m no longer an Essential.”

  “And that you and I are a couple,” Madison added. “I think they’ll be okay with it. They like you, and I think they’ll be genuinely happy for you.”

  “I hope so.” Jeremy glanced around the kitchen. Madison pulled out eggs, toast, and she brewed coffee. “Let’s eat breakfast together before you have to go into the office.” Jeremy kissed Madison and patted her behind. “Do you cook?”

  “I do. I mean I can. I’m a good cook. Don’t forget no one knew I lived here so Sunday through Tuesday I couldn’t have the chef make me food, so I had to cook for myself and sometimes Bevy.”

  Madison prepared breakfast as Jeremy sat at the counter watching. It was strange to see her in this capacity, but he liked it. He thought about the first day he met her in Bevy’s office. She appeared untouchable to him but watching her doing domesticated things felt perfectly normal, and he craved more.

  “Madison, do you ever think about marriage?” Jeremy asked.

  Madison stood in front of the stove pushing scrambled eggs around a pan using a spatula. Her hand froze, and she peeked over her shoulder at Jeremy. She cleared her throat as she decided how to answer him.

  “I stopped thinking about it years ago,” Madison said as she turned off the flame under the pan. “Do you want to be married?”

  “Eventually.” Jeremy easily admitted.

  “Do you want children?” This was not an easy question for Madison to ask. The thought of being a mother was a thorn in her side because of her anxiety.

  “I can go either way.”

  Jeremy’s answer put Madison at ease, and Jeremy noticed the change in her energy almost immediately. “Come here, my love.” Jeremy opened his legs and pulled Madison in between them. She leaned into him and rested her hands on his chest. “Madison, I know only one thing for sure. I want to be with you in whatever capacity that is. I hope it’s marriage, but I’ll go with whatever makes you feel comfortable and that is all I know for sure. Everything else we’ll just wing it, okay?”

  Madison wrapped her arms around his neck. She finally saw a future that didn’t terrify her. With Jeremy by her side, Madison felt she could conquer her fears.

  “Jeremy Turner, I love you, and I need you.”

  “Ah, all my favorite words wrapped up in one sentence.”

  ~~~~~

  The rest of the week moved along successfully. Jeremy and Michael fell into their new roles without strife. Bevy settled in as more of a confidant to the staff which is how she always envisioned her role at RAW, and Madison enjoyed a more normal life.

  She’d wake up in Jeremy’s arms; they’d make love, then work out together in the gym, come back to the apartment to shower and have sex again, eat breakfast then Madison went to her office to work while Jeremy took on his role as VP of operations.

  At night she’d come home, they’d have dinner together, sex then they slept until morning came and they started the whole routine over again. It felt blissfully ordinary, and both Jeremy and Madison were happy.

  Jeremy broke the news to the ladies on Wednesday, and all of them shared the same sentiment. The members would miss his sexual prowess, but they were happy he wasn’t leaving altogether. Many of them valued Jeremy’s friendship more than the sex. He was a hard act to follow when it came to sex, but the women relied on Jeremy mostly for his comfort.

  Jeremy was a man who brings it in the moment. Yes, he was hot and sexy, and those glasses drove the women crazy, but there was so much more to him. The way Jeremy looked a person in the eye when he spoke to them, his ability to not only listen but to hear and to remember everything. He saw past the surface of every woman at RAW and showed his appreciation for each one exactly as they were.

  “Jeremy, I’m sad that I can no longer have sex with you, but I’m happy that you’ll still be here every day.” Amy threw her arms around Jeremy’s neck. “And if Madison ever leaves you, I’ll dump my husband in a heartbeat and run off with you. Just the say the word.” She whispered in his ear.

  “Amy, I’m glad it was you who won the raffle. I’ll always be here for you.”

  “You’re a good man, Jeremy.” Sarah pushed her way in, “Because of you, I’ll never go on another diet. I love my curves, now.”

  “I love your curves, too.” Jeremy concurred.

  Sarah looked over at Madison, “You’ll have to fatten her up.”

  Jeremy chuckled, “Ladies, thank you for understanding. I consider you all like my family.”

  The ladies sighed in unison and continued to express their love for Jeremy. He finally, broke away and returned to Madison.

  “They took that well,” Jeremy said as he sat next to Madison.

  Bevy looked back at the ladies, “Thank goodness. I thought there’d be an uproar.”

  “Nah, they're just happy I’m not leaving RAW.”

  “Did they say anything about me?” Madison asked.

  “They’re happy for us. Though, Sarah thinks I need to fatten you up a little bit.”

  Madison giggled, “You seemed to enjoy all her curves.” Madison thought about the night she watched Jeremy and Sarah in Room One.

  “It looked like it, right? As I recall, I enjoyed another woman’s body a lot more.”

  “What are you two talking about?” Bevy listened to their cryptic conversation.

  “Madison watched me have sex with Sarah, and then I pulled Madison into the storage closet and got down on my knees for her.”

  Madison couldn’t make eye contact with Bevy. Instead, she pushed her food around her plate ignoring Bevy’s questions.

  “How long has this little love affair been going on?” Bevy waved her finger at both of them.

  Madison dropped her fork and now concentrated on the tablecloth as she spun the stem of her wine glass still avoiding Bevy’s question.

  “I think it started my first night in the viewing room when Madison and I made out.”

  “What? You two have been at this since day one.” Bevy got right into Madison’s face.

  “You could say that.” Madison sheepishly
admitted.

  Jeremy grabbed Madison’s hand and held it resting on the table while Bevy mumbled something about things happening right under her nose.

  “Are you done griping, Bevy?” Jeremy teased her, “Because I’d like to eat.”

  “Oh, that reminds me… Bill wants to take us all out to celebrate. How’s Sunday night?”

  Madison looked at Jeremy and nodded, “Perfect.”

  After dinner, Jeremy and Madison walked back to their apartment. As they passed the door to Madison’s sex room, Madison halted pulling Jeremy back towards her. “Jeremy, would you like to have sex in here tonight?” Madison pointed to the door of her sex room.

  “It makes no difference to me.”

  “It may if I told you I never used any of the props or contraptions in that room.”

  Jeremy slid his hands on the sides of her neck as he stared into her eyes. “And you’d like to?”

  “With you, yes.”

  Jeremy gazed at Madison one last time before he opened the door. Everything about her expression told him she wanted this with him. He gripped the doorknob, took Madison by the hand and guided her through the space towards the back of the room.

  “Baby, have you ever used this?” Jeremy rubbed his hand along the leather of the Cross inversion table.

  “No.” Madison stared at his hand as it glided up and down the X shaped structure.

  “Do you trust me?” Jeremy needed to ask because what they were about to do was unchartered territory for Madison.

  “Completely.” Madison inhaled as she licked her lips.

  “Come.” Jeremy directed her away from the structure. He slowly undressed her as he covered her skin with his mouth. He turned her around and braided her hair. When he finished, and she stood completely naked in only her heels, he asked her one more time, “Do you trust me?”

  “Yes.” She breathed out.

  Jeremy took her by the hand and walked her over to the far side of the contraption. He reached his hand up and pulled down on the X shaped structure flipping it over behind Madison. “Spread your legs.” He commanded.

  Madison obeyed as Jeremy wrapped the leather straps held to the contraption by chains around her ankles. He then raised her arms above her head as he pressed his body into hers. He bound her wrists with the leather straps at each end of the X. Madison’s body took the shape of the letter X, bound and vulnerable to him.

  He leaned into her ear and whispered, “Do you still trust me?”

  “I trust you, implicitly.” She whispered.

  Jeremy stepped back and removed his clothes. When he finished he gazed over Madison’s body strapped to the structure. His tongue swept across his bottom lip as he grabbed his erection. He stalked towards Madison and pressed his naked body against hers. Jeremy slowly and methodically glided his hands over her body as he pressed his soft lips against her skin. He spread his legs against hers and pushed his erection into her core as he brushed his fingers up her thighs. Madison’s breathing shuddered as she purred his name.

  Jeremy bent at his knees, so his mouth was directly in line with Madison’s pussy. He inhaled her scent and slipped his tongue between her thighs and licked her wet folds. Madison trembled at the invasion of his tongue while she pushed her hips into his face. He rubbed his hands down her legs and grabbed her ankles. He looked up at her, “Ready.”

  Madison bit down on her lip and nodded.

  Jeremy grabbed the X from the bottom and swung it over, so Madison hung upside down with her feet in the air and her pussy open to him. Jeremy stood behind the contraption breathing into her pussy. “Baby, I’m going to eat you out until I’ve had my fill and then I’m going to flip you upright and fuck you hard.” He wrapped his arms around her body and covered her pussy with his mouth. He sucked and licked her sensitive flesh as Madison moaned and purred.

  The blood rushed to Madison’s head adding to the Euphoria of the moment. Jeremy rubbed his hands down the front of her body as he feasted. He found her tight little nipples and rolled and pinched them into between his fingers.

  She had nowhere to go. Madison was bound to the X hanging upside down as the man she loved feasted on her flesh. As her orgasm built, it became painful because she was at his mercy. She had nothing to grind against because the restraints left her no room. Her body was entirely dependent on his tongue.

  Jeremy wrapped one arm around her thigh and with his fingers from his other hand, he spread her silky swollen lips apart as he licked and sucked on her clit until her body lost all control and jerked against the padded wooden structure as she screamed out his name.

  Within the seconds that followed, Jeremy flipped her over on the X, locked it in place, and shoved his hard cock inside of her. She screamed out at his harsh invasion until pleasure took over and she could only mumble his name.

  Jeremy held the top arms of the X as he pounded into Madison. His legs quivered at first then violently shook as he emptied himself inside of her. “Oh, Fuck, Madison, I love you so much. I fucking love you.” He yelled out as his cock filled her with his cum.

  Their bodies slowed as pleasure settled deep into their bodies. Jeremy released the binds as Madison fell into his arms. He scooped her up and carried her back to their bedroom.

  Once in their bed, Jeremy kissed the side of her face until he found her lips, “Sleep my love, I’ll see you in the morning.”

  Madison purred and fell right to sleep, and Jeremy followed.

  Chapter 19

  The Mansion closed down to members at four in the afternoon on Sundays. Jeremy and Madison spent a few hours alone in bed after the busy weekend.

  His first week in his new role left him exhausted. Jeremy found out just how much, Bevy hated the daily grind of running RAW and how little she did to run the business.

  Madison explained to Jeremy that Bevy was more of the face of RAW. People liked her, and because people respected her, she got by. And the business never hurt for money; it only ached for organization.

  Jeremy found many invoices overdue and orders left incomplete so when he contacted the companies to pay the invoices he expected to get chewed out. It seemed Bevy built great rapport with many of the companies and they trusted Bevy to pay the bills sooner or later which made his job a little easier. The vendors were thrilled to be getting paid, and now that they had a capable contact to do business with at RAW, they knew unpaid invoices would be a thing of the past.

  Michael spent most of the time carrying boxes, organizing files and moving furniture around in the office that by the time the evenings came, he had no energy to have sex with any of the women. Jeremy assured him that it was temporary. After they settled in and organized things, the job would get easier.

  Bevy, on the other hand, loved her new life. She gardened during the day, and in the afternoons Madison would sneak out of work early, and they’d play tennis together.

  A few years back Bevy mentioned to the chef that she wanted to start a vegetable garden on the grounds and as soon as her role at RAW changed she commissioned some of the staff to start digging up a huge allotment on the south lawn to plant vegetables.

  One afternoon, Jeremy watched as Bevy and Madison planted in the garden. Madison looked relaxed as she shoved her hands in the earth. Before they lived together, Jeremy only saw Madison as a member, relaxed from an afternoon at the spa, or meal shared with Bevy. Now, he saw Madison leave for work and come home from work and the strain on her face after her workday disturbed him.

  Madison and Jeremy had cuddled in bed before they had to shower for their dinner with Bevy and Bill. Jeremy caressed Madison’s stomach with his fingertips leaving gooseflesh in its wake. “Madison, did you ever consider giving up being a lawyer?”

  “What would I do if I wasn’t a lawyer?” Madison lifted her head off the pillow to look at Jeremy.

  “You have RAW. You are sixty percent owner.”

  “Yes, but what would I do?” She became defensive.

  Jeremy realized Madison continued
practicing law because it was her identity. She knew nothing else, and it was the only time she didn’t suffer from severe anxiety. He quickly dropped the subject. “We should shower, or we’ll be late and never hear the end of it from Bevy.”

  Two hours later, Jeremy walked into the restaurant holding Madison’s hand while pulling her into the side of his body. Bevy waved from a round table for four along the wall. The hostess greeted Jeremy and Madison, and they followed behind her as she showed them to their table.

  Bill looked up from the wine menu and stood when he saw Madison approaching. “Maddie, you look beautiful.” Bill kissed her cheek then offered his hand to Jeremy. The two men shook hands as Bevy and Madison air kissed each other.

  “So I hear I have you to thank for returning my vibrant, happy woman to me,” Bill said to Jeremy as he took his seat.

  “Yes, I’ve taken over where Bevy left off,” Jeremy responded.

  “I’m sure it hard to tell where exactly this little lady left off. I assume it was somewhere in 2012.” Bill poked fun at Bevy’s disorganization.

  “Thankfully, it’s not as bad as that.”

  “Hey, boys, I’m sitting right here, and I’m not deaf.” Bevy interrupted.

  Jeremy patted Bevy’s arm, “It’s not all bad, the vendors loved you, so it makes the business run smoother because if we need something, they’ll make sure we get it.”

  Madison added her two cents, “I never noticed a problem. I think you did an excellent job.”

  Bevy lifted her chin in the air, “You see my business partner is happy.”

  “Jeremy, learn now, these two will always side with each other.” Bill pointed back and forth from Madison to Bevy.

  The waiter came by and took their wine order then walked away. As the four of them surveyed the menu, a familiar face approached the table behind Jeremy and Madison.

  Bevy noticed her first. “Don’t turn around but Carol Broderick is coming towards us.” Bevy said between her teeth.