The Deal

by Sarah J. Brooks

  I opened my mouth and let his tongue slide in and felt my body releasing as he played with me.

  “Oh, um … I …” I tried to talk, but I couldn’t. “Shouldn’t we go to dinner,” I asked.

  “After you cum.”

  His lips went back to kissing me and his fingers to making me orgasm, and soon I lost all control and released my inhibitions and came. I could hardly stand and held onto him for support as we continued to kiss. I did like kissing him, I couldn’t deny that. But this was a game to Aldo, he didn’t have real feelings. I kept reminding myself, this was all a game.

  “Now I’m dripping wet, and you want to take me to dinner,” I teased him.

  Aldo pulled me back into the kitchen and threw me roughly up onto the counter. I had no idea what he was doing until he slid my panties off and put my legs up over his shoulders.

  Oh, shit! This was happening.

  He gently kissed up my thigh before wrapping his mouth around me and sucking on my juices. His lips were gentle, yet firm, and at first I thought he would just lick me clean, and we would be off to dinner. But I quickly learned that Aldo had much different plans.

  I moaned as he used his hands to separate my legs and expose me to him. He looked at my body and then up to me as he smiled. I wasn’t sure what my naked exposed body did for him, but it seemed to please him very much.

  Quickly, he went back to work licking me, and I felt my body rumbling with excitement. Aldo excited me in a different way than any other man had ever done. It wasn’t like I loved him, I knew I didn’t have those kinds of feelings for Aldo. But I lusted after him. I wanted him in a way that I couldn’t even describe.

  My hand moved down to Aldo’s hair, and I grabbed it and urged him to continue on. My hips thrust against him, and I felt the pleasure he delivered to me. Without warning, Aldo slid his pinky finger into my ass. It caught me so off guard, I let go of his hair and tried to sit up a little to protest. But it wasn’t worth protesting.

  Within a minute, I had his pinky in my ass, two fingers inside of me and his thumb rubbing on my clit. All the while Aldo stood over me just watching my body as it reacted to him. I couldn’t help moaning and thrusting against him; it all felt so good and overwhelmed me.

  I felt so out of control, and I loved it. I knew I shouldn’t have liked it so damn much, but I did. Aldo was addicting, being with him made me want to be with him more. I closed my eyes and let go of my inhibitions as he brought my body as close to explosion as he could without actually letting me cum.

  “Tell me something,” Aldo said in a firm yet calming voice. “Did Theo tell you to go out with me?”

  I felt my body panic as I tried to think of the best response. I wasn’t thinking of the truth at all, instead, I tried to think of what would help get Theo out of trouble and keep Aldo liking him.

  “Today? Or the first date?” I asked as Aldo continued to work on me with his fingers.

  It was hard to concentrate with all the pleasure he was giving me, but I closed my eyes and thought of what I should say in response.

  “Both.”

  “On the first day, he didn’t really say anything. I asked if he minded that I was going out with you, and he said no. But I didn’t tell him I was going out with you today.”

  It was the truth. I hadn’t talked with Theo since Aldo called and said he was coming to pick me up. I wasn’t lying at all. Aldo had only given me an hour to get ready before he picked me up at the shelter, I spent the whole time getting ready and didn’t call and tell Theo a thing.

  “So he doesn’t know you’re here with me?” Also asked, seeming delighted at the news.

  “No.”

  “Where does he think you are?”

  “I don’t know. We don’t really know each other all that well. I just met him a few days ago.”

  “Do you like him?”

  “That seems like a trick question since you currently have your fingers inside my body,” I said with a smile as I looked at Aldo.

  “It’s not a trick. Do you like him?”

  “Yes, he’s very nice.”

  “Do you like me?” Aldo asked as he stood over me with my legs on his shoulders and his fingers inside of me.

  “I think that is sort of obvious given my current position,” I teased.

  “So you like him, but you’re here with me. Why is that?” Aldo seemed really suspicious of me, and I felt extremely exposed at the moment.

  “I’ve only known the two of you a couple of days. I don’t think that’s enough time to make a decision on whether; I’d like to get to know either of you more or not. All I know is I like being here with you right now. Is that alright?”

  “Yes.”

  Aldo, seemed satisfied and quickly started to work his fingers inside of me again. I felt his urging to make me explode and couldn’t stop myself as I finally gave in to the delicious feeling of his fingers fucking me.

  “Oh, my fucking God,” I screamed out as my body twisted and writhed with orgasm.

  He liked to watch; I could see that right away as I opened my eyes for a moment and looked at him standing over me. It was turning him on to watch what he did to my body. I had to wonder if he liked watching more than he liked fucking.

  I was wrapped up in the moment and shouldn’t have said what I did.

  “Maybe we should find the bedroom,” I said as my body continued to jolt with orgasm.

  “You need your nourishment now. Let’s go eat,” he said definitively.

  He grabbed a towel off the counter and slid it up my thighs as he wiped my cum off of me. Then he gently slid my panties back up my legs and helped me down off the counter. He was quite the gentleman for a guy who just made me cum all over some stranger’s counter.

  I wrapped my arm around his muscular arm and followed his lead out of the condo and to the elevator. This time, the sexual tension was much less, and I was exhausted. But I felt safe wrapped up in his arm and leaning against him. There was just something about Aldo that made me feel undeniably safe. I didn’t have uncertainty; I knew damn well that Aldo had the ability to keep me safe no matter what was going on outside the doors of the building.

  “Perhaps you should forget about Theo all together, and instead just come be with me,” Aldo said nonchalantly as we made it outside.

  “Um, how would your wife feel about that?” I teased.

  “She would love to have another woman live with us. And I already know that she likes you.”

  “Are you serious?” I asked in surprise. “You think she would be fine with you just deciding to take me home with you?”

  Aldo laughed a bit at what I assumed was my naivety in regards to his home life. I just couldn’t imagine that his wife was really okay with all of this. Certainly, after what we had just done, his wife wouldn’t be all that excited about having me in his home. I just couldn’t fathom a woman being alright with sharing her man like that.

  “Instead of dinner with Briggs alone, let’s invite my wife to join us, and you can see for yourself.”

  “What? No. I don’t think that’s a good idea at all,” I protested.

  But the idea seemed to excite Aldo quite a bit, and before I could stop him, he was on the phone to his wife. My eyes must have been twice their size as I looked at him while he talked to her. I just couldn’t even imagine what kind of woman was confident enough in her own self to be alright with her husband calling her while he was with another woman.

  “Hi darling, I’m with Abigail, and she is so delightful. Would you mind joining us for dinner? We are meeting up with Briggs,” Aldo said into the phone. “Oh, yes, I just finished watching her orgasm. You would love her.”

  “What? No don’t tell her that. Oh, my God,” I said, covering my eyes.

  “Do you want to talk to her?” Aldo said as he handed the phone to me.

  “No, absolutely no. Oh, God,” I said as he put the phone in my hand. “Hello,” I said with as mu
ch hesitation as I have ever said the word in my entire life.

  “Hi Abigail, it’s nice to talk to you. Would you mind if I came to dinner with you all. I don’t want to spoil your evening.”

  “Um, it’s fine.”

  “Great, I’ll see you in a bit. I can’t wait to talk with you more,” Aldo’s wife said before she hung up.

  “Um, she’s coming to dinner,” I said with my eyes wide as I looked at Aldo. “I feel like I’m going to pass out.”

  We were on the street corner, and I really did feel like I could pass out. It was impossible to imagine how chipper and nice she was. I didn’t know what was going on, but I certainly wasn’t prepared to deal with it. My life felt like it was spinning all over the place, and I couldn’t get control over it at all.

  “You’re okay, let’s grab some water and sit down. Or do you think you can make it to the restaurant?”

  Aldo had his arm around my back and was supporting me as I held onto him. My legs were weak from a combination of the events that had gone on in the apartment and the sheer shock of what I had just heard on the phone.

  “This is wild,” I said under my breath.

  “You know what? I think I’ve got another wild idea that might just make you pass out,” Aldo said as he sat me down on a bench nearby.

  “What?” I asked, almost afraid to hear what he had to say.

  “It’s a surprise darling,” Aldo said, taking just enough steps away from me so I couldn’t hear who he was calling.

  I wasn’t cut out for this kind of stuff. Sure, I didn’t mind a little fun every now and then, but I couldn’t keep up with Aldo’s lifestyle, that was for sure. He was exhausting. I didn’t know how he managed all his businesses, his women and still had energy to pick up new women. I decided that he must do drugs or something to keep his energy up at that high a level. Or maybe he was one of those super fit vitamin freaks. He did have muscles for days. Perhaps he took a lot of those natural energy supplements that made it possible for him to never need sleep.

  My eyes were fixated on Aldo’s lips as I tried to figure out who he was talking to. But there was no use, so I finally just gave up and pulled my own phone out of my purse to see what I had missed.

  Of course, I had missed calls from both Isabella and Theo. There was also a voice message from Theo, which I couldn’t wait to hear so I dialed in and listened to it right away.

  “Abby, you don’t need to go out with Aldo. I’m sorry, it was stupid for me to ask that of you. He’s dangerous, you shouldn’t be around him. If you get this before your date, call me. If you get this after your date, still call me. I’m sorry for being such a weird jerk.”

  I laughed at his message. I didn’t think he was a weird jerk at all. I also didn’t mind being out with Aldo. Despite still not knowing if he was going to pay me or not, I liked being around him. That probably said a lot about the weird sort of jerk that I was.

  “Recovered? Ready to eat?” Aldo asked as he grabbed me by the hands and pulled me up.

  “Starving.”

  “Great, this is going to be one fantastic dinner.” Aldo had a mischievous look in his eyes that I really didn’t know what to do with. Dinner was certainly going to be one crazy night. “How much did you say you needed to help your sisters out?” Aldo asked.

  It was weird that he was bringing up my family at such a moment, but I was inclined to be honest with him.

  “It’s a lot of money. I think it’s too much. I’m just going to have to move them into an apartment or something.”

  “How much?”

  “It’s four hundred thousand dollars for everything. The back mortgage, taxes, and our family’s business. But they are going to sell the business off as soon as they can get hold of it so they will be able to pay a lot of it back.”

  “Deal.”

  “What? Wait, what do you mean?” I asked.

  “You go along with my plans for dinner, and I’ll give you the four hundred thousand that you need.”

  “What? No. That’s too much; I can’t take that from you. I don’t accept handouts.”

  “I thought you might say that. So I’m making it a job. You need to convince everyone at our dinner table that you want to be with me. No matter who shows up. Even if it’s the president of the United States. You convince them that you want to be with me.”

  “But your wife is coming to dinner.”

  “I know. Convince her.”

  “And that Briggs guy.”

  “Yes, convince him.”

  “Who else is coming?” I asked.

  “It’s a surprise, it is a man. But you will have to convince him as well. One simple dinner and all your families troubles will be over. Well then of course I’ll also want you to come home with my wife and I and live with us.”

  “Live with you?”

  “Yes, I think my wife will agree that you will make a great addition.”

  “What about Theo?” I asked.

  “If you tell him I’ve made you this offer, I will make sure he is turned into the police and he spends years and years behind bars. Theo wouldn’t bat his eye at this kind of money. Don’t put a man you hardly know ahead of your own family’s stability.”

  “Can I think about it?”

  “What is there to think about? It is your sisters, your blood. Don’t you want to protect them?”

  Chapter 24

  THEO

  “Dinner? Like right now?” I asked when Aldo said he wanted me to come and meet him.

  It was odd. Aldo seemed to be pretty pissed off at me, and I didn’t think he wanted to have a meal with me anytime soon. Certainly, there had to be something else going on. I thought that Abby was still with him, but he didn’t say on the phone. He simply told me to come have dinner with him. So of course, I obliged and got my ass ready and headed down to the restaurant.

  Perhaps something had happened between him and Abby and she had convinced him to let me and her be together. Or maybe it was something else entirely; I just couldn’t decide what to make of it all.

  I wanted to get things settled between Aldo and me, and I wanted him to be done with Abby. I couldn’t stand the idea of her going out with him any longer and was happy to meet with him over dinner and discuss things.

  Over the years, Aldo and I had gotten to know each other very well, and he had never threatened to kill me before. Although I knew he was obviously a very dangerous person, he and I had always been on the same side, and I wanted to make things right with him again.

  There were so many years of history between the two of us that I just couldn’t imagine things going so horribly wrong all over one girl. Aldo could have his pick of any woman that he wanted and apparently his wife was even alright with that sort of thing; there was no reason for him to pick Abby. She didn’t love him and didn’t want to be with him, I knew that. Over dinner, I would simply explain the situation to him and ask him nicely to stop going out with her and let me date her myself. Surely our ten years of friendship was enough that he would be willing to do that for me.

  I grabbed my things and made it to the small restaurant that Aldo had suggested. I had been to Rubio’s once before, and it struck me as a weird place. They had food from America, Italy, and France; it was like they couldn’t decide who they really wanted to be.

  When I walked into the restaurant, I was looking for Aldo, but I couldn’t find him at all. I looked around the front of the restaurant and even glanced into the back, but he was nowhere to be found. For a brief moment, I thought it had been some sort of trick to get me out of the house, but then I decided I was being a little paranoid.

  “Is Aldo Gioacchino here?” I asked like the woman at the front would know exactly who I was talking about.

  Fortunately for me, she did know who I was talking about and quickly took me through to a private room where he was. But Aldo wasn’t there alone. He had Abby and his wife with him at the table. I was more confused than ev
er. The three of them looked pretty damn comfortable together, and I got a sick feeling in my stomach.

  There had only been a few other times in my life where I truly felt like things were going wrong and my gut had warned me. But at that moment, I felt it and I wanted to turn and leave right away. The only thing that kept me there in that room was the fact that Abby was there with them, and I didn’t want to leave her there. I had no idea why Aldo wanted to have dinner with me and Abby and his wife, but I was going to stick around; no matter what my gut was telling me to do.

  “Theo, it’s so nice of you to join us,” Aldo said in an unusually pleasant tone.

  Considering the last time we had talked I pretty much got threatened with murder, I didn’t really see how he was so chipper all of a sudden now that I was there to have dinner with them.

  “Abby, would you like to have Theo sit by you?” Aldo asked.

  Abby looked at me with wide eyes and then back to Aldo as she obviously was trying to figure out what she should say. She looked lost as she sat there, and I wanted to just grab her and pull her out of the restaurant. Nothing about the situation seemed good, and I felt like something bad was about to happen. I felt the feeling so strongly in my gut that I could hardly think about anything else except getting Abby and leaving that restaurant as fast as possible.

  “Sure,” she finally answered.

  So I took a seat to the right of Abby and Aldo, and his wife sat on the other side of them. There was an empty chair on my right, and I assumed that it was for Briggs when he decided to arrive. But Briggs was notoriously late for things, so I didn’t expect he would be coming anytime soon.

  “Theo, it’s so nice to see you again,” Nicole, Aldo’s wife said as I sat down.

  “You too Nicole. How’s the lawyer world treating you?”

  “It’s very busy, but I love it. Thank you for asking.”

  Nicole was pretty uptight, and it was weird to me that things worked out between her and Aldo. But I figured every couple had their own weird things, and whatever happened in their private life seemed to work for them just fine.