Uncover (Club V Book 3)

by Gisele St. Claire

  “Wow, I bet that is so interesting,” Tiff said. “I bet you have some stories to share.”

  “We certainly do,” Todd replied. His eyes twinkled as he smiled. I could not let these two move in. I would be hopeless. I would probably keep forgetting to move. In fact, I would win the record for the longest mannequin challenge while I ogled these two all day.

  I managed to conduct myself for the rest of the interview in what I hoped was a professional manner. Then I showed them around and thanked them for coming.

  “I have a few applicants to consider, but I will let you know later this evening,” I told them. It was very hard to not jump up and down and ask them when they could both move in.

  “Not a problem,” Chase said. “We will leave you to the rest of your…strawberry cordial…”

  I followed his gaze to the kitchen counter top where the opened bottle of wine was on clear display.

  I looked back at Chase and he smirked. He was a cheeky one, this guy. I liked him already.

  “Strawberry cordial is the best,” I replied. Then I showed them out of the door.

  “Oh my fucking God, they were scrumilicious.” I shrieked. “I can’t live with them.”

  “Why not?” Tiff’s face had hardened into a frown.

  “I mean how am I going to live with them. I’ll be permanently in my room with my rabbit.” I exclaimed.

  “They met at work. I wonder if they met behind the camera or in front of it?” Kayla asked.

  “You mean they might do the porn?” For the bazillionth time that day my jaw hung open, I was going to need a physician for jaw spasms if I carried on.

  “Could have started that way. You will have to ask them once they live here.” She added. “You need to phone them, like now, before they look anywhere else. They are sexy as fuck and they can help teach you sex by showing you their movies. They might even let you visit the set and get some hands-on experience.” Kayla chuckeled wickedly.

  I walked back into the kitchen and drank some more red wine. “I did it. I fucking did it.” I told the girls. “I got two hot as fuck male roommates. Now get the pizza ordered. We need to celebrate.”

  Chapter Two

  Haley

  I was amazed at how fast we all settled into the new arrangement. The guys worked long hours and often called to see if I wanted takeout. They were going to make me fat. I already had an ass larger than Kim Kardashian’s. If they did not stop feeding me I was gonna be as wide as I was tall, being as I was only a little over five feet. Chase was a talker. I reckoned I knew his whole life story by now and that of Todd too as Chase had no filter and just said everything he thought. He was so cheeky with it though. His blue eyes sparkled when he said something risque. Todd was not quiet either, though he struggled to get a word in edge-ways with Chase. Often he rolled his eyes at me and shook his head. It was nice then on times like tonight when Todd was home and Chase still working and I got to talk with him a little more.

  “So, tell me more about how you started GoDown Films,” I asked him while trying to capture noodles with chopsticks. Chase had given a very speedy version of events, seeing as he ran at the mouth, but I wanted to know the longer, with all of the details, version.

  “Simple really. I was working as an attorney and had to assist a company with the legal side of getting their business started. I saw how the big players in the porn world did not take kindly to anyone muscling in on that territory. Came across a few guys I would rather keep on my good side. I learned it could be pretty lucrative as long as you didn’t overstep. So, I set my own small business up, that didn’t worry any of the big players. Soon I did not need to be an attorney any more, which was twisting my balls. I had met Chase via the other company, he was a cameraman. We had had drinks a few times and hit it off, both of us wanting to make money, and he left the other fledgling business and joined in my enterprise. We never looked back. By keeping it small, we are left to get on with it.”

  “God, it sounds dangerous, like the mob or something.”

  “It is like any business, you have competition. With the adult entertainment industry, you can imagine, some of the bigger players send in the heavies if you are taking money or models away from them. We have learned how to work alongside them, we are no threat and they leave us alone. We reckon we will only need to work for about another five years and we should be financially set. Then we are done. It will be time to look around for the perfect woman and do the whole having kids bit.”

  “Wow, sounds like you have it all worked out,” I said, wishing my own life had any hint of a happy future in it.

  “It is all still dreams at the moment, Haley. Gotta have dreams.”

  “I have nightmares instead,” I told him.

  “How so? You are a beautiful woman. How come there is no Mr. Haley?” Todd’s eyes fixed on me with that dark, brooding stare and I kinda lost my train of thought for a second.

  “I don’t have any luck with men. Tiff and Kayla are trying to help me. I can’t really say why, because it is embarrassing.”

  “I wouldn’t say anything, Haley. I know we have only been roomies for a couple of months but you can talk to me.”

  I sighed. “I suck at sex.”

  Todd almost choked on a noodle.

  “Why on earth would you think that?”

  “I have been told several times. Even Kayla and Tiffany seem to have given up on me as I can’t get the hang of practicing blow jobs on bananas. I hate bananas.”

  I realize Todd is almost puce in the face and I can’t work out if that is because of my declaration or because of his almost choking. I get up and get him a glass of water which is gratefully received.

  “Sorry,” I tell him. “I tend to overshare.”

  “No, I asked. I just was not expecting you to say that.”

  “Well, Tiff wondered whether you might let me watch filming sometime so I can get an idea, but I’ll be honest I have watched pornos and I do not know how the women bobs up and down like that.”

  “You can’t learn from porn, it’s unrealistic. We have all sorts of tricks of the trade and most people do not conduct their sex lives like that.”

  “You say that but Kayla lives in a polyamorous relationship and Tiffany had threesomes with her husband and a man who owns a sex club.”

  “Did someone say sex club?” Chase walks through the door. “Where, and when are we going.”

  “You need a beer, buddy?” Todd asked. “Even you are going to be rendered speechless by what Haley has to tell you.”

  Chase threw his jacket on the floor in the center of the room, walked over to the fridge where he grabbed a beer, and with the bottle opened he sprawled across the couch with his feet up.

  “Tell me everything.” He said. I swear the guy should work for the National Enquirer.

  “I have only heard a shortened version of the ‘my roommates like threesomes,’” Todd added. “Seriously, I figure we could make a movie about innocent Haley, the innocent roommate.”

  “Screw you,” I said and flounced into the kitchen area where I grabbed a bottle of wine.

  “You drove her to strawberry cordial, dude,” Chase yelled.

  I gave him the finger.

  “Come on, tell Chase everything.” He patted the couch in front of him, indicating a space near his chest. I walked over and thought ‘what the hell’ and sat down, resting my back against his midriff. His body heat soaked into my skin, I had an urge to snuggle.

  “Which bit do you want to know? The I’m hopeless at sex or the gossip about my ex-roommates romantic lives?”

  “Both, but start with the roommates. So, they didn’t just leave because they fell in love?”

  “Well, they did, but they both had awesome, amazing sexcapades.”

  “Aww, honey. You sound jealous?” Chase sat up and pulled me under his arm. I thought I would die of lust as his toned arm wrapped around me and he pulled my head under his chin, stroking my hair. “You will get laid sweetheart, it
will happen. No need to be embarrassed about still being a virgin.”

  I knocked his arm off me. “I am not a virgin. I am just awful at sex.”

  Chase looked at me and smirked.

  “Stop tormenting her, Chase, or she will withhold the gossip.” Todd threatened.

  “Sorry, Haley.” Chase tried his hardest to make a contrite face but the smirk at the corner of his mouth remained.

  “Do you want to know about Kayla and Tiffany?” I asked.

  “Totally, yes,” Chase answered.

  “Then give your mouth a break and your ears a turn.”

  Todd laughed, a great hearty rumble erupted from his throat. “You’ve been told.” He went to get himself a beer and made himself comfortable in the chair near the couch.

  “Okay, so Tiff first. None of the girls hide anything so I am not telling you anything I shouldn’t. She works for Greens like me and one day she got an email from a mystery guy called H. It said all this stuff he wanted to do to her, you know dirty stuff. She thought it was a pervert and then she went to show a condo and the businessman was him. His name’s Henry Carter and he owns a sex club called Club S.

  “Club S? Yeah, we’ve been there. There’s a Club X too in New York. I might open Club O, that’s the one everyone would wanna visit.”

  Todd rolled his eyes.

  “Anyways, Brandon moved in next door and Tiffany and he fell in love but they ended up having threesomes for a while with H. Meanwhile I couldn’t land one guy.”

  Chase and Todd exchanged glances.

  “I know. You want me to carry on. Okay, so then there is Kayla who’d had a crush on her stepfather for-ev-er, except he wasn’t really sorta her stepfather because it turned out he and her mother were never together, if you get me, and then she goes to visit him and Parker is there, her mom’s new stepson and she starts a relationship with both of them. Here I am again with no one, I repeat no one, and they have both had two guys.”

  I then realize I am shouting this fact out to two hot guys and clamp my mouth shut, should they think I am hinting. I kinda hope they think I’m hinting.

  “Anyhow, Tiffany moved in with Brandon and they got married; Kayla moved in with Daniel and Parker a few months back and now I have you guys to be my new friends who have to listen to my tales of woe in the dating department.”

  “I don’t remember that being on the lease,” Todd added, with a wink.

  “Small print. So tiny ya can’t see it.” I replied.

  “So, onto you and your ‘tales of woe’,” Chase says.

  “Okay.” I shuffle myself closer to Chase. “I have only had one full on lover and he said I was a pretty bad lover. I thought he was just being bitter when we broke up, but then when I have gone passed first base with other guys I have either had radio silence afterwards or, they tell me I can’t give blow jobs right. The guy I dated last, a fellow Realtor from Greens said I was the reason he couldn’t get it up.”

  “That’s bullshit. My dick often goes stiff in your presence, Haley.” Chase added.

  “Chase. For God’s sake.” Todd said.

  He shrugged. “It’s true. Yours does too, tell her.”

  I held my hand up. “That’s okay, Todd.” I leaned over and hugged Chase. “But thank you, Chase, for trying to help.”

  “See, now you made it happen again.”

  I looked at him horrified and moved a little further away.

  “Joking! Oh, girl you are so cute. Seriously, these guys who you have been dating. They are losers. They are making it up to cover their own failings.”

  I shook my head. “Maybe, but there is truth in it. Kayla had me demonstrate a blow job on a bottle. I was hopeless. You should have seen their faces. Complete disbelief. She told Tiffany that she had to teach me with either bananas or dildos. I chose bananas and I bought my own because you never know what is happening around their apartment.” I pulled a face.

  “So, what happened?” Chase asked.

  “I still suck at blow jobs and I now hate bananas.”

  “Oh girl, you need to get some proper practice. You can’t learn how to suck a guy off on a banana. Our man parts aren’t fruit, although my ass is kinda peachy.” Chase added.

  “She wanted to come watch a film being made.” Todd said, “to learn.”

  “We will take you to watch one sometime but that is not how you learn. Now, here take my beer bottle, show me. It can’t have been that bad.”

  I took the bottle from him and wrapped my mouth around it like Tiff had said to do, then tried to hollow out my cheeks and suck.

  “Oh my God, it’s like a puffer fish,” Chase exclaimed.

  “I told you. I suck at sucking.” I yelled. Then I stormed out of the room, slamming the door behind me.

  I sat back on my own bed, tears welling in the corner of my eyes. I had done my damnedest to be a good girl my whole life. Never did drugs, passed my exams by studying hard. I deserved to be able to have a damn good fucking. It wasn’t fair. My rabbit made me feel things my first boyfriend, Liam never had, so I knew there was more out there to experience. I just needed to do it. Maybe I would have to ask Henry for a membership to Club S. I could wear a mask and ask men if I could suck their cocks. At least if I was useless at it they would not see my face and hey, practice made perfect, right? I decided that after work that next day I would ask Tiffany if she was still in touch with Henry and to get me a membership card.

  The next morning I apologized to the guys. I hoped I hadn’t put them off as tenants by being such a girl. I grabbed a coffee in my takeout cup, stuck a slice of toast in between my teeth and headed out for Green’s. I was hoping to get a good bonus this month as there was a pair of five inch Ferragamo’s with my name on them. When you’re short like me, heels are everything and these were everything and more. They were a high heel pump with a black ankle strap and a see-through mesh body with a matching trim.

  I headed through the door of the office. Green’s was a glass-fronted building located on 7th Avenue. I said good morning to the reception staff and strolled through to my part of the large open-plan office. Deciding I needed more stimulation before I attacked the day, I went into the staff room and pressed the necessary buttons to ensure a perfect latte emerged from the expensive coffee machine in situ.

  “Morning, Haley.” I turned around to see Malcolm had just come in. Malcolm of the disastrous ‘I can’t get it up it’s your fault,’ date.

  “Malcolm,” I said tersely. I really didn’t want to speak to him.

  “Haley.” He walked in front of me so I had no choice but to look at him. He was around five feet ten, slim built, with ash-blond hair and green eyes. His eyes were nice, they looked kindly, which kinda sucked. That’s why I had said yes to a date. Shame he was an asshole.

  “Sorry, do you want to get to the coffee machine?” I grabbed my drink and backed away.

  “No.” He placed a hand on my arm. “I wanted to apologize. For when we went out. I was an idiot and not a gentleman. I was embarrassed, you know. I-I’ve never had that happen to me before. So I blamed you. It was bad form and I’m sorry. I’m also sorry it has taken me so long to come and apologize to you.”

  “It hurt me, Malcolm. I felt embarrassed too. Like I was less of a woman you know.”

  “That’s how I felt Haley, less of a man. I really am so, so sorry. Please, could I take you out again?”

  I opened my mouth to protest but he interrupted.

  “Just dinner. To a really nice restaurant. We can talk, get to know each other. Please. Let me take you out and spoil you. You deserve it. I want you to see that is not who I really am.”

  I sighed and closed my eyes for a moment. I did enjoy eating and here was a free dinner. I opened my eyes. “Okay. Dinner only. I will not be coming back to yours.”

  “Well, maybe another time we might try again, but for now, dinner. Fantastic. I will pick you up at eight?”

  I nodded and then took my coffee back out to the office. We had a large
apartment development coming up to sell soon and I needed to spend some time working on my sales pitch if I was to land it for my portfolio. I looked down at my feet and admired my Jimmy Choos. I won’t abandon you, I promised them. You just have to learn to share.

  “You are doing what? Going out with that asshole again. Over my dead body Haley Martin.”

  I had never seen Chase angry before but he looked like he was going to punch a wall. “Todd.” He shouted down the corridor. “Get out here now.”

  Todd emerged from his room out into the hallway, rubbing his eyes. “I was having a nap. What’s going on?”

  “Haley, here, has decided to go on another date with Floppy dick.”

  “His name is Malcolm.”

  “I can’t think of anything that goes with an M, all right? So I have named his penis instead.”

  “You named another man’s penis?”

  “Yes, and it is not the first time. Is it Todd?”

  Todd shook his head, “It really isn’t.”

  “Cancel and we will take you out instead,” Todd said, looking at Chase for his approval.

  “Yes, let us take you out. We are much more fun.” Chase agreed.

  “Thanks, guys, but it is just dinner. He is taking me out because he wants to say sorry for what happened that’s all. It is just to clear the air. I am going, because it has made work awkward, so I need to do this, okay?”

  “I am not happy,” Chase replied. “Do not give him anything. Not any tongue, or a hand job. Nothing.”

  “Yes, all right. I won’t anyway in case I gave him another reason to tell me I was hopeless in bed.”

  “Go on your date, lady. Sorry, on your dinner. We are not even calling this a date, and then straight home. We’ll be having a chat tomorrow about this whole,” he flamboyantly wafted his hand all the way down the front of me, but did an extra couple of circles near my pussy, “situation.”

  I sighed. “Fine, but right now I am going to get ready for my dinner.” I left them in the corridor and returned to my room. They were more trouble and more dramatic than the girls.