Frenemies With Benefits (Geek To Chic Book 2)

by Brinks, Nikki

  “Derek!” Roni giggled and ran for him. He barely had time to catch her as she wrapped herself around him. Of course, she still managed to knock him to the floor. She grabbed his face and kissed him.

  “Yuck! Get a room!” C called.

  Standing with Roni in his arms. “Great idea!” Derek winked at her. “You ready to go baby?” He crooned at Roni. Roni nodded happily. “Bye everyone.” Derek carried Roni out of Izzy’s apartment.

  “It is almost gross how in love those two are.” Gracey said in a tone that showed how annoying she found the love birds.

  The guys all agreed with her and found a space to settle in.

  “I better head off too. I have to grab Netty before Collin spoils her too much.” C beamed.

  “I’ll walk you to your car.” Rocco flatly said. After C hugged them all goodbye they left.

  Leaving only Alex, Gavin, Phin, Gracey, Jemma and herself. They chit chatted and joked with each other. “Any one need a drink or anything?” Izzy asked. Everyone put in a drink order.

  Izzy nodded and headed to the kitchen again. As she opened the fridge, she felt a hard body pressed against her back. The smell of Alex’s cologne consumed her senses. He pulled her into his body, wrapping his strong arms around her waist. Alex kissed her neck and nibbled her ear. She barely held in the moan.

  Turning in his arms, they captured each other’s lips. She grasped his hair and pulled him closer just as a loud laugh and a, “Fuck you!” came from the living room. Snapping Izzy back into reality. She quickly pushed him away from herself.

  “Don’t, not now.” She scolded him.

  “I may have started it but you’re the one who kissed me.” Alex said smugly, crossing his arms over his chest as he leaned against the counter. “I came in to help you with drinks, and couldn’t resist a little taste.”

  “We get caught this is over. You know that right?”

  “That wasn’t one of the rules.”

  Placing her hands on her hips, she looked up at him. Wiggling her finger she stated, “It is now.” With a frustrated huff, Izzy grabbed the drinks. Handing a few to Alex to carry, she headed out to the living room.

  “No rewriting the deal after it has been agreed to, Demon Pixie.” He whispered in husky tone.

  Once she had set down the drinks, Alex casually pinched her ass. She stiffened but kept herself from screeching. “Would you excuse us?” Reaching up on her tip toes, Izzy grabbed Alex’s ear as though he was a child in trouble, dragging him along behind her.

  “Ouch, ouch that hurts.” Alex whined.

  Their groups of friends only cheered her on and went back to annihilating each other on the game. Once she had dragged him to the kitchen again, she laid into him. “What the fuck, Alex? Don’t grab my ass in front of everyone!”

  “I didn’t grab your ass. I pinched your ass. Big difference.”

  Lust was not the emotion she was feeling toward Alex at the moment. Anger, frustration, murderous, were all better descriptions of her current state of mind. They stood in her kitchen. Her glaring at him. Him staring at her with pure amusement.

  While they were having a stare off, their friends appeared at the entrance to her kitchen. “We’re heading out.” Gracey announced.

  “Jemma, you’re not driving are you?” Izzy asked using her mother voice.

  “Gavin is going to give me a ride home.” She beamed, leaning into the man.

  “Don’t worry Izzy, I’ll get her home safe and sound.” Gavin assured her with a laugh and an arm around her friend’s waist.

  They waved goodbye and their friends were gone. Leaving her alone with Alex. As soon as the door had closed she turned to him to call him every name in the book, and a few new ones. Before she could call him an asshole, he pushed her up against the door and roughly kissed her. Her brain went from anger to lust in zero point three seconds flat.

  Breaking the kiss, he took a step back from her. He pulled her shirt over her head, tossing it to the floor. “How about instead of yelling at me, I get you to yell my name? Over and over again.” He challenged, running his hands over her bare stomach. His normally emerald green eyes, black with desire.

  Talking was over rated, Izzy decided. She pushed past him and headed to her bedroom. Undoing the hooks of her bra, she threw the garment over her shoulder. As she walked she unbuttoned her jeans, pausing to shimmy out of them.

  An appreciative groan echoed from behind her. She smiled to herself as she quickened her pace to her bedroom now that she heard his footsteps reverberated down the hall. Before she made it to her bed, he engulfed her in his arms. “Baby, had I known you were wearing that tiny scrap of a hot pink thong under your tight jeans, I never would have let you stop what we started in the kitchen. Our friends be damned.” Alex whispered in her ear as he slid his thumbs into the sides of her thong. He slid the tiny thong from her body as he dropped to his knees. She carefully stepped out of them when the thong dropped to her feet. “Spread your legs for me.”

  Without hesitation, she opened her stance for him. She ran her finger nails gently along his scalp. Another groan escaped from Alex. He leaned his head back in her cradling hands. Alex closed his eyes as her finger nails dug deeper into his scalp. Izzy enjoyed seeing him totally consumed by the same lust that consumed her. His control dropped completely, his eyes snapped open, briefly catching her own before he ran his tongue along the seam of her sex.

  Kneeling in front of her holding her slim thighs in his hands, Alex loved her with his mouth. He took his time bringing her over the edge. Licking her lightly at first, avoiding her clit completely. She kept her hands in his hair as he worked her over. The room was quiet except for her low moans. Alex seized his sensual assault on her and rose to his feet. Picking her up in his arms he turned and lay down on the bed, so she was straddling him.

  Without a word, he grabbed a condom and tore into the silver foil packet. Once they were protected, he slid into. Izzy’s body naturally knew what to do she rocked against him and slowly started to move up and down. Within a few strokes, Izzy was moaning and panting. Alex must have been just as close. He planted his feet on her bed and began thrusting into her from below with powerful deep strokes.

  “Alex, Alex, keep going.” She chanted just before she saw stars and fell into oblivion.

  She fell on his chest exhausted. He thrust into her harder, his length growing more just before he moaned her name and twitched beneath her. When his orgasm subsided, he stroked her back softly. Gently he lifted her chin, stealing a soft kiss. She looked into his eyes to see a hint of playfulness. “I told you I would get you to scream my name.”

  Chapter Eleven

  Monday’s always sucked. They were filled with boring meeting and cranky employees. Sitting in his fourth meeting of the day, Alex was about to face plant into the oak conference table fast asleep, if Gavin didn’t move on. The man had been drowning on and on about how they needed to hire another top notch programmer. They had all agreed with him twenty minutes ago, but since he had an entire presentation on the reasons why they needed the new programmer, he had to finish the damn presentation.

  “Gavin, dude! We agree, go ahead and hire whoever the fuck you want, just please shut the fuck up and let us move on!” Phin growled, throwing his hands up in frustration.

  Phin had been in a mood all day, especially toward Gavin. Alex didn’t even want to know what the hell all of that was about. Those two were thicker than thieves most of time, however either something happened over the weekend between the two or Phin was using Gavin as an outlet for some kind of built up frustration.

  Glaring at Phin, Gavin said nothing. He simply nodded and took his seat. “Well I don’t know what the fuck crawled up your butt this afternoon, but tone it down.” Collin admonished Phin. “Anything else on the agenda? Or can we all go get some real work done?” He looked at his watch for the fifth time. He must have to pick up Netty, Alex thought.

  “Wait we have one more piece of business. However, I nee
d Roni and Jemma to step out of the meeting.” Derek directed.

  “What? No! We want to hear whatever this super-secret boy society has to say!” Roni protested as she crossed her arms over her chest.

  Chuckling a little, Derek looked at Roni. “This isn’t some super-secret boy society meeting, this is business. And you two don’t have the security clearance to hear this part.”

  Huffing, Roni grabbed her things and stormed out. Jemma was more polite and simply shook her head with a knowing smile on her face and left without a word.

  “Security clearance?” Alex questioned, raising an eyebrow.

  Derek shrugged. “I knew she wouldn’t fight that. I am sure she will figure out it was bullshit but it bought me time.” Derek reached into his computer bag and produced a large manila envelope, slapping it dramatically on the table. “I didn’t think she would approve of us betting on when each of you would give up the playboy lifestyle.” Derek explained, pointing to each one of them, with a smile on his face. Seeing Collin’s confused face, Derek went on to tell Collin about the bets he had made with all of them.

  “I’m in.” Collin said as he leaned back in his chair, his left ankle crossed over his right knee. He nodded his chin toward the envelope in front of Derek. “Does that have all your ridiculous guesses in it on who we are all going to find our happily ever after with?”

  Derek smiled larger. “We’ll see how ridiculous my guesses are as each of you fall. The only one that took me any time was Rocco. The rest of you I had written out in less than five minutes. I give it no more than two months before the first of you is opening your envelope. I will hand them to the lawyers today for safe keeping. Of course I don’t plan to tell them what the envelope contains. They would think I had finally lost my genius mind.”

  Part of him believed his friend was simply messing with all of them and had put a random girl’s name, or maybe even a guy’s name just to be funny, in each envelope. Though he never knew his friend to be carefree enough to make a bet he wasn’t one hundred percent sure he could win. Starring at the ominous envelope, Alex wondered if his held Izzy’s name.

  Not that it mattered if it was Izzy’s name since he would never be opening that envelope, since she was bound and determined to keep the benefits portion of their relationship a deep dark secret. Fuck, I’m Izzy’s dirty little secret. Alex grinned a little even though the thought also bothered him, immensely.

  The guys all started playing the ‘who was going to be first’ game and Alex tuned out, thinking of what he was going to do to the little pixie who was warming his bed nightly when he saw her.

  ~*~*~*~

  Walking off the elevator, Izzy made her way to Roni’s office. She saw her and Jemma kicked back obviously laughing at something, or more like someone. “Well, I see the corporate world is treating both of you very poorly.”

  “What are you doing here?” Jemma asked between laughs.

  “Parent-teacher conferences were today and I don’t have parents on the schedule for the rest of the day so I thought I would pop by and see if you girls wanted to go to lunch. What are you two giggling about and were are the guys.” She leaned in a little and whispered, “Did you finally have enough of all of the testosterone and kill them off? Do I need to help you hide the bodies?”

  The three of them laughed. “You know we would never deprive you of killing Alex off with your own to hands.” Roni beamed.

  “I would hope not, I would never have forgiven you. I have some very creative ways thought out on how I am going to finally end him. Now, why are you two in estrogen exile?”

  “Oh, Derek had some super-secret boy thing he wanted to talk to the guys about and had the two of us leave the meeting using the lame ass excuse that we didn’t have the security-clearance to hear it. If by security clearance he meant penis, then he was right. I swear those sticks between their legs makes them stupid. Idiots!” Roni’s voice was both amused and pissed off. She never had liked being kept out of a secret.

  Jemma and Izzy took one look at each other and burst out laughing. “You’re just mad because you are not in on whatever they have going on. For all you know they are whipping them out for their annual measurement contest. No woman wants to see that.” Izzy joked.

  “Who’s whipping what out?” Phin’s voice came from behind them.

  All three women looked right at his crotch. “He must have lost the first round.” Jemma piped in, when he walked in. Another round of laughter erupted in Roni’s small office.

  Phin looked around at the three women, all of whom were crying they were laughing so hard. He shook his head and left. Muttering something about crazy women under his breath he closed the door behind himself.

  Composing herself at last, Roni grabbed her purse from her drawer. “Let’s get out of here before the rest of the dick swinging brigade comes looking for us.”

  “Let me sneak back to my office and grab my purse and we’ll go.” Jemma playfully whispered.

  Roni grabbed her by the arm before she made it out of the office door. “Sorry, we can’t risk it. I’ll pay.” Her voice and face completely serious, as though lunch was some covert military operation.

  “Roni, I have to let my boss know I left even if it is just an IM. Plus they are still in the conference room, trying to declare a winner.” Jemma smirked. She opened the door to the office and came face to face with not one, not two but all six of the guys. “Busted. Phin must have whined that we were laughing at him.”

  “Doesn’t matter what the whiny baby told them, we have our own meeting to get to that they don’t have security clearance for.” Roni huffed and pushed the girls out her office door.

  “Told you she would be pissed.” Alex muttered to Derek. “Looks like someone will be sleeping on the couch.”

  “My house has a few guest rooms you know.” Derek huffed in response.

  “Nope, Roni looks like the type to make you sleep on the couch no matter how many rooms you have just to make sure you got the point.” Alex pointed out, patting Derek on the back.

  The girls didn’t even stop to acknowledge the very true statement. They simply headed for the elevators. Of course they were trailed by six of the most gorgeous men to ever walk on the planet. Keeping her eyes straight ahead, Izzy watched as Derek whispered something into Roni’s ear, something that made her lips twitch. Roni managed to keep a straight face though, to Izzy’s amazement.

  She could feel Alex’s eyes on her. She knew without having to look that he was right behind her. His hot breath close to her ear sent shiver of anticipation through her body. “By the way, I will whip it out for you anytime to measure. I am sure I can beat anyone in your past.” Alex whispered in her ear.

  Without muttering a word, Izzy simply knocked him in the ribs with her elbow causing him to expel a loud puff of air. Once he regained his breath, instead of backing off from her, like she had hoped, he pinched her ass. Which of course caused her to making a surprised squeaking noise, which caused everyone around them to turn and look at the two of them. Bright red with embarrassment and anger, Izzy turned around, smiled brightly at him, his face fell as though he knew she was about to do harm to him right before she planted the three inch heel into his foot as hard as she could.

  “Mother fucker!” Alex screamed out as he fell to the floor grabbing his injured foot. “Woman are just mean.” He added with a whine.

  Crossing her arms and tapping her foot, she looked down at her victim. “If you would learn to keep your hands to yourself I wouldn’t have to punish you.”

  Deep laughter echoed around her, she turned around to see Rocco of all people laughing uncontrollably. The man with no personality seemed to find their argument very amusing. “Sounds like you two are into some very kinky shit. Next time bro, you better ask Mistress Izzy for permission to touch her or she will paddle your ass bright red.”

  Her eyes went huge and her jaw dropped. Was he making a dirty joke at her expense? Rather than back down she went along with hi
s joke. “Oh Rocco, I would never take Alex on as one of my sex slaves. He is simply to undisciplined, I would waste all of our play time beating his ass. You on the other hand look like a man who would take direction well, want to come play in my dungeon? I promise not to leave any permanent marks.” She said in a serious tone while looking him up and down.

  That seemed to shut up all of the boys. They all studied her, as if trying to figure out if she was serious or not. Deciding it was a good time to leave the boys, she linked her arms in Roni and Jemma’s and pulled them into the now waiting elevator. As soon as the doors closed, Roni turned to her, “Do you know what kind of mental images you just left them with? Talk about taking the whole dirty school teacher thing to a new level in their minds. And the worst part is that Derek is going to have all kinds of questions for me later.” Roni admonished, though her lips twitched a little.

  Once the elevator came to a stop on the first floor, they started to step out only to be stopped by Mama Porter. “Girls!” She called out gleefully before pulling all three of them into a group hug of sorts. ‘Where are you three off to?”

  “Lunch Mama Porter, the boys were having some super-secret testosterone only meeting so we decided to have our own version. Would you like to join us?” Roni politely asked.

  “Good thing my Caroline isn’t here today if they are have a boys only meeting. She always hated when they would put up a ‘no girls allowed’ sign on the tree house door. Poor thing would come inside crying.” Smiling at the memory briefly before she continued. “You girls go on ahead to your lunch and have a good time. I came to have lunch with Mrs. Frostberry, the woman deserves a good lunch after having to deal with that son of mine every day, plus her an I have some gossiping to catch up on. Oh but since your all here, why don’t you all come over for dinner tonight? I will invite all the boys too and Gracey and Caroline. Say 7:00? Oh George will be so excited to have all you kids over.” The elevator doors slid open in perfect time for Mama Porter to leave them before they could even answer.