by Alli Sims
A warm shiver ran down my spine as I thought about his words.
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When the part finally arrived I was ready to go. I’d been walking around the room for two hours making sure everything looked just right. Why hadn’t they bothered to hire a party planner? I wasn’t sure myself.
“Jess!” Hank made his way towards me. Than handsome owner of the matchmaking services. I honestly thought most of the girls joined up so they could try to get set up with him. Of course he would never get into a relationship, but everyone who worked here knew that he loved his job. “It looks wonderful.” He touched my arm gently as he looked around the room. “As usual of course.”
“Thanks.”
I’d been ignoring what I thought were his advances for months now, of course he hadn’t actually come out and made a move since we only ever saw each other during work hours, and of course office fraternization was definitely not allowed. Which was almost a shame, Hank was gorgeous, and rich and funny. Every girl in their right mind would want to date him.
“I’m sure the event tonight will be wonderful! Have you got your matches picked out for the night, or do you still have work to do?”
“I’ve got everything sorted out.”
“That’s my girl!” and with that he walked away. Leaving me half an hour to make sure everything was alright, and change into an outfit for the night.
As I stared down at the five outfits I kept around my office I couldn’t help the smile that spread across my face as I thought about Jason’s application. I reached for the skirt, remembering that he’d said he liked them. I knew it was silly, after all he’d be out chatting with the ladies all night but I the urge to tease overwhelmed me.
I slipped my stocking on, and then pulled the knee length skirt up to my hips. It paired well with a blue silk top and my long blonde hair stood out nicely against it. I applied a smoky eye, with some gloss and then slipped into a pair of black heels before reaching for the clutch I always used for these kinds of events. All my index cards fit nicely in there, along with my cell phone and everything else I would need for the night. I glanced at the clock.
I had 5 minutes to get to the main room and make sure everything was perfect. Thankfully the walk wasn’t too far, I hurried.
“Jess, there you are!” Hayley gave me a smile. “So, you have a partner for my client? The one… with the fake nose.” She whispered the last bit.
“Yes. He’s a mage.”
Her eyes widened a little. “A mage? Those are hard to pair… you’re sure they will get along well?”
No. “Yes.” I forced a smile. Mages were normally picky, and most other paranormal didn’t want to be with them, after all you never knew if a mage was fucking with you in some way or not. Maybe that’s why I was acting like that when I met with him. He was probably pulling a spell on me.
“He’s not… controlling, is he?”
“He didn’t say he was.” What she meant was that her client was a werecat, and we couldn’t risk having a mage who wanted to control her. I forced a smile over my lips. “Anyways, I’ve got a couple other girls lined up for him to meet, so if it doesn’t sound good to your client don’t worry about it.”
“Alright.” I glanced down at my watch. “Alright everyone!” I called. “Let’s open the door and get started!”
I watched as two people made their way over to the door and opened it. My heart skipped a beat as his eyes locked on me. He’d changed into a suit but I could still see his muscles.
My brain screamed to look away, my body screamed to go over there. Instead I just stood there. I knew I should move. I knew I should look away, pretend to be busy with something else and make him wait for me. But I couldn’t.
He came to a stop right in front of me, his eyes roamed over my body. “You look nice.”
“Well I know how much you like skirts. I wanted to impress.” I said dryly. I wasn’t going to admit there was truth behind my statement. I wasn’t going to admit I’d thought about him while picking the outfit out.
He smirked. “Trust me; you’re doing a wonderful job at it.” He fell silent as he looked me up and down once more. My body froze as he stood in front of me. I cleared my throat trying to bring my attention back to him the job. “So, there are four girls here I thought might be a good fit for you.”
He raised an eyebrow. “I only see one.”
“What?” I snapped unable to process what he was saying. I mentally shook myself not wanting to wait for the answer. This is all some sort of trick. I reminded myself. “Nichole is a werecat-”
“No.”
“Uh, okay.” That ruled that out. “Well Jasmine is a vampire who is from early England. She’s lived quite the interesting life, and she’s wearing a skirt.” I pointed to her quickly before Jason could rule her out too. He turned, looking her up and down and shrugged.
“I’m sure two would get along well.” I said quickly. “But if she doesn’t interest you there is Kail,” I pointed to another girl. “She’s a jinni.”
He raised an eyebrow. “I think I’ll go talk to her.”
I let out a breath of relief. “Alright, just find me if you have any questions.” I took a deep breath and looked around.
“You don’t normally wear skirts.” Hank spoke from behind me.
I jumped turning to face him. “Oh, I um… thought I’d change it up a little.” He was right; I normally wore nice pants, or a dress. My cheeks flushed.
“How are you doing with your clients so far?”
“I’m alright, actually… I have to go find a couple, excuse me.”
“Of course, but come see me when you’re done please. I have something I’d like to speak to you about.” His eyes sparkled.
I nodded and rushed off to find my other clients.
The entire night was pretty much spent with me trying to track down clients and introduce them to other clients and I soon forgot about Jason. When he didn’t come back to me within half an hour I figured he’d found someone to interest him, whether it was one of the girls I suggested or not I didn’t care much; I’d still get a commission if they got together.
I grabbed a glass of wine from a passing server. Jason might be enjoying the night on his own but I had three other clients who were more than in my face. I’d finally managed to find them all someone who might be a good match and it was time for me to relax for a couple seconds; before making sure that the food serving was going well.
“There you are.” His voice sent a shiver down my spine. I turned to face him and suppressed a groan. How was I supposed to make sure the event was running right if clients kept coming back to me?
“How are you enjoying yourself?” I asked putting on my best smile and pretending I wasn’t ready to die.
“I’m fine… you said I should come find you if the girls I met weren’t…”
“Yes.” I nodded cutting him off. “Come with me and we can try to find you a new match.” Most of the time I did need to do this, but it usually wasn’t this hard. A lot of people said they didn’t want a mage in their application.
So I led the way into the back rooms where all the offices are and made my way to the back, where my office was.
“I have to admit, it might be a bit of a hard time finding someone for you.” I said. “It’s probably best if we do a search together.” I pushed my office door open and flicked on the light before heading over to my desk. I heard the door close behind me and his footsteps follow me to the desk as I started up my computer and logged onto our database.
“Alright,” I skimmed through all the profiles and narrowed down the search to those who didn’t have anything against mages then looked up at him. I turned and almost jumped at how close he was to me. “Um, do you want to sit?”
“It’s fine.” His eyes locked on me.
“Okay, well how about her?” He said you liked blondes, right? I pointed to a girl on the screen with blonde hair and blue eyes.
I felt his fingers brush my
thigh, just below where my skirt ended.
“No.”
“Why not?” I asked suppressing an eye roll.
“I just don’t like her. Can I see the next one?”
“Alright.” I took a deep breath trying not to get stressed as we moved to the next girl. I glanced at him. His head titled to the left.
“She’s got a nice ass.”
I looked back at the picture. I had to admit, she did. “It’s not that nice in real life.” I rebutted. I’d just seen her the other day, she was newly listed.
Jason chuckled. “Thanks for the honesty. Next one?”
I clicked on the next girl. I turned to look at him but he wasn’t looking at the screen. He was staring down my shirt. I cleared my throat.
“Maybe we should narrow down the results.” He finally looked away and turned his attention to me. “Is there anything you know you want?”
“Yes.”
I waited a couple of seconds before letting out a deep breath and this time rolling my eyes. “And what is you want?”
~
I stared at the girl in front of me. What did I want? That was an easy answer. I wanted her.
I wasn’t sure what it was about her. I’d come here to find someone yes, but I’d never thought about that someone being the person who is supposed to find me a match. There was something about the way she rolled her eyes at me, and flirted in a dry kind of way. The way she blushed when I took my shirt off. I took a deep breath looking at the screen. What did I want?
My fingers brushed against her thigh again, this time higher, inching towards the inside of her leg. “I don’t want any of these girls.” I said.
She let out another huff of frustration. “Well if you help me narrow down the search results we can find someone who is more to your liking.”
I’d already found her. She drove me crazy in some way. I hadn’t been able to stop thinking about her all day. It was stupid and I knew that, I’m sure there was something against this in her contract but I didn’t care. I stepped away from her, pulling my hand away from her thigh. She stared at me, her cheeks bright red.
“What is it you want, Mr. Keen?” I swallowed dryly. It was now or never, I glanced back at the computer then to her. She tapped her foot crossing her arms over her chest. “I don’t have all night. I still have four other clients that I have to make sure are happy with the matches I’ve picked out for them and sitting back here isn’t going to make it easy for them to find me if, no when, they want to complain about something. So please, just tell me what you’re looking for or what it is you do want in a partner so I can find it for you.”
“You.”
There. I said it.
She stared at me, her mouth falling open into a perfect little o. I felt a blush rise to my cheeks, but then again I couldn’t take it back now.
“I want you.” I said it again.
~
I stared at him. I had been perfectly content pretending that I didn’t realize his hand was on my thigh, or that he was checking me out. I’d been perfectly content pretending that I didn’t like the way his hand felt against my skin, and that I wanted to get rid of him; okay that part I wasn’t pretending because I knew if I couldn’t get rid of him it would be a pain in the ass for me. I couldn’t deny I was into him.
But no. He had to take that away from me. Now I couldn’t pretend any of it. My mind raced as I tried to think of something to say. He stepped towards me. My heart skipped a beat.
“I…”
“I’m sorry if you didn’t like what I said.” He glanced down at my hand. “I noticed you weren’t wearing your ring. That man talking to you earlier, was that your husband?”
“No.” I admitted.
“He’s not here?” He raised an eyebrow. “Does he usually come to these things?”
I opened my mouth, a blush burned my cheeks. “He’s not real.” I said quickly. “A-a ring normally keeps guys away.”
“Is that what you want? For me to stay away?”
I stared at him. Was that what I wanted? Not really to be honest. I swallowed dryly and shook my head. I didn’t want him away from me. I wanted him very, very close. “No.”
Jason raised an eyebrow. “No?”
It took me a couple seconds to collect myself but when I did a smile spread across my face. “I have someone I think you might be interested in.”
He raised an eyebrow. “But-”
“Just hold on.” I cut him off and took a shaky breath.
I couldn’t believe I was about to do this. That I wanted to do this. I bit my lip as my fingers touched the top of my skirt. His eyes followed every move. With one quick motion the skirt lay around my ankles.
I adjusted my long hair and stepped towards him. “Is this more to your liking?”
His eyes roamed over me. “She’s perfect.” He paced around me in a circle and grabbed my wrist, pulling me against him as his hand ran over the curves of my body. My heart raced as I took a deep breath. I can’t believe I’m doing this. But here I was, half naked in my office with a client. His teeth grazed my neck gently.
“You’re doing this to me, aren’t you?” If I could get him to admit that he was tricking me, that he had a spell on me, maybe I could fight it.
“No.” His hot breath touched my ear. I let out a soft moan.
“You have to be.”
“I would never influence you.” He whispered his and on my wrist moved to my hips, pulling me against him. I moaned feeling his erection against my ass. He let out a deep breath.
“Fuck.” His cock pressed against his pants as his hand slipped down my body towards my panties. I pulled away and turned to face him. My eyes locked on his. “Say it again.” I needed to watch him. I was trained to detect a lie.
“I’m not tricking you, Jess. I want you but not just sexually. I don’t want any of the potential matches on your computer. I want you. I want to fuck you, I want to take you out to dinner, hell I might even bring you home to my mother one day.”
I stepped towards him. “Let’s not get too ahead of ourselves.” I said licking my lips, trying to restore some moisture to them.
“And where do you suggest we start?” I stepped around him and pressed myself against the desk as I flicked my computer off. “How about that whole fucking me thing? That sounds like a good place to start if you ask me.”
Jason grinned. He closed the distance between us as he unzipped his fly.
“Take your shirt off.”
“I thought my abs didn’t impress you.” He grinned loosening the black tie around his neck before unbuttoning his shirt, too slowly for my liking.
I pulled my own shirt over my head, happy I’d worn my black lace bralette, and pulled him close to me. I had his shirt unbuttoned within a matter of seconds, though I’m pretty sure I broke one of the buttons.
“Do you want me that bad?” He grinned pushing my panties to the side.
I nodded unable to trust my voice with him so close to me.
He stepped towards me, his warm lips touched mine ever so gently.
My fingers tangled into his hair pulling him closer to me, trying to get him as close to me as possible, trying to show him how much I wanted him. Our kiss grew more passionate. My teeth grazed his lower lip. He let out a deep breath, his eyes rolling back for a fraction of a second. He pulled away from me, a grin spreading over his face.
My heart skipped a beat. “What?”
“I um, almost forgot.” He reached into his pocket and grabbed something. My heart did a backflip. How could I have been so careless?
I watched as he tore into the packaging and slipped the condom over his cock before stepping back towards me.
He grabbed my hips, his eyes locked on mine. “You sure about this?”
I nodded. I wasn’t going to take it back now. I needed him inside me. I bit back a moan as his head pressed against my folds. My eyes roll back. Oh god, yes. I gasped as he pushed into me gently. My fingers dug into his skin.
I bit back a moan.
“Remember, you’re at work.” He whispered. “You better be quiet or everyone will hear you.”
Oh god. I could just imagine what they would think about me if they knew I was in my office fucking a client. Then again, could they blame me?
The idea sent a shiver of excitement down my spine. I pulled him into a kiss that border lined aggressive. He nipped my lower lip, my nails dug into his chest as he thrust in and out of me, faster and harder.
“Jess, let me please you… let me…” I didn’t need him to finish his sentence to know what he wanted. I nodded. I’d heard so much about it, of course when the paranormal came out paranormal sex was the biggest fad.
“Say it.
“I want you to use your magic on me.” My voice came out stronger than I ever thought it would.
A grin spread over his fast as he pulled away just enough to look me up and down. “Let me know if it’s too much, alright?”
I nodded.
He touched my lips. A hot tingle rushed through me. My heart raced as he pulled away and touched my breast. He pinched my nipple gently and heat rushed through my body. I moaned, my eyes rolling back. He let go of my nipple and traced his finger down my belly. I moaned as heat filled my body, white hot arousal whipped around inside me, I moaned, my eyes rolling back already so close to orgasm.
Jason grinned.
Each time he was faster and rougher with me. It took everything I had not to moan, or even scream.
“Harder.” I whispered. “Please.”
Jason’s lips touched mine as his finger came to rest on my clit. I gasped arching as heat rushed through me. He pulled away from me just then.
“Turn around.”
I swallowed dryly and nodded, doing as he’d told me. I felt his cock slide into me without any issue. Fast and hard.
His hands traced over my uppermost thighs and over the curves of my ass. I moaned as my body tingled. He reached between my legs. My hips buckled as I stifled a scream. My eyes rolled back.