“I better get some clothes on before we get caught like this.”
I watched her walk back into the conference room while I washed my hands and splashed some cold water on my face.
I walked back out to join her and quickly dressed, all the time watching Lily.
When we were both fully clothed, she walked up to me and kissed me. “We’ll carry on when we get home tonight,” she said and sauntered out, swaying her sexy bottom.
I walked behind my desk and sat down heavily. I was in love with her. How the hell that had happened I had no idea, but I loved her. It was clear as day. But what the hell should I do about it? There was no way on this earth I’d ever be able to let her go, that was out of the question. But did she feel the same about me?
She always looked at me like I was the only one in the room and once or twice after we’d been intimate, I’d felt like she was about to say something, but she’d held back. Part of me was frightened to push it with her, in case I was wrong and she crushed me instead. I’m so screwed.
“No need to ask what you’re thinking about,” Lucien stated and took a seat opposite my desk. I hadn’t even noticed him walk in.
“What are you doing here?” I grouched.
“Well, I figured since Lily looked rather flushed, you would be in a good mood, guess I got it wrong.”
“Leave Lily out of this. What are you doing here?”
“I’ve come to take your assistant for coffee.”
“I don’t think….” He didn’t let me finish.
“I know she’s your woman, Michael. I’m your brother. If you can’t trust your own brother, who can you trust? I promise the only thing I want from Lily is friendship. I can talk to her and I know it will stay with her. She’s becoming a friend, and I guess you could say a sister.”
He was right. He was my brother and had never given me any reason to doubt him. “Sorry Lucien. She has me tied in knots.”
He laughed. “I can see that. I can also see how much you love her.” I met his eyes. “You’re my brother and I’ve never seen you act with anyone else the way you do with Lily…. That’s why you have to tell her.”
“No.” I stood and walked to the window, resting my forehead against it.
“I can’t lose her, Lucien. She’s my life.”
“What happens if she finds out further down the line and she leaves you because you didn’t tell her?”
“That won’t happen.”
“Michael.”
“This conversation is over.”
“I think Ramon’s gay,” Lucien said.
I just stared at him. “What?”
“You heard me. Sit down.”
“I think I need to for this conversation.”
“Why do you think our brother is,” I waved my arms around, “you know.”
“You can say it Michael….gay.”
“Do you know or just speculating?” I asked him.
“He’s never been seen with a female, ever. I mean, have you ever seen him with a woman?”
I shook my head.
“Exactly. Plus Ruben saw him in town the other night in his club. He said he was about to walk over and let him know he was around when another guy went up to him and put his arm around him.”
“That doesn’t mean he’s gay. He could have just been a friend.”
“I don’t think so, but I’m not about to ask him. I don’t want him to confirm it. There’s nothing wrong with it, but it would be weird, him being our brother you know,” Lucien said and actually looked to be squirming.
“Okay, I can’t take anymore talk of this, go and take Lily for that coffee and look after her.”
“With my life,” Lucien said, and I believed him.
Chapter 51
~~ LILY ~~
Back at my desk after my run to the restroom to put my panties and bra back on. I felt rather flushed after what I’d just instigated in Michael’s office. Where the hell my inner vixen had come from, I had no idea, but it sure as hell turned me on, not to mention what it did to Michael.
I was mortified to walk out of his office to come face to face with Lucien, who was sitting on the sofa in the guest area. He insisted he’d only waited five minutes, but I had my doubts. He smirked and walked into Michael’s office, to wind him up no doubt.
“Hi Lily,” Sylvia said. “Can I come in?”
“Of course you can,” I replied, more than curious as to why she was asking. She never had in the past. “Sylvia, is everything all right?”
She sat on the corner of my desk. “Yes. Are you all right, Lily?”
I raised an eyebrow. It was an odd sort of question for Sylvia to be asking. “Yes, I’m fine. Why wouldn’t I be?”
“No, no it’s okay, just thought I’d ask.” She jumped up from my desk and headed for the door.
“Sylvia, wait up.” I walked towards her. “Please, tell me what’s going on.”
She looked pale. “Jacky said she heard you and Michael arguing and that you’d be moving out soon.”
I was pissed. Jacky needed to mind her own damn business. “We haven’t argued, so I don’t know where she got that idea from. And as for me moving out? There is no chance of that. Everything between Michael and me is good. I don’t ever remember being so happy.”
She seemed to sigh in relief. “Thank god, I should have known better than to believe anything she said, but I needed to hear it from the horse’s mouth, you know.”
“Yeah, don’t worry about it. Next time don’t believe anything she says about us. I think she’s jealous.”
“I won’t. I better get back to work,” she said as she walked out of the office.
“Shit.”
“Nice vocabulary for a hot young woman,” Lucien said. I turned and he was sitting at my desk.
“Comfortable?”
“Actually no, this chair is rock hard. How the hell do you relax on the thing?”
I laughed. “That’s the point. I wouldn’t get any work done if I relaxed on it,” I smirked, “besides, that’s what Michael’s for.”
“I really did not need to know that…. Grab your purse. The big boss has given me permission to take you for a coffee.”
“You asked his permission?” I asked while I retrieved my purse from the bottom desk drawer.
“Not really. I did tell him though. I don’t want a black eye for kidnapping you for a short while. I have an appointment in an hour, so I can spare thirty minutes. I can’t wait to find out what you were both up to in there when I arrived, because I had to use my own key to get in.”
I blushed. There was no way in hell I was telling anyone what we’d done in there.
He laughed. “Mmm, that good, huh?”
“Shut up, Lucien.”
He took my hand and pulled me out of the office, into an elevator and straight to Starbucks before I could even get my thoughts together.
As we sat down by the window with our drinks, I noticed Jacky sitting across with a couple of other women who worked for the company on a different floor.
Lucien followed my gaze and then turned back to me. “Ignore them Lily. Jacky might be acting all jealous because you’re living with Michael, but the truth is, she would go with anyone who had money. And before you ask, no, none of us have taken her up on the offer. She works for us. Until you came along, employees where strictly off limits. But you’re the exception.” He smiled. “You have Michael so tied in knots it’s funny. I’ve never seen my brother like that before, so you need to let us get the teasing out of the way.”
I rolled my eyes. “Boys will be boys.” I took a few sips of my drink, conscious that Jacky and her friends were glaring at me, probably wondering what I was doing living with one McKenzie while drinking coffee with another.
“Lily.”
“Sorry, they’re annoying me now…. So Lucien,” I grinned, “I think you need….”
He didn’t let me finish. “I don’t need anything or anyone,” he said with emphasis on the �
�anyone’.
“You know, one of these days I hope you meet a woman who really does drop you on your ass, and when that happens, I will laugh my socks off!”
“Wishing that on me is just cruel.” He sulked.
I really did like Lucien. He was serious most of the time, but with me, he was playful. There was no sexual tension coming from him, he just needed a friend and I wanted to be that friend. Michael had started to settle down when I was around his brothers and started to trust our relationship.
The realization in his office earlier that I loved him was a shock. I never really loved David, not like I love Michael. He was my whole world. Without him I’d crash and burn.
“Earth to Lily! Where did you go? Never mind, I know where you went.” He roared with laughter.
“I’m telling you, one of these days you’ll be dropped on your ass by a woman and I really can’t wait to see it.”
“You,” he pointed his finger at me, “are asking for trouble. Come on, I have to leave or I’ll be late for my appointment. I’ll take you back upstairs, so Michael doesn’t shout at me.”
“Really, I’m quite capable of walking into an elevator and then walking back to the office on my own.”
“Humor me, besides your friends have just climbed aboard. Come on.” He practically dragged me to the elevators. “Play along,” he whispered, then wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me into him.
He started to pretend to nuzzle my neck. I moved slightly which drew my body more into him. He met my eyes and winked. “Oh, Lily, you taste like heaven,” he whispered.
I could feel a giggle working its way up inside me, so when the doors opened two floors before ours, Lucien pulled me out and ushered me away and through the emergency exit to the stairs.
We both burst out laughing. “God, that was so funny. Did you see her face?” Lucien asked me.
“Yes.” I couldn’t stop laughing.
I took a deep breath and Lucien led me up the two flights of stairs back to Michael’s office.
“Okay, I’ll leave you here. Thanks for having coffee with me and the fun in the elevator.”
“You’re welcome. Take care.” I hugged him and quickly kissed him on the cheek before I walked back into my office.
Chapter 52
~~ MICHAEL ~~
I closed my office door and leaned back against it. I’d just seen Lily and Lucien hug each other, followed by Lily leaning into Lucien to kiss him. Okay, she kissed him on his cheek and they were laughing. What the hell was going on?
Control, that’s what I needed. I knew deep down that nothing was going on between them, but I couldn’t seem to stop the jealousy that flared up and take me completely off guard.
I loved her and was terrified of losing her, which was the problem.
She knocked on my door and tried to open it. I stepped away and in she walked.
“Michael, what’s wrong?” she asked and stood in front of me with her hands on my arms.
“You kissed him,” I blurted out.
She was speechless at first, then she took hold of my face and kissed me. “He’s your brother. He took me for coffee. He walked me the last couple of floors up here. I hugged him and kissed him on his cheek to say thank you and take care.”
“Why did you walk the last few floors?”
She grinned. “Jacky was in the elevator with a couple of friends, so Lucien pretended to be all over me.” She kept her eyes locked with mine. “He snuggled into my neck and pretended he was nibbling it or something, but what he was really doing was nothing, just trying his best not to laugh.” She looked up at me. “Michael, I promise you that’s all it was.”
She looked close to tears as she pulled away from me. She walked over and sat on the sofa. “I can’t keep doing this.” She wiped a tear away. “I can’t keep explaining myself to you every time you get the wrong idea. I’m your girlfriend and he’s your brother. You need to trust us. Lucien needs a friend and I want to be that friend for him, but I can’t handle you questioning me every time I see him. You need to trust me like I do you.”
She had me panicked after what she’d just said. I sure as hell didn’t want to drive her away, plus she was right, I had to stop questioning her every move.
I sat next to her on the sofa and pulled her into me. “I’m sorry Lily, so very sorry. I do trust you and I know deep down that you wouldn’t cheat on me, it’s just getting my mouth to catch up to my brain.” She chuckled. “Here, let me.” I moved her away from me and used some tissues to wipe her tears away.
“You’re so beautiful, you take my breath away.”
She climbed astride me, which I didn’t think was such a good idea, considering her dress was practically around her hips.
“Lily, the door isn’t locked.”
“I know.”
Then she kissed me. As she nibbled along my bottom lip, she moved her pussy right over the top of my erection, which was straining for freedom. When she licked along the seal of my lips, I opened my mouth and fused our tongues together. I took her head into my hands and held her there as we continued to eat each other. We both moaned into each other’s mouths as she rode the ridge of my cock.
“This wasn’t supposed to happen,” she moaned and threw her head back.
My cock was rock hard in my trousers and desperately wanted to be in her wet heat, but instead, I let her continue to ride me. I pulled the neckline of her dress down over one breast and then the cup of her bra, before I put my mouth and tongue on her.
She came apart in my arms while I sucked her nipple and pressed her into my aching shaft. If she didn’t stop writhing around on me, I was going to come in my trousers.
I pulled my mouth away from her breast and made sure her bra and dress covered her. With all the strength I had, I lifted her from my lap and set her next to me.
We both leaned back against the back of the sofa and I couldn’t help but arch my hips. I was desperate to come and it would probably only take a couple of caresses.
With my eyes shut, I felt my zipper go down as my cock sprang free into Lily’s waiting hands. “I can’t leave you like this.”
I couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t speak.
She moved her hand lower to my balls and took hold of me in her other hand. She squeezed my balls and fisted my cock, maybe twice, then I came all over my shirt. Before I could move, she leaned over and sucked me into her mouth, which nearly had me flying from the sofa.
“Just cleaning you up.” She swiped her tongue around the head of my penis a few times before she fastened my trousers. She unbuttoned my shirt, pulled it off and walked into the bathroom to grab a clean one from the closet.
She was licking her lips as she walked back to me, which set my blood roaring again. “You better put this on, and for the rest of the day, I’m going to stay out there. I can’t be near you without wanting you.”
“In my defense, I only intended to comfort you after I’d made you cry. I wasn’t expecting you to attack me.” I grinned at her.
She grinned back. “Tonight I’m tying you to your bed. I hope you’re ready.” She walked out of my office, leaving me stunned…. and aroused.
Fuck. I quickly fastened my shirt and tucked it into my trousers. I sat at my desk, but looked out of the window at the city below, not really taking anything in.
I really needed to do what I told Lily and that was attach my mouth to my brain before I put my foot in it again. I would take her out for dinner in a few days, when we could have a lazy morning, to apologize again for not trusting her. I knew I had a hard time with trust, but we couldn’t carry on with me not trusting her every time she went somewhere without me. I did trust her, it was just a few times when I forgot and went all possessive on her.
I stood from my desk and walked to the door, leading me out to talk to Lily. I was about to open it fully when I heard her say, ‘David’. Was he on the phone?
Instead of going back to my desk, I leaned against the wall and listened.
“David, I’m not interested in going back to you.”
Silence, while he obviously talked.
“I’ll tell you this for the last time, I’m not going back to you. I’m happier now than I’ve ever been, so I would appreciate it if you would leave me alone. Have a good life, because I intend to – with Michael.”
She hung up the phone.
I couldn’t believe what I’d overheard. It thrilled me to know that she planned to spend the rest of her life with me, regardless of my caveman tendencies.
“You heard.”
I jumped. She caught me. “Yeah.”
“He wanted me back. I don’t think things are working out with ‘Lucy’. I feel sad for him really, but I’m more happy with you than what I remember being with him.”
“Good.” I cleared my throat. “I was on my way out to ask you out to dinner in a couple of days.”
“You were?”
“Yeah, I thought we could go out when we didn’t have to get up for work the following day.”
“You have a one-track mind. As you’re the boss, do you think we could play hooky for the rest of the day?”
“That can be arranged. What’s the hurry?”
“I can’t concentrate on work. I’m too busy thinking about you naked. On your bed. At my mercy.”
“Christ, let me get my briefcase.”
I walked over to my desk, shoved whatever was on my desk into the briefcase, grabbed Lily’s hand and dragged her out of the offices and into my car before she could catch her breath.
Chapter 53
~~ LILY ~~
I was really excited about what I was going to do to Michael. The thought of him naked with his hands tied to the bedpost was a huge turn on. The image of his huge erection stretched up towards his navel while I did naughty things to him, was going to blow his mind.
Michael was in the shower while I wondered around naked in our room trying to find the scarves I had. Yes, I’d found them buried under my bras.
I smiled with a wicked thought in my head and walked to the bed sprawling on top of it. I put the smaller scarf on the side table and draped the larger one between my legs to cover my mound, then I used the another to drape over my breasts.
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