I would have let go of this. No, that's not right. I would have kept this just to myself, but he asked me very nicely to tell this story. But his requests, even his very nice ones are not optional.
I know him, and he knows me, much too well for my own good. No, that's not right either. He knows me for my own good, and he makes me forget, and remember, he makes me shake, blush, rush. He makes me come. But I'm ahead of myself now, and when I get ahead of myself he slows me down. He slows me Way. The Fuck. Down.
He was waiting when I got home today and I did what I always do. I unloaded on him about the Schoeber's deal, about how Kathleen still hadn't called on the Chevron grant and how for once the problem wasn't meeting payroll. We didn't have enough people to fill orders. Thirteen interviews next week. Fuck.
He stood up, his finger to his lips, and walked across the room. He took my laptop bag and set it on the recliner. He took my coat, hung it up. Every time I started to speak he just shook his head.
"Baby," he said, "You're all marbled up."
And I started to tell him about Kathleen again, but he didn't want to hear it. He had a shot of bourbon in one hand and a bunch of marbles in the other.
"Tell the marble," he said, "Just breathe it. I don't think I can stand to hear about fucking Kathleen again."
And he held up this... yellow marble. He touched my lips with it.
"Breathe her out, baby," he said, and he wouldn't even make eye contact. He stared at the corner of the room. And I got it. Kathleen was between us. So I breathed her into that urine colored marble. He blinked, slowly and looked at me, finally. He dropped the marble into his bourbon.
"Now the Schoeber deal. Get it out of your system."
He touched his ear to my cheek and I let him hear me take a breath, hold it for a couple of seconds. Then I blew it out on a green marble he had between his fingers.
"Baby, you're becoming yourself again," he said, and he dropped that marble into his bourbon too.
He chose a red marble next and put it between his teeth.
"Hiring," he said, and carefully around the marble, he said, "firing."
So I kissed him, obviously, and stole his fucking red marble and spit it into his bourbon. I hoped I would break his glass, but it didn't. The marble just rolled slowly to a stop next to the yellow and green ones.
He smiled at me because he always knows the answers to his own questions. But he asks them anyway.
"Anything else you need to leave in the bourbon?"
And I lied and I shook my head. He's watching me type this into his computer right now because he took mine away. I lied. And he had a plan for my lie, and he made me pay, and he's waiting for me to tell how I paid. He let it slide, but he didn't forget. He just waited. He put a blue marble in his pocket for later. He'll make me tell you when the time comes.
Anyway, he shrugged and set the glass down. "Let's let those disinfect," he said. "I booked us a room at the Piedmont."
And you have to understand that he runs a nonprofit, so he's always skimping and he drives an old Jeep and wears business casual every day. I'm very much a for profit CEO. The pant suit I was wearing cost more than his car. So when he dropped two grand on a hotel room it got my attention.
"Baby" I said, "I practically own that hotel..."
And he said, "Shut the fuck up" in the sweetest way. "Besides," he said, "I want you to owe me after tonight. A lot."
I... want to owe him.
I slipped my phone into my pocket and we drove to the Piedmont in his Jeep. You should have seen the look on the valet's face. "Is this a vintage Willys?"
He said it saw combat in Korea. I'm pretty sure it's bullshit, but who knows? He has wine older than me in his cellar. He has an original Sgt. Peppers pressing, but that's music. He says there are different rules about music.
There are different rules about sex too. I still don't know how he reads me. His fingernails are tickling my scalp right now. How does he always know? The room comes with a masseuse, but he won't call her. He says it's too complicated with another person in the room.
So when my phone buzzed all hell broke loose. I mean, he raised an eyebrow which is basically All Hell Breaking Loose.
"You brought your phone?" he said.
And there wasn't ever a rule exactly, and I didn't sign some contract, but fuck. I knew when he asked about "anything else for the bourbon" the phone would be included. He probably would have dropped it in his liquor.
And of course it was Kathleen with her 90th excuse about the grant. Bitch. So I was kind of surprised when he didn't just snatch the phone away. Instead he curled around me, his chest against my back, his hands around my waist. He kissed my ear and I shivered. Then he unlatched my bra.
"Take it off," he said, and I did. I pulled my lace bra out of my sleeve. I don't know why I was so modest. He's had me weeping in the middle of an orgasm. He's literally licked tears from my face as I shook on his fingers. I shouldn't have been shy, but the phone was still vibrating in my pocket with fucking "KATHLEEN" on the screen. He took my phone and watched the call go to voice mail. Then he took that last marble out of his pocket.
I told you already my outfits are expensive. All natural fibers. The blouse was creamy silk, so without a bra I was floodlights on an Atlanta pickup truck, especially after his lips touched my neck. God. He knew.
"Let's take these down to the hotel safe, okay?"
I swallowed. "What?"
"You heard me. The bra, the phone, the marble," he said, "take them to the desk downstairs. Tell them to put them in the hotel safe for you."
He came with me, his hand on my lower back as we walked the hallway. In the elevator he pressed me against the mirror and kissed me hard, his left hand covering my breast. I almost dropped the phone. When the doors opened, he acted gentlemanly. He let me go first, unsteady on my feet and with my nipples hard from the kiss and his hands.
The concierge was polite, of course, but he saw him standing back, watching. He saw the bra, the marble, my nipples. Then, as I put my phone on the counter he sent that picture I took of his cock in Brooklyn, shimmering with the shine I had put on it. The concierge was very professional, but he looked into my eyes and I swear he smirked. "Have a wonderful evening, madam. We'll take good care of these for you."
Fffuuck.
It was my kind of play though, and naturally I expected him to attack me in the elevator on the way back up, but he put his hands on my shoulders and waited until I stopped trying to kiss him. He said "You have no responsibilities now, except to be my favorite plaything."
I unbuttoned my blouse one button at a time. "Are you going to write your name on my foot?"
"No," he said, "but that gives me an idea."
When the elevator door opened on the penthouse floor his lips blew warm breath just below my ear. He pinched my left nipple between his fingers and pulled me into the suite.
"What did you think would happen, Baby?" he said, a laugh playing over his lips. "Bringing your phone? This, probably." He pulled his own phone out of his pocket. He kissed me and then he dropped it in the champagne bucket. "Airplane mode," he said.
I was going to owe him so much.
But he makes me shake and rush and blush and come.