hapter 26
She took the glass he offered. “I can’t believe I’m actually sitting here with you, and you are who you are, and all of this seems insane.”
“Time for a bit of a backstory, huh?”.
“Yes please.”
“Despite my reputation, I am not a man without vices and like most men, sex is one of them. However, because of who I am and where I am from, I tend to be quite selective in my partners. I can’t be with a partner who is not familiar with the business, but I can’t keep someone who is going to end up knowing too much and ratting our businesses out to the police.”
“What do you see?”
“You were out making selections of lovers while you were engaged to me while I was at home having my mother coach me on the importance of saving my virginity and not kissing boys,”
He shrugged, “I am older than you. Did you expect I would be celibate from the time of our engagement? We were engaged nine years, and you were only twelve when it happened.”
“You were twenty–two. Why didn’t you refuse?”
“My grandfather arranged it and at the time I didn’t care much. Then I met Quentina.”
“It’s a stupid name.”
“Her father’s name was Quentin, and she was named after him.”
“It’s still dumb.
He laughed. “You do know I see a lot of Antero in you. Your comment is reminding me of him telling me the guys touching their ears was dumb.
“Good. Despite his complaints earlier of how little time I spend with him, he spends more time with me than anyone else.”
“Only a muron would miss the fact he’s your double in terms of mind and spirit. He might look like me but he’s you inside.”
“I’m taking it as a compliment.”
“As you should.”
“Back to Quentina.”
“Quentina was the daughter of a business associate. We went on a few dates and things were going well. We slept together a handful of times,” he made a face, “I cared about her.”
She fought the jealousy coursing over her veins. Why was she having such a visceral reaction to him being in love with someone else?
e in love.”
“I was home being a good daughter and fiancée ad you were out falling in
“Whoa!” he held up a hand, “nobody said love. I cared about her. I cared enough to make sure she was seen by my doctors for her birth control, so she didn’t get pregnant. I provided security for her. I gave her an apartment and made sure she was given a driver. Each time we were together, we slept together, in the same bed. It’s hard not to develop feelings for someone you hold in your arms every night. I wouldn’t call it love but it was affection.”
Tguess.”
He lifted her chin with a finger, “you’ve not been in such a relationship? Where you spend time together all the time, sleeping together and holding each other?”
“No. My one experience with a man was you.”
He nodded, “well, I’ve been in a few relationships, but this one ended when during one of Quentina’s routine exams for her birth control showed
Chapter 26
she suffered an infection. Part of the panel 1 always asked to be run on her, because I’m not a trusting fellow, was for diseases. I’m away a lot. I travel a lot. I knew she was attending parties and so on while I was away. Her pap test came back positive for chlamydia.”
“Yup. Turned out she was fucking her father’s best friend. Her father’s best friend’s wife was fucking their gardener. The gardener was a bit of a free spirit who fucked everyone.” He took a long swallow of his drink as if trying not to throw up. “Which Quentina managed to pass onto me. “Wait!” she held her wine glass to her chest as if the scandal was delicious gossip. “She was having sex with her father’s best friend?”
“He was old and fat. There was a reason his wife cheated on him. How the hell he managed to convince her into his bed is beyond me, Quentina went there willingly. Unfortunately, he knew she was already in my bed for the better part of a year,”
“Did
kill him.”
but
“And her?”
“I did.” He shrugged, “the gardener too. I left his wife alive. She was happy to be a widow.”
“Thet,”
“Then, it took me some time after treatment to be even interested in sex. When the opportunity presented itself, someone didn’t cooperate” gave a look at his crotch
“What?”
“Wouldn’t work. It’s like he encountered his own brush with mortality and didn’t ever want to come out to
*No way.”
“Yes, I tried. God knows I tried. For an extraordinarily long time I tried but I couldn’t get it up or it would get up and the minute I would get close to penetration, he deflated like a balloon on a bed of nails.”
“What did you do?”
“He
“I came across an advertisement on a site about a girl looking to sell her innocence.” He gave Alcee a smile. “I looked at her photos. I looked at the health report which said she was clean and looking to auction her virginity to the highest bidder. He came to life. I enjoyed the best wank of my life to photos of you from the neck down while staring at the proof of innocence from the doctor.”
“Wait. Are you saying you bought me that night because I cured your erectile dysfunction?”
“Yes. In fact, Alcer, since that night, the only time I can get off, is to a memory of you or the one photo we caught of you leaving the hotel.”
**No way.”
“It’s true. I haven’t fucked another person in six years. I tested it a couple of times. Got hot and heavy with a couple of women but he won’t come out to play. Tito offered to find me another virgin, but he doesn’t want anyone but you,” he pointed to his dick, “in case you missed it, he’s trying to undo my zipper from the inside to get to you.”
She giggled at his words. “Torg.”
He wiped a droplet of wine off her bottom lip. “I’ve spent six years thinking of how you got on your knees and sucked me dry. What I wouldn’t give for a repeat performance before I fuck you through the mattress and into the floor.”
Ha words made her hand shake and wine spilled over her top.
