Womanizer (A Standalone Novel) (A Steamy Alpha Billionaire Romance) (15 page)

Chapter 25

My day had finally turned around and I was able to be more productive
than I had been for the last several days. I went through and made some
purchases for my portfolio and managed to get some
much-needed
research on other companies completed.

“It’s my last day today,” Darla said as she brought me a sandwich for
lunch.

“Wow, this week has flown by. I can’t believe it.”

“Hopefully I did you
proud
and I
can come back the next time Natasha needs time off.”

“Darla, I have to say you did wonderfully. It’s amazing how much an
assistant can get done when I’m not badgering them all the time. Thank you
again for the hard work.”

“I appreciate your kindness. Also, that you didn’t spend the week
badgering me for a threesome. Natasha was positive you would. But you seemed
very distracted this week.”

“Yes, that woman that was here this morning. She is the one distracting
my thoughts.”

“I could tell. She is very beautiful.”

“I know. Isn’t she?”

“Yes, certainly a woman to be proud to have on your side. Does she have a
beautiful inside as well?”

I wanted to say yes, but the truth was that I didn’t really know Alicia’s
insides all that well. Of course, I could joke about that sexually, but really
I did want to get to know more about what made her tick.

My whole world in regards to women had been about their bodies. Oh how I
loved their bodies. Alicia had been the first woman in a very long time that I
actually enjoyed having conversations with. Although I still had not done very
well actually getting to know her.

“I think so. She seems really nice.”

“Maybe that’s the key to getting her to sleep with you?” Darla said as
she winked at me.

“Oh, you mean women want us guys to get to know them before we have sex?
That seems weird,” I laughed.

Darla was
right,
though. Alicia
wasn’t just some girl that I had tried to pick up from the local bar. She ran a
business, she was smart, she had a busy life of her own. There was no way
Alicia was going to sleep with some guy who had lied to her from the beginning
and hadn’t put much effort into getting to know her at all.

“You know I’m right,” Darla smiled.

“Yes, I do. I just haven’t tried to have a real relationship
since
college. I’m pretty new at all this real
world dating stuff.”

“Take your time. Are you really in that much of a hurry
with
her? What does it matter if you don’t fuck
her for another month? Nothing will change. You won’t die. Try relaxing and
really getting to know her.”

She was right in more ways than just having sex with Alicia. If I wanted
her to trust me enough to open up to me about her business, I had to be willing
to open up to her. My goal needed to switch from fucking her, to getting to
know her. That was the only way I would ever be able to analyze her company or
get details about the financials.

“You’re totally right Darla. I bet your wife has to say that to you all
the time,” I laughed as I imagined Darla’s significant other apologizing.

Then I kept thinking about Darla and her wife and wondered what the other
woman looked like. My mind was filthy with thoughts of the two of them and
their alone time at night. I must have had a quirky smile on my face because
Darla bonked me on the head.

“Stop that!” she said.

“What?”

“I know you were thinking about my wife and I having sex.”

“What?” I said obviously lying. “Of course not.”

“If you can ever get over the lust I would actually love to invite you
over
for
dinner sometime. Maybe you could
even bring this new friend of yours. She could see that you were an actual nice
guy who socialized with women and didn’t turn into a creep.”

I laughed. I wanted to be that guy. I wanted to be able to show Alicia
that I could sit down to a meal with a couple hot lesbians and just enjoy the
company. The truth was, there was no way in hell I could do that. My mind was
already filled with lustful fantasies and I hadn’t even met the other woman.

“I could give it a try. But I would really like it to be strip poker
instead of dinner.”

Darla just laughed and made her way out of my office shaking her head. It
was obvious she didn’t believe I could be appropriate for a whole dinner
either. I suspected that people often made comments about her and her wife.
They probably also made sexually inappropriate comments like myself. Or at
least that was what I told myself.

My day was one of the best I had had in a very long time. I made a ton of
money on some good trades and still finished in enough time to get ready for my
date with Alicia. I had forgotten how fun it was to get
excited about
a real date. There was a buildup of anticipation that
was fun and certainly something I missed having in my life.

I couldn’t really remember why I had stopped dating. There had been a
definite change when I moved to New York. The women were tough and all of them
were busy. No one wanted to go on long, drawn out dates. One night I just made
the proposition to a woman to come spend the evening with me. Nothing more and
nothing less. It seemed to be the perfect thing for what she was looking for
and we had a fun night together.

I made my way over to Alicia’s after a quick shower and change of
clothes. Since she said it was going to be a ‘night of
fun,
’ I dressed casually. Especially since I remember the
trampoline place we had been a few nights before. Obviously, Alicia liked to
have fun and wasn’t afraid of a little physical activity. Even though there was
a little different type of physical activity that I wanted to do with her.

I waited in her lobby after I buzzed her apartment. She said she would be
right down and likely didn’t want me anywhere near her apartment after the
make-out session we had had earlier in the day. But that was alright with me. I
was set on getting to know her more. It was new territory for me and I was
ready to give it a try.
Hopefully,
it
would help me get to the bottom of what was going on with her company, and also
get to spend some naked time with her.

“You look very athletic,” I said as Alicia came out of the elevator.

She had on a pair of purple running tights and a matching purple tight
fitting tank top. Her outfit showed off all of her curves and I loved it. I
wanted to grab her. Hold onto her. I wanted to feel every curve of her body.
But I resisted.

“Are you ready for a good time?” Alicia asked as she slapped my ass.

I liked seeing her in that sort of good mood. It was much more fun and
seemed more like who she really was. I was really glad she had forgotten about my
little lie about being a real estate investor.

“I’m ready for a good time all night long.”

“Driver, can you take us there?” Alicia asked as she handed him a piece
of paper.

My driver was a guy I had used many times before and I saw a glance from
him in the rear view mirror before we took off. I wasn’t exactly sure where
Alicia was taking us, but my driver seemed concerned that she was taking me
there. It must not be someplace I had ever been before.

“So what is this fun we are going to be doing today?”

“Oh, it’s a secret. I can’t tell you,” Alicia said.

She playfully covered her mouth and refused to release her hands as we
drove out of the city. I started to get nervous the farther away we got, it was
already pretty late; it was going to be dark when we got to wherever we were
going.

“I think you should tell me for sure. We are getting pretty far into the
country. You’re not planning to murder me are you?”

“Awe man! I forgot my
axe
.
Driver
we need to go back
to
the city so I can get my
axe
that I need to murder Evan here,” she
laughed hysterically and I loved it.

Her lips curled up
into
a smile and
her head tilted back in pure bliss. It was one of my favorite things to see
when I was around Alicia. Certainly she should laugh much more often. I wanted
to be the reason that she laughed more often.

The thought of being around Alicia and being the reason she laughed made
me smile. It was something that people probably only thought about when they
were in relationships, but I did want to make Alicia happy. I wanted to make
her life easier, happier and filled with a lot more sex.

“Thank
God
. I’ll live for another
night.”

“
Well,
that’s if I don’t shoot
you,” she said.

I thought she was joking, but when I looked over at
her,
she didn’t seem to be joking at all.
Alicia’s face was totally serious as our driver turned into a wooded area. I
knew she didn’t actually mean she was going to shoot me, but I still had no
idea what we were doing. I also didn’t know why we needed to go to the middle
of a deserted forested to do whatever it was we were going to do.

“Ok, now I’m getting nervous,” I said as I looked at the tall wooded
trees around us.

We pulled in front of a building and I saw what it was all about. Relief
flooded through my body as I read the sign: Greater New York Paint Ball. It was
indeed going to be a night of fun.

“We are going to play
a little paintball
war
,” Alicia said as we walked into the building.

There were about a dozen other couples there and all dressed in black
vests and holding guns that looked like machine guns, though I
knew,
they were actually paintball guns.

The other couples seemed really serious about their
gameplay
and were dressed to kill. I wasn’t
sure which team we would be on, but I wanted to make sure I wasn’t on the
losing team. All of the men in the group looked like they would should me in
the head, not that shooting in the head was allowed.

“No shooting in the head or neck,” the instructor said.

I was instantly relieved.

My preppy look was probably what had everyone looking at me weird. My
loafers and button up shirt probably weren’t very appropriate for the
battlefield
. Luckily, they had some sweats I
could purchase so I was a little more comfortable as we got ready to start our
battle.

“I think we should try a new type of battle today,” the instructor said
with a smile. “Since we have an equal number of men and women; how would you
all feel about
a guys versus girls battle
?”

Everyone looked at each other for a moment and I could tell what they
were thinking. The men were all bigger and stronger than the women. It didn’t
seem like a fair battle at all.

“Let’s kill those suckers,” one of the women yelled out.

The game was on!

If the women didn’t have a problem fighting the bigger and stronger men,
we certainly weren’t going to turn down the battle.

“When I push this horn you will have ten minutes to gather your
team
and head into the woods. Remember, any hit
to the torso is a kill and you will need to return here. Last team standing
will win.”

The instructor blew his air horn and I ran after all the men as they went
south from the cabin. The women didn’t run off at all and instead stayed in
front of the cabin and seemed to be discussing something. I felt bad for them,
there was no way they were going to beat this group of guys. Half of them
looked like they were in the military and the other half looked like they were
going to do anything possible to make sure they didn’t get beat by the women.”
 
        
I’ll
admit that the men’s strategy was not as good as it could have been.
Basically,
they decided to spread out and move
in slowly toward the women. Shooting them as we went. On the
surface,
the plan seemed alright, but we
clearly had not thought it through. Or paid very close attention to how many
women had stayed at the base camp.

Our group of 13 men talked only briefly before we spread out and made a
large ½ mile radius around where we had last seen the women. My goal was to
just shoot them when I saw them. I didn’t know anything else that would work
better.

The problem was, I didn’t see any of the women. I could hear the group of
women far ahead of me, but I didn’t see any others outside of the group. I
wondered if the other men were having similar issues.

Then I heard a
paintball
gun go off
and a guy
yelled
out.

“Fuck,” he said. “She’s in the tree.”

Two other guys went over toward where the first one had been ‘killed’ and
they looked up toward the trees and were immediately
snipered
with purple paint.

The instructor reminded the guys that they couldn’t holler out tips if
they were dead and the three dead guys went back to the cabin. I had seen what
happened, but I couldn’t see the woman who was in the tree. I didn’t want to
risk going over there so
instead
, I made
my way toward the women’s voices that I heard about 200 yards away from the
cabin.