Paranormal Erotic Romance Box Set (43 page)

“I can help you
with that, Zoe,” Dr. Connor said and turned her head toward him. “I will help
you with that.”

“You don’t even
know me,” Zoe said and closed her eyes.

“I do know you.
Not as much as I’d like to, but if you haven’t noticed, I’ve been trying pretty
damn hard to fix that.”

Zoe looked at
him and smiled. He held his breath as he stared at her. He didn’t want to
exhale until she gave him her phone number.

“Okay,” she said
and sighed as she took her phone out of her purse. “What’s your number?”

Dr. Connor took Zoe’s
phone from her hand and dialed his number. His cell phone rang and he took it
out of his suit pocket. He looked at the screen and smiled.

“Now I have it.
I will never forget this number, Zoe.”

“Okay,” she said
and slid out of the front seat. “I’m going in now.”

“So, tonight?”
Dr. Connor said as he stared at Zoe’s ass, still quite lovely even under the
large sweatpants she wore.

Zoe turned
around and knelt in the open door of Dr. Connor’s car.

“You’re not
married, are you?”

Dr. Connor held
up his left hand and shook his head.

“Absolutely not.
Not yet, at least,” he said and winked.

“Okay,” Zoe said
and smiled, “tonight.”

That night
turned into the next and the next and the next.

Zoe decided she
would do something different with this one. She made him wait and work to get
her pussy. Zoe was as wildly attracted to Dr. Connor as he was to her, but she
vowed not to fuck this relationship up and tried to ratchet down her neediness.
However Dr. Connor made it very hard.

From the first
date, Allen Connor pulled out all the stops. Every day for two weeks, he sent
one dozen long-stemmed roses to her apartment and one dozen to her office. He
took her for expensive meals, outdoor concerts, picnics, museums and even asked
her to shop with him for new furniture for the large brownstone he bought in
the north end. He not only swept her off her feet, he made damn sure they never
touched the ground. And Zoe could not believe her good fortune...her luck
finally turned.

So Zoe was happy,
Dr. Connor was over the moon, however, there was one person who was anything
but ecstatic at the turn of events in Zoe’s life.

Vicky Westwood
wanted to strangle Zoe. She paced her room as Zoe got ready for her sixth date
with the handsome doctor who rescued Zoe from the sidewalk in front of Mitchell
Rowlett’s brownstone.

“How could this
have happened?” she said to herself as she flopped on her bed and punched
herself in the stomach. “This cannot have happened!”

“What cannot
have happened?” Zoe said as she walked into Vicky’s room, dressed beautifully
for her date.

Vicky scrambled
to sit up on her bed and stared at Zoe.

“Nothing. I lost
something for graduation.”

“Oh. Hey, can I
borrow your gold hoops?”

“Yes,” Vicky
said and sighed.

“What’s wrong?” Zoe
said as she fluffed her hair in Vicky’s vanity mirror.

“I’m just
stressed...graduation, you know. You’re going to be there, right? I mean, my
mother couldn’t even bother to make it back from Europe. At least she sent a
check.”

Zoe turned and
looked at her friend. She always felt sorry for Vicky when she thought of how
hard she tried to make her mother proud. From the time they were young, Vicky’s
mother’s solution for the daughter she never had time for was to throw money at
the sad girl. Vicky wanted what everyone wanted: love and acceptance. And where
Zoe felt Dr. Allen Connor fulfilled those needs in Zoe, Vicky had no one. Zoe
also felt scared to talk to Vicky about what she and Dr. Connor talked about
the night before.

Dr. Connor, in
the middle of a hot make-out session in the back of his car at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art benefit, asked Zoe to move in with him. Zoe knew this news would
devastate Vicky. They always lived together, but she also knew that this was
her time to shine. After a lifetime of disappointing men and heartbreak, Zoe
finally found the one. And she could not allow him to slip through her fingers.

“Of course I’m
going to be there! I wouldn’t miss it for anything. Friday, eight o’clock,
right?” Zoe said and sat on the edge of the bed and threw her arm around Vicky.

Vicky looked at Zoe
and managed a smile.

“Thank you,” she
said as she rested her head on Zoe’s shoulder and inhaled deeply. “I love that
perfume. It’s so sexy.”

“Isn’t it?” Zoe
said. “It drives Allen wild.”

“So where is Doctor
Love taking you tonight?”

“The Pops are
playing in the park. He’s arranged a picnic.”

Vicky stared at
her friend’s outfit and shook her head.

“How the hell
are you going to sit on the ground in that skirt? I mean, I can practically see
your panties and you’re sitting up! Or is that the point?” Vicky said and
stared at Zoe’s tan, shapely thighs.

“God, no. I
better change.”

“
God, no
?
When did you turn into such a prude?”

“It’s an
experiment,” Zoe said and smiled. “Since everything I’ve always done with men
never works, I’m doing the complete opposite.

Vicky stared at
her gorgeous friend and laughed.

“What?” Zoe said
and stared into Vicky’s eyes. “It’s not that funny!”

“You’re serious?
The complete opposite? Are you telling me that you’ve been seeing Doctor Perfect
for nearly two weeks and you’ve not fucked him?”

“That’s exactly
what I am telling you. Nothing more than making out.”

“Nothing more
than...you are out of your mind! Not even a dry hump or two in his car?”

“Nope. Not even.
He’s working for it and believe me, it’s not easy, but I’m pleased with the
results.” Zoe said and smiled.

“Well,” Vicky
said and shook her head, “it’s your funeral. I’m sure your vibrator has clocked
quite a few miles in these past two weeks.”

“Nope. We made a
pact.”

“A what?”

“A pact. We
promised each other. We promised we won’t even cum...even alone...until we do
it together.”

“You’re kidding
me?” Vicky said. “So after you guys make out and the two of you go back to your
respective corners, you don’t even masturbate? Give me a fucking break.”

“It’s the truth,”
Zoe said and giggled. “I know it must be hard to believe for Miss Super Sex,
but we promised. Plus, can you imagine how explosive it’s going to be when we
finally do it? It’s going to be something absolutely special and I can’t wait.
I’m tired of the cold showers.”

“Yeah,” Vicky
said and smiled slyly, “I can imagine. So he’s not even jacking off? Please!
And you believe him?”

“Of course I
believe him,” Zoe said and stood from Vicky’s bed. “Why shouldn’t I?”

Of course Zoe
should never believe a word that a man like Dr. Connor says, but in this case,
she was right.

Dr. Connor honored
their silly pact and it was killing him. This was the longest he’d gone without
cumming, either alone or with others, since he was eleven-years-old. He had a
two-week case of blue balls and he was getting weaker. Of course the women at
the hospital didn’t help. Never had he noticed women throwing their pussies at
him as if they were Frisbees more than during the pact. And the lack of release
was causing the normally sensible man to do many things that were out of
character for him.

Like asking Zoe
to move in with him.

He couldn’t
believe the question flew out of his mouth. But fly it did and, much to his
regret, Zoe accepted his invitation. This was a step that he was not ready to
take, but he knew he couldn’t take it back. He just hoped that Zoe was worth
it. Not that he had any intention of giving up his extracurricular life after
they fulfilled the pact, but he knew he would have to be a lot more creative.
Besides, having a woman like Zoe in his home may quell his parent’s
disappointment at the fact he rejected his father’s plan to go into private
practice. Dr. Connor talked himself into the idea as he drove to Zoe’s
apartment to pick her up for his special surprise.

“You never bring
strange back to your house anyway,” Dr. Connor said to himself as he looked
into his rearview mirror. “This girl better be worth it.”

Zoe was upstairs
getting ready for Vicky’s graduation ceremony when the doorman called the apartment
to announce Dr. Connor’s presence. She looked at the clock and grabbed her
purse and ran downstairs.

“What are you
doing here?” She said as she ran across the lobby and threw her arms around
him. “I thought you were working the night shift.”

“I had to see
you,” he said as he gathered her in his arms for a hug. “I want you to come
with me. I have a surprise for you.”

Zoe pulled away
from Dr. Connor and stared at him and then looked around the lobby. The
residents of the building stared at the gorgeous couple with nothing but envy
and Zoe felt proud.

“But I can’t,”
she said and brushed a lock of his hair away from his long, dark eyelashes. “I
have Vicky’s graduation. I can’t miss it.”

Dr. Connor
frowned and closed his eyes. A bolt of fear shot right to Zoe’s heart. She
disappointed him.

This is how it
starts and if I don’t go with him, he’ll find someone who is free to spend time
with, she thought.

“It’s a special
thing,” he said and smiled until the dimples she was enamored with popped up.

“But--”

“You won’t,” he
said.

Zoe stared into
his eyes and shook her head.

“No, I can’t. Vicky
is my best friend. I’ve not spent any time with her since you and I started
going out. And I haven’t even told her that I’m moving in with you yet. I’ll be
the only one there for her. No one in her family is even showing up. It will
crush her if I don’t go, Allen,” Zoe said and glanced at her watch.

This was Dr.
Connor’s test for Zoe. He was about to see if she passed.

“Do you remember
when the hospital phoned me and asked me to pull a shift last Wednesday?” Dr.
Connor said and sighed.

“I--”

“No, just
listen. The hospital called when we were having dinner at Brandolino’s, right?
And what did I say to them? I said I won’t come in. I did not say I can’t come
in, I said I won’t come in.
Will not
. Do you know why that is, Zoe?”

Zoe hung her
head.

“Look at me,”
Dr. Connor said and lifted Zoe’s chin. “Good. Now why did I say won’t and not
can’t?”

“I’m not sure?”

“No,” he said
and sighed, “you’re not sure, are you? That’s okay, I’ll tell you this one
time, but listen up because if you and I are going to work out, it is vitally
important that you understand this. Vitally as if your life depends on it. Do
you understand?”

“Y-yes,” Zoe
said as she wondered what happened to her soft-spoken, accommodating boyfriend.

“Okay, the
reason I didn’t tell Dr. Millet, the Chief of Staff, no less, that I can’t come
in and rather said that I won’t come in is because there is no can’t. Get it?”

“There is no can’t?”
Zoe said.

“Make that a
statement and you are one hundred percent correct. There is no such thing as
can’t. You see, I could go in to the hospital, however, you and I were in the
middle of a beautiful date. I would not go into the hospital because I did not
want to end our date. So, you can go with me to see your surprise, but you won’t
go with me to see your surprise.”

“But--”

“And as there is
no can’t, there’s no but either. Because when you say but, Zoe, you will negate
everything you say before and in most cases, after.”

Zoe’s brain spun
out as she tried to figure out what to do and what her lifetime use of cant’s
and but’s meant. And as Dr. Connor turned away from her and she watched the
back of his head bob as he walked toward the revolving door of the lobby, she
knew that while she was going to crush Vicky, she would not risk losing Dr.
Connor.

“Allen, wait,” Zoe
said as she ran after her man.

Dr. Connor
stopped and bowed his head at the lobby door. He smiled as he looked at his
glossy wingtips. Zoe passed the test.

The surprise
that Dr. Connor planned for Zoe could have been postponed, of course, but he
wanted to show her the new bed he purchased just for her, but any hope he had
of getting her into that bed was dashed when Vicky called Zoe’s cell phone when
Zoe didn’t show up for her graduation ceremony.

Zoe always felt
like she was in trouble when she disappointed someone.

When she didn’t
show up for Vicky’s ceremony and Vicky called her incessantly when she was at
Dr. Connor’s, Zoe felt like she was in the most trouble in her life. Zoe had an
incredible capacity for guilt and the guilt she felt about missing the ceremony
coupled with the fact she was moving in with Allen and still had not told Vicky,
filled her to the brim. She resented the fact that she had to rush from Dr.
Connor’s surprise and she hope he understood. Her guilt notwithstanding,
disappointing Dr. Connor was a million times worse than disappointing anyone
else in her life. Be that as it may, she was terrified of confronting Vicky.