Womanizer (A Standalone Novel) (A Steamy Alpha Billionaire Romance) (4 page)

Chapter 6

I didn’t mind taking a pretty girl on a date; in fact I enjoyed the
conversation. Women were just a different breed and it was nice to spend time
with them. I don’t just mean beautiful women, almost every woman I had met I
enjoyed talking to in one way or another.

Sure there were the ones that annoyed me. But I found it sort of a game
to try and find a topic that they could talk about that wouldn’t drive me
crazy. The key was to find something that they were passionate about. As soon
as you found their passion, you could zero in on a much more vulnerable area of
their life. When let their guard down as they talked about their passion it was
beautiful. If you showed a genuine interest in something that they were
passionate about, you pretty much guaranteed that you would get laid that
night.

I had an idea that Alicia
was used
to guys meeting her and trying to take her out. I needed to stand out if I
wanted to have a chance with her at all. It was a balance between standing out
and looking like a schmuck though and I wasn’t about to look like a schmuck to
any woman.

I used my car service and pulled up in front of Alicia’s building. I was
eager to see her apartment and see if I could figure out where she might store
her personal files. Women tended to keep their personal and important things
close to them so I didn’t think she would keep all those files at work. Perhaps
she had a home office I could sneak into?

Unfortunately as I got out of my
car,
I saw Alicia exiting her building. She was prompt and ready to go. Either eager
to go on a date with me or eager to get it over with; I wasn’t sure just yet.

“Wow, you’re stunning.”

“That’s sweet of you, thank you.”

I held the car door open for Alicia and she climbed into the black sedan.
She was stunning. It wasn’t a
pick-up
line at all. I had trained myself well to be able to find genuine compliments
for a woman. As much as men liked to think that women didn’t care what you
complimented them on; they did. A woman would not see the compliment as genuine
if you couldn’t maintain eye contact with them and smile as you gave the
compliment. So it was just easier to actually find things to compliment a woman
on instead of using the same line as every other guy.

“Did you do something different with your hair? It looks like one of
those supermodels in Times Square,” I said as I reached out and gently touched
the tip of her hair.

Alicia smiled and I felt like I had received my first win of the night. A
very slight softening of her demeanor happened and I could see here blue eyes
look at me for a brief second with a little less
disdain
than before.

Alicia was clearly a beautiful woman and I had to believe she knew it.
She appeared to be very confident and didn’t seem to need the typical
reassurance about her looks. But under her hardcore business woman appearance,
I was sure there was a soft woman that I could get what I wanted from.

“I might have showered,” she said with a sly smile.

“
Well,
that was nice of you.”

“Yeah, I wouldn’t want you to have to be tortured by my sweaty gym
smell.”

I paused for a moment to think about Alicia all drenched in sweat. It
didn’t seem like a bad idea at all. I even got a semi hard on thinking about
her on top of me all drenched in sweat. Her body trembling as I fucked her. Oh,
how I couldn’t wait for when I could slide inside of her.
She didn’t look like the kind of girl that got laid
very often, I bet she would cum so fast for me that I’d have to fuck her again
and again just to get her good and tired.

“I think I’d like to see you sweaty,” I grinned.

“Yes, I guarantee you would.”

I stopped dead in my tracks. This girl had just given me back a level of
flirting that I was not prepared for. She smiled and made eye contact and I was
more than willing to let her take the lead. She hadn’t
stricken
me as the type of woman who liked to be in charge of her
sexual relationship, but perhaps she was.

“I like your guarantee.”

We continued in silence as the driver took us to a restaurant on the
Westside. Genoa’s Restaurant was a romantic Italian place that I had come to on
many dates. I felt comfortable there. It was small and intimate and gave my
women a chance to feel more at ease. A big popular restaurant was always
impressive if I had a woman who didn’t appear to have the money for those kinds
of places. But Alicia had the money and I knew I couldn’t impress her with a
fancy restaurant. Small and casual, with amazing
food,
would have to do.

As we walked into
Genoa’s,
I placed
my hand at the small of Alicia’s back. The electricity that shot through my
body was beyond what I was prepared for. Lust, desire, a need for this woman
electrified my fingers.

I had placed my hand on dozens of women’s backs over the years; never had
I felt the desire that I
did at
that
moment.

I felt her muscles as she moved. I felt her skin under a very thin layer
of fabric. My fingers delicately moved on her back as I took in this new and
unusual sensation. I wanted more of it. I wanted all of her. At that moment, I
decided I needed to seduce her. I needed to feel
myself
inside of her and then I would figure out the financial of
her company.

My eyes watched the nap of her neck as she moved her hair out of the way.
Her exposed skin begged for me to place my lips on there, but it was too soon.
I tried to see what her tattoo said, but it was halfway covered. I had to
behave, for a little bit longer. There was a fine line between showing a woman
you were interested in her and totally creeping her out. My desire for Alicia
was clouding my judgment on where that fine line was located at.

“Let me,” I said to the waiter as he went to pull out Alicia’s chair for
her.

“Oh thank you. That is sweet of you.”

I had been here enough times that the waiter knew this game. His name was
Scott and I always tipped him very well after I had a date there. He and I had
coordinated a symphony for my date nights that would always leave my date in
awe of how kind I was.

“I hope you’re hungry. They have the best Italian food on this side of
the park.”

“I hope they have some nice juicy meatballs,” Alicia said as she looked
me in the eyes.

Holy fuck! This woman was playing me with her flirting. I loved it. Her witty
remarks were on par with my humor and were totally throwing me off my normal
dating game.

“You like balls in your mouth?” I said with a smile.

“Mmmm, yes, big ones.”

Scott stood there and smiled at our interaction. I knew he was thinking
the exact same thing as I was. This girl was funny. She wasn’t like any other
woman I had brought to that restaurant and I suddenly realized I wasn’t
prepared for a date with a woman like her.

My dating repertoire had a plan. A basic set of rules of what I would
say, how they normal reacted and how I would proceed with the night
in order to
get them into bed. Alicia’s
responses were nothing like other women. She was funny and irreverent and I liked
it.

“Girl, you are killing me.”

“Oh don’t die. I thought we were going to fuck later.”

“Oh yeah. You thought that?”

“Yeah, I have it all planned out. I’ll flirt and try to be all feminine
and delicate throughout our dinner. You’ll lay on some cheesy line about taking
me home. I’ll invite you up to my apartment and have my way with you.”

“Seems like a reasonable plan,” I laughed. “Scott let’s get our meals to
go.” I joked.

Alicia laughed too and I saw a smile that lit up the entire restaurant.
Her pink lips separated just enough to show off her perfectly straight white
teeth. My eyes fixated on her mouth and for the first time in a very long time,
I wanted to kiss a woman. I wanted her lips to be on mine. I had an urge to
feel them on mine.

Typically the only place I imagine a woman’s lips was wrapped around my
cock. I couldn’t tell why I had wanted to kiss Alicia so badly, but it was a
surprise to me.

“Scott, how about you bring us a bottle of wine and our dinners here?”
Alicia said as she talked to our waiter.

Scott looked to me for
guidance as
he wasn’t sure which one of us he should listen to.

“Yes, Scott; listen to the lady.”

“Mmmm I like
this,
” Alicia said as
she licked her lips.

“What?”

“This between us. It’s electric. Do you feel it?”

Fuck
yeah,
I felt it. There was
something fun and exciting between us. I knew for sure I wasn’t going to be
able to play Alicia like I did other women. But the funny thing was, I didn’t
want to play her. I really enjoyed this back and forth between us. It was probably
as close to a real date as I had been on in years.

“
Oh,
that’s just the vibrator I
brought,” I said as I made a vibrating noise with me mouth.”

Again, she laughed.

It was like a drug to me. Watching her head slide back and look up into
the air as she let out a giggle. Her hand went to her chest and steadied
herself as she let out the sweetest laugh I had heard.

“You’re funny, Evan. Tell me more about yourself.”

My mind swirled with all the things I shouldn’t tell this woman and all
the things I should tell her. It was hard to keep them all straight. I wanted
to find out more about her
company,
but I
had to be strategic about it. I had to tell her just enough so she would talk
to me and not so much that she knew what I was really after.

“I’m a real estate guy. You know, the mini Donald Trump. I know. I know.
I’m still working on the hair thing.”

“I like real estate, but I like to work with my hands more. I think if I
ended up in real estate I’d always want to be on
site
and supervising the
construction
so I could play with the tools.”

For a
moment,
I ignored the obvious
flirt about playing with the tools.

“Yes, getting involved in a renovation is the most fun. So rewarding.
What do you do?”
 
I asked, although I
clearly already knew the answer.

Dinner continued on fantastically well. It was better than any
choreographed date that I could have planned. We drank a bottle of wine between
the two of us and I could see the flush as it filled her cheeks.

Her laughter and playfulness
were
delightful and my need to fuck her had somewhere, somehow changed. I wanted to
know this woman. I wanted to know all about her.

“Can I take you someplace?” I asked as we left the restaurant.

“Your place?” Alicia joked.

“Well
yes,
there of course. But I’d
like to take you to my favorite little place to get a nightcap. Do you want to
join me?”

Alicia just shook her head yes and we stood outside Genoa’s waiting for
our car. She moved her hair to one side of her neck and again I was faced with
the urge to kiss her neck. But this time I couldn’t resist.

My hand followed hers and held her hair off to one side as I leaned down
from behind her and let my lips gently touch the back of her neck. She froze,
but she didn’t move away. I felt her tilt her neck to the side and open it up
for my lips to explore even more. I finally got a good look at her tattoo; it
said “Dream.” I wondered why she had chosen it, but decided I should ask her
later.

Gently I let my lips kiss up her neck to just below her earlobe. I could
feel her pulse under my touch. I could see it quicken with each touch of my
lips.

Her delicate, pale skin was so smooth. It was obvious that Alicia took
good care of herself. I could smell the deliciousness of her skin products. I
felt like I could literally have
eaten
her up right there, so it was a disappointment when the car pulled up.

She reached back and grabbed for my hand as we walked the few steps to
the car. Her gentle touch again
instilled
electricity into my body. Although we only touched for a brief moment, I knew I
needed to feel her more. I had to have more. I had to feel that electricity
again.

Chapter 7

Something changed with Alicia as we walked into the
bar
, Nightly Sinners. It was like she put a
self-inflicted
brake onto the flirting she had
been doing. She didn’t reach for me and she didn’t give me any more of her sexy
jokes. I thought, perhaps, that I had crossed that thin line when I had kissed
her neck. But she was still there with me, so there was hope.

“So why do you love this place so much?” Alicia asked as she looked
around the dark club.

The club was very dark; they used dark light bulbs and didn’t have a
shred of normal light at all. The bartenders even used black lights when they
needed to look for something. The darkness was only part of the appeal. The
music was another thing I loved. The soulful sounds of jazz, rock and any
number of other genres mixed and matched throughout the night to lull you into
a sense of calmness.

“It’s relaxing without being sexy. I think it does a great job of serving
the purpose of what they want people to come in here for.”

“Very true. It’s important in the business world to give people what they
want. I’m trying to do that right now with my business.”

It was finally time to delve into the business dealings. She had opened
up the door to discuss her company. It was with mixed emotions that I would go
through that door. I wanted to know more about her IPO, but I had enjoyed the
flirting so very much.

“What are you doing with your business?”

“Under advisement from my team, we are going to release our company to
the public,” Alicia did not seem happy about the news at all. “It’s what you’re
supposed to do. Right?”

In fact, I thought I saw a sign of sadness in her eyes.
Usually,
companies were excited for the
infusion of cash that an IPO would offer them. It wasn’t often that I saw
someone look so downright sad at the prospect.

“You’re not happy?”

“No. I’m an artist. I started my company purely for that. It has gotten
so huge and so out of control that I don’t have control over it at all
anymore.”

“Well if it’s your company, you should get to decide.”

“Yes, if only that
was
how the
business world worked.” She sighed. “So what about you? Tell me more about your
real estate.”

I couldn’t lie to her, but I really didn’t have much experience in real
estate. My own condo purchasing and remodeling was about my extent of real
estate experience, but that seemed enough for now.

“I bought an old
outdated
condo to
start and then renovated it with a friend. It was the first time I felt truly
accomplished in my life. I continued to sell off one condo and then buy another
until I got here.”

It wasn’t a lie. The truth was that was how I had purchased my current
condo. Always buying something that needed to be renovated and then selling it
off after I had finished making it looked undeniably perfect. I didn’t do the
work myself, but I did give a lot of input into the designs and ideas that I
thought would work best.

“Everyone starts somewhere. Are you doing well now?” she asked.

Many women had asked if I was rich in some sort of roundabout way, but
when Alicia asked I didn’t feel like she meant it that way. It felt different.
Like she was genuinely interested to know if my business was doing well. Some
women would downright ask me how much I made each year. I had started lying to
whatever women I could about what I did for a living. If they thought I was a
bar manager or a law clerk, it was much less likely that they would focus on
the amount of money that I made.

Money was a joy of mine, but I didn’t need the women I was fucking to
know just how much I made each year. I needed something to be kept private.

“Yes, I’m doing very well. Always learning and looking at new
areas,
though. I think that is the key to any
business. You always have to analyze your
downside
and build up your upside.”

“Exactly,” Alicia said as she stared off into the bar.

She wasn’t there with me. For that moment, I could tell her mind was
clearly somewhere outside of that bar. It was alright with
me,
though. I enjoyed watching her without
worry that she would notice.

My eyes leered at her breasts as I saw the top mounds exposed from her
dress. It was a classy dress and she certainly didn’t intend to entice me as
much as she was, but it was sexy because
it
fit
every curve on her body. I found my eyes lingering on her breasts and wondered
what she would do when I wrapped my lips around her nipples. I loved when a
woman was ultra sensitive to having her nipples played with, I loved to hear
them moan as I pulled on them hard with my mouth.

“I’m sorry, I’m distracted. Did you say something?” Alicia asked as she
came back to the present time.

“Nope, I was just staring at you like a stalker,” I joked as I finally
looked away from her breasts.

“I should probably get going. This IPO is really stressing me out. I’m
afraid I won’t be good company for much longer. I just feel so out of control
with all the business talk. It’s like my company is slipping away from me.”

“I know a little about investing. Can I help you at all?”

The sadness in her voice had caused me to offer help when the last thing
I wanted her to know about me was my connection to the stock market.

“No, I think I’ll just have to figure this one out for myself. Thank you
though.”

Alicia got up from the table and started to leave.

I scrambled to pay the check and ran after her. The abruptness in which
she left the bar had me worried.

“Let me take you home,” I said as I got my phone out and summoned a car.

“I’ll be alright. Thank you for a nice evening. I think the wine has just
gotten to me. I need to lay down.”

“My apartment is right there,” I said as I pointed up at the building
across the street. “You are welcome to come home with me. I might even be able
to behave myself and let you rest.”

I genuinely offered her to come to my home and sleep. What had come over
me? I had never once said such a thing and actually meant it. Surely I had come
down with some sort of illness.

“I’ll head home for tonight. Thanks again, Evan. I enjoyed our night.”

Alicia leaned in and kissed me on the cheek and then threw her hand up
in
the air. Within ten
seconds,
a cab had stopped for her, proving my thought that cabs
just liked to stop for pretty ladies. I had never gotten a cab so quick in all
of my life.

“Again?” I asked as I opened the cab for her. “Should we go out again
sometime?”

“Let me finish this business deal and I’ll call you.”

She leaned in close to me and her lips gently touched mine. The softness
of her skin against mine was too much for my body to resist and my cock got
hard with excitement. But before I could reach for her and pull her close to
me, Alicia had slid into the cab and closed her door. She sped off toward her
upper east side apartment and I was left standing there with a rock hard cock
and no electric lips to wrap around it.

Stunned was a good way to describe what I felt. The whole night had gone
nothing like I had planned it. I hadn’t expected to enjoy talking to Alicia so
much. I certainly hadn’t planned to be standing alone at the end of the
night.
 

I made my way across the street to my apartment. I slumped into my couch
as I thought about Alicia and the night. She seemed to hate the idea that her
IPO was happening. That made me sad. It was such an exciting time for
businesses, certainly something that she should be proud of. Her company had
grown enough that it could be sold on the New York Stock Exchange. Did she
understand how many small companies would love to be her?

The night was young and I couldn’t sleep. I tried to watch some
television, but nothing had caught my eye. In fact, I couldn’t even remember
the last time I had turned my television on. I sat there blankly staring at
some hospital show before I gave up and decided to go down to Edwards on 5
^th
.
I needed to fuck someone. I needed to get rid of the pent up energy inside of
me.