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When the back-and-forth began to grow tedious, Koko put her
fingers in her mouth and whistled. The sharp, loud noise brought the two men’s
attention directly to her. “Can we try this again? What’s going on?”

“Obviously my brother is interfering again,” Reese said
coolly. “I’m sorry he bothered you.”

“He didn’t bother me. I just don’t…” A faint bruise
underneath Reese’s left eye drew her attention. “Are you okay? What happened?”

Reese brushed his finger a crossed the mark. “Oh this. It’s
nothing.”

“How did nothing happen?”

“It was a memory lesson.”

Koko frowned. “What kind of lesson is that?”

“It’s one where I pound on someone’s face long enough they
not only forgot their name but yours too.”

“Pound…” Her mouth dropped open in horror. “You didn’t.”

“Oh, he did. I have the pictures to prove it. Would you like
to see them?”

“No, she would not,” Reese answered before she could get the
opportunity. “I took care of it and that’s all you need to know.”

“Yeah, if you think you’re just going to dismiss this
conversation so easily, you’re dead wrong.”

Malachi laughed. “Brother. I like her.”

Reese shot the other man an annoyed look before turning
gentler eyes on Koko. “Can we talk?”

“I’d like that very much.”

“Go ahead and leave the cart in here. I’m sure it would only
get in the way.”

Reese took her hand as they headed in the direction of the
elevator. “I should have drowned him at birth.”

Koko cast a glance over her shoulder at the other man, who
was watching them with a smile on his handsome face. “I kind of like him.”

Reese snorted. “He’s meddlesome.”

“He wants to see his brother happy.”

“His brother can take care of his own happiness.”

“Oh yeah?”

The elevator door opened and Reese hustled her in. “Oh
yeah.”

“Prove it.”

“It would be my pleasure.” Reese clicked the button to the
lobby then turned back to look at her with a devilish grin in his eyes. “Going
down.”

Koko pushed him against the wall and lowered herself to her
knees. “You better believe it.”

Chapter Six

Reese stood as if in complete shock. The very last thing he
expected to see when he went to his brother’s office was Koko. He’d been
thinking so hard about her, wondering how much time he should give her before
approaching her again, and then
bam
, out of the blue, there she was,
chatting it up in Malachi’s office.

And now the woman he hadn’t been able to get out of his head
was on her knees in front of him, undoing his pants. He’d never been this lucky
in his life. “Koko, come up here.”

“I like where I am right here.” She unzipped his pants and
slipped her hand inside to cop a feel. A really, really good feel. She hadn’t
even bothered to unbutton him, which made her movements seem even seedier and
sexier for some reason. “Don’t you?”

He opened his mouth to respond only to end up getting his
words tangled up with a moan as she took hold of his shaft in her soft, warm
hand. “Oh Ko— Hmm.”

Reese cleared his throat. Hard. He was going to have to get
his shit together if he was ever going to get any words to come out. The very
last thing he wanted was for this to be just another one-time deal. If they
fucked this time, it would have to be because there was going to be a next time
soon.

As much as it pained him to do it, Reese reached down and
pulled Koko’s hand away from his cock. He used his grasp to bring her to her
feet. Once she was steady, he brought her soft hands up to his mouth and kissed
her fingertips. “Let’s take a step backward, shall we, and talk for a minute.”

“Talk…in an elevator.” Koko pulled her hands free and placed
them on the lapel of his jacket then pushed it off his shoulders and to the
floor. “I think you’re asking too much.”

He could see her point. Just being next to her for this
short of time was already having a very uplifting effect on his cock. “Fine,
let’s talk fast.”

She undid his belt and pulled it through the loops. “Real
fast.”

“Not that I’m not pleased to see you.” He grabbed her hand
and placed it on his bulge for a second before letting it go again. “And
believe me when I say I’m pleased, but what are you doing here? I thought you
wanted to call a timeout because of your business.”

A reason he respected but hated in equal doses.

“Constance and I decided it would be easier to change our
marketing strategy than it would be to change me. Plus, I agreed the next time
I found myself in a situation like this,” to his surprise and pleasure, she
grabbed the hem of her shirt and pulled it over her head, “I make sure I wasn’t
wearing a company shirt.”

“I like this plan.” He ran his hungry gaze over her
lace-covered breasts. “I really like this plan.”

“Plus, I was pouting. Missing you, even though it’s only
been one day. I kept reminding myself of that exact fact too, but it didn’t
make the longing stop. It’s not normal.”

“Not at all,” he agreed. “But what’s so good about normal
anyway?”

“My thoughts exactly,” she said with a smile.

It was her smile that did him in. Reese couldn’t resist her
a second longer. He bent low and tasted her lips lightly before dipping his
tongue inside and deepening the kiss. He enjoyed the sweet moment for what it
was, reveling in it for a few moments before he pulled away and began to
undress. He had to be inside her again. The quicker, the better.

Koko ran her tongue over her lips as if she were chasing his
taste as she watched him. “Now your turn. I have two questions for you.” She
undid the front clasp of her bra. “Brothers? Really?”

“Yeah.” Reese grimaced as took his shirt off. This was not
the sort of thing he wanted to be thinking about right now. “I don’t really
want to talk about Malachi while you’re taking your clothes off. There’s
something so not right about that.”

She’d been in the process of peeling the cup away, but
paused. “I can get redressed if you like.”

Fuck that
. “We’re half brothers. Same mother,
different fathers. We didn’t grow up together. We reconnected when he was in
his teens, been together ever since. The end,” he said, really fast. “Lose the
bra.”

Koko laughed but did as he requested. “Wow, that was easy.”

“I can get a lot done with the right motivation,” he
remarked as he unsnapped his pants and pushed them, along with his boxers, to
the floor.

“Honey, I’m all the motivation you’ll ever need.”

Reese toed off his shoes then stepped out of the puddle of
clothing on the floor and moved closer to her, nude as the day he was born. “I
could not agree more.”

“Last question.” He watched hungrily as she unsnapped her
jeans and slowly lowered the zipper.

“Make it good because you’ll be too busy to do much talking
after.”

“Hmmm, you promise?” She slipped her hands inside her
waistband and pushed the denim down over her hips to pool at her feet before
kicking them off her ankles.

His mouth watered as he took in her scantily clad form.
Reese wasn’t sure the red scrap of fabric could actually be considered
underwear, but he’d be damned if he didn’t find it arousing just the same. “I
guarantee it.”

“Did you fight that guy who came into the deli?”

Somehow he knew she was going to ask and frankly, just
thinking about the other man made him want to hit the bastard again. “Fight
implies he had a chance.”

“Did he?”

“Not a chance in hell.”

She reached up and gently touched the mark under his eye.
“But the bruise?”

“Had to make it look good. Legal reasons. Although I don’t
really think the cops bought it. Not much they can do about it though. He did
swing at me first.”

“And you did what then?”

“Beat the piss out of him. I mean that literally by the
way.”

Koko tossed her head back and laughed. The sound, like the
woman, was sexy as hell. “What am I going to do with you?”

A question with an easy answer. Reese backed her against the
wall. “Fuck me.”

“My pleasure.”

“No.” He lifted her up and pinned her against the wall. “Our
pleasure.”

Koko wrapped her legs around his waist. “Yes, indeed,” she
said, before covering her mouth with his.

Koko might have initiated the kiss, but Reese was the one
who dominated it. Taking over, which she was beginning to see was his way, he
slipped his tongue between her lips. Her nipples tightened as her pussy began
to swell. If it weren’t for the panties she still had on, she knew she would
have left a damp trail against his midriff.

The man was simply divine. How she’d lasted a day without
tasting him, she didn’t know. They hadn’t been together for more than a few
minutes before she’d been on her knees in front of him again. The attraction
between them was too strong to ignore or resist, and she wasn’t going to, not
for a second longer. The whys and hows of their coming together weren’t
important. All that mattered was she was his, be it for today, a week or a
year, it didn’t matter. She wouldn’t walk away from him again.

Groaning, Koko broke the kiss and glanced over at the
numbers on the panel. They were getting dangerously close to the ground floor.
“You better hit up again.”

“Or better yet…” Without releasing her, Reese reached over
to the panel and hit the large red button. The elevator came to a jarring stop.
The small room instantly filled with a loud, grating siren that made their
little rendezvous less than romantic.

“Was this part of the plan?”

“Yes. Fabulous, isn’t it?”

“I don’t kno—”

Before she could finish her thought, a loud voice boomed
over the loudspeaker. “Mr. Sarraf, this is Kirby in maintenance. Your elevator
stopped, sir, we’re checking now to see what the problem is. Would you like me
to contact Mr. Desoto while you wait?”

“Kirby, this is Desoto. Cut the siren and then get back to
work. The elevator is in working order. I’ve stopped it for another reason.”

“Yes sir, Mr. Desoto.”

The alarm shut off, blanketing the compartment with blessed
silence. “Now where were we?” Reese asked as if they’d never been interrupted.

Koko had to hand it to him. The man had skills. “You were
about to lie back on the floor and let me ride you.”

“Oh yes.” He nodded sagely. “That’s exactly where we were,
but before you sit on my cock, I want you to sit on my face while you suck me
off.”

His words were dirty yet it completely worked for her. “I
think something can be arranged.”

“I know it can.”

There was absolutely no delicate ladylike way to cop a squat
over a guy’s face, but Koko did it with as much dignity as she could, all the
while keeping her eye on the prize. His cock. She was so hungry for a taste of
his thick dick that she licked her lips in anticipation.

The second she moved into position, Reese went in for the
kill. His enthusiasm was contagious and exciting. Leaning forward, Koko
engulfed Reese’s cock in her mouth and took him as deep as she could in one
fell swoop without gagging. Unlike some lucky bitches, Koko had a gag reflex,
so she couldn’t suck him as fast or as deep as she wanted, but she worked with
what she could, humming and lapping around the tastiest cock she’d ever had the
pleasure of taking between her lips.

Closing her eyes, she tried her best to concentrate on
pleasing Reese, but the longer she worked his pole, the more difficult it
became to do a good job because he apparently was just as intent on driving her
out of her mind with pleasure as she was him, but in her opinion at least, he
was winning.

His talented tongue was keeping her off balance. Since this
was the first time she’d given him head, Koko of course wanted to bring her A
game. She was too busy feeling and enjoying the wicked things he was doing with
his mouth to do more than give him lip service. She was ashamed of herself, but
she was also about to come. Talk about a conundrum.

Unable to hold out any longer, Koko pulled her mouth free
from his cock. “Reese…I…can’t…” She whimpered her need. “Oh…fuck…” She couldn’t
even get a sentence out, it was that good.

Here she was in an elevator sixty-nining with a man she’d
met two days ago. As dirty and wrong as it was, the very idea made her hot as
hell and the thought, along with Reese’s very talented tongue, had her coming
and coming hard.

Koko released her grasp on his cock out of fear of hurting
him and braced her hands on the floor beside his thighs. “Oh fuck. Stop, stop,
stop,” she pleaded as she tried her best to move off and away from Reese’s
mouth. “Please. Stop.”

“What’s wrong?” He spoke so close to her aroused clit that
the words wafted across her overheated flesh.

“I need you inside me. Now.”

“Greedy.” He released his hold on her thigh, allowing her to
crawl off him.

“Condom,” she demanded, too impatient for
please
and
thank
you
.

Reese pointed to his slacks in the corner. “In the wallet,
which is in my back pocket.”

“On it.” Desperate, Koko made quick work of finding her
prize. She ripped into the square foil before she even came back to his side.
“Let me…”

“No,” he said firmly. “You’re too keyed up. You might rip
it, which means no sex.”

That would be a tragedy. “Good point.”

Impatient as ever, Koko watched as Reese suited up for their
protection. The second he was done though, she crawled right over him and
maneuvered into place. “You hungry for my cock, angel?”

“Starving.”

“It’s all yours. Come get it and bring it home.”

She didn’t have to be told twice. Koko placed one hand on
his chest for leverage while she used the other to guide his condom-covered
shaft into her sex. As she descended on his thick shaft, Koko dropped her head
back and let out a deep breath.