Chapter 7
Grey
Cameron didn’t call me. I rode home with Leo and I asked without asking about her and he told me that he hadn’t heard from her since he dropped her off.
“She is not really our style Grey. I think it is good that you are getting away from chicks like Kaika. They are a whole different class of women.”
I was surprised by his words. Kaika was about as classy as they got. She came from a good family and had almost as much money as I did. That was part of her charm, we were supposed to be together, but it never translated into anything more than just a well-made match.
“What do you mean?”
“Cameron had better behavior. She treated me like a person instead of an employee. I don’t know Grey; there was something about her that drew me in. Are you dating her?”
I couldn’t believe where this conversation was going and I disliked even worse the answer to his question. I should have been able to say that I was, but Cameron had shut me down. It was not something that I liked to admit to myself, let alone out loud to someone else. I wasn’t told no very often and I know now how much I hated it.
“No, we met by chance and I was just helping her out. She is new to the area.”
“A stranger that you met by chance?”
I agreed with a slight nod. “I need to know where you met a girl like her, because I never find anything good.”
“I met her at a rest area. Her car had overheated and we just started talking. I offered her a bed if the hotel was booked and that was that.”
Leo whistled through his teeth. “You have more restraint than I do. Any more, I don’t know if I could have walked away from a woman like that. There aren’t many of them left.”
I hadn’t had much of a choice, but again I wasn’t going to admit it. “She was not looking for that and I wanted to respect it. Cameron is different and she is not like the women I usually meet.” In a way I wish she was because I was left wanting her desperately, but it doesn’t matter now. Now I had to wait and see if she called. It was not a place I liked to be in and there was a thought in mind to go out and drink a little bit of her away, but I wasn’t going to do that. I wanted to, but instead I was going to go home and get some work done. I couldn’t think of it as waiting for her, I just couldn’t. It would just drive me nuts.
“You could have had her Grey. You can have anyone you want. Do you really think she was any different in that way than all of the rest?”
I knew that I could have pressed it, but I didn’t want it like that. I would make her come many times over and she would be hooked, but I wanted her to submit to me. It was more as far as I was concerned. I just wanted more from her, so much more.
“Probably, but I like to get the woman to give it up to me, against her best thoughts. It’s not a game. I just want her to want me, as much as I want her.”
Leo was surprised as much as I was for my confession. I usually didn’t talk this way and it was because I felt so differently about Cameron. Still wasn’t sure why, but not everything had to make sense, right?
“Sounds like you got it bad. I don’t think I have ever seen you like this over a broad Grey. Good for you. “It is the best when they twist us up, isn’t it?”
I felt twisted up in all ways and none of them felt very good. All I could think about was Cameron and her vision of beauty in the mirror when she was standing naked in the bathroom. It was all I could think about and Leo’s words weren’t helping take my mind to another direction.
“I don’t know about that, but she is pulling me from my boredom.”
“So when are you going to see her again?”
“I don’t know if I will or not. She has my number.”
“And you are going to wait and see if she calls?”
I nodded that I was and he just shook his head in disbelief. “I don’t know if I would leave that shit up to chance. You need to lock it down Grey. Do whatever it is you do to women and make her fall for you. I wish I had that power like you do. I couldn’t let her get away and nothing would be better than her feeling the exact same way.”
Again, I felt a bit of jealousy that he was paying her that much attention, but he was right. She was beautiful and in the city she wasn’t going to stay single long. I needed to get her in my bed and underneath me before I lost my chance. But I didn’t have her number and I didn’t have a way to find her. That was before when my confidence was high and I was sure I would hear from her. Now I didn’t know if I would and the idea of her not coming back upset me a bit too much for any liking.
“I don’t have her number.”
“You have never let anything stop you before. If you don’t want to put in the effort, I will give it a go and see if I can find her.”
I grimaced at his smiling face in the rearview mirror. “No, that won’t be necessary.”
“Well then…”
I got his point and the car was stopping in front of the apartment building.
“Are we going anywhere tonight boss?”
Lately I had been going out a lot, but for once I was just going to stay in. And not wait for a call.
“No, I think I am going to call it a night Leo.”
“Really? Are you going to have another late night drive?”
I sighed to myself. It was like nothing was ever sacred or a surprise to anyone. Everyone seemed to know what it was that I was doing and it bothered me a little more each time it was brought to my attention.
“No, just going to stay home and look over some briefs that I have been meaning to go through. I haven’t been getting it all done at work. A little too much partying and too many women.”
Leo grinned, but there was something about his expression that told me that he still wanted to talk about Cameron some more. I didn’t want to talk about her. I couldn’t and I certainly didn’t like the way he talked about her. He was right though. Cameron wasn’t going to stay single that long if she stayed in New York. She was too beautiful for that and she didn’t even know it. That was the best kind of woman after all.
Leo dropped me off and I thought about the day. I went to the room she had stayed in, hoping that she had left something, but it was clean and arranged back to the way it was before. It was like she had never even stayed there. Was it all something that I made up? It almost felt that way with every bit of her gone like she had truly never existed.
I sat down on the bed, remembering the stolen kiss and wishing that I had pressed for more. She would have said yes. I am sure of it. I am sure that she would have let me, because she had been as turned on as I was. Leo was right. I could have had her, but she had been acting different than I was used to. It was not like she was playing hard to get, she was hard to get.
That left me in a sort of bind and when Scott called to see what I was up to, I said I wasn’t up to anything.
“Well come out with me Grey and we will have some fun. I am here for a little while longer and I know that there is somewhere that will make our day turnaround.”
I had a feeling that he was talking about the strip club again and even though the last time had caused me so much trouble, I knew that he was right. It would take my mind off of Cameron and that is what I needed most. I wasn’t used to worrying about women and I didn’t like it. I didn’t like waiting around for my phone to maybe ring. I was not used to it at all and it wasn’t something that I wanted to get used to.
“Yeah, hell. I don’t want to stay around here all day. Meet me there and I will be there in about thirty minutes.”
Scott agreed and I got off of the phone with him, full of mixed emotions. It wasn’t what I wanted to do with my night, but it was what was going to happen at the moment. If I couldn’t stop thinking about her normally, then work be damned, I would go to the tried and true method of drinking her away.
It didn’t take long to get ready and make my way out for the night. I wasn’t going to call Leo for a ride, not after the conversation we had earlier. I was sure that he was going to ask about her again and I just didn’t want to hear about her or talk about her. I wanted to forget that I had ever met the vixen. She was causing problems and I hadn’t even gotten her underneath me yet.
Why the hell couldn’t I stop thinking about Cameron?