Chapter Nine

ENYINNAYA

"How long has it been since you have been staring at me, Mr Amadi?" She questioned stirring up slowly from the bed. 

Was I supposed to say ten minutes or thereabout?  I checked my wristwatch, it had really been about ten minutes but, I wasn't going to let her know that.

"For sometime now. You look peacefully beautiful when you sleep and it was quite enthralling to watch you sleep. Hope you enjoyed your sleep as much as I did mine?"

"Well, I can say I did."

"That's good to hear then. You should have your bath and get dressed, I don't plan to remain within this room all day neither do I plan to let you do that."

"You said you have a meeting with a partner this morning, I hope you don't expect me to be your weekend turned personal assistant, because, I am not planning to go on any business meeting with you."

I laughed hard. She was ever so ready to act stubborn, but she soon will realize that she had no reason to. "Mami, you always like to humour me, don't you? I know I told you that I would like to mix business with pleasure, but do you actually believe that i, Enyinnaya Amadi, a true son of my father, will dally with my multi billion dollars worth business?"

There was a look of confusion on her pretty face as she asked "I don't get you. What do you mean?"

"Oh Mami! You see, I know how smart you are, taking you with me to meet a potential partner with whom I'm yet to seal the deal is like asking a goat to protect a piece of yam. The goat will definitely eat that yam or at least try it's best to. I am not foolish enough to make that mistake."

"What are you getting at Mr Amadi?" She angrily questioned.

"Exactly what you think I am. That I am attracted to you doesn't mean I've lost my mind. I know fully well how ambitious you are, which is a good thing, but I won't be one of the ladders you use to climb to the top." I replied unapologetically.

"How dare you say that!"

"Oh! But I dare to. Are you going to deny it? Isn't it obvious I'm telling the truth? Look around you Mami, you are here in my hotel room with me, expecting me to have sex with you in exchange for a business contract. Only a dangerously ambitious person would do that."

"No that's not true"  she said, stood up from the bed and came to stand before me. "Maybe a person who has no other choice but to do so, would."

"We both know that as much as you would like it to be true, it's not, you had a choice and you choose this. What was I expecting to hear from you, even prostitute would use that as an excuse for....." My sentence was cut short as a resounding slap landed on my left cheek from her. "Don't you dare raise your hand against me again" I warned, ready to pounce on her, but holding myself back. 

I had never been slapped before in my entire existence, and it bruised my ego that the first slap I received came from someone who wasn't even my mother or wife. I watched as fury turned to fear in her eyes and I briefly regretted yelling at her. But she was a tough woman who wouldn't cower easily or let her fear be known.

"Oh I will, I will slap you and even spank you like a child should you give me a reason to. So I advice you watch and weigh whatever you want to say to me."

 I smiled. Good try Mami, good try. I knew her rants were just a way to cover up her fears, but I let her be anyways. What got to me though, was the fact that her words were already turning me on, how could a person's angry threat affect me this way. Perhaps, it must have been when she used the word 'spank like a child". I laughed at my reaction and the bulge in my trousers reminded me that this wasn't a laughing matter.

"As much as I would like to fight with you, I don't have the will power to and even my friend here seems to be against us fighting. So I'will just let it slide this time" I said referring to my erect penis as the friend. However Miss Adelana didn't seem to get my gist as she looked around as if in search of the friend I mentioned.

"What friend?" She asked innocently after her search turned futile.

"My friend down here." I answered gesturing with my head towards my erection to let her know what I meant.

Seeing the bulge, she snorted, lifted her head so that her eyes was almost the same level as mine. "Seriously, Mr Amadi, how can you have an erection at a time like this? Just how can any sane person do that?"

"My question exactly. You must be turning me into an insane good looking young man." I had referred to my good looks once again, something I knew she hated to hear from my lips.

She was unaffected this time as she just hissed and made to leave my presence but I managed to stop her by holding her hand.

"What is it this time? You said I should get ready to go out with you, so, why are you holding me back? " 

"I'm really sorry for what I said. I shouldn't have said that and now I regret saying it. I know I deserved that slap, it was my entire fault and I am ready to right my wrong. What can I do to better my wrong?" I asked sincerely hoping she forgives me as I wasn't ready to be a real enemy.

She laughed "Nice one Mr Amadi, so now that you have an erection and need someone to 'pipe' you have suddenly turned to Mr humility. For the records, I'm not holding that against you and if you want to have sex with me just go ahead and say so instead of...."  

I didn't let her finish what she wanted to say before descending on her luxuriantly enticing lips with my lips. She seemed to enjoy the kiss as she fervently returned each thrust of my tongue  with hers. She wanted this as well, at least that was what her actions said. I didn't need a anymore propelling to tell me what to do next. I took off her long tee shirt only to discover that she had a bra on, a very tight one and that was surprisingly like a warning to me that I needed a confirmation for.

"Do you usually wear a bra to bed at night?" I asked shamelessly, though I had an idea what her response would be.

"No. Why are you suddenly asking me that? All you have to do is to take it off." She answered looking unwaveringly at me.

"So why wear one last night?" I asked again.

"Why all this questions nah? Well since you want to know I'll tell you." She began and I prayed inwardly that it wouldn't be the reason I thought it was. It would kill me to stop here, but I wasn't the type to have sex with an unwilling partner. "It's because of you" she continued "I didn't want you trying any nonsense with me while I was asleep or otherwise." 

"I'm not a rapist Iris!" I said quite disappointed with her for thinking I was one, and even more so with myself for giving her a reason to think so. "You know what, just go take your bath so that we can go out."

"And this?" She asked referring to the sex we were about to have.

"This can wait" I said, honestly.

"What is this about, Enyinnaya? You suddenly don't want me anymore because I wore a bra to bed?"

"No, that's not it. I do want you a whole lot that it would kill me to stop here, but Mami, I'm not a monster and so I won't have sex with you knowing you think of me as one. Secondly Mami, when we have finally have sex, cause we will, you would want me as much as I want you, you would yearn for me as much as I yearn for you. Only then Mami, only then will I Grace your bed." 

"Oh!" She whispered. "And your meeting? Aren't you all dressed up like this for it?"  

I smiled "If you weren't so busy sleeping you would have known that it was past ten A.M when we started our little altercation. My meeting was slated for seven A.M, we finished some minutes to ten and I can call it a successful one. So go get ready, we are going out to celebrate and I have to give you a tour of this place. So shoo." I responded, pushing her towards the bathroom.

"Okay" she said, leaving for the bathroom.