11

Zade

I sat in my car for a few minutes after leaving the fairground.

It took every ounce of willpower not to go back and rip Randy’s arms off for daring to touch Sapphire. The very thought of what I wanted to do made me angry as I felt conflicted between remembering that Sapphire and I were no longer together. She had abandoned me. And slam her against a wall and fuck the living hell out of her.

“That’s what happens when you start thinking with your dick, you fucking dick.”

My jaw clenched as I saw Randy walking through the parking lot. Again, I found myself having to restrain myself from getting out of the car and taking my anger out with my fists. Violence was not my nature, but four years behind bars messes up even the most peaceful of people. I had to use my fists a couple of times until I found my feet and fixed a very complex software issue for the penitentiary.

It was all special perks and privileges thereafter.

I took a deep breath and watched Randy head in the opposite direction. He disappeared behind some cars and I was relieved I had not allowed my anger to get the better of me. I much preferred the current revenge route I was on anyway. Punches and a black eye would fade, but running his business into the ground would be forever.

I started the engine and pulled out of the parking lot. I felt too on edge to end the day and head home. I turned in the direction of downtown and before I knew it, I was pulling into a parking garage and heading down the sidewalk towardsChewsdays. As expected, the bar and grill was still scantily populated. A few hours later and I would have been lucky to find a wall to lean on while I sipped a drink.

I slid onto a stool near the end of the bar with a good view of the room.

The bartender made his way to me. “What will it be?”

I put my credit card on the bar counter and pushed it towards him. “Two double whiskeys, no ice.”

He gave me a look before moving off to make my drink. I guess not many people ordered two stiff drinks in one go at this time of the evening. The way I felt right now, two of those were going to do nothing to get me out of my current mood. I’d have to crawl out of here on my hands and knees before I could get the sight of his filthy hands on her out of my system. The drinks arrived and I downed both and ordered another two. This time the barman’s eyebrows shot upwards.

I stared into the depths of the amber liquid, my head was alive with the past.

I remember feeling as if a horse had kicked me in the stomach when I first saw her. Randy and I were at a bar to celebrate our newest account and the night was going well. Then I went to the toilet and by the time I came back Randy had managed to buy a girl in a red dress a drink. He was leaning close to her and whispering something in her ear. All I could see as I made my way to them was that she had long thick hair that fell in waves all the way down to her great ass. When Randy caught my eye, I winked at him, and mouthed, “great catch.” But then I drew alongside her and she turned those incredible hazel eyes on me and I froze. I actually froze. I couldn’t move. My heart felt as if it had stopped beating. My jaw went slack.

Randy was staring at me strangely, and I knew I was making a fool of myself, but I couldn’t stop staring. I think it was lust at first sight because I wanted her like I’d never wanted anybody else ever. I could feel the desire for her vibrating in my guts. I was like a caveman who was claiming his mate. I swear, the way I felt, I would have killed any man that stood in my way that night.

“Have I got spinach on my teeth or something?” she asked self-consciously.

I shook my head and felt Randy give a hearty thump on my back. “This here is Zade, but everybody calls him Zade. He works for me. Does all the complicated software stuff only real nerds understand.”

I understood what he had done. That was the classic needle in a banana. The insult inside the compliment. He had made himself the Alpha and me the beta. I hated him for it, I understood. She was a prize he didn’t want to lose to me.

She smiled brightly and extended her hand. “Well, Zade. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”

Finally, I found my tongue. “The pleasure is all mine.” I reached out and enclosed her hand in mine. Electricity flowed through our skin. She must have felt it too, because her beautiful eyes widened.

For the rest of the evening, I had to catch myself several times because I was staring so hard at her. Admittedly, there were a few times when I caught her staring back. I could tell Randy was irritated and wanted me to make myself scarce, but there was no power on earth that could have made me drag myself away from that delightful creature. As the night began to wind down, she looked directly at me and said she needed a software upgrade for her laptop.

Randy fumed, but I snapped up the dangled bait.

The following morning, being a weekend, I showed up on her doorstep. The problem with her device was something I solved in less than five minutes. After that there was nothing left to do, but invite her out to lunch. The rest, as they say, is history.

Randy gave me the cold shoulder for a couple days before getting over it, and we went back to business as usual, or at least, I thought we did.

As for Sapphire and I, we moved on to the next level. I had been in awe to know I was her first. For the first time in my life sex was sacred. I held her as if she was a delicate piece of china, and made sure she suffered as little pain as possible. I knew exactly how to please her and taught her how to please me. We were perfect for each other. If I had not been framed, I had no doubt we would be married with at least one child already. Maybe child number two or even three would already be on the way.

Considering how much she loved a big brood of kids, I found it surprising she was not married and fretting over a few already. Maybe Randy had changed her mind. He was not the paternal type. Or maybe she had only pretended to want what I did.

No. She was a woman who was driven by her passions and knew exactly what she wanted. There was no way Randy would have been able to impose his childless, fancy-free mentality on her.

I ordered another drink and let my mind drift back to that summer. It seemed like a blissful dream now. Then I had decided to venture out on my own and started working harder, twice as hard actually. I still had to keep my end of the bargain to Randy and could only develop material for my own business afterwards. I knew Sapphire was unhappy with the state of things, but I kept most of my plans to myself as I wanted it to be a surprise.

Lo and behold, the surprise was on me when Randy managed to concoct the whole embezzlement scam. My lawyer told me that all the evidence Randy’s side had was circumstantial, but at that point I also found out that the gentleman’s agreement contract with Randy trapped me intellectually to his company for a lifetime. If Sapphire had been there for me, intellectual property be damned, I knew I would have fought harder to stay out of prison. But she wasn’t and I knew I had to break his hold over me. Through my lawyer I made an offer to Randy. I would plead guilty if he would release me from our contract.

His answer came back lightning fast. Yes. My lawyer drew up the papers and we both signed it. Even though I was going to prison, I had actually bought back my freedom.

I ordered a burger and fries to go with it.

The first week of my incarceration was not the nightmare I thought it would be. Well, maybe the nights were. I kept waiting to wake up in Sapphire’s arms. For her to tell me I was just dreaming, but I was now back in the land of the living. But morning brought the same hard mattress, the metal toilet, and the stained gray walls.

Still, the day was preferable to the night. There was a pecking order in prison and I quickly learned my place. I was not there to remain indefinitely like some other inmates, and therefore did not need to prove anything or attain any ranks. What I did need to do, though, was not become a target or punching bag for others.

As soon as I gave out my fair share of black eyes and busted lips, they learned the computer guy could pound more than just laptop keys. They stayed out of my way and I stayed out of theirs.

While my lawyer worked on the dissolution of my partnership with Randy, I had the unexpected fortune of gaining favor with the prison administrator. Not only by retrieving some lost crypto due to a hack of his system, but making him some substantial crypto gains in the process. To do this, I needed my laptop from home. The special privilege was granted and afterwards I’d been allowed to keep it.

It had been a game changer.

Working with Rick, I quickly got BB Tech up and running. Within the first year, the company was already turning a healthy profit. Old clients of Randy’s found me and word spread that the brain behind his company was back on the scene. My reputation preceded me and soon other potential clients found their way to me. No one seemed to give a shit that our meetings were being held from a laptop in a prison library.

BB Tech became a great success.

The burger and fries felt solid in my stomach as I paid for my meal and drinks. I wisely ordered a cup of black coffee to go. I was neither drunk nor tipsy, but liquor in my system before getting behind a wheel was asking for trouble. Hopefully the caffeine would counteract the creeping effects of the alcohol long enough for me to make the short drive home.

I sat in my car and sipped half of the hot brew before I started the engine and pulled out of the parking garage. Night had fallen and with it had come a slight chill. The air smelled as though there was a storm brewing and I felt my spirits lift somewhat. There was something about rainy nights that just invigorated me.

At the thought of night rain, a memory surfaced unbidden.

That night I booked a cabin in the hills for the weekend: but it never stopped raining and we had to stay indoors the whole time. On our second night there, a storm came through. We stood at the window of the cabin looking out at the sheets of driving rain and the streaks of fierce lightning. I still remember the citrusy smell of her shampoo. My arms had been around her, pretty much the same way Randy’s had been today.

Maybe that was why it had irritated me so much.

She had taken my hand and slipped it down her body. I found her pussy hot and wet. A few strokes of my fingers brought her swollen clit out of hiding. My cock started to pulse in anticipation of what was to come. My jeans melted to the ground and soon we were skin to skin. Suddenly her naked body darted away from me. She grabbed a blanket from the couch. The next thing I knew, she wrapped it around her shoulders and flung me a teasing smile.

Then she threw the door open and danced out into the crazy storm.

I watched with my mouth open as she threw open the blanket on the lawn and laid down on her back, her legs spread wide. The rain pounded on her naked body, bounced off her pink pussy lips. I stood frozen, mesmerized, but the second her fingers reached down to her pussy, I shuddered and came alive. I needed no further invitation to join her. We made love in the pouring rain. I drove into her over and over again. The intensity of the storm was no match for the intensity of our passion as we cried out in ecstasy. It was not until she started to tremble from the cold that I scooped her up in my arms and carried her inside.

My cock was tight with need as I pulled into my parking space.

I switched off the engine and sprinted up to my apartment. I stripped immediately and stepped into the shower. This was one of the things I had taken for granted in my life, but showering with ten other men has a way of making you appreciate privacy.

I grasped my hard dick and began to jerk off.

In my mind Sapphire was sucking me. She didn’t want to, of course, but she had to. She had no choice, because now, I had the upper hand. She was my bitch. I could do anything with her. Fuck her anyway I wanted. First, that swollen mouth. I was going to fuck it hard and fill it with my cum. She always loved the taste of my cum. She was going to swallow a whole load of it.

I came in a rush. The hot water washed away my release. I leaned against the tiles, panting. Fuck her. Fuck her. What had caused her to turn on me the way she had, and with Randy of all people? I had dismissed the notion that she had been a part of the conspiracy to frame me. On that point, I believed Randy had acted alone. But why Randy? There were so many other guys she could have chosen to be with.

There was no doubt she was going to have to pay for abandoning me when I needed her most, though. And I knew just how to dangle her like a puppet on a string. I had something she needed. I knew her well enough to know that if it was a personal need, I would not have a bargaining chip. But anything to do with her kids was a different matter altogether. She needed money for the computer lab, and I was going to see to it that I made her work for every goddamn last penny.

I slung a towel around my hips while my laptop booted up. I smiled with satisfaction at the prospect of what I would do to make Sapphire grovel.