Time is Money (3 page)

“Help yourself,” the man who sat next to her told her.

Dana looked the man up and down. She had to admit he was definitely easy on the eyes and the type of man that she would give the time of day, but of course, she had to put up a front. “Excuse you, but I can afford my own drink,” she said in a snappy tone.

“I never said you couldn’t,” the man countered in a smooth tone and proceeded to fill Dana’s glass up anyway. “They say it’s not good to drink by yourself and from the looks of things,” he said, giving Dana a once over, “you can use this drink just as much as me.”

Dana looked at the handsome man and smiled. “First of all, I don’t drink with strangers and second of all there’s no telling where your mouth has been.”

“Stone,” the handsome man said extending his hand.

“Dana,” she said shaking his hand with little effort.

“Now that we’re no longer strangers,” Stone paused to down his shot. “Drink up.”

“Haven’t been doing anything with your mouth that I need to know about; have you?” Dana teased as she downed the shot and then made an ugly face.

“There are plenty of things I can do with this mouth and if you be nice, I may even give you the Stone special,” he said, openly flirting with her.

Dana smiled and refilled her glass. “You’ve got my attention. What’s the Stone special?”

Stone returned her smile. “I said
if
you be nice.”

“Well I’m about to be on my best behavior,” she joked. It had been a long time since Dana had laughed like this. Due to her work, she usually was in a bitter and serious mood. In her line of business, there was no time to joke or laugh. It was all business all the time so tonight Dana decided that she would take a night out to enjoy herself.

Stone smiled. “You have some nice lips.”

Dana licked them seductively. “You think so?”

“Thinking is for people that are not sure,” Stone replied as he stood up, grabbed Dana’s hand, and led her out to the dance floor. “This is my song.”

“No,” Dana weakly protested, but finally gave in. For a moment, Dana felt as if her and Stone were the only two in the lounge. Stone pulled her close to him and gripped her hips as the two made love on the dance floor with their clothes on. Dana wrapped her arms around Stone’s neck and swayed her hips to the beat pumping through the speakers. During the dance, Stone put his lips on Dana’s neck and began to kiss slowly. Dana closed her eyes and lightly moaned. She knew what was happening was wrong, but for some strange reason it felt so right. Stone’s hands felt perfect on her body.

Out of nowhere, Dana grabbed Stone’s face and kissed him. When she realized what she had done, she quickly apologized. “I’m sorry! I’ve never acted like this and I don’t know what came over me!”

“Nothing to apologize for.” Stone smiled as the two made their way back over to their stools. Stone placed his hand on Dana’s thigh and gave it a slight massage. “I like you.”

Dana sucked her teeth. “You don’t even know me and don’t think because I let you kiss me that you getting some pussy either.”

Stone smiled. “I would love to get to know you; maybe take you out if that’s okay with you.”

“That may be able to be arranged,” Dana said, playing hard to get, but the truth was she wanted Stone way more than she wanted to admit.

“I’ll be right back. I need to go use the restroom,” Stone said as he got up and headed towards the restroom. Not even twenty seconds after Stone left, a man with a baby afro and a Hulk Hogan mustache sat in his seat.

“I’m sorry, but my friend was sitting there and he’ll be back in a second. He just went...”

“Listen baby you move ya feet and you lose ya seat,” the man with the afro said in a quick pimp like tone. “You’ve talked to the rest now talk to the best.”

“Are you serious?” Dana asked. She wanted to make sure this wasn’t a joke before she hurt the man’s feelings.

“As a heart attack baby,” the man with the afro said. “I’m saying though; why don’t we get out of here and make some history tonight?”

Before Dana had a chance to reply, Stone walked up right on time. “Excuse me fam,” he said politely. “But I think you’re sitting in my seat.”

The man with the afro turned and looked at Stone as if he was crazy. “This is a free motherfucking country so I can sit where I damn well please!”

Without warning Stone turned and slapped fire out of the man’s hand. Before he got a chance to recover, Stone kicked the stool from up under the man and watched him crash down to the sticky lounge floor.
 

“You come over here trying to disrespect my shorty?” Stone growled as he raised his foot and stomped the man’s head down into the floor. He did that repeatedly until two beefy bouncers came over and roughly escorted him out of the club.

Dana looked down at the man with the afro, raised her foot, and stomped his head down into the floor one last time before heading outside to go catch up with Stone.

Chapter 5

Night Cap

O
nce outside of the lounge Stone was getting ready to start a fight with the two bouncers that tossed him out when Dana quickly persuaded him to let it go.

“Don’t let them ruin our night,” she said, intertwining her arm with his. They walked down the block until they reached Dana’s cocaine white Benz.

Stone looked at Dana as if she had lost her mind. “I’m not letting you drive in this condition. I’ll call you a cab.”

“And what about you?” Dana asked. “If I can’t drive, then you can’t either. You’ve had more to drink than me.”

Stone smiled. “I think there’s a motel around here somewhere that I can crash at for the night.”

“Boy please,” Dana said shaking her head. “I’m not letting you stay at no motel. We can both just take a cab to my place and crash there for the night,” she suggested.

“You sure that will be alright?” Stone asked. “Because I don’t have time to be fighting off no old crazy boyfriends; not tonight.”

“Thankfully for you, I don’t have a boyfriend or no crazy ex-boyfriends. It’s just me, myself, and I,” Dana said smiling as she flagged down a cab. Stone and Dana piled into the back of a cab and made small talk for the entire ride until the cab pulled up in front of a baby mansion.

Stone stepped out of the cab and looked up at her home. “Damn this is a nice place,” he pointed out.

“Why thank you,” Dana said as she intertwined her arm with his and led him to the front door. Instead of using a key, Dana typed in a code on the keypad and the door opened. “Okay make yourself at home,” Dana said as she kicked off her shoes and walked through the house barefoot.

Stone walked through the house admiring its beauty and all of the expensive things inside. He would have to work one hundred years to ever be able to afford a place as nice Dana’s. “This is a nice place you have here,” he complimented.

“Yeah my parents left me and my brother a nice piece of change when they died,” she lied.

“Sorry to hear that.”

“It’s okay. You want a sandwich or anything?” Dana asked, quickly changing the subject.

“Nah I’m good. Just show me to the couch and I’ll be good,” Stone said. He had to get up early and begin working on the bank robber’s case. Stone was eager to sink his teeth into the case and take them down.

Dana laughed. “I do have a guest bedroom you know.”

“Yeah I know. I just didn’t want you to have to go through no extra trouble or...” Stone was cut off when Dana invaded his personal space and kissed him once more.

Stone and Dana’s tongues did a slow dance as Stone’s hands explored Dana’s ass. While the two kissed, Dana helped remove Stone’s shirt. Dana’s eyes lit up when she saw how chiseled and cut up Stone’s body was. He had the body of an athlete. Stone scooped Dana up in the air and she quickly wrapped her legs around Stone’s waist as he carried her over to the couch. Stone roughly tossed Dana down onto the couch and removed her clothes. When Stone saw Dana’s freshly waxed fat pussy looking up at him, he could no longer control himself. Stone got down on his knees, opened Dana’s legs as wide as they could go, and dove in face first. He started with slow wet kisses that turned into licks. Stone licked Dana’s pussy, like a cat drinking milk, as if her juices would somehow better his life.

“Oh my God!” Dana moaned good and long. She moaned as she moved up and down, her movements slow and intense. She grinded her hips as her legs automatically locked around Stone’s head. After Stone felt Dana’s leg shiver, he slid in between her legs missionary style, face to face and tongue to tongue. The two kissed like sloppy animals as Stone eased himself inside of Dana. From how tight Dana’s box was; Stone could tell that she hadn’t been sexually active in a while. “Harder!” Dana demanded in a low growl. Stone sucked on Dana’s bottom lip as he pumped in and out of her walls. Dana’s moans told him that she wanted more and Stone gave her just that.

Stone moved Dana from the couch down to the floor, forcing her to lie on her stomach as he entered her from behind. He fucked her as hard as he could. He could feel sweat gathering on his neck and back and he continued to fuck her the way she kept telling him to, harder. “Like that?” Stone spat as he slapped Dana’s ass with force.

Dana moaned and then whispered. “I’m about to come again.”

When Stone heard that, he sped up his strokes until he couldn’t take it anymore and erupted spilling his fluids on Dana’s ass.

From there Stone laid flat on his back while Dana curled up and rested her head on his chest. The two laid like that in complete silence until they both drifted off to sleep.

Chapter 6

Decisions

G
host walked through the LAX airport dressed in a tailor fitted, grey
Armani
suit and a slim black tie. He stood 6 feet and 1 inch tall and favored the actor Mekhi Phifer. Ghost was always dressed to impress, but as usual, his mind was on business. He took a flight all the way to Los Angeles to talk business with some big time investor that went by the name, Brent Harrington. Brent was supposed to be the man to see if you had a lot of illegal money and you were looking to invest and clean it up.

Ghost exited the airport and slid in the back seat of the limousine that awaited his arrival. During the ride, he helped himself to a drink and blankly stared out the window. Ghost had a lot on his mind and if everything with the
Brinks
truck job went smoothly, he’d finally be able to retire. That was his sole purpose of having the meeting with Brent; he was setting up all the right moves so that once it was all over he’d be able to ride off into the sunset without a financial care in the world.

The limousine pulled up in front of a huge mansion. The driver quickly walked around to the back door and opened it. Ghost stepped foot out the back of the limousine and was immediately greeted by Brent Harrington.

“Brent it’s a pleasure to meet you,” Ghost extended his hand.

“The pleasures all mines,” Brent said giving Ghost’s hand a firm shake. “How was your flight?”

“Can’t complain.”

“Come with me,” Brent said as the two entered the mansion.

“I hope my driver met your every last need.”

Ghost smiled. “Yes he sure did.”

“Great,” Brent said as he led Ghost down the elementary school sized hallway. The mansion looked big enough to fit twenty families inside. He led Ghost to a sitting area that held a fireplace.

“Your house is beautiful,” Ghost complimented as he and Brent both sat. Seconds later, a maid walked into the room, carrying two drinks on a silver platter. Brent and Ghost took the drinks and then got straight down to business.

“Let me get straight to the point,” Ghost began. “I have a lot of money that I’m looking to invest, but I want to make sure you’re the right person to do this with,” he sipped his drink slowly.

“I can assure you Mr. Ghost that I’m your man,” Brent smiled. “My team and I have several businesses where your money can sit and gain interest.”

“Several businesses like?” Ghost asked. He was looking to invest a few million so he had to be sure that everything that Brent said was legit.

“Mc Donald’s, Chase Bank, stocks, clubs, NFL, and NBA teams... I could go on and on. You name it and my team and I can make it happen,” Brent smiled and then downed his drink in one gulp and almost instantly his maid showed up with two more drinks on a silver platter.

Ghost finished his drink and then grabbed the next one. “What I need to know is, is there any way this can go wrong? Because I’m going to trust you with all my money and I had to work extremely hard to get this money, so I just want to be sure that everything will work out like you say it will.” Ghost sipped his drink.

Brent chuckled. “Ghost I can assure you, you have nothing to worry about. Every month you will receive an update of what’s going on and if one business starts to act funny or ask too many questions, then we just move that portion of money to another business and keep it moving. There’s no way to lose.”

Ghost sipped his drink. “What’s in it for you?”

“Twenty percent,” Brent smiled greedily.

“Fifteen,” Ghost countered quickly.

“The price is nonnegotiable,” Brent told him. “How much are you looking to invest?”