The Lowest Maintenance Sugar Baby novel · Chapter 21 of 24

Chapter 21: A Second Schwinn

I told him on the roof of my building, at midnight, with the city lit up behind him and my grandmother's driver parked below with the engine running.

"A second Schwinn," I said.

Carlton stared at me.

"That's what you want most."

"Yes."

"Millie. I just inherited forty hotels."

"I know."

"You're worth eleven billion dollars."

"I'm aware."

"And the thing you want most in the world is another bicycle."

"A blue one," I said. "A 1976 Varsity, if the shop on Sunset still has it. It's a hundred and sixty. I've been watching the listing for a month."

He sat down on the edge of the lawn chair and put his face in his hands.

His shoulders were shaking.

"Are you crying?"

"I'm laughing. I think I'm laughing."

"Which?"

"I don't know," he said, and looked up with his eyes wet. "Why a second?"

"So you can ride your own." I shrugged. "You've been on the handlebars of mine for weeks. You're terrible at it. And I'd like to go somewhere where nobody's steering and nobody's holding a bag."

He stood up.

He crossed the two feet between us and took my face in his hands.

"I'll buy it tomorrow," he said. "And I'll pay the full hundred and sixty."

"You'll haggle."

"I'll haggle."

"Quietly."

"Millie."

"Okay."

He kissed me.

It started slow and turned fast.

My hands were in his hair.

His hands were at the hem of my blazer before the first minute was over.

"Inside," I said. "Chair's too small."

"The chair almost killed us last time."

"It was a very good chair."

We went down the fire escape.

His foot caught on the second step and he nearly took us both over the rail, and we stood there clinging to each other and laughing so hard I couldn't breathe.

"I'm a billionaire," he gasped. "I own forty hotels. I can't climb stairs."

"Hotels have elevators."

"In hotels somebody else pushes the button."

Inside the apartment he kicked the door shut and pushed me up against it, and that quieted us both.

I slid the gray blazer off my shoulders.

He worked the buttons on my blouse one at a time, kissing each patch of skin as it came free.

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