I couldn't resist Michael Dabney's proposition in the Checkers Lounge at the LA Hilton Checkers hotel during the Entertainment Industry Advertisers' Association convention—well either of his propositions, really. I'd never done it with a black man before, and that had become somewhat of a special fantasy of mine. I was attending the EIAA convention, because I'd been working with a small firm that had exclusive contracts with a few actors' agencies for commercial TV work. Dabney worked for a much larger and more influential black-owned firm representing the recording and advertising portfolios for black singers—mostly bad-boy rap artists.
"But why me?" I asked.
"You mean other than trying to get your luscious body in bed?" Michael asked. But he was smiling that enigmatic smile at me that I found so engaging, and he was so glib and given to turning of phrases and playful double entendres that I didn't take him seriously. Besides, he was far more luscious than I was. Not American black, but a transplant from the Caribbean and all hot sexy looks and lean and trim body, emphasized by his graceful, fluid movement. And he had a smooth, rich voice and an expert grasp of the disarming sales pitch technique. He could talk the chastity belt off a nun. Which probably was why he was head of the marketing department for Johnson Brothers, the rising black advertising firm in the music industry.
"No, I mean that I'm a white guy and Johnson Brothers is an all-black firm representing black musicians only. Why are you offering me a job under you?"
"You mean besides the desire to have you under me?" he asked. That enigmatic smile again. "Well, being all black has put us at a barrier to advancement," he continued after that pregnant pause that put me off balance again. "Our clients are all black, but the industry is pretty much white—and some of it is pretty racist white too. Clarence and Maurice Johnson want their business to grow. They think having a white guy in place to work with sticky situations will enhance our business. We've been over the likely candidates in the field, and we think you are our white guy."
"I guess I should feel flattered," I said with a laugh. "And how much would a token white guy be worth in your firm?"
I whistled at the number Michael tossed out. It was nearly three times what I was making in my current position.
"And you wouldn't be token," Michael said. "We think you'd be worth your weight in gold with companies who aren't giving us the time of day now."
"Because of my résumé?" I asked, trying to keep the sarcasm out of my voice.
"Yes, that—and, of course, because of your terrific bod," he flashed back. I still couldn't read whether he was toying with me, making fun of me.
"My bod," I said in a flat tone.
"Just being honest here. Advertising is all about appearances. Sexiness sells. We wouldn't have anyone on our marketing staff who didn't come across as sexy. And you're sexy plus—in a white way, of course." That disarming teasing smile of his again. I think he could tell me I'd had spinach in my teeth throughout an important briefing and I would just nod and give him a silly "happy smile."
I knew that sex sold and was important in the advertising business already, of course—I'd let many a woman and man lay me on the way to closing a contract—but it wouldn't have taken more than a glance at the suave, achingly sexy Michael Dabney, Johnson Brothers' marketing director, to see the truth of that.
I said I'd think about it. And when Dabney pressed, I said I'd most likely accept the offer.
And that's when I realized that he wasn't joking with me with his suggestive double entendres. Because that's when he hit me with his other proposition.
Michael was an astonishingly attentive lover. He held me in his arms just inside the door into his hotel room and kissed me deeply—and expertly, I might add—while his hands were stripping me of my clothes—also quite expertly. He then guided me to the bed and lay me down on my belly and gave me a deep massage from neck and shoulders to the soles of my feet, taking his time and making sure he'd covered every inch of my backside with his sensuous massage. Then, me already fully aroused, he turned me onto my back, and lay, shirtless but still with his trousers on, stretched beside me on the bed, his arm encasing me, and glided his free hand all over my body, becoming increasingly intimate. All the time he was kissing my lips and the hollow of my neck and my eyelids and running his tongue into my ear cavities. His hand went to my engorged cock, and he began stroking me off slowly while still holding me closely in place with his other encircling arm.
"Now doesn't that look nice?" he murmured to me. "My milk chocolate on your milky white body. Don't they meld nicely?"
"Umm, umm," was the best I could respond under his attention.
"And how about some milky white cum on my chocolate thigh?" he whispered.