by Mia Ford
“Sausages!” Liam screams, filling me with relief. Sausages I can do, that isn’t too hard. “Beans too. And chips. That’s my favorite. With ketchup. Don’t forget the ketchup!”
“Ooh mine too,” Katy agrees with a grin. “That sounds perfect.”
As Katy and Liam move towards the stairs I smile and shake my head in utter delight. Today has been such a surprise. When Liam first got brought to my office I was shocked, I freaked out and thought that I wasn’t going to be able to get anything done. Now, I’ve done a whole day’s work, I’ve had a life revelation, and I’ve also seen how great Katy and Liam get on. I feel like the foundation that my world has been built upon has ripped away, but what’s been left in place is something even better. I knew what I felt for Katy was strong, I knew that it was different, but now I genuinely think that she might be the real deal. She might be the one.
I don’t know if I’ve ever believed in fate before, if I’ve ever thought about the one, but with Katy it’s easy to slip into that mindset. She’s pretty much perfect for me. She’s everything that I didn’t even know I needed. She’s everything I want and so much more.
I shove the food into the oven and stand by it while I think. When I first got that phone call from Barry, my accountant, I thought that the world had ended, I thought that I was facing the worst crisis I’d ever seen… but now I can see it more as an opportunity to do things better. I can make the company smaller and better, I can delegate more, I can give myself more time with my son, and I can actually open myself up to love in a way that I haven’t before.
I feel bad that some of my staff might lose their jobs, despite my promise that they wouldn’t, but what I’ll do if that happens in the restructure is help them get new positions. And I don’t just mean writing them a kick ass reference, that’ll just be a part of it. No, I’ll use all my contacts in the industry to get them great jobs with equal or more pay. I’ll do what I can for everyone. It might not be the best I can do, but at least I’ll give it my all. At least I’ll be doing this as a nice person. As nice as I can be. I don’t want everyone to leave thinking of me as an asshole who just tried to save his own skin, this isn’t that at all. This is me just trying…
Finally, I fall from my thoughts as I hear a thundering down the stairs which means Liam and probably Katy are back. I turn to see them both with superhero dolls in their hands, flying them through the air and screaming and yelling as they play. It’s a sight that’s so wonderful it warms up my heart. It makes me wish that Katy could actually be here, and she could stay here forever. She fits in these four walls, she brightens the whole place up, she makes it look amazing.
I could quite happily fall in love with this woman, I think to myself happily. And I think Liam could too… I just hope I get the chance to find out what this could really be.
Chapter Eighteen – Katy
A weariness overcomes me as I say my goodnights to Liam. I certainly didn’t expect my day to take this turn, but it’s been pretty awesome. I haven’t ever spent a lot of time around kids, but hanging out with Liam was awesome. I get on with him better than I ever could have hoped. Maybe meeting him randomly like that was the best thing that could have happened. It made sure there wasn’t any pressure on either of us. We could just have fun.
Now if things do progress with me and Evan, me and Liam have a great bond to begin with.
“Well, that’s him off to sleep,” I say with a smile to Evan. “What a fun day. I don’t know if we got enough work done but we had a good time.”
“I got some done,” Evan tells me with a grin. “But to be honest I had such a good day with Liam, I don’t even care.” He looks longingly towards the bedroom. “It makes me realize that I don’t spend enough time with him, you know? I want to do that more. I suppose this downsize has come at a good time for me, personally.”
Wow. For a closed off mind he’s really opening up to me and it feels great. It also resonates quite well with my situation which stings at my heart. I’ve been trying my hardest not to think about it all day long, especially not after speaking to Grant and Robyn. But now, it’s filling my brain. It’s consumed me completely. I can hardly think of anything else.
“Yeah, I get it,” I tell Evan while taking a seat opposite. I probably should go now, but I don’t want to. He seems quite keen to have me here anyway, so I’m not gonna fight that. “You want to work out a way to have a life outside of work. It’s a bit like the dilemma I’m having. Different, I know because you have a son, but yeah…” I shrug in a way that I hope comes off a bit blasé. I don’t if I want Evan to know how hard I’m hurting over this. “I want a life too.”
“Is that why you’re still struggling?” he asks me in a caring tone of voice. “I take you haven’t made a decision when it comes to being a partner yet or not.”
“No I haven’t made any decisions, I’m still agonizing over it.” I laugh awkwardly. “Some people keep telling me I should do one thing, others tell me to do the other, I guess I just haven’t worked out what I want yet.”
Evan nods slowly and reaches under the counter. When he pulls out a tumbler of some amber looking liquid my heart leaps up into my throat. If we’re about to start drinking alcohol now that increases my chances of staying here the night. I mean, I could get a cab back, but I don’t think that will happen. I think this is a hint that Evan wants me to stay, and damn it I want to stay too.
“I think we should have a celebratory drink, don’t you?” he says with a wink. “I think we’ve earned it after all the hard work and playing that we’ve done today.”
I gulp noisily and give him one sharp nod. I know I should probably say something, but I can’t seem to find the words. The only thing my brain is certain of is the fact that I don’t want to be anywhere but here, with him. Drinking whatever the hell he’s giving to me. Evan slides me the glass and I take it from him, then I take a massive swig from the glass before screwing up my face and almost spitting it out again. It’s disgusting, so burning hot and bitter, but I have to swallow it down. I need to. If I don’t want to ruin the potential mood that’s going on here then I really can’t spit.
“Wow, that was…” I gasp desperately. “That was something.”
“Oh yeah, it’s quite strong.” Evan gives me a playful, teasing smirk. “Sorry about that, it isn’t for anyone who isn’t a hardened drinker.”
“Oh, so you’re a hardened drinker are you?” He shakes his head. “Just with this stuff, I take it?”
To be honest, by the time I get to the second swig anyway, and I take a much more conservative sip, it isn’t too bad. It’s still strong and bitter, but my throat is already on fire so I don’t have to suffer the burning sensations.
Evan holds out his glass to me and I clink mine against it, despite the fact that I don’t really know what I’m cheering him for. Judging by the twinkle in his eye, it might be about what’s going to happen. A shiver tears up and down my spine as I consider something exciting really happening. The idea of those delicious fingers of his all over me is almost too much to bear. I don’t know how I can stand it again… but I also don’t think I can live without it either.
“Come here,” Evan eventually murmurs, as he sets his now empty glass on the table. “I’ve been wanting to touch you all night long.”
As I rise from my seat and the memory of the last time I hooked up with Evan and his tongue was everywhere, I become something of a sexual goddess. My hips sway, my chest pokes out further, I feel a burning up and down my legs, pulsating in my panties. Evan looks at me in a certain way and it sets me alight. It makes me become the person I am in his eyes, if only for a short moment.
“I’ve wanted to touch you too,” I whisper back as I dip my head towards him. This time, it’s my hands on his cheeks as we kiss and I have to admit it feels nice. It builds up the intense bond that we already share even deeper. “I’ve been wanting to kiss you for hours.”
Evan’s fingers tug at the buttons of my shirt as the ki
ss deepens and I do the same to him. The atmosphere between us has completely shifted to a thick, heady, sexual tension that fills up my stomach and lungs totally. All I can breathe in is him and it feels incredible. Then once my shirt has been ripped from my body and it lies on the ground behind me, Evan claps his hands onto my knees and he works them up my thighs, getting ever closer to where I’m aching painfully for him. He edges up, then moves his way back down again without actually touching me. He’s teasing me, and it makes me yearn for control. The last time we were together, Evan had all of it, I gave myself over to him completely, but this time I want it to be him. I want him to be a shuddering mess all because of me.
I move my mouth to his thick strong neck and I kiss down his chest, brushing my lips against his rock hard abs as I go. Every new bit of him that I get to feel intensifies everything until I can barely stand any longer. My knees knock together, I’m like a puddle of jelly, it’s a wonderful nightmare.
Surprising Evan, I drop to the floor next to his set with a thud. My head is at the perfect level for what I want to do, and as I gaze up at him with wide, saucer like eyes, I can see the delight in his expression. I fiddle with his belt, keeping my eyes fixed on him the entire time and after a while his thighs tense up and his body shakes with anticipation.
“Oh, Katy,” he groans as his trousers burst open. “Oh fuck.”
He gives me a hand by lifting up his butt and sliding down his underwear to give me the part of him that I so desperately need, and as he does I gasp loudly. I remember him being massive, but being this close to his thick, throbbing erection takes things to another level. I part my lips slightly, wondering if I’m even going to be able to take him in my mouth. I’ll have to try, but the thought fills me with utter thrilling terror.
I wrap my fingers around him and I slide my hand up and down his shaft. His cock is boiling hot, it burns my hand, but I love it. Every damn second of it. It makes my mouth water. So much so that it isn’t long before I’m leaning my mouth in and pressing my lips gently up against him, kissing him. I don’t know what I’m doing really, maybe preparing myself, but it feels really right. Then I flick my tongue out and I lick him lightly. He tastes so good, so manly. I want more of him so I slide my mouth open once more and I wrap my lips around him, filling up my mouth completely.
He feels so good, I actually moan against his cock as I slide up and down him. I don’t know how far I take him in my mouth but I know I can’t do any more. He’s just ginormous. As I bob my head up and down, I lick him at the same time, and soon his cock shudders between my lips.
“Oh fuck.” Evan fists his hands up into my hair. “Oh fucking hell, Katy, that feels…” He’s gasping, desperate, needy, just the way that I want him. “That feels too good. I need you to stop.”
I don’t want to really, I’m enjoying myself as I run my mouth all over him, but I don’t want this to end right here. I want more from Evan, I want to feel him inside of me. The last time wasn’t enough, it made me hungry for more, and now I need that. I need to feel him everywhere.
Evan tucks his hands under my armpits and he tugs me upwards. The moment I’m on my feet I kiss him hard and fast again. As I do, my legs straddle him and I feel the tip of his cock teasing me through my underwear, soaking my panties with need.
“Oh fuck, I need you,” I moan as I hook my arm around Evan’s neck. “I need you.”
He pushes me back for a moment while he grabs a condom form his pocket and he rolls it down over himself. I can feel his fingers brushing against my clit as he does and it makes my head toss back with utter, sheer burning desire. I want him even more than I did the last time we slept together. The last time I needed him because it had been such a long time, but now it’s just him that I’m craving. I’m craving him fucking bad.
Then Evan hooks one of his fingers on the inside of my panties and he pulls them to one side. He grabs my butt hard as he slides me down onto him and he fills me up completely. My walls are so excitable that they clamp around him, claiming him, keeping him in place.
“Oh fuck.” I see stars as I bounce up and down on Evan. “Oh my God, that feels so… so…”
I can’t speak. All the words have been stripped from my body and I’m left without the brain function to do anything but feel. I can feel him, my hammering heart, the boiling pressure that’s building up from my toes and slowly creeping through my body, pushing me nearer and nearer to the knife edge of desire…
“Oh my God,” I scream as I tumble over the edge into the abyss of sheer pleasure. I thrash, I buckle, I crumble as the bliss hits me like a ferocious tsunami. “Oh, Evan… Evan…”
Chapter Nineteen – Evan
“Oh my God, I feel so nervous,” I admit to Katy as I shrug my jacket onto my shoulders. “We’ve been working towards this for so long and now… well now the day is here. It’s finally happening and now… well the future of my company, my life, and everyone in it is in someone else’s hands. Like, it’s up to the banks to decide whether they want to give me some more time and allow me to restructure the firm or not. Urgh, I don’t like someone else having the power.”
“I know you don’t,” Katy replies with a wry smile that holds a big secret within it. “Even if you give it up for a second, you have to claw it back. That’s just how you are I’m afraid.”
I know what she means here, I’m sure she’s talking about something sexual which makes me chuckle to myself. I am like that in the bedroom, I just can’t help myself. I’m just glad that Katy gets it. She and I have a real sexual compatibility that’s off the scale, it’s phenomenal, brand new to me.
“Yeah, well I don’t have any choice today, do I? I have to just do as I’m told.”
“We’ll be fine.” Katy grabs her briefcase and she looks at me. “We have this under control, we know what we’re saying, we’ve rehearsed this, we have all the information we need… there isn’t anything else that I can do. We have got this! We are going to kick ass in that meeting. Don’t worry.”
I nod in agreement with her, but the nerves don’t go anywhere. I don’t know what it is, I just can’t calm down. Maybe it’s because this isn’t just about work, it’s about this being the first day of the rest of my life. It doesn’t just affect me and the company, it’s also going to affect my child, my free time, potentially what I have with Katy too…What I want to have with Katy anyway.
I stare at her out the corner of my eye, as a happy glow overcomes me. There’s something brewing between me and Katy, something awesome and I can’t wait to explore it further. If I delegate more and Katy doesn’t take the partner job, then we’ll have much more time to spend together. Not that I would tell her not to take the job, I’d make us work around it, what she does is up to her. I just want Katy to be happy, whatever that means for her. It’s like we’re both working life stuff out now, and it’s quite nice to be able to do it together. I don’t feel so alone and confused.
“Are you ready to drive down to the courthouse for the meet?” Katy asks. “We might as well get there a little early right, just in case there’s traffic or anything. We can’t be late.”
“Oh right yeah, we should go early you’re right. That’ll give me some time to work things out anyway. I need to breathe and calm the hell down. Maybe I’ll even rehearse with you what I need to say again, if that’s okay with you? I think it’ll be good to go through it all again if you don’t mind.”
Katy rubs my arm in a comforting gesture. “Sure, Evan, whatever you need.”
As we walk from my office towards the elevator, Katy links her arm through mine. All eyes are upon us as we go, including those of Ally’s, but no one seems to react at all. I guess they all knew about me and Katy, it isn’t big news. It feels strange to me though, Katy is making me be open with my life and it’s scary… but not the worst thing in the world. Now my employees know about me and Katy and they know about Liam too. I’m showing the world who I am, just a little bit…
“Do you want me to drive?�
� Katy asks me as we reach the car. “I mean, I haven’t ever driven anything like this before but I don’t mind. I can take us there, maybe you can have a think.”
“I’m okay, honestly, Katy. But thank you.” My hands shake but I hide it from her. I don’t want her to realize just how nervous I am. “I can drive. I’m fine. It’ll be good for me to drive anyway.”
She nods and slides into the passenger’s seat of the car with her briefcase and all the paper work piled up onto my lap. She looks swamped by it all, but her expression is one of sheer determination. I suppose for me this is all brand new, but for Katy this is the sort of thing that she does all the time. She’s a lawyer who faces these sorts of people and she wins too. She isn’t a fool.
“You look good, Katy,” I tell her honestly as I start up the engine. “And I’m really glad to have you on my side. I don’t think I’d be able to do it if it wasn’t for you. You’ve made this seem not as horrible as it really is. When Barry first told me about this, I was scared, but now with you I feel… I don’t know, I feel okay about it.” I give her a smile. “You’ve given me so much confidence.”
“Thank you,” Katy replies sounding shocked. “That’s really kind of you to say. I mean, all I think I’ve really done is my standard work, but yeah. Thank you.”
She reaches across and holds my hand as I drive, which is the sweetest gesture in the world. I haven’t ever been the romantic type, even Victoria didn’t ever get that side of me, but with Katy it just feels natural. I don’t know what it is about her but our bond is different, it’s strong, intense.
I do my best to keep my eyes fixed on the road, but every so often I dart them towards Katy so I can drink her appearance in. She might be in professional mode but she looks more relaxed than she did when the first time I met her. I can really see her coming out of her shell. I love it, I want to see more of her. I want to see her every damn day. If there is the one for me, then it’s her. For sure.
