Chapter Fourteen — A Beautiful Feeling

Will’s POV:

I stared at the beautiful creature standing in front of me. Her wet hair slipped back dripping more water on her body. She had just stepped out of the shower and the t-shirt she was wearing hugged her body bringing out her curves and displaying every part of her body, her beautiful perfect body.

“I’m right by your side. And as far as I am concerned I will always be here” she smiled.

I had a lot to say to her. Like how much I was grateful to her for this. How much I appreciate all she did, how much I appreciate even just her presence, but I didn’t know how exactly to say it. I just stared at her, and for every second I spent staring at her I got lost in what I felt, the strange and intense feeling.

I took a step further, now leaving barely any space between us. I could feel her heart beating fast against mine. She looked up at me and her eyes met mine making eyes our eyes lock. I held her face between my hands and pressed my lips against hers. I was going to pull back, but what I felt was everything I’d sought all my life, a feeling so pure and safe and real. I placed one of my hands on her small waist and brought her closer to me, I wanted her so bad and I wanted this moment to last forever.

She placed her hands on my chest and pushed me back gently “Will” she folded her lips “Goodnight” she said looking down and avoiding my gaze.

I understood she didn’t want to talk about what happened and stepped out. I also couldn’t bring myself to talk about what I just did or why I did it, but it was one of the best and most intense moments of my life and definitely one I would love to experience again.

I lay on my bed thinking about the kiss and thinking about her. I wonder if she’s able to sleep or she’s also up thinking about the kiss we had. I don’t even know if I’d be able to apologize for the kiss because I enjoyed every bit of it, my tongue in her mouth, her soft lips against mine. I would give anything to experience that again.

The night went by really fast and turned out to be a short one. I was only few hours into my sleep when the knock on my door woke me up. I could hear Irene’s voice.

“Yes. I’m coming” I said.

I shouted and ran over to the door. I opened the door to see her standing. Her hair was now dry and packed up into a bun.

“Good morning. We have a flight to catch in 20 and I have nothing to wear” she sighed.

“Good morning. I think I have something that could size you” I turned back in and walked to the wardrobe to get a pair of joggers and tees.

“This should fit” I pointed it over to her.

“Thanks. And get dressed” she said as she grabbed it from me.

“You know there’s no way we could meet up with them. So we’d just use my jet” I said.

She paused and looked at me “Okay, that’s fine. But you still have to get dressed so we could report to work early"

“Okay” I nodded reluctantly. All I wanted to do was sleep, I had a short night. I couldn’t stop thinking about the kiss with Irene and what it would feel like if she was mine.

I had my bath immediately I got in and went downstairs.

“Hey,” I said.

She was dressed in the joggers and tees I gave her earlier and she looked very beautiful, just like she always does.

“Hi there. I just spoke with my boss she’s expecting me at work for this presentation I worked on so we have to leave now. Are you ready?” she asked.

“Oh, yeah. Sure I am.” I lied. I was going to ask her to stay back with me and let’s spend the weekend together here but I guess I was being delusional.

I called Ike immediately but he didn’t answer. I guess he must still be sleeping. The hotel was fine and very fancy anybody would want to spend the whole day sleeping… I tried calling again and thankfully this time he answered.

“Ike where are you?” I asked.

“Sorry Sir. I am heading towards your house.” He said.

“Okay” I replied.

“Ike is on his way” I said.

“Okay” she replied and didn’t say a word after.

Everything seemed really quiet and awkward so I decided to break the silence.

“I’m sorry about yesterday…I” her voice interrupted me from completing my speech.

“It’s fine. I could have stopped you but I didn’t and we were both tipsy so there’s no need to make it a big deal, it’s fine” she said like it was something casual and didn’t mean anything to her. Somehow I was hoping she also felt something after we kissed. I guess I was wrong.

“Okay” I formed a fake smile “We should head out Ike is here already"

“Ike have you contacted the pilot?” I asked.

“Yeah. We’d meet him at the location of the private hanger"

“Great! Let’s go then” I looked over at her and gestured for her to go in.

The flight back home was a silent one we both didn’t say anything to each other. If I had my way I wouldn’t even go back to the office, but as the CEO I had to be there, and I was pretty sure I had lots of work piled up. It wasn't like I couldn’t bail on it, but I wanted to be there because of her. I wanted to see her, to ask her to report to my office just to steal glances at her and also to prevent that jerk of a Davis guy and her ex from disturbing her.

“I’ll see you around?” I said to her as Ike drove us to the front of the office.

“Yeah,” she said calmly and walked inside.

As soon as I got to my office my secretary Naomi rushed to tell me about how my soon to be wife Megan had been calling me. I had left one of my phones for general calls at the office with my secretary and I almost forgot I said yes to marrying her or she existed and I didn’t even let her have my personal phone number. Even my dad doesn’t have it because I know he would give the number to Megan right away. Only Ike and a few other people I do business with have that number and I plan on letting Irene have it too.

“And what did she want?” I asked.

“Sir I tried talking to her but she said it was only you she was going to speak to"

“Let me have the phone” I stretched out my hand.

I dialed her number and waited for her to answer. I tried a few more times but I still didn’t get an answer. I thought she was busy but the message I got right after proved otherwise it said, 'Hey, seems to me like you are busy, so I will be coming to your office today. My driver says we’re close already…'

I felt my heart beat out of anger. If only she was patient enough to listen to the secretary maybe she would have heard that I wasn’t in the country and had gone on a business meeting.

“Oh my God” I muttered and massaged my eyebrows with my fingers.

“You…you can leave” I said to my secretary who was standing in front of me.

I was still thinking of how to break the news to Irene and hear what she was going to say or probably ask her to be my girlfriend so we could leave all this behind and start a new life somewhere. There’s no way I could tell her anything now but there’s a possibility she wouldn’t know Megan was here, since the company is really big. I decided to ask my secretary for Irene’s office line and put a call through so I could maybe explain the whole predicament I was in so she doesn’t hear it from someone else and feel like I am a cheat or a flirt for kissing her, at least before Megan showed up. Thank God she was not in the company yet.

“Here it is Sir” My secretary said as she walked in with a piece of paper.

I dialed the number quickly and thankfully she answered in time.

“Uhm, Irene. There’s something I would like to talk to you about."

“Right Now? I’m quite busy. Is it about work?” she asked.

“No, it’s not about work it’s a long story,” I said.

“Okay then, I guess we could talk about it after work or maybe if” I didn’t hear the rest of the sentence because I ended the call right after I saw Megan walk in.

She was dressed in a miniskirt and a shirt but a very sexy one like she was coming to relieve my stress of work by having sex with me. I rebuked the thought and formed a fake smile at her.

“Hey you,” she said as she walked in and closed the door. My office door is never closed only when I had personal business to talk about. I hope it’s not what I am thinking she’s here for.

“I called you all through yesterday but you weren’t answering and this morning you didn’t as well. I hope work isn’t too stressful?” she said softly as she sat on the table now letting her short skirt expose even more of her thighs.

“Yeah, I had to travel for a business meeting, I just flew back in” I replied.

“Well, you could have at least answered my call. I’m not just your fiancé for the company’s sake Will, I am your fiancé like for real, whenever you’re down or you’re tired I will be right here to help you back up and comfort you. Because that’s what partners do” she said and brought her hands to my face. Before I knew it she was on my laps and her mouth was pressed against mine.

I tried pushing her back but she held onto me tightly and one push and she would fall right off my laps. I put my hand on her shoulders so I could push her away gently but I didn’t have to do that because someone interrupted making her jolt away.

“Irene” I whispered. The look on her face was more of disappointment than shock. I froze and didn’t say a word.

“Who are you and how did you get in” Megan said angrily.

“Uhm, I…I” Irene stuttered.

“Why didn’t you knock? Didn’t you see the door was closed? and …and… why did the secretary even let you in?” she put her hand on her waist and stared at Irene.

“Meg, I was the one who asked her to report to my office before you came, we had something about work to discuss” I said quickly I didn’t want Irene in here for one more second, I didn’t want her to feel like a fool that was being played and this might even give her flashes of how her useless ex broke her.

“Oh, Okay baby” Megan smiled and rested on the table, staring at the both of us like giving us a go ahead to talk the Business I said I called her for.

“You can leave,” I said to Irene.

“Why? Baby, feel free to talk about whatever; you know I will be working with you next week and you really don’t have to hide anything from me.” She used her thumb to smudge my cheek.