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“Steven we need to talk."

"Shouldn't you be at work?" he replied, totally
avoiding my question.

Of course,
I should be at work, but how can I go there all day if I need to talk to you?

"Go to work and meet me after. What time is your last
meeting?"

"I'm already out for the day. I've got a secretary."

"So?"

"That's what they do. Cancel meetings, re-arrange."

"Wow, I wouldn't hire you."

"I wouldn't hire you." I mimicked. I missed him too
much.

"Can you two stop flirting and agree when to meet?"
Anne raised herself up groggily.

"Who's that?" Steven asked.

"Anne," I giggled as I tried to figure out if I could
resist this man any longer.

“She sounds grumpy,” he laughed as she was making moaning noises
rummaging through the apartment.

“It's my birthday and she came over. Where can I meet you?”

“I’ll text you. Laters.” He hung up with a click.

He did not even say happy birthday I thought to myself as I ran
to the shower and left Anne to play a remake of 'Night of the Living Dead' as
she growled and wandered around the apartment. As I got out and dressed in my
jeans and top, I saw his text wishing me a happy birthday and that his address
way in Upper East Side.

“Oh my,” I said to Anne. “He lives in Upper East Side.”

She ignored me as she continued to wander around the apartment,
looking for whatever she was looking for. I slammed the door and made my way to
the penthouse on Upper East Side.

As I reached the door man greeted me and I felt like I was
Cinderella arriving at the ball. My heart thudded hard as I made my way up to
the penthouse. I saw Steven and I could not help but run over to him and kiss
him. I did not care if he was not alone. I had not seen him in a week and it
felt like a lifetime.

He greeted me likewise as he devoured my lips hungrily. We could
not seem to get enough of each other as our bodies pressed urgently together. I
felt my body grow hot and moist as I felt his hard bulge pressing into my
belly. I wanted, no,
needed
him. And
it had to be now. Almost as if he had read my mind he began walking me through
the apartment, his body still pressed into mine. I felt a door being pushed
open and the next thing I knew I was falling backward onto his king sized bed.
His weight crushed me into the soft foam and I groaned loudly. Our hands worked
frantically as I pushed his shirt up even as he sat up to pull mine over my
head. We worked as a team and in seemingly no time our damp flesh met. I
couldn't take it anymore. I needed to feel his body joined with mine but he
seemed to be taking his own sweet time. I took matters into my own hands. I
pushed at him until he rolled off onto his back. I wasted no time in straddling
his hips and poised myself above him. He chuckled as his hands grasped my hips.
I breathed deeply, anticipating. With one jerk he had pulled me down and filled
me completely. I shuddered as I collapsed against his chest. His hands stayed
on my hips as our bodies began to undulate, rolling against each other in an
effort to pull out the maximum of pleasure. I felt the energy build as we rose
to a crescendo. He thrust upwards, harder and faster as I pushed down as hard
as I could. I could not get enough of him and before I knew it I began to shake
as my climax approached.

“Oh God Steven!!!!" I was
cumming!
I ended on a screech as I felt lights explode behind my
tightly shut eyes. My breath came in gasps and spurts as my body clenched his.
Even as I began to go limp I felt him stiffen. I heard him groan and felt his
throbbing member twitch deep inside of me as his hot juices were released. I
nuzzled my face in his shoulders as I began to sob softly. He raised my head to
look into my eyes. He needed to ask no questions as his lips met mine.

A long,
long
time
later we lay in bed, all our pent up energy finally spent. We felt like two
lovers who had experienced sex for the first time. I felt like I was a born
again virgin. I had never climaxed to that extent and I wanted to explore it all
over again. But for now we needed to recuperate.

As we lay in bed I explained to him how uncomfortable I was
feeling about my suspicions with Nathan. He told me that he could pull a few
strings to help me take the information to the right sources to deal with the
fraud that had been committed to date. Then, he promises to help me in another
department and we spend the whole day making up for lost time.

***

About a week later, Steven suggested that I take a few days off.
Without hesitation I did as he had suggested. A few days into my break Nathan
was arrested and the shareholders offered me the position. I told them I would
have to give it some thought. At the moment there was only one position that I
wanted and it was not a corporate one. I wanted to be with Steven, plain and
simple. I knew that the moment we had shared that first kiss. I had to secure
that position first before I thought of taking up any other offer.

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It feels weird being in the apartment without Lea. She met
herself a fancy man at work and moved in with him. She signed over the
apartment to me. Erin moved out of her apartment and now we’re living in the
apartment that I shared with Lea.

I suppose I should be happy. The issue is, I’m far from it. Erin
is no longer the fun loving girl that she was when I was with Lea. It is almost
as if she changed, her interest in me changed and most of all her reasons for
being with me changed.

I saw it from the moment she asked me if I was going back to
Lea. When I had first moved out of the apartment she had treated me like I was
some piece of furniture that she needed to get rid of but had no one to take
care of.

She had worked as an administrator and when she had heard about Erin’s
new role she decided that she had to go back to college and get a master’s
degree too. She quit her job and now I’m expected to pay the home loan alone. I
expected her to at least pay half. I had even put her name on the apartment
too.

“I can’t pay. I’ll be studying. It would be ideal for me to be
on campus. But I can’t do that now,” she said as she slouched on the couch.

I looked at her puzzled, unclear as to where this conversation
was going. I turned down the volume when I eventually found the remote.

“What do you mean that you can’t afford it anymore?”

“Well,” she said as she put a piece of popcorn in her mouth. “If
you had married Lea or even better gotten her pregnant then we could have had
that money and you could have supported me through my master’s.”

I looked at her shocked and stunned. She had never wanted me to
break up with Lea. She had never wanted
us
to be together. All she had wanted was the money. Lea had told me the lengths
that some of her dad’s family had gone to get their hand on the money. Then I
remembered the way I had treated Lea about money. I looked at Erin as we both
sat down in the messy flat with hardly any money between us. Until I become a
consultant once more or more importantly get a new job, I could hardly pay the
amount that was needed to pay Erin’s fees while she was studying. I needed to
go to the bank tomorrow and ask for a loan or something.

I started to feel nervous about my future and about the mistakes
I had made and how the one woman I thought I wanted, was not the one I needed.
The only thing I could hear in my head was 'What goes around comes, around –
Karma: ain’t it a bitch!'

I flipped through the channels and came across one of my
favorite movies of all time:
Basic
Instinct.

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