Chapter 7

Tanner

Normally, I was excited to see Monday. It meant work was going to get done, people would be more responsive to answering their phones, and the company could stop pausing and move forward. However, after spending my entire weekend thinking about nothing more than the fact that I could have nailed the hell out of Ava, but I didn’t, I was feeling drained and worn down. The upside to it all was I had plenty of meetings to keep me busy all day. The downside was, the first meeting of the day was an executive meeting talking about the upcoming company events, and I was sitting right across from Ava. She looked tired but gorgeous as always, having done her makeup and hair and wearing the perfect business attire. She always looked the part to a tee, something that was more important than people realized. I didn’t mind because her clothes were tight and form fitting, and I could see her perfect curves.

As the head of HR talked to the crowd, I glanced up from my notes at Ava who was sitting across the table from me. She was leaned forward, and I had a perfect shot of her amazing cleavage. She looked so damn sexy, it was insane. She glanced up at me and swatted me with a piece of paper, her mouth curled up in a smirk and her eyes wide. I chuckled and looked around, making sure no one was paying attention. Ava then turned back to the HR director who started talking about the charity event this weekend. It was a polo match in Greenwich, and they were hoping employees would come and show support since our company was sponsoring it. That was perfect for me because that meant I could spend time with Ava at an actual event outside. However, as she turned around, she didn’t seem to share the same enthusiasm. She looked perplexed, almost stressed, and I furrowed my brow at her in curiosity. She shook her head and looked back down at the paper.

The rest of the meeting was slow and hard to get through, but I was more concerned with figuring out what was going on in Ava’s head. Was she worried that she was going to be there with me? Did she already make plans and not want to disappoint? Did she terribly hate polo? That last question made me chuckle to myself, wondering who did like polo besides the people who played it. I watched her face move back to normal as she continued to take notes, now not paying much attention to me at all. I wasn’t sure why, but it bothered me when she didn’t pay attention to me. I was like a child playing with his crush during school time, only I couldn’t get in trouble by the teacher because I was the head of the school.

When the meeting was over, I waited until everyone else had left, looking over at Ava in a way that told her I needed her to stay behind with me. She had acted so strangely when they talked about the polo match, and I wanted to find out what was up. I hoped it didn’t have anything to do with me or with what happened between us on Friday night. She was important to the future of the company, and if I had screwed up, I wanted to make it right. She stood up and smiled at me.

“What’s up?” She was trying to act like nothing was wrong, but I could see right through it.

“When they talked about the polo match, you looked a little bit upset,” I said. “Is it me? I can stay home if it's something you want to go to.”

“What? No.” She chuckled. “My parents go to the polo match every year, and I’d already told them I would go with them. I mean, I don’t really have a choice since they don’t know I work for MJ. I either have to go with them or not at all.”

I nodded my head, just relieved it had nothing to do with me. I’d had an amazing time with her the other night, and though I knew it would be stupid to continue anything, there was still that small hope there. Just as I was about to say something, one of the employees walked in to get the meeting room straightened up. I nodded toward the door and walked side by side through the office, talking low as if we were discussing business. Finally, when we reached the end of the hall, we ducked into my office and shut the door. At first, we were standing enticingly close together, and for a moment, my breath caught in my throat, and all I could think about was pressing my mouth against hers. She smiled and put her hand on my face, leaning forward and kissing my cheek before walking over and sitting down in the chair across from the desk.

I walked over and sat down, leaning back in my chair and taking in a deep breath, my hands folded in front of me. I wasn’t sure what to say so I was giving her the opportunity to talk first. She stood up and walked around the room, looking at the pictures on the walls. She stopped at the last one and smiled. It was her father and me when we first opened our office in Brooklyn. Regardless of how things had ended, we had been best friends back then, and I missed him from time to time. She moved past that and looked at my shelves, running her fingers along the spines of the books I kept up there. For some reason, even though I never read them, it felt right or comforting to me to keep the classics on the shelf. Some people thought it was a décor thing, but it was more of a home away from home kind of thing. I cleared my throat, grabbing her attention. She walked back over and took a seat.

“First of all, go with your family to the polo match,” I said. “I forgot how much your dad liked that event, and I know it's important for him to do family things together. I’ll just pull you behind the bathrooms in the afternoon and steel some of your time.”

“That’s so romantic, Tanner.” Her sardonic tone said how unromantic she found the idea.

“Well, you know how I am,” I replied, laughing. “I want to apologize for Friday night. I mean, I don’t regret it in the least, but I also felt like it was something both of us did after a lot of alcohol and a really long week at work. I just don’t want you to feel uncomfortable around me.”

“It’s okay,” she said, standing back up. “I don’t apologize at all, actually.”

I looked at her as she stepped forward. She had a playful look on her face, and she leaned forward on my desk, her shirt sinking low and her breasts heaving forward. I wanted to stick my face in it, but I refrained, instead of looking up into her eyes. She was biting the edge of her lip, and she reached forward, grabbing my tie. As she pulled me forward, she took my bottom lip in her mouth and sucked it hard and slow. As she released it from her mouth, mine was hanging wide open, shocked at her response.

“I didn’t mind it at all,” she whispered. “Probably because I wanted it so bad.”

She glanced down at my cock that was, at that point, rock solid and throbbing. Instantly, my mind went somewhere else. I pictured her walking around the desk and kneeling out of view, unzipping my pants and putting those luscious lips around my cock. Without a doubt, she knew what I was thinking and let go of my tie, winked and turned, sashaying out of the office. I watched her ass move back and forth in her skirt, and I leaned back in the chair, rubbing my hand down my hard cock. If it wasn’t a day full of meetings, I’d lock the door and jack my cock right there, bringing her in to watch, but I knew that was something we would easily get caught for. I was the owner of the company, but I didn’t make a habit of fucking people in the office, well not very often at least.

I sat for at least fifteen minutes trying to get my cock to go down. I had several more meetings to get through that day, and I didn’t want to do it with a raging hard-on the entire time. When I finally emerged from the office, I didn’t even look over at her room, but I could hear her giggling as I walked past. I did the best to hide my smile and then went into the meetings, immersing myself in the information that was being given, even though I knew it all already. I was, after all, the one who wrote the schedule for the meetings. When the last meeting was over, I went back to my room and found that Ava had already left for the day. I was disappointed until I saw a note on my desk that read, “Check your phone.”

I picked my phone up and looked at it, not sure what she was talking about. There were no new messages, no missed calls, nothing. I had left it in my office while I was in the meetings, more by accident than on purpose. I sighed, not sure why, unless she hadn’t sent me anything yet. I looked at the note again but that was what it said. I scratched my head and put it down, gathering my files and putting them in my briefcase. As I piled the files in the bag, I stopped, thinking about the other places something could be left on my phone. I pulled it back out and went to the camera roll. My mouth dropped open as I stared down at the photo. Apparently, Ava had come into my office and snapped a pic of her tits and left it as a gift for me on my phone.

I stared down at those perfectly round firm breasts, and my mouth started to water. I sat down in my chair and shook my head. This girl was crazy, and she was completely messing with my head. I wanted to screw the hell out of her, and it wasn’t easy keeping myself straight, especially when she did shit like that. Part of me really wanted to keep it, knowing I was going to be alone later and that would get me going to finish what she’d started earlier. But knowing how much of an imagination I had, and how I didn’t want anyone accidentally looking at her breasts on my phone, I deleted it, feeling almost a loss when the message disappeared. I opened my texts and sent her back a shocked emoji face and then the one with sunglasses. I laughed and grabbed my bag, happier than I had a right to be with how my day had gone so far.

I left work in a daze of happiness and horniness, hoping I would get to spend some time with Ava before the weekend, though I didn’t expect anything. Now that I knew Dean was going to be at the polo match, I wasn’t looking forward to it as much as I thought I would. Even if Ava was there with him, I would only be able to watch her from afar. The last thing I want to do was get into an argument with his ass. He was hard-headed and wouldn’t back down from an argument. I didn’t want to disrespect Ava’s father in front of her, but that might end up proving harder to do than I’d originally thought.

Either way, she was sauntering away, and I was standing in my office with a giant boner.