by R. R. Banks
“Whenever I can,” she answered politely. “I love my daughter and I talk to her every day, though there are times when we go weeks without seeing each other in person, especially now that she is in Wellington.”
“Ah yes. She moved to the land of the kiwis. How has that been for her?”
Sulagna reached forward and grabbed her wine, sipping from the glass slowly before answering Jacoby. “She loves it, especially, and I didn’t see this coming, working with Robert Acostis.”
“She likes working with that asshole?” remarked Jacoby crudely as he placed the dishes in the drying rack beside the sink. “I can think of hundreds of words that describe Robert Acostis and all of them are similar to what I just referred to him as.”
“Well, he is an ass, but he is a very smart one,” she said, defending him lightly. “Robert is, without question, one of the shrewdest businessmen I have ever had the pleasure of working with. He is a stalwart in corporate acquisitions and, to my surprise, someone whom I will always love to have on my team.”
Jacoby walked around the column to sit down beside Sulagna at the table. “Really?” he asked rhetorically. “I honestly thought you didn’t have much to say about him other than he resembled a leach instead of a professional.”
“Keeping in mind that he is very good at flipping businesses, he sold me on some of the ideas that are going on right now involving the south pacific and more specifically, the company that you are an owner of,” she explained as she the subject changed to become a lot more professional. “When I allowed for the admission of his company, there were several caveats that had to be dealt with. For one, I wanted to make sure that Dillon Flannigan was a vital part of it and that Robert had no intentions of selling it for a quick profit. As I’m sure you’re aware, Dillon has become the President of that company and Robert has signed an agreement that he will not sell any of his shares to anyone outside of the consortium for the next ten years. With that being said, I had other dealings working behind the scenes.”
Jacoby leaned forward and reached for his wine, sipping from the glass as he listened in with a curious intent. “Like what?”
Sulagna grinned as she tilted her head to the side. “Jacoby, I need you to take this part very seriously and not get your feelings hurt. The past three years have been…”
“I know, Sulagna,” he said in a calm tone. “These past three years have been terrible for me personally and professionally. I, unfortunately, was not in a state to help my company at all and pretty much left Nathanial to screw everything up.”
“And that he did,” she responded with a soft hint of sarcasm. “He left the company to a man who swindled you and ran it into the ground. It’s not your fault at all that your company almost went into bankruptcy.”
Jacoby motioned with his arms, as he tried to defend Nathanial. “Sulagna, I honestly believe that I could have done much more than what I actually did. I just, well, I couldn’t manage to figure out how to get over my grief and get out of whatever funk I was in.” He paused while he looked down at the table in shook his head. “Yes, I agree that Nathanial Jenkins is an absolute buffoon, but I still feel that I could have done more to save the company. The blame is still partially on me.”
“We’re not saying that you are completely not reproachable, but what I am saying, personally, is that the decisions that were made were not your fault,” she explained. “Yes, you had a responsibility to your company, your employees, and your shareholders, but in reality, none of the decisions that were made were yours. They were all made as a result of Nathanial Jenkins. Because of this, the consortium feels that he needs to step aside.”
“So you want him to resign?”
“We want him to sell his shares to Dillon Flannigan so that he can have the majority stake in the company,” she explained.
“So, who all isn’t on board with this plan?” he asked as he slowly pushed himself away from the table to grab some more wine. “I mean, I don’t have much of a say regarding this deal, so my opinion is absolutely irrelevant.”
Sulagna stood up and grabbed her wine glass to meet Jacoby in the kitchen, walking around the counter and onto the tile floor. “That’s not true,” she said as she placed her glass close to the bottle. “You will have to run the day to day operations of the Australian company, just as you have done over the past few months. You will have to resume the role of being the fantastic businessman that is hungry and won’t stop at nothing to get what he wants.”
Jacoby smiled as he noticed Sulagna was standing close to him. “So, you want me to go get what I want?”
“Yes, that’s what I want you to do.”
Jacoby leaned in and kissed Sulagna on the lips as he held a glass of wine in his left hand and the bottle in his right. With their lips touching, Sulagna wrapped her left arm around his waist and pulled herself in closer to him. He lifted his head and looked down slightly at Sulagna, who was a few inches shorter than him. “Do you still want me to get what I want?” he asked with a seductive look in his eyes.
Sulagna turned around and placed her glass of wine on the counter before placing both of her arms around his neck, bringing her body in close to his. “I think we both might want the same thing,” she quipped as she leaned in to kiss him. Jacoby stepped forward with Sulagna’s arms around his neck, their lips touching, to place the bottle of wine and his glass on the counter beside hers so that he could place his hands on her waist, pulling her to him. He moved his hands up and down the small of her back, massaging the muscles between her shoulder blades before working his way down to her butt. With a light moan, Sulagna moved as close to him as she could, pressing her hot core against his crotch to feel it starting to grow. She let go of her grip around his neck and began moving with him to the couch.
She turned around to face him once their feet touched the rug in the center of the living room. She immediately reached up to pull the straps off both of her shoulders, allowing her turquoise dress to fall innocently to the ground. She stood in front of him wearing a white bra with lace around the top and the straps with matching bikini cut panties that fit snugly across her hips. With a seductive grin across her face, she waited patiently as Jacoby came closer, placing his arms around her hips, drawing her forward. They immediately locked in a passionate embrace as she wrapped her arms around his neck again, placing her half-naked body against his before running her hands down across the sides of his neck and down to his chest to start unbuttoning his shirt. As she started at the top, working her way down, she pulled the shirt out of his pants and opened it to reveal his bare chest.
Jacoby brought his hands up to the middle of Sulagna’s back, unhooking her bra while she moved her hands down to his pants to unclasp his belt and remove his dark slacks. Within seconds, her bra and his pants were on the floor. She placed both of her dark hands on his shoulders and pushed him down on the couch before straddling his legs, pressing her bare breasts against his chest. Her lips touched his as they continued to kiss enthusiastically in the dark living room while their hands wandered all over each other’s bodies. “Are you alright?” asked Sulagna as she began kissing his neck. “I’m not rushing you, am I?”
“Absolutely not,” replied Jacoby in a sense of ecstasy. “I’ve been needing this for quite some time and honestly, I’ve been wanting you for a long while.”
“Well I’m happy I can oblige,” she said playfully as she reached down in between her legs and placed her right hand on his crotch, still feeling his boxer briefs. She reached into the slit to pull out his throbbing cock so that she could commence stroking it softly with the tips of her fingers as she kissed his neck. She worked her hand slowly around the tip of his cock as her lips worked their way down to his shoulders and then back up to his cheeks and lips. After moments of teasing him, he placed his hands on her hips and lifted her up placing her beside him on the couch. He settled in between her legs to fervently kiss her while he moved his cock around on top of her white pant
ies.
His kisses slowly worked their way down her chest, stopping at her breasts to lick her nipples, causing her to moan with each flick of his tongue. He moved his right hand down to her panties and pushed them aside so his hand could explore her small bush, before moving lower through her slick folds. Her back arched as he penetrated her with his fingers and his mouth continued to work on her breasts, putting her in a state of euphoria as he focused on all her more sensitive areas. He continued to lick her nipples and finger her deeply before pulling his body down further and removing his hand from inside of her panties so that he could pull them off and toss them to the side. Jacoby looked down at her cunny, noticing how it was perfectly trimmed and very well kept up. He kissed his way down before spreading her lips and using the same motion on her clitoris that he used on her nipples.
She moaned passionately as he continued to lick her clit, flicking his tongue up and down as he slowly inserted his two fingers back into her wet pussy. Using his left hand to keep her lips open, he flicked his tongue with precision as the muscles in her stomach started to flex. “More,” she moaned as he continued, bringing her closer to the brink of orgasm. His fingers pulsated inside of her, moving in and out in a steady rhythm while his tongue continued to move in sweeping circles. Quickly the muscles in her vagina began to tense until they all contracted simultaneously and she let out a passionate scream. “Oh, my god!” she screamed as she climaxed with Jacoby still moving his fingers and tongue in a perfect rhythm. She placed her hand on his head and pressed it firmly into her pussy as she continued to climax, holding the moment as long as she could until she finally released him.
“Was that acceptable?” he asked sarcastically, looking on at Sulagna as she stared at him with a devilish intent. She leaned up on the couch, grabbing him by his shirt, pulling him on top of her. Their lips immediately locked as she reached down to grab his underwear so she could remove them. She pulled them down slightly and Jacoby did the rest, allowing Sulagna to grab his cock. Pulling him forward slightly by his cock, she placed it against her soaking wet cunny, rubbing the tip of it against her lips before pushing the head in. She fell backwards as she held onto his shirt, pulling him down with her and allowing him to shove his throbbing cock further inside of her. As she pulled her hips up, the shaft moved into her pussy as he fell on top of her body.
Jacoby thrust his hips with force as Sulagna kept her hips up, allowing him to pound her as she felt his cock moving inside of her. With each forceful thrust, Sulagna let out a small moan as he continued to build closer to climax. He thrust his hips repeatedly as his shaft moved inside of her, felling the inside of her center rub against his shaft. He moaned slightly as he started to feel his cock tingle, knowing that he was moving closer to orgasm. “Do it,” she said as she looked him in the eyes. “I want to feel you erupt inside of me.”
He smiled as she wrapped her arms around his neck with his cock starting to throb. He started to thrust harder as he got closer until he finally came, emitting a large amount of cum inside of her wet pussy. With a loud moan from both of them, he continued to thrust as he climaxed, riding it out until the very end. After a while, he pulled out, breathing heavily as he looked at Sulagna and smiled. “That was incredible,” he said as he fell back into the arm of the couch. “I don’t think I could ask for an experience that good again.”
Sulagna laughed as she remained on her back, looking across her naked body at Jacoby leaning against the arm of the couch. “Oh, we’re going to try again,” she said with a foreshadowing tone. “This was not a one night stand or a friends with benefits situation. Tomorrow night, you’re taking me out for a real date in Sydney.”
“Yes ma’am,” replied Jacoby. “I would want nothing more than to show you a great time.”
“I look forward to it,” she said. “I absolutely look forward to it.”
Chapter 6
Nathanial and Alexis walked into their rental house on the beach without saying a word to each other. Since leaving the restaurant, Nathanial’s thoughts had been on his future and what all Dillon and he spoke about over dinner. ” Nathanial, let me give you shares in all of these other companies that I own so that it puts you in play to make a lot more money later,” said Dillon as the two were eating their swordfish. The thought of what was offered to him continued to go through his mind while he ignored Alexis.
“Are you going to be alright?” asked Alexis as Nathanial walked in and immediately sat down in a chair away from the rest of the furniture in the living room. With a window looking out at the ocean in front of him, Nathanial let his mind drift away as he continued to think about everything that Dillon said and continuing to ignore Alexis. “I’m going to step out front and call Hannah,” she continued, acknowledging that Nathanial was lost in thought.
“No,” said Nathanial. “I don’t want her knowing what’s going on.”
Alexis nodded as Nathanial finally started speaking. “Why not?”
“Because it’s ultimately my business and I don’t want the world to know that I’m being muscled out of my company,” he explained. “If anything, I’d like to maintain whatever dignity I have left over so that after tomorrow, I can pickup the pieces and move on without much thought.”
“You’re not going to have to move on,” replied Alexis. “You’re still going to own a minority stake in the Australian company. So, you won’t be in charge of the day to day aspects of the business. You hated that part, even if you won’t admit it.”
Nathanial leaned his head back against the headrest before sighing. “It’s not that I didn’t enjoy it, or even hated it. I didn’t get an opportunity to finish what I started.”
“Finish what you started?” she asked with a puzzled inflection. “What did you start?”
“Fixing the company,” he replied. “I’m currently responsible for fixing the broken company and I want to stay on until it’s complete.”
Alexis was even more confused. “But Nathanial, Hannah and I fixed your company,” she stated solemnly.
“I allowed it!” he shouted in defiance. “If I would have said no, then the two of you would be back in the United States right now picking up the scraps from your good for nothing bosses!”
“Stop it!” screamed Alexis. “You’re not thinking straight right now. Everything that’s happened is making you a different person than the man I’m dating.”
Nathanial leapt up from the chair and looked through the dark room at Alexis. “No, I see clearly now,” he said with a seething tone. “You and Hannah have both been incredibly tight lipped but I know that in the back of your mind, you were out to make sure I got out of the way. No one in that consortium thinks that I am capable of running my own business and I refuse to go out like this! I refuse to take a handout from some guy who they view is the second coming of Christ!”
“That’s enough, Nathanial!” screamed Alexis again as he approached her. “You are acting like a spoiled brat! I can’t change the fact that the board of the consortium wants you out because they don’t see you as a fit executive, but how dare you take it out on me and even think I was in on your ousting? I need you to stop having this tantrum and start thinking like an adult. What, if anything, would I gain from a change in ownership? I work for the Consortium of Oil Traders, not for any specific company that happens to exist within them. Why would I want you to be forced to sell off your shares? What would that get me other than an upset boyfriend, which I clearly have right now?” She paused for a moment while she looked at Nathanial in anger. “Why do you even care about that stupid company? It clearly was about to go bankrupt and there was nothing you could’ve done to save it. What does it matter?”
“What does it matter?” asked Nathanial rhetorically. “It matters because it’s mine and my name is on the door!” he shouted. “I own it so if it fails, I fail!”
“Then you failed!” shouted Alexis, clearly fed up with the direction the conversation went. The two stared at each ot
her for a few moments with malice in their eyes. With heaving breathing between the two of them, Alexis put her hands in the air and turned around. “What’s gotten into you?” she asked calmly as she turned around. “When I found out this morning about this, I honestly thought you would be happy about this news. I figured, so long as the deal went through and you were compensated fairly, you’d be happy to be rid of the burden. What gives? Why are you so vehemently upset about all of this?”
Nathanial shook his head and turned around, walking back to his chair and sitting down. “Because I don’t have a say in any of this,” he said weakly. “Alexis, if I were asked if I wanted to sell the company, I would sell it and not think twice. I would unshackle myself from that burden, but because I’m being forced to sell, I want to hold on as long as I can to be a thorn in the side of whoever is making me give up. Alexis, I’m sick of this life and I don’t want to live it anymore, but I want to go out on my terms. I want to sell the company because I’m choosing to sell it, not because they’re telling me I have to.”
Alexis nodded. “So, you’re ok with selling the company but you’re not ok with someone telling you that you have to sell it?” she asked. “I don’t understand.”
“I don’t expect you to,” he said rudely. “You’ve never owned anything like this in your life and you never will.”
Alexis’s eyes opened up wide as the words rolled off of his tongue, piercing her consciousness and hurting her deeply. “Ok,” she said softly as she slowly nodded her head in a forced affirmation. “Clearly, you don’t believe in me or what I am capable of. I think you and I aren’t meant to last.”
“Wait, I didn’t mean that,” said Nathanial defensively.
“No, but I did,” continued Alexis. “I fell for you in Dubai because you were charming, handsome, charismatic, and at the time, I thought you were smart. Clearly, it was all an incredibly large façade. You’re stubborn, selfish, and don’t like to be told no. You want the world to be hand delivered to you on a silver platter because of the amount of money in your bank account but when it comes time for you to actually have to work for it, there is no room. You don’t have it in you to work for something.” Alexis paused for a moment as she looked at Nathanial staring at her with hatred in his eyes. “That look that you are giving me now only confirms everything that I just said. I’m sorry, Nathanial, but we’re done now.”