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“…and we are on our way to world domination,” Ree smirked, while the rest of the room laughed. “Seriously, we have made great strides, but our best lies ahead. Together we are a group of absolutely amazing people and I want to thank each one of my friends here with me,” Ree swept her arm pointing to the five CxOs sitting behind her, “and each member of the Translink family who are here in front of me and who are holding fort back in each of our offices.
“Most of all, I want to thank Kevin and his team for dreaming up this sojourn in Krabi,” almost like she couldn’t help it, Ree looked at Ika and her expression and voice involuntarily softened, “Krabi has added life to my living…thank you.”
The crowd erupted. Validation and praise from the owner went a long, long way.
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Clapping excitedly and enthusiastically, Gigi turned to Ika and caught her in that exact moment when Ika’s and Ree’s eyes had met across the room and Ika was looking at Ree with her soul shining in her eyes and heart tumbling out of her smile.
“Oh my God!” Gigi squeaked looking wildly between Ika and Ree.
“What,” Ika said turning towards her.
Gigi grabbed Ika’s hand and dragged her out of the hall.
“It’s Reet…” Gigi started her question shrilly once they were outside and safely out of anyone’s hearing distance.
Ika clapped her hand on Gigi’s mouth before she could complete. “Don’t say it, Gee,” she said urgently. “You can’t say it; you can’t breathe it…you’re not even allowed to think it,” she whisper-shouted.
Gigi looked at her with wide, wild eyes and nodded. Ika took her hand away with a deep breath.
“Oh my God! Bu…bu…,” Gigi spluttered clearly shaken.
“I didn’t know who she was till yesterday.”
“You didn’t,” high pitched squeak.
“Gig, stop freaking out…you’ll draw attention,” Ika whispered as people started spilling out of the hall, the meeting having broken up.
“You’ve been with her all these nights?” the pitch wasn’t getting any lower.
Ika blushed but nodded.
“Fuck! I can’t believe it! She’s not out, that’s why she wants to keep it under wraps,” Gigi was whisper-freaking-out.
“What? No! I told you, she left it up to me. It is my choice.”
“You’re gorgeous, Ika…why won’t she want to publicly claim you?” Gigi was clearly not listening.
Claim me…the words sent a shiver of pure thrill through Ika. Oh yes! I want her to claim me. I want to belong to her and I want everyone to know I belong to her. I want everyone to know she is mine.
Gigi suddenly froze as she caught sight of Ree walking out. Ree passed by them shooting a glance at Ika who had her back towards Ree.
“Holy fucking hell!” Gigi exclaimed.
“What?” Ika asked.
“Reeth just walked by and I swear she’s either just eaten you with her eyes or she’s wrapped you in cotton wool and silk and placed you on a pedestal. Probably both. I didn’t even know such a look existed…I wish someone looked at me like I was a rare, precious treasure,” Gigi whispered.
“Yeah?” Ika blushed for all she was worth, looking around and spotting Ree turning the corner and going towards her room.
“Euphoria and yearning – this is another look that I didn’t know existed,” Gigi interrupted Ika’s thoughts pointing at her face. “Does she know you love her…as in, that you’re in love with her?” Gigi affected her voice-of-reason voice and tone.
Ika bit back a smile and nodded again.
“Does she love you?”
Ika’s smile grew and grew and grew. “Does she ever…you saw how she looks at me, Giga…she makes me feel beautiful…sexy…adored…wanted…worshipped,” the last was more a breath than a whisper.
Gigi threw her arms around Ika, “I’m so happy for you,” she enthused. “Now let’s go and get changed for the evening and then you can spend time making eyes at her or ogling,” she teased.
“Ummm, actually…you know, I kinda…” Ika struggled with shyness. Lord, this was easier when Gigi didn’t know who I was with.
“What?”
“My things for the evening are in her room so…”
“Get out! You’ve actually shifted? Without me knowing?”
“Not yet…but I took stuff over this morning when I went to have breakfast with her and get ready there,” Ika could barely wait to get this conversation over with and chase after Ree.
Gigi grinned at her knowingly and then batted her away, Oh, go on…you’re practically jumping out of your skin wanting to chase her,” she laughed.
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Ree was opening her door when Ika reach her. Ika ran and jumped on her back wrapping her arms and legs around Ree and hugging her tight. “Hi awesomeness,” she said softly into Ree’s ear.
Ree turned her head grinning and Ika bent down to kiss her cheek. “I know you were shaking, but you killed it…you were just so good up there,” she said.
“Really? You think I did okay,” Ree was achingly vulnerable as she walked in with Ika still clinging on her back.
“Sweetie, you could have just gone up there, waved out to everyone and blown kisses, and everyone would’ve been happy,” Ika slid off Ree and came around to stand in front of her and wrap her arms around Ree’s waist. She placed a kiss in the hollow of her throat. “I was so proud of you…you were informal, just the right amount of cocky and just so warm. I was totally swooning.”
“The only reason I could do it was because you were there,” Ree admitted winding an arm around Ika’s waist and sliding the other one around the nape of her neck.
“Awww sweetie,” Ika kissed her gently. “Now let me get ready…gotta get back before biggies arrive,” she said walking away.
“Can I…”
“No.”
“But you don’t even know what I was going to ask,” tad whiny.
“No, you cannot come and have a shower with me,” Ika looked over her shoulder, “Isn’t that what you were going to say?”
“Maybe.”
“Tomorrow,” Ika winked at Ree and sashayed away adding just a bit more sway to her hips.
“Brat,” Ree called after her and heard soft laughter flowing her way.
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“Wow!” Ree looked at Ika as she entered the room.
Ika wore a sheer black shirt that had vertical stripes of trellis made of stones alternating with thin see-through lines paired with a tight black silk skirt that came to mid-thigh. Large oval opal earrings, smoky eyes and nude lipstick. A matching opal pendent rested below her throat between the neck of her shirt which showed just a hint of cleavage. Strappy heels completed her ensemble. Her hair was artfully mussed up and tied in a fishtail plait.
“You like?” Ika asked swaying towards Ree.
“You’re rocking the shirt and slaying the skirt…not to mention totally killing me.”
“And you are totally undressing me and fucking me with your eyes,” Ika blushed as she tapped her finger on Ree’s nose.
“How am I going to last the evening, babe?” Ree asked with genuine concern.
“The same way that I will…you clean up good,” Ika smiled loving the simple black jeans and t-shirt Ree had changed into. “Do you know how hot I find you?” she asked softly rubbing her cheek to Ree’s.
“Are you sure about this keeping quiet thing?” Ree asked holding Ika’s hips and nibbling her ear.
“About that…,” Ika turned her head to look at Ree. “Gigi knows.”
“That girl you were with when I came out?”
“Um-hmm. She saw me looking at you…falling into you…and guessed,” she rubbed Ree’s arms.
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“No. I’m glad. We share a room here, so she knew I was seeing someone…that I’m in hopelessly and madly love…she just didn’t know who it was.”
“And now that she does…?”
“She’s freaked out…but pumped for me,” Ika smiled.
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The six biggies of Translink sat together. Six powerful women: the CEO, CTO, CMO, CFO, CHRO and the COO. Clearly they were are old friends and very close. All of them between forty-eight and fifty-five and had totally reverted to their teens.
Ree was currently the butt of their teasing. It all started with:
“So who is she? Spill,” Ann, the CFO, demanded.
“Who?”
“Reeth…how long have I known you?”
“Thirty-five years.”
“In all this time, the only times you’ve checked-out on everyone you know is when you are in love…and even then, you have never – never – checked-out on work like you did this week,” smirking.
“So who is she?” Marie, the CHRO joined in.
“You’re sure there is someone?” Ree didn’t not want to tell them – they were all her closest friends – but she couldn’t because Ika didn’t want to let anyone in the organisation know yet.
“Reeth, is it a straight woman again?” Maya, the CTO, sounded concerned. “Please tell me it’s not…you’ve spent two decades getting over your heartbreaks…don’t set yourself up for another one.”
“Doesn’t seem so.”
“She knows you’re interested in her?” from Jane, the COO.
“Yes,” Ree smiled.
“Is she interested in you?” Valerie, the statuesque CMO questioned.
“Yes,” colouring slightly.
“Wow! You’re actually blushing…you’re really into this one…are you in love with her?” Ann.
“Yes. Madly.”
“As much as the first one…or the second…or the third?” Maya, teasing.
“More than all of them put together,” Ree said softly…barely audible.
…and that had set them off, though Ree refused to say any more. The others riffed off each other with comfort and shorthand born of long years of friendship.
“Can I get you all something to eat? Drink?” a soft, husky voice interrupted them. Ika. Someone from the team had walked up to them every half-an-hour to ask the exact same thing. It was Ika’s turn this time. Seeing Ree’s face, she had made an educated guess as to what was being discussed…which made her as self-conscious as Ree and very nervous.
In the chorus of “no, thank you”s, Ree’s eyes connected with hers. In that split second all of Ree’s emotions for Ika showed on her face and in her eyes…making Ika blush. Making polite noises, Ika turned to walk away on shaking legs. Just one look does this to me.
“Oh my God! That’s her,” the demonstrative Italian, Marie said in a loud sotto voce before Ika was completely out of earshot.
“Drop it, guys,” Ree said gruffly.
“You’ve always had awesome taste,” Maya teased.
Ree’s phone buzzed. It was Ika. She coloured as she got up, turned her back to the table and walked away to answer it.
“Hi baby.”
“They’re giving you a hard time, aren’t they,” smoky voice with laughter lurking in it.
“And you just had to turn up right then,” Ree accused. “They seem to have guessed,” apologetically.
“I know…I heard…so…ummm…”
“What’s up, beautiful…why are you hemming and hawing?”
“How long are you going to be?”
“I don’t know…it’s been years since all of us got together…doesn’t look like its breaking up anytime soon.”
“Can you hurry up…take me home and ravish me…make me moan and pant all night long,” Ika’s voice was sultry with palpable want.
“You can’t say something like this to me right after you came up to our table…and when I just have to put in more time,” Ree groaned.
“I’ve spent the whole evening staring at you...getting wetter and wetter…do you know how hard it is to for me when you’re within sightline and I cannot wrap myself around you?” Ika’s voice was hot and flirty.
“Not as hard as it is to see you and not touch you,” Ree countered.
“So are you going to do lewd, filthy things to me soon or not?” Ika’s voice dropped an octave.
“Where are you?” Ree searched around.
“If I tell you, will you come to me and…”
“Yes…oh God…yes!”
“Don’t you want to know and what?” teasing.
“Stop playing with me…where are you?”
Ika, an expert at finding right spots, was in a copse from where she could see the party but no one from the party could see her. The trees were thick enough so that even if anyone happened to look in that direction, they wouldn’t actually see anything.
Ree walked into the thicket to find Ika already unbuttoning her shirt. They came together in a clash of bodies, mouths, tongues and hands. Frantic and uncontrolled. Ree kissed and nipped down Ika’s neck, squeezing her breast and pinching, pulling and rolling her hardened nipple. Ika whimpered pushing her crotch into Ree’s thigh.
“Ree,” she breathed.
“Tell me what you want baby…,” Ree said against Ika’s skin.
“I want you to suck my breasts…bite them…I want you to bite my tits with your lips and pull them…I want you to squeeze my cunt…then stroke me till everything in me is trembling…,” Ika whispered dangerously close to Ree’s ear. Going closer, she spoke right into Ree’s ear, “I want you to pinch my clit, Ree, and draw circles around it…I want you to enter me…fuck me with two fingers,” she licked the ear, “and then I want you to fuck me harder…bang me with three fingers…” she kissed and licked up Ree’s neck, knowing exactly what effect her words were having… “Can you do that?” she licked Ree’s lips.
A feral guttural growl was her answer…and then she simply lost her mind to Ree’s touch.
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“Ree…”
“Hmmm?”
Ika lay in a fluid state, tucked in her favourite spot, wrapped around Ree after having come numerous times in a row. She drew patterns on Ree’s chest…an act which had become quite a tell with her…her thing when she was going to bring up something that was bothering her.
“You know, I love that you’re okay…no scratch that….that you actually make me a pillow princess…no…a pillow queen…no…a pillow empress…”
“Pillow goddess,” Ree smiled, eyes covered with one arm, the other holding her treasure.
“Yes! Yes…that’s how you make me feel…”
“I’m glad that the fact I worship you comes through.”
Quick kiss. “But Ree…what about you? How come you never let me touch you or ask me to?” under the lashes look.
“I’m good.”
“No Ree, seriously. I can feel your skin reacting when I touch you. I can even feel how wet you get…and sometimes I know when you come…but why won’t you let me do it for you?”
“I don’t need you to, babe.”
Ika raised herself on her elbow. “Sweetie, I know you tones. What is it?”
“I am too self-conscious…too inhibited…to actually be able to allow it or enjoy it…,” in a very small voice.
“Ree, look at me…” gently. Ree moved her arm and did as requested. “What if I don’t look at you when I do it?”
“I don’t know…I don’t think I come a lot…I am kind of a low and seldom orgasm person,” a mumble.
“Will you let me try?” tracing lines along Ree’s collarbone and neck. “I already know that you have almost zero sensation on your breasts…but can I touch you elsewhere?” almost pleading, sliding her hand to Ree’s stomach and scratching her gently…feeling the skin come alive. The tactile response was quite an a
nswer. Without waiting for a verbal answer which she knew would be difficult for Ree to actually say, she bent down and kissed Ree deeply, allowing her hands to wander. She ran her fingers along Ree’s sides and felt the goosebumps that erupted all over Ree at her light touches.
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