It was 6:00 pm on Tuesday and John was still at work. He didn’t have that much of a backlog and could have easily dealt with it during normal work hours. He wasn’t staying late because of work. He was staying late because he hated going home to an empty apartment. It wasn’t a home without Nicole there. It was only his second day without her, and he missed her terribly already.
John reached for the next file and had just opened it when his secretary Lisa walked into his office. “Boss, we have a problem.”
John looked up at his cute little secretary. She was a godsend, and he couldn’t have asked for a better assistant. He knew that she was responsible for quite a bit of his recent success in his position. Her dedication and professionalism were beyond reproach. He admired her and considered her indispensable.
He had one little problem. She was a stunning young woman and he found her petite body, blonde hair, and blue eyes almost irresistible. He constantly fought his unprofessional feelings when he was around her. She specialized in solving issues before they hit his desk and rarely brought him problems. Her statement got his immediate attention. “What’s the problem, Lisa?”
Lisa leaned on his desk, revealing a substantial amount of cleavage. “Well, you see, my boss is a workaholic and has been staying way too late. I cannot and will not leave the office until he does. By the time I get home, all I want to do is go to bed and sleep. My fiancé is getting a bit impatient with me being constantly at work and to be frank, I’m getting really horny.”
John had no idea how to respond. He finally blurted out. “What do you suggest, Lisa?”
She shifted her hands on his desk and her cleavage moved deliciously in response. “I know that you don’t like going home to an empty apartment and that you miss your wife. Trust me, this week will pass soon and she will be home before you know it. You need to get your life back on track. Go home, relax, watch a movie, pull your pud, or something so I can get laid. That’s an order.”
John couldn’t help but smile at the little ball of fire’s response. He found himself imagining her sitting on his cock while she dealt with her horniness and had to mentally shake himself. His mind mostly back on track, he nodded at her “OK, I get it. Let’s go home… I mean, I’ll go to my place, and you go to yours. Oh shit, I mean… Sorry, I didn’t mean anything like… Shit! Sorry, I’ll shut up now and leave.”
Lisa giggled at his discomfort, which made her cleavage wiggle in the most enticing way. She turned and sashayed her way out of his office, knowing that he was watching her ass. He hadn’t caught on to the fact that there was a decorative mirror hanging on the wall that allowed her to watch him as he stared at her ass. She really wanted to walk over to his desk, pull out his cock, and suck the cum out of it. That would be inappropriate behavior for the office, at least for now. So, she kept walking. John followed her a few minutes later and went home to his lonely apartment.
John arrived at the apartment and was immediately struck by the silence. He turned on some music just to drive it away and fixed himself a drink. He had just sat down on the couch and had begun to wonder what the hell he was going to do with himself until Nicole got home when the doorbell rang.
He wondered who would be at his door and figured it had to be someone trying to sell him something. He almost didn’t answer it, but curiosity got the better of him. He opened the door to the grinning faces of Steve’s wife, Maria Branson, and William’s wife, Cherie.
Both women were barely dressed in extremely sexy clothing and John quietly admired them as they stood at his door. Maria finally waved her hand in front of his face. “Earth to John. Hello! Are you going to invite us in?”
John moved out of the way. “Absolutely! Please come in.”
The two women walked in and set down the Chinese takeout they had brought on the kitchen island. John helped them with plates and silverware.
John was a bit shaken and nervously asked, “Can I get you a drink? Wine, possibly?
The two women couldn’t help but grin at his discomfort. Maria took the lead. “A glass of Merlot or Cabernet would be nice, please.”
Cherie nodded her agreement and John moved about the kitchen while getting the wine out and opening the bottle. On second thought, he opened a second bottle. He poured the bottles into carafes to let them breathe and got glasses from the rack. He poured the wine and carried the three glasses over to the island where the women were waiting. His previous drink sat forgotten on a coaster in the living room.
He nearly dropped the glasses when he saw them. Maria and Cherie had quietly removed their dresses while he was in the kitchen. They sat on island bar stools in their sexy underwear, looking at him mischievously.
They shared the food around, each woman taking turns feeding him bites. With their hunger for food sated, the two women went to the living room. They sat on opposite ends of the couch, leaving the middle open in an obvious invitation.
Maria patted the couch next to her. “Come here, John, and have a seat.”
John sat down between the two very sexy women. He handed them their glasses and sat in confusion.
Maria put her hand on his right thigh while Cherie put her hand on his left thigh. Maria began to rub her hand up his thigh, ever closer to his rising erection. “John, we three have something very much in common. Our significant others are off doing business and have left us horny and alone. Cherie and I decided to do something about that and seducing you seemed like the best way to deal with it. You don’t mind, do you?”
John’s mouth fell open as he tried to form words but failed completely to produce any.
Cherie moved her hand up his other thigh. “Maria has a point. This is how we normally deal with absent spouses. After all, there is a nearly one hundred percent chance that they are having sex. It only seems appropriate for us to do the same. Wouldn’t you agree, John? Hmmm?”
John rapidly saw their point and illustrated his understanding by putting his hand behind Cherie’s neck and pulling her into a tongue-filled kiss. He could hear Maria next to him. “Now you’re getting it, and us too, I hope!”
Cherie broke the kiss and stood, “On your feet, stud. We need to get you out of those clothes.”
John, being the cooperative guy he is, stood and let the two women strip him. He decided that the bedroom would be much more comfortable. Taking each woman by the hand he led them in that direction. The two women wasted no time in removing their bras and panties before climbing onto the bed. They were more than ready to get to the fucking.
John immediately dove for Cherie’s pussy. He had admired the little redhead’s pussy from the first time he saw it and fucked it. Now he couldn’t wait to get a taste of it. Maria moved up the bed and straddled Cherie’s face with her ass toward the headboard. The move was well practiced and Cherie knew her part in it. She began to lick Maria’s pussy with enthusiasm while rapidly approaching her own orgasm.
A few minutes later John’s tongue on Cherie’s clit brought her to her peak and over the top. John enjoyed the taste of her wetness and continued to molest her pussy while she orgasmed. Cherie thought she would go insane from the pleasure, but soon had to push John’s head away from her sensitive clit. John didn’t mind at all. He moved up between her legs and sank his hard cock into her wanton pussy.
Cherie moaned loudly against Maria’s pussy and the vibration, accompanied by Cherie’s tongue action, proved to be too much for Maria. She screamed out her orgasm so loudly that John was almost concerned about the neighbors. Right then he was more concerned with Cherie’s wonderfully tight little pussy and the feeling of his cock driving into her.
He had managed to bring her to another orgasm that had her body convulsing when Maria fell off Cherie’s face, spread eagle, onto the bed. John decided that Cherie needed a break. He pulled his cock from her and plunged it deep into Maria. Maria wrapped her legs around his waist and the couple kissed passionately. Soon John was hammering his cock into her. She came hard on his cock, only this time, John managed to stifle her screams with his mouth.
John kept long stroking deep into her as the pressure mounted. Maria thrust at him as hard and fast as she could, building toward what was going to be an earth-shattering orgasm. John continued pounding her until his moves became erratic. Suddenly, he plunged deep into her and began to spray jet after jet of cum deep into her pussy. Maria orgasmed so hard that she lost her mind for a while. It took them long minutes before either was able to do more than breathe.
The threesome began to cuddle and kiss in the afterglow. John was almost asleep when the two women got up, used the bathroom, and began to dress. He watched bleary-eyed until they were nearly ready to go. He forced his way off the bed and pulled Cherie into his arms. He kissed her passionately before releasing her and doing the same with Maria. He walked the two women to the door and gave each of them one last kiss goodbye. The two giddily happy women left with grins on their faces. John stumbled back to his bed and was asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.
Wednesday morning, he was working at his desk when Nicole called. He listened to her tell him about her most recent adventure. While they were talking, Lisa entered his office. She closed his door and locked it before swaying her way toward his desk. To his astonishment, she grabbed his chair and rotated him to face her. She dropped down onto her knees and began to pull his zipper down.
John’s eyes were huge. “Whoa there, Lisa! What are you doing?”
Lisa’s blue eyes looked into his. “Well, I’m going to suck your big cock.”
John had Nicole on speaker so she heard them, and her surprised laugh came through loud and clear. “Honey, it sounds like Lisa wants to take your work relationship up a notch!”
John’s answer was a groan. That was the best he could do because Lisa had fished his cock out of his pants and was now showing him her blow job skills firsthand. Nicole grew impatient. “What’s she doing now? Is she sucking your big hard cock, honey?”
John had leaned back in his chair and finally remembered that Nicole couldn’t hear him nod his head. “Ohh… Yeah, baby. She is sucking my cock so good.”
Nicole egged him on. “She is a hot little piece. I bet you have been imagining her sucking your big cock all day, every day, haven’t you?”
John held Lisa’s head with both hands. “Oh God, yes!”
Nicole was breathing very fast over the phone. “I bet you’re going to lay her on your desk and fuck her sweet little pussy until she screams, aren’t you?”
In a temporary moment of clarity, John thought that was a wonderful idea. He pulled Lisa off his cock, picked her up, and sat her on his desk. Lisa quickly hiked her skirt up and pulled her thong aside. Her pussy was drenched, and John’s cock found her entrance quickly. He slid in deep and Nicole could hear both of them groan. “It’s about time you fucked that little slut. She’s been wanting you since she started working for you. One of these days I’m coming to your office, and she can eat my pussy while you fuck her. Would you like that, John? Hmm, baby?”
Nicole wasn’t sure who was turned on more by her words, Lisa, John, or herself. She suspected it was Lisa and decided to fuck with her a little bit. “Would you like that, Lisa? We could put you on John’s couch. I would sit on your face and your cute little tongue would dance in my pussy. John would be hammering that big cock of his into your sweet little pussy. I bet you would like…”
Nicole never got to finish. Her words and her husband’s cock had driven poor Lisa right over the edge. Lisa moaned and screamed as the most intense orgasm of her young life overwhelmed her. John slowed his stroking while the thoroughly fucked secretary recovered her ability to think. Lisa raised her arm and pushed John back. He pulled out of her and she dropped from the desk to the floor. She grabbed his wet cock and dove onto it with one mission in life, to make him cum.
Nicole was no longer talking because she couldn’t. The sounds of a vibrator and her involuntary moans came through the phone speaker. As John shot his load down Lisa’s willing throat, he could hear his wife orgasm. Nothing but heavy breathing could be heard for the next five minutes.
Lisa stood, licked her lips, and gave John a kiss on the cheek. She straightened her clothes and left his office. John stood for a moment before he remembered that Nicole was still on the line. “Nicole, are you still there?”
Her heavy breathing came over the speaker. “Oh god, yes! That was awesome and so fucking sexy!”
John grinned. “Yeah, and what’s even more amazing is that you and I came at the same time! Pretty fuckin’ awesome!”
Both were silent for a moment, then John spoke. “I miss you so much, sweetheart. These women are amazing, but they aren’t you. I hope you can wrap things up and come home soon.”
Nicole had been having a great time, but she agreed with her husband. “I miss you too, honey. I’ll be home before you know it. I need to go get ready now. I love you!”
John looked at the phone and thought of his wife’s beautiful face. “I love you too.”
They ended their call and after a short bathroom break, John returned to work. His balls were empty, but he still missed his wife. He wondered about the sudden attention he was getting from Maria, Cherie, and Lisa. It seemed a bit odd that he was given such wonderful attention.
During the meeting with Steve right before Nicole’s trip
While Steve engaged John in talk about one of the contracts, Beth stood up and motioned for Nicole to join her. She took her aside and whispered, “Don’t you worry about John. We will make sure he doesn’t get too lonely.”
Nicole raised an eyebrow, “We?”
Beth just nodded. “Let’s just say there are a couple of women that are being left behind while their husbands are at the negotiations. They have sampled John’s charms and would like to do so again. Then of course, there is a certain other company employee that might also be interested. I expect you will come home to an exhausted husband.”
Nicole frowned comically at Beth. “He had better not be. You make sure he gets his rest and is ready to fuck my brains out when I get back.”
Beth laughed. “Deal! Do me a favor and please don’t tell him. I want to surprise him.”
The two women walked back over to Steve and John, chuckling as they went.
We now return to our show
John left the office that evening at a reasonable hour. He was in one way looking forward to relaxing at home. In another way, he was dreading being alone and watching the clock take an hour to tick away each second. He missed his wife more than he could have ever imagined. With a sigh, he headed to the bedroom to change out of his clothes.
He walked into the bedroom and didn’t at first register the vision in front of him. He did a doubletake and proved to himself that what he was seeing was in fact real. Beth was lying in the middle of the bed, naked as the day she was born, and smiling at him like she had just pulled off the greatest prank in the world.
She flashed her infectious grin up at him. “Hey, big boy. Why don’t you come here and fuck me?”
John looked at her with fondness. “Honestly, Beth? Right now, I don’t need sex, although you have me second-guessing that. What I need to feel is loved. I mean, Jesus, it’s only been two days and I’m going nuts.”
Beth looked at him with fondness. “I can do that too. Why don’t you get undressed, and we’ll cuddle?”
John’s lips turned up in appreciation. “Don’t you have a husband at home that will want your company?”
Beth nodded. “Yes, I do, and he is a wonderful man. So wonderful in fact that he insisted that I keep you company for as long as you need me. He knows how much I care about both of you, and he knows I worry. He knew that I would be happier if I was here, so he told me to come. I will find a way to make it up to him, but in the meanwhile, why don’t you come here?”
John grinned at her. “Why wouldn’t I join you? Probably because I lost my ever-loving mind!”
Within seconds John was naked and snuggling up with Beth. Of course, snuggling led to kissing, which led to touching, which led to the obvious. Two hours later the couple separated long enough to eat leftover takeout. Minutes after that they were spooning and asleep.
Beth had her own alarm that she used just in case she needed to go home before work when she stayed over. She also had plenty of clothes at John and Nicole’s apartment. She decided morning sex with John was worth the early alarm. Her husband understood and she would call him later. The couple showered together and dressed for work. Beth followed behind John as they drove to work, and the Wednesday workday began.
John went into his office and Lisa forwarded a call from Steve to him. Not long after that, John’s door slammed shut and Lisa could hear yelling coming from John’s office. She knew John wasn’t a shouter and she was shaking with nerves by the time his office went silent. Ten minutes later John opened his door on the way past her desk. He looked deathly pale as he paused. “I’m leaving. Please take messages and tell anyone that needs to know you aren’t sure when I will be back.”
At the resort, the evening before
Nicole was in an upbeat mood. She’d spent an amazing night with Denver, he was a changed man, and she had amazing phone sex with her husband that morning while he fucked his secretary. Not to mention getting a huge contract signed. She had spent the afternoon sunning at the pool and flirting shamelessly with some young studs. She was singing to herself as she dressed for dinner. Steve had called her and was planning dinner with some of the sales force. He had invited her to join them, and she was looking forward to being the lone woman in attendance. All those men drooling over her got her very excited and she couldn’t wait for the evening to begin.
Preparations complete, Nicole took the elevator down to the meeting room. The room had been converted for private dining and Nicole barely recognized it as the same room she had sat in with Denver and Steve earlier in the day. Steve had an eye out for her as she entered the room and walked over to her. “Wow, Nicole, you look delectable!”
Steve turned his attention to the dozen or so sales reps in the room. “Can I have your attention, please!”
The room quieted and Steve smiled as he pointed at Nicole. “Please let me introduce Nicole Delaney, our Contract Consultant. Nicole is directly responsible for getting the Bailey contract signed.”
He began clapping and was soon followed enthusiastically by the sales reps. Nicole turned red from the praise. Steve escorted her to a seat among the sales reps. He liked to mix leadership with worker bees at functions like this. He found it improved communications. He walked over to his seat and dinner started.
A huge man sat to Nicole’s left. Nicole quickly learned three things about him. His name was Stan, he was obviously very drunk, and something about him set her internal alarms off. Aaron sat two seats to her right and Jerry sat just to her right. It didn’t take her long to figure out that Arron and Jerry were Stan’s sycophants. The two didn’t seem to have anything to say that wasn’t intended to impress Stan.
Nicole was disappointed. On the way to dinner, she had a vision of sitting with some studly sales guys and maybe getting a good fucking from one or more of them after dinner. There was no way she was having sex with these yahoos.
Stan was getting cruder with his comments, and he was making Nicole so uncomfortable that she had nearly made up her mind to move. Just as she was getting ready to talk to Steve about it, he stood with his phone to his ear and left the room.
Stan noticed him leave and immediately after turned toward Nicole. “So, you’re the company whore, huh?”
He grabbed her tit through her dress and squeezed it painfully. Nicole let out a pained squeal and Stan laughed. Arron and Jerry took that as their signal to laugh too.
Nicole grabbed Stan’s arm with both hands and tried to pull him away. “I’m a married woman, not the company whore. Now take your hand off me!”
Stan just laughed and grabbed her other breast. He clamped down like a vise on her breasts. She knew without a doubt he was bruising her breasts. She squirmed and tried to stand. Stan stood up and towered over her. “Come on, boys. Let’s try out the whore.”
Stan let go of her breasts long enough to grab her hands and spin her toward the door. He must have motioned to his guys because a hand covered her mouth just as she started to scream. The men surrounded her and carried her kicking out of the room. They were heading toward the elevator when Steve rounded the corner, cell phone to his ear. He pulled the phone away from his ear. “Hey! What the hell do you think you’re doing? Let her go now!”
Stan smiled. “What’s the big deal, boss? She’s just the company whore and we want to have some fun with her.”
Steve was livid. “She is not the company whore, you fucking idiot. Now, let her go!”
Resort security officers were nearby and they heard the shouting. Aaron and Jerry had let go of Nicole and were backing off with their hands raised. Stan wasn’t giving in to his boss quite yet. He had one hand pulling Nicole’s arm behind her back and the other was squeezing her throat. He didn’t see the security officers or the taser one of them held. He was on the floor shaking in the next second.
Nicole fell to the floor. Half an hour later paramedics were done examining Nicole and released her. Steve was right by her side throughout. The sheriff had shown up and had taken Stan, Aaron, and Jerry into custody. The three men were charged with assault and attempted rape. At a minimum, their careers were over.
The sheriff got statements from Steve and Nicole. He also had a female officer photograph the bruising on her breasts and arms before finally releasing them. Steve took Nicole to her room and stayed with her that night. He held her close as she shivered and cried until eventually, she fell asleep. When she woke in the morning, she was doing much better and was eating breakfast when Steve decided he needed to know how she was doing.
Steve knew that he needed to call John and let him know what had happened. He wanted to make sure that Nicole was ready to talk before he did. She had accepted his touch and cuddling last night, and he hoped that was a sign that she wasn’t severely traumatized.
He sat down next to her and she didn’t flinch, which was another good sign. “Nicole, please tell me how you’re feeling.”
She looked up at him. “I’m nearly overwhelmed with feelings. Stan is insane and there is no telling how many women he’s hurt. I was terrified when he dragged me out of the meeting room. Thank God you came along when you did.”
She took a deep breath. “I didn’t do anything that would have made that happen. It was all on them and I know it. I’m strong and I’ll be fine, but I do want to know one thing. I need an honest answer from you. What made them think I was the company whore? That didn’t come out of nowhere.”
The anger showed on Steve’s face. “I think someone in our group of sex partners has been talking out of school. Stan took what information he heard and assumed that since you work for the company, then you must be a company whore. That is the only logical answer I can come up with. I promise you that I will find the truth. When I do, I will bring Hell down on those responsible.
“Right now, we need to call John and tell him what happened. Are you ready to talk? Can you hold it together so that he doesn’t panic?”
Nicole nodded. “I really want to talk to my husband.”
Steve called John’s office. He had Nicole tell him that she was OK before he took over the call and explained what had happened. John was incensed and read him the riot act. He wanted to know how Steve let it happen. Steve shared his theory about someone talking and John finally calmed down enough to think clearly. He had a suspicion about one of the men that had been with Nicole at the dinner party a month ago. He told Steve he was going to talk to Charles face to face. Steve warned him to stay calm and to remember the non-disclosure that Charles had signed. John might be able to use that as a lever when he talked to Charles.
He gave the phone back to Nicole and left the room to give them some privacy. The couple were on the phone long enough to reassure each other. Nicole felt a great weight lifted from her when she heard John tell her that he loved her before ending the call.
Nicole decided that a long soak in the Jacuzzi tub was in her immediate future. She went to the bathroom and examined her breasts in the mirror. The bruising was lighter than she expected, although her breasts were tender. Ten minutes later she was in the tub.
Meanwhile back at the office
John didn’t know Charles well, but he knew where his office was. As he thought about it on the way, he wondered why he had never heard of Charles’s wife. Did she not join in with the other wives in sharing? The placard on Charles’s door indicated that Charles was head of sales for the southern district. John didn’t bother knocking as he shoved the door open.
Charles looked up in surprise. He knew from the look on John’s face that he was deadly serious about something. John sat in the chair facing Charles’s desk. “Charles, you have been sharing secrets about our wife sharing.”
Charles tried to look offended but couldn’t carry it off. That was all John needed. He got up and walked around Charles’s desk. He grabbed him by his shirt and pulled him to his feet. “Who have you been talking to and exactly what have you been saying? You have one chance to come clean.”
Charles was a pussy and always had been. He knew that John was serious, and he feared for his life at that moment. “I… I just talked with one of my sales guys. You know, guy talk, that’s all.”
John could barely control his rage. His hand came up and he slapped Charles’s face hard. “Your guy talk almost got my wife raped. She was assaulted last night by Stan, Aaron, and Jerry. Stan called her the company whore.”
Charles turned white. “Stan is the one I talked to. I never intended any harm. I swear.”
John shoved him down in his chair, “You seemed to have forgotten the non-disclosure you signed. You’re in deep, asshole. Not only can Steve fire you with cause, but he can also sue your ass off. You need to think long and hard about that.
“Here’s what you’re going to do. You’re going to write down everything you said and the names of anyone else you might have said it to. You will have that done by Monday in time for a morning meeting with Mr. Bronson. Don’t you dare hold back a thing. You are damn lucky he is deciding your fate. If it were up to me, I would beat you within an inch of your life and boot your ass out on the street.
“You will never talk about my wife again. You will never approach her. You will never touch her. If you do, you’re a dead man. Now, get to writing.”
John slammed his door on the way out. When he walked back into his own office Lisa could see that he was overwrought and followed him into his office. She closed the door behind her and locked it. “John, what the hell is going on? Please talk to me. I’m your girl Friday and your friend.”
John sat down on his office chair and Lisa immediately climbed onto his lap. She put her arms around his neck and kissed his cheek. “Talk to me, lover.”
John told her what had happened. His eyes teared up. “I wasn’t there for her. I sent her off and couldn’t protect her. What kind of husband am I?”
Lisa turned his head toward her. “It sounds to me like Steve handled it and Nicole is going to be fine. You can’t be with her twenty-four hours a day no matter where she is, so cut yourself some slack. If Nicole feels like she needs to come home early, then you know she will. Give her the freedom to do what she feels she needs to do.”
She kissed his lips and snuggled against him. She was just what he needed at that moment. Holding her calmed him and helped him get beyond his impulse to run to his wife. They sat together like that for a while until John decided to get some work done. Lisa pulled his mouth to her and kissed him deeply before getting off his lap. She left for lunch while John decided to work through it.
When John finally looked up at the clock, he realized it was late and he felt like an ass for keeping Lisa after hours. He shut down his computer and walked out of his office. Lisa looked up as he walked by. “Hold up, boss.”
John stopped and turned toward her. Lisa grabbed an overnight bag and walked over to him. “I’m staying with you tonight and I don’t want to argue about it.”
“What about your fiancé?”
Lisa grabbed his hand and pulled him toward the door. “She’ll be fine. I’ve already talked to her and she’s cool. I’d like you to meet her sometime, then ’meat’ her, if you catch my drift. Now come on.”
John followed her into the hall. When they got on the elevator he turned to her. “Uhm… There may be someone waiting when we get there. I hope that doesn’t make you uncomfortable.”
Lisa laughed. “No worries. I talked to Beth already. Actually, I’m pretty excited. She’s really hot!”
The parking garage was nearly empty so there was no one to notice as Lisa put her bag in the trunk of John’s car. They would need to be discreet in the morning when he brought her back. They didn’t need a scandal right now.
They arrived at John and Nicole’s apartment and John opened the door for Lisa. They walked in to find Beth in an apron and nothing else, preparing dinner. Lisa walked over to Beth and gave her a kiss on the lips. “Nice outfit. I think I have one just like it.”
With that said, Lisa quickly stripped and was soon serving John a glass of wine. John had never seen her fully nude, and she was stunning. His eyes followed her swaying tits as she walked around the room. When she turned around and took them out of his view, his eyes followed her tight little ass. His mood had definitely improved. He stripped down to his boxer briefs and relaxed on the bar stool while the two beautiful women pranced around his kitchen naked. He couldn’t help but smile.
At the resort that afternoon
Nicole was standing outside the meeting room thinking tingly thoughts about the phone call with John that morning. It was just before 2:00 when Steve walked up. He handed her a copy of the contract. “I’m sorry I didn’t get this to you sooner, but things happened. How are you doing?”
Nicole smiled. “I’m good, Steve. I already made an appointment with a good counselor when I get back, just in case I’m fooling myself. Until then, I’m raring to go. Quick, tell me about the people we’re meeting.”
Steve wasn’t so sure he believed she was doing well, but nodded anyway. “These are the guys that had flight problems. We’re meeting with twin brothers that co-lead their company. You wouldn’t think the co-leading thing would work, but they excel at it. We want to use them as distributors in some very high-end markets. We need them more than they need us, and the contract reflects that.”
Nicole frowned. “Whoa, wait a minute. You wrote this contract assuming we had to pay more?”
Steve looked at her, confused. “Of course. I don’t think they would even consider negotiating with us otherwise.”
Nicole reached up and bonked Steve on the forehead. “Dumbass, they’re sitting in there right now waiting to negotiate and they haven’t seen the contract. Here is what I suggest. Write down what you want, regardless of their so-called greatness, and we will negotiate off that. You know what you want, and you know how much you are willing to spend to get it. Knock fifteen percent off what you plan to spend and start negotiating from there. While you’re doing that, I’m going to make them question their greatness.”
Steve was skeptical, but he couldn’t fault her logic or her success just a day ago. He opened the door and they walked in and shook hands with Ben and Sam Nelson. Nicole couldn’t help but notice that while the twins carried themselves with some arrogance, it wasn’t entirely unfounded. They were identical twins and looked to be in their late thirties. They were also very hot examples of manhood. Both were quite muscular, but not overly so. Handsome faces and bright blue eyes were enough to make most women want to swoon. She really wanted to know what they were sporting downstairs but couldn’t get a look.
They had no sooner sat down when Ben started complaining about the donuts and coffee on the sideboard. “The coffee and the donuts have one thing in common. Both are stale.”
Nicole immediately responded. “You’re not broke, and this is a high-end resort. I’m sure you did just fine in your room before you came down here. If it bothers you that much, please feel free to call the front desk and ask for fresh coffee and donuts. While we wait, why don’t we talk about why we are really here.”
Ben, or maybe Sam, smirked at her. “And why are we really here? I have more important things to do.”
“You would like us to believe, like our competitors, that we need you more than you need us. That’s bullshit and you know it. You wouldn’t be here otherwise. You both know that the beauty and quality of our jewelry is the best out there, especially for the price. You don’t just want our business; you need our business. You can’t maintain your elite status without us. You don’t need volume first; you need excellence first. The volume will follow. That’s why you need our company. Have I missed a point, or made an error in what I just said?”
Three men leaned back in their chairs with looks of shock on their faces. Nicole kicked Steve under the table so he would wipe the look off his face. Steve picked up on her subtle reminder quickly. “Gentlemen, here’s the deal.” Steve went on for a few minutes before throwing out his fifteen percent low figure.
Ben and Sam went outside for a few minutes. When they came back, they asked for two and a half percent more. Steve acted like they were killing him, but eventually agreed.
Steve shook each brother’s hand, as did Nicole. Steve finished up the meeting. “Gentlemen, I will have an updated contract in a few hours. Why don’t you both meet Nicole and me for dinner this evening and we can execute the contract then?”
The twins agreed and left the room. Steve turned to Nicole. “Holy shit! There is no way I am negotiating another contract without talking to you first and having you there for negotiations! I’m putting you on a percentage commission. I will pay you a percentage of each contract you help me negotiate. The percentage will be proportional to your assistance in making it happen. Assuming they sign the contract, that gives you two so far this week. You know how much these contracts are worth. Think about what one percent of the total is. Now, multiply that by two. Starting to get the picture? You earned that. You are not a company whore; you are a company treasure.”
Nicole was grinning from ear to ear. She remembered being a housewife and happy to work with her charities. She remembered scoffing at the idea of having a career. Holy shit was I wrong! She gave Steve a huge hug and they walked out of the room grinning. She had reason to. By her quick calculations, she had just earned in two days what they had earned as a family over the last three years.
Nicole decided to wait until she got home and saw the final number before telling John. Right now, she was horny and wanted to go fishing at the pool. It wasn’t that long before dinner, but she might set the hook for some later fun. She still hadn’t tried out the cove behind the waterfall and that was definitely on her list for this week.
She put on her sexiest bikini, which was probably illegal in most states, and made her way to the pool. She had picked the perfect time of day, assuming she wanted the pool to herself. Outside of a couple of women sunbathing, she was alone. She soon gave it up as a bad idea and was walking by the two women when one of them looked up at her. “Don’t be in such a hurry, beautiful.”
