After the Morning After (10 page)

Victoria rolled her eyes and stepped through the door he opened, murmuring thank-you as she went. He’d been in a pisser of a mood ever since two days before when she’d told him that she wouldn’t even consider quitting her job and working with him until he put this dispute with the owners of the Universe behind him. “Fine,” she retorted, watching as he pushed the Up button for the elevator. “You don’t have to give it to them, but you do have to show it to them.”

“Yeah, yeah,” he said with barely concealed frustration. “And don’t think I forgot how you got me to do this, either. Dangling your acceptance of the posi—”

“Hush. I didn’t dangle anything. I merely said that I didn’t feel right coming to work for you knowing that there was a cloud hanging over everything.”

“Yes, you did,” he insisted in a calm voice. “And that’s not the only thing you dangled. You also dangled the possibility of pussy—”

Appalled, Victoria had slapped her hand over his mouth. “Hush!” she said again and removed her hand to walk through the lobby toward the security desk. “I did no such thing!”

“Sure you did. What would you call it when a woman makes a request of a man just after she’s stripped herself down to nothing but teeny-tiny drawers? I call it dangling pussy. Any man would.”

Victoria compressed her lips together to keep from laughing out loud. Tears filled her eyes from the effort of holding her amusement back. “You call it what you want, but you promised to come to this meeting today and show your proof, and I’m holding you to it.

“Hi, Mr. Champs,” she said to the security guard who sat behind the desk.

“Good morning, Dr. Howell, Mr. Banerjee,” he said as he took Sanjay’s driver’s license and copied information. After punching a few keys on his computer keypad, he walked a short distance to a printer and ripped a nametag off at its perforated edges. “Here you go, Mr. Banerjee.”

“Thanks.” Sanjay didn’t bother to peel the tag from its sticky back; he simply followed Victoria over to a long row of turnstiles. After Victoria had scanned her work ID to go through the turnstile, he gave his nametag to a second security guard, who scanned a company ID to let Sanjay through.

The elevator ride was a short one, and they soon found themselves in a large conference room with two lawyers, a paralegal, and not just one owner, but both of them.

They’d barely sat down at the large conference table before things turned contentious.

Victoria pasted a smile on her face. “Hi, all. How’s everyone doing today?”

Her efforts at decorum were roundly ignored.

“Look here, Banerjee. If you’ve got any proof that you started that prototype before you worked here, then you’d better produce it, or we’ll see your ass in court.”
This came from Tom Merchants, the other owner of the company. Not as even tempered as his partner, Zachary Tettler, but just as ruthless, he pushed back from the table.

“Now, let’s everybody calm down,” Zachary said.

“Calm down, my ass!” Tom exclaimed and flicked a hand at Sanjay. “That smug bastard sits over there saying nothing for twenty fucking minutes while we try to pry information out of him—information that can only help him if he’s got it. And that’s why I say he hasn’t got it. And this, ladies and gentlemen, has not only been a colossal waste of time, but it’s been a waste of money too! And speaking of ladies,” he began as he turned to look at Victoria. “Just what are
you
doing here, Dr. Howell? Last time I looked, you worked for us!”

Before Victoria could respond, Sanjay said without heat and without even looking at him, “Shut the fuck up, Merchants. She’s here with me, and that’s all you need to know.”

“Fine, Sanjay,” Zachary said with a calculating stare that he split between Victoria and Sanjay, and Sanjay guessed that Zachary was trying to figure a way to somehow use his relationship with Victoria against him. “You’ve got the floor. We know you don’t have any proof. Otherwise you’d have shown your hand by now.”

“And I know that I’ve got a potentially huge case against you guys for maligning my name amongst my colleagues.”

Tom Merchants’s disbelief was palpable. “Maligning your—what is this? You’re a fucking joke, Banerjee.”

Sanjay still didn’t bother to look at him. He addressed his comments to Zachary. “By spreading the word to my colleagues that I was a thief, you’ve endangered my chances of getting a job elsewhere. As we all know our industry is a small one, and by telling everyone far and wide that I’m a thief
—without any proof, I might add—you guys have seriously hurt my employment chances.”

The room almost erupted. Merchants and the lawyers were all three out of their seats and yelling their outrage. Zachary just continued to watch Sanjay, who didn’t flinch. “Sit down and shut up. All of you,” Zachary said. He didn’t quite raise his voice, but he was heard. He narrowed his gray eyes on Sanjay. “Now, I think Mr. Banerjee has something he wants to show us.”

“I could own you by the time I’m through,” Sanjay began.

“What the fuck
—did you just say you could
own
us?” Again, Tom Merchants let his anger get the best of him. “You’re nothing but a—”

“Shut up, Tom,” Zachary commanded, and this time his voice was raised, and it was full of exasperation. “Just let the man talk.”

“Yes, Tom, just let the man talk,” Sanjay said with a snarky smile and in the manner of an obnoxious know-it-all six-year old. “I particularly like that part:
the man
. Hey,” he said as if he’d had a sudden thought, “I think I’d like to hear you say just that. Say ‘You the man, Sanjay.’”

Seated next to him, Victoria rolled her eyes. “San,” she chided.

“What?” he asked and turned his head to look at her. “Allow me a little fun. After all, they did try to ruin me.”

His tone might have been light, but the fury he felt must have shown in his eyes, because he soon felt Victoria’s hand on his thigh, rubbing it in a soothing manner.

“Whatever you’ve got, Banerjee, show it to us now, please,” Zachary demanded.

“I suppose I could if you’re very, very nice to me.”

“Quit toying with them,” Victoria said with twitching lips.

And to everyone’s amazement, except for Victoria’s, Sanjay grinned. “She’s such a stickler for good manners, but she knows I can’t help myself.”

And with that, he opened his laptop and began to pull up time-stamped notes and schematics from two years before.

Five months later

“God, honey, just look at your ass from that angle,” Sanjay told Victoria as he sat on the edge of the bed. “It’s a work of art.”

Victoria, who sat straddling his lap and completely naked, took the remote and turned the television off. She sighed. Somehow he’d made a copy of the DVD before they’d left the company that night he’d had her in the lab, and now he tried to get her to watch it with him as often as possible. She admitted that it was a turn-on to watch the two of them going at it on-screen, but now she just wanted him real and in the flesh.

“I don’t want to look at my ass on-screen,” she told him as she twined her arms around his neck. “I want you to stroke it and kiss it and fondle it in real life. I love you, and I’ve missed you,” she pouted. “You were out of town two full weeks, and you’ll be leaving again soon with the demo. I know all of the traveling is helping you get investors for the company, which in turn will be good for me, because what’s good for the company is good for me, but I can’t help but miss you.” She had quit her job four months before to start working with him.

“I know,” he said and rubbed her backside soothingly. “I love you, and I missed you too. This trip coming up will be the last one for a while.”

Her thighs widened around his waist, and she pushed her pelvis forward when she felt his finger tracing the crease in her behind. “Good,” she said and unzipped his pants. She reached down into his boxers and latched on to his hardened penis, pulling it free of cloth.

Sanjay gasped and jerked. “God, woman, you are horny, aren’t you?”

Victoria grinned and took his hand to place it between her thighs. “Feel how wet I am for you.” He groaned, and she began rubbing his dick up and down her cleft, closing her eyes in bliss at the feel of him. She soon found herself in a quandary. She wanted him inside her, but rubbing him against herself felt so good that she didn’t want to stop.

Finally, unable to take it anymore and wanting to feel her pulsing around him, in a plaintive tone, Sanjay said, “Darlin.’”

Victoria opened her eyes and, lifting herself up some, carefully positioned him at her entrance. She took him slowly and without a condom.

“You know if you get pregnant, you’ll have to marry me sooner than planned,” he told her and watched her smile and sigh blissfully without opening her eyes. He pressed his mouth to her smiling lips.

Victoria accepted the kiss and continued to concentrate on her pleasure, not bothering to answer him, because they’d had the same conversation dozens of times
before. Their wedding wasn’t to take place until the following year. But she couldn’t help it; she liked to feel her man hard and bare inside her, and she had him that way as often as possible.

They both knew that there would be some challenges with their marriage, particularly in terms of religion, but they were willing to work together on a compromise.

As for their parents, they both decided that they’d ignore each set. Her parents were grudgingly coming around, and his mother had told her that she liked her but just didn’t think she was the right girl for her son. As far as Victoria and Sanjay were concerned, all the parents would come around when the first grandchild arrived, and if they didn’t, then it would hurt, but they’d keep it moving and get on with their lives.

“Hurry, honey,” she told Sanjay pleadingly as she kissed him. “Everyone will be here in about forty-five minutes.”

“Well, they’ll just have to wait,” Sanjay told her as he gripped her hips and moved her in slow oscillations on his dick. “You shouldn’t have started this if you knew they were coming over. You know I like to take it slow when we’ve been apart for a while.”

Victoria said nothing, just locked her ankles together behind his back and leaned in to take his bottom lip between her teeth while making sure she rubbed her hardened nipples against his chest.

Sanjay exploded into motion, rising to his feet and turning and falling onto the bed on top of her, and in the process pushing himself completely inside her. Overly excited now, he knelt between her thighs and, holding her legs in the air, hammered into her until they were both convulsing.

“That wasn’t fair,” he told her tiredly a little later as he lay holding her in his arms.

Victoria smiled and leaned up to buss his chin before bouncing from the bed. “I know it wasn’t, honey, but your sister and her girlfriend and Bella and Addie will be here soon to welcome you home, so I had to hurry you along. I’ll make it up to you tonight. Want to take a shower with me?” she asked him

“I’d love to, but we’d never finish in time.”

She only lifted a brow at him before turning and going into the bathroom.

Sanjay imagined her in the shower with water sluicing over all her beautiful skin and rose from the bed. “It’s worth a shot,” he said as he followed her into the bathroom.

The end

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