She is taken aback. She straightens her posture and crosses her arms, her tattooed eyebrows flick and rise, but she knew I am not completely wrong, so she unexpectedly agrees with me, or so I thought, “You’re right! But you see-”, she’s not willing to back out, “He's been busy for your future. Maybe you should at least give him a little slack, no?”, she says as if her recommendation sounds more like a demand. Her words echo repeatedly, and my heart retaliates. For the first time, I think I need to put her in her place. I just can’t let it pass. She doesn't even know what I've been through. She doesn't even know what his son did to me. I am just not anyone. I am not a pushover. And I know my self-worth, so with my head held high, “I think there's something you're not aware of, Barbara. You may think that given the fact that Seid and I dated almost a decade now, err, will ensure our future together. You see, your son made a terrible mistake, which you could ask him later by the way, an

As this woman leads me to the conference room, all I could hear is my racing heartbeat either because of humiliation or probably anger. When the conference room reaches my vision, I can see Dmitri's frustrated face while listening to the men's report across from him. I don't speak the business language but I can tell that the reports aren't satisfying. Once again, I hear Dmitri's stern voice after a while, "You call this thing bullshit," throws the file in the middle of them, and leans forward then rests his elbows on the table while his fingers are held together, then he speaks in a calmer but scarier voice, "Can anyone give me anything that this horseshit?"Approximately ten people in the meeting room murmur as Dmitri holds his position. I, on the other hand, feel much pressure upon seeing him upset, "Uh-oh, I think I chose the wrong day to visit."Then the lady excuses her presence, "Hold on, Ms. Anderson, let me tell Mr. Sullivan, that you're here."So I immediately respond to her

I gasp as his greatness juggles before my eyes, stiff as if it has its own life. It draws my hand near it, and as I gently touch and feel its hot skin, I hear Dmitri moan, too. My ears fonder at his moaning voice so I continue to touch it up and down in a rhythm. As his voice gets a bit more sensual, and as my hand gets faster for too much excitement he halts me and pins me down on the table.“Hold still, I will teach you self-control, just put your arms raising and do nothing no matter what, if you move I’ll stop, got it,” he commands me.So I voluntarily raise both my hands and trust him. His hands move around my breasts and nipples again. He traces them with great pressure and squeezes then releases them simultaneously. I gasp as I let myself feel his touch much more. His warm hands begin to travel down to my flat stomach, my waist, and my lower abdomen. He moves in a circular motion on my lower abdomen which makes me wet even more,“Oh, Dmitri, please, I am so wet now,” I beg him

Our orders finally arrived and we begin to dig in. Right after her first bite, Kendra is excited to know about my news. I first feel awkward sharing things in front of Nikolai, but since I already decided to accept him, I think more meetings and setup like this will happen in the near future, so might as well be more comfortable with him. “Well, K, as you already knew, the guy I met in Austria is actually here in The States, and I just met him today,” I excitedly share the bean. “Well, isn’t that great, A? Is there any progress? Did you jump at him now?”, Kendra frankly asks so Nikolai bumps her shoulder with his, but she sulks at him and explains, “What? This is how we talk, duh?”I laugh at them, “Well, I didn’t jump at him, but he may have jumped at me?”, I teased them. And I shared the story about how I felt embarrassed at first, then the hot scene inside the conference room, and how that red-haired woman grimaced at me when she finally realized that I am his woman. I actually

I continue listening to their conversation in secret. I just can’t believe what I heard. How will I face Dmitri knowing all about this? How will Dee react? Will he distance himself again? Or will he hold it against me or Kendra? How about K? Should I tell her or not?My mind is so confused right now that I can’t even take another step towards them, so I decided to just go back to Kendra’s, who seems not so herself today. I thought, does she know about all of this? Curiously, I ask her.“Err, K, I hope you won’t be mad, but, did you ever research about Nikolai’s family or his wife specifically?” then I let out a sigh and wait for her to answer.She looks at me with those reddish eyes probably from throwing up earlier. Then she asks me to come to her and softly answers, “Honestly? No. I tried to look it up before but every time I do, I just can’t seem to look at them: the family I am destroying, the woman who’s hurting, the innocent kids who are about to lose their father.”Then her tea