“I’m sorry. I have to take this. It’s my brother and he wouldn’t call at this time if it wasn’t something important. Make yourself comfortable, I won’t be a minute,” I tell her.
I jump up off the bed, trying to ignore my erection as it presses uncomfortably against my trousers. I can hear Natalie sighing as I leave the room. I pull the door closed behind me. I know how she feels, but I plan on getting this call over with quickly and then making it up to her.
“What?” I demand as I take the call in the hallway.
“Charming,” Matt laughs.
“I’m kind of busy here. What do you want?”
“Well seeing as you brought it up, what I want is for you to stop fucking potential clients Seb. Jeez. Can you not just keep it in your fucking pants for once?”
Apparently I can thanks to him.
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I say.
“Sure you don’t. This could blow the whole deal,” Matt says.
I can hear the irritation in his voice. It should be me who is irritated. I’m the one getting disturbed.
“Don’t worry about that bro. The only thing getting blown here tonight will be me. If you ever get off the damned phone that is.”
“Do you have to be so crude?”
“Yup.”
“Look I get that you think with your cock, but this is an important deal Seb,” Matt says.
I’m getting annoyed now. Matt knows I would never do anything that would negatively affect the business.
“Look it’s not like I dragged her here kicking and screaming. She made it quite clear she was interested,” I say.
“Yeah? And what happens when she finds out you’re not interested in anything other than one night with her?”
“Oh trust me. She’ll have had that good a time that she won’t hold it against me.”
Matt sighs loudly.
“Can you just be serious for one moment? You’re putting the deal in jeopardy and you know it. And for what? A cheap lay you won’t even remember this time next week.”
His judgemental tone hits my last nerve.
“You’re one to talk Matt. If I remember correctly, and I know I do, it was only a year or so ago that you almost allowed a fucking criminal who was stealing from us to walk free because you started to think with your cock instead of your head.”
“That was different,” Matt snaps.
“How? Because you were the one fucking up?”
“No. Because Callie wasn’t just a conquest to me. I had real feelings for her.”
“And how do you know I don’t have feelings for Natalie?”
“Do you?”
“Well no, but that’s not the point I’m making.”
“So what is your point?”
“My point is that I’m perfectly capable of keeping business and pleasure separate. Natalie and I are both adults and this won’t affect the deal. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got a horny and pissed off woman waiting for me.”
“Wait,” Matt says. “There is one other thing.”
There’s something in the way he says it that piques my interest and instead of cutting off the call as I had planned to, I hear myself sigh and ask him what it is.
“Well it’s something I know you’ll be very interested to hear. But it’s clear you’re otherwise engaged so maybe I’ll just tell you later,” he teases me.
Now I’m really fucking intrigued. What could Matt know that he clearly wants so badly to tell me that he’s winding me up this way at one o’clock instead of being in bed with Callie?
“Just spit it out,” I say.
“What about Natalie? Isn’t she waiting for you?”
Natalie who?
“She can wait another couple of minutes.”
“Kimberley is back in town,” Matt says.
The playful tone is gone from his voice and I know he’s serious. The news hits me like a brick wall and I am momentarily mute. I find my voice eventually and I croak out a what, but it’s too late. Matt has hung up and I am left with the buzzing noise of a dead line in my ear.
I freeze on the spot, the phone still glued to my ear although there’s no one on the other end. Kimberley is back in town. How? Why? When? I have so many questions. I can’t believe Matt dropped that bombshell on me and then hung up. I finally peel the phone away from my ear, and call Matt, but the call goes straight to his voicemail. He’s turned his phone off, just like I knew he would.
I curse and throw my cell phone to the ground. Kimberley is back in town. It plays on a loop in my head as I picture the girl I once knew. She was stunning with flaming red hair and piercing green eyes. She had this laugh, a gentle musical sound that was so infectious that anyone around her would automatically laugh with her.
I haven’t seen her in like four years, but the vision of her is still as fresh in my mind as it was the day she … Never mind. I’m not going to let myself go there. So Kimberley is back in town? So what?
I hear a door open behind me and I jump. I turn around and see Natalie standing in the doorway to my bedroom. Fuck. I had forgotten she was even here. I can’t do this with her. Not now. My erection is long gone, and Natalie won’t be the one to bring my cock back to life tonight. I just want her gone.
“Is everything ok?” she purrs.
“Something came up,” I say, pleased that my voice comes out even. “I’m sorry, but you’re going to have to leave.”
“Leave?” she repeats, frowning at me.
She sounds pissed off and I don’t blame her, but I can’t do anything about it now. I can’t bring myself to even look at her, let alone fuck her. Kimberley is back in town.
“Yeah,” I say.
She smiles. That seductive smile that a few hours ago, hell a few minutes ago, was driving me wild. Now it only irritates
