The Arrangement (12 page)

‘I
don’t see why not,’ Lucas shrugged.

‘Great.’
Craig picked up his coat off the back of his chair and followed Lucas
out the office. ‘I will be back within the hour,’ he told
his secretary, as the two of them headed quick pace towards the
elevators. ‘So, tell me.’ Craig grinned like a crazy
person. ‘How are things working out with the new secretary?’

Lucas
groaned.

***

The
contents of the shopping bag were emptied out onto her double bed.
Excitement and naughtiness danced around the fire of lust within her
soul, as she looked at all the naughty bits and pieces she had picked
up from the sex shop. Two different types of very revealing lingerie
were among them. Scarlett gave it all a satisfied nod of her head.
‘Let’s try this one on.’

***

Lucas
slipped his key into the lock and the front door opened with a faint
click. Outside, daylight was starting to fade. A purple sky, which
was something between night and day, covered the world. You had just
enough light to see, but it was bordering on darkness, which was why
he was surprised to find none of the house lights on. Craig followed
him behind and pushed the front door closed.

‘I
think my laptop and the file is upstairs,’ said Lucas. ‘You
go grab it and I will put the kettle on.’

‘Okay.’

They
headed off in different directions.

This
wasn’t the first time that Craig had been here. Numerous times,
with former ex-girlfriends, he had come over here for dinner, or to
watch a football match on television. So, he knew exactly where to go
once he reached the landing. Just as he approached the bedroom door
he could see light shining out from beneath the door.

He
knocked gently.

‘Come
in.’ it was the sound of Scarlett’s voice.

He
pulled down on the door handle and stepped inside. ‘I’m
sorry to intrude like this, but I just need to pick…’
his jaw nearly hit the bedroom floor. Something dangerously tempting
throbbing below his waist, whilst a thousand butterflies fluttered up
from the inside of his stomach.

‘Oh
my god,’ Scarlett screamed in shocked surprise.

She
quickly cupped her soft delicate hands over her breasts and slammed
her thighs shut, but the damage had been done. Craig had seen all
that he could ever have wished to see. Scarlett was wearing sexy red
stretched lace long sleeved chemise. The bottom skimming base only
just reached the top of her thighs, but the spread leg position on
the bed when he had entered had confirmed that she had gone without
panties. The fabric clung tightly to her slender well toned body. The
fabric has a beautiful floral design, but for the most part it was
see through, which allowed Craig a ninety percent visual of her naked
body. Even with the fabric covering her large round firm breasts he
had seen absolutely everything.

Craig
was shocked by her beauty.

He
couldn’t take her eyes off her.

Suddenly,
the demon of fear gripped its clawed fingers around his heart at the
sound of Lucas thundering up the stairs towards them. He had heard
Scarlett’s scream all the way down in the kitchen. He burst
into the room and momentarily froze. His eyes were so wide that for a
brief second they looked like they were going to explode out of his
head, like some kind of cartoon character, and bounce away across the
floor. He looked his fiancée up and down and then down and up
again and just to make sure he hadn’t missed out a single
detail he looked her up and down a few more times.

‘Shut
the door!’ Scarlett ordered.

Lucas
grabbed the fill off of the dressing table by the bedroom door,
pushed it into Craig’s hands, and like some kind of
professional night club bouncer escorted him out of the bedroom. The
two friends stood in awkward silence on the dark landing. Neither one
of them was quite sure what they could say in this situation.

‘I
guess I should head back to the office,’ Craig tried to act
casual.

‘Yes,’
confirmed Lucas. 

‘I
will see you tomorrow.’ They both acted like nothing out of the
ordinary had just happened.

‘Yes…
you will,’ Lucas replied on autopilot.

The
uncomfortable silence returned before Craig quickly rushed down the
stairs and straight out the front door. Lucas slapped his hand
against his forehead and groaned.

What
had just happened?

***

Scarlett
sat wrapped in her dressing gown at the kitchen table. She was so
embarrassed that you couldn’t even look Lucas in the eye. He
hadn’t come home from work early in god knows how long and it
was even rarer for him to bring someone back from work with him, but
how were they going to explain this to Craig? He had seen her in the
most revealing clothes and in the most exposed position. The image of
his shocked expression shone like a beacon of light within her mind’s
eye. He had looked at her in the way that Lucas used to look at her.
Craig’s mind was filled with lust and excitement. He had liked
the way she looked.

Scarlett
glanced quickly to the other side of the table.

Lucas
was sitting silently with a cup of coffee in his hand.

No
one had said much of anything since the incident.

His
hazel nut brown eyes looked straight into the windows of her soul and
then surprisingly, he laughed. It wasn’t a little chuckle. It
was a deep belly laugh that started deep down within the core of his
stomach.

‘Did
you see his face?’ Lucas managed to say.

Scarlett
couldn’t help it. It was infectious. She started to laugh, too.
It started small, but the louder she laughed, the louder he laughed.
For some reason this whole embarrassing event actually seemed quite
comical. Before she knew it Scarlett’s cheeks were starting to
hurt she was smiling so much and tears of joy were gathering within
her eyes.

‘No
amount of cold showers will make him forget that image.’ He
went on.

The
laughter rolled on for nearly a minute until it slowly came down in
stages to a chuckle, a giggle, a snort, a smile and then finally
silence. After a moment Scarlett got to her feet and headed for the
hallway door, but Lucas’s hand suddenly shot out like the
tongue of a frog catching a passing fly in mid-air. He gripped her by
the wrist and stopped her advancing any further.

She
turned to face him.

Lucas
was wearing a serious expression upon his face. For some strange
reason his intense gaze was making her feel rather small and shy.
Without saying a word he untied the cord around her mid-section and
opened the dressing gown. Scarlett didn’t put up any
resistance.

Lucas
pulled it so far open that it began to slip from her shoulders.

Scarlett
subtly wiggled her shoulders to aid in the removal of her dressing
gown and it landed in a pile upon the kitchen floor. Lucas looked her
up and down in a slow carefully manner.

‘You
look beautiful.’

Three
simple words brought the biggest smile to her lips.

Scarlett
swallowed down the lump in her throat at the feel of his hands upon
her body. His hands stroked down across her ribcage and flowed
smoothly over her hips. He kept his eyes locked upon hers, as he
looked up at her from his sitting position at the kitchen table.
Slowly, he moved his hands around her body and cupped her firm ass
cheeks within the palms of his hand. Scarlett giggled as she was
pulled forward closer towards him.

A
sweet sighed filled the silent kitchen.

Lucas
had pressed his lips against her toned flat stomach. He began to walk
a line of kisses up her body. It was done in such a manner that it
felt like someone was tickling her with the tip of a feather. The
sound of the chair being pushed back screeched around the kitchen, as
Lucas began to stand the higher his kisses climbed.

‘Lucas…’
the soft tone of her voice gave away how badly she needed this.

His
lips began to climb her mountainous breasts.

The
fabric of her lingerie was so thin that it felt like his lips were
really pressing up against her skin. A wave of tingles exploded
within the centre of her chest at the feel of his mouth consuming the
peak of her breast. Scarlett found herself stroking her fingers
through his hair, as the powerful suction of his lips ignited the
flames of lust within her body. His mouth moved from one breast to
the other, whilst his strong powerful hands began to lift and squeeze
them like he was some kind of professional masseur. The longer it
went on the more force Lucas applied. Scarlett found herself being
walked backwards across the kitchen until her back was pressed up
against the wall.

‘I
want you,’ he told her, as he lifted his head and pressed his
lips against hers.

‘I
want you, too.’ Scarlett felt so happy she could cry.

This
had been what she had been after for over a month.

She
opened her mouth and welcomed his tongue inside.

A
deep pleasing sigh escaped her nostrils, as their tongues danced a
private dance within their mouths. It had started out like a sweet
loving kiss, but had quickly turned into a deep passion kiss. Within
seconds they were devouring each other. It was a bit of a sensory
overload because so much was happening so quickly, but the sudden
feel of his hand stroking up the back of her thigh and under the base
of the lingerie sent waves of pleasure rushing up and down her spine.

Lucas
hooked his hand under her leg and hoisted it up to the level of his
hip, as he pressed his strong powerful body up against hers. She
could feel the effect this was having on his body through the firm
bulge pressing up against her. Lucas dropped her mouth onto her neck
and began to kiss along the curve. Scarlett tilted her head to one
side and offered it to him.

‘Shall
we go upstairs?’ he whispered into her ear.

‘No.’
Scarlett didn’t want anything to break the flow. She dropped
her hands down onto his trousers and popped open the top button. ‘I
want you to make love to me right here, right now.’ The sound
of his zip being pulled down reached their ears.

‘Scarlett…’
he muttered her name, as her hand disappeared inside his pants.

Scarlett
pulled
it
out.

Her
heart was beating so hard that she thought she may actually have a
heart attack. How long had it been since she last held this in her
hand? How long had it been since she last felt
it
inside her?
She guided
it
down between her legs, as Lucas shuffled
forward.

This
was it.

This
was what she wanted.

Lucas
looked her dead in the eye and smiled a naughty smile. She could feel
the tip pressing up against her when suddenly the door bell rang. The
look of disappointment and annoyance appeared on their faces like a
rain cloud on a sunny day.

‘Ignore
it,’ she told him.

Lucas’s
smile returned and started to move it closer.

The
doorbell rang. It rang again and then it rang again.

‘Damn
it.’ Lucas tucked himself back inside his trousers and quickly
pulled up the zip. Scarlett felt like head butting the wall she was
so angry. Lucas had been so close to making love to her. The sexual
frustration within her body was building up to nuclear weapon danger
levels. If she didn’t make love to him soon she may actually
blow up.

She
could hear the front door open.

‘Get
packed now.’ It was the voice of her father.

Quickly,
she scooped her dressing gown up off the kitchen floor and wrapped it
around her body just as he marched into the kitchen. ‘Hello, my
little angel.’ He walked over and kissed his youngest daughter
on top of the head. She forced a smile for her father with the awful
timing. ‘I really hope I am not intruding, but this is urgent.’

‘What’s
wrong?’ asked Lucas.

‘They
want to sign the movie deal tomorrow morning,’ said Mr Mills
excitedly.

‘That
is amazing news.’ Lucas had worked so hard for this deal.

‘The
author is already flying out there, but I need you to go and get
packed right now because I am sending you out there tonight.’
Lucas looked like a child on Christmas morning. This was everything
and more. He was being given the opportunity to sign a deal that
would take one of their best selling books into a major movie
production. His smile fell from his face and landed with a heavy
splat, as he looked at Scarlett.

She
let out a sigh. ‘Go and pack.’

‘Thank
you.’ He rushed a kiss and then headed out the kitchen.

***

Lucas
felt really bad about leaving Scarlett like that, especially when
things between them had suddenly become so heated. He was one hundred
percent sure that he would need to stop off at the hotel’s
shower facilities as soon as he touched down. The sexual tensions
within his body had escalated to levels that no human being had ever
experienced before. He had never seen Scarlett look so mind meltingly
sexy in all his life. It didn’t matter if she was wearing a
paper bag. He had decided that tonight he was going to make love to
her after the incident with Emma at lunch time. That would never have
happened if he wasn’t doing this stupid arrangement with his
soon to be father in law. The plus side was now he could say goodbye
to the wedding night deal because if he got this movie deal signed he
could potentially make the company a lot of money and that would
forever keep him in his father in laws good books.

The
car pulled onto the blacked out runway and headed towards a private
plane in the distance. ‘The company board wanted to send down
someone with a little more experience, but I put my neck on the line
to give you this job,’ explained Mr Mills. ‘There can be
no failure with this, do you understand?’

‘Yes,
Sir,’ replied Lucas.