Chapter 14: Chapter 14

" Haa!"

Valerie erupted in exasperation after thirty minutes of trying to understand the charts and reports in the files scattered about her work desk. The thought of Mark and the conversation he had with him was completely erased from her mind, though the bittersweet feeling still remained...

Of course, She used to love mark. And though it wasn't like she loved him anymore, the feeling of commitment she had for him still remained, and it was hard to get it out of her heart. Nevertheless, it's only a phase.

Val's head swirled as harmful whispers of words she was familiar with, but had different meanings within business context, echoed in her mind.

'Sales per capita... Growth marketing... churn rate...'

She thought the last one might be exactly what she'd use to describe the speed at which her head spun and how nauseous she was at the moment.

Val was quite acquainted with sales per capita as a business term to an extent, but churn rate? flywheel? she could only denote them in literal sense. She had tried Googling the meaning of these terms but even with the descriptions, she found it hard to relate with the reports since she lacked experience.

" Haa!" She sighed again, letting off a warm breath that smelt of coffee.

" Perhaps, I shouldn't have done this..." She muttered desperately as she put her phone down and placed a palm on her forehead. She didn't need to sort any files after all, but the common belief of business being relative got into her head and she thought she could do something without prior experience. Val considers herself smart, but at the moment, she could only give up the hope.

" Business is actually tough" She craned her head back as she reclined in the chair and stared at the acoustic drywall ceiling as she thought aloud. Her thought reared back to her previous thought about what she wanted from Bob in return when everything was finished.

What was it that she really wanted? Val had no idea. She didn't think it probable that Bob would take responsibility for the baby. He definitely wouldn't be in the state to do so after the divorce.

In that case, shouldn't she tell him now?

Of course, she wanted so bad to tell him. But that meant they would be together, husband and wife ... Father and mother, perhaps? Is that really what Val wanted? She wasn't sure.

Bob was a good man, but just as Bob, Val had just gone through a heartbreaking relationship that ended quite unbelievably after five years. Despite how tough and strong she seemed to be holding up, she currently was going through a turmoil of emotions, and thus, found it hard to grow attached to anyone at the moment.

Love? She wasn't certain she was ready for that again. But Val could never deny that she desired Bob's touch on her once again. He made her feel right, and maybe she just didn't have enough the last time. Val didn't know...

' What am I thinking? ughh!' She managed to calm the sudden itch and burn.

" Well..." Val thought she would form a mutual companionship, that is, if Bob was willing. But if he wasn't, Val thought she would need a new life of her own, build herself an empire in which she could raise her child in.

" A business perhaps...?" She contemplated.

...

Mark sat in his office feeling such a big headache that he couldn’t help but rub his temple and scratch the itches on his cheeks occasionally whilst deep in thought. He was beyond frustrated at what was happening.

He scratched his itchy scalps and untied his ponytail in the process, letting down his medium length black hair

“ What to do? What to do?” he muttered to himself in desperation as he bit on his nails, not knowing the next step to take. He couldn’t let himself go through all of this for the rest of his days at Citadel's. He contemplated leaving but that wasn’t the right call at the moment, there was no better job option than the one he currently held. Not with the pay!

Mark was disorganized and disoriented the whole day at office. However, with years of experience, he was still able to pull through. Mark left work early and drove to a local bar nearby to clear his head. He spent a couple of hours out, only heading home late and drunk.

“ mtch!” he clicked his tongue when he found out his door was unlocked. Just as he entered, he met sight of Kaitlyn's alluring figure sitting on the couch in comfy clothing and paused for a while.

She'd obviously been waiting for him all day long.

“I let myself in with the spare key. Where have you been?” Kaitlyn explained and questioned at the same time, furling her thin eyebrows into a frown.

“ Out to clear my head for a while…” Mark said dismissively as he undressed his button and grabbed a bottle of red wine before he headed upstairs. Kaitlyn didn't say a thing and just rose and followed behind him to the bedroom. She'd become quite acquainted with the house ever since Val left.

“ you don’t seem okay” Kaitlyn sat behind Mark on the bed and asked as she wrapped her arms around his neck. She knew he still wasn't over the fact that Val was now their boss, but why get so hung up about it?

Mark raised the bottle and gulped down a considerable amount of the content,

“ Aagh! That bitch!” He swore. He’d stopped thinking that perhaps he was in the wrong but had now started to really hate Val.

The other time he felt so frustrated and powerless was with the CEO, and Val's gaze today looked just the same as that wicked woman's. The condescending gaze that gave him discomfort and had him feeling lesser of a man. He despised it... alot!

Kaitlyn seeing Mark like this decided to draw away from him and sat alone on the bed with her back to the headboard and hands folded on her chest as she stared at a fixed point.

Mark soon noticed and he turned to see what was going on. Seeing the expression on her face, Mark put down his wine bottle and slowly approached his lover on bed.

The latter just looked away with sadness and a deep frown on her beautiful face as Mark drew near her. Mark placed a finger on her chin and made her face him using his finger to move her head. Kaitlyn avoided eye contact as though everything was but an illusion.

" What?" She asked.

Mark didn't say anything and just leaned in to plant a deep kiss on her small plumpy lips.

Kaitlyn didn't reject the kiss, she kissed him back, slowly building it into a dirty suck.

Clck! Mtchlk!

Clicking and rustling sounds filled the room as the duo tried to overcome each other with a show of who possessed more passion.

" Mmm!" Kaitlyn moaned in pleasure as Mark's firm hands roamed her body and touched her in different places. She wasn't idle either, she snaked her hands into his pants and rubbed on his private member.

Mark broke away from the kiss, gently slapped the hands of Kaitlyn away from inside his pants, and grabbed her by her thigh. He jerked her legs downwards, making Kaitlyn who was previously in a sitting position fall on her back on the bed.

Kaitlyn squirmed as her chest rose and fell, breathing erratically as lust overtook her. Her juicy lips parted as she let out a hot breath.

Mark seeing her in this state felt an ache around his groin. Kaitlyn had her brown hair tied up, revealing her swan-like neck and her pretty face with tiny features in fine view. The baggy shirt she wore couldn't hide her hardened nipple pointing right at him. She looked sexier than ever!

Mark straightened his back while still on his knees and slowly climbed over Kaitlyn's waist.

" A little help?" Mark asked in a husky tone as he pointed to the bulge on his groin area whilst he let his hands roam her body once again.

Kaitlyn squirmed but didn't let the feeling get to her head. She quickly unzipped Mark's pants and grabbed his cock that filled her hands warmly once again. She bit her lip as she took it out and brought it to her view.

' Delicious!'

" Mmm!" Mark groaned as she stroked him. Looking at her slowly stroking him with that expression of desire and appreciation in her gaze had him feeling euphoric. But Mark wanted all of her body...

He brought his hips above her upper body as she still stroked him, and rubbed his cock on her throat. His manly scent hit her nose and corroded her senses, rousing her urge.

' This warm and strong sensation!'

Kaitlyn closed her eyes and enjoyed the feeling. Her body squirmed as he swayed his hips back and forth.

Soon after he brought his cock on her face. The intense itch on her groin area grew unbearable and the wetness was indescribable. She loved his smell!

Mark looked down at Kaitlyn with lust for those juicy plumpy lips of hers. He brought his cock on them and just humped her shut-tight lips as his lover's fingers wrapped around his cock gently.

" Nghh!" He shuddered slightly when suddenly a warm wet wrap was felt around the head of his cock. Following the wrap, he felt a soft lick and twirl around his tip.

" Nghhh!" He clenched his every muscle and teeth, trying as much as he could to hold back from nutting.

Nonetheless, the wrap, lick and twirl on his cock never stopped. It grew slowly and steadily into a suck that almost drained him of everything in his balls.

Slurp!.... Slurp!

Kaitlyn slowly sucked him with her hands, lips, tongue and sloppiness.

" Ughh!" Mark kicked his head back and enjoyed being pleasured while letting out groans. She literally made him moan and groan!

Amidst this, Mark caught a whiff of her wetness and he snaked his hands into her panties. He gave Kaitlyn a lewd expression as he slowly fingered her in rhythm to how she sucked him.

" Hmmmn! mmmm! Mmmmm!" Kaitlyn's stiffled moans had vibrating effect on Mark's cock, leaving the latter helpless.

" Nghhh! nghh!" Mark groaned as he nutted in Kaitlyn's throat, unable to hold back anymore.

' Oooh~' Kaitlyn's eyes rolled back as his warm thick nut hit her throat. Her body squirmed and shuddered as Mark's fingers pronged deep inside of her snatch and rubbed on a certain sweet spot. She squirmed in orgasm as she swallowed every of his cum!

Mark heave-hoed at the sight of this, his cock still lodged in Kaitlyn's mouth. Even after nutting, the burning sensation in his body wasn't calmed yet. Kaitlyn was just too sexy and impossible to not want to fuck!

Kaitlyn pulled out Mark's cock from her mouth, her chest rose and fell as she gave his cock some more lick and said with a greater fire of lust in her eyes,

" Let's fuck!" She was in power now!

Mark let out a soft chuckle and shook his head as he laid beside Kaitlyn on the bed. The latter quickly laid on her side with her back to him and turned her face to beckon him for a kiss.

Mark leaned closer and shared a hot kiss with Kaitlyn as he pulled down her panties and rubbed his cock on her snatch from behind. His hot muscular body covered her tiny curvy body, and just as Mark loved the softness of her body on his, Kaitlyn loved how vulnerable he made her feel.

She squirmed and wrapped her legs around his legs as if wanting more of the feeling of weakness she felt from his touch.

Her wetness and her softness satisfied and eased his aches and burns.

His cock poking at her snatch had a numbing effect on her, his hands firmly stroking her body, and the kiss they shared. Kaitlyn lost all thoughts and just lived in the pleasure.

Both lovers indulged in a lengthy drive of passion and love through the night, humping their bodies against each other, and forgetting about their worries and thoughts.

...

Late in the middle of the night, Kaitlyn's eyes stared at the ceiling in deep thoughts. She hadn't been able to sleep even with the feeling of exhaustion mixed with pleasure still lingering in her body. She still couldn't take what Margarette had told her back in the office off her mind.

She had pondered and pondered about it ever since and had only come to Mark's to clear this off her mind. But it didn't seem even he could help her situation.

' After all, this is all about him...' Kaitlyn turned on bed to glance at him.

How peaceful and in bliss he seemed as he slept... To Kaitlyn, he was helplessly beautiful.

But concerning Mark, what was she really doing with him? She couldn't help but wonder.

Of course, he was good in bed, but apart from that, Mark was a total jerk. Proof of that was what he'd done to his wife of five years, and still having the guts to even hate on the woman's current success.

Does Kaitlyn even really care about all of that? The answer is, no. Kaitlyn knew deep in her heart that Mark doesn't really love her. He could be attached just as she was but in truth, they were both just fuck buddies. She fucked him for both pleasure and benefits at work, Mark fucked her for... well, her body.

Kaitlyn turned her gaze to the ceiling once again.

Is Kaitlyn in love with him? No, she wasn't... Maybe she was. Kaitlyn had mixed feelings. She felt that she could love him, but Mark wasn't fostering the feeling.

It all started with him flirting with her at work and making a deal to get her benefits at work which she couldn't have turned down any way, considering she needed it.

This whole thing they had going on was all her choice, and yes, she enjoyed it and had no regret. But really, what was she doing?

She looked to her side once again at Mark who was fast asleep with his mouth now half open, his breath stinking of sex and alcohol.

She didn't see all of this lasting long nor taking her anywhere. It's only for a while, and she knew it.

This whole thing between herself and him was nothing but a chance encounter, soon enough he'd have to cut her off. Hell, he already was doing that!

The only time he remembered her was when he wanted to satisfy his sexual urges. And she was certain she wasn't the only one at work whom he had for that. Kaitlyn could count how many ladies at work that Mark has taken to bed, not to count those outside work area.

She knew she needed to take the easy way out just as Maggie had said.

Indeed, Mark wasn't someone she could see as a reliable backing for her needs, unlike what Margarette was proposing. And perhaps, the offer she had made her wasn't that bad considering the reward...