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“I was in here yesterday. And I saw some woman in your office, you were both yelling at her and she looked pissed.”
“How did we look?” Jake was making jokes, what is wrong with this man? Even though it didn’t annoy me enough to ignore it.
“Um, hot. I guess.” I crossed my arms and stared down at my lap. I could feel them smiling at me, amusement or not, they were smiling. Was I being irrational?
“Anyway she stormed out of there and then made a call. She said you were focusing more on this startup and that you were going to buy me out.” I explained.
Jake nodded and leaned back. He ticked his jaw as he clenched his fist and held it to his mouth as he frowned.
“Is that why you left?” Logan asked.
I nodded simply. The last of my tears were gone and I took a deep breath to calm myself.
“I was mad, and I didn’t know what to do. I wasn’t sure how to face you both, I was…scared.” I murmured.
Both Logan and Jake gently laid their hands against my thigh. It was like they didn’t care if anyone saw, maybe they knew no one was around.
“Madeline, why would you be scared?” Logan asked me. Jake squeezed my thigh to show he agreed.
“You both are very intimidating, if you hadn’t noticed.” I whispered.
The air shifted as everything came down on me. I struggled to even breath, and they both surrounded me so easily. Jake with his sharp cologne, it made me dizzy—but in a good way. A good way for him, because it draws me to him just as much as I am to Logan. They weren’t even saying anything and I didn’t know what to do, or say. How do you follow up to that?
I just sat there and waited for one of them to say something. Perhaps they didn’t want someone as inexperienced as me, who was afraid of them. Well, I’m not afraid of them—but they make me nervous, yes.
I opened my mouth to finally break the silence, but then I was blinded by a white hot kiss. From Jake. He gripped my jaw so tight I couldn’t even move. His lips coaxed over me, hot and heavy and fast. His tongue grazed the under of my bottom lip, and it dropped open to invite him in. As he kissed me, Logan let his hand drift higher and higher, right at the apex of my sex, but he didn’t touch me there, he just let his hand lay there. The heat of it was scorching. The feel of Jake’s lips were infectious. He broke away and before I could take two breaths Logan gripped his hand in my hair and pulled me to him. I could taste them both on my lips, their scotch and mint. Logan was slow on my lips, soft and sweet and I caught my breath. His lips trailed down my neck, to that spot behind my ear and then Jake pressed one last kiss to my lips.
They leaned away, and I could breathe again. I struggled to catch my breath as I straightened my hair. Logan let his hand drift away to my knee.
“You belong to us Madeline,” Logan said. “You shouldn’t be afraid of us.” Jake finished.
I nodded simply.
“We are not buying you out.”
I nodded simply to say I understood. Jake reached out to fix my lips as Logan stood up to get me a glass of water.
“Dan is coming.” Logan gestured to the door. Sure enough, Dan strolled in with his big briefcase.
“Hello.” He graveled.
He looked like a nice guy, older than Logan and Jake but really good at his job.
“Hey.” Jake said.
I stood up and shook his hand before I sat back down. I sincerely hoped I didn’t look like I had just been gloriously kissed.
“Okay, so I’ve got everything together. Take a look.”
He handed us each a folder, that wasn’t all too thick.
“We haven’t named it yet, but everything is there. Numbers, figures, dates.”
We all looked it over, and I was still thinking of things I learned in class to understand it, but I think I did okay. They projected a two hundred percent profit, and for production to only last fifteen weeks. It seemed crazy, but all their launches are fast and they throw a ton of money into marketing so that they can make it all back. Their business plans are of the most unique in the business world, and a lot of people try to model and imitate it but they fall short. Jake has a brilliant mind when it comes to consumer wants, and Logan knows how to implicate it perfectly.
They were doing this same with this startup. It would start in the city, and then move onward to other surrounding states.
“This looks great. What do you think, Madeline?” Logan asked.
