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He shook his head. I let out the breath I was, apparently, holding in. He smiled and said, "I'll kiss you, though. You want her to see it?"

She nodded and said, "You are getting cupcakes when I get home tonight."

He smiled brightly and said, "But just me, right? And Rip, but not them."

"No." She winked at him as she tapped that paper. The NDA. I couldn't tell anyone. "Not them."

I looked at her as she looked at me and I nodded. "I don't..." This was happening. I gulped. "I... wouldn’t know what to say anyway."

Apollo stalked over to her and leaned in to kiss her lips. She pulled back and he went wide-eyed. She teased him, and the more she did that, leaned in, pulled back...oh shit. Did Stormy think I was teasing him? Fuuuhhhkkk.

And the real lesson I learned came when Apollo bent her over that desk in front of me and fucked her like she could take that kind of thrust without injury of some sort. It registered that if I kept teasing Stormy, intentionally or not, he was going to really do something I might not want him to do. Though she looked very much like she wanted everything he was doing to her and more as she trembled and called out for him in what I understood clearly was her climax.

Just like the high moment in a book, the settling was quick, and for them a bit funny, apparently. Apollo looked at me and winked as he gave me a finger gun click sound and said, "Don't settle for less than you deserve, kid."

She laughed as he left, and she situated herself. She perched behind that desk where they just fucked all over my signed documents and said, "I love them. All three of them. You don't have to love Stormy, Holly. You just have to read your manual, respect the contract, and accept that some part of you is...evolving. Let it bloom, you beautiful disaster, you."

"'Kay." I got up, all my engines turned on. There was a battle I was fully aware of now, and it was raging inside of me. I... had needs I never had before. Needs I didn't know I could have. I left that room with a bitter taste in my mouth, but an ache in a place I had not allowed to ache before. Once out of the kitchen, I took off in a sprint, sort of. I was sure I could get to the parking lot faster if I cut across the pool area and then between one of the houses. I had to do a spin move to avoid running into someone, and then I ran directly into someone else. Someone really big which is why I bounced right off him like a basketball on a gym floor and landed in cold water.

That was one way to cool off. I kicked my way to the surface and once I breached, looked directly up and into the dark-grey eyes of Stormy… something? Was that his first or last name? I didn't have a chance to say anything, and he didn't get a chance to help me out of there, which based on his movement suggested that was his intent.

"Winston will help her. Come on. I have to be home in less than thirty." She giggled and said, "I've really misbehaved today, and Rip will be home within two hours. I need my time."

"Yes, Ma'am." He left me and went to her.

I really couldn't understand the surge of...pure...rage? Was I mad? I didn't get mad. What the hell was wrong with me this year? Ugh. The taste in my mouth was horrible. Like I just licked the bottom of a bitter ashtray. I started to ease off the anger pedal, and that taste went away. My body hated when I acted out. I hated that taste, so I rarely had moments. I once got stung by a bee and still found some calm so as not to taste that bitterness.

"Got you this towel." A guy, Winston I... I knew Winston! Sort of. He was smaller in high school, wore glasses, super smart. Nerdy. Several grades ahead of me, but he looked younger than me back then.

He held it near the pool entry. I swam to that side, then waded through the water as it got shallower, then walked up the stairs and out as he wrapped it around me.

"Thank you." I looked up at him and he smiled. I could feel my brows draw a bit together and I asked, "Reed, right? Winston Reed?"

He laughed and said, "Yeah. How did you know that?"

"We went to high school together." I looked at him and said, "You've...grown."

He laughed again and indicated we should exit the pool area. "Yeah, it happens when you grow up."

I laughed. "Right. Sorry. I just—"

"No. I was a lot smaller then. Hit my growth spurt last year. You missed it." He winked. He was a lot more confident this year, too. I envied him. He looked me over and said, "Pretty in Pink! Oh shit. You've grown up a bit, too."

I blushed deeply. My teeth were starting to chatter. "I hate my name."

"Most people don't know the reference these days." He had me stop at the kitchen entrance and said, "You understand."

I was soaking wet and not allowed any further at the moment. I... damn. My phone was in my pocket. I felt for it and realized it was in the pool or maybe I was lucky, and it landed...on the concrete...why did this month hate me so much?

Winston

Wow. She remembered me. I remembered her, but back then we were both so shy, neither of us said much to anyone outside our personal little geek circles. She was a freshman when I was a junior, just like now I presumed. She had hit that growth spurt before high school and damn she kept growing in all the right places and all the right ways. I always thought Holly was interesting because she wasn't like other girls. She didn't turn into a... well, she turned into an OBD, but not a real... diva-type diva and all her friends eventually grew into looking like this one in front of me now. "Hey, Cass."

"You wanna see my ears wiggle?" she asked and laughed.

I shook my head no but smiled at her anyway. "Thanks, but I've got a wet woman waiting for me in the kitchen."

Never thought I would ever say that.

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