From One Night Ch. 05

Wow the response to Chapter 4 was much more than I expected. Thank you for the feedback to everyone who wrote a public comment or privately emailed me. I hope my response on my profile and on the comment page was sufficient to ease anyone's concerns. I hope you enjoy Chapter 5. The last chapter is written, but I am still revising with my editor. Enjoy!

Nadia arrived at work at 7:30 am. She awoke that morning feeling better about what she needed to do. It was quite clear to her that Ben Morrison thought he ruled her, but Nadia VanZant could not be ruled by any man.

After going home quite embarrassed last night, she sat in bed and formulated a plan. If Ben wanted to make their business relationship about power games she certainly knew how to play those. She figured that Ben would continue to use her for her looks to gain new clients and get his ideas passed, so she intended to also get her own agenda done at the same time.

If she got close enough she could find out all kinds of information that would benefit her in forming her own marketing agency. Information like how much they paid Ben, so she could undercut it, or what their main needs were, so she could find ways to meet it better than he could.

She had also decided that she was done messing around with Ben. Somewhere over the months she had been sleeping with him, she had started to build up this idea that he really cared about her. After all she had started staying the night more at his house than she did at her own. When he left with Liz last night though her mental picture frame of them being together had been shattered. It was time for her to let go of her idea that they were together, and accept that she had been nothing more than his fuck buddy.

All this had been on Nadia's mind last night, and so this morning she was a woman on a mission to turn the tables around so that she was the one using Ben instead of the vice versa she had been living in.

When Ben finally arrived at the office, Nadia was already busy looking over the negotiation deals he had lined up for the week. She had placed a cup of coffee on his desk, which she had spit in, and had been waiting for him to arrive so she could give her much practiced apology speech.

"Good morning Mr. Morrison, I am truly sorry about last night. I won't make excuses for my tardiness, but I promise you it will not happen again," Nadia said with a tone of complete professionalism.

"I'm certain it will not. I gave you a fairly simple job, and I just expect it to be done well," Ben replied after taking a sip of his coffee.

Nadia smiled inwardly as he sipped his coffee. She realized she was being a little childish in her revenge, but it felt so good.

"Well I can assure you I intend on doing everything I can this summer to prove that I can do this job very well. I started looking over all the negotiations you have lined up for this week. I was planning on doing some research on who the key players will be, and what other agencies the companies are working with so we can do some benchmarking. Is there anything else I should be working on?" Nadia asked as she began gathering the papers she had been working with.

She wondered if he would challenge her about the work she was doing. Originally she had thought about being secretive about it, but then she realized that technically she would be doing his work for him so how many objections could he really have.

Ben was momentarily speechless. He hadn't expected Nadia to come in with such fervor to work this morning. He had basically expected her to be whining with excuses about last night. Even more surprising was that she was doing the work he had planned to do himself today. It was certainly not what he had hired her for, but he wasn't passing up the opportunity for some cheap labor.

"Um no you can work on that, and I'll expect to review your results by tomorrow at the close of business. I'm sure you'll need some help so feel free to ask Liz for anything you need," Ben said while still appearing completely collected.

"Thanks but I think I can handle it. I promise to have them on your desk first thing tomorrow morning sir," Nadia said with a smile while heading towards the door.

She was actually smiling because her plan was going just as she had hoped. This would be her chance to get some research done on who he was working with and how she could use the information to her advantage.

As Nadia walked out of Ben's office happily, she made sure to say good morning to Liz as she walked past her desk. She really only spoke to her because she didn't want Liz to think her leaving with Ben last night had affected her in the least.

"It's actually a great morning for me," Liz said with an "I know something you don't know" smile on her face.

"O well that's good," Nadia said about to continue on her way to her desk.

"Well I mean who could have a bad morning when you spend it making love with Ben Morrison. O but shhhh don't tell anyone I told you. Office gossip seems to spread so fast around here," Liz said hoping Nadia would take the bait.

From the look on Nadia's face she could tell she did. It was a momentary look of sadness, but she definitely noticed it.

"That's good for you. I hope you used protection though I heard he'll sleep with anything," Nadia said before walking away.

Liz sat back and laughed to herself. She knew that little tid bit of information would keep that new girl away from her man. She hadn't wanted to use protection, but Ben had insisted on it. That was ok since she had heard from somebody how a turkey baster could be used when she did want to have his baby. However right now she needed to keep her awesome figure so she could get him back into bed.

Nadia had been a little hurt at the thought of Ben being in bed with his trampy secretary, but she couldn't let her know that.

"That slut probably has probably been sleeping her way to success since she was in high school," Nadia thought while laughing to herself.

They deserved each other as far as she was concerned because she was too done with Ben Morrison.

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The next few weeks seemed like a blur to Nadia. She spent long days and sometimes even nights at the office learning as much as she could about Ben's business. She was determined to leave this internship with enough information to tank BGM. However she had actually begun to like her job. Instead of having to sneak to work on all the things she wanted to, Ben had actually been encouraging her to do whatever she wanted.

As she diligently worked, Ben couldn't help but be impressed by the in depth reports she continued to turn in. On top of that work, she also came to work looking stunning every day. The way she mesmerized his clients at meetings with her amazing looks and humor had landed him so much business he didn't know what he was going to do when she had to leave. It was clear that Nadia had become extremely valuable for his company.

The only thing bothering him lately about her was that she hadn't called to come over, and it seemed whenever he would invite her over after client meetings she always had one excuse or another. It wasn't really much of a concern though since Liz seemed to offer up her services daily.

"Wow Nadia this report on L'Oreal's marketing spend over the past ten years is impeccable," Ben said while walking into her office one morning.

"Thanks Mr. Morrison, I'll have the other companies done by the end of the week. I wanted to ask you though, do you mind if I take the rest of today off? It's my birthday, and I was hoping to go out with my roommate to celebrate today," Nadia said while secretly crossing her fingers.

"I have a campaign I need you to review. When you finish it you are free to head out. Walk with me down to my office to grab it," Ben replied.

She was visibly disappointed at his response, and wanted to beg him to let her work on it tomorrow. However she sucked in the urge to pout, and proceeded to fall him down the hall.

As they walked down the hall, Ben thought about when he was 22. He had just finished his MBA in college, and had just begun to get his idea for a business off the ground. With Nadia's looks and business skills he assumed she would be even farther than him by the time she reached his age.

Upon entering his office, Nadia saw three bouquets of roses.

"O my God! Thank you so much Ben! I love roses! I didn't even know you knew it was my birthday," Nadia shrieked happily.

Ben always knew everything about the women who worked for him. Granted he had never bought any of them anything but maybe a cake for their birthdays, but he did at least know when they were.

Liz had noticed the roses being delivered in the morning, and had been sitting excitedly at her desk. She knew Ben wouldn't forget it was their one month anniversary. She had already planned their evening together of going out to a fancy meal, and then heading to the plush hotel room she had booked and filled with candles.

When she heard Nadia shriek in Ben's office about what should be her roses she thought she had to be delusional.

She walked in to find Nadia hugging Ben just a little too tightly, and Ben turning her head to kiss him.

Thoughts of setting that little bitch on fire were the only thing in her head. She couldn't see anything but red as she lunged forward and grabbed Nadia's hair pulling her backwards.

Nadia was completely taken off balance as Liz pulled her down and started strangling her on the ground.

Ben stood in shock for a moment as the crazy cat fight ensued. However, he quickly snapped back into reality when Liz started to choke Nadia. He swiftly grabbed Liz off of Nadia pinning her to the ground.

"Security!" Ben yelled out while holding Liz.

"Yes, please get security to get that bitch out of here. I saw the way she was trying to seduce you. We don't need her here baby. I love you, I love you..." Liz continued to repeat how much she loved Ben even as she was being dragged out of the office kicking and screaming.

Nadia laid on the floor trying to catch her breathe as all of the drama unfolded. A few of the other employees had rushed in to help her and help get Liz out of the building. She was stunned that Liz was so damn crazy, and completely grateful that Ben had saved her life.

Once Liz was out of the building and Ben had talked to the police, he came to be by Nadia's side.

"Look I am so sorry about what happened today. I had no idea that Liz was...I mean that she could have... I'm sorry I know this is nowhere near what you envisioned your 22nd birthday being like," Ben finally said after stumbling in trying to complete his thoughts.

"Ben, its ok. I'm just glad I'm alive and that crazy bitch didn't pull my weave out," Nadia said with a laugh.

Ben was so happy to see her laughing and smiling after the morning she had been through.

"Let me make it up to you. We can do whatever you want today on me," Ben said hoping she would say yes.

Nadia thought about the plans she had made with Alyssa, but decided she could put them on hold. After all most of it just involved eating and watching Disney movies like big kids.

"Sure, that sounds great. Our first stop should be somewhere with some food though," Nadia replied with a small smile.

Their first stop was to her favorite place to eat on her birthday, Benihana. Ben had never been before, but he was impressed with the food and the tricks the chef performed while making their meal. At the end of their meal, the waitress snapped a photo of them together while the entire table sang happy birthday to her.

After eating, Ben regretted telling Nadia they could do whatever she wanted since she insisted on going to the movies to see a Disney/Pixar movie. Ben felt like a complete fool ordering two adults tickets to see a children's movie with no children present, but the way Nadia was excitedly running to find seats in the theater made it all worth it.

The movie had actually been pretty good, and he had to admit that he laughed a lot while watching it. It was getting late by the time they finished up the movie, and they headed to grab some ice cream before calling it a night.

There was a great park next to the Bruster's ice cream they had gone to so they decided to sit out and talk. It had been a hot summer day with temperatures feeling like they had hit 100 degrees, but it left the evening warm in the high 70s. Ben sipped on his strawberry malt while Nadia struggled to lick the vanilla ice cream cone she had ordered fast enough to keep it from running down her hands. It was beginning to appear like the ice cream was going to win that battle though.

Ben laughed as ice cream dripped from Nadia's hand and ran down her arm. It was now dripping down from her arm onto her black summer dress.

"You know you could be helping instead of laughing," Nadia said with feigned annoyance.

"But this is so much better," Ben said while still laughing.

She held her arm over him so that it could drip onto him, but he grabbed it and began licking the ice cream trail from her elbow all the way up to her hand. He then took the ice cream and tossed it to the ground.

"Hey, I wasn't done with..." was all Nadia was able to say before his lips captured hers.

Her mouth was cold and tasted like vanilla, his least favorite ice cream, but he didn't care. He felt her arms wrap around his neck as she pulled him closer to her.

They kissed passionately and as each minute went past they both found themselves getting more and more excited.

Finally Nadia broke off their kiss. "Look Ben I I can't. I can't do this," Nadia said while shaking her head to try to clear her brain.

"Your right. We can't do it in a park. Come on let's head to my place," Ben said as he grabbed her hand to lead her to his car.

She snatched her hand out of his and replied, "No Ben I don't mean that. I mean I can't go back down this road with you. Today was great, but I can't just have meaningless sex with you anymore. When you went home that night with Liz that shit hurt, and I refuse to do that to myself anymore. I can't just sleep with you with no feelings attached."

He didn't know why he said it, but the next words out of his mouth surprised even him.

"Nadia, I love you," Ben said in complete sincerity.

That certainly wasn't what she thought he was about to say.

"I'm sorry I hurt you that night, but every time I see you it seems like you're even more beautiful than the last time. You're smart, you're funny, you're damn near perfect," Ben said while searching her eyes for a response.

Nadia was now officially shocked for the second time today. First Liz tried to kill her over Ben, and now he was confessing that he loved her. If a psychic had predicted the events of this birthday to her she would have told them they were a liar.

She couldn't say that she loved Ben because that simply would not have been true. There was a time during their fling that she had felt like she might have been falling in love with him, but she had decided that was more lust than love.

Ben was still waiting on her response, and was beginning to feel a bit stupid for his admission.

Nadia didn't want to respond with words since there was nothing she could say that wouldn't hurt him, so she simply started kissing him again.

Ben took this as a sign that she felt the same way, and swept her up into his arms while he kissed her. He carried her like that all the way to the car, and could barely focus on driving as they held hands and stole kisses all the way on the drive to his house.

Once they reached his home, he hardly got the door open before he began to kiss her again. He pressed her back against the wall as he kissed her first softly but quickly progressing to a much more heated embrace.

He picked her up again and never stopped kissing her as he carried her to his bed. After he laid her down, he began to kiss all over her starting from her toes. He kissed each one before nibbling at her ankles and continuing to kiss up her inner legs and thighs. By the time he reached her panties to peel them off she was already dying for him to make love to her. He would eventually get around to that request, but first he wanted to finish worshipping every inch of her.

He skipped licking what was in between her thighs, and instead grabbed her dress to pull it over her head. He kissed her once he got it off, and then began his trail of kisses again now starting at her hips. He licked up her stomach, stopping to tease her belly button, and finally arrived at her breasts.

His tongue slowly trailed around her areola, driving her crazy, before he took her nipple into his mouth. The shockwave that went straight down to her aching pussy was a muscle tremor he could definitely feel. He continued to lick and nibble on her left nipple until it was fully hard, and then gave the same treatment to her right breast.

By this time Nadia was beginning to lose it. Her hips bucked wildly at every touch from his tongue. She had to have him now or she was going to lose her mind.

She grabbed his head, and kissed him with all the urgency of a woman who desperately needed to be satisfied. She sat up while she kissed him, and her hands began working on stripping him out of his pants and boxers. Finally she stopped kissing him to take his shirt off. Once she had him the way she wanted, she laid back down and motioned for him to come here with her finger.

She certainly didn't need to tell him twice. Ben climbed on top of her and resumed kissing her but slowly this time. Nadia wrapped her legs around his hips in anticipation, but he was intentionally not putting himself inside of her yet. He wanted to enjoy every moment of making love to her. However, Nadia's hormones were already going wild so she maneuvered underneath his body until she managed to get the tip in by herself. Once that much was in he couldn't help but slide the rest into her.

She gasped once he had fully inserted himself inside her. It had been weeks since she had sex, and the feeling of him inside her was more pleasure than she could have imagined.

Ben was feeling a bit breathless himself. Nadia felt unbelievably tight, and he had to pause once fully inside just to enjoy the feeling.

Neither of them said a word as Ben pulled almost completely out of her and slowly slid back in. Their heavy breathing in between kisses and the sounds that their bodies were creating were the only noise in his bedroom.

He never increased his speed as he took his time pleasuring Nadia. He could tell from her staccato breathing when she was on the edge of her first orgasm, but he still continued at his pace.

By the time Ben finally lost control of his orgasm, Nadia had cum at least twice that he could feel. He gave her a kiss on the forehead before repositioning himself to lay behind her and cuddle. They slept in that position all night.

*********

After that night Nadia VanZant could have sworn that aliens had abducted the Ben she had met at Club Ice months ago. Either he was a fantastic actor or Ben Morrison had become a whole new man. He was actually sweet, charming, funny, and the more time she spent with him the closer she came to finally telling him that she loved him.

Her last few weeks at work seemed to go by too quickly as she spent her days flirtatiously playing with him in his office, and handling all his secretarial work until he could find a replacement for Liz. She began regularly staying at his house nightly again, and even confessed the true nature of her relationship with Ben to her roommate Alyssa. Of course she was upset that she hadn't told her sooner, but then she congratulated her on "getting a cute rich white man."

Everything seemed to finally be lining up perfectly for her and Ben.