<div class="floatright">(https://indulgeme.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Louise-OReilly-Milk.jpg)</div>The dinner invite – a way to get them out onto an even playing field and a place where hiding behind suits, ties, high heels, and pencil skirts wasn’t always an option – was just the thing Anissa had been hoping would be the outcome of this meeting the moment she’d introduced herself and Becky to Mateo Lucas. She suspected, much like the two women who ran Naughty Otter, Mateo did better when he was more comfortable. That was when she would learn more truths about the man. In a formal business presentation, people always put their best foot forward, garbed in expensively tailored suits and expertly polished Italian leather shoes.<br/><br/>To make a project like this work, to build a world that would be a smash hit success across the board, the man in charge needed to also connect with others when he was wearing nothing but a pair of boxers and a wife-beater.<br/>Hell, maybe even when he was wearing nothing but his intensely sexy stare.<br/><br/>After Mateo left, she scooped up the rest of her things and followed a clearly embarrassed Becky out of the room. She kept her steps slow behind the brunette, snagging a pen from one of the desks and writing two quick notes on a sticky pad. One she handed to Valerie as they neared her. The woman’s eyes were wide and curious, as Becky’s answers to others were entirely vague.<br/><br/>Nissa motioned the woman to fall into step with her. Valerie was as resourceful and driven, something Nissa inherently respected. “I need you to set up an appointment with the lawyers for sometime on this date,” she said. “And get me Mateo Lucas’ personal cell phone number. I don’t want to have to be directed through his secretary every time there’s a question.”<br/><br/>They rounded the corner to Becky and Nissa’s shared office, and Nissa stopped in the doorway after Becky sulked through. She gave Valerie a grin. “Since I know there will be questions and gossip – the meeting went well. But it’s too early to tell anything concrete,” her voice was soft now. “That’s what I want people talking about around the water coolers. We need everyone to keep up the great work they’re doing.”<br/><br/>Glancing over her shoulder, the blonde tresses swinging with the movement, she nodded to Valerie again. And now Liz, who had come up behind the assistant. “Give us an hour. Maybe two. Take messages for anyone that needs us, but no comment on anyone outside Naughty Otter who asks about us working with Abyss. Not until the ink is dry on any contract are we talking about that.”<br/><br/>The women nodded and headed off, Nissa stepped fully into the office, closing the door tightly behind her.<br/><br/>Becky was at her desk, head down already and bemoaning the fact that she thought she’d made a fool of herself in front of Mateo Lucas. Becky just grinned to herself and moved over to her own desk. She slipped off her coat, and out of her heels, before turning and moving back towards Becky, who was adorably peaking at her through those deliciously straight tresses of hers.<br/><br/>Instead of joining her girlfriend on the back side of the desk, Nissa leaned her hips on the front of it, and pressed her right palm to the surface, leaning on it, as her left stroked some of those stray strands out of her face with a soft smile. “You did amazing, gorgeous. You were exactly you and that is what I wanted you to do in that room. If we’re going to work with Mateo, he needs to know what he’s up against.”<br/><br/>Her fingers slipped into that thick, straight, dark hair at the back of Becky’s scalp and held there for a moment. Her smile turned into something a little more towards a grin at that point. “I guarantee that man is driving in his car back to his office right now not judging the way you spoke, or what you spoke about….”<br/><br/>She leaned down then, her grip tightening just enough that the pull against Becky’s scalp would be felt. “But about the way you stood up to him. The way you held your ground in that room…” Nissa brought her lips closer to Becky’s then, her eyes finding the brunette’s easily. “How fucking good that ass of yours looked when you turned around in front of him.”<br/>