Chapter Twenty-four
The online shops are a wonderful thing. You can get anything and get it shipped to you the very next day.
I made my selection carefully and bought not one outfit but several, in the hopes of my plans for Theo going well.
Now that I was out from under Jonas’ thumb, I could pay for all of that myself but, at one point in my stay at Russet Manor, Tristan pulled me aside and presented me with a credit card in his name.
“I know you have your own money, especially with the new shares in the company... but I would like you to use my card when shopping,” Tristan said. His cheeks had a slight dusting of pink. Ah, so that’s how it was.
“Yeah? You want me to buy myself some pretty things?” I purred, caressing the credit card with my fingers. “Be your little sugar baby?”
“Theo and Matthias use my card as well!” Tristan protested.
“Yeah, because you like to provide and it makes you happy to see them use your money. But I think when I use this card happiness isn’t going to be the only thing you will experience, hmm?”
Tristan swallowed hard. His tongue darted out to moisten his lips as his eyes darkened at my teasing.
“Why don’t you try it and find out?”
Remembering that conversation, I added a few things for myself and sent three electronic receipts to Tristan’s email. Two of those were for beautiful but classy ruby earrings and a very special necklace. The other one… I grinned to myself, imagining Tristan's expression at the sight of my surprise.
Two days later, I dressed in a sharp suit, put on the ruby earings that were just delivered, and made the trip to attend my first company meeting as a big shareholder.
I asked to borrow Matthias and it turned out to be a brilliant idea; the imposing man following behind me made a few of the men already waiting in the conference room swallow their comments when they saw me with my shadow.
When everyone — the board of directors, the shareholders, and the specialists invited to present their reports — had gathered, Will started the meeting. He made an announcement about the current share percentages and introduced me as the new shareholder.
The board of directors greeted me with reactions from enthusiasm to cold professionalism. Most of them remembered me from my previous work in the company and even those who didn’t like me had learned to respect me.
The shareholders, however...
After the standard summary of the company’s profits, various initiatives, and challenges, it came time for more detailed reports and proposed changes. When it was time for me to present my idea I could feel the sneering stares of the two of the shareholders boring into my back.
“Achieving business efficiency means maximizing resources, reducing costs, andincreasingproductivity. I would like to propose ways to improve the last metric. As we can see on the graph here…”
“Excuse me, but aren’t you just a shareholder?
” One of the men who was a shareholder himself lifted his arm.
His words didn’t sound like a vicious jab but polite confusion wasn’t much better.
Especially when the two men who seemed to have a problem with me immediately followed the line of questioning.
“Yeah, what credentials do you have to present this?” A balding man fumed. Ah. It had to be Johnson, the eternal pain in my brother’s ass.
“Funny. You didn’t pose this question to the man who presented before me,” I said, holding his gaze as he fumed.
“You aren’t answering because you don’t have any qualifications, do you?” A man who looked no older than me asked snidely. “Honestly, Mister Clement, giving your sister nearly half of the company as a handout and now making her present research that isn’t hers? This isn’t a good look.”
Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Will tensing, ready to intervene, and Matthias gritting his teeth as I quelled his urge to slug the man with a look. I could handle this myself. But before I could speak a laugh filled the room and I heard a quieter chuckle follow.
I transferred my gaze to the two men who I didn’t expect to backstab me. One of them was a long-time shareholder who I knew personally, Luis, and the other was someone who I met for the first time but who I had assumed to not be a dickhead from the way he looked interested when I started to speak.
“Is something funny?” l asked tersely.
“Hilarious, actually,” Luis said. “It shows who here had read the reports available to shareholders.” He turned to address the two dissidents.
“If you read the deep-dive statistics from two years ago you would know Miss Clement’s name.
She has coordinated many of the improvement efforts in this company and has worked with our Big Data department as an expert in the field. ”
“Well, I got shares just this year, so I couldn’t know that!” the young man protested stubbornly.
“You could,” the man who had chuckled rolled his eyes. “I’m a new shareholder too, but I did my research before I invested, Mister Boyle.”
“Ah, so it seems that the only person who got a handout from a rich family member without having qualifications is you,” I said sweetly to Boyle.
“You...!”
I clapped my hands together, gathering the attention back to me.
“As that’s settled let’s return to the matter at hand. The graph here shows...”
I continued my presentation without being disturbed.
They were all going to learn to take me seriously.
With how few shares were left to those outside of my family’s influence, we didn’t have to really listen to the rest of the shareholders and Will could force any resolution he wanted, but it was a good form to not alienate rich business people.
I already had allies and the others could be persuaded when they saw how well the company was prospecting and how much money we were making for them.
Between me and Will I was confident in the company’s future.
The way Matthias watched me hungrily as I took charge of the room was a nice bonus.
When the meeting was done I hurried Matthias outside.
“I want your cock between my lips,” I get on tiptoes to whisper the dirty words into his ear. “Come on.”
I took his big hand in my small one and pulled him toward the closest bathroom.
When I pushed him into a stall Matthias swore and quickly pulled his business jacket off, dropping it to the floor while he took a seat on the closed toilet.
My knees were thankful for his forward thinking as I sank down between his legs.
“Talk to me,” I demanded as I opened his trousers and pulled his rising cock out.
He wasn’t fully hard yet but I knew he was going to get there. I paid close attention to all the vampires getting the sustenance they needed for optimal functioning and I was sure we could do this without opening the fine wine that was my lifeblood.
“Ah, Victoria. You are a sight. A dream come true. Mmm, yes, sweetheart, lick like that. It was, ah, hard to control myself there, when all those idiots tried to stand in your way.”
I pulled my lips off his cock with a wet pop.
“Are you disappointed you didn’t need to show off your strength?” I asked, looking up at him.
“No. Watching you put those men in their place was much hotter,” Matthias grinned. “Though watching you punch someone in the dick could be even better. A man can dream.”
“No, thank you, that could destroy my nails,” I snorted. “You know, girlbossing is awesome but also tiring. Now, I just want to relax. Make me forget anything besides you exists.”
“You want to live for my cock?” Matthias growled. “Open up then.”
My spit-slicked lips fell open. The vampire fed me his thick cock until I was straining to take it all. It got even wider in the middle and I always had trouble making myself open enough to get past that point. But Matthias massaged my jaw with his thumb, coaxing me to accept more of him.
“That’s it. Look at you, working so hard to take me down. Nnn, fuck, your lips are positively sinful. Now, I’m going to push and you are going to take me all the way down.”
I moaned around his cock in approval then had to master myself when he rocked back and forward, getting past the thickest point.
Once the true girth was behind my teeth the rest slid into my mouth easily.
A bit too easily, as the thrust pressed straight into my throat.
My gag reflex threatened to undo me but I pushed it down, my fingernails biting into my hand as I tried to concentrate on a different sensation.
“None of that,” Matthias said as he pulled back, leaving only the head lying on my tongue. “No hurting yourself, precious.”
Ah, my fingernail bit too hard into my skin and it left a scratch on my skin. Conceding his point I transferred my hands to his thighs. I could dig in with my fingers all I wanted there and Matthias only gave me a moan of appreciation at the tiny pinpricks of pain.
Then he truly started to fuck my mouth. Just like I wanted the world fell away and all the troubles with it.
I only had to be warmth and suction. Wetness and uncontrolled noises.
I had a thought that if anyone entered the toilet now I was too far gone to stop.
Nothing was going to come between me and the satisfaction of wringing every drop of cum out of Matthia’s huge dick.
“God, Vic, Vic, fuck, I’m so close, ah—!" I dug my fingers into his thighs when he tried to pull back and he spilled straight down my throat. So deep I didn’t even taste the saltiness of his spend. But I knew it was in me and it was all I wanted. All I needed.
I pulled off his cock with a satisfied rumble and laid my head on his knee.
“Do you want your turn now, baby?” Matthias asked with a languid smile of a well-satisfied man.
“No, thank you. Don’t worry about me, I have plans for later.”
“Do those plans have something do to with the new earrings?” Matthias thumbed the tiny rubies decorating my ears. “You keep touching them.”