The only thing that he could think when he looked at her, was that he was screwed.

It all started when he was sitting in an office chair long awaiting to meet his business rival,
the famous Mr. Jones , he couldn't wait to see the man that he had been fighting in the industry for a better part of 2 years. His business and Mr.Jones area was working in the hotel industry and all of America was split in half between the Brian hotels and Jones hotels. Now America was waiting for the long awaited collaboration and joining of the two.  (Authors note: Why would any one even care? Ignore my obvious plot holes😭)
   He sat silently in his seat waiting for the man to walk in.

Will he be surprised? I bet he will, SHE thought while grinning.

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In walked the most beautiful women he'd ever seen. He knew his jaw was hanging but he didn't care, he just let himself drink her in. She stood in front of him with
long luxurious black hair hanging down her back, green eyes like a cats that flashed at him,
cute nose, the most amazing pink, plump, kissable lips that were open in a devious grin as he examined her, he
couldn't even begin with the body, tall like a model without missing any of the curves, and the
suit shirt was open to reveal a tantalizing peak of the swell of her breasts. His favorite part, was her eatable chocolate skin

"Excuse me who are you?" He said, voice rough with apparent arousel.
He was caught so of guard that he let himself act like a testosterone ridden teenager.

He could tell from the very bored look she was giving him, that men looking at her like he did were very normal. She perused him with no Interest what-so ever and replied "I'm Natalie, I'm here for our business transaction?"

He got lost in thought for a moment. He could guess why she never gave her first name to social
media. Even if the sexism had laid of for a few centuries anyone with a brain could tell that it was not gone at
all, he winced as he thought about how his sister would probably slap him silly if she found out that he had assumed something as important as this, far to quickly. He could also guess that looking like her gave her a disadvantage when it came to business, but he knew that if she wanted to she could control a man or a woman with just a single look. He knew he needed her to know that she didn't affect him. Dammit! It was so hard being a warm blooded male sometimes.

So he replied with, "what way shall we go about the mergence?" Hoping to distract her from the fact that he'd been gaping.

Natalie looked at home carefully.She could respect that he wanted to get back into the businesses they had even though a part of her was dying to tease him until he was at the breaking point. She ran through the carefully arranged list of mergence tactics now that her gender was revealed, and could only thing of one. " Fake relationship." Natalie suggested boldly as he was drinking water.

He sputtered and almost choked on the water,on freaking water! He sat the glass of water down and looked at her. Her eyes were flashing and twinkling with laughter. The minx, he thought, she did it on purpose. He calmly composed himself, and asked rather cautiously, "why do you suggest that, Ms. Jones?" Even though he fully knew.

He could see that she was having a hard time not bursting into laughter.  Even though he tried to compose himself he could tell that she could still still see the alarm and fear in his eyes. "Calm down Mr.Brian", she said with amusement, " I'm not asking you to be in a relationship,I'm just saying to keep up appearances for the mutual benefit of both our company's."

He almost sighed with relief and asked "what does the fake marriage entail?"
He was acting like a stupid idiot. Where had his charm and relaxation gone? Damn. The women had caught him at a bad time.

She though for a moment and said "We have to make sure our closest advisers know about it and make sure every performance of this 'fake marriage' is flawless. You can also guess that we have to go out the first few times to make it not look suspicious."

"Can we go about our normal businesses and uh...see other people?" He asked hesitantly. He didn't know why but he didn't want to get personal with this fox. She was to beautiful and carried secrets and allure like a second skin. He didn't need that after he got out so early.

Natalie rolled her eyes "Of course Mr.Brian I'm not suggesting you go celibate the whole time. I don't want to be celibate either you know."

He gave her another once over. So she has a healthy sex life? Huh...Well that was hmm. "No need to mock Ms.Jones I know we will have to be careful with this relationship."

She nodded and said " I already have your phone number through your company and I'll
contact you when I have the time and place for us to talk."

There was no room for hesitation in the woman's voice. She was one who knew how to take charge. He nodded his agreement and she stood
up and turned her back to him, giving him a delicious view of her backside.

Before she walked out she turned back again and said "I hope we can be friends Mr.Brian." Warmly.

I hope we can too Natalie but mark my words I don't want to be caught up in the shit I know you have going on.

Hopefully my now soft self can handle you with kindness you seem to deserve.
How hard could it be?

Famous last words.

A long while later...

Natalie's POV

I walked into my house tired from the endless amount of paperwork I had to fill out. I heard the bling of a sent text from my phone. It was from
My best friend Mel which was short for Melody. (Authors note: if you ever decide to read my book Mel... I love you!❤️ )

From Mel: so how was the meeting with the sexy boss? I just searched him up and saw his business pic but you never know if that was fake he could be butt ugly IRL.
So what does he like in real
life?

To Mel :  the marriage proposal went well with him. He looks like
A man.

I waited for a minute and waited for the tattletale ding, I grinned like crazy when I heard it.

Even though I hadn't answered her directly I knew she would get what she wanted out of me in no time.

Mr.Brian was a very attractive man. Their was no hiding it, just the truth.
He had gold blond hair that cast different hues of the color to cast about in the sunny room they'd been in.
He had the most amazing jawline that looked like it could cut glass with blond hair peppering his 1 Aclock shadow that if even possible made him even sexier. The deal breaker for me though was his eyes. Those dark deep cerulean pool that you would call eyes. The sun had been playing tricks and making them sparkle the whole time they were talking. She had been trying to take her attention of off him and by staring at his long tanned fingers. It didn't really help. What also didn't help was his long broad chest and very muscular arms and shoulders which seemed to indicate long hours at the gym and some sort of training. Hmm.

Le sigh. All that attractiveness wasted on her.
If he knew what was best for him he would stay away from the danger that she always had swirling close to her. To her though, it seemed he was a danger all by himself.

From Mel: WAIT WHAT!! YOU PROPOSED TO HIM!!!!!!!😱😯😲😮

I didn't tell Mel what way I was going to go about the merger after my gender was revealed so it was natural for her to freak out.

To Mel: calm down it was just a tactic for the merger. It was the best option since my gender was revealed to him.

From Mel: So was he hot?

Oh Mel ,I  thought shaking my head, Mel enjoyed the opposite sex very much and she could get a little overboard even if she did have a husband.  I chuckled. Mel had this flirtatious light about her that her husband had long since already accepted was a part of her even if he did get irrationally jealous sometimes.
I don't even know why Mel decided to flirt with men. Her husband was a looker.

We met about 5 years ago in business school and we were, forgive my language, learning to be boss ass bitches. Mel has her own chain of shopping stores and understands how business goes, so she doesn't ask for specifications or questions, today was the exception. That's what I love about her.

To Mel:Is that all you ever think about?

From Mel: You know for fact it's in my top 5.
I smile.

To Mel:I'll talk to to you in person tomorrow and give you all the details Kay?

From Mel: alright see you tomorrow.

I put my phone down and dragged a hand down my face. That was a long fucking day. I  dragged myself to bed and immediately fell asleep. My only thought was, I wonder what's going to happen tomorrow?