I tried to speak but no words would come. I just stood there dumbfounded as she stroked my thick cock.
“Mmmm,” she purred. “I wonder if this tastes as good as it feels?” Then as quickly as it had started, “Damn, I guess I’ll have to find out some other time,” she said, removing her hand from my pants and putting some distance between us. I heard footsteps making their way toward the door.
“What have we here, you two?” Kai, Thiago and Ryan sauntered into the conference room.Damn their timing.“I know we all just survived a brush with death but you two seemed to have just experienced something else,” Thiago said with a sly grin.
How could he know?I felt myself instantly blush and Tinsley, suddenly composed and professional again, said, “Just seeing some Falconi style skills in action. Michael here just saved my life, didn’t you Michael?”
Normally a bit more reserved, I quickly took the excuse from Tinsley to share my heroism while she explained and directed the boys on how to fill out their own non-disclosure agreements. “Tinsley just got a little nervous about the quake is all. I had to scoop her up and take her to the doorway. Can’t go having our PR princess getting hurt now, can we? Who would put Lee in his place?”
“Here I thought you were blushing, and it turns out you were just worn out from over-exertion,” teased Kai.
“Yeah Michael, maybe you need to stop resisting that free gym membership the studio provides and get some more cardio time in so you won’t get so red and overrated the next time you have to save a woman’s life.” Thiago teased. Kai laughed it up beside him, but Ryan remained quiet and somewhat sullen.
“What’s going on man?” I asked Ryan quietly. “Everything okay?” Ryan stared daggers at me.
“Sure, sure,” he said, suddenly shaking off his angry demeanour. “Just thinking of that meeting we have with the directors and writers after this. I’m sure they are figuring out a way to kill me and bring me back again like they did in the first and second film. I know the audience loved it, but I think that storyline is being overused,” he said annoyed.
“Oh, here they are now. We won’t have to wait much longer,” said Thiago as Lee, the assistant director and two of the head writers poured into the conference room. “Now dear team, how are you going to torture and kill our precious Ryan next?”
“But most importantly,” said Kai. “How are you going to bring him back? Because you’ve already used up all the good ways. Soon the audience is going to get bored and suspicious that you are simply using a formula to write these movies.”
“Why don’t we all have a seat?” said Adam, the head writer. “Then we can talk more in depth about the scripting and answer any questions.”
As the team settled in around the conference table, Lee’s gruff voice broke through, “What the hell Adam? Just be out with it. No pussyfootin around. We’re all professionals here.”. Several snickers were heard across the room and Lee looked pissed.
Adam looked stressed but conceded as he glanced over at Ryan, “I know you and the team have been wondering about your character’s fate in part three. I’m sorry Ryan, this time you aren’t coming back. This time when your character wraps, it’s over.”
3
RYAN
What a punch in the gut. First, that bullshit with Tinsley and Michael. I knew sex when I saw it and when we all walked in it looked like Tinsley and Michael had just finished up a quickie, not survived an earthquake. And now this, to hear that Dr. Harris Rutledgewas about to be killed off. For what?
“Oh man, that sucks. I am so sorry,” said Kai. “But hey, at least now you can go back to kissing all those pretty leading ladies in rom-coms.”
I could tell Kai regretted it the moment he said it. I loved Kai but he had the emotional intelligence of a hamster. Even so the anger, even if it were misplaced, erupted inside of me before I could stop it.
“What the fuck man? Is that supposed to make me feel better? Would it help you? This is going to ruin my career. The leading man doesn’t get killed off. What are people gonna think? I’ll tell you, people are gonna think I did something crazy. They’ll think I sexually harrassed someone or that I’m going to rehab. I’ll be lucky if I ever work again let alone get cast in a damn rom-com,” I said angrily.
“Good, that’ll get the press off my ass for a change,” laughed Lee. Several people around the room glared at him.
I hated losing my cool in front of people. My job was supposed to be to entertain, not start drama. I wanted to tell Lee and Kai off. Truth be told, I wanted to kick their asses, but instead I walked out before I could say or do something I might regret.
As calmly as I could muster, I stood up, tucked in my chair and headed to the elevator. I knew where to go. Maybe the fake autumn day in the Mainstreet, USA set outside the office would soothe my soul.
As I made my way onto the studio’s walkway footsteps shuffled behind me.What the fuck now?
“Kai, I’m sorry man, but that wasn't’ the nicest thing you’ve said to me, you know?” I said without even bothering to turn around.
“I know I have a strong presence, but do you really think I sound like Kai walking up behind you? I am a lady, you know.” I turned to see the last person I’d have ever expected would be there to comfort me, Tinsley Cole.
Trying to catch up with me had rattled her just a bit. Her long, shocking red hair had fallen from the prim, and proper style she’d had earlier, her face was slightly flushed. Her silk blouse clung to her chest, and I could just make out the outline of her perfect nipples trying everything they could to escape from the confines of her bra. I remembered every inch of her body and those nipples were one of my favorite parts of her anatomy.
“Oh Tinsley. I guess I owe you an apology too. I’m sorry for losing my cool back there, it just took me by surprise is all.”
“Ryan, that is the last thing on earth you owe me an apology for,” she said softly. She was trying to be comforting but I saw pain in her eyes. Pain that I knew I was responsible for despite the years.
“And that means, what I already knew. That there is something on earth I do owe you an apology for. I’m sorry Tins, I was a dick back in college. I should have called you after. I just didn’t know what to do with my emotions back then.”