Chapter Eight

I drowned in a pool of images. I saw the woman , she was blonde and tall but I couldn't remember her name. Snippets of conversation came back to me. She told me she owned a bakery,and that she hated it. Little details were not a problem but there was no chronological order of how things went on last night. There were pieces missing in my head .

"Oh no" I opened my eyes as I sat up in the bed. I couldn't believe it, I didn't drink a single drop of alcohol last night. I would have remembered that , but I felt like I had blacked out . Was something wrong with me? Should I have gotten a check up? The only explanation I could think of was that I was so tired that I was nodding off , but she didn't notice,did she? Maybe she did and didn't say anything or Maybe she did and didn't remember. I could still smell her perfume ,like sandlewood and vanilla. She was in my room ,that much I know , but we didn't have sex. My pants were still on , she maybe left when I dozed off . I tried to remember her name when I was making my bed . She told me . I'm sure she did but I might have spaced out . I stood up to inspect my bed it was perfect.when I turned around I saw a neatly folded piece of paper sitting on my desk . It had her number written on it and her name Maya. I held it Up staring at her bubbly handwriting. I wanted to call her but i didn't. I figured that a woman who worked as hard as she would probably stick around and play wifey to me . I knew I had to forget about her but I couldn't bring myself to get rid of her number. I saved it on my phone as I started getting ready . Mona had texted me last night .

I tried so hard putting back the pieces back together focusing as hard as I could on what happened but what I could get was a blank space and a vague notion that I made an ass out of myself. Images did come but they weren't that clear , I saw lights moving over a dark mar. A strange man with thick glasses. No I remember,he was trying to talk to Maya but she didn't want to and her friend was ready to attack him . I had a pretty good idea of what happened last night I just didn't like not knowing what happened entirely. I am used to being in control of everything.

The calls started early. The Navy was testing the Hawkeye and the higher-ups had millions of questions about the device. The office workers were just as bad . There were some board members coming in that afternoon and they were all running around trying to make everything look perfect.Now that I had finally gotten some sleep I had time to make up for the lost time I had in the office. I worked as fast as I could, sending messages after messages making phones calls after phonecalls ,drafting as many emails as I could.There was no time to waste. When I got into the office things were in a better order . Several people were waiting to talk to me in the hallways outside my office . I listened to each one of them ,gave them the best advice I could and moved on . people were mostly concerned if whether or not they were going in the right direction. That was important an important thing at the firm . We had to push new technology as fast as we could and as consistently as we could which meant that we had to work towards attainable goals that would lead to getting results . It wasn't easy. Most of the time we had to wark on improving existing technology instead of creating something new .

Angela was sitting at the reception area when I got in . She was on the phone with someone , she waved at me as she motioned me to go to where she was."just a second" she said as she put the phone on mute." That guy from the testing department has been looking for you."

"Did he say why"

" Something about Hawkeye he didn't want to tell me ."

"Oh,okay " I grabbed the coffee she had set out for me and carried my things to the office. So far all I knew was , the Hawkeye was working as well as it was supposed to ,there were no signs of glitches and if they were Moses would have caught them by now . I'd never admit to him but he was my best mechanic .

I went through my messages,called whoever I could and went into the stack of forms . I wanted to get as much done as I possibly could before I got to the warehouse and I was making good headway before I heard a knock on my door

"Come in"

Angela walked through the door and walked in ."The guy from the testing department is here to see you "

"Tell him to come in"

Moses looked like hell. His eyes were red and baggy with half moon circles on his cheeks and eyes so red he looked like he'd been smoking weed for a month straight. He slumped down from the chair across from me.

"How's you head ?" I asked

"Like something is piercing through my skull. He lifted his had to block the light coming from the window behind me .

"Tell me, I leaned back casually" how could someone as stupid as you go through the navy?"

"I was going to say the same thing about you ."

"Did you do it?"

"Do what ? " Oh come one that girl was fine as fuck and she was allover you."

"Nah, I got too drunk and had to call a cab ,she left right after "

"What about you? I saw the way that girl was looking at you .she wanted you bad."

"She did" I reaffirmed.

"So?"

I sighed"I don't think we did anything"

"What do you mean , you don't think ,you either did it or you didn't do it ."

" I don't remember,I think I passed out before we could."

"Dude.."

"You don't remember how I was . I don't evening remember everything that happened:It was so hazy."

" That sucks, maybe we should try again .

" Nah it's not worth it ." He said

" You like her?"he asked

"I don't know. She didn't seem to mind that I passed out. Infact she left her number on my nightstand."

"Call her." He met with my eyes ." I don't care what you are worried about . If you like this girl, if you want this girl and she wants you too . I don't know what else you are waiting for?"

"A chance?"

"Whatever" Moses wiped a bead of sweat from his forehead." Look I've got some ideas on the Hawkeye I was hoping I could run them by you ."

" Okay"

" We've got every sensor we want and we are constantly expanding on them and building more , but each one is it's separate unit. Which raises the cost and forces the Navy to pay more for our products . I was thinking that we could interrogate all the sensors into one unit. That way we can lower the cost and increase space and we can work on one sensor unit at a time and keep upgrading at regular intervals.

" You are a genius"

" So you are going to tell the board." I am going to work on it right away." The Maddy look in his eyes faded away for just a minute. Then a smile crossed his face as he looked at me . Then he went to the serious face again and said. "Call her, Archer"

"Okay,okay you've said your piece"

" Okay , let me get back to work."he got up and left.

I wanted to call Maya , I couldn't think of anything else.Moses was right. I wanted her and she wanted me .Maybe I could take the risk. I wanted us to be alone again together. Maybe it could work.
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I woke up witha smile imagining myself in the arms of that grizzly , as he moved through me, his lips pressing against my own, his hands going over my body , going to places they shouldn't be . I could still feel his touch where he clumped up my nipple and the way his tongue played overmine. It would have been incredible. I felt like I had been robbed . We should have had a night together. Just the two of us. Making love and cuddling. Instead I was lying in my own bed , in my own small apartment wondering how the night could have been like . The world seemed different I didn't feel the need to rush or worry. All I cared about was my phone. I set it down on the bathroom sink , while I showered just Incase he called .I wasn't sure whether he would call or not. A man like that had his pick with women .He didn't need me . He probably had a black book as thick as a dictionary with , but out of the women in the bar he chose me . I couldn't help but feel flattered by that . I checked my phone to make sure that the ringer was on, then started to get changed. There was alot of work today . I had no business pinning over some billionaire but everytime I closed my eyes I saw him staring at me with those fiery green orbs of his piercing through my clothes. I had to stop. The bakery was out of everything which meant I'll spend the whole day in the back baking while Laura helped with the customers.

It would be alone in the kitchen and I would be lonely with my thoughts haunting me asi would get distracted by the sultry images pounding through my head. If I wasn't careful I would burn something or put too much is something on the batter, and Id end up working almost the whole night rectifying my mistakes.