Paddling with ping-pong bats?Oh yes.
Streaking naked around campus after dark?Hell yeah!
As she thought about it, Stella realized that Logan was the only man who she had ever been able to truly relax with when it came to sex.
It wasn’t as if Stella hadn’t dated some decent guys, she definitely had. Most of the men who Stella had been with were good guys who were honest and kind. But none of them brought about the kinky side of her desire like Logan did.
And, most importantly, none of them had that truly irresistible masculinity that a Daddy like Logan possessed.
Maybe that’s why I’ve never truly gotten over him?
SIGH. Logan makes me so mad.
Why can’t Logan just be the Daddy I need him to be?
What Stella really wanted was a man like Logan in every way… except for the clear and time-tested inability to grow up and commit.
Stella wondered whether there were enough days in a year to ever change Logan or whether he would always be the same loveable, unreliable, charismatic but totally wild guy he always had been.
But the more Stella thought of Logan, the less time she spent focusing on her presentation. Stella was due to present some new leads and ideas she’d been developing recently, and even though she had done the research to a good standard Stella didn’t feel entirely comfortable with how the presentation was shaping up.
It was time to do some serious work.
This presentation needed to go well.
‘Okay, so, that’s me done,’ Stella said, her voice wrought with uncertainty. ‘Any questions?’
Stella looked across the room toward the four senior directors, each one with a facial expression that was either bored, non-plussed, or just blatantly unimpressed.
To say the presentation hadn’t gone as well as she’d hoped would be a titanic underestimation on Stella’s part.
After getting off to a decent start, Stella became conscious of the fact that Lauren Treen seemed to be doing just about everything she possibly could to throw Stella off her rhythm.
There was no way of proving it, but the sight and sound of Lauren relentlessly fidgeting and coughing had really gotten into Stella’s head and did seem like a deliberate ploy on Lauren’s part.
But Stella felt that if she brought this up in front of the directors, she would get accused of blaming her own failings on others.
With a disconsolate feeling, Stella took her seat and watched as Lauren got up to deliver her presentation. Lauren’s presentation was nowhere near the same level of innovation and forward thinking as Stella’s had been, but the big difference was that Lauren delivered her words with flair and panache.
Stella could tell that Lauren was loving every minute of it, and it appeared that the senior directors were too…
Bleurgh. This sucks.
Lauren is a stinky douchebag.
But it doesn’t matter what I think, it’s the senior directors who count…
Lauren eventually wrapped up her presentation and the general vibe in the room was that she had done a good job. Certainly, Stella felt that her efforts had not been taken on board as positively as Lauren’s.
‘I think you have some decent ideas,’ Lauren said, leaning over and whispering in Stella’s ear. ‘But… maybe you’re not quite ready to step up yet.’
Stella blushed with anger.
But not wanting to fall into Lauren’s trap and start a scene, Stella simply got up from her chair and walked back to her office. It was time to pack up her stuff and take an early exit from work.
Stella was getting more and more suspicious about Lauren’s motives.
They’d never been friends, going back to when Lauren arrived at EcoPlay a couple of months after Stella. But this went beyond a normal level of competition that you could expect to exist between coworkers with similarly keen ambitions.
