Chapter 13: A Little Tease

Zie

"Sir, Ms. Anna Bud said she will not renew her contract, all our bestseller writers decided not to renew their contract so that means we can no longer reprint our best selling novels since we don't own the copyright of their books. What are we going to do sir? We have contacted freelance writers but most of their stories are still unfinished. Most of our author moved to another publishing company." I froze for a moment upon hearing what Liza—my secretary, told me. I let out a long sigh of despair. I couldn't help but be anxious about my company's state, I'm at a point where I no longer knew what to do. Those motherfucker writers didn't even know how to be grateful if it were not for my company they wouldn't be able to publish their novels and they wouldn't be a best-selling author. I even gave them too many opportunities by not claiming the copyrights of their books and an increase of royalties every time their books make it to the list of monthly best selling books on any national bookstores, and this is what they repay me for treating them nicely?

"Can you get me a background check about Del Marco Publishing? What they are offering to their writers, why does everyone seems so eager to publish their stories to that motherfucker company." I ordered Liza as my face contorts upon the mention of my rival publishing company.

"Right away, sir." She instantly replied and bid goodbye before leaving the office.

As I heard the door closing, I turned my swivel chair around and stare at the buildings outside the glass window of my office. At first, I don't have problems when some of my authors venture to another publishing company because I believe it's always their choice on where they want to publish their works, but now that almost all of them have moved to another company then it's a problem anymore, it leaves my company vulnerable and if I don't think of a solution quickly, I might lose my company and there's no way I'm going to let it happen.

I don't know if it's a good idea to publish a novel of an amateur writer right now because it will take a lot of time and promotion before their names get recognized and I'm afraid that when the time they become famous, my company is in the state of bankruptcy already. I spent my whole day inside my office trying to figure out my way out of this mess and how to regain the status of my company as the number one leading publishing company in the Philippines.

When the clock strike at five in the afternoon I decided to go back to my penthouse. Somehow I was relieved when I saw Ashton lying on the couch with a book on his chest as I entered the penthouse.

"Hey, Zie." Ash greeted me with a smile as he draws close to me. Even though I was so stressed out in the office it all seemed to disappear when I saw Ashton's angelic face.

"Hey, baby," I responded to Ash and hugged him tightly. We went to the bedroom and when I saw the bed I immediately threw my body on it.

"You look tired eh?" Ashton commented when he notices my shallow rapid breathing.

"A little bit," I replied to him, Ashton lay down next to me. I reached his body and pulled him towards me, he hurriedly huddles to my chest and a weak laugh escaped my lips when I hear him sniff my scent. I love this feeling, the feeling of fulfillment when you have someone to cuddle when you get home. I've been longing for this feeling for quite a long time now.

"Hey, I've been reading Dollar Sign by Giza Clay a while ago, I was wondering when you will publish the sequel?" Ashton suddenly asked, I just smirk at him not knowing how to answer his question.

"I'm afraid you won't read the sequel anymore," I replied on a serious tone which I think took him by surprise.

"But why? It was a good read. I love the story but it was an open ending." Ashton complains but I just raised a brow at him. I know, I also read the book and even though I'm ecstatic to read the next installment I can do nothing but wait for Giza to finish writing the sequel, that is if he still wants the sequel to be published on my company.

"Do you still remember when I told you that I'm slowly losing my company?" I replied sadly and gulped upon imagining my life without the company I build out of passion and sweat. I will never let my hardship go to waste.

"Our writers have already moved to another publishing company, and publishing company without its writers would only mean bankruptcy." I sadly added.

"Why would they do that?" He asked confused as his brows furrowed.

"I don't know," I replied shrugging my shoulder.

"Then why don't you start again? Find other writers, many of them are willing to publish their works. It's never too late Zie." Ashton suggested but I just shook my head.

"It's not that easy, baby," I replied with a frown. I just want to cuddle close to him right now and temporarily forget the problem I'm facing.

"There's no easy way Zie, you should start again, make a lesson from what happened to you today. You know small progress is still progress." Ash said and I couldn't help but smile at what he said as if he genuinely cares about the state of my company.

"Now, I am wondering which of the two of us is 17 years old," I replied laughing, but seriously, he gives me advice like he knows the problem my company is facing right now and it's not hard to admit that I learned something from what he said. To start again, it may not be too late to start again. Maybe I should consider his advice, I think I need to gamble and risk everything now. What if I lost? At least I tried.

"Thanks for the words of wisdom baby, but for now get ready because we are going to Rex's house," I told Ash and I swear I want to kiss him when his eyes twinkle and his lips curve with a sweet smile, he must be so excited to meet his twin brother.

He got up from the bed and ran towards the bathroom, I think to take a bath. I also get up from the bed and took off my corporate suit until my black Calvin Klein brief was all that was left. I followed Ashton to the bathroom to join him. When I enter the bathroom, suddenly I feel so hot and swallow my saliva when I saw his naked back. My dick is slowly getting hard inside my brief as I stared at his marvelous butt cheeks, I think it's so soft that I want to draw near to him and grab his butt to my content.

Ashton seems surprised at my presence when he turned his back and face me, his eyes twinkle upon seeing my dick struggling to get out of my brief, I just smirk at him and without hesitation, I took off my brief giving him a nice view of my frontal nude. My smirk grows wider when I heard him gulped.

"D-do you w-want me to soap your body?" Ashton suggested looking at me embarrassingly. I stared at his lips as I slowly walked towards him.

"Yeah, sure thing baby," I whispered seductively to his ear and rubbed his butt cheeks. I laid Ash on the bathtub, the bubbles reached up to his neck and only his head was visible. I followed Ash inside the bathtub and sunk in his opposite. We let our body sunk in the bathtub for almost five minutes when suddenly Ashton got up and comes close to me. I utter a faint curse when he sits on my lap.

"Motherfucker!" I could not help but stiffen when I feel my shaft poking at his entrance. Ashton seems so embarrassed when he realized what he just did. I tried so hard to contain my erection but to no avail. When he feels uneasy about my shaft poking at his entrance he slowly moves but it doesn't help me with my problem, it only gets worse because it feels like he's rubbing his butt to my dick.

"You're a little tease baby," I whispered in his ear which made his cheeks turn red. Because of embarrassment, he tried to get up from sitting on my lap but I immediately wrapped my right hand around his waist. We spend almost an hour in the bathtub, Ashton soaping me while I'm dealing with my hard dick because God knows that I'm on the verge of bending his body against the edge of the bathtub and fuck him up to my content.