This Kiss

Chapter 84

Chapter 84

 It was two days after Christmas and four days before the wedding. Olivia sat in her office chewing on the end of her pen. She had been trying to write her vows for weeks. She knew what she wanted to convey but couldn't get the words to come out right. Her nerves were running rampant through her body. She wasn't nervous about marrying Natalia, that was the one thing she was certain of, she wanted to spend the rest of her life with that woman. No, she was nervous about making a fool out of herself at the ceremony. For the first time she was marrying for the right reasons and she wanted it to be perfect. Not her fumbling for her words like an idiot.

For what felt like the hundredth time that morning, she crumpled up the piece of paper she'd been writing on and tossed it into the trash can muttering curse words under her breath. As Olivia huffed out a breath, Natalia came waltzing into her office.

"Something bothering you Ms. Spencer?" She asked with amusement.

"Nothing at all. What can I do for you Ms. Rivera?" She questioned back, rising from her seat to meet Natalia in front of her desk for a quick kiss.

"Mmmhmm. I heard you mumbling in here. What's wrong honey?"

"Nothing, really. Now, what is it that my lovely bride to be needs from me?"

"Fine, I'll let it go, for now. I need you to review the new employee expectations for the Chicago staff before I email them out and start setting up interviews with the members that would like to return to the hotel."

"Sweetheart, you don't need me to do that, I trust you and they are your employees too. If you think you got everything we wanted in there, then that's good enough for me."

"Olivia, I know you have all this faith in me, and I appreciate it, but I'm not there yet, I would prefer you take a look before I send it out. Please."

"Okay, if it will make you feel better I will review it."

"Thank you. Now, I also need you to sign the payroll and we have a meeting in twenty minutes."

"Okie dokie then." Oliva took the two files from Natalia's hand and set them on her desk. "How about we set these here, and I will look over both after our meeting and for the next twenty minutes...." She took Natalia's hand and led her to the couch, sitting down and pulling Natalia into her lap. "We can pretend that we don't have a hotel to run and make out like horny teenagers." She said, wiggling her eyebrows.

Natalia laughed and playfully slapped Olivia's arm. "You are a horny teenager, but I love you anyway." She leaned forward and placed a sweet kiss to Olivia's lips. Olivia quickly wrapped her arms tighter around the woman on her lap and deepened the kiss. The two were soon lost in each other, kissing with fever. That is until two voices sounded from the doorway.

"Ewe." Rafe and Ava said in unison.

"Do you two ever stop?" Rafe asked, not really caring just loving to give his mother's a hard time.

"Did you two forget we have a meeting?" Ava questioned, pretending to be appalled by their behavior.

"No, we don't stop and no we didn't forget the meeting. Did you two forget that we are the owners of this fine establishment and can be late if we so choose. And knocking is a thing you know." Olivia countered with a smirk.

"Yeah, and if the door was shut we would have. Anyways, here's the notes Rafe and I put together for today, would you like to look over them before we go?" Ava asked.

"Nope, this is all you and your assistant. Natalia and I are just going to sit back and watch."

"Mom, I'm not her assistant yet, maybe you or Ma should be next to Ava." Rafe said. It was his first meeting with the staff and he was nervous. He was still training with Natalia and didn't feel ready to stand with Ava and address the employees.