The Business Proposal (A Love Story)

1. The Dream

He kissed her lips softly, and slightly pushed down on her hips. He whispered in her ear, "you can't resist me". She breathed out a light moan and kissed him back. How could he do this to her, and make her feel this way? No one has ever been able to do this to her before, she thought. He slid his hand up and down her thigh, and she quivered beneath him.  He slowly slid his hand back up to her panties, and tugged them down,  and pulled her into him roughly, "you're mine baby" he said with a smirk.
"BEEP, BEEP, BEEP, BEEP". Katherine awoke to the sounds of her alarms going off for work. She sighed, and pulled her blanket over her face to block the sun, "ugh, work". She slips out of bed, walks to the bathroom and splashes water in her face. "Who is this man that keeps appearing in my dreams, I have to know him.", she whispers to herself in the mirror. She showers, and finds an outfit for work and heads out. She knows she has to beat the traffic if she's going to make it to work on time and have time for her morning stop for coffee at the little cafe next door to her work.
   She walks into her favorite cafe, "Good morning Katherine, the usual today?", her best friend pipes from behind the counter, all cheery and full of smiles as usual.  "Yes please, Susan. Thanks." Katherine replies. "You're just as peachy as always this morning!" Susan responds with a chuckle, "well what don't I have to be happy about? It's a beautiful day!" "I suppose it is." Replies Katherine softly. "What the matter with you Ms. Grumpy pants?" Says Susan. "Oh, just can't get this guy in my dreams out of my mind."
   Katherine leaves, and gets to work, head still spinning, confused about who the man in her dreams was. She's seen him somewhere, but where? She doesn't understand how a man she's never even met can make her feel that way, she has to find him, but how? "Katherine?" She jumps, startled. "Oh, I'm sorry. What were you saying?". "I was just going over this weeks reports, but I see that you're rather busy, maybe I should come back." Says her assistant, Michael. "Oh, no, no, no. I'm sorry, I've been rather preoccupied, how are our sales going this week?".  She replies back, rubbing her eyes, to wake herself more from the daydream she had just been having. "Well Ms. They're not that great. Sales have came down 35% this week. 10 more precent than last week." Says Michael, with a worried look. "We can get them back up, we just have to break into the emergency money to make sure we stay up to date on product." She piped back. "But Katherine, we already broke into that last month. Sales are continuing to drop, we need a new plan, or this business is going down. We need to think of something fast, or this company is never going to make it. It would take a miracle right now to get everything back up to normal again." Says Michael. Katherine falls back in her chair, and rubs her temples. She knew the business was falling, but she didn't catch on to just how bad it really was. She's been to busy, day dreaming about a man she's never met, and now her company is falling apart in her hands. What was she supposed to do? "Okay, thank you Michael. I will go over everything and see what I can do." She drinks the last bit of her coffee, and starts going over the last few months worth of paperwork, trying to find where things are going wrong, and what she could do to fix this.
    Just as she was reading over the last document from the last month, her office telephone rings. "Hello, Ms. Katherine. There's a man, named Cole Worthy to see you. Should I send him in?" Michael says. Who is Cole Worthy? I've never heard of a Cole Worthy before. "Uh yeah, sure Michael, send him in. Thank you." She replies.
     She's putting her documents away, as a knock on the door sounds. "Come in!" She says. The door opens, and she let out a gasp. Oh, no. This is the man she keeps seeing in her dreams. "Hold it together Katherine, hold it together." She thinks to herself. "I'm Cole Worthy, I have a business proposal for you." He says to her with a smirk.