Risk Taker [Englot]

Epilogue

"Hello?"

"Hi, Engfa. It's P'Faye."

"Oh, hi. Why didn't you call on my cell phone?"

"I wanted to make sure you would pick up. I was scared you were going to ghost me if you saw my name on your screen. Am I right?"

Damn, that girl was good.

"Your silence speaks volumes. You know why I am calling. That's why I didn't want you to ghost me. You need to hear this." she said quite firmly.

I did know what she was going to say...

"I know you know already. My boss talked to yours. The job interview is on Thursday. Please come. I know you're going to do great!"

The truth was... I was scared. I knew P'Faye was going to call me... But Nawat had told me about the job only two days ago... I didn't say anything to Charlotte yet...

"Come on, say something!"

"I don't know, P'Faye..."

"Where is the risk?" she asked.

So I went to the interview... and I got the job... Since Boss Nawat and P'Faye recommended me, the board at BACC wanted me to start in 4 weeks... which felt like tomorrow. Everything was moving so fast all of the sudden. I needed to tell Charlotte, soon. I asked Nawat to hold on to the news until I could tell the team myself on Monday. Thankfully, he accepted. I left a note on Charlotte's desk saying that I was going to take her on a date on Sunday night.

C🐰 : I can't wait to go on a date with you <3
E🥭 : I love you
C🐰 : Aww, I love you too!

On Sunday afternoon, Apo came to my sister's apartment to take the kids. I was stressed out because The date with Charlotte was tonight... and I still didn't know what to wear or how I was going to tell her the truth.

"Are you ok?" Apo asked suddenly as I was finishing packing Sun's bag.

"Hmm yeah, yeah..."

"I'm sorry for the video thing..." he said quietly.

I turned to him, unsure I heard it right.

"What?"

"I'm sorry I reacted the way I did. I felt hurt and it made me go mad... I know it's not fair because I did the same to you."

"Ok..."

What was going on right now?

"Most of all, I shouldn't have told her husband about it..."

"Wow... Who are you again?" I asked, chuckling.

I was really surprised to hear him apologize like this.

"Don't mock me. I know I messed up. I shouldn't have tried to hurt you... nor her."

I nodded.

"Can I ask... Are you two still together?"

"Yes."

"Sun told me about Charlotte and her son. He seemed really happy." Apo said, looking at our oldest son, smiling.

"I like Miles and Charlotte!" Sun said, approving what his dad was saying.

They left a few minutes later. I was still kinda stunned. Did Apo just approve of my relationship with Charlotte? Not that I needed his approval in any way but... I never thought we were going to talk about it so soon, let alone that he would be the one to bring out the topic. Nonetheless, this made my heart a little bit less heavy.

An hour later, Charlotte and I arrived at a very fancy restaurant. It wasn't something I was used to doing... To be honest, I didn't know what got into me when I chose the place... But there we were... I was still very much stressed out. I was afraid that Charlotte would feel hurt because I was leaving the team... But I knew deep down that I needed to take on this new challenge life had offered to me. It would be better for our relationship too and... I was supposed to earn more money, so it would allow me to support her more and more in the future.

"So... What are we doing here?" Charlotte asked at some point during dinner.

"I wanted to do something nice for you."

"You know that you don't have to. Just being with you is enough for me."

I was stressed out and this made me blush. Charlotte had a way to get me weak with just a few simple words.

"I know but... I have something to tell you and..."

I couldn't talk properly when she was around... Come on, Engfa!

"I... I'm gonna leave MOCA." I said, my voice shaking.

Charlotte's face went from curiosity to really pale. She wasn't moving at all but I could see how fast her brain was going inside her head. I needed to get her to calm down before she would get too anxious. I reached out for her hand.

"Charlotte, baby, I'm not leaving you... I got a job offer at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre..."

"NO WAY!? For real?" she yelled, making a few heads turn towards us.

"My god, you went from shock to so much joy real quick, Char." I laughed slightly.

"Well, I'm freaking sad that you're going to leave the team but I'm so happy for you. This is such a good opportunity, working there is THE DREAM!"

The tiger-flies inside me purred and I felt my cheeks getting red. Her reaction wasn't what I had expected, it was even better. The way she looked at me made me think I had made the right choice. It was such a relief to have finally told her. Now, I needed to come clean.

"I have to confess something... I have been really struggling at work lately. I love you. But being your manager is really hard for me. I'm always on edge and I have trouble focusing on what I have to do... I'm always thinking about you, both afraid and hoping I would stumble on you somewhere in the museum. Both afraid and hoping you would go on your no brake mode and jump my bones right here and there... Or that I couldn't refrain myself from ravishing you..."

Charlotte didn't say a thing. She let me tell my truth, her eyes fixated on me. I could swear I saw her pupils dilating. I took a breath in and went on with my confession.

"I thought for a long time about asking you to go to HR with me and tell them about us. But I was afraid that you or I could have lost our jobs if they didn't support our relationship... Two weeks ago, right when I had decided to go to HR, ready to take the blame myself if they didn't support us, Nawat came to talk to me inside my office. He told me that BACC was looking to hire a team manager and he wanted to tell me about it before they would reach out to me..."

Charlotte was still listening to me, a smile on her lips, looking like she was proud of me. And that made me feel so damn good. And then, as I was still talking she looked at my lips, before biting hers. I decided to act like I didn't see her and kept on telling her about how Nawat had given me his blessing to go work for BACC. We chatted a bit about how the team, and particularly Heidi, would react to the news, when Charlotte suddenly said :

"I need one thing from you before you leave the team though..."

I knew what she was going to say... I had tried to tell Nawat to consider her to replace me as team manager but he already had people in mind...

"I swear I'll brief HR about manager profiles so they will find you someone even better than me!"

"No one would top you. Except me." she said, smirking at me, obviously making a pun.

"Char..." I said, blushing hard.

"I want to have sex with you inside the tiny archives room before you leave."

I almost choked. What the hell? I emptied my glass of water in mere seconds, trying to cool myself down. If I was blushing before, now I was burning. Could we do it at work? What if someone walked in on us? Charlotte was still going to work there after I left for BACC... But the way she was looking at me now was telling me that arguing about it wasn't an option. I was pretty sure that if I said no she would still find a way to take me there... I was starting to picture her, fucking me against the shelf...

"Ladies, could I interest you in some desserts tonight?" the waiter asked, waking me from my thoughts.

"No, thank you, I'll eat dessert at home." Charlotte replied without even looking at him, her eyes still on me, like she was going to ravish me on the spot.

She got up, pulling me by the hand and I followed her without protesting...

Two weeks later, Charlotte's lips were sucking on my neck. My back was pressed against the shelf inside the dim lit archives room. Her hands had found their way inside my blouse, her fingers brushing my nipples, making them harden under her touch. I knew it was coming. We didn't see each other for a week. I spent mine with Sun and Champ and she was with Miles. She knew I had missed her like crazy... And she had been teasing me since morning... Coming into my office to ask how I wanted her to make me come later... Making her pen fall on the ground and give me a show as she bent down slowly to pick it up... Texting me the most daring stuff and sending me sexy pictures each time she took a toilet break... She kept me on edge for hours, forcing me to cave and follow her to the archives room at the end of the day.

"I wanted to do this for so long..." she whispered as she unbuttoned my pants.

"Char..." I couldn't even speak, too focused on her fingers slipping under the waistband of my panties.

"Fuck, you're so wet..." she breathed out as she reached in between my legs.

"You've been teasing me all day long..." I pouted, pulling her into a kiss.

She moaned against my lips, responding to my need by kissing me back harder.

"I guess... my plan... worked..." she admitted in between kisses, her fingers still teasing me.

"Please..."

She took a step back, looking at me with hungry eyes, her head slightly tilted to the side, a smirk spreading on her face.

"Oh... begging already?" she whispered, caressing my cheek.

"I need you..." I replied, pushing my core against her fingers, searching for more friction.

"I love when you are like this..." she teased again, drawing slow circles around my clit.

"Fuck..."

She took her hand back out and I feared that she would leave me like that. Thankfully, she pulled my pants and my panties down my legs in one go, getting on her knees.

"Do you remember when I kneeled before you in the shower back in New York?" she asked, looking up.

I bit my lower lip and nodded. I remembered all too well. I still had vivid daydreaming about this moment. Charlotte raked her nails up my legs, making me shiver. I realized that I was literally half naked in front of her... at work...

"I was so scared back then... I wanted you so bad... but I had never done it before... If I remember correctly I kissed you here..." she murmured before pecking the skin above my mound, her eyes still anchored in mine.

My hips jerk at the sensation, making me bite my lower lip again.

"And then... I kissed you... lower..."

Fuck. The anticipation was building more and more. The way she looked at me. Deliberately replaying the scene. Ever so slowly... I bit my lip harder to prevent myself from moaning as her lips brushed the skin just above my clit.

"And then..."

As soon as she kissed my folds, my fingers threaded through her hair. It took my whole willpower to control myself when she started licking me. But when she pushed her tongue inside I whimpered.

"Sshhhh... You don't want people to find us here, right?" she whispered before taking my clit back in between her lips.

I didn't. I didn't want anybody to find us.

"Keep quiet for me, ok?" she added, pushing two fingers inside of me.

It felt so damn good. Each stroke made me buck back against her, spreading delightful sensations inside of me. My walls started to flutter around her fingers... so she began to thrust harder. This was torture. I didn't want anybody to find us but I wanted... no I NEEDED to voice my pleasure. Charlotte saw me struggling and went back on her feet, pressing her hand on my mouth as the fingers inside me went faster. I loved a dominant Charlotte, it made me so weak and close to orgasm very fast. I grabbed her waist, wanting to feel her close to me as I was nearly there.

"I've got you... Come for me..." she whispered.

I moaned against her hand as the pleasure raked through me. My pussy spasmed so hard, squeezing her fingers inside as she kept them curled against my sweet spot.

"That's it." she praised me, nodding with content.

My walls were still pulsating when she started to move her fingers in and out of me again. I opened my eyes, finding hers looking so intensely at me.

"You're going to come again." she murmured in a very demanding tone.

Fuck... No... It was already so hard to not alert every coworker that were still in the museum... but if she kept on fucking me... and act this way, I didn't know if I could keep it quiet. I shook my head no, pleading with my eyes. She smiled before she leaned in, placing her mouth next to my ear.

"I said..." she paused, curling her fingers upward, pushing on my g-spot.

Her hand muffled a high-pitch whimper. My first orgasm didn't have the time to dissipate that she was already pushing me towards a new one.

"You. Are. Going. To. Come. Again." she husked inside my ear, each word followed by a stroke of her fingers.

Pleasure started to dribble out of me, my legs began to shake and my vision got blurry.

"Fuck Engfa... you're dripping on my hand... Keep quiet, ok?"

She took her hand off my mouth and kneeled down again and sucked back on my clit. I held onto the shelf behind me as Charlotte thrusted faster and faster. The very second my pussy started to spasm again, she took her fingers out replacing them with her lips. I was overwhelmed, coming inside her mouth, everything felt so damn erotic and risky.

She finally let go of me, getting back up, wiping her lips with her thumb, looking smug and satisfied.

"You taste so good..."

"You're going to be... the death of me..." I whispered, trying to catch my breath.

"Indeed... I'll be there when you die... of old age." she chuckled, pulling my underwear and my pants back up.

I looked at her as she snapped the button and zipped up my fly.

"I promise I'll be by your side forever." she added before she hugged me tightly.

Halfway through March, Nawat called me. I was surprised at first when he asked me about my new job. I decided to be honest and told him that it was both challenging and exciting. Yes, I had placed a lot of pressure on myself to do good but I felt really blessed and thankful to have been recommended by him. That was when he changed the topic of his call. He explained that the person he was thinking about to replace me had said yes to another opportunity and that he was now considering offering the job to Charlotte.

"She did really good in New York and having someone that fluent in English could really help us with tourism. It could make MOCA an even greater attraction in Bangkok... But, Engfa... Do you think she has what it takes to run a team? She seems too sweet..."

"I can assure you that Charlotte can be strong and persuasive. She sometimes doubts herself but with the right push she can bring the team to something even greater than it is now." I assured him.

"Ok then. Thank you for your time, Engfa. Keep on the good work." he replied before hanging up.

It was already April when my divorce papers came in. Charlotte surprised me with a dinner date to celebrate both my freedom and her new job. As I was looking at her across the table I smiled with happiness. It felt so good to be with her, like it was meant to be. Don't get me wrong, I loved the weeks when I had my kids back with me, they were filled with happiness and silliness. And with my sister's help it was easier to handle... and sillier most of the time. But... I would be lying if I said that on these days my heart wasn't aching when I went to sleep. Being away from Charlotte was hard.

My heart was beaming each time we were reunited. Having the chance to spend my nights with Charlotte... waking up next to her... It filled me with a new type of joy. My mind started to go into overdrive as I watched her take a sip of wine. My salary at BACC was better than at MOCA but I still needed to sell the apartment and get my share before I could really figure out if I could provide for Sun, Champ, Charlotte and Miles. At least, provide enough to share with Charlotte, like we had said... I gulped. I wanted to tell her that I was thinking about moving out of my sister's place, that I was already looking for a new apartment but she beat me to it.

"I want you and the boys to move in with us." she said, setting her glass back on the table, her cheeks red as hell.

A few weeks later we were all living in the apartment that Meena was ranting to Charlotte. She had accepted that I was going to pay my half of the rant. The days when we were the five of us were kinda crazy but so much fun. Yes, the place was tiny but it made us grow closer, building our relationship... as a couple and as a family of five. We stayed like this for a few months. During Summer, Charlotte's divorce papers came. We waited for a few more months for Charlotte's condo to be sold and then we decided to move to a bigger place.

It was now the end of november and I was currently sitting on the floor of our brand new living room, building a shelf. Sun and Miles were emptying a box together while Champ was playing with the empty ones when Charlotte opened the door.

"Mommy!!" said Miles, waving at his mom with a smile.

"The movers are parking outside with our things from Meena's flat." Charlotte said, bending to kiss me.

It took us so long to get everything inside, to feed the kids and put them to sleep. We were exhausted on the couch when I looked around me. The house was still full of boxes to empty but I felt so great. I let out a deep breath.

"I'm so happy right now." I said to Charlotte as she looked at me from her side of the couch.

"I just realized that almost a year ago we were going to New York together." she replied.

Oh damn! I had almost forgotten! I sat up and took her hands in mine.

"Charlotte, I... I was never happy when I settled down with Apo. I learned to know who I was, getting older and I know that I'm a risk taker. Whenever I take a risk good things happen to me. I took a risk when I decided to go back to school when Sun was born because I was bored with my old job. I took a risk when I followed you inside the restroom back in Brooklyn. I also took a risk when BACC offered me the job but..."

I looked around the living room, making sure what I was searching for was there. Yes, right next to the TV cabinet. I got up and opened the cardboard box I had prepared weeks ago.

"I want you to know that... moving in with you is not a risk..." I explained, while trying to take out the first thing I was looking for safely.

Finally, the package moved up and I slid it out the box. I unwrapped it carefully before showing it to Charlotte. It was the canvas she had gifted me for Christmas. I couldn't help but smile thinking back at that time... so much had happened since then... I turned to the naked wall and places it on one of the few nails left there by the previous owners.

"... but Charlotte, this is not me settling with you either..." I added before searching inside the box again for the second part of my plan.

The second frame slid out way easier than the first. I unwrapped it slowly, my fingers were shaking a little bit. When I got rid of the bubble wrap, I felt so many feelings looking at the pictures I had taken back there in New York.

"... I love you so much, Charlotte. This... it's not a risk, it's not settling, it's just... right." I said, my voice trembling with emotions as I turned back to the wall, hanging the picture next to her drawing.

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Hello everyone!
Here it is, that story has reached the end... I hope you had a great time reading Engfa's pov.
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