The Engagement

The Woman

He looks up from the papers in his hand only to met Katherine's eyes where she stands in the doorway.

"Hello, Katarina. What brings you here today?" he asks the stunning woman politely as he turns a paper to look on the other side.

"I was bored" she walks into the room, without an invitation in such daring manner that he can't help but smile a little. She is too bold for her own good. "Figured I could get you to entertain me".

Elijah lifts his gaze to look at the brunette in front of him as she sits down on the cair on the other side of the table and crosses her legs in a manner that is both loose and sexy as well as full of power. 

That is a rare quality, he should now. He can't even count the number of women that have walked into his office trying to be sexy thinking that it would get them better deals. It never did, he had never been anyone to be impressed of showing. Neither can he count the number of women walking into his office, trying to look powerful, usually these women are from another law firm and as a feminist, he refuses to tell them that they don't succeed.

"It is two days to the wedding and the first guest will be coming in two hours, can't you find anything else to do then come visit me?" he asks, trying to make her away because he has many things to do and it's bad enough that he can't seem to think about anything but her, he doesn't need her breathing on her neck while he tries to work. 

Tatia almost blew his company up and he won't let the next woman with a nice figure and daring attitude will not make him lose side of what's important.

"Ouch, Eliajh" comes from the other side of the desk as Katarinagracefully throws her hair over a shoulder and puts her hand over her chest, covering a little bit of her deep neckline.

"I have hundred placement cards to write in an hour. I am sorry, Katarina but I cannot e with you right now" he does a little gesture against the cards on the table, about twenty of them named.

"Why would you get that assignment, aren't their others how can do that? You have a company to run" she says, leaning forward in her chair.

Elijah drops his pen. She is the only one who has thought of that, not even Niklaus, that runs his own part of the company, had. He seemed a little distracted with miss Forbes lately and Elijah couldn't blame him, she is a lovely girl, but Niklaus could, of course, show his affection to her when he wasn't supposed to sit in a phone meeting with one of his clients, a meeting Elijah had been forced to sit through instead so now is he even more behind.

"That is very true" he says, smiling slightly at her. Katarinastraightens a little in the chair, looking pleased with herself. He shakes her head as he writes Freya's name on a card. "But apparently I am the only one able to write the names nicely enough to be trusted with this". Katarina smiled almost warmly at that, shaking her head so her hair moves down her shoulders again.

"Caroline's words, right? I heard her when she told Klaus that he didn't do it nicely enough" she laughs a little "she is hopeless once she is in that mode, all you can do is listen, not even I am able to make her change her mind".

"And normally you can?" Elijah asks, amused. She seems very sure of herself.

"I can change everyone's mind" Katarina says, meeting his eyes in all her smugness. "But I also know that Caroline approves of both mine and Elena's handwriting so I can do that and you can call a client or whatever you have to do which is more important than this."

Katarina stands and walks around the table, with long, gracious steps that radiate power. He isn't used to this. It was years a woman held his interest. She puts one of her hand on his arm as the other takes the pen from his hand. He can't help but let his eyes drift to her daring neckline and beautiful breast for half a second before he snaps back into himself.