Hush...

A Taste of Bliss Pt. 1

A Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe) x (female) OC x  (male) OC Lionel Kingsley (Charles Dance) - One-Shot [Smut]

Synopsis: Whilst attending a charity event, Catherine Carlisle gets tired of all the political mumbo jumbo and seeks solace at the open bar, where she runs into no other than Norman Osborn (Willem Dafoe). The ruthless businessman and billionaire catches her eye, but there's one problem: she didn't attend the event by herself... With her partner/boyfriend/boss Lionel Kingsley (Charles Dance) at her side, what will Catherine do in order to get what she wants?

Warnings: smut, cursing, sex (lots of it), mild sub/dom undertones, threesome (sort of).

~.... Rasavada; the taste of bliss in the absence of all thought...~

Looking around, Catherine couldn't help the sigh of exasperation that spilled past her lips. She knew attending functions like these were a requirement in their field of work, but that certainly didn't mean she had to enjoy them. Quite the opposite, in fact. All the rich and famous were nearly trampling each other in order to be seen-or even better, photographed-attending the charity event. After all, all fundraising proceeds would go directly to support all sorts of youth programs that helped, as they so eloquently put it, 'culturally diverse and newcomer youth from all sorts of backgrounds' and providing leadership opportunities, education and job-skills training in the area of science. Not like that was a bad thing, quite the opposite, in fact, if just saddened Catherine to see all the overdressed and pretentious magnates of the industry with their trophy wives throwing around money for causes they didn't give a damn about. After tonight they'd go back to their million-dollar mansions feeling good about themselves and forget all about the 'poor children' of the causes they were currently raising money for.

A necessary evil, Catherine told herself as she readjusted the neckline of her dress inconspicuously. The evening gown was of a simple cut and dove grey in colour, not at all like the dazzling bejewelled gala dresses the other women wore. She'd felt the classically simple sheath gown of pale grey embroidered silk was sophisticated enough for the event, but not too overstated or showy. That simply wasn't her style. She'd already resigned herself to the backless design of the dress that showcased a lot more skin than she'd prefer, but Lionel had voiced his approval (and appreciation) of the dress, and given his usually stern and quiet demeanour she'd been more than happy to wear the dress given how much he seemed to like seeing it on her. And taking it off. But that was a concern for another time.

The thought of Lionel having crossed her mind, Catherine looked around the room in search of her boyfriend. If that's what you could call it. She herself still wasn't entirely sure what to call whatever it was that had sparked between them over the course of the last couple of years. After all, he was technically her boss. Sort of. As CEO of the Lyon Corporation, he was officially her boss' boss' boss. Catherine had been brought in as an independent consultant from the Biomedical Laboratory Research Consortium in order to oversee the merger of various divisions of three companies Lyon Corporation had acquired majority shares in. After butting heads one time too many with one of the managers, she'd barged into Lionel's office, demanding either more authority in order to sack the manager in question or to be let go since surely he couldn't expect her to properly do her job as an outsider with little to no authority in an supervisory position. Maybe it was her youth, for at 28 she'd run into the problem before that older managers simply refused to acknowledge her authority, or perhaps it was because she was a woman. The end result, however, was still the same. To her surprise, Lionel, impressed with her fiery resolve and fierce determination, had solved the problem by not only firing the manager in question right away, but also by offering her a management position as head of the new Research and Development Division.