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style.”
    “Glad to know I am the water cooler topic. Is something so wrong with me wanting to get to know her?” He wasn’t upset, but he was unsure where all this concern was coming from. David gave him a condescending you know better than that look, but he continued with what he was saying. “But I will tell you this, I am not going to entertain whatever it is Tina has cooking. I don’t trust her as long as that short ass dress she was wearing.”
    They both laughed at his joke. He wanted to change the subject on her, anyway. She didn’t deserve the attention they were giving her. Besides, he had been wanting to get David alone so that he could tell him what he had learned about Shontell.
    “Do you remember the cards we always got with the poems? I told you how the words had always hit me. It was her…Shontell. She was the one who gave those to us. Now that I have found her and have been able to have conversations with her, I am not ready to just let it go that easy.”
    “I hear you…believe me, I do. I just want you to know I got your back. You know I can put myself in your shoes. You haven’t been with anyone in a long time. Just take it slow. If she’s the one, it won’t matter.”
    “Okay, bro. I needed to hear that. Thank you for understanding.” He looked at his watch and saw he wouldn’t have time for a workout. They had been talking longer than he thought, and now they were late for their meeting. He patted David on the back, closing the room door behind him. “Come on, let’s get to this meeting before Martin sends the guards out for us.”
    Both men laughed again as they headed to Martin’s room. 
     
     
     

Shontell
     
    Shontell finished her message and lay her head on the pillow, looking at the ceiling. She wished she hadn’t broken the kiss. She closed her eyes to reminisce. She could still feel him holding her. The smell of him lingered. It was like his cologne was on her clothes, the scent was so strong. Maybe it was just in her mind, but she still loved it. She sat up and looked around her room. She still had a few minutes before she had to call Ebony. They were to discuss new clients, in addition to the paperwork she needed to finalize. She grabbed her tablet and hit the meeting conference app. The tablet beeped, and she was in the virtual conference room waiting on Ebony. They always did virtual face meetings when she had out of town business. She was lucky to have met Ebony at a networking event two years ago.
    Her business had been in trouble. She was losing capital due to a bad supplier, and she was deep in the red. If it were not for Ebony offering to be a partner and putting up some capital, she would have had to close her business. But after merging their resources, they were making more than projected. They were actually making so much that she had been thinking she had enough of her own money to buy Ebony out and continue comfortably. 
    Ebony was a bright young woman, but she didn’t understand the vision for PTE. She would go days, and sometimes weeks, without coming into the office. Shontell still did more than half of the networking for new business and worked eighty percent of the events. She had her assistant place an ad for two managers. She would need the help when she made the changes. She pulled herself out of her thoughts as Ebony’s face appeared on her screen. They greeted one another. 
    “Good afternoon, Ebony. Are you working at the office or home?” she asked her. They normally didn’t hold Saturday hours, but sometimes the workload of clients called for it. Ebony looked a little distracted and took some time before she answered. She thought maybe she couldn’t hear her. “Ebony, can you hear me?”
    “Oh, yes. I’m sorry. I was in the middle of something when the tablet beeped. I guess the time just got away from me. How are things going there?”
    “Everything here is going good. Are you ready to go over the new client list? Dez sent me the