Page 3 of The Facilitator: Part 2
“Plans for today?” Mackenzie askedme.
I was shadowing Alex, my mentor, until he felt I was ready to take over from him. In truth, I was, rightly or wrongly, delaying that so Gabriella, the love of Alex’s life, could make the decision she needed totake.
“I think we are meeting the finance teams today,” I said, and then shuddered at thethought.
“Why the shudder?” Mackenzie said with achuckle.
“I sort of know what I’m looking at. If the numbers are black we’re good,right?”
I had no doubt Mackenzie saw all the accounts for all the businesses he owned. But his CEOs, of which I was about to become one, were supposed to know how well financially the individual business they ran was doing. That was where my nerves kickedin.
I’d been shadowing Alex for a little while, and in all truth, he did nothing I hadn’t already done for Jerry. Other than accounts. I was out of my depth with thatone.
“I’m going to see if I can arrange dinner with Jerry later in the week. He’s been a little tricky to get hold of,” Isaid.
Jerry was one of a handful of people who knew I had moved in with Mackenzie. He hadn’t been happy, and I’d felt guilty I hadn’t had the time I normally would have to spend with him. I’d gone from seeing him daily to once afortnight.
Mackenzie stared at me with a smirk on his face. “Remind me to fuck you hard before you leave, so he can smell me onyou.”
I shook my head. “Don’t even gothere.”
For a while Jerry had distanced himself from me when I’d confessed to seeing Mackenzie. He’d been in love with me for years, and as much as I’d told him we would be nothing more than friends, it was still upsetting to have himretreat.
Secretly, I liked Mackenzie’s jealous streak. But not if it meant seeing my best friend would be aproblem.
Leaning towards me, he whispered, “I was teasing, I apologise. I loveyou.”
He gave me a smile that melted my heart. “I love you, too,” Ireplied.
“Dave, remind me to get one of those cars with the partition,” he added with achuckle.
“My eyes are firmly on the road, sir,” Davereplied.
“Good to hear,” Mackenzie said, as he brought my head towards him and kissedme.
We pulled up outside the office in Canary Wharf. We thanked Dave as we exited the car and Mackenzie held my hand as we walked through the foyer and to the bank oflifts.
“What do you want to do for your birthday?” I asked, knowing it was still a few weeks away but liking to getorganised.
“Nothing, unless it involves younaked.”
“Don’t you want to celebrate? We could go out for dinner with Alex andGabriella.”
“That would be nice, then you naked. You can be dessert. I might surpriseyou.”
“Oh, do tell? Although it’s your birthday, so I should be surprising you withsomething.”
The lift doors opened and we walked in. Mackenzie pressed for two floors, his andmine.
“You surprise me every day,” hesaid.
“You do know how to charm, don’tyou?”
“Is it working? Are your panties wet yet? I love the thought of you squirming in your chair, thinking ofme.”
I laughed, but as the doors opened to my floor I turned to him. “Fuck you, and my panties are dripping,” I whispered. I turned and walkedaway.
“Not fair,” he calledout.
