Chapter 6
Chapter 6
"Spencer I want you to quit your job at the newspaper and work with me and your brothers," Arthur said again repeating his same speech to her.
"Dad, please not this again. I told you I did not want to work for you."
"We need someone in Public Relations. The company has been getting a bad rap lately."
"Yes I know my editor wanted me to write a story titled, 'My Gangster Father'. Do you believe that? Daddy are you a gangster?" Spencer said laughing.
Arthur scowled, "what did you say?"
"I told him he was a fucking idiot for asking me and went back to my office."
"Didn't fire you, huh?"
"Nope… for what refusing to write the article or calling him a fucking idiot?"
"Both, Spencer."
"No he's not that stupid. I'm the best writer he's got." "Damn that's too bad, that name calling should have made you jobless," Arthur said.
"You wish," Spencer said.
/
Knock, Knock.
"Arthur, Roger is at my desk fuming about some order he didn't get last week."
"Shit. Okay I'll handle him. I'll be right back Spencer."
"Take your time dad," Spencer said eyeing Ashley with a wanton look, "I'm not going anywhere, yet."
"Ashley! Why don't you… entertain my daughter," he said giving her a strange but knowing look.
Ashley shallows hard, and looks down at the floor. Spencer notices the looks between the two. Arthur shuts the door behind him to handle his client.
"What was that about Ashley? What did he mean by entertain me?"
"I think he knows Spencer."
"Knows, knows what Ashley?"
"You and me, the affair."
"How could he Ashley we're been very careful, except for the little lapse of judgment at the dinner party."
"No Spencer he knows! He's been asking me strange questions about you, little intimate questions as if I would know the answer. Then he would ask me how's my marriage to Tony's been, am I happy."
Spencer gets up from her chair to hold Ashley close to her. "It's okay Ash, he thinks he knows. He's not sure. He's trying to intimidate you into confessing something, don't worry about him. I know my father, the bastard."
"Spencer!!"
"Well he is… having an affair himself and now prying into what he thinks his daughter may be doing. I'll try to rectify the situation Ashley don't worry your pretty head. I promise I'll protect you." Ashley raised her hand to Spencer's face to caress her cheek, liking the softness of it, begins to trace her lips with her thumb.
Gazing into her lover's eyes Ashley moves her lips close to Spencer's slightly opened mouth, "Spencer…" Ashley whispered.
Arthur comes back into the room startling the two women. Arthur smirked at what he almost witnessed, but makes no mention of it. "Well, I got that straighten out. Ashley?"
"Yes sir." "When is my next meeting and with who?" I'm feeling quite happy today, Arthur said smiling at his daughter and Ashley.
"You're clear until four o'clock with your sons."
"You hear that Spencer, a meeting with my sons. I would so love to hear Ashley say I have a meeting with my sons and daughter," Arthur said still smiling.
Spencer looks over at Ashley than back to her father. "I'll think about it dad. Um… Ashley, could you leave us alone for a minute."
"Certainly Spencer," Ashley leaves closing the door behind her.
Before Spencer could speak, Arthur asks his daughter, "is something going on between you and Ashley?"
"What!" Spencer said.
"Is that why you want to divorce Franklin?"
Spencer looking down finally looks at her father, "uh… dad, don't be ridiculous Ashley is married and I'm still married. I told you I don't love Franklin and I don't want to stay in a loveless marriage anymore. Ashley and I are just friends and you should stop questioning her about things she knows nothing about. What are you trying to do make her quit her job?"
"No Spencer I'm not trying to make her quit her job she's an excellent executive assistant. The best I've had in a long time. I just wanted to know what was going between the two of you. Anyway I won't question her about you again."
"Thank you, are you and mom still coming to the symphony Friday?"
"Yes we'll be there. Ashley and Tony are coming as our guests."
"That's fine, it's getting late I'll see you later dad." Spencer walks out of her father's office and shrugs her shoulders looking at Ashley and whispering, "I don't know what's going in that head of his, but he did say he would stop questioning you about me okay sweetie."
"Yes Spencer."
/
Arthur's POV
Aha, I knew it! I'm almost positive they're having an affair, Spencer wouldn't even answer my question. Now all I need is the proof. My daughter and Ashley… when she said she wanted a divorce from Franklin I knew there had to be somebody else. This may work out to my advantage. Spencer will have to come out to her family if she's going to continue her affair with Ashley and she's going to need the support only I can give her. I can help her when the time comes to deal with her mother because when Paula finds out about her daughter she is going to have a shit fit. I want my daughter working for me, this is a family business and I want all my family working here and Spencer's affair will have her working for me very soon.
I like Ashley she has more backbone than the two men they're married to put together, a fruit and a fake. Ashley is the best executive assistant I've had in a long time besides she's not bad to look at either. If Spencer doesn't agree to work for me she's gonna have to give Ashley up or Ashley will face the consequences of Spencer's reluctance to join the company.
If I have to blackmail my daughter into working for me, than so be it. I will do whatever it takes and Paula will have to accept Spencer's decision to divorce Franklin so she can be with Ashley who just happens to be a woman. Paula is not as opened minded as she pretends to be, she's very judgmental. I'm going to have my work cut out for me handling Paula.
/
"Dr. Scott, it's Madison Duarte, we need to meet so we can go over what I've discovered regarding your wife."
"Okay I'll fly out tonight and meet with you in the morning is that okay? "Yes, that will be fine I'll have Angela clear my schedule so we can discuss the matter."
"Ms. Duarte is she cheating?"
"Well I think you should wait until you get here and we can talk in person."
"Okay fine, that practically answers my question."
"I'll see you when you get here Dr. Scott. Goodbye."
/
"Clay we cannot let Anderson Inc. get the upper hand. They stole that shipment, you know it and I know it. So we need to send a message," Glen said, as he and Clay were walking towards their father's office.
"Ashley! And a good day to ya!" Clay said happily in a poor Scottish accent.
"Good afternoon Clay," Ashley said. "Glen you're not speaking."
"Sorry I was daydreaming about you in my bed."
"Of course you were," Ashley said lightly chuckling. "Where's Aiden, why isn't he here with you? He's supposed to be at this meeting too."
"I haven't seen him all afternoon," Glen said. "Me neither," Clay said.
"Haven't seen who," Aiden said walking up to Ashley's desk.
"You're late Aiden," Ashley said.
"Noo! I'm fashionably early," he chuckled.
"Well laugh on this, chuckle boy, your pants are unzipped and your shirttail is hanging out. Fix yourself before going in to see the boss," Ashley said.
"Maybe you might want to stick your hands down my pants and fix me Ash," Aiden tried to say seductively while Glen and Clay rolled their eyes at the silly man.
"Aiden my name is Ashley… not Ash, don't ever call me that again and fix your own clothes or maybe you should have let the woman that was in your office sucking you off fix your clothes before she left," Ashley said in an icy tone.
"Burrr! Such a cold statement coming from a hot blooded woman," Aiden replied back.
"Aiden sometimes you really make me sick… literally," Ashley said walking towards Arthur's office door.
Knock, knock.
"Come in."
"Your sons and Aiden are here for their meeting Arthur."
"Good send them in."
"If you don't need me anymore this evening, I would like to go home a little early."
"No, no go ahead Ashley, I'll see you tomorrow. Ashley are you going out tonight?"
"No, Tony will be home tonight, so I thought we would just have a quiet dinner together. Why?"
"Oh, just asking, you have a nice evening and Paula wanted me to remind you, not to forget about the symphony tomorrow. I know I'll see you tomorrow but she wanted me to remind you today. She said it was a woman's thing."
"Okay, thank you Arthur, see you tomorrow."
/
At home, Ashley is on the phone to her lover, "Spencer…"
"Ashley, what a pleasant surprise you calling me. I thought you would be busy with Tony tonight."
"No, Tony left me a note saying he will be in San Francisco until tomorrow afternoon."
"San Francisco again, he has a lot of business there huh?"
"Whatever Spencer I really don't care, can you get away tonight?"
"Oh! Whatever for Ashley?"
"I need you Spencer. I want to see you, all of you."
"Hmm! What is it they say when the cat's away the mice will play. Do you want to play with me Ashley?"
"Ugh! Spencer stop playing with me." "Well than tell me what it is that you want Ashley."
"Spencer please, meet me at the motel… I…" "Yes, lover I'm listening."
"Spencer I want to fuck you. I want to fuck you bad. Then I want you to fuck me good and hard. Please Spencer now!"
"I'll be there in twenty minutes. Bye."
/
It's Friday morning and Tony has arrived to Madison's Investigative Agency to get her report.
"So Madison what do you have for me."
"Well your wife is cheating."
"I KNEW IT!! Who is it? I bet it's that bastard Aiden or maybe that idiot Glen."
Madison clearing her throat, "Dr. Scott perhaps you should sit down."