You Owe Me One Ch.13
Limo
"What the hell is going on here?" Riley crossed her arms looking at her boss with her eyes narrowed and glaring.
"There's been a breach in our software system."
"And this involves me how?" Riley furrowed her brow.
"Remember how I told you before I believe your mom got help from an outside source, I think that person is the one who hacked into our system." Seto crossed his arms and looked at Riley seriously. "Think Castaneto, is there anyone you know who's good in any type of programming and who had possible intel on this project or any of Kaiba Corp information."
"Honestly." Riley said slowly. "I don't know. I mean, if my mom did get help from someone, the only person I could think of capable of that's an outside source would be my childhood friend Kain, but I doubt he helped her out though. Maybe there's someone in your company that's a spy?" Riley looked up with a nervous smile.
"Castaneto, I'm very careful who I hire to work at my company and no one dares double cross me." Seto said seriously his eyes icier than ever. "No one would betray me in my company; I think it's the first scenario. Maybe your childhood friend is behind the whole thing."
"Who are you to jump to conclusions?! We barely have any information and you're going off a hunch?" Riley said irritably.
"I usually am never wrong on these things. I better keep a close eye on your mother from here on out."
"My mother would never do anything to jeopardize your company Kaiba. Hell, she dedicated 12 years of her life to Kaiba Corp, what makes you think she would turn against you?"
"Maybe she is loyal to the company." Seto clenched his fist and put his thumb against his lip. "I have a feeling she had some assistance when I took over and she inadvertently invited someone in that shouldn't even have access to our company's information."
Seto took out his phone and made a call.
"Mokuba, did you activate the backup security system?"
"Yes bro, got everything under control here. Activated our backup system and made another back up just in case. I'm having our software engineers improve the current security system right now."
"Good. Any intel on the hacker?"
"Not yet, still looking into it. I'll let you know as soon as something comes up Seto. I'll see you in a bit." Mokuba hung up the phone.
"Your brother is really good in programming. I gotta ask that kid or thing or two."
"What for?" Seto looked at her as if she was weird. "It's not as if what you wanna do in the future involves programming of any sort."
"Yes it does." Riley glared at Seto. "I want to become a mechanical engineer."
Seto didn't see that one coming. This girl pursuing an engineering degree? That was something he surely didn't expect.
"Interesting career choice." Seto said to hide his shock. "You know Mokuba learned those programming skills from me as well you know."
"That's interesting, I never really hear of a CEO that gets involved in hands on work."
"Aside handling the business side of things Castaneto, I do want to ensure everything works smoothly. Mokuba and I handle the last bit of debugging before any of our software gets implemented in our devices."
"Impressive if I say so myself." Riley nodded. "But did you really have to take me against my will!" Riley said irritated. "I didn't even get to finish my lunch!"
"Is that all you ever rant on about? Food?" Seto twitched a bit. "Fine, I'll buy you something when we get to headquarters. After that I need you to schedule a meeting with my engineers for later this afternoon. I want to ensure this kind of thing doesn't happen again. Am I clear?" Seto said in demanding voice.
"Crystal." Riley narrowed her eyes. "I could've come later. This issue doesn't concern me." Riley grumbled.
"Since you want to become an engineer, it would be good experience for you to see what engineers do; maybe you might want to change your mind. Don't know if that hot head of yours could handle it."
"You fucking asshole, I so could handle the job." Riley glared super hard. "Who are you to say what I can and can't do huh?" She gave a huff as the limo stopped in front of KC headquarters and stormed inside.
Kaiba Corp
Riley barely had any time to eat and she got changed immediately. She changed into a pencil skirt, a white sleeveless blouse, and she wore black heels. She put her hair up in the same half up half down style. She grabbed some lip gloss and powder from her bag and put it on to make herself look a bit more pretty.
"Yo Castaneto you ready?" Seto just barged in without any warning while Riley was prettying herself up.
"Can't you at least knock?" Riley said irritated.
Seto couldn't help but look at her. Her creamy legs accentuated by the heels and tight skirt. Her blouse showed a hint of cleavage. Of course, it didn't go unnoticed.
"Something on my face or something?" Riley crossed her arms.
"None at all." Seto said with an unreadable expression. "I just wanted to make sure you're presentable for the meeting taking place in half an hour."
"What the—When did this happen?" Riley asked surprised.
"I just received a phone call from my investors. They wanted to meet last minute. So you better be ready. Just observe for today and don't say anything unnecessary."
Meeting Room
Riley suddenly felt intimidated with the software and mechanical engineers in the room along with the Kaiba brothers and the investors she saw before.
She felt like there would be a great argument.
'I have a feeling the investors don't feel that secure with their investment knowing there already has been a breach. I wonder how Kaiba will pull himself out of this one or even why the hell I am here to witness this when I myself can't contribute anything. Plus, I'm only an assistant, not someone special. All I do is just answer phone calls, file documents and make coffee.'
Riley felt the immediate tension in the room. The engineers looked pretty scared as Seto looked at them sternly, while the investors were looking at Seto with an unreasonable expression on their faces.
"What is the meaning of this Mr. Kaiba?" Yamada asked outraged. "It hasn't even been a week yet and there is already a breach in your security?"
"I assure you the issue has been taken care of Mr. Yamada. Everything is going as planned."
"How sure are you there won't be an incident like this won't happen again?"
"My software engineering team is currently is improving our system to make sure this doesn't happen again." Seto replied while remaining his composure.
"If you don't mind me interrupting your conversation gentlemen…" Riley said nervously. 'Fuck what am I doing?' Everyone's eyes focused on her. "Mr. Kaiba here has made sure an instance like this won't happen again due to him having hackers present at the company to report any security issues with any of our software."
"Paid hackers!? What is the meaning of this?!" Honda said outraged.
"Look sir, having paid hackers to detect any security issues before the actual launch of the product is a good thing." Riley looked at the older man in a serious, businesslike manner. "Unfortunately what was supposed to be a report on the security flaw was accidently labeled as a security breach sir. I assure you the software engineering team is fixing the bugs these hackers found." Riley said politely.
"Ah I see Mr. Kaiba, you should have said so in the beginning. I trust that the prototype will be available in the next 2 or 3 weeks correct?" Yamada looked at Seto with a serious expression.
"Yes sir, absolutely." Seto bowed.
"Alright Mr. Kaiba, please don't scare us like this again. We hope to hear when your prototype is completed. Gentlemen, let's take our leave." Tanaka and the rest of the associates stood up and the software engineers' faces seemed to relax a little bit.
After Seto shook hands with the investors and they were in the elevator, Seto immediately glared at the engineers.
"I expect that nothing like this ever happens again." Seto said sternly. "I didn't pay you guys the big bucks only to have people break in our system and attempt to steal our classified files. Now hurry up and make sure the new security system is fully operational and impenetrable." The engineers nodded hastily and ran out.
The only two people left in the room were Riley and Seto.
"Harsh much." Riley crossed her arms. "You know, I just saved your ass right?" Riley's eyes narrowed.
"I was doing just fine on my own until you butted in." Seto scowled.
"Yeah you were doing just fine. It looked like those investors were going to pull out of this project." Riley glared at him. "Instead of admitting this was a security breach, I made it to where it was just a fundamental error on our part due to this just being an initial phase rather than a finished product. You should feel grateful they still are invested in this and I believe you owe me a thank you, you fucking jerk!"
"Who asked you to jump in?!" Seto glared right back. "I just told you to sit and observe, not jump into our business conversation."
"From what I was observing, you seemed to dodge the issue rather than address it." Riley put her hands on her hips. "You just said everything will be ok rather than at least owning up for some responsibility. You owe me one."
"I don't owe you anything." Seto sneered.
"I also saved your engineers' asses with that lame ass excuse I made up on the fly so you should be fucking grateful!"
"Stop meddling in affairs that don't concern you."
"That doesn't concern me?" Riley stepped up closer looking up at Kaiba's harsh blue eyes. "Weren't you the one that said it is my concern due to me being an employee here when you handed me this project and swept it away from my mother?" Riley hit his chest with her index finger with every word. "Since I am a nice person, I decided to help you out despite me hating you cuz if this company goes down, I have no job, so I think in this case you owe me."
"Even without you, I would've been fine."
"Can you for once drop your damn pride and admit it that I saved your pathetic ass from those lions back there?" Riley tilted her head with arms crossed raising her eyebrows giving him a serious look.
"Just go back to your office and do your damn job. We're done here." Seto put his hand on the handle of the glass door, when he felt Riley grab his arm.
"Admit it rich boy." Riley glared at the CEO. "I diffused a situation before it got ugly. I'm not leaving until you acknowledge that fact."
Seto turned around and pinned Riley against the door frame. The aroma of his cologne hit her nostrils making her heart skip a beat.
"Fine, you did something right for once." Seto whispered in her ear. His breath sent shivers down her spine. "Now will you just shut up about this, go back to your office, and do your damn job?" Seto gave her a cold glare and walked out the door leaving a stunned Riley.
Riley
She felt her heart race as she replayed Seto pinning her to the door frame.
'What the hell is wrong with me? There's no way I can in any way be physically or emotionally feeling anything for Seto Kaiba of all people. He's just a damn jerk who's cold hearted, self-centered, and just selfish in general.'
Her mind flashed back to the memories they had at his house. His body against hers felt so warm. Despite his cold demeanor, she found it quite surprising his body could be warm and not only that he smelled good. She showed her vulnerability to him. She didn't know why she did and in a way, he did as well by hugging her that night rather than leave her alone.
'I'm really losing my mind here. There's just no way….even that dream I had. That has to just be a dream. There is no way that he and I were even lovers back in the past. It's just an illusion.'
Riley got snapped out of her thoughts by the phone ringing.
"Hello, Riley Castaneto speaking from Kaiba Corp, how may I help you?" Riley said all businesslike.
"Castaneto, in my office now." Seto said harshly before hanging up the phone.
Riley rolled her eyes and got up.
She walked up to her boss' office which was only two doors down.
"You called?" She crossed her arms. "What do you wan-" Seto grabbed her and pulled her on his lap. This caused her to blush. "Hey, what are you doing?" Riley struggled a little bit.
Seto ran his hands delicately along her exposed legs eliciting a small moan from Riley.
"What are you doing?" She gasped with every word.
Seto just smirked and put his hand behind her neck and brought her in for a needy, rough kiss.
"Mhmm." Riley struggled against him as she tried pushing him off, but it wasn't working. Riley felt something poking the inside of her thigh and she knew right away what it was.
Seto placed his lips on her neck sucking her delicate flesh making Riley tilt her head to the side moaning softly. His touch was sending her nerves into overdrive. Riley put her arms around his neck and kissed him on the lips. She felt aroused at the situation she was in. Who wouldn't want to have a hot make out session with their boss at work with the possibility of getting caught?
"Rei…" Seto gazed into Riley's brown eyes, his eyes full of lust and desire.
"Kaiba…" Riley turned away blushing.
"Call me Seto." He growled and claimed her lips once again.
Seto
Seto picked up the phone and tried calling Riley. It just went straight to voicemail after a couple of rings.
'I swear what the hell is that girl doing? I've been trying to call her here for the past 10 minutes or so. I want some damn coffee.'
Seto got up and walked over to Riley's office. He saw that her head was down on the desk asleep, but he noticed something a bit different, her breathing was a bit uneven.
'What the hell is she dreaming about?'
Kaiba just shook his head and slammed his hands on her desk. "Castaneto!"
Riley
Seto's hands were under her shirt cupping her breasts through her bra. Riley bit her lip to suppress a moan from escaping her lips.
"We shouldn't be doing this." Riley said with her breath raspy.
"You don't seem to mind much." Seto smirked.
"Castaneto!" Riley suddenly got jolted from her dream to have Seto Kaiba in front of her with his arms crossed and looking at her sternly. "I see you're slacking off on the job again aren't we?"
'That was all a dream? When the hell did I even fall asleep?' Riley double checked herself to make sure all her clothes were still on and that she was still in her office.
"Wait what?" Riley asked confused. "Nothing happened?"
"What the hell are you talking about Castaneto?" Seto said irritably. "I've been trying to call you for the past 10 minutes but you weren't picking up the phone."
"What the hell? Really?" Riley shook her head as she slowly was getting out her sleepy phase.
"I want my coffee now. I want it in less than two minutes hurry up." Seto left her office swiftly.
After Seto left, Riley's face went crimson. She did not just dream about having a make out session with her boss of all people and she actually enjoyed it. She could still feel his touch on her skin as she went out to the break room to make Seto's coffee.
Riley carried the coffee in a daze still in shock she even had such a dream to begin with. This was the second time she had a dream of making out with Seto. First it was in the ancient past, now the second time was during the present. Riley took a deep breath, and knocked on the door.
"Come in." Seto said in his harsh voice.
Riley opened the door and set the coffee down. The dream replayed itself in her mind at the worst possible time.
"Took you long enough." Seto grumbled.
"I'm not dreaming am I?" Riley said nervously.
"What the hell is wrong with you Castaneto?" Seto crossed his arms as he took a sip from his coffee mug. "You're 100% awake now since I woke your lazy ass up. Is there something I should know?" Seto raised his brow eyeing Riley suspiciously.
"No, nothing at all." Riley said in a voice a bit higher than normal. "Um, I'll go back to my office and get back to work. See ya." Riley walked on out and just was cursing herself for even dreaming about something so perverted.
'What's up with her? Did she have a nightmare or something? Or was it something else completely?' Seto just shrugged it off and continued typing on his laptop.
Riley
When did she fall asleep? Was it the moment she sat at her desk? She didn't know but her face went crimson as she remembered Seto's touch on her skin. She still felt the tingling sensations all over her body. Her heart started racing. The way his cold blue eyes looked at her with such lust and need turned her on. She felt herself get wet from remembering the dream and where that dream was heading on towards.
'What the fuck is this feeling? It's strange. This is totally inappropriate to be thinking about at work and he's not too far from here too. Ugh, what the hell is wrong with me?'
Riley shook her head and just resumed her work on the laptop trying to keep her mind off the dream that she just had.
'That's just a dream right? I mean as if I'd ever tolerate him touching me like that in real life.'