From: "Michelle Coursen" mcoursen@comcast.net
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Date: Saturday, March 15, 2003 11:46 PM

Chapter 4: Not everyone's Good news
Summary: Sebastian and Kathryn announce their engagement and several people don't have happy reactions.
All of society was in a tizzy when Kathryn Merteuil announced her engagement to Sebastian Valmont. Not only was she the business woman supreme, but she single handedly helped rebuild her father's company to the empire it was. Sebastian and Kathryn's faces graced all the society papers announcing their engagement. That's how Tiffany discovered the happy news. One morning at breakfeast she opened the papers to see her daughter's smiling face at her.

Tifffany had to bite down on her fist from screaming out in anger. Business woman indeed! The only reason she was a business woman was from snatching that company right under from her! Tiffany seemed to forget about her schemes against her daughter when she tried to steal her rightful inheritance. No matter, Tiffany didn't exactly think like other people, so if she did remember she really wouldn't see anything wrong with it anyway. Tiffany slammed down the newspaper in a fury and stalked over to the phone and punched in numbers.

"Did you see this morning's paper?" Tiffnay barked into the phone when Annette answered the phone.

"Umm isn't it kind of early?" Annette murmured sleepily.

Tiffany snorted in disgust. That's what happend when you got involved with younger people, the slept the day away like they actually did anything strenous during the day.

"Well let me tell you what was in this morning's paper!" Tiffany said angrily. "Kathryn is engaged to Sebastian!"

That woke Annette up in a jiffy. "Sebastian's marrying Kathryn?" Annette asked quietly. Even though Annette swore she hated Sebastian, she felt a funny quiver of jealouse pass through her. Once she thought Sebastian was going to be the one that she married.

"I knew that would wake you up." Tiffany said nastily.

"So what are you gonna do?" Annette asked confused.

Tiffany rolled her eyes. She could see she was going to have to be the brains behind the operation. "You'll see." Tiffany said wickedly.

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Court stood in his hotel room balcony staring at the view of the city. It was glorious and he could never tire of seeing it. Court idly wondered if his family missed him. He wasn't far from his father's office and wondered if he would welcome him back. Court walked over to his phone and placed his hand on top if it debating if he should call his father.

Rrrring! The jarring sound make Court jump back for a second and he picked it up. Who the hell would be calling him?

"Were you ever planning on calling me?" Tiffany's angry voice piped up from the other side of the reciever.

"Who is this?" Court demanded angrily.

"Who the fuck do you think?" Tiffany demanded angrily. "The same person who's paying your dumb hotel bill!"

"Tiffany?" Court asked.

"Very good! The boy deserves a prize!" Tiffany said sarcastically. Was she always going to be surronded by idiots?

"What do you want?" Court asked dumbly. He couldn't help it, he was very confused on what was going on.

What the fuck did he think? That she was calling him to chat? Tiffany gritted her teeth and tried to be nice. "I was calling to see if you wanted to come to a party."

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"Wakey wakey." Tiffany said gently as she gently nudged Sebastian.

"Huh?" Sebastain sat up and looked at Kathryn sleepily. "What's going on?" He asked suprised to see Kathryn standing next to the bed holding up a breakfeast tray.

"What do you rhink it is?" Kathryn asked as she placed the tray down over Sebastian's lap. "It's breakfeast!"

Sebastian stared down at the tray. Before him, lay a feast of eggs, bacon, sausage, toast, and fruit. "You cook it yourself?" Sebastian teased.

Kathryn crawled into bed with him and rolled her eyes. "Yeah with my two hands." Kathryn said sarcastically. "Please. It was a pain enough lugging the tray up the stairs!"

"Ahhh my domestic goddess." Sebastian said sarcastically and popped a piece in his mouth.

That's how they spent the morning. Laying in bed eating, cuddling, and reading the paper. It was pure bliss for Sebastian. This was the most time they spent with each other since Kathryn took over her father's company. Sebastian flipped through the paper and stopped when he came to the society papers. Staring back at him was his smiling face.

"Hey look at this." Sebastian said to Kathryn and nudged her.

"What?" Kathryn asked and looked over his arm at the paper. "Oh yeah." She said and picked up a piece of toast. "They write them up for everyone that gets engaged." Kathryn said disintrestedly.

Sebastian reac over the caption under the picture. ' Business woman Kathryn Merteuil announced her engagement to Sebastian Valmont a photographer'

"Photographer?" Sebastian asked looking at Kathryn suprised.

"Huh?" Kathryn asked.

"Why does the paper has me listed as a photographer?" Sebastian asked.

"What's the big deal?" Kathryn asked shrugging her shoulders. "The paper made a mistake."

"Did you tell them that?" Sebastian asked accusingly.

Kathryn stared at Sebastian and sliently debated whether or not she should lie. It was a small little lie and really would do no harm. On the other hand Sebastian had that silly pride and if he found out she did lie he would hold a grudge forever.

"So what if I did?" Kathryn asked.

"So what?" Sebastian demanded and jumped out of the bed. He faced her with an angry ecpression. "What a photographer's assisitant not good enough for your friends?" Sebastian demanded.

"Oh for gods sake you are overreacting." Kathrn said annoyed. See? There was his stupid pride getting in the way. Sebastian had one little fault and that was he had more pride sometimes then common sense. She didn't think it was a big deal when she told the paper that small little lie. He was going to be a photographer someday and so what's the big deal?

"Am I?" Sebastian yelled at her and stormed off to the bathroom.

Kathryn sat there suprised at his strong reaaction from a small little lie. Kathryn did silently fear how he would deal with being someone that was more succesful then him. Men were strange when a woman started bringing home more then them. Kathryn sighed and followed Sebastian into the bathroom. It was no good fighting on the day of their engagement party.

Sebastian stood under the stream of water and scrubbed at his body angrily. He knew he was being silly, but there was always that nagging doubt that Kathryn was too good for her because she was now earning ten times more then he was. He knew he was being dumb, but knwoing that Kathryn stretched the truth about his job seemed to him that she was ashamed by the fact that he was just a lowly photographer's assisant. He heard the shower door open and he turned around to see a naked Kathryn walk in.

"Go away." He said grumpily and turned his back on her. "I am mad at you."

"Really?" Kathryn asked and pressed her self into his back.

Sebastian tried to pretend that feeling her breasts press into his back didn't affect him.

"You can't stay mad at me forever." Kathryn said and gently blew into his ear. She knew that his ears was his sensitive spot and a little nibbling, he was putty.

Sebastian felt shivers run through his spine. She was fighting dirty! She was full aware of what a little playing with his ears did to him. "I said go away!" He said in what he hoped was an angry voice.

"I don't think you mean that." Kathryn said and gently began to carress his ass. "If I go away then I can't do this." She said teasingly and reached in front of him and began to gently stroke his dick.

Sebastian supressed a groan and tried to steel himself against her advances. It was hard as hell! Kathryn smiled wickedly and with her other hand began to massag his balls.
That caused Sebastian to lose his resolve and groan. Kathryn wasn't finished with him and began to pump her hand up and down. Sebastian lost all his resolve now, and turned around and grabbed her into a deep kiss.

"You fucking drive me crazy." He muttered and roughly pushed her against the shower wall.

"I could always leave now." Kathryn said teasingly.

Sebastian responded by wrapping her leg around his waist and roughly entering her. "Try it." He growled.

"Nah I like it right where I am." Kathryn laughed and wrapped the other leg around his waist and began to thrust herself deeper into him.