Mitchie sat in her small office dealing with the paperwork Shane had designated for just a few minutes ago. She heard her cellphone buzz from inside of her purse and went to see who was texting her so early in the day. A smug smile came to her face once she saw the sender and the message.

From: Shane Gray

Fine. Cancel dinner. We'll meet up tonight.

No matter what he believed, Mitchie knew she had a certain amount of control over Shane.

She did feel kind of bad, though. After all he was a married man. But, to be fair, it wasn't just sex between the two of them. Sure, it had started as strictly sexual but somewhere along the way it changed. She actually remembered the exact night it happened.

Mitchie sat on the edge of the bed staring impatiently at the television in front of her. She wasn't even paying attention to the mindless reality show that was on. She was mostly consumed with the fact that Shane was late. Really late.

She looked at her phone, which she had clutched in her hand, to check for messages from Shane.

Nothing.

It had been an hour and a half since they were supposed to meet here and she hadn't gotten so much as a call or text from him. She wanted to worry about him but she thought somehow there was something wrong about her worrying about the man she was in an adulterous relationship with.

Just as she was about to gather up some courage to call Shane's wife with some bogus excuse as to why she wanted to know about his whereabouts, the man himself came storming into the room like a hurricane.

"Finally," She mumbled to herself as she stood to greet him. She opened her arms to him and instead of embracing her as he usually did he sidestepped and shook his head.

"Not in the mood for a hug?" She asked slightly teasingly.

He shook his head with the most serious of expressions on his face. "I'm not in the mood for anything, to be honest."

"Um, excuse me?" It might have been slightly rude sounding, but why would he waste both of their time by having them meet if he wasn't 'in the mood for anything'?

He snapped his head up to look at her and that's when she saw it. This was the sixth time they had met up like this, met up to fool around, and every time there had only been one thing she saw in Shane's eyes and that was lust. Every time he would walk in, take off his coat or whatever article of clothing he felt unnecessary to wear at the moment, and Mitchie would see it, the lust in his eyes. But now, she didn't see that. All she saw was…hurt.

"Are you okay?" She asked slightly awkwardly.

"Look, I know we were supposed to mess around but," Shane hesitated for a moment before continuing. "I don't know can we just talk for a minute? I kind of need to get some things off my chest."

That night, Shane had confessed to Mitchie a lot about his marriage. Things like how his wife doesn't support his business and keeps asking him to get a 'real job'. How she finds it acceptable to belittle him just because she makes more money than he does. Mitchie realized he might have started the affair for physical reasons but soon they became emotional reasons. Unlike his wife, Mitchie thought the fact that Shane basically built his little independent record label from the ground up to be extremely impressive. And she never belittled him. Besides the fact that it would kind of ruin their little 'arrangement', she generally tried to treat everyone as equals. She was raised to believe no one was better than anyone. But that didn't stop her from thinking that Shane was much better than the witch he was married to. She never dared to ask but she knew why he was still with her.

It would be quite rude to divorce the daughter of the man who loaned him most of the money and resources used to start the record label.

After reliving that night in her head, Mitchie started to feel bad for persuading Shane in to meeting tonight.

She grabbed her cellphone and replied to his text message.

To: Shane

I've had a change of heart. Go enjoy dinner with your wife. I'll be patient and wait until it's my turn. ;)

She felt selfish wanting more of Shane's time but she couldn't help it. Yes, it started strictly sexual but it was turning into something more.

Mitchie was catching actual feelings for Shane.

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I have a feeling as we go deeper into the plot, the chapters will get much longer. Exciting. Haha Well, thanks for reading and please review!