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Chapter 7
Sam got home later than Penny expected but one thing she immediately noticed was the look on his face. He seemed confused and distraught but when he looked at her, he gave her his signature warm smile before he threw his things down and quickly wrapped her up in his arms.
He pulled her into a deep kiss and she couldn't help but to melt into it before she let out a squeal when he picked her up and ran them upstairs.
"Sammy… what has gotten into you?" She asked after he gently laid her down and stripped out of his clothes then removed her as well. He didn't respond as he carefully but quickly sheathed his member before he crawled on top of her and kissed her again this time with a sense of urgency and desire, something she hadn't felt from him in a long time.
Sam entered her in one swift motion letting out a hard moan before slowly easing out only to crash back into her with so much force she couldn't help but moan loudly. Penny wasn't sure what had come over him but she was happy to have her boyfriend back, happy that he was finally able to share himself with her again and she allowed herself to be ravished by him.
He continued his sweet assault on her body, Sam's face was focused and his eyes were closed. She looked at his chiseled jaw and plump lips finding herself getting even more turned on when he bit down on his bottom lip and when he let another groan she felt his motions intensify.
"Fuck." He muttered feeling himself nearing his peak flipping them over so that she was riding him. He gripped her hips guiding her up and down his member.
"Sam…" She whimpered and in an instant Sam realized what he was doing, he wasn't thinking of his girlfriend at that moment.
No, his mind was on a curvy, brown eyed woman with lips that had burned into his body. He hadn't realized it at first because his mind had still been so consumed with how good it felt to kiss her and how good it felt knowing she wanted him to do it but also didn't want him to be a bad guy.
That fact alone had turned him on to the point he was doing this, he wasn't a guy that would fantasize about another woman while being with one but there he was pretending to be knee deep inside of Mercedes, feeling her writhe beneath him and gripping him as he moved in and out of her warm body. Just thinking that alone had him ready to explode but he knew he needed to stop this before he dug himself into a deeper hole so he did what probably no sane man would and stopped Penny's movements.
"We need to stop." He said breathing heavily and seeing the wide range of emotions flash over her face.
"Is something wrong?" She asked and he felt like a complete asshole for doing this.
"No… yes but it's nothing you're doing it's… I got stuck in my head." He admitted even if it was only the partial truth.
"Sam… why do you keep doing this? We start then you stop , it's starting to make me feel like you don't want me sexually anymore." Penny replied, rolling off of him with a huff.
"It's not that at all, I just need to get out of my head and I'm trying I promise." He said getting up walking into the bathroom to discard the condom.
"You know Sam, if you would just go sleep with another person it would make all this a lot easier." Penny said through the door and he felt himself grow angry at how casually she suggested he cheat on her.
"I'm sorry I can't just walk out and cheat on you like you did me, sorry I have fucking standards!" He spat walking out of the bathroom and grabbing a pair of sweatpants. "I'm sleeping in the guest room."
"Sam, wait… I didn't mean it that way."
"Good night Penny." He said slipping the pants on and walking out of the room back downstairs. He picked up his briefcase then grabbed his beer from the fridge before going into the guest room and closing the door.
He tossed his bag on the chair beside the bed before climbing into it and taking a long sip of his drink, figuring he could just look over the files again before getting some sleep.
Mercedes had just gotten into bed when her phone started buzzing, she looked at it and saw that it was Tina and answered it.
Hey, what's up? How's Charlie?
She's good, fast asleep. I called to check on you and see how your work date with the hottie went.
It wasn't a work date and it went fine.
Liar!
"Seriously we just went over files and then he left." Mercedes responded before hearing the request for a facetime call and she rolled her eyes.
"Damn it Tina! I told you nothing-" She started before realizing it wasn't Tina looking back at her, it was Sam and he looked amused.
"Oh hi…" She said sitting up and adjusting because she wasn't wearing much.
"Talking about me?" He joked.
"Umm is there something you…. Ah needed?" She asked, trying hard not to notice he was shirtless.
"I just wanted to apologize again." He said with a soft smile.
"Don't… please. We can blame it on the alcohol and poor judgment…" She replied and for a brief moment they just shared a look.
"I-" They said together before stopping.
"Mercedes…" He breathed and she could feel the want when he said her name, she needed to end this call.
"I should go." She said softly.
"Please don't… I, shit."
"I'm going to remove myself from the case." She said, shocking him.
"Wait, no. I don't want you to do that…"
"Sam, answer this honestly, if I hadn't stopped us from going further what would have happened?" She asked and noticed the way his eyes flashed slightly.
"Don't make me answer that."
"Okay let me rephrase it, if I invited you over right now would you come?" She questioned and the look on his face said everything.
"Are you?" He countered and she could tell he needed her to say no and she needed to say no for her own sanity.
"Am I what?" She bounced back.
"Asking me to come over… right now." Sam challenged and she could tell his breathing had picked up slightly and noticed hers was doing the same.
"If I am..." She replied, biting her lip.
He raked his bottom lip through his teeth, watching her carefully. "I need you to say it." He breathed, shifting.
Mercedes looked at him, feeling her breathing start to rise. "Then you might need to look elsewhere because I won't help you cheat. Good night Sam." She replied before ending the call letting out a shaky breath.
…
Over the next few weeks Mercedes did a hell of a job avoiding Sam after asking to be assigned to another case but today she wasn't so lucky when she walked into her office and saw him standing there waiting patiently for her.
"Mr. Evans, what do I owe this visit?" She asked, trying to keep it professional.
"Mercedes, you need to get back on the case." Sam said bluntly and she shot him a confused look.
"I thought they replaced me with Quinn?" She questioned and Sam let out an angry sigh.
"They did and that's why you need to get back on the case." Sam replied through gritted teeth and she couldn't help but smirk.
"I assume things aren't going well?" She teased trying not to laugh when he shot her an annoyed look.
"Look I know lines were crossed but I'm going to strangle her if I stay on the case."
"Look-" She started but stopped when he got on his knees looking up at her pleadingly.
"Please Mercedes, we will only meet here and I will let you lead just PLEASE get back on the case!" Sam pleaded and she felt her resolve breaking.
"How about I just meditate?" She countered and he shook his head.
"Nope and I won't move from this spot until you change your mind." Sam said, wrapping his arms around her knees.
"Sam, seriously this isn't a good look! What if-"
"Mrs. Jones- oh… I can come back." Jane said, going wide-eyed.
"No, no Mr. Evans was just leaving." Mercedes said, trying to pull away but his grip just got tighter.
"Please don't make me work with her!" Sam pleaded again.
"Okay fine! Now will you get off my floor and out of my office?" She asked, giving in and rolling her eyes when he smiled at her.
"Yup!" He said feeling triumphant before standing and shooting her a cute smile.
"See you later Ms. Jones." He said fixing his tie then walking out, Mercedes rolled her eyes and let out a sigh then looked at Jane who was sporting a smirk.
"Don't even start." Mercedes said before Jane giggled.
"Here are your notes for your new clients…" Jane said, handing over the files with a smirk.
"Thank you, anything else?" She asked, shaking her head.
"Yes, Mr. Evans already scheduled lunch with you to go over the case." Jane answered before walking out of her office and Mercedes scuffed as she walked to her desk and dialed his number.
"Evans."
"You just assumed I would give in huh?" She asked and Sam smiled hearing her voice.
"I had hoped that you would so I went ahead and planned lunch. Safe and in the open plus Quinn will be there."
"I usually spend lunch on facetime with my daughter but I guess I can make an exception this time."
"Wait… so if Quinn's not there will I get to see Charlie?" He questioned and she couldn't help the laugh that followed.
"Maybe but you'll never know now." She said before hanging up.
Mercedes arrived at the conference room where she could hear Sam and Quinn going at it like cats and dogs. She stood outside for a brief moment before knocking and walking inside with an apprehensive smile. Sam shot her a look that let her know he was very pissed and Quinn just gave her a once over before rolling her eyes.
"Ms. Jones I see you finally decided to join us." Quinn said checking her watch and Mercedes let out a mirthless laugh.
"I'm only here to mediate, so the time I arrive has nothing to do with what you expected." Mercedes countered earning a scowl from Quinn.
"Yes! She's here to help us make sure we have the best defense and to… defuse the tension." Sam chimed in before there was a knock at the door and his assistant walked in with several bags of food.
"Mr. Evans, I got a variety of different foods like you asked." She said with a smile placing the food down then walking out.
"Shall we?" Sam asked starting to unpack all the food and looked at Mercedes pleadingly and she rolled her eyes before grabbing a container and sitting down. Quinn soon followed suit with Sam letting out a relieved sigh and sat across from Mercedes.
"So Mercedes, since you're here to mediate what do you suggest our approach should be?" Quinn asked but before Mercedes could respond her phone went off.
"Sorry it's my mother." She said taking her phone out and connecting to facetime.
"Hi! Aww hi sweetie, how are you guys?"
"We're not interrupting are we?" Jill asked.
"No, I'm at lunch. How's the park?"
"Great, little miss here threw a fit when it was time to get off the swings though."
Mercedes couldn't help laughing when her daughter scrunched her face up cutely at her grandmother.
Aww, you didn't want to get off that swing, did you cutie?
She looked up and noticed Sam was looking at her with a small smile and Quinn looked extremely annoyed by her using baby talk and figured she'd cut their chat short for today.
"I actually need to cut this short so, I call you both after lunch okay?"
She saw Sam shaking his head before he got up and walked over showing his face to her mother and daughter. Mercedes moved her head to the side so he could get a better view of them and the look that crossed her mother's face didn't go unnoticed by Mercedes.
"Hi Ms. Jones, hi Charlie!"
"Sam, so good to see you again! I didn't realize you two were sharing lunch together."
"I'm meditating on a case for him and another associate, moma." Mercedes explained and her mother just smirked.
"Well Sam, I'm having a little get-together for our newly renovated cabin and I sure hope my daughter isn't rude by not inviting you."
Mercedes narrowed her eyes at her mother before she quickly hung up the phone with a swift goodbye, Sam just smiled at Mercedes waiting for her to extend the invite. Quinn cleared her throat and for the first time ever she was grateful for the woman sitting there with the permanent scowl on her face.
"I'll be expecting that invite." He whispered before returning to his seat.
"To answer your question Quinn, I think you should come out strong but not with some much force that you give away everything in the first go around. This is an important case and throwing all your holy grails out at once might cause you to lose." Mercedes said and Sam nodded in agreement.
"This is going to be one of the biggest and most talked about cases. We must start strong, we have the game changer evidence and should start with it to let the opposition know we aim to obliterate them." Quinn countered, shaking her head.
"You're not thinking about cross. You may have the evidence but you will lack tack if you use it immediately. The witness list isn't solid and their stories can be easily torn apart if there isn't anything more than that one piece of evidence. You can not gamble with these people's lives." Mercedes said, shooting Quinn a hard look.
"Well it's a good thing I'm the first chair." Quinn spat back and Mercedes looked at her like she lost her damn mind.
"Don't sit there all high and mighty like you were the first choice, you're only in that position because I chose to step down. Understand all it takes is for me to say I want back for you to be back on some second hand case that will get you no notiarity. So be humble and THANK ME." Mercedes spat back with such ease that Sam had to try hard to hide his smirk.
"Excuse me?" Quinn asked and Mercedes sat back in her chair looking her up and down.
"You heard me, thank me for allowing you to stay on this case because I can change it." Mercedes replied and Quinn let out a humorless laugh shaking her head.
"You can't be serious, I will not thank you for shit!"
"Then you're not on the case." Mercedes said calmly and Sam's eyes went wide because he hadn't expected this turn of events but didn't say a word because he was okay with Mercedes getting back on the case.
"Wh-what? You can NOT do that." Quinn retorted in disbelief before letting out an annoyed sigh.
"Thank you." Quinn said through gritted teeth and Mercedes just smiled.
"I see, I'm no longer needed now am I?" Mercedes asked standing and Quinn shook her head and Sam shot her an appreciative smile to which she just winked at him before gathering her things and leaving.
welll... that escalated quickly lol
