Tai's Story Ch. 07

The next day Talia wandered into the restaurant after school accompanied by another young girl and they were both moving cautiously. "Dad this is Samantha. She is my girlfriend."

I was taken aback by the suddenness of it but didn't want to show it. "Hi Samantha, it's nice to meet you." We shook hands.

Talia mumbled. "We are going up to my room to study OK?"

I nodded. "OK would you like something to eat?" They both shook their heads and disappeared. A few minutes later Talia snuck back down. "How did your date go last night?"

I snickered. "Well I guess you already know seeing as how you set it up. Are you sure you don't want something to eat?"

"Well some sandwiches would be nice." She whispered."

I laughed. "Yeah OK I will bring them up, Talia, please don't rush honey, take your time this is all new to you."

She hugged me tight. "Dad we are only doing homework, don't worry."

"So I don't need to discuss the birds and bee's then?"

She giggled. "Dad we are doing homework OK."

Samantha seemed like a nice girl and they seemed to hit it off really well. The day of the ball Alex turned up early in the morning and took the girls out for facials and hair styling.

They came back looking like movie stars. After they had gone Alex said. "Well don't just stand there looking silly I want my repayment."

"What would that be?" I asked knowing the answer already.

"Actually I want you to spend the next hour licking my pussy but as good as you are, its Amy I want to do it."

There was no arguments from me I dressed quickly and when I walked out she had the lights down low and music playing softly. I was only in the room for seconds before she pounced on me. It might not have been rape but shit it was definitely sexual assault. Her mouth was like a wet juicy vacuum as she sucked hungrily on my tongue.

"Come on you little slut don't tease me I want that tongue in my pussy." As we made love she kept pushing my head down between her legs. Her pussy was wet juicy and open waiting for my slippery tongue. I fucked her sliding my tongue deep into her slit, my tongue slurping from her arsehole to her clit where I took time to nibble greedily on her little nub of joy. Her body rocked and thrust frantically as I jammed a couple of fingers into her foaming gaping hole. "Fuck yes you dirty little slut lick my cunt, lick it good."

It's hard to argue with a woman who has your head in a headlock with her legs sexy thighs crushing you. Her orgasm was not far away, I loved her orgasms she cum's with her whole body. She trembles and quivers her body almost levitates as she pushes up against me. This one was no exception. Her body was like a quivering vibrating mass of sinew as she screamed. "OOOOOHHHH FUCK YES, YES, YES DON'T STOP."

She had me so worked up I couldn't wait, the moment I sunk into her sloppy hole she cried out as my balls slapped against her arse. I was so excited I couldn't wait for her. I pumped hard fast and furious and I wanted to wait for her to catch up but it was too late my sticky cum was soon squirting into her like a volcano.

As we lay in bed together afterwards she breathed wetly in my ear. "Babe I don't want to spoil the moment, but what about including Ben? We would both love for him to be included again, wouldn't it be great if he could be here with us."

I winced knowing that what I was about to say would not go down well. "Sorry Alex I just can't. I no its stupid and I can't explain it but I just can't. Especially now Talia is here."

"What the hell has Talia got to do with this?"

"Well I am trying to do the right thing and set a good example."

"How is enjoying the company of somebody who really likes you setting a bad example?"

"I don't know Alex it doesn't feel right with my daughter here. I don't want her to see that side of me, its taken a long time to build our relationship and I don't want to do anything that would make her lose respect for me."

It sort of brought the evening to a sad end and she left in a huff.

Talia arrived home a little afterwards and I had barely showered before she walked in.

She was giggly and excited and couldn't wait to tell me all about her evening. She had shared a kiss and of course a little more I am sure that she didn't talk about. She was so giddy and bubbly we sat up for ages talking. She was in love.

The bad news from that night was that Alex didn't call. Fair enough she cut me off but what pissed me off was she cut Talia out as well. Talia tackled me about it. "Dad what's happened to Alex? Have I done something to upset her?"

I tried to reassure her. "No honey this has nothing to do with you but everything to do with me and her. We had a tiff the other night and she is angry with me. I am sorry she is taking it out on you."

"What happened? Did you say something wrong?"

"Honey I don't want to talk about it OK. I am just giving her some space. She has her own life to lead."

She was hurting I could see that by her expression they had become so close. She walked away despondently the pain was obvious. She felt like she was losing another friend. The good news however was over the next few days Samantha luckily was there to pick up the slack. She was so in love that it helped to keep her occupied and softened the loss for her.

It also put a dent in our relationship I don't think she did it purposely, but subconsciously she blamed me, or at least held me partially responsible for Alex not being around.

It was time though to start working on the finer points for the restaurant. Step one was a menu. I went through all my favourites. I was worried that just because I liked them didn't mean others would. So I organised a bit of a trial. I invited Pete and Evie over for dinner. When I explained my method to Talia she pleaded for me to let Samantha come as well. So that night they all turned up and I cooked small portions of all the dishes and they all had to sample them and tell me if they liked them.

Well the evening went well. They all liked my choices although Pete suggested adding another fish option.

It was late before they floundered through the final dessert. Again they were all popular. As the girls were laughing about it Samantha asked who was going to design the menu. I hadn't actually thought about it.

She asked. "Would you mind if I tried to develop something. Art is my major and I would love to help, and I could use it for my end of year project."

"Wow sounds great to me. I would love it especially if you could include a red door somehow."

She nodded. Pete and Evie shot off home and Talia saw Samantha to the door.

That night I fretted and worried and I didn't sleep well. I was too busy building a mental list of all the outstanding jobs. I had to organise an advert for staff. I had to find time for interviews. Organise wine and food. Sort out some advertising of some sort. Fuck the list was endless, and the more I thought about it the more stressed and worried I became

Strangely the next day I got a call out of the blue from a woman who specialised in advertising. She had been called by Alex and she had given her my number. I told her to come over straight away. She turned out to be a really good source of helpful information. She was one of Alex's best friends, and had been at the party I went to. Because she was Alex's friend she offered me a really good rate. She also had a whole coral of musicians she managed who could provide background music which sounded great.

Alex was an enigma, she went out of her way to help me, even while we were arguing. I sent her a text. 'Thanks for organising Louise for me, she is marvellous.' She never responded which pissed me off, at least she could have sent something.

When I checked my email there must have been at least one hundred job applicants. I started to read through and vet some of them but after the first dozen I had already had enough. There were a couple of good ones but nothing that stood out. My plans got thrown into disarray when Evie turned up.

I made us both a coffee and we sat in the restaurant. As we sat it was strangely silent. Normally it's hard to shut Evie up. It seemed like hours before she spoke. "Tai I wanted to talk to you about work and the restaurant."

"Yeah hon go for it. What's on your mind?"

"Well are you planning on having a maître D?"

"Yes..." I answered wondering where she was going.

"Well what would you say if I asked would you consider me for the position?"

I broke into a huge smile. "I would say you are hired and your first job starts now."

She laughed. "What that's it? No interview or nothing?"

I laughed. "Do you really want to do an interview?"

"Well I practised my speech and all the answers, but no, no I don't."

"Good then let's get you started on your first job."

She grinned. "Oh yeah what's that?"

"Reading these CV's and then interviewing these hundred or so job applicants."

"Are you serious? You would give me that job? Don't you think you should be doing that?"

"Of course I'm bloody serious. I couldn't think of anyone I would rather have working with me. It will be so good to have someone I can trust."

"Thanks hon that means a lot to me. It has been getting me down lately. I am sick of being a cleaner and getting all the shit jobs."

She picked up and started to rifle through the CV's. Bloody hell, look at all this. Fuck it will take me ages."

I laughed. "Just scan through them and pick the best twenty and then talk to them on the phone and then call in the best ten for interviews. I will help with the interviews if you need."

She was already reading them while we were talking. "So what about your current job can you leave at short notice?"

She shrugged. "Well I am just a casual so I only need to give them a couple of days' notice."

I left her leafing through them as I headed out to meet with Louise who was Alex's friend who was going to develop the advertising strategy. I walked into her agency front office and it was pretty swanky. I was directed to sit in the waiting area whilst Louise finished what she was doing. They fed me up on biscuits and coffee as I waited. Eventually she appeared and waved me through to her office. She was a very short woman but attractive. She seemed incredibly informed and had already laid out a strategy she thought would suit and she was really onto it. As we sat down she immediately started to work through her strategy explaining that I would need to spend the majority of my advertising budget up front, because at the moment no one even knew who we were or where we were based. She walked me through a couple of different campaigns. Her choice was Radio drive time and a very brief TV slot. The TV one was probably the best according to her although it was the most expensive.

Facebook was also another option we should use as it was the new age go to product. She talked about photographers and stuff. After half an hour my head was swimming in gobbledegook.

The costs were something that I hadn't expected, the amounts she was espousing scared me, but I had allowed a small budget. It was however well short of what she was suggesting. In the end after much discussion we decided on a huge Facebook promotion and a solid Radio promotion campaign with some giveaways and such like.

There were lots of ongoing methods such as including adverts in local business flyers and information brochures. I liked the idea of brochures that could be placed in all the city information kiosks and bulletin boards.

It was late when I got back to the restaurant and Talia and Samantha were waiting for me. Samantha was very excited. She had done some work on the menu.

As we sat down at one of the tables she laid out a spread of artwork that covered the whole table. Included was an actual menu as it would appear.

"These are what I have worked on but if you don't like them I can do more." She pushed across a menu. "This is my favourite." She said hesitantly, as I glanced at her I could see she was trembling and her face was filled with trepidation and anxiety. I glanced across at Talia and again her face was filled with the same anxiety.

I picked up the menu first and started to open it. Wow she had done an amazing job. The menu cover was a picture of the actual front door sided by photographs of meals. There were filigree squiggles and swirls. It looked amazing. It was laid out with photos and prices. She had also developed a beverages menu. The whole thing was incredible. It certainly didn't look like it was the work of a college student.

She had also started to put together a Facebook page for me. Not something I had asked for but she had done a magnificent job. She had used the same logo from the menu and it looked really swish.

"This is amazing Samantha, you have done a remarkable job. Honestly this is better than I expected."

The look on both their faces was excitement and joy. "Talia stuttered. "So you really like it?"

I lifted her hand and gave it a pat. "Honey it's great. I love it." I turned back to Sam. "OK Samantha how much is all this going to cost me?"

She fidgeted around playing with the artwork and looking down at the table. Talia got impatient and answered for her. "Dad she wants to be able to put up her paintings around the restaurant and hopefully sell some in lieu of payment."

I gave her a hug. "You could have just asked if that's what you want. I would be happy to, well so longs as they are good." Talia jumped up and ran over behind the bar and pulled out a whole bunch of paintings. They weren't my cup of tea to be honest, being abstracts but they did look pretty cool, and the colours were great. They would definitely look great hanging around the place.

"OK Samantha it's a deal. You are the artist so I will leave it up to you to hang them where you want. She and Talia looked ecstatic. "Wow are you sure? I didn't think they were very good." She stuttered.

"I laughed. "Honey the menu is fantastic and what you did with the Facebook looks amazing. I am paying someone to manage the Facebook advertising and this will give them a wonderful head start."

"Can I hang them up now?" She asked.

"Fill your boots." They started to walk around the restaurant looking for the perfect place for each one.

Evie called me later. She had narrowed down the applicants and had highlighted the important ones and emailed them back to me. She wanted to do face to face interviews the next day.

The one thing I was struggling with was the financials. I had been trying to manage the budget myself but it was getting difficult. Right about then I was wishing I could talk to Ben, but that wasn't going to work. I did a quick hunt through our friend google to find an accountant. The search threw up a couple of options. I chose one based on the fact their office was just up the road from Louise who I was going to see in the morning.

While talking to Louise I showed her all of the stuff that Sam had prepared and she was blown away by how good it was. As we went over it I mentioned I was going to see an accountant just up the road. I was hoping she might know something about them.

When I mentioned it she screwed up her nose. "Why didn't you just ask Alex?"

The comment threw me. "Ummm I didn't know she was an accountant."

"She was an accountant before she met Ben. That's actually how they met and what's more I know she would love to help."

I cringed as I owned up that things didn't exactly end on good terms between us. She grinned. "Tai she really likes you. It's why she has helped you. OK I know that things didn't go so well between you because of Ben. That won't stop her helping you I promise."

I was a bit flummoxed not just by how much she knew about our relationship but how certain she was. "Do you really believe that? If she was interested because at the moment she won't even talk to me." I watched her closely trying to decipher her facial expression, but she was not giving much away. "Louise if I thought for a moment she was interested I would ask, god I would love her to be involved."

As I waffled away she grinned. "Tai I can see what she means about how insecure you are, here I will prove it." She muttered as she picked up the phone and dialled. "Hi Alex, listen I have Tai in my office. He is looking for an accountant and I suggested you. Would you be interested?" I couldn't hear what Alex said but they broke into laughter and chatted for a few moments. Louise nodded as they spoke. She handed me the phone with a wink of her eye.

Alex said. "Hello Tai, so it seems you need an accountant after all huh?"

I was still suffering from the insecure comment. "Yes I do need some help. I will understand if you are busy." I burbled. "It's OK if you don't want to work with me." I wanted to say, how the fuck are you going to work with me? You can't even talk to me, but I bit my tongue.

It stunned me when she giggled with that infusive bubbly little laugh she has. "Tai I would love to help. I could stop by the restaurant this afternoon and we could go over the books and see how much trouble you are really in."

As I walked out of Louise's office I was shaking my head in disbelief. How the fuck did that happen?

By the time I got back to the restaurant Evie was getting set up to do the interviews. I sat down with her and we went over the resume's she had chosen and I had to admit she had chosen good ones. I asked if she wanted a hand but she laughed. "No you said I had to do it so I am. The bad news for you is you will have to live with my choices."

I knew she was teasing but I was a bit nervous about whom she had selected as the second chef. I was going to have to work closely with whoever she chose. I tried to say I would hang around but she chased me away. As I walked out into the restaurant proper there was a cue of people waiting. I noticed one girl in particular. She was very, very attractive a real stand out. That was a little unfair, she was more than attractive she was stunning. She was about 25 to 30 or somewhere there abouts. She was dressed smartly and held herself well. I wondered what position she was applying for. I was immediately hoping for second chef.

I watched as she sat beside the other applicants talking and laughing. I busied myself as the contractors finished the installation of the bar fridge. The only problem was I couldn't take my eyes of the gorgeous girl waiting to be interviewed. I couldn't believe how pretty she was and she seemed so at ease with everything. She didn't seem to have any recognition of how she was affecting those around her.

I watched as Evie came and got her and they walked together into the office. She moved as gracefully as she looked. Her movements were smooth and fluid like a stalking cat. Effortless like liquid silk cascading down a staircase. Christ I had a hard on as I stared longingly at her. One of the contractors working beside me whistled quietly. "Fucking hell now she is fucking hot... Fuck I would love to get between her legs."

I wanted to castigate him but he had only voiced what I was thinking.

Just then Alex walked in looking equally as sexy although in a completely different way. She was sex on two legs and she knew it. She walked with arrogance and indifference, her head high and her back straight. The guy beside me sucked in a deep breath. "Fuck me." Was all he said and in honesty it was the perfect description.

Alex walked up and gave me a kiss as she looked me up and down. "You have let yourself go a bit Tai. Amy would be disgusted."

I laughed at her reprimand. "Sorry Alex Amy hasn't been around much lately, it's hard with Talia living here as well."

"That's a ridiculous excuse and you know it, still let's have a look at these books and see how big a mess you have made." She looked around and nodded in approval. "Well you have certainly made a good job of the decorating, the place looks amazing. Where can we go?"