After Ross promised Kayley that he would break down the assets he bought when he bought back RossShell, he knew that such move would require a detailed search, and a major amount of time to keep those he really wanted.
The Catch 22 was, because Ross was not responsible to service the companies he bought in the deal, he could either ask them to hire temporary marketing companies to help them for the time being, or run the risk of losing certain clients he wanted to keep,, for good.
Ross, Ross's attorney, and Victor searched deeply, and after a relatively short period of time, the three men, most importantly Ross, had a pretty good idea of the accounts they would keep, and the accounts they wanted to sell, or to try to sell.
Ross figured that as a rough estimate, he had bought up 100 accounts from what used to be the former RossShell, off the Tazzio Bankruptcy and from the court. He could "push the envelope " and try to keep 60 of those, but even in pushing the envelope, he knew that 50 to 55 would be much safer for his marriage, and his business.
One night, when Ross arrived home, at 6 pm, he gave Kayley a detailed breakdown of the companies he wanted to keep, and sell. Kayley took out her reading glasses, read the list over, sighed, and then said.
"Okay, this seems fair. If you say you are going to keep 50 accounts, and end up keeping 55 accounts, I am not going to rake you over the coals and bust your chops for five additional accounts" Kayley said calmly.
"Kale, the other thing I'm going to do with this development, is to go back to my original plan of what I told you initially and enlarge the office. I'm going to rent the space next to me, break through the wall, and hire some people to service these added accounts, so I can service Tim, Larry, the oil and gas, and Dave Banner as my only full-time marketing accounts that I do myself. For the rest I will hire either a President, or a couple of Vice Presidents, and some temps or workers, I dont know yet. The point is, the work load I will be personally responsible for except for final approval of other accounts, wont be much more than now. I'm going to work around this where I can live up to our agreement, and have at least some of what I want. I dont think I'm being unreasonable. I hope you will at least try to understand" Ross said.
"I understand, Ross. You have to understand that if you do anything not to live up to the agreement you just made, I'm going to feel completely betrayed by you, and like you lied to me, and that we are going to have major, major problems where I will never be able to trust you again" Kayley said.
"Point understood, and taken, and I will do just what I said" Ross said.
"Okay, then let's stop going back and forth, take a shower together, and I will take you out to dinner with my own money to celebrate" Kayley said with a smile.
Riss and Kayley took a shower together, and went to a pub for dinner. This time, Kayley took out her wallet to pay the fifty dollar check.
:"Thank You, Madam Teacher" Ross said, kissing Kayley on the lips.
"You're most welcome, Mister Marketing CEO. In celebration of you getting what you want, and explaining it to me calmly"Kayley said.
When Ross and Kayley got home, Kayley got a dominant tone to her voice.
"Down on the floor. You know what I want from you! "Kayley said.
Ross got down on the floor, Kayley removed her clogs that she was wearing on her feet, without socks or stockings, and pushed her sweaty bare feet in Ross's face, getting him almost instantly hard.
"Big man outside, but male sub in here., Take me to bed, get me naked, and Fuck Me!" Kayley demanded.
Ross escorted Kayley to bed, they discarded their clothes, kissed a bit, Kayley's nipples were extremely hard, as the pre cum felt wet on Ross's dick , and Kayley began to get wet inside.
Ross got on the bottom, and Kayley got on top of him, and was riding his dick.
"Big, tough male exec. I have you wrapped around my finger. You know that I am the only woman for you. You know that no matter what we say to each other, we will be together forever." Kayley said, as she kept being more and more wet, and Ross was going crazy.
After they both breathlessly exploded with cum together, and were breathing hard, they crawled into their places in bed, and held each other.
"That was so hot! "Ross said, as they both laughed.
"Can I kidnap you for a couple of days?" Kayley said.
"Maybe over the weekend we will go to AC or hop on a plane somewhere, more likely than not" Ross said.
"Okay, and just remember. Each time you keep your word to me, you get what you just got. I hope and expect that you will" Kayley said.
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"Oh, I will be keeping my word to you., Both because IU promised you, and because that was fun" Ross said.
Both Ross and Kayley fell asleep very early holding each other. About 2 am, Kayley was coming out of the bathroom, when Ross woke up.
"What;s the matter?" Kayley said.
"Nothing, I heard you., We went to sleep so early that I just woke up" Ross said.
"Come with me to the kitchen for a drink" Kayley said, getting out of bed naked as Ross did the same.
The couple put on towels to sit on their chairs, as they drank iced teas.
"Ross, one work thing and then I will bring up no more about work as its in the middle of the night" Kayley said.
"I'm listening, what's on your mind?" Ross said.
"When I told you to sell, I did not mean to do it recklessly. Dont just trash accounts out of fear because you fear that I'm going to be pissed at the time frame. I dont care if you take some more time, as long as you do it. Its not the time frame as much as it is the promise that means something to me" Kayley said.
Ross kissed Kayley. "Thank You for understanding that. I think you know that I will be careful , as this means too much to me, and to both of us" Ross said.
When Ross and Kayley got up for work the next morning, and were eating breakfast, Ross got a text from Fritz P that said. "Need you here for 36 to 48 hours starting tomorrow night at latest, for oil show, and possible development discussion and sale, hope you can come" Frftz said.
Ross showed Kayley Fritz's text.
"Okay, we will just have to do what we did last night, again tonight" Kayley said, as they both laughed,.
Ross answered Fritz's text "Be there at the end of the day tomorrow"
When Ross and Kayley left for work, Ross went to the office, where he said to his secretary "Please make me an evening flight to Dallas with connection to OKC tomorrow. I will be out of the office for two days at max, and back on the third day" Ross said.
"Of course, Ross" Ross's secretary said.
With the amount of time that it was taking three men to search for which accounts to keep, and which to eliminate, Ross got an idea, and called the one client he trusted most in the world except for perhaps Fritz and Steve, Tim Patrick.
"Tim, good morning. Question. You know the task I'm doing of trying to break down and sell off at least some of RossShell's former assets. Do you think I might or should hire a forensic accounting firm to do all the research, to eliminate the time issue, and make the load easier on Victor and myself? Could such a firm handle a job like this, even if it costs a lot of money but is worth it?" Ross asked.
"Ross, that;s actually a great idea. Since you;'ve always been so on target with me, and value our personal and business relationship so much, let me help you. Let me make some calls to clients and friends, and see who can get you the best firm possible" Tim said.
"Thanks, my friend, I will walt for your call. I will be going to OKC and will be back in two or three days" Ross said.,
"Oil show, huh? Have a good time" Tim said.
When Ross entered the apartment about 630 pm after leaving the office at 6, and buying flowers for Kayley, they exchanged a big kiss, Ross gave Kayley the flowers, and then he said.
"Where can I take you for dinner Madam Partner in life?" Ross said.
"Japanese sounds fun. I'm in the mood for chicken with Japanese sauce" Kayley replied.
"Your wish is my command Ross said, as he jumped into the shower, put on jeans, and the couple went out to dinner.
"So how was the chaos today?" Kayley said, giggling.
"Actually, I might be able to put an end to a lot of the chaos, Teacher. I spoke to Tim Patrick, and asked him what he thought about me hiring a forensic accounting firm to take over the work of going through RossShell's accounts, to discuss what to keep and what to sell off. It might not be the time-consuming crap that it could be" Ross said.
Kayley smiled. "I'm proud of you. Now you are using your head, and coming up with good ideas that are good for our relationship, our marriage, and your company. If this continues, we are going to get along just fine, and there will be many more nights like last night" Kayley said.
Then Kayley continued. "I hope you sign up tons of investors when you go on your trip, because I know that will make you happy" Kayley said.
"I dont need "tons," Maybe 10 to 15 will be fine. We are supposed to show the company and the fields to 75 to 100 investors. Some huge ass oil and gas company wants to buy us out, but Steve and Fritz are going to tell them to go fuck themselves. We want to keep building this company. It is not about the money , it is about the satisfaction of all of us being in a successful oil and gas company" Ross said.
After the fine dinner, Ross and Kayley cuddled, made love, and went to sleep.
When Ross got up to go to the office that morning, he kissed Kayley goodbye, and cuddled her in his arms. "I will miss you, baby. I will try my dam nest to get out of there in one and a half days If not, I will be home at the end of the second day, not that late" Ross said.
"Dont worry about it. I understand. Just do what you want to, and remember, have fun, because I know you love oil and gas" Kayley said.
When Ross got to OKC, he went to Steve and Fritz office, and then went to the fields with fifty investors. When they got to the fields, an unexpected terrible shock was told to the three men.
"Oil leak, Mister C, and Mister P./ Cleanup needed,. field shut down needed, and there will be a delay. You gentlemen are going to have to come back. I am so sorry. Hopefully it will not take that long to clean up, but the pil regulation will have to inspect things as you know, before we can reopen. " The field foreman said.
Ross felt shivers down his spine, and when he got back to the office, after the investors had left, Ross pounded the door of the office he used when he was in OKC.
"Dann guys, what a terrible thing. What does all this mean?" Ross asked.
"Its not good, Ross. The cleanup will cost all three of us and the company some cash.
We can write it off as a business expense, but we may have to hold off on signing up people for a while, maybe a month" Fritz said.
"Do you need me here, or can I go home, and I will come back whenever I'm needed. ?" Ross said.
"You can leave, nothing for you to do here. I will of course keep you posted" Fritz said.
Ross went outside the office, he called the airline, made a flight home that landed at JFK at 10, then called Kayley.
"That wad fast" Kayley said.
"I'm coming home tonight,. there was a serious problem. An oil leak, it will take a while to clean up" Ross said.
"I'm sorry, Ross" Kayley said.
Ross flew home , entered the apartment, and the bedroom, gave Kayley a light kiss hello, and got into bed.
Kayley went and held Ross.
"Ross, let me take care of you. Please don;'t go into the regular office tomorrow. Call in and tell them you had to come home, because you were sick. Digest this for 24 hours. Don't deal with the searching through which accounts to keep or sell. In real terms it does not matter., I know this is a hard hit for you guys" Kayley said.
"You're right., I'm definitely not going in. I may just have the staff tell people I came home to avoid anyone except you, Fritz and Steve. I just want to calm down, and think about this carefully" Ross said.
When Ross got into bed, the couple turned out the lights,and Kayley went to hold Ross, who was shaking.
"Let me take care of you for a while. This is a setback, but its not the end of the O and G . You yourself have always told me that in business there are unexpected setbacks" Kayley said.
"Maybe the greater force is punishing me for gloating when I got RossShell and the accounts back from Tazzio" Ross said.
"Ross, just please calm down, and let the appropriate people fix the problem with the O and G. You will still be doing plenty of O and G with Fritz and Steve, it will just be delayed a bit" Kayley said.
Ross kissed Kayley.
"Thank You. I really appreciate your support. I needed this right now. Believe me, I will remember this" Ross said.
"This is because most important I'm your wife, and you need me, and also because I know you're trying to live up to your word of making the RossShell company that you took back from Tazzip a far more managable work load than in the past" Kayley said.
As Kayley drifted off to sleep, Ross of course remained wide awake even though he was emotionally exhausted.'
How serious was the oil and gas problem, and how much would it really affect the business?
That would be seen.
The Catch 22 was, because Ross was not responsible to service the companies he bought in the deal, he could either ask them to hire temporary marketing companies to help them for the time being, or run the risk of losing certain clients he wanted to keep,, for good.
Ross, Ross's attorney, and Victor searched deeply, and after a relatively short period of time, the three men, most importantly Ross, had a pretty good idea of the accounts they would keep, and the accounts they wanted to sell, or to try to sell.
Ross figured that as a rough estimate, he had bought up 100 accounts from what used to be the former RossShell, off the Tazzio Bankruptcy and from the court. He could "push the envelope " and try to keep 60 of those, but even in pushing the envelope, he knew that 50 to 55 would be much safer for his marriage, and his business.
One night, when Ross arrived home, at 6 pm, he gave Kayley a detailed breakdown of the companies he wanted to keep, and sell. Kayley took out her reading glasses, read the list over, sighed, and then said.
"Okay, this seems fair. If you say you are going to keep 50 accounts, and end up keeping 55 accounts, I am not going to rake you over the coals and bust your chops for five additional accounts" Kayley said calmly.
"Kale, the other thing I'm going to do with this development, is to go back to my original plan of what I told you initially and enlarge the office. I'm going to rent the space next to me, break through the wall, and hire some people to service these added accounts, so I can service Tim, Larry, the oil and gas, and Dave Banner as my only full-time marketing accounts that I do myself. For the rest I will hire either a President, or a couple of Vice Presidents, and some temps or workers, I dont know yet. The point is, the work load I will be personally responsible for except for final approval of other accounts, wont be much more than now. I'm going to work around this where I can live up to our agreement, and have at least some of what I want. I dont think I'm being unreasonable. I hope you will at least try to understand" Ross said.
"I understand, Ross. You have to understand that if you do anything not to live up to the agreement you just made, I'm going to feel completely betrayed by you, and like you lied to me, and that we are going to have major, major problems where I will never be able to trust you again" Kayley said.
"Point understood, and taken, and I will do just what I said" Ross said.
"Okay, then let's stop going back and forth, take a shower together, and I will take you out to dinner with my own money to celebrate" Kayley said with a smile.
Riss and Kayley took a shower together, and went to a pub for dinner. This time, Kayley took out her wallet to pay the fifty dollar check.
:"Thank You, Madam Teacher" Ross said, kissing Kayley on the lips.
"You're most welcome, Mister Marketing CEO. In celebration of you getting what you want, and explaining it to me calmly"Kayley said.
When Ross and Kayley got home, Kayley got a dominant tone to her voice.
"Down on the floor. You know what I want from you! "Kayley said.
Ross got down on the floor, Kayley removed her clogs that she was wearing on her feet, without socks or stockings, and pushed her sweaty bare feet in Ross's face, getting him almost instantly hard.
"Big man outside, but male sub in here., Take me to bed, get me naked, and Fuck Me!" Kayley demanded.
Ross escorted Kayley to bed, they discarded their clothes, kissed a bit, Kayley's nipples were extremely hard, as the pre cum felt wet on Ross's dick , and Kayley began to get wet inside.
Ross got on the bottom, and Kayley got on top of him, and was riding his dick.
"Big, tough male exec. I have you wrapped around my finger. You know that I am the only woman for you. You know that no matter what we say to each other, we will be together forever." Kayley said, as she kept being more and more wet, and Ross was going crazy.
After they both breathlessly exploded with cum together, and were breathing hard, they crawled into their places in bed, and held each other.
"That was so hot! "Ross said, as they both laughed.
"Can I kidnap you for a couple of days?" Kayley said.
"Maybe over the weekend we will go to AC or hop on a plane somewhere, more likely than not" Ross said.
"Okay, and just remember. Each time you keep your word to me, you get what you just got. I hope and expect that you will" Kayley said.
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"Oh, I will be keeping my word to you., Both because IU promised you, and because that was fun" Ross said.
Both Ross and Kayley fell asleep very early holding each other. About 2 am, Kayley was coming out of the bathroom, when Ross woke up.
"What;s the matter?" Kayley said.
"Nothing, I heard you., We went to sleep so early that I just woke up" Ross said.
"Come with me to the kitchen for a drink" Kayley said, getting out of bed naked as Ross did the same.
The couple put on towels to sit on their chairs, as they drank iced teas.
"Ross, one work thing and then I will bring up no more about work as its in the middle of the night" Kayley said.
"I'm listening, what's on your mind?" Ross said.
"When I told you to sell, I did not mean to do it recklessly. Dont just trash accounts out of fear because you fear that I'm going to be pissed at the time frame. I dont care if you take some more time, as long as you do it. Its not the time frame as much as it is the promise that means something to me" Kayley said.
Ross kissed Kayley. "Thank You for understanding that. I think you know that I will be careful , as this means too much to me, and to both of us" Ross said.
When Ross and Kayley got up for work the next morning, and were eating breakfast, Ross got a text from Fritz P that said. "Need you here for 36 to 48 hours starting tomorrow night at latest, for oil show, and possible development discussion and sale, hope you can come" Frftz said.
Ross showed Kayley Fritz's text.
"Okay, we will just have to do what we did last night, again tonight" Kayley said, as they both laughed,.
Ross answered Fritz's text "Be there at the end of the day tomorrow"
When Ross and Kayley left for work, Ross went to the office, where he said to his secretary "Please make me an evening flight to Dallas with connection to OKC tomorrow. I will be out of the office for two days at max, and back on the third day" Ross said.
"Of course, Ross" Ross's secretary said.
With the amount of time that it was taking three men to search for which accounts to keep, and which to eliminate, Ross got an idea, and called the one client he trusted most in the world except for perhaps Fritz and Steve, Tim Patrick.
"Tim, good morning. Question. You know the task I'm doing of trying to break down and sell off at least some of RossShell's former assets. Do you think I might or should hire a forensic accounting firm to do all the research, to eliminate the time issue, and make the load easier on Victor and myself? Could such a firm handle a job like this, even if it costs a lot of money but is worth it?" Ross asked.
"Ross, that;s actually a great idea. Since you;'ve always been so on target with me, and value our personal and business relationship so much, let me help you. Let me make some calls to clients and friends, and see who can get you the best firm possible" Tim said.
"Thanks, my friend, I will walt for your call. I will be going to OKC and will be back in two or three days" Ross said.,
"Oil show, huh? Have a good time" Tim said.
When Ross entered the apartment about 630 pm after leaving the office at 6, and buying flowers for Kayley, they exchanged a big kiss, Ross gave Kayley the flowers, and then he said.
"Where can I take you for dinner Madam Partner in life?" Ross said.
"Japanese sounds fun. I'm in the mood for chicken with Japanese sauce" Kayley replied.
"Your wish is my command Ross said, as he jumped into the shower, put on jeans, and the couple went out to dinner.
"So how was the chaos today?" Kayley said, giggling.
"Actually, I might be able to put an end to a lot of the chaos, Teacher. I spoke to Tim Patrick, and asked him what he thought about me hiring a forensic accounting firm to take over the work of going through RossShell's accounts, to discuss what to keep and what to sell off. It might not be the time-consuming crap that it could be" Ross said.
Kayley smiled. "I'm proud of you. Now you are using your head, and coming up with good ideas that are good for our relationship, our marriage, and your company. If this continues, we are going to get along just fine, and there will be many more nights like last night" Kayley said.
Then Kayley continued. "I hope you sign up tons of investors when you go on your trip, because I know that will make you happy" Kayley said.
"I dont need "tons," Maybe 10 to 15 will be fine. We are supposed to show the company and the fields to 75 to 100 investors. Some huge ass oil and gas company wants to buy us out, but Steve and Fritz are going to tell them to go fuck themselves. We want to keep building this company. It is not about the money , it is about the satisfaction of all of us being in a successful oil and gas company" Ross said.
After the fine dinner, Ross and Kayley cuddled, made love, and went to sleep.
When Ross got up to go to the office that morning, he kissed Kayley goodbye, and cuddled her in his arms. "I will miss you, baby. I will try my dam nest to get out of there in one and a half days If not, I will be home at the end of the second day, not that late" Ross said.
"Dont worry about it. I understand. Just do what you want to, and remember, have fun, because I know you love oil and gas" Kayley said.
When Ross got to OKC, he went to Steve and Fritz office, and then went to the fields with fifty investors. When they got to the fields, an unexpected terrible shock was told to the three men.
"Oil leak, Mister C, and Mister P./ Cleanup needed,. field shut down needed, and there will be a delay. You gentlemen are going to have to come back. I am so sorry. Hopefully it will not take that long to clean up, but the pil regulation will have to inspect things as you know, before we can reopen. " The field foreman said.
Ross felt shivers down his spine, and when he got back to the office, after the investors had left, Ross pounded the door of the office he used when he was in OKC.
"Dann guys, what a terrible thing. What does all this mean?" Ross asked.
"Its not good, Ross. The cleanup will cost all three of us and the company some cash.
We can write it off as a business expense, but we may have to hold off on signing up people for a while, maybe a month" Fritz said.
"Do you need me here, or can I go home, and I will come back whenever I'm needed. ?" Ross said.
"You can leave, nothing for you to do here. I will of course keep you posted" Fritz said.
Ross went outside the office, he called the airline, made a flight home that landed at JFK at 10, then called Kayley.
"That wad fast" Kayley said.
"I'm coming home tonight,. there was a serious problem. An oil leak, it will take a while to clean up" Ross said.
"I'm sorry, Ross" Kayley said.
Ross flew home , entered the apartment, and the bedroom, gave Kayley a light kiss hello, and got into bed.
Kayley went and held Ross.
"Ross, let me take care of you. Please don;'t go into the regular office tomorrow. Call in and tell them you had to come home, because you were sick. Digest this for 24 hours. Don't deal with the searching through which accounts to keep or sell. In real terms it does not matter., I know this is a hard hit for you guys" Kayley said.
"You're right., I'm definitely not going in. I may just have the staff tell people I came home to avoid anyone except you, Fritz and Steve. I just want to calm down, and think about this carefully" Ross said.
When Ross got into bed, the couple turned out the lights,and Kayley went to hold Ross, who was shaking.
"Let me take care of you for a while. This is a setback, but its not the end of the O and G . You yourself have always told me that in business there are unexpected setbacks" Kayley said.
"Maybe the greater force is punishing me for gloating when I got RossShell and the accounts back from Tazzio" Ross said.
"Ross, just please calm down, and let the appropriate people fix the problem with the O and G. You will still be doing plenty of O and G with Fritz and Steve, it will just be delayed a bit" Kayley said.
Ross kissed Kayley.
"Thank You. I really appreciate your support. I needed this right now. Believe me, I will remember this" Ross said.
"This is because most important I'm your wife, and you need me, and also because I know you're trying to live up to your word of making the RossShell company that you took back from Tazzip a far more managable work load than in the past" Kayley said.
As Kayley drifted off to sleep, Ross of course remained wide awake even though he was emotionally exhausted.'
How serious was the oil and gas problem, and how much would it really affect the business?
That would be seen.
