Foreboding

Fredric woke.

It was not quite as smothering as last time, she was partly resting her body on the bed and partly on top of him, still a bit too hot as she had pulled over the cover her shoulders leaving him in the pitch black intimacy.

“Madeline” Fredric tried, trying to gently squirm free while rocking her shoulder.

“Time to wake up” all he got was a content hum.

He sighed at her heavy sleeping and tried to get away, impeded by his stiff member still inside her that was acting like an anchor. The humming only got a bit more excited as he twisted himself out of her, followed by a sigh once he was free.

“Mmhm, had such a nice dream, why did you have to go and ruin it” Madeline said as her sleepy eyes squinting open.

“Yeah, well, its time to wake up, you said that you had to swing by your apartment before work.

“Yeea…” was all he got from her as she retreated back under the covers as he got dressed and moved to make breakfast.

Eventually Madeline got up as Fredric went to bother her a second time after the morning coffee was brewed, maybe the scent of the brew helped or she had been working up the will to get out of bed. Fredrics morning routine went about its motions while in deep thoughts, though with her interrupting now and then.

Eventually Madeline was at the door taking on her shoes with Fredric waiting.

“So, I am thinking maybe I get some stuff from my apartment when I am back from work so I can stay with you a bit more” she said coyly.

“I… I don’t think we really should, I think it is a bit quick, we have to consider what the app have done and I like you. But we should probably take it slower, we can meet on the weekends to start with? Fredric said a bit hesitantly, thinking of the times when she seems to lose herself.

“What… You... are right.” she said with a clear look of disappointment.

Fredric could not help but think how cute she looked, and went to kiss her quickly on the lips, Madeline was leaning after him wishing to continue but eventually arched back as he got too far away.

“See on Friday then” Fredric said smiling.

All he got was a sly look from Madeline as she went out and closed the door behind her. Fredric sighed, slightly relieved of the overwhelming sensation of suddenly having such an intense person in his life.

He went on to check on his stocks absentminded while sipping on a cup of too quickly chilling coffee. He went over a couple of his newly acquired bets into startups that was cheap to invest in.

Fredric read it again, something was off. He coughed as some of the coffee got into his lungs, he momentairly lost that breathing and drinking does not mesh well.

Rereading did not help, the stocks of one of the startups selling equipment to Agro-Tech limited had skyrocket. It was barely worth anything when he first looked into it and they didn’t seem to sell much other than a very specific bolt when he first checked them out, but since it was so cheap he had gotten 10% as soon as he saw they got public, thinking it would be a small but steady income of basic wares for the manufacture process. Now those 10% was worth, a lot.

It was too much to sell at once, this development was not normal, he could wait for the return on the investment but considering the legalities was in question he did not like it one bit.