The Billionaire's Assistant
in but somehow it seemed colde
te Bratz duvet while I listened frightfully to the he
ded for the angry man to leave me alone. Assu
d smell the alcohol from the man at the door thro
t vowel in my name. "You
ulnerable to the man with the strange red eyes and feral sm
l I could mutter throug
listic smile still on his face
canned my dark surroundings. The fear stil
lievably pleasant relief flooded my body. I tunneled my fingers
thing I could do about it short of going to a doctor. As twisted as it s
fear. I was about reaching for my bedside lamp wh
n's dark brown head on my lap. I clutched
ng 'what the heck did I do wrong?'.
was he couldn't see a thing through it. He'd been the one constant in my life and although I
haggy, huge dog, I kissed him between
es. Looking at the alarm clock on my
for another two hours so I got up an
t a two bedroom apartme
bright white walls with blue trimming and the small blue th
the living room by a high arc, and sat on one of
ite part of the day, the time before the sun came up
my boss' schedu
olutionized the tech world by developing the first fully automated ambulances. Being his executive assistant I got to mana
us women and frankly I didn't see what they saw in him. Sure he
sistant and schedule a meeting, I decided I'd spent en
st forgotten, I threw my dull brown hair into a
closet was filled with the same s
most tripping over my feet. After, I stood in front of my floor-length mirror-an
deep down, I knew that wasn't fully the reason. The truth was I wanted to chec
ide hips, skinny legs and an almost non-existent bust. Every morning
real me painfully to fore, I slipped on my one and only pai
and after giving Morgan a kiss on his head
r and selected my 'Serenade Me to
my ears, I walked for half an hour until I got to my
pty shop filled with the heady smell
rmine, was wiping down the counter when he spotted my smile. Rolling his dark eyes
his is my kingdom come," I
e answered proudly with a sh
" I replied
easy smile had slipp
song lyric, him trying - and until recently - failing miserably to identify it. Th
the hands of the opposite species so I was taking an indefinite break from the whole relationship thing. I didn't want to hurt Carmine'
ual?" h
ple
ceeded to start f
. God this guy is unrelenting. "I was planning o
out and digging around in it so I
p the three coffees on the table with my peripheral visio
blinding smile and dropped the money
e foyer towards the elevator Bru
s headquarters was at the heart of Miami, an imposing 20 floored
the right, a table holding coffee and snacks was tucked at the left-hand corner a
so white I thought I'
e hallway on the left. Stopping in front
e thick curtains covering the glass walls. Three of the four walls were made of glass bec
was so moody, it wasn't like he had p
led the coffees in the middle of t
t into the world below. I sighed. It was times like this that I enjoyed my job. Times when I didn't ha
popped over to my office that was separated from his by a wall of frosted glass and
ne in one gulp, grateful f
s office pinged opened and out walked the devil himsel
omach plummeted. Sigh! An
his desk and nodded at me before
and machines while I looked him ove
unseeing, to something behind me. He was dressed in a tailored suit that screamed expensive coupled with
s, he sighed and pressed the button on the head
gue in that category. Don't you ever sleep?" One of his dark eyebrows lifted. His
is already up so we can expect a blistering day with temperatures in the thirties, and to b
always have a joke handy. He'll never laugh at it but at le
e shook his head and ran a
in my favor and took
one comes in, how about we get some work done?
icipation," I replied
e Mon