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