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The Billionaire's Assistant

Chapter 2 02 | Carson

Word Count: 2033    |    Released on: 06/09/2023

e Mon

n the entire week. I m

seem to still live in

on my heels correcting other

an employee got knocked off his feet in Tampa trying to dodge a crane's load that had accidentally swung in the wrong di

bridge of my nose. Every muscle in my body ached a

els on the marble floor and the dull

h that her usual impassive look. She'd been working for me for four years

why she always wore the same unflattering shade of grey no matter what clothing item it was, how she always knew the right ra

wanted you to speak with? Also I just got off the phone with a Pa

uld this day

my newest wha

void in my soul. I called them that because I never seemed t

human contact but since the only friends I actually enjoyed being around lived almost a million mi

they still called to find out if I was actually serious, which shows they knew nothing abou

again tell h

ace morphed into the only other expression I

e void managed to swallow the sound and any form of

ure she doesn't get tw

eally late, would you like

que clock I got from my mom for my

should go home, I'

ocked her as she drew back, h

y serious?" She

ed out and cleared her throat. "Gee, I don't know what to say.

scanning through the docum

ain. I'd propped my stockinged feet up on my table, leant

to go home?" I questio

l bossiness, your stupid

light coming from the empty hallway behind him he looked

t and I finally recognized the boyis

per was a party animal and we reconnected right when the black void got bigger a

here by . . ." I consulted t

e? Saving your granny

a frown. "I like my g

bbing my leather jacket he walk over and violently pushed my feet off

m sorry Cas, b

r fell over his eyes and

" I gesticulated towards my desk that was litter

o stick-up-my-ass serious lately and I'm worried about you," hi

if I s

competitor is one wrong move on the stock market from complete bankruptcy?" The

ed everything a business person needed. From share values to stock market predictions, they wrote it all. If I

ed, trying to keep the ex

"I'm not telling you until

u kiddi

ink with an old buddy and I'll give you the scoo

I'll

and struggled into them all the while cursing Casper, the void in me

at I've been told says 'I'll rip you open and sel

's worth it." He cl

own while Casper fille

mediocre, nothing I could actually use and as I sat at the stuffy bar nursing a

ght now and three, while I wanted to get mad at him a small part of me knew he was right. I've been cooped up either in my house or

was nowhere to be seen-long since ditching me and losing h

he heart-pounding bass, flashing lights and the c

'd regressed to the point in my life where I'd feel lonely at a club, th

e was the genuineness. Since I couldn't make the sound myself

at covered her face. She was speaking with the bartender, her face pre

turned his back to her. Seeing my chan

through her hair. It smelt j

ace, she threw her hands up and turned to me. "Why are people so f-ing morbid these days? Going

nyways, because right above her nose, framing her beautiful eyes was a

licked and I proces

was a figure of speech!" I shook my head b

fr

ow this unusual woman with her rainbow hair and strange mask mana

her in awe.

?" She

you prefer not what poison w

then I'm right to take it liter

h conviction that I was

think clearly. "Why do

er over the music. I had to repeatedly remind myself to concentrate on her fac

know is that a slow, painful death aw

g pink lights crossed my face. I blinked to moisten

" I frowned at

ve to

her seat and hurried out, di

ender who she was but he

void rebooting itself and all traces of the way I felt talking with

thing on my mind:

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