《Which brother should I choose》


 The Bold One and The Light One

    I am a normal girl. Light brown wavy hair, not straight, not curly, in between. Brown eyes, middle height, a small nose and sses. Everything about me can be described as, well you know, normal.


    I graduated with a standard business degree from amon university. My family, as you can expect, is a normal mid-ss family lives in New Jersey. My father is a mid-ss unsessful attorney, my mother is an unhappy housewife whoins about my father all the time. I have two perfectly normal sisters, which I adore, and a quiet life. My biggest passion in life is reading. Maybe that''s why I have graduated from my college with top scores. Because throughout my whole college life, I just read and read. I haven''t had a social life, maybe it is the only thing that was not normal about me. I am an introvert. But introverts also tend to stay in, and not socialize, so if you think that, also you can understand that I am perfectly normal.


    That''s why I was shocked when I first found out that I have been epted as a personal assistant for Alonzo Company. My pathetic, uneventful life was about to change for good. And believe me, it was beyond what I can ever measure. After I received the eptance email, I got into connection with the HR and prepared all of my required documentation. Today, I was going to have an evaluation to determine which department I will work in. Apparently, they have hired five people together, and they were willing to have a second interview to decide who goes to which department. How lucky am I? Who makes a second job interview after being epted. Yeah, sure it''s me! I was devastated to have another interview again with all of these people. I would be happy if they could take me and dump me in a cubicle and never find me back until I retire. But no, of course I have to deal with themon pleasantries, like, ''Nice to meet you, I cannot wait to start working, I will be a great asset in this team, h h...'' yeah, I hate my life.


    I woke up at 6 am, took a shower, tied my long hair into a bun on my nape and wore a in white shirt, on a knee long ck pencil skirt. Normal height heels, a normal ck zer. I took my ck framed round sses and I was ready for my first freaking day of work.


    I am living in New York, and thepany is here. I left my apartment in a hurry, with my pajamas on the floor and the two books I was reading simultaneously on the top of scrambled sheets, that I fell asleep reading yesterday night. Shit! How did I manage to bete after waking up so early?


    I went to the subway as fast as my heels let me, I wasn''t used to wearing those. Of course, I needed to get used to it, but it was more painful than I imagined. God! Girls, why were we doing this to ourselves, again?


    I managed to reach the building of the Alonzo Company just five minutes before the interview. I went in from the huge main entrance, this was not my first time in the building and I had a staff pass already. I went to the toll gates, showed my badge and it turned for me. I went to the elevators, I was holding my printed resume and my little ck purse in my hands clenched to my chest. When the elevator doors opened, I saw a huge crowding out of it. Gees, how many people can fit in this carriage? My introverted instincts were screaming for me to run. But I needed this job. My little sister, Rachel, was starting college this year. I knew that my father had run out all of his savings with me, so as a big sister, I had to step in and pay her expenses. Besides, what else could I do? I needed to pay my rent and bills and I hadn''t had any life longing after, that can prevent me from working till death. I don''t have a boyfriend, I never did. Yeah, spoiler alert girls, boys do not like introverted book-nerd girls in college. I don''t have a purpose to follow no matter what. So I guess working for bills and my sister''s expenses were better than having no point in life.


    When I finally woke up from my unnecessary thoughts I saw the elevator doors were about to be closed. When did you fill it already? I sprinted to the doors, yelling in a small voice, "Wait! Hold it please!"


    No one seemed to acknowledge my plea, I was running to the doors and the doors were closing without interference from inside, then, just inches before I reached the doors, the doors closed and I just stayed there. I was looking dumbfoundedly to the closed doors and was thinking I will never make it on time. That is when I recognized a rush behind me.


    I turned back and saw two men in all-ck suitsing towards me. They were wearing headsets and ck sunsses and their bulky frames exactly exining that they were bodyguards. I instinctively step aside to let them pass. Then I saw him.


    He was wearing a navy-blue suit, which looked like, cut out of a fashion magazine. His ck hair slicklybed to back out of his strong-jawed rectangr face, his ck eyes were piercing the direction he was looking. If I didn''t know better, I would think he was a mafia don, but he wasn''t. I did my research well. And I was aware he was the one of the two heirs of the Alonzo family. One and only Anton Alonzo, the bold one. I was calling him the bold one. Because, two brothers were looking like each other so much. Anton was two years older than Matt and he was like a bolder version of him. Anton had ck hair and eyes, tanned skin but Matt has green eyes and golden brown hair with a fairer skin tone. Anton was definitely looking like a bolder version of Matt, so I started calling them the bold one and the light one in my head.


    Anton Alonzo passed me without even looking at my direction, which was good because I didn''t want to be incriminated by his supermanser eyes, and walked through the other elevator. The second elevator was a private one for executives and managers. And it was obvious that it was also for him. One of the bodyguards showed a badge to the reader screen of the elevator and the elevator''s doors opened. I was watching them pass before me, to end my career without it actually starting, since the CEO wasing earlier than me to the first meeting that I will attend with. It was clear in the invitation email that CEOs Matt and Anton Alonzo will join the selection interview to find a personal assistant too. And it was obvious that punctuality was an irreceable asset for an assistant. Maybe they could let me mop the floors after this.


    And then, a deep and yful voice rang in the lounge.


    "Wait! Hold it Anton."


    I turned to look at the source of the sound. And I held my breath for the first time for a guy in my life. Here is the light one. Matt. He was wearing a khaki suit which was ttering his forest green eyes and his gold-brown hair was a perfect mass on his rectangr face, which was a copy of Anton but somehow better. He had a stubble on his square jaw and he was looking breath taking.


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    He ran lightly to the elevator and caught it without the doors closed. His two bodyguards were also running after him. Anton didn''t seem bothered to hold the elevator for him. Didn''t seem to even recognize him. He was looking at his phone and didn''t greet his brother as he went in the elevator. Matt Alonzo got in the elevator and turned his beautiful face to the doors of it, as standing next to his brother. His men went into the back of him next to other bodyguards.


    Then his gorgeous green eyes met mine. His eyes slightly opened as if he was recognizing something. The elevator doors started to close, nearly hiding them from the view, then suddenly he extended his arm and prevented the doors from closing.


    "Are youing?" he asked. I looked around to understand who he was talking to. No one seemed to recognize he was talking to them. I searched the room again for the relevant person that he was calling for. "I am talking to you miss. Thedy with the sses!"


    I was the only woman in the lounge wearing sses then. I pointed my self with my index finger and stuttered; "M-me?"Content is property ? N?velDrama.Org.


    "Yeah, are you going upstairs or what?"

 Interview

    "Yeah, are you going upstairs or what?"


    I understood what he was trying to say finally and without even thinking, because I made them wait a lot already, I went to the elevator in long steps, just in time to hear Anton grunting. I faced the door as they do, next to Matt Alonzo, and tried not to panic too much.


    The doors closed. I was standing there half shocked half dumbfounded, Matt talked again.


    "Which floor? Ms..."


    "Wondend, I am going to the twentieth floor please."


    "What a coincidence, we are going there too." he said. Of course you are.


    "Isn''t it a wonderful coincidence indeed brother?" He said mockingly and he lightly hit his shoulder to his brother as if encouraging him to join the conversation.


    "It''s not a coincidence, it''s a failure." he said grunting again.


    "What does this mean now?" Matt asked.


    "It is obvious that Ms. Wonderful is here for the interview, otherwise she wouldn''t be going to the twentieth floor. And it is obvious again she waste. So, she has started failing without even starting yet." he said.


    Oh god! Oh god! On my first day of work, my boss tagged me as a failure, and I didn''t even put a foot in the office yet. I was so deep in shit that I didn''t even get angry at the fact that he said my name wrong. He didn''t look up from his phone for even a second while talking. Maybe that was a good thing. He didn''t know my face and apparently does not know my actual name. So maybe I was still safe? Right?


    "Ohe now, don''t be so dramatic. Even if it''s true, it''s her first day. Everything can go wrong on the first day of a job. It does not define the capacity of an employee."


    Matt''s words were like a ss of water in the Sahara desert, it made my heart fill with hope and ease. So, maybe there were good people in here, starting from one of their CEOs, and maybe I still had a chance to get a job here. But Anton grunted again and said;


    "You say that because you are alwayste everywhere. And, the assistant that I would choose can never bete. Punctuality is too important for me."


    I felt like someone was twisting my guts. I knew I had no right to feel angry because he was right. No one would like to have an assistant like that. But, I wasn''tte, just people were so rude, they didn''t even hold the elevator for me. But of course I wasn''t nning to pile excuses on my first day of job, I just stayed in silence and looked at my stilettos. I was one hundred percent sure my face was red now from the embarrassment I felt, it was always turning crimson whenever I was embarrassed. Freaking traitor cheeks!Exclusive ? material by N?(/v)elDrama.Org.


    I tried to cool my face by pressing the back of my hand to my cheeks. It wasn''t working I was sure. But at least it was hiding my reddened face partially.


    I felt a pair of eyes on me. When I turned my face, I saw Matt was examining me intently. When our eyes met, he smiled. Ahh, my heart! He had dimples. Fucking gorgeous pits next to his plump lips were like daggers. But not to kill of course, just to torture. I knew it was an unfair world we live in, but that was too much god! You cannot make a man, too handsome, too rich and too sessful all at the same time. This is outrageous.


    But here, he was standing next to me in an elevator, his expensive musk and iris perfume was filling my lungs and he was smiling at me like a devil about to take his prey''s soul in return. Well I could give mine, no worries.


    I felt the blood have been pumped to my cheeks even harder. Freaking cheeks!


    His smile grew bigger and talked;


    "Don''t be embarrassed my darling, he is a grumpy old man."


    Anton grunt indeed. "I am only two years older than you," he said.


    "See, grumpy and old." Matt smiled again. I couldn''t help myself and smiled back at him. I knew this could be interpreted as I was agreeing with his oldness and grumpiness about Anton Alonzo, but he was so genuine and I couldn''t fight with the urge to agree with him for anything. If he would suggest that the earth was t with this smile, I could chip in the idea that it is also on a bull''s horns.


    Without noticing, we were on the twentieth floor already. A small ping voice let us know that we arrived, and the steel doors of the elevator opened. We step out from the elevator, three of us together. Matt turned his face to me and said: ¡°It was nice to meet you Ms. Wondend. You are going that way, - he pointed at my back - and we are going this way - he pointed his back-. I guess we will see you in ten minutes. Keep calm and do your best." he winked at me and turned back to follow his brother, who was almost in the half way of the corridor now.


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    I looked after him just for a second more, then I turned my direction and went to a meeting room where there was a sign on the door indicating the interview was going to be held there.


    I knocked on the door and I opened it after five seconds. There was a big U shaped table in the middle of a huge conference room. The wall of the room which looked out was fully ss and a breathtaking New York view was disyed. There were four candidates sitting at one of the long sides of the U table and facing a woman standing before a board. I apologized for beingte in a small voice and joined the candidates on the table. Woman, around thirties, fair, plump and looking fierce, cleared her throat.


    "What were we saying? Yes, I am Olivia Grant, head of the HR department. In five minutes, our executives and CEOs will be here. They have prepared their own questions. I don''t know how many questions will be asked or what is the content of those. I only know that everyone has prepared specific questions to determine which assistant will work for them."


    Silence followed her words.


    "I need you to understand that, you have already been hired. It''s not an interview to decide your staying or leaving. It''s to be decided which department you will be in. We have four open ces as personal assistants and one in the HR office. So, four out of five will be selected as personal assistants to executives and the one remaining will work in HR.


    Perfect, I thought. So I was going to be an HR then. I was sure no right minded manager would want me as assistant, and not definitely CEOs after seeing mete.


    Then the door swung open and two short men, puffy and bald headed, had been seen from the door.


    "Oh! Wee." the woman said.


    "We were waiting for you. Please have a seat."


    The puffy men have ced themselves on the opposite side of the table from us. They were facing us. One of them was bald, the other was at the edge of balding. They were looking attentively from one to the other of us. Then, CEOs came. As soon as Matt and Anton had been seen at the door, the room suffocated in silence. Like all the air has been sucked out of it. They slowly walked to the shorter end of the U shaped table and sat facing the woman. Matt sat to the side next to me. And winked at me again, as he was sitting.


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    The door was closed by a guard staying in the corridor and Olivia cleared her throat again.


    "Ihm, wee all of you. I am happy to see all of you here today,"


    No answer, everyone stared at her in silence.


    "I know all of you are so busy, so I am keeping it short. I will only witness the process here. So please feel free to start anytime you want. I thought, it would be better to ask Mr. Parker and Mr. Jones to start their questions first, then our CEOs Mr. Alonzo and Mr. Alonzo can ask their questions. But for picking, I will give our CEOs the option to choose first. If you gentlemen do not have any objection?"


    Mr. Parker and Mr. Jones grunted an unwilling no, under their breaths.


    "Excellent!" Ms. Olivia chirped. "Let''s start."


    Mr. Parker cleared his throat and shuffled the papers in front of him as if to start.


    "I want to go first." Matt cut in. Anton Alonzo rolled his eyes and said;


    "Of course you are." in a small voice that only Matt could hear, and me because I was sitting in the closest seat to them.


    "Please, go ahead Mr. Alonzo" said Olivia. Apparently, they have no choice but to let CEOs do whatever they want.


    "I want to ask a question to Ms. Wondend."


    I was too busy to read the room and inspect every face in the room, so I wasn''t expecting a direct question to me so soon. I looked at his face open-mouthed. And waited to hear the question. "Are you single?" he asked.

 New Boss

    "Are you single?" he asked.


    "Pardon me?" I asked. I wasn''t expecting any kind of question. What does it do to work if I was single or not?


    "Are you single? As in, do you see any one? Do you have a romantic rtionship?"


    "I..I ..." I hesitated. Looked at Olivia. She was dumbfounded, too. I didn''t have many interviews for jobs until now, but I was pretty sure that they weren''t asking about your romantic life in those. "You cannot ask that question in an interview!" Anton grunted from the ce he sat.


    "I can, and I am. It is important for me to know if my assistant''s personal life demands too much attention. That''s why I am asking. Totally professional." he said then smirked at me. Olivia turned to me and said,


    "Ms. Wondend, you don''t have to answer this question. It is totally up to you."


    I could sense it took too much courage for her to revert back an heir''s demand, but I guess she had to stay in between for the work ethics.


    "No problem, I can answer this question." I said. Matt''s smirk widened more, revealing his dimples now. Ahh, freaking dimples.


    "I don''t have any romantic rtionship for the time being. But, it raises a question for me if or when I have one, is it going to affect my employment situation?"


    "That''s a fair question. And no, it won''t. I just wanted to make sure that you will give your full attention to the job until you learn it. That''s all." he said andid back in his chair.


    "I don''t have any other question, go ahead Parker." he said dismissively. I felt blood rising to my cheeks again. He didn''t ask this question to someone else. Or ask any question at all. Did it mean he was thinking of taking me as a personal assistant?


    The interview went as expected for the rest of the session. ''Where do you see yourself in five years'' and ''What is your passion when ites to work'' type of questions have been raised by Parker and Jones. How creative. And as I expected, ''I cannot wait to start working, I will be a great asset in this team, h h...'' But all this time Matt''s mischievous eyes were fixed on me. I couldn''t help but wonder, what would it be like to work with Matt. Watching his excellent dimples all day from my desk and appreciating the view. I would be an introvert but I still had a libido, and he was a site to view.


    The interview was brief, Parker and Jones asked a couple questions. Anton Alonzo asked nothing, just observed. And Matt just kept watching me. At the end of the meeting Olivia talked again.


    "I guess all of you have asked your questions, and if there isn''t anything else, I would like to proceed with the choosing part."


    No one answered, and Olivia continued as it''s an approval sign,


    "I would like to give first choosing chance to Mr. Anton Alonzo, since he is the head of council and CEO I guess this will be proper. Yes, Mr. Alonzo, please choose an assistant."


    Anton Alonzo looked at us one by one. His gaze traveled on each and every one of us from bottom to the top. When being-examined turn came to me, he looked into my eyes for a long moment. It was really hard to not to cower under the pressure of his dark eyes and grimace. None the less I kept my chin up, and kept the intensity of his gaze. His eyes were nearly identical with Matt''s eyes in terms of shape and position but it was giving a lot of different feelings when they turned to you. Matt''s mischievous eyes were warming when turned to me but Anton''s gaze was cold, nearly freezing me till my bones. He broke eye contact first, but just to take a look at his brother, who was still looking at me with a twinkle in his eyes. I couldn''t help but look back at Matt.


    Everything happened so fast. I saw Anton look at Matt and back at me, a recognition appeared on his face then it evolved to a cruel grin. Then he talked;


    "Yes, I made my decision. I am taking Ms. Wonderful."


    Matt sat up on his chair aghast. Turned his face to Anton with horror on his face. I couldn''t see my face but I was pretty sure I had a simr one on me. Anton smirked.Content is property ? N?velDrama.Org.


    "You mean Ms. Wondend?" Olivia asked.


    "Yeah, whatever. I want this one." He pointed at me like an object. I was horrified. To the audacity and rudeness of him. I wasn''t at a point of choosing for sure. But it was too insulting, the way he demands me as an asset not a human. Matt didn''t say anything. Just red at him, fuming. I guessed he was aware it would be very unprofessional if he objected to it. And he has already been unprofessional enough for a work meeting by the question he asked at the beginning. "Okay," Olivia noted something onto her papers, then turned to Matt and continued,


    "Yes Mr. Matt Alonzo, it''s your turn to choose please."


    He just said the name of one of the otherpetitors and turned his eyes out of the window.


    He was looking pissed. The rest of the board have chosen their assistants and Olivia dered that she would take thest candidate that was not selected to the HR office.


    "That''s all for today, thank you all foring. Please find your manager after the meeting to n your next day." She dismissed the meeting and everyone stood up in unison, and moved to the door. Except for the Alonzo brothers, me and the girl - Natasha Ray - that was selected by Matt. She was standing right behind me. Alonzo brothers still sitting. Antony behind in his chair and supported his head with his muscr, huge arm. As if resting on a sunbed on the beach. Matt was sitting rather ufortable. His forearms were on his thighs. He turned his head and started to watch his brother.


    Finally the meeting room has been emptied except for the four of us. I didn''t speak a word, the tension in the air could be cut with a knife. Apparently, Natasha also felt the same because she was not talking either. Matt broke the silence.


    "I thought you never wanted an assistant who is not punctual?"


    "Well, I didn''t. But your little speech about first days and personal capabilities made me reconsider my argument."


    Matt just kept looking at him, unbelievingly. And Anton kept looking back. This silent war between them went on a while longer. Suddenly, Matt stood up and said,


    "Well, congrattions for your choice. I think you picked wisely." he turned to me, winked at me for onest time and said,


    "See you around Ms. Wondend. And, what was your first name again?"


    "I never said my first name." I smirked. I knew it was a pathetic attempt but I was willing to keep him as much as I could. Luckily, he smiled back and acted like it wasn''t a cheesy attempt. But apparently Anton Alonzo was not thinking the same, he just grumbled bitingly.


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    "So what is your name Ms. Wondend?" he asked again yfully.


    "This is Alice. Alice Wondend." I extend my hand to shake his hand. His brows arched in amazement. He took my hand and a yful smile curved the ends of his perfect mouth.


    "This is one of the best names I have ever heard." He said. He kept holding my hand and lingered there for a while. Until Anton coughed loudly. And Matt shook his head as if waking from a daydream and gave a curt nod to his brother for onest time before leaving the room with long steps. Natasha was nearly running after him.


    Finally me and my new manager stayed alone in the room. Anton Alonzo stood up from the chair and stopped right in front of me.


    "Yes, Ms. Wonderful finally we are alone." he said. I gulped. I didn''t know why but his intense aura was making me nervous.


    "First, I still don''t like people beingte. You will be here at 9 o''clock sharp every day. I want my coffee ck, no sugar on my desk at 09:15. And the n of the day printed."


    I nodded. He kept my gaze for a little long before talking. He was looking like waiting for his words to sink deep in my mind.


    "And second, I don''t like office romances and don''t tolerate it. I don''t want to see you around my brother more than necessary, and vice versa. If I hear anything about you crossing the line, you will find yourself out of the door with a big bad stain on your professional file."


    I was livid. What was he meaning about me? Sure I liked looking at Matt and enjoyed his beautiful smiles. But that was all. I would never do anything that could jeopardize my career. I wasn''t that girl. I was just a normal girl with a normal life. Famous, rich and handsome yboy Matt Alonzo was way beyond my league even if he wasn''t my boss. And now, while working under hispany, I would never dream of anything like that. I could just admire him like admiring a piece of art, that''s all.


    "Mr. Alonzo, I don''t know what you are implying but I am against office romances too, and I would never dream of such a thing about my boss. If you were thinking this little about me, why did you choose me in the first ce?"


    "Isn''t it obvious? I chose you to prevent my brother from choosing you. Let me make onest thing clear for you. Maybe you have such highly morals when ites to work, but believe me he doesn''t. So please keep that in mind from now on to prevent any unpleasant event from happening."


    I took a deep breath. And released it slowly to keep my temper in control. No Alice, you cannot kill your boss in your first professional job.


    He turned back and walked out of the door. He shout back over his shoulder;


    "Tomorrow, 9 o''clock sharp!" and left.

 A Little Bird

    Matt''s


    POV


    "Uhh! Umm! Oh! Oh!"


    What a squeaker, I thought. We were having sex at the back of my limo. It was a long partyst night, and it somehow ended up with me being with this girl Tracy or something, at the back of my limo that I used to show up at the partyst night. Normally I don''t drive limos to work. But If I didn''te directly from the party to here, I would never be here on time. I had a back up suit at the trunk as I always do, I just need to change after doing this, or doing her if I need to say it more precisely.


    "Ahh! Ahhh! Ahh!!"


    Ohe on! She was ruining all of my appetite. All those fake sounds, I can address them a mile away. To hush these fake sounds, I made her kneel before me and filled her loud mouth with my considerable length. She choked instantly and I have started fucking her mouth relentlessly. Silence except choking and gagging sounds. That''s much better.


    I looked at my rolex on my wrist. Fuck I am gettingte. But I couldn''t focus enough toe, and the chick drowning at the half of my length was not helping me either. I gave up. I pulled my member off her mouth. She fakely protested but I saw the relieved impression on her face. She must be doing this to impress a rich heir I presume. Not that I wasn''t handsome, believe me I am, but these kinds of girls always after more.


    "You need to go," I said briefly. She dumbstruck.


    "What? How can I go like this?" she asked, as pointing her half naked body. Good point.


    I pushed the inte button to make my voice hearable to Damphy. Since the middle window was shut, no voice would pass it.


    "Damph! Take sweet Tracy to a cab and pay for it!" I called for my driver.


    "It''s Tessy!" she eximed. Yeah honey, whatever.


    Damphy was used to these kinds of things a lot. He instantly left the driver seat and opened Tracy''s door.


    "Out ma''am!" Damn, he was worse than me. He never had sympathy for the girls that I was involved with. And it was kind of a relief for me.


    After two minutes, Tracy or Tessy were getting into a cab with a huge disappointment in her face and I was trying to change into my suit at the back seat. That was the girls'' problem. They were always assuming they were different. No, honey you don''t.


    I looked at my watch again, damn! If I could not make it on time, Anton would use it against me for at least a week. As soon as Dumphy got back his seat, I lowered the middle window.


    "Be quick Dumph! I have to be at work in 10 minutes."


    "Understood!" he said and he pumped the gas. I tried tob my hair with my hands, which I knew was useless and rubbed my eyes. It was a long night, and was about to be a long day. I had to choose an assistant today, as per the wish of my father and I really was not in the mood to see grumpy assistant faces.


    We were actually at the back street of Alonzo za, close enough to make it on time, away enough not to caught. Less than 10 minutes, we were at the front gate of Alonzo za at the heart of New York city. This Dumphy is a magician, it was not the first time he managed to deliver me on time. Even we were close, still doing it with this traffic was a wonder.


    As soon as I jumped out of the limo, my bodyguards came next to me. They should have been waiting all morning here. After I dumped themst night they knew they could find me here today. They got back to my chase while I was heading to the building.


    I was nearly running to the gates and I saw my precious brother was about to head in the elevator.


    "Wait! Hold it Anton." I called for him to hold the elevator. He didn''t even lift his gaze from his phone, while one of his guards pushed the stop button. I paced up the big lounge with long steps and I was about to get in the carriage when I saw her.


    A little bird. I couldn''t help but look for a second time at her innocent face. A small girl, around 5.2 ft, big brown eyes like a cute stuffed toy, light brown hair tied in a bun on her nape and revealing her heart-shaped face. A small button nose with f*cking freckles on it. And round framed sses? Are you kidding me? Are there any girls left like this?


    She was standing before the staff elevator. Disappointed and partially sad. But this was giving her a more vulnerable and cute look. I made my mind before I understood. I extended my hand and stopped the elevator doors'' closing. Apparently she missed the elevator. And beingte to somewhere.


    "Are youing?" I asked. She looked around to understand who I was talking to. Aww, cute!


    "I am talking to you miss. Thedy with the sses!" I said.


    she pointed her self with an index finger and stuttered; "M-me?" Oh man, this was going to be interesting. "Yeah, are you going upstairs or what?"


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    Finally recognition reached her big brown eyes, and she sprinted to the elevator hastily. Come to daddy, babygirl!


    Anton gave a low grunt while she got in. He never likes strangers around. Sometimes I wonder if he ever getsid. But ording to an uptight pose like a stick has been shove in his ass all the time, I guess not. But he could use it to let some steam off.


    She faced the door as we do, and stood next to me. I got a little bit closer and sniffed her sweet scent a bit. Imm, apple and cinnamon, like a cake. Yummy.


    Maybe it was my unfinished orgasm from this morning that was causing me to be this hype but there was something about this girl, which triggered me instantly. But I couldn''t put my finger on it exactly. I talked again to distract myself. "Which floor? Ms..."


    "Wondend, I am going to the twentieth floor please." Oh please be an assistant candidate.


    "What a coincidence, we are going there too." I said.


    "Isn''t it a wonderful coincidence indeed brother?" I said mockingly and I lightly hit my shoulder to make him join the conversation.


    "It''s not a coincidence, it''s a failure." he said grunting again. Oh man, this man is a nightmare.


    "What does this mean now?" I asked.


    "It is obvious that Ms. Wonderful is here to interview, otherwise she wouldn''t be going to the twentieth floor. And it is obvious again she waste. So, she has started failing without even starting yet." he said.


    Not Wonderful, Wondend you idiot! I corrected it mentally. To be honest, myself was not good at remembering the girls'' names but this time it bothered me somehow.


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    "Ohe now, don''t be so dramatic. Even if it''s true, it''s her first day. Everything can go wrong on the first day of a job. It does not define the capacity of an employee." I said.


    Her eyes glinted with appreciation, and it made me feel content about myself. Like I was a knight in shining armor and she was a damsel in distress.


    But Anton grunted again and said;


    "You say that because you are alwayste everywhere." Fair enough. He continued;


    "And, the assistant that I would choose can never bete. Punctuality is too important for me."


    She looked crimson red, and the tears were looking like seconds away from her adorable eyes. I didn''t know why but I wanted tofort her. Make her head lie on my chest and stroke her hair. Man! get it together, what is going on with you. She pressed the back of her hand to her cheeks. She was trying to cool down. I just kept staring, and couldn''t take my eyes off her. She was looking too innocent, too fragile, too unreal.


    Then she turned her face to me and our eyes met. I couldn''t stop the smile forming on my face. And her cheeks turned even a brighter red. Even her freckles became more defined.


    She was affected by a simple smile. What was she? A virgin or something? Noo fucking way! Was she though?


    "Don''t be embarrassed my darling, he is a grumpy old man."


    Anton grunt indeed. "I am only two years older than you," he said.


    "See, grumpy and old." I smiled again. She smiled back at me. So cute, so shy, a little smile, showing perfect white teeth and disying plump pink lips. Was she though?


    With the small ping voice of the elevator the steel doors opened. We step out from the elevator, three of us together. I turned to her and said:


    "It was nice to meet you Ms. Wondend. You are going that way, - I pointed at her back - and we are going this way - I pointed my back-. I guess we will see you in ten minutes. Keep calm and do your best." I winked at her and turned back to follow Anton.


    While I was walking behind Anton to the CEO quarters there was only one question in my head.


    Was she though?

 First Day of Work

    I woke up at 6 am and I was at the office at 9 o''clock sharp. Just like my new manager asked. All of my hopes vanished after Anton Alonzo dered that he wants me as an assistant. And for what? Only to make me stay away from his extremely gorgeous brother. Even though I really admired his handsomeness and friendly character, I wasn''t a girl who throws herself onto the first person who shows any decency. If that were the case, I wouldn''t still be a virgin after all. I wasn''t a type that could y that run and chase games. And I was always too busy with reading and sses. I hardly found time to enjoy any social activities during college. There have been some guys who showed interest in me, butter they found out that I was not interested at all, so they gave up. And I guess I was not the type to insist on it. And I had never been showered with flowers and gifts like some of my roommates had been in dormitories. I was just the girl next to their girl.


    I was drowning in these thoughts when I was preparing the coffee for Mr. Alonzo in office kitchen. ck, no sugar. Not so much an effort. I prepared as he likes and went to his room to leave it on his desk with a print out of the daily calendar. His room was a perfection. Not even a pencil was out of order. ck mahogany desk and bookcase were a sharp contrast to the full white carpet and white walls. His office''s one wall was totally ss looking at the city view. The other wall looking to the corridor was also full ss to show my desk and corridor if he wants, but also had automatic blinds on it to shut it out any time he likes.


    We were at one end of the floor and Matt Alonzo''s office at the other end. There were Mr. Jones''s and Mr. Parker''s offices in between, which was making it impossible to see Matt without deliberately walking there.


    I sat down on my chair opposite Anton Alonzo''s room and started filing the documents that had been left by an old assistant. Apparently, all assistants have been fired all together, since nobody had one, before our employment. And no one was saying a word about it. When I was fully concentrating on my work, I heard a finger snap and looked up.


    Anton Alonzo, was standing right before me, with a nice expression on his face as much as a serial killer. I looked up to my doom, his eyes swallowed me whole like a ck hole. I instantly started doubting what I was doing. Shouldn''t I be looking at these documents? Shouldn''t I be here at all? Maybe I should have waited for him in his room.


    I stood up like my chair was on fire and greeted him like a soldier.


    "Good morning Mr. Alonzo. Do you need anything?"


    He snapped his fingers again and pointed to his room, then walked to the room. I followed him after, like a duckling following its mom. When we got to his office, he leaned on his desk and showed me the chair with a jerk of his chin. I followed his direction, and sat in the chair he showed.


    "Yes Ms. Wonderful, from now on you will wait for me here in the mornings until Ie."


    He was still saying my name wrong. Since we were working together now, he should learn my correct name, right?


    "Wondend, sir." "What?"


    "My name is Wondend."


    "What did I say?" he asked.


    "You said Wonderful, sir."


    "And why does it matter?" he asked again as a matter of factly.


    "Because it''s not my name, sir." That was a matter of fact, too. His already dark gaze had be darker somehow. It was like a cartoon character that I can see anger rising from his neck to his face as painting him purple. "Do you really think I give a shit what is or is not your name Ms. Wonderful?" I gulped but couldn''t answer.


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    "If I say your name is Wonderful, it is Wonderful. Do you understand?" I wasn''t really sure now if answering this question would make him angrier. I just stayed silent.


    66


    "Do-you-understand!" he raised his tone to a thundering pitch, I blinked in terror.


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    "Y-Yes sir." I said.


    "Good, since we solved this problem I think we can get to work now." I nodded.


    I was trying to swallow the cry rising from my throat and trying to stay professional, but when I looked in his face, I saw his ckened eyes with anger and an irritated expression with contempt from me. It made swallowing my pride even harder. Since I was at the edge of crying, I opened the note pad that I brought with me to show I am ready to take notes.


    He cleared his throat and continued with a calmer but still stern tone.


    He gave some orders and I took some notes but I was really not there. I was still fighting with a crying urge and trying not to look at his face. Because I knew if I looked at his face and saw that contempt again I would definitely cry. Finally, "That''s all!" he said and I jumped to my feet. I left his room as soon as possible and went to my desk. I sat on my chair and looked up to see what he was doing. He went to his desk, found the coffee mug I left. Took a sip from coffee, spit it back into the mug with a disgusted expression and left the mug on the table again.


    So I couldn''t even aplish making a ck coffee. Perfect starting! But he deserved what he got I presumed. And even though it was another failure for me. It made me feel better. Enjoy your coffee Asshole!


    Then he took the blinders remote and shut the blinders close. Like I wanted to see his stupid face more.


    Until lunch break, I didn''t see him again. When the break time came, I went to his office and knocked on the door.


    "Come in!" he said with a curt voice. I creak opened the door to hide as much as part of my body from him behind the door. It was something instinctual, like I was trying to hide my body from physical harm. "Yes?" he asked. He was sitting behind his table with a huge pile of documents in front of him.


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    "Ihm, sir I am leaving for the lunch break. Just wanted to let you know."


    He looked confused for a second then looked at his watch. Then looked at me again.


    "You know French, right?"


    "I do, sir."


    "Okay, don''t go to lunch. I will order something here. Come and help me."


    I wasn''t really willing to spend my free time with my charming new manager, but I had no choice. I went into the office and sat opposite him. He gave me half of the pile staying in front of him. "Please scan these documents. I am trying to find something about Abbotpany payments. Anythinges or goes in cash, please note it. " he said.


    "Okay sir."


    I started working. First, I was feeling uneasy and I was nearly sitting at the edge of the chair. And at the times he looked at my side, or said something I was feeling like I was going to faint. But then, I started feeling more rxed. French was one of my best lessons in college. And I was always dreaming when I was studying, that I would go to France one day. That dream never happened but who knows? Maybe one day it would.


    As long as I went through the documents, I felt much more rxed and I even forgot that Anton was in the room. I wasfortably ced in my chair now. One of my legs was under me, I leaned on the documents in my hand. One of the colored pencils that I used for marking the suspicious transactions was stabbed in my updo hair I did today. As I was marking another transaction, I felt eyes on me. When I looked up, and for a fraction of a second, I saw he was looking at me. He instantly looked away. Then I realized how I was sitting. I adjusted my sses. I took off my leg which bended under my hips and brushed off the strands from my face which I don''t know when they left my bun.


    Then, without warning, my stomach grumbled. It was so loud, making it impossible to deny it. I looked at my belly, the source of the sound and looked up to meet Mr. Alonzo''s eyes again. What the hell, was he angry again? He made me ditched here to work while I was leaving for the meal and imed he would order but never did.


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    opened my mouth to defend myself and my belly, he stood up.


    "Come on!" he said. "We are going."

 The meal

    "Come on!" he said. "We are going."


    He turned his back and walked out of the door. Without questioning where or why we were going, I just followed him. I guessed this would be the nature of our rtionship from then on. He would go anywhere he liked and I would follow him as a duckling.


    He went to the elevator and I followed him. When we got into it, he turned to me and looked at my hair. An interesting expression passed through his face. A new one that I didn''t see before. Was he smiling? No it shouldn''t be a smile. Like he was having a stroke or something. Because there was a hint of a smile but it was suppressed with a clenched jaw, making it look like a seizure. I instinctively touched my bun and I recognized the colored pencil was still in my hair. I blushed instantly. I felt my cheeks burning again. How did I forget that?


    I tried to smile, but he avoided it and turned his face to the elevator doors. Fuck, he must be pissed. I was failing in all the ways possible. I wondered if I couldst at least a week.


    We finally reached the parking lot level. We have started walking among the parked cars. Then he stopped in front of a ck Rolls Royce. Of course a Rolls Royce. He unlocked the car and got in the driver seat. I was still standing there and trying to understand what I was expected to do.


    "Aren''t youing?" he said. I blinked. Should I? Then I turned around the car and sat in the passenger seat. With a roar of engine, we were out of the building in no time. I didn''t have a clue about where we were going. But I wasn''t feeling brave enough to ask. After that morning''s scolding, I knew that my 8 hours belonged to him and he could take me here and there during business hours as he liked. My traitorous stomach grumbled again. He just gave a side eye and continued looking at the road. Man, he was cruel. We could at least grab one or two cookies from the kitchen before leaving. With a cup of coffee maybe. And some strawberries. Maybe chocte. My god, I was so hungry. He drove the car for ten minutes more, and finally he halted in front of a restaurant. Not any restaurant, but it was ''La vie'', the most famous and expensive restaurant in the city.


    Just in a second someone opened my door, and saluted me politely. When I was out, I saw Mr. Alonzo was giving the keys to a valet.


    He led the way and I followed him again, definitely a duckling. When we entered the restaurant, I long forgot that I was famished. The dazzling chandeliers were giving warm lights to every corner of the restaurant. Round, elegant tables with white clothes, big vases of flowers at every corner. Waiters in tuxedos, and people filling the tables were chattering in hushed voices andughing. It was devastatingly beautiful. I recognized that I was opening my eyes so much, I felt the stinging of air at the corners. As if I was trying to get as much view as I could. Why were we here? Was there a meeting or something that I didn''t know? I looked at my watch. It was 4 pm. This hour was looking empty on the calendar this morning. Maybe there was something that I didn''t know.


    Waiter greeted us politely. I knew that was not a ce where you can find a table without a reservation. But Mr. Alonzo was so confident, it didn''t leave me room for suspects.This is from N?velDrama.Org.


    They led us to a perfect table by the full sized window, looking at the internal garden of the restaurant. The garden was so full of exotic trees and flowers, it was making it unreal. I even caught a glimpse of a colorful parrot perching one of the tree branches. It was like sitting next to a window to heaven. I was so taken by the view, I almost forgot that I was together with Mr. Alonzo. Not until I felt a drilling sensation of two eyes boring into my face. I turned my head from the garden view almost unwillingly and our eyes met. His eyes darkened. A muscle feathered in his square jaw. Almost like a predator. What did I do wrong now? Thankfully the waiter came to my aid.


    Wee again Mr. Alonzo. It is always a pleasure to have you here.


    "Thank you." said Mr. Alonzo in a curt manner. Waiter stopped the conversation instantly as understood it wasn''t wanted. He extend two menus to us, but Mr. Alonzo denied the menu and said, "I will have the usual."


    "Very well, sir." he answered.


    "What can I get you Ms.?"


    I looked at the long list and tried toe up with a meal that I was merely familiar with. I wasn''t eating red meat and I was afraid to end up with something meat involved. But nothing in the list rang a bell. While I was struggling, I heard;


    "Same for her, too."


    I was shocked. And felt a little bit insulted. Maybe I wasn''t used to these kinds of ces and he was my boss, but I didn''t like a man to decide for me what I would eat. I could choose myself, thank you very much! Did I ask for help? I didn''t think so. I fixed my expression, from aghast and impressed to indifferent and cold. If he is the boss even for the meal I choose, then I will be his employee. Just professional.


    The waiter took the menus from us.


    "Would you like something to drink sir?"


    "No." he said. No one consulted me of course. Then the waiter gave a nod and left. I turned my gaze from the table, and away from him as much as possible. And it wasn''t a hard job for me since I was so taken by the view of the garden again. He was an arrogant bastard. That was for sure. But at least he brought me to eat. Which I skipped for helping him. Okay, I was trying toe up with something that would make me feel alright about him, but it wasn''t actually working. "Did you like the ce?" he asked. Finally one of us was breaking the silence. I didn''t look at his face but looked at the table.


    "I did. Thank you." I returned to my examination for the garden again.


    "So, you liked the garden I guess." he asked again.


    "It is hard not to. It looks like a piece of paradise." I forced a smile.


    "Do you like flowers?" What? Were we doing small talk now?


    "I do. Actually I like everything nature can offer. Flowers, trees, mountains... Everything is calm and silent."


    "So you like solitude?"


    "More than anything." I smiled. It wasn''t a forced one this time. I was genuine. When ites to solitude in nature, very few things would make me happy as much.


    I saw a glint of curiosity pass from his eyes in a sh. He opened his mouth as if to say something more, but the waiter came at the same moment with the meals we ordered. Or more urately, he ordered.


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    He ced two giant tes in front of us, with a tiny meal in it. It was nearlyical. There was a piece of something in the heart of the te and the rest of the te was almost painted with different colored souces. "Enjoy." he said politely and left us alone again.


    I looked down at my te to understand what it was. It looked extremely like red meat. Fuuck. I sliced a small piece. Took it with the fork and brought it close to my nose to sniff it. Yep, it was red meat. I took it off from my fork and looked at my te hopelessly. There were two pieces of asparagus and some broli for dressing. I started with broli. Even though I liked broli and I liked the taste of it, it was so small to fill my grumbling stomach. I looked at the table desperately. I found the bread basket. Good. At least I could suppress the ache with some bread. I took a slice of bread and took a small piece, started eating it desperately.


    He sliced his own meat professionally. And ate it with a solemn face. In the middle of his meal, he raised his eyes and peaked at my te.


    "Is there something wrong with your filet mignon?"


    Filet what? I knew he was referring to the meat staying on the te untouched.


    "No. I guess it must be wonderful."


    "So why you don''t eat it?"


    "I don''t eat red meat." His eyebrows raised.


    "Oh!" he said. "I didn''t know."


    "If you would let your guest choose their meals next time, then you don''t need to know." I said calmly. Tried to keep the rising anger away from my voice.


    His eyebrows went up again. Higher this time.


    "We can order something else..."


    I cut him in the middle,


    "No need! If you are done, can we go now?" It sounded more harsh than I intended, but the words were out already.


    His confused and emphatic face turned to stone again. He nodded his head solemnly. Wiped his mouth with white napkin and stood up instantly. I followed him again. The waiter came running to us,


    "Is everything all right Mr. Alonzo?" he asked.


    "Yes, send the check please. I don''t have time now."


    "Yes, no problem Mr. Alonzo. Have a nice evening." he apanied us until the exit.


    The valet met us with the car in front of the restaurant as if it never left the ce. How did they manage to do that? We hopped in the Rolls Royce again and he hit the gas. We rode in silence. It was nearly peaceful. Nearly. At the times that I didn''t look in his direction. His face was expressionless and cold. Much like a closing hurricane. One that I didn''t want to be involved in.


    Finally he pulled the car to the parking lot under Alonzo za. We went to the elevator and back to the office. As soon as we got there he went to his office, shut the blinds and never came out.


    When the clocks showed 6 pm, I went to his door again. I knocked on it gently.


    "Yes!" he demanded as soon as I opened the door. It was like saying ''cut it short!''.


    "I am leaving for the day, sir. Is there anything you want before I leave?"


    "No." he said without looking up from the papers he had on hand. I waited for an extra second to really understand if that was all he would say. Yep, it was. No good evening, no see you tomorrow. Of course I wasn''t expecting it. But it could be a nice surprise.


    ***


    As soon as I left the za, I hit the burrito truck parking really close to our building. The best chicken burrito in the city was here. I impatiently ordered two chicken burritos and dug in the minute the delicious food was ced in my hand. I was humming in pleasure when I was eating it. I was practically moaning, when I caught a green glint opposite to me. I looked up from my food and froze in shock. There, standing tall in front of me, none other than Matt Alonzo himself. Grinning widely.

 Burrito

    Matt Alonzo, the second heir of the Alonzo Company, a total yboy, killingly handsome and of course disgustingly rich, which makes him the top bachelor in the city. Now standing in front of me by a burrito truck. Grinning widely. "Hello love, what are you doing here?"


    I choked on thest mouthful bite I took before I recognized him. I swallowed it hastily and his grin got wider.


    "Umm.. Hello." I said finally.


    "What are you doing here?" A rich man like you does not hit the burrito trucks right? Probably he was going to the restaurants his snob brother goes to, like he took me earlier.


    As if he understood the question in my head, he continued;


    "I am a regr of this truck. The best burrito in the town." He said. Max, the owner of the truck, has squinted his eyes questioning this statement. Max opened his mouth, but another customer called him out. "Hey Max! Can I take two chicken?" Someone from the line behind Matt called Max.


    "Coming!" he said. He paid ast questioning look to Matt. Matt looked at his face with a genuine smile. He extended his hand to Max to shake his hand. "Hello Max! It''s good to see you," he said. I was seeing the back of his elegant hand and long fingers extending, what beautiful hands he has, I thought. Max shook his hand then retracted his hand and looked in his palm, as if Matt''s hand burned a hole in it. Then a recognition and a half smile, almost a cunning one, curved Max''s mouth to one side.


    "It is good to see you too, Sir! What can I give you today?"


    "I am having whatever thedy is eating."


    "Hay hay!" Max said with a big grin on his mouth and returned to prepare the orders.


    "You are a regr here?" I asked. I must admit I was really surprised.


    "Why are you so surprised? Can''t I enjoy the simple pleasures of this life?" As he said this he tilted his head to one side slightly, looking like a predator about to jump for his prey.


    "Sure you can. I was just surprised because I thought you would enjoy more elegant ces. Like your brother." I blurted out. And the moment the words left my lips, I regretted it. Why did I mention his brother? What if he does not take it lightly and consider it as an insult?


    But he just smiled.


    "What the cocky bastard did this time?" he asked. I felt a little bit more confident after the direct insult he paid for his brother generously.


    "Well first, he didn''t let me go for the lunch break and imed he will order something while we are working. And he didn''t. Second, he took us to a fancy restaurant after letting me starve for hours and ordered for me without asking for my opinion. I don''t eat red meat and he ordered a filet mignon, and I couldn''t touch it either."


    "Typical Anton. He is always the same. A total control freak."


    "Yeah?" I asked.


    "Unfortunately, yes."


    "Well, how lucky I am. I thought I found a good job, but I am suspectful now, even after the first day that I can survive here."


    "Don''t say that, I would definitely like to see you around for long." I felt rising heat again, and I felt my cheeks start to turn red.


    "I guess I owe you an apology," he said.


    "For what?" I asked.


    "If I hadn''t made my intention clear about choosing you as my assistant, he would never have chosen you."


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    "Well, is it an apology or an insult?" I asked. Wasn''t I good enough to be chosen?


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    "Yeah I must admit it didn''t sound as I intended." he giggled. "I was trying to say that, I wanted to choose you first." He looked in my eyes directly and this time, blushing was inevitable for me.


    "See... Me and Anton have been in apetition since we were kids. Whatever I want, he wants it too. Whatever I aplish, he tries to aplish it too. So, the moment I gave away that I am interested in choosing you, I made you a clear target. I am not trying to say you are not worthy to be chosen, otherwise I wouldn''t consider it for myself. But he was saying he would choose a man this time and that''s why I said he wouldn''t choose you if it wasn''t me."


    I have to admit that it was making a lot of sense. And I also felt that Matt intended to choose me at the election.


    "I understand. Thank you for being honest with me."


    "Always!" he said with a big grin revealing his dimples. God, he was handsome. Meanwhile Max prepared his order and extended it to him. I was looking at the burrito in my hands and I was dying to continue eating it. But I was afraid to look like a savage while eating it, becausee on, it was a burrito. I couldn''t eat it with a fork and knife, right? And thest thing I want now is looking like a savage in front of this handsome and elegant man. He took his burrito and without a second''s hesitation dug in it with a giant bite. I froze in my spot and blinked several times. He looked at me and with a full mouth asked "Whhoat?!"


    I giggled. He looked like the cutest thing I have ever seen. Not a pretentious heir, but a normal, easygoing man. He giggled too. I said;


    "Nothing." and kept a smile on my mouth effortlessly. It was so easy to smile while I was with him. I turned to my burrito and dug in as he did. He smiled back at me and we kept eating in silence.


    Once burritos had been sent down to the bellies and we cleaned ourselves with wet tissues, I turned to him to say goodbye.


    "Thank you for yourpany Sir, it was very refreshing." I said.


    "I really would like you to call me Matt, when we are out of thepany." I blushed again and said


    "Okay, Matt... It was nice to see you here. I need to go now." I nodded as I smiled at him and walked past Matt to go in my direction. Suddenly I felt a soft hand sped around my wrist. I turned back and saw Matt was holding my wrist. I turned to face him. His dimples and everything was in ce. And his prating green eyes were locked on my face.


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    "Hey, I thought... Maybe..." he said. "Maybe we can have a drink together?" he paused. I blinked in confusion and he continued, "You know, the night is young. And it was your first day of work. It deserves a celebration, right?"


    Celebration maybe, but with the heir and Co-CEO of thepany? I guess not. I wasn''t willing to mix my professional life and my personal life together. And I was smart enough to understand that nothing good coulde out of this. I shook my head slowly as a no.


    His green eyes shuttered with disappointment.


    "I am sorry, Matt. I don''t think it''s a good idea to hang out with you."


    "We hung out today, nothing bad happened right?" he said grinning again. But this time his smile didn''t reach his eyes.


    "Well we met by chance, it''s different." I said. There was an agonizing disappointment in his eyes but I couldn''t do that. I was not a go-party type of girl anyway. And doing it with one of my bosses was not tempting at all. But I felt like I owed him an exnation.


    "Look, I am really thankful for you being friendly and helpful. I am really lucky to have such a boss, but I don''t think it is a good idea to be on hanging-out-friends terms while working under you."


    Something glinted in his eyes. Something sharp and amused. He wasn''t looking sad anymore, on the contrary he was looking excited just for a second. Then all vanished at once. A cool and collected smile took over all the emotions. Then he talked again.


    "Okay. I understand. It is normal for you to stay distant as an employee." he said.


    "No hard feelings?" I asked.


    "No hard feelings, I swear." he said while tilting his head backwards and moving his hand on his heart as making a cross. I couldn''t help butugh again. Damn he was cute.


    He smiled at me back with his dimples and crushing eyes.


    "See youter then?" I asked.


    "You bet I will see you, love." he took my hand and pecked a feather-touched kiss on the back of it. Then he turned his back and left without any more words. I stood there and looked after him a while more, trying to understand what hit me just a moment ago.

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    Anton''s POV


    Ronda was riding me relentlessly for thest fifteen minutes, but I wasn''t feeling as enjoyed as she did. Ronda Meyers, the CEO of the Meyerspanies and the eldest daughter of the Meyers family. A statue of perfection and control. Always sessful and challenging. Some could say we were a perfect match. Some, but not me.


    I was valuing her ideas and ambition about work. I was casually hanging out with her and sometimes fucking her, but somehow not feeling enough lust for her. She was a woman in control. For all the fields. And the bed was nothing different for her. She was liking being collected. Like anything else. Her hair was never getting tangled, never sweat during sex. Her lipstick never smudged while giving a blowjob and of course, she was taking from other holes as well without being shaken. I sometimes feeling like fucking a doll while I was fucking her. I like being in control and I was not intended to change it especially with her either. I held her slim waist and flipped us on the bed, now I was caging her under me. I imagined her instead of Ronda, just for a second. What would it be like to have her? I bet she was inexperienced and innocent in bed. Just how I liked it. And I was pretty sure I could have made her submit to me easily. Then I could pound on her little tight pussy on and on. While she was blushing red from her cheeks till her cute little ears. Stop it Anton!


    I got carried away with the thoughts of her and I started mming in Ronda''s pussy mercilessly without giving her a chance to take breaths. I wasn''t thinking very much about what I was doing. I was thinking about her. Ronda started wing my backs and trying to get control over me again. Not happening, Ronda! I held her hands with one hand and raised her arms onto her head. She was writhing and trying to shake me off to gain control again. But I was not in the mood of letting her win this time. I flipped her again as she was facing the bed, I smacked her ass and started iming her from behind, while I grabbed her hair in a hard grip. Ronda''s short blonde hair was not giving me enough satisfaction, I imagined long brte hair wrapped around my fist. Fucking stupid bun she had today! She was stabbing pencils in it. I could have held that bun in my hand, while she was begging for mercy, I could have stabbed my member in her, relentlessly. Until make her stupid, big brown eyes filled with tears. Fuck! Stop thinking of her, you idiot!.


    Ronda started wing my hand, gripping her hair, with her hands and cursing me between her clenched teeth. I didn''t give a shit. I nearly was not fucking her anymore. I was fucking someone else in my head. I wondered what it would be like to have her fragile body under me. What it would be like to paint her helpless body with all kinds of body fluids of mine. I wonder if her nipples also were like her lips, cherry red. Shit! I want to fuck that mouth! I continued thrusting at Ronda. Even though she hated it, she came not after too long and I released myself too.


    We copsed limp on the bed. Our chests were still moving fastly to catch our breaths.


    "What the hell Anton?" she asked between short breaths.


    "What?" I asked.


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    "Stop acting like you care about my mood, Ronda. We both know you are upset because I didn''t let you be in control this time." I said.


    She sent burning res to my side. Jumped off from the bed and got on her long legs. She was a beautiful woman. I examined her body while she was fishing her clothes in the room. Long and slim, a nice figure. Blonde hair falling to her shoulders and blue eyes inherited from her northern-europe ancestors. A pretty face, pretty body and pretty brain. She was a total set. Ronda was everything that she wasn''t. She was fragile and shy. Her small body was beautiful but totally in a different way. Ronda was shining with dominance and intimidation. She was delicate and calm, like a leaf before the wind. Now Ronda was zipping on her red dress ending right on her knees andbing her hair with her hands. She paid ast nce to my side.


    "Would you like to grab something to eat? I asked.


    "Who are you and what did you do to Anton Alonzo?" she asked.


    "Why? We can have dinner together can''t we?"


    "Yes we can, but you never asked before. Even when I offered, you said it could catch the paparazzi''s attention. What has changed now?" She was right, I never asked her out before for two reasons. One, that the paparazzi thing she already mentioned and two I didn''t want to give her the impression that we are exclusive. But today, I needed a distraction. After I finally released myself and cleared my cum-filled head, the things I thought during sex starteding back to me. And I didn''t want to face those thoughts. It was wrong from all angles. I was not the fucking Matt and I wouldn''t fuck around with employees.


    "I have a restaurant now, and I assure you we have a strict no paparazzi policy." I said as I shifted my attention to Ronda.


    "So


    you will take me to La Vie?" "Yeah, if you want?"


    "Okay... I guess dinner wouldn''t hurt after this sex you forced on me. You owe me one." she said. Iughed silently. This time was different than the times we had with her, I should admit that. I generally would allow her to have control. But I was not enjoying this too much. But she was a safe partner. Beautiful, sessful and not clingy. I was hardly finding time to have sex, and she was the same. We were having sex secretly between meetings or after a long days like today. She wouldn''t like to have any press attention in her private life, and neither would I.


    We left the suite that we were using to meet and went to La Vie.


    I pulled my Rolls Royce in front of the Restaurant that we came tost week with her. It''s been a week since she had started working but it made me feel like I knew her for months. She was like an open book. She was a shy and withdrawn person. She was blushing all over whenever someone slightly praised her or slightly scold. She was an organized person, and maybe the best assistant I have ever had. She was taking initiatives about work and running all of my appointments smoothly. She easily learnt all of my patterns and preferences. And made everything ording to my liking. Except for the coffee. She was really bad at preparing coffee.


    When she was thinking about something, she was touching her lower lip unconsciously and even was not aware this was a sexy thing. She was not doing it to be sexy. She was not even paying attention to any of the admirers. I have never seen our kitchen so crowded before. Even some employees from other stories wereing to get coffee - that coffee - from our kitchen until I forbade it.


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    She was shaking her leg when she was nervous. She was pushing her sses onto his small nose with her index finger, while focusing on a task. She was stabbing pencils to her hair while working and then forgetting them there and searching for them. She was taking off her shoes while working on her table without knowing my feet fetish. Fuck she was cute and it was making me crazy. She was a huge distraction.


    I woke up from my daydreams when the waiter greeted us and guided us to my table.


    Ronda was walking before me elegantly, she was examining the room indifferently, almost bored. I remembered when I took her here, the way she was taking in thevish room withrge eyes. But Ronda simply was unimpressed. She must have seen such ces a thousand times before.


    We sat at the same table right by the garden view. Ronda didn''t look at the garden once. She took off her phone and started replying to her emails. When the waiter came to give menus, I ordered the usual and Ronda simply said, same for


    me.


    "Do you know what I ordered?" I asked.


    "No, but I am sure you ordered something good and I am okay with that." she said without raising her gaze from her phone.


    I remembered when she simply scolded me not to let her order for herself. I was just feeling in a hurry because I forgot to order lunch for her and I was trying to order something right away. Besides filet mignon being one of the most priced dishes on the menu, I wasn''t thinking I would still cause her to starve. But she was right. I should have waited for her to order.


    I looked at Ronda and couldn''t help but wish she was here. Alice Wondend. I was calling her Wonderful but I was perfectly aware what her name was. But, she was wonderful, and she was deserving this name more than anyone else.

 New Assistant

    That day had been two weeks since I started working there. Even though my boss was a total pain in the back, I could still say that I got used to my job. I generally learned the workflow. Meeting arrangements, and Mr. Alonzo''s personal choices. Maybe the hardest part was it. Learning Mr. Alonzo.


    He was a total control freak and he had some obsessions. He wasing to work every day at 9:30 and he was always stayingte after the end of the business day. He was obsessed with cleaning and he had no tolerance to dust. Luckily I was not responsible for keeping his office clean, there was a whole team assigned for that, but still I should check on them after every time they cleaned the office. There was a hidden room behind his office, it was basically a bedroom with a small bathroom area and a walk-in closet. There were more than twenty suits there, just in case. And he was expecting every one of them to be clean and ironed all the time. Everyday after lunch time, he was changing all of his clothes and I had enough evidence to believe he was also taking a shower as well. Because I was seeing wet towels and a wet shower cabin everyday. And sometimes, his hair was still wet when he had it styled again in the way he always does. Slicked back in a sharp line. A ck curtain circling his dark intimidating eyes.


    Actually his cleaning obsession was making me nervous about my cleaning too. Whenever I got too close to him, I started to feel nervous if I was smelling clean or not. Not that I was not taking good care of my personal cleaning, I was a clean person in a normal way, like taking a shower everyday and brushing my teeth etcetera, but next to someone taking shower two times a day it was something to consider.


    He was always rude to me and was barely talking to me but still didn''t fire me so I was assuming that he was getting used to me. Only things I couldn''t solve yet was making coffee and taking my shoes off. It was a habit for me to take off my shoes whenever I sat at my table, because I couldn''t get used to those stilettos yet and I needed to rest my feet every time I sat. I caught him as he was looking at my bare feet a couple times. I was sure that he was disgusted by it but I had no choice. Whenever our eyes met while he was looking at my feet, he shut the blinds on my face. Rude! And of course making-coffee thing. It''s been two weeks now but still I couldn''t make a coffee that he didn''t spit back into the coffee mug. It shouldn''t be that bad should it? I thought I was doing well for a couple of days when other guys from other offices started to show up to take coffee from our kitchen. But than Mr. Alonzo shooed all of them and no one dared toe back again.Content is property ? N?velDrama.Org.


    I managed to see Matt from a distance once or twice, he smiled at me like a ball of sunshine, but he never came near me. I couldn''t me him. Last time he kindly asked me out for a drink, I refused him. And he had every right to stay away from me right now, because I said that I don''t want any closeness or friendship. So why the whining right? But it was hard for me not to miss his perfect smiles and dimples.


    And when I saw Matt at the end of the corridor, I was sure that he would just throw me a small smile and turn to another direction as he always did. But surprisingly he continueding my way. I instantly took a look at my boss'' office and luckily the blinds were still closed. When I had taken off my shoes he had shut the blinds angrily and didn''t open it afterwards.


    I started feeling jumpy as Matt got nearer to me, and when he was ten steps away from my desk, I couldn''t take it anymore and jumped on my feet. He kept grinning at me all the way through, and when he saw I jumped on my feet he broke a big smile, and of course with dimples. God! Have mercy on me please. I was trying a virtuous woman here and he was not helping any.


    "Hello, love." he said with his soft flirting tone.


    "Hello Mr. Alonzo. How can I help you?" I asked politely.


    He looked at my bare feet and his mischievous eyes met mine.


    "So tell me what those poor shoes did to you to have the misfortune of losing your affection?"


    I smiled at him.


    "They are just squeezing too tight." I said.


    "I know, I learned from the hard way that you don''t like to be squeezed." he winked at me. I felt I was starting to blush again. He looked enjoying seeing me blushing.


    I lowered my eyes to my feet and tried to hide my reddening cheeks. He extended his hand towards me and tugged a stray strand back of my ear. I felt physical burning on my cheeks and ears now. He lifted my chin with two fingers to make me look into his eyes. I suddenly suffocated with green forests. Damn! He knew his affect on me and he made me look into his eyes before saying his next words;


    "I missed you, Alice." and that''s it. I was practically burning now. My cheeks were sizzling with the blood rushed in and there was an unfamiliar coiling sensation at my lower abdomen. I made the dumbest mistake and looked at his mouth. Full lips curled with a knowing grin, making one of the dimples visible. I wanted to touch those lips with my lips. I wanted to taste his breath and the softness of his mouth on me. I felt like I was being drawn to him. Was it my imagination or was he drawing closer to me too? I felt like the distance between our lips started to close bit by bit. I started feeling his peppermint smelling breath touching my face. God, I was doomed. Then, I heard a voice breaking the trance; "Ihmm, Ihmm!" Someone cleared throat.


    Matt''s fingers left my chin immediately and turned to face the source of the voice like I did. I knew who was the source before I turned, and I cursed to my luck. When I turned to face him, Anton Alonzo was fuming with rage, sending daggers from his dark eyes and I felt like if he keeps looking like this a little bit longer I would turn to a pile of ash.


    "Brother!" Matt eximed with a joyful tone like seeing his brother was the most enjoyable thing in the world, despite the killing stares that he sent toward us.


    "How good to see you. I was talking with your lovely assistant."


    "I saw that much," Anton replied in a serial killer tone.


    "Come now, what is all that sulking? Aren''t you happy to see your brother?"


    "I see you more than enough already Matt. Don''t get handsy around my staff." I felt incredibly ashamed. What does this mean? Getting handsy? Like we were touching each other''s special parts. He just touched my chin. But somehow, I felt it was more than this and I felt he was partially right. That''s why I started looking at my bare feet and decided never to lift my head again.


    "Ohe on! Isn''t it hard to walk around like a stick has been stuffed into your ass all day?"


    I didn''t look up but I bet Mr. Anton was livid. But then I heard his extremely cold and calm voice.


    "Whatever Matt. Just keep away from my staff and leave."


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    "Okay, okay I am leaving. I never stay around ces that I wouldn''t be weed. But for staying away from your staff, that''s not gonna happen brother." "What?" Mr. Anton asked.


    "Ahh, did I forget to mention that my assistant has broken her leg? She took a month off, so I talked with father and he agreed with me to use your assistant as well for that period."


    I lifted my head from my feet as soon as I heard those words. What? I would be an assistant for both Alonzos?


    "What the hell are you talking about?" asked Mr. Anton, locked his dark eyes to Matt''s green eyes which were shining with delight.


    "You heard me. She will be my assistant too for one month. It''s our father''s order."


    "Hell no!" said Anton.


    "Feel free to confirm with him." Matt said dismissively, then his eyes met mine again.


    "Ms. Wondend, pleasee to my office tomorrow at 10.00. I know my brother''s obsession is about 9 o''clock, so I will let him have the first hour of the day. Then we can make our schedule ording to your workload." he said. And without any other word, he turned back on his heels and left. I stared after him in shock. Then I turned to see Mr. Anton''s expression. He gritted his teeth and fists. Turned his back to me like his brother and mmed his office door with a loud bang.

 Boundaries

    Damn!


    The coffee mug fell off from my shaking hands to the kitchen floor. I was shaking since I came to the office today. That day was my first day as an assistant for both Alonzos and I was nervous like a gazelle before headlights. While I was pouring the coffee for Mr. Anton, my hands shook so violently I tumbled down the mug.


    I bent down and started collecting the shards of the mug. And I cut my finger. "Ouch!" I cried.


    I put my finger into my mouth and sucked it to lessen the pain. Then I felt a movement at the entrance of the kitchen. when I raised my head to see who was there, I came face to face with Mr. Anton. I couldn''t help but yelp with surprise. "Oh!"


    I didn''t understand when he came this close to me. His eyes were darker as if it was even possible. I nearly could not see his pupils. Its color was blending with his dark irises. A furrow was creasing between his brows. Without warning he pulled my hand to himself and looked at my cut finger tip. A new blood drop was blooming on my index finger''s tip. He looked at my finger like he was in a trance, and suddenly he took my finger, put it in his mouth and sucked the tip. My jaw dropped open. His eyes flutter-closed for a second and a guttural voice left his clenched lips around my finger. It was almost a moan. But very little, almost inaudible. What kind of dream was I having? Or a nightmare? He opened his eyes and looked into my eyes after an eternal second and a shock wave passed from his eyes almost instantly. He pulled my finger off from his mouth and threw it to me like it was infectious. Okay, this was the normal Mr. Anton I know. "Be careful Ms. Wonderful, I don''t tolerate clumsiness around my office."


    He left me there bent down, holding my cut and licked finger in my palm and gawking to the door where he left. When I finally managed to pull myself together, I looked at my wrist watch. It was 9.15 am. So why was he here? He never came before 9.30 before. And he was a man ofmitments.


    I stood up and refilled a mug with coffee again. I went to his room. Knocked on the door and went in after a second. He was standing next to his desk as always. I left the coffee mug on his desk and sat on the chair as I always did. I took out my notepad and looked at him as I waited for daily instructions. He looked at me back, a second passed, two seconds... He didn''t say anything and kept staring at me. I started feeling uneasy under his stare. His eyes were almost prating my flesh and gripping my soul in a tight grip.


    "What is the nature of your rtionship with my brother Ms. Wondend?" What? He just said my name correctly. But he did this in such a horrible question sentence, I couldn''t even feel happy about it. "What do you mean, sir?"


    "I am asking onest time, what is the nature of your rtionship with my brother. I rmend you to be honest. I have my ways to gather the truth all the time." His eyes were two blocks of icebergs. His muscr arms were crossed over hisrge chest. His white shirt''s stitches were stretching like his muscles were not fitting in his shirt anymore like his muscles swelled. It was strange because his clothes were always perfect fit. His jet-ck hair which always backswept with jel was looking messy now and some strands were dropping on his brows like he shuffled his hair before. He was always intimidating and had a dark aura but today, he was murderous. I was about to be drowned in this dark energy radiated from his every feature. I gulped. His murderous eyes followed my neck movement, almost hungry. I opened my dried mouth.


    "I..I don''t have a special rtion with Mr. Alonzo except professional purposes. It was the second time yesterday, I saw him after I started working." I answered and tried to keep it cool as much as I could.


    "When was the first time?" he asked. His nces were still dark, I couldn''t dare to take my eyes off of his.


    "It was my first day here."


    "Where did you see him? He didn''te here?"


    "No sir. I ran into him after work at a burrito truck."


    "A burrito truck?"


    "Yeah I was hungry and I wanted to eat some burrito from a food truck and he came there by chance. Apparently it was his favorite ce."


    "A burrito truck? His favorite?"


    "Yes sir. He said so" His eyes darkened more. But his piercing gaze was not aimed at me anymore. He was looking distant as if thinking something. A slight grin curled at the corner of his mouth. As if he recognized something. Then looked back at me cold as ever.


    "Okay Ms. Wonderful. I will be straight forward. My brother is an impenitent womanizer and I believe he selected you as a target this time. He will try his chances on you every time he has an opportunity. Unfortunately, this ''assisting him for a month'' thing gives him enough room to pursue you. You need to understand that, he won''t stop until he gets in your panties, and the moment he manages that, he will throw you away and continue for other pursuits."


    I was shocked. Why was he telling me those things? What made him believe that I will ever let him get into my panties? And what kind of insult was that? Who was he thinking that he was to lecture me about my personal life, even though I was not interested in his brother or any office romance, he had no right to talk to me like that!


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    I forced myself to open my clenched jaw to talk.


    "Look Mr. Alonzo. You may think that everyone is after you and your brother since you are rich and handsome, but I am not." he smirked but I avoided him and continued.


    "I am not interested in office romances and I am not that type of girl who would sleep with her boss to get somewhere higher. I am content about the ce I am at right now and I don''t have ambitions like most. Plus, no one can lecture me about my personal life, my boss or not. So from now on, please do not interfere with my personal life. If you ever think that I am crossing that line, you are free to fire me that second. I read my contract in detail and I know office rtionships are not permitted in yourpany."


    His mouth dropped open. He was shocked. Apparently, he wasn''t expecting any retort from me, or used to get a retort from anyone. And I saw his conflict on his face to give an answer or not. He choose not to. I stood up and straightened my pencil skirt.


    "If you don''t have anything else, I need to go to attend to my other duty."


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    "..." No answer came.


    "Good day Mr. Alonzo." I didn''t linger in the office anymore and left him there instantly. I was sure he was fuming after me, but I didn''t give a shit after the things he said to me.


    As soon as I left his room I looked at my watch and saw it was 9:55, I hurried up to catch my other appointment with other Mr. Alonzo, the light one.


    I paced through to the other side of the floor and went to Matt''s quarters in time. As he mentioned, the desk of his assistant was empty. I knocked on his door and I heard his friendly voice,


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    I went into his office. He was sitting on his desk, when I entered the room he stand up like weing an old friend,


    "Ms. Wondend! It''s nice to see you."


    "It''s nice to see you too Mr. Alonzo" he gestured to the opposite chair next to his desk, I went and sat down.


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    I pulled out my notebook and waited to take notes.


    "Ms. Wondend, I don''t have major updates today. Please look up my assistant''s calendar and follow up the meetings for me, remind me of the meetings 10 minutes prior to start and you can call me from the internal line, no need to stay here."


    "Sure, Mr. Alonzo."


    He passed a piece of paper to me.


    "Here is my assistant''s password for theputer, please do not share this with anyone else."


    "Of course sir."


    "Oh! And one thing I need, please clear my schedule between 12:00-13:00, there was a meeting I set up for that period earlier but I need you to cancel it. Come here at 12:00, I have another meeting to attend, I want you to be with me." "At the lunch break sir?"


    "Don''t worry I won''t let you starve this time Ms. Wondend." He winked at me. I smiled back unintentionally. He had that effect on me.


    "Is there anything else sir?"


    "No, thank you. You can leave now."


    "Thank you," I said and left the room. It was smooth and easy. No drama, no sending daggers from stares, no acting like he wants to drown me. On the contrary he seemed pleased to see me. I wished a thousand times now to be his assistant instead.


    I opened his assistantputer. Copied the calendar and emailed myself to follow up his meetings. Then I returned to my desk.


    When I sat on my desk, I felt Mr. Anton''s eyes are on me and I lift my gaze. As soon as our eyes met he shot the blinds close. Yeah yeah, shut it already. Like I was eager to see his venomous res. I looked at my wrist watch and wished for 12:00 toe soon.

 Unspoken Encounter

    I was waiting in excitement for thest hour. Finally I saw the time had ticked to 11:50, and I was ready to step off from my cage for at least one hour. I knocked on Mr. Alonzo''s door. "Yes!" his voice came behind the door.


    I opened the door, and peaked in from the creak of the door.


    "Sir, I am leaving for Mr. Alonzo''s lunch meeting, I will be back after 13:00."


    "What lunch meeting?" he asked.


    "I don''t have much knowledge. He said there is a lunch meeting he will join and he wanted me to join with him, to take notes I presume."


    "Where?"


    "I don''t know sir."


    "Text me the ce as soon as you get there. Understood?" I hesitated. Is it ethical to inform one of my bosses about the activities of other? He saw hesitation in me. "Understood?" he asked again.


    "I don''t think I can do this sir."


    "Why not?"


    "I don''t know if he wants this meeting to stay confidential or not. And it doesn''t make me feel alright to inform you about his activities without permission from him." "Do you realize that I am your boss? You are supporting him just temporarily."


    "I know sir. But I have my own values and this is contradicting those. Even for one month or just one day, he is counting on me and I cannot sell him down the river."


    His eyes darkened menacingly. Like he was one minute away from murdering me. But it was getting old really. All these looks and threats, if he was not happy with me, he could fire me. I wasn''t going to change my values just for the sake of being speared from his grimaces.


    "Okay" he said finally. Cold as ice.


    "Enjoy your meal Ms. Wonderful, keep the things in mind that we have discussed this morning. I believe you won''t do anything stupid."


    I didn''t answer this nonsense all over again. I simply nodded and closed the door behind myself.


    I went to Matt''s office almost running. When I finally made it to his door, he opened the door and found me there fighting to catch my breath from the run I broke up.


    "Hey! What''s the rush?" he said.


    "Sorry sir, Mr. Alonzo kept me talking, so I stayed a little bitte."


    "No worries love, there is nothing wrong about being a couple minuteste. I am not my obsessed brother." he said.


    I forced myself not to smirk at thisment.


    "So, did he inquire with you about the ce we are going to?"


    "He did." I said. "But I refused to inform him."


    "You did?"


    "Yes." I said proudly.


    "Well done my little angel. You can be the first woman saying no to him in his pathetic life."


    I suppressed myughter again. I was totally team Matt but there was no need to bury my real boss six feet under.


    "Shall we?" he asked as offering his arm to me.


    I simply took his arm and he led us to the elevator.


    We went down to the parking lot and we got in his red Aston Martin in no time. Before I understood what was happening we were on the road already.


    "Tell me love, do you like sushi?" he asked.


    ¡°Yes, I like sushi very much Mr. Alonzo"


    "It''s Matt when we are out of office and I know a perfect ce for sushi." Was he taking me to a sushi restaurant since I like it, or was the meeting already set there? "Has our meeting been set in a sushi restaurant?" I asked.


    "It is now!" he said.


    "If you could tell me the attendees, I can quickly update them about the meeting ce?"


    "No need, love. Everyone who should know where we are going, already knows it."


    "O..Okay" I said I was totally confused but I didn''t say a word. Finally he pulled his car to a modest sushi restaurant. It was not just a sushi restaurant, it was my favorite. "Woahh!" I said in surprise.


    "Do you know, this is my favorite sushi restaurant in town!" I squeaked.


    "How convenient." he said with a knowing smirk written all over his face.


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    We went into the restaurant and sat at a table for two. I blinked several times in confusion.


    "Maybe we should choose a bigger table? To make room for other attendees?"


    "Ahh love, no one else will join us. I brought you here to have lunch with me."


    "What? Why?!"


    "Because I like sushi too."


    "You lied to me Mr. Alonzo?"


    "It''s Matt, love. Not Mr. Alonzo, and I didn''t want to lie to you. But my ill-bred brother would never let you go if he knew it was just lunch for the two of us."


    I grimaced at the idea of having a private lunch with him. I was finding him attractive. God, he was a special edition. But in this life, where I was just an ordinary assistant and he was a heir, we don''t have any future. And I was not eager to jump into something if it has no promise for the future. Besides, he was my boss for God''s sake.


    I stood up in my ce.


    "Sorry Matt, I cannot do this. This is wrong." I said. My hand extended to my purse on the table. He catched my wrist.


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    "I would, but you are not my coworker. You are my boss."


    "No, not in the lunch breaks. You are totally free during breaks." He widened his forest green eyes into the most convincing begging-pupil eyes I have ever seen.


    "Please love, have lunch with me. I don''t bite, you know. Not if you don''t want me to." he smirked again.


    I released a big breath and sat back on the chair. He pped his hands with excitement and asked for the menu. After giving our orders, silence fell onto the table. I averted my gaze to not to face him. His handsome face was confusing me. But he kept his stare on me all the time. Finally he broke the silence.


    "So, Alice Wondend. It''s quite a name huh?" he said.


    I giggled involuntarily.


    "Yeah, that is a nightmare that my father thinks is cute." he giggled this time.


    "I think it''s charming," he said.


    "Thank you. I think I am still lucky. My youngest sister''s name is Bunny."


    He was sipping his water while I was saying that. It caught him off guard and he sprayed the water all over his shirt and broke intoughter. Iugh with him too. When he finally managed to breath normally again he continued, "So you have a sister?"


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    "Two actually, I also have a middle sister. She is the luckiest one among us who has a normal name thanks to mum. Her name is Rachel."


    "How is it to have sisters?"


    "It''s the most delightful thing in the world. They are my sunshines. I don''t know how the world would be without them."


    "So you are lucky." he said longingly. I couldn''t keep myself but asked the first question came into my mind.


    "Why are you two like this? Why are you fighting all the time?"


    "Me and Anton?"


    I nod.


    "Well I don''t know exactly what happened to us. We weren''t like this all the time you know. When we were kids I adored Anton. He was my role model. I was following him everywhere in our childhood house like a duckling. But in time, the nature of our rtionship has changed. He had hard times to digest that I was not a kid anymore, and I was capable of aplishing things just as good as he does. It started apetition between us. Everytime one of us aplished a thing, the other tried to exceed it. And it has severed all brotherly feelings between us in years I guess."


    He was talking so genuinely and so frankly, I couldn''t help but admire him one more time. He was a real man. Capable of talking about his feelings and knowing how to enjoy life. Meanwhile our orders came to the table. We dug in with a grand appetite. I ordered California Roll and Maki Roll. He ordered Spicy Tuna Roll and Rainbow Roll. Little did he know I had to taste all of them including his sushi. Because when it came to sushi, I had no limit.


    I extended my sticks and grabbed a piece from his te. He looked at me with unbelieving eyes, but before he swallowed his bite and protested me I already sent down the piece.


    "Hey you! Stay away from my te!" he said, pointing his sticks threateningly to me with one hand and covering his te with the other.


    I swallowed the sushi in my mouth and stuck out my tongue to him. He tried to catch my nose with the sticks in return but I avoided his attack on time and grabbed another piece from his te by using this distraction and stuffed that into my mouth too. He opened his eyes wider in shock then broke into anotherughter. Iughed hard too. We kept teasing and poking each other throughout the meal. Finally when both of our tes were empty and both of us managed to steal a quiterge amount of sushi from each other''s tes, the waiter came and picked the empty tes.


    I rubbed my stomach with contentment. He looked at my gesture andughed again.


    "You know, you are the first girl I have ever met who eats as a normal person."


    "What do you mean?" I asked.


    "Every girl that I know or had eaten together, was always eating as much as a bird. I was always wondering how they survived, but thinking it was about being a girl. But now I saw you and I know they were not normal."


    "So you have seen a lot of examples of girls eating less, and you are considering me as normal? Haven''t it urred to you that maybe I am eating too much?"


    "No, you are healthy. I believe it must be the right way. But I must admit I have never had to protect my te with my life before." "Well you were missing so much, this always makes the dishes more delicious."


    "Indeed, I was missing so much." He said, with a deep dreamy voice. As if he was meaning something else. Our gazes collided and both of us stopped still. His green eyes were like a meadow under the afternoon sun. Shining and reflecting the beams of life. I found myself deep in those gaze. We didn''t even dare to breathe. One twitch was all it takes to break the magic and none of us were volunteering to break it yet. I couldn''t help but gulp. He followed the bob of my throat going up and down, then his gazended on my lips. Even though the table was standing between us solid still, I was almost feeling his lips on my mouth. I let this feeling stay for three more seconds, two, one... And wake up Alice!


    I turned my head with a tremendous will power and looked out of the restaurant. He cleared his throat as well.


    "Check please!" he said as ast sentence on our unspoken encounter.

 Eavesdropping

    A week had passed after my first day as an assistant for both Alonzo''s and our lunch with Matt. I started feeling I was doing alright. Mr. Alonzo, the bold one, wasing 15 minutes earlier than his usual time, that I understood because of my other duty to go to the other brother at 10:00.


    I managed to provide enough support to both of them, scheduled their meetings, arranged their posts, organized their files and nned their work travels. That day I was content from myself as I was walking to my office.


    My phone rang and it was my father. I joyfully opened it. For the past few weeks, I have had very little time to share with them. I was generally heading home after work and cking out from exhaustion. "Daddy!"


    "Honey! How are you my sweet princess?"


    "Thank you daddy, I am doing fine. How are you?"


    "Fine honey." his tone dropped an octave. I felt something was wrong.


    "What is it dad? There is something bothering you." He gave a big breath to the phone.


    "You know, the school term is getting nearer. Rachel had already received three eptance letters from colleges. I need to find money."


    "Don''t feel overwhelmed dad. I promised you that I will help you to send my sisters to college. Now, you search for a convenient loan for her preferred college. I will pay her installments with my sry."


    "Honey, it''s too much. You are building your own life, I cannot ask you that."


    "You are not asking me dad. I am volunteered. Once you manage to get the loan, inform me about installments and I will send you money month by month."


    "Okay honey. I really appreciate your support. Meanwhile I will try to find a way to an extra ie, and I will release you from this burden as soon as possible."


    "It''s not a burden to me dad. I am happy to help my family. But I need to go now, I already came to work." I said as I stood next to my desk.


    "Okay honey, take care. I will let you know the details. Bye!"


    "Bye!"


    I closed my phone and sat on my desk happily. Finally I was doing something meaningful. Helping my sister''s progress was the most thrilling sensation in the world. I pushed all thoughts aside and started a daily routine. Making coffee, filing the documents Mr. Alonzo piled on my desk yesterday, before he went out. He was alwayste at night. And I printed out the daily calendar for him.


    He came to work as usual, 9:15 sharp. I waited for him in his office. He came in, sipped the coffee, spit it back and turned to face me.


    "Good morning sir,"


    "Good morning Ms. Wonderful"


    I took out my notepad and stayed ready to take notes as always. He gazed at me as prating as always, but I almost got used to that too.


    "Make a reservation for the whole week, clear out the schedule, we are going to Hawaii tomorrow."


    "We are? Like you and me?"


    "I was expecting you to know the meaning of we. This is very basic Ms. Wonderful."


    "But sir, why are you taking me with you?"


    "This is a business trip, isn''t it normal to have my assistant with me? We are going to sign a deal with the Sanders group."


    "Okay but, I have obligations towards Mr. Matt too. How could I fulfill them from Hawaii?


    "Do you really think that I give a shit about Matt''s needs? Find a way for yourself. Or just abandon him. I don''t care."


    "O..Okay sir." I said reluctantly. "Is there anything else?"


    "Don''t forget to take your bathing suit," he said. A rare twinkle glinted and faded immediately in his eyes. Did he make a joke right now?


    I blushed. I don''t know why. But it was embarrassing to think of myself in a bathing suit next to him. I nodded and lowered my head to hide my blushed cheeks.


    I went to my desk and sat there for a second or two, to digest the idea that I was going to travel with Mr. Alonzo, the bold one. And I needed to find a way arrange Mr. Matt''s schedule too. I went to my other meeting with him. "Hello Mr. Alonzo."


    "Well hello, my sweet assistant. Come in"


    I went into his office and sat in my usual spot.


    "Sir, Mr. Anton informed me that we need to go on a business trip to Hawaii for the rest of the week, and I just wanted to inform you that I will take care of your schedule remotely for this week."


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    "He is taking you with him?"


    "Yes sir."


    He huffed a breath out and I sensed he got tensed.


    "I was expecting something like that. I should have known better when he drew the deal three weeks earlier. He wants to keep you for himself as much as he can."


    "I don''t think it is rted to me sir. I think it is more rted to making you feel that way."


    "Oh love, you have no idea." he said. Confusion creased my brows. What does this mean now?


    "Anyway," he said. "We have no option, this deal is really important. I can manage a week without you. Thank you for informing me, Alice."


    "Sorry sir, I wish I could do more."


    "Thank you, love. See you next week."


    "See you sir" I stood up and stepped out from his office, smirking at his sweet goodbye.


    I went to my desk, and looked for the schedule for the rest of the day. There was a meeting in five minutes with Ms. Ronda Meyers, the heir of the Meyerspany. She could be here any minute, so I put on my shoes again. And as expected, she appeared in the corridor after a minute or so.


    It was the first time I was seeing this stunning woman. She was gorgeous from every angle. She was tall and thin. Her long legs were nearly around my height. Her blonde straight hair was cut at shoulder length and was shining like melted gold. Her light blue eyes like the ocean, curtained with thick ck eyshes. She was wearing professional makeup and her suit dress was hugging her figure from all the right ces forplementing her figure more. I couldn''t help but gawked at her.


    After a minute of stare, she politely cleared her throat and I recognized that I was gaping her for all this time.


    I shook my head from my thoughts and stood up.


    "Wee, Ms. Meyers. Let me inform Mr. Alonzo of your arrival."


    "Thank you." she said politely. I went to Mr. Alonzo''s door, his office''s blinds were still closed. I knocked on the door and opened it after a second. He lifted his gaze from the paper he was reviewing and looked me in the eye, "Mr. Alonzo, Ms. Meyers is here."


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    I opened door wider to let Ms.Meyers toe in, I politely invite her in as saying,


    "Ms. Meyers, Mr. Alonzo is waiting for you."


    She smiled at me and proceeded to the door to pass me. When he saw her at the door, something odd happened. He smiled at her. Genuinely and widely. And for the first time since I came here, I recognized one thing that I never recognized before. Fucking dimples! He had the identical dimples with his brother, at the exact same points on his cheeks. But since he was grumpy and frowny all the time, I have never seen those before. I froze there in shock. He stood up and they greeted each other by a small hug, than Mr. Alonzo recognized my presence there. He looked me again with his signature frown and asked,


    "Is there something else Ms. Wonderful?" I pulled myself together immediately.


    "Would you like me to bring something to drink sir?" That was the best excuse I can find for my presence there. Luckily it worked. "No thank you. I will offer my guest something from my bar," he gestured to his bar in the corner.


    "O...Okay sir." I returned on my heels to leave the office, but he called me onest time.


    "Ms. Wonderful, please leave early for lunch today, and do not let anyone disturb me until my meeting is over with Ms. Meyers."


    "Alright sir." I said and went out of the office immediately. I was high on clouds. This was the first time Mr.Alonzo let me take an early lunch break. I left the za at 11:30 and didn''t turn back until it was 13:00.


    When I returned to my office I was happy to have an extra half an hour I got and the dessert I ate on the meal. I sat on my desk and took off my shoes. Mr. Alonzo''s blinds were still shut. I couldn''t see if Ms. Meyers left or not but I presumed she had, since one and half hours have passed.


    My desk phone rang. I answered the phone and it was Mr. Parker. He wanted to talk to Mr. Alonzo, but I was not sure if his meeting waspleted or not. There was no sign of living inside his office. I said to Mr. Parker that I will turn to him to inform about Mr. Alonzo''s avability. I went to his office door slowly, and reluctantly listened. Since there were no shoes on my feet, my steps muffled on carpeted floors. So I could reach the door silently. There was no sounding from inside. But, not even a single sound, as if it was all empty. I brought my ear closer to the door surface, nearly resting on it. But I couldn''t hear anything. If someone would see me like this, they could think I was eavesdropping. I took an encouraging breath and knocked on the door. It was a major risk I was taking. He asked no disturbance and if he was in the office, he could kill me with hisser eyes. I waited, but no sound came. I took another deep breath and turned the knob. When I went inside, the office was empty. Where did he go? Maybe he went to lunch after me as well I thought. When I turned on my heels to leave the office, I heard some sounds. Muffled and distant, buting from inside. I turned back and examined the office and my eyes dropped on the internal door leading to Mr. Alonzo''s resting area. As I trusted my shoeless feet I went to that door slowly. Was he in there? Maybe he was taking a shower. If he were there, I could hear the shower sounds and make sure he was inside.


    I went closer to that door too. I reached the door with my ear again and listened. But the voicesing from inside was not just belong to Mr. Alonzo but someone else, too.


    "Oh! Ah! Ah!! Anton!! Slow down pleeasee!!"All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    "Sshh! Shut up Ronda and spread your legs wider!"


    "Ahhh!"


    What the hell?!

 Audience

    "Oh! Ah! Ah!! Anton!! Slow down pleeasee!!"


    "Sshh! Shut up Ronda and spread your legs wider!" "Ahhh!"


    I was pounding on Ronda mercilessly, still I wasn''t feeling any better. I invited Ronda today to distract me a little bit before our trip to Hawaii with Alice. Fuck! Normally, I wasn''t that kind of man who would think fifty ways to screw his assistant in a day. But I wasn''t normal nowadays. Here I was, fucking a blonde in the middle of the day to flush Alice out of my system and it wasn''t working.


    I turned Ronda under me to face the bed. I hold her thin waist between my hands and lift her ass up to level with my dick. I buried my dick in her with one strong trust. She cried out and protested my harshness again. But I couldn''t hold myself. I wasn''t screwing Ronda. I was screwing Alice in my head. Her tiny waist, her round ass. Fuck! she was indeed wonderful. I wonder what kind of voices she would make if I were fucking her right now.


    Since the day I sucked her finger, I was constantly dreaming about her. I didn''t know what got in me that day. When I came to the office and found her sucking on her finger, I lost it. First a fear shook me while I was thinking she was hurt. I went down to her without thinking and wanted to see the damage. I pulled the finger to myself then I saw a tiny bit of blood. I wanted to put that finger into my mouth no matter what. To heal it, to lessen her pain. But then her taste hit me. Her salvia was still on her finger. Sweet scent of cherry hit my taste buds mixed with a tinge of copper. It was divine. I couldn''t help but close my eyes to experience this feeling better. Maybe I even moaned a little. But when I opened my eyes, her face in front of me was in shock. I don''t remember a time I was embarrassed more.


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    "Ahh!"


    I saw them. Of course I found out where they went. As soon as she left the office I put my men to her tails. I went there and watched them from a distance. They shared food like fucking lovers. And a burning sensation filled my chest for a woman for the first time in my life. It was something very unfamiliar, but I knew what it was the moment I felt it. It was jealousy. But I knew what I would do to make Matt pay for this. - I fisted Ronda''s blonde hair with one of my hands and started pulling her to me from her hair to meet every trust I hit in her.-


    It took my week to pull all the strings required to take the Sanders Group deal three weeks earlier. I spent enough money, and favors. But it worth it. I stole her from him for a whole week and he would know why I was doing it the moment he heard that I was taking her with me. - I grabbed Ronda''s both shoulders from back and I started pulling her harder to my trusts.- "Ahh! Ah! Ah!!"


    Ronda''s cries snapped me from my thoughts. I didn''t even realize how brutal I got with her. A movement caught my eye and I looked at the creaked open door with a side eye to see a pair of brown eyes behind sses. I knew those eyes very well. I was melting in those eyes for thest week. Who I was kidding, I was melting in those eyes from the very moment I saw her. I let her stand there and watch. I could feel her wide eyes watching my every movement. Yeah, baby girl, watch it. I will exactly fuck you like this. I will scratch your tight pussy with my throbbing dick. I smacked Ronda''s ass again, hard. She threw another cry. I was excited now. The audience brought me the spirit that was missing from the start of this act. I was a moment away exploding in Alice now- no! Ronda... I started moving faster.


    "I aming again Anton!"


    "Come for me baby,e all over my cock!" I grunted. Faster and harder I continued to banging her. And I knew she was watching me, her legs shaken, her pussy dripping. Now she knew exactly what would happen to her tight pussy the moment I took her under me. Fuck! I turned on so much. I felt my swelling dick in Ronda and the moment I spilled my load, she fell from the edge of climax at the same time. "Yes! Yes! Yeess!!" she cried.


    "Fuck!" I hissed. I copsed on Ronda''s back, wasted. When I turned my gaze to the door, she was gone.


    ***


    Alice''s POV


    Shit! Shit! Shit! What had just happened? Did I watched Mr. Alonzo while having sex? Damn! It was not my intention. I was just trying to understand what was happening and the moment my ear touched on the door, the door creaked open. Apparently it wasn''t fully closed. And the moment I saw them from the creak of the door, I froze.


    I was a virgin. I saw some intimate scenes at the movies but never saw anything in the flesh like right now. I couldn''t help, I couldn''t run, but I watched. God! It was something to behold. He was like a Greek god just climbed down from the Olympus and was spreading his wrath upon the mere subjects. His muscr tanned body was glistening with sweat. His every movement, every trust was echoing on his muscles. I was seeing themterally, but mostly his back. His cut out marble ass, and his huge torso from behind was looking sexy like hell. My lower abdomen started to squeeze. There was a coiling sensation that I didn''t know why.


    He was flipping her, pounding on her mercilessly, fisting her hair in his hand and hurting her in every way possible. Ronda was writhing and crying in pain? Or it was joy? I couldn''t be sure. But one thing was sure enough, that Anton was brutal in bed. He smacked her ass with enough force to make its sound echoed in the air. She gave another cry. Now I was sure she hurt. No one could feel good under this kind of pressure. My legs started to shake in empathy. I wouldn''t want to be in her ce.


    Ronda started crying. Her tears were gliding from her cheeks dropping on white sheets of the bed. Now her sweat mixed with her tears. Her hair was messy with the fists of Anton, her cheeks, neck and ass were crimson red. She was looking totally wasted and ruined. There were no traces left from the cool and collected air I saw on her when she came first.


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    Like all of these were not enough, he shifted his position by letting her hair go and holding her shoulders instead. Now he was pulling her from her shoulders to make his impact on her even harsher like it was possible. God she was crying, writhing and crawling to escape this merciless grip. I was sure now, he was hurting her. There was no other way that a normal human being could get joy from such a force. And man! How long it takes for him toe. I was here for nearly more than thirty minutes now, and they were already in the middle when I started watching.


    "I aming again Anton!" Ronda cried. Coming? So she enjoyed this? What kind of freak she was.


    "Come for me baby,e all over my cock!" he grunted between squeezed teeth in a cavernous tone. It made my legs tremble more. I felt a wetness between them. Have I just turned on with what I saw? That was impossible. But his harsh tone echoed in my core and vibrated me inside out.


    I saw enough! I needed to go. I would have left there and nevere back if it was possible. But I had a half day down the road. I turned my back to that scene, left the room with small and silent steps and returned to my desk. I took out some wet towels and wiped my sweaty face and palms. I fanned myself with my hand. God, why was I so hot? I drank some water and pushed away every thought that came to my mind rted to the scene I just saw.


    Fifteen minutester, Ronda Meyers was leaving his office like nothing happened. I was looking more fucked than she did. Her hair was smooth like never grabbed in powerful fists, her face and color was spotless, no crimson flushes were there anymore. Not even a hickey. She nodded to me while leaving. I nodded back. As soon as she left, I heard Mr. Alonzo''s voice from the inte.


    "Ms. Wonderful, can youe here for a second?"


    Oh god! Oh god! He knew. He knew that I watched him and now he would fire me. I stood up in my ce and closed my eyes for a second for my uing doom. Now, I am screwed.

 Confrontation

    Anton''s POV


    When she went in, she was white as chalk. All blood drenched from her face in fear. She was thinking that I would talk about her little audience situation, but that wasn''t my intention. I only and purely called her to see her struggle. I met her, as standing before my table, trusting my legs to it from behind. I folded my arms on my chest and watched here into the center of the room with a solemn expression on my face.


    She stood in the middle of the room, not daring to sit in her usual spot. Her shoes were gone as always, but it was the first time I was seeing her shoeless other than the times she was seated at her desk. Apparently she was so overwhelmed by the fear of me, she even forgot to wear those. Good.


    "Mr. Alonzo, before you start to say anything I would like to apologize - "I raised my hand and she halted in between her sentences. I was not willing to get a confession and let her out of the hook. Not so soon. "Ms. Wonderful, do you know why I have called you here?"


    "I guess sir. See, I was about to say-" I interrupted her again.


    "Shh! I don''t want to hear your excuses."


    She stopped talking. She looked at me with wide eyes, fear mixed with shame.


    "This is uneptable. You are my assistant Ms. Wonderful, yet I cannot even trust you?"


    She looked down, she was pulling fingers of one hand with the other and looking at it like it was the most important thing in the world.


    "When I am talking to you please look at me Ms. Wonderful."


    She raised her chin, paid some nces to me as much as she dared, then returned her gaze to her fingers and with a small voice almost inaudible said,


    "Umm... I am sorry sir. So sorry. I didn''t mean to..."


    "Didn''t mean to what? You didn''t mean to do a proper job for once? You didn''t mean to aplish even such a small task?"


    She lifted her gaze again, looking directly into my eyes now, I saw confusion in her big brown eyes under her frowned brows. She waited patiently, not daring to say another word.


    "I asked you to book the flights for Hawaii, and you did what?"


    "What sir?" she was looking slightly relieved but curious, she pushed her sses back, she was focusing.


    "You bought us fucking airne tickets Ms.Wonderful!"


    She was more confused than she was in the first ce.


    "And also, you booked me for the first ss, but an economy to yourself?"


    "I thought you would be much morefortable in first ss. Should I have booked for the economy sir?" I couldn''t help myself but giggled. Damn, she was so innocent and naive. I wanted to leave my teasing aside and cover her in fluffy nkets to protect her from this harsh world. Especially, protect her from me.


    "What If I need you on the air, what if some sweaty fat guy sits next to me? What if hostess does not give my orange juice in time?"


    She looked more puzzled in every passing moment. Her brows meet with a deeper frown.


    "I cane to check on you as soon as seatbelt lights turn off sir?" "Hahahaha!"


    I burst intoughter. I couldn''t help. Couldn''t contain myself anymore. I couldn''t remember when was thest time Iughed this hard. But her confusion, her genuine effort to please me at no cost yet her naivety and simpleness just got a hold on me so much, I couldn''t contain myself anymore.


    Her small mouth curled with an anticipating grin but she had no idea what I wasughing so hard.


    Finally I managed to stopughing, as I was still grinning widely and wiping my tearing eyes with the back of my hand. She was still aghast looking at me. I knew she was waiting for an exnation.


    "I have a private jet, Ms. Wonderful." I dered.


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    "Oh!" she said. Her pouty mouth stayed open with a soundless o after the sound left her lips. Her brows shot to her hairline.


    "Also we have an airline business in our corporation."


    "Ohh!" she said again, her brows went higher.


    "Yeah..." I said. Slowly nodding.


    "When I told you to take care of the flight, I meant to inform my pilot and make necessary coordination with the airport."


    "I am so sorry Mr. Alonzo. I should have known better. Let me leave now and I can arrange everything in no time." She sprinted to the door as she passed by me. I held her wrist and stopped her just before she left my room.


    "Not so fast!" I said. She stopped in the middle of her run and froze as I got nearer to her from behind. I got closer to her ear, let my breath hit the back of her ear. I saw a shiver going down her spine. It pleased me. I wanted to affect her. I wanted her to be aroused from my presence as much as I was aroused from hers. Her cherry scent filled my nostrils in no time. I was drooling for her. I could feel the pressing of my cock onto my zipper already, even though I had a brutal sex run just a few minutes ago. Fuck! This trip was going to be a long one. I let my lips feather touch her earlobe as I was talking.


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    She gulped. Her face was still facing the door but I could hear the voice of gulping even from the point that I stood.


    I pulled her from the wrist that I held and made her turn around to face me. Her cheeks were reddened already just as I got used to. She was going raspberry-red whenever she was embarrassed.


    She looked me in the eye. Bit her lower lip as if trying to constraint herself. ''Fuuuck! Don''t be so sexy yet so unaware. Then I have to fuck you right here right now,'' I thought.


    "There is nothing sir,"


    "There is not? I am pretty sure that you have started to apologize when you first came to the room. What was the matter?"


    She started sweating. Her cheeks turned to the color I adored most finally, raspberry-red. Yeah baby, sweat a little more. Her big brown eyes roaming in the room looking every way except my eyes. I saw contemtion there. She had two choices. She could tell me the truth about watching me having sex, or she could let it slide as a wise person since I gave her enough clues that I was not aware of her witness. She chose thetter. Wise move, but not wise enough.


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    "Nothing sir."


    "Okay Ms. Wonderful, then you may go."


    "Thank you." She said and she proceeded her way out. I walked to the door with her, and held the door open while she stepped out. I saw her tensed shoulders, hunched down in relief the moment she left my office. When she thought she was off the hook, I talked.


    "And Ms. Wonderful?


    "Yes sir?"


    "I hope you enjoyed the performance you watched."


    She froze again, like a fish before a shlight. Her mouth opened in shock, her eyes wide. An adequate view to make my day. I took a mental picture of it. Before she could muster any word, I shut the door on her face.


    ***


    Alice''s POV


    After sixteen hours of torture of my mind, I was there again. With Mr. Alonzo, the bold one, in a private jet, sitting face to face and I was crawling in guilt. Damn private jets, do the seats have to face each other? Couldn''t we just stare at the back of other seats as normal persons in the nes?


    Mr. Alonzo avoided looking in my eyes ever since he dered he knows that I have watched him. Even though it bothered me, a part of me is kind of grateful for that. How could I look him in the eye from now on? I saw him naked for god''s sake pounding on a girl, sweaty and panting. I was about to drool again, I wiped my mouth and tried to push that thought. I should admit that I was not that sessful about pushing this thought asidest night.


    I pulled the cor of my white shirt with two finders to let some of the steam out. His eyes darted to my neck, then my lips, thankfully didn''t reach my eyes.


    "I hope you brought some morefortable clothes as well Ms. Wonderful. It will be hot there."


    I kinda felt like he emphasized the "hot" word a little bit more than the rest of the words. Maybe my dirty mind thought that way. But I was sure as hell it would be a loong week.


    I was doomed.

 Welcome to Hawaii

    Our nended on a sunny and pesteringly hot day in Hawaii. My thin white shirt and pencil skirt was too much for this weather. Mr. Alonzo took off his jacket long ago. He folded the sleeves of his shirt, but didn''t take off his tie. So it didn''t give me the liberty to open some of the buttons of my shirt. But I was dying to open at least the top of it.


    I pulled my cor with my two fingers with annoyance. Luckily we reached the five stars hotel that we stayed for the week in no time. As soon as we stepped in the hotel, the air conditioned to cold hit me. I sighed in relief. Me, Mr. Alonzo and four bodyguards were walking towards the reception now. A hotel hostess greeted us on the road, "Wee to Hawaii" she cried with an unnecessary amount of enthisuasm and took care of all registering. Meanwhile we were offered cold champagne. I was not good with alcohol but I was eager to drink anything cold now. I took the offered champagne. I was pulling my cor again. Even my sses are having a hard time staying on my nose. since it was slippery from the sweat. I drank champagne, all at once. And grimaced to the taste, but it was still a blessing because it cooled down the road going to my stomach. Mr. Alonzo watched me with side eyes.


    "This is not water you know Ms. Wonderful?"


    "I know sir. But it is really hot."


    "I know but I prefer you to stay sober on business hours. Can I trust you for this?"


    "Absolutely sir."


    No he couldn''t. But we will get there. Finally the hostess led us to an elevator, a special one of course, and took us to the most expensive suit of the hotel. When the elevator stopped, the doors of the elevator opened to the inside of a room. No, not a room. It was a house. There was a big lounge with a round table in the middle of it, and a big vase of flowers was on the table. There were five rooms connected to this area; two bedrooms, one kitchen, one dining area and one entertainment lounge with arge sofa and two puffy armchairs facing a giant TV, game consoles and a special projector for watching movies I guessed.


    The two bedrooms were ced adjacent and they were connected by arge terrace balcony which was looking directly to the sea and there was an infinity pool in it. Everywhere was adorned with white clothes, white curtains and white marbles. Exactly an exotic setting.


    I felt my open jaw and closed it with my hand. Hostess shortly presented us the suit, then took her leave. I looked around one more time in disbelief. This ce was five times bigger than my apartment. These rich men were really lucky. I couldn''t even dream of sleeping in somewhere like this for even one night. Lucky bastard. We didn''t arrange the rooms since we were guests of Sanders group, they booked our rooms. So I wasn''t even sure what my room looked like. But after this luxury show, I thought it must be a decent room. I turned to Mr. Alonzo and cleared my throat.


    "Ihmm... Sir, where will I be staying?"


    He looked in my eyes disbelievingly. Then rolled his eyes.


    "You are staying here of course Ms. Wonderful."


    "But this is your room..."


    "No, this is our ''suite''." He made quotation marks with his fingers as emphasizing the "suite" word. "One of those is my room..." he showed the two bedrooms, "and the other one is yours."


    I felt like an idiot. Especially when he was emphasizing every word like he was exining something to a retarded person. I could have been happy staying in this gorgeous room if he wasn''t acting like that. I bit my lower lip to keep my mouth shut and not to retort him.


    "So pick one!" he said to me.


    "You pick sir, it does not matter for me." I said.


    "For me either. So pick one."


    I simply chose the smaller room. He went in the other one and shut his door onto my face.


    I went to my own room after this andid down on the round bed ced in the middle of the room. I faced the mirrored ceiling and watched myself, thinking about my options. I could lock myself in this room throughout the stay, or I could make the most of it.Exclusive ? material by N?(/v)elDrama.Org.


    Of course my choice was thetter. When I could be that lucky toe to a five star hotel with VIP privileges?


    I could do my best during the business hours, and do whatever I want afterwards. Best n ever. Our flight to Hawaii took around ten hours. We left at 6 am and it was around 4 pm already. So I wasn''t thinking that Mr. Alonzo needed me for the rest of the day. The meetings would be initiated tomorrow and the rest of today was my day.


    I finally peeled off the shirt and skirt, and went to the bathroom. When I saw a huge bathtub and a rain head shower, I couldn''t help but giggled in joy. The bathroom was breathtaking. There was a huge window facing the sea so you could watch the sea while you were bathing in the tub. Every surface was the whitest marble. It was giving a highly luminous feeling like you were outdoors when you were inside the bathroom.


    I filled the bathtub with cold water. I added some bathing salts and oils in the water and let myself sink in. I literally heard the sizzling sound of my skin when touched with cold water. I rested one of my legs on the edge and trusted my head at the end of the tub. I was facing the window, looking at the amazing scene behind me. Golden sands circling the deep blue ocean, the people on the shore were looking like small dots from this height. We were on the 10th floor. I was swimming in pleasure, when I heard a small cough from behind.


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    I instinctively submerged myself in the water as I tried to hide my naked body with my hands.


    There he was standing coolly, like nothing odd was happening. That I was not naked and he was not watching me.


    "What are you doing here!" I cried with surprise.


    "I should ask you the same question actually. What are you doing?" he asked calmly.


    "Isn''t it clear? I am bathing." I shrieked. I was shaken with anger and embarrassment, yet he was still standing there, looking at me, not even bothering to hide his gaze.


    "It''s still business hours Ms. Wonderful. Do you generally have bathtub grooving during your shift, or is it a pleasure you decided to take while working for mypany?" he said irritably.


    "Get out!" I cried again. Boss or no, no one had the right to watch me when I was naked.


    "Come now... Have you been so virtuous over the night? Or does your privacy sensitivity solely extend to yours? Only yesterday, you were watching me and my sex life shamelessly." he said with a smirk on his face.


    I froze. Still I was grabbing my boobs with my hands and my legs were pulled to me to hide the lower parts, also I was in the water. But when I was watching him yesterday he was totally naked and he was doing the most private thing a person can do. Yet, I lingered there and watched him. He was partially right. I had no right to scream at him or banish him when I shamelessly did the opposite. But it wasn''t lessening my embarrassment, and I was burning in the pits of it now. He took a one good look before he said,


    "Now we are even," then he turned back on his heels and left the room. I heard him yelling while going out,


    "Take the Sanders files and meet me at the lounge in ten minutes!"


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    I jumped out of the bathtub, wrapped myself in a towel and looked at the full length mirror in the bathroom.


    What just happened now?


    Expectedly, my face was bright red and I was shaken by being seen naked. It was the first time a man saw my body this naked. His gaze was like a burning brand on my skin, and somehow I was feeling marked by it.


    I went to my bedroom without any more lingering. I was afraid, If i exceeded ten minutes he woulde back. I dressed in a haste less than five minutes. Luckily I didn''t wash my hair. I wrapped my long brown hair into a bun on my nape and buttoned up my white shirt again till the neck. Damn cor. It started bothering me all over.


    I grabbed the files from my case and I opened the door and stepped out in a rush when I bumped into a hard wall. My soft breasts crushed with the force of the wall and I cried with pain when I fell back onto my ass.


    The folders went everywhere, I sit up in the mess of papers and looked up to see what hit me while I was rubbing my right breast with my palm. It was aching so much. I saw a pair of ck shoes first, then slowly my gaze climbed up, from strong legs in cks, and a bulge at the end of those, a bulge? I skipped that part hastily and looked directly to the owner.


    Mr. Alonzo looked down at me with his ck eyes, nearly focusing on killing me with only his gaze.


    I looked down again to his shoes, and I recognized a rubbing hand of mine on one of my breasts. I took my hand off instantly like it burned. "So..Sorry sir, I didn''t see youing."


    "Ten minutes done Ms. Wonderful. Would you stand up today, or should we wait more?"


    I stand up instantly. Started picking spread papers from all bedroom floors. When I turned back, he was already left to sit on the lounge table.


    I went next to him and he made us work until 8 pm. When he was done with me, I was also done for the day. I simply went back to my room, stripped back to my undergarments and fell on the bed unconsciously. There was just one thing I made sure before I slept, it was locking the door.

 First Name Basis

    Next day went by leaps and bounds. Before I knew it, wepleted the first round of negotiations. It was the most boring day I have ever experienced in my life. Mr. Alonzo, me and thepanywyers, I had no idea when or how they ended up here, were sitting at one side of the conference table and Sanders group CEO, Daryl Sanders and his crew ofwyers and assistants were sitting at the other side.


    Daryl Sanders was a young man, as Mr. Alonzo. He was around thirties, long and builded. He was blonde with silvery gold hair and pale blue eyes. Was it customary to be handsome if you will be a CEO? But he was cold, and had a snobbish air. It was hard to believe that but he was looking even meaner than Mr. Alonzo. His eyes were almost boring holes on my skin. I avoided his gaze throughout the meeting. But whenever I lifted my eyes from papers I saw his menacing gaze still on


    me.


    They discussed heatedly all day long for every item included in the draft contract. I pulled my cor again with my two fingers, God! Save me please. It was too hot to sit still all day and take notes for every agreement left on their lips. Finally, when they called it a day, it was past 6 pm already. They agreed to take a two-day break at least to give enough time to thewyers for doing their own research on the discussed matters. I was happy to have a two day break also, there will be another session afterwards. And I bet it would be boring as well.


    I gathered our documents from the table and walked after Mr. Alonzo while leaving the room. In front of the entrance of conference room, Mr. Sanders stopped and turned to Mr. Alonzo. He extend his hand to Mr. Alonzo to shake hands. Mr. Alonzo took his hand. While they were shaking, Mr. Sanders leaned towards to Mr. Alonzo''s ear and said something. Mr. Alonzo pulled his hand from his grip like it could contaminate his hand somehow and looked in his eyes, sending daggers.


    "I am here to sign a contract, Daryl, not to entertain you. Stay away from my team or the deal is off."


    "Ohe on Antonio! I was just joking." he said. They continued to walking but Mr. Alonzo didn''t look like having fun.


    Finally we made to the private elevator, the bodyguards left us in front of the elevator, and just me and Mr. Anton went in it. I pressed on 10 to get our suit. The elevator started moving slowly, we were facing the closed steel doors without looking at each other. I hooked my fingers into my cor again and pulled it in annoyance. Damn cor. I felt Mr. Anton''s side eyes watching me, I instantly stopped pulling my cor and lowered my hand.


    Suddenly, he turned to me, hooked his fingers to my cor and pulled me against him by force. I caught off guard, and I only could stop my movement by bumping into his chest and only could maintain my bnce with his tug on my cor. I was aghast. I looked at his eyes in surprise. What was he doing? His eyes were darker, and heavy. He started unbuttoning my shirt. His long fingers were slightly caressing my neck, while expertly unbuttoning. He opened one, two and three buttons, then his fingers hesitated at the crack of my cleavage, barely, almost unrecognizably caressed my cleavage and took off his hands.


    "Here!" he said with a rough voice. "Stop pulling your cor"All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    "Ttt..Thank you" I guessed. I wasn''t sure though if it was an angry gesture or a caring one? Apparently he was annoyed by my constant y with my cor, but if he didn''t do it, I had to keep it like that.


    "You can open your top buttons when we are alone," he added. A relief wave washed over me as I thought about the liberty of it.


    "Thank you." I meant it this time.


    We came to our floor finally and stepped in the suit. Mr. Alonzo was going to his room when I called him after.


    "Mr. Alonzo!" He stopped and turned to me.


    "May I take my rest now if we are done for today?" He stopped for a moment. Like hesitated. What now? So, if we came on a business trip, did I owe my whole day to him? I wasn''t even getting over time, god damn it!


    "You may." finally he said half heartedly. I wasn''t needing his whole heart though. He turned back again and went to his room while I went to mine. I changed into bathing suits in no time. I wrapped a shawl around my waist and went to the door. I was expecting this from the moment I stepped in this hotel. There was at least a good hour before the sun sets, and I could enjoy some sun bath near the pool.


    I took off from my room as fast as possible only to find...


    "Mr. Alonzo?"


    He was standing there wearing nothing but swimming shorts. His muscr huge torso was overflowing from his body, hisrge biceps bulging and his always neatly swept hair were falling on his dark brows. What was happening? "Yes Ms. Wonderful?"


    "Were you going somewhere?"


    "I am going with you." he said.


    "What? But why?" I was puzzled like hell. I was hoping for a calm and quiet pool time. Not to stick around my boss.


    "I brought you here. I am responsible for you while you are staying for business purposes. So, it''s my duty to take care of your safety."


    "Sir, you have four bodyguards. If you are so concerned about my safety, you could send one of them with me"


    I saw contemtion in his eyes, then talked again.


    "Their responsibility is to take care of me. Not someone else. If I ask them to guard you, it will be against their contract."


    I stopped dead. I didn''t want to go to the pool with him. He would put on a downer to all my fun if he came with me.


    "Are you wearing this?" he said pointing to my bathing suit as pulling me from my thoughts.


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    "What is off with this?" I asked.


    "It''s a bit revealing don''t you think?"


    I looked down on my body. I was wearing a bathing suit, a modest, swimmer type bathing suit, not even a bikini. And there was a shawl wrapped around my waist hiding my hips and thighs.


    "No," I said inly. Who did he think he was, could ask me such a question?


    He didn''t say anything else, turned to the elevator and pushed the button. He went in the elevator and hold the door with one hand,


    "Aren''t youing?" he said with an admirable audacity!


    I went into the elevator fuming with anger. I folded my arms on my chest and turned my face from him.


    We went to the pool floor, and finally I saw a long crystal clear pool, with dozens of people around and in it. I immediately forgot my mood downer and smiled in satisfaction. I went to a vacant sunbed, spread a towel on it andid down. I removed my shawl and changed my sses with sunsses I brought with me.


    He and his four bodyguards followed me there. He ced himself on the sun bed next to mine and gestured to the bodyguards to stay away. They went to a respectable distance and stood there. I tried to avoid all of them. I closed my eyes, and pretended I was sleeping.


    After five minutes or so, a waitress came with some cocktails and drinks. All the waitresses were roller-skating around the pool, and all of them were gorgeous girls with stunning bodies. Our waitress was a blonde. She flipped her long golden hair and stopped in front of us expertly. Even though I admired her skills on skates, I wasn''t interested in drinking, so I was nning to decline the offer. Mr. Anton took a beer from her tray. She looked Mr. Alonzo intently, after a good minute or two, half-heartedly acknowledged my presence at there too, and asked;


    "Would you like anything ma''am?" before I could say anything, Mr. Alonzo interrupted,


    "No she is not drinking."


    What the hell? I wasn''t a big fan of alcoholic beverages maybe, but was old enough to decide for myself. She nodded, and turned to leave but I grabbed her wrist before she could move. "No, I can take a cocktail." I said.


    "Okay, what can I give you?" she asked. I looked at the tray in her hands full with every kind of cocktails. I picked the most colorful one.


    "This," I said. She gave me the cocktail I pointed at and left. I gave him a stink eye while I was taking my drink, and I kept my re while sipping it for the first time. He somehow looked amused.


    I put my drink to the side table and I was preparing myself toy down again when he talked;


    "So, are you going to ignore me for the rest of the day?"


    "I am not ignoring you Mr. Alonzo, I am just having my rest."


    "You can call me by my name, we are not working now," he said.


    I wanted to put my pinky in my ear and give it a good rub. I must have heard him wrong. Did he say that I could call him by his name?


    "Are you sure?"


    "Yeah, why not?"


    Because you are a stuck up swell and you like to keep your authority no matter what. That was what I wanted to say, but instead I said;


    "Because I assumed you like to keep your distance from your employees."


    "Well, that''s true. But you are my personal assistant and I assume we will spend a lot of time due to the nature of our job rtion. So, in these kinds of casual moments, I think it won''t hurt to turn to the first name basis." he said. His dark eyes were boring me expectantly. Like it really matters to him.


    "Okay,¡± I said. "So, should I call you Anton from now on?" and suddenly a smart-ass thing came to my mind. "Or I can call you Antonio?" I said.


    This was the name Mr. Sanders used it at the meeting for him, teasingly. Therefore I assumed it could make him mad. But to my surprise, he smiled genuinely. Like, it was a real smile. I could swear, I even saw one of his dimples. "I would like that, Alice." he said.

 The Pool

    "I would like that, Alice." he said.


    I kept staring in his eyes, unbelievingly. Did he really want me to call him Antonio? His dark eyes molten with a warm hue, that I did not recognize before. His sharp features of face have looked softened for a second. The setting sun''s lights were dancing on his dark hair. Hisrge, muscr torso was heaving. I traced the edges of perfection of his body with my eyes. He was a scene to behold. It was a pity that he was so mean. I mean, generally. But intriguingly, not now. "Are you serious?" I asked finally.


    "Dead serious!" he said with a small smile.


    "Well, I thought you would be annoyed by calling Antonio. Since your name is Anton."


    "The finance world knows me as Anton. But my name is Antonio, originally."All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    My jaw dropped. I was confused. I searched for them on the inte before I started and he was mentioned as Anton in every article he took ce.


    "You should make your research more detailed." he said as if to read my mind.


    "But why are they calling you Anton, then?"


    "Antonio is my childhood name. My mom calls me that. And my childhood friends. Like Daryl as you have heard today. He was the son of a friend of my father and we grew up together. So, he uses my family name. But after I grew up and went to college, first my college friends then financial contacts started calling me Anton. And it got carried away. But I liked that, because it reminds me business is business, and I am not Antonio in that world, I am Anton Alonzo and I must do what it takes to be sessful."


    It could be the saddest thing I have ever heard. But he was not aware of that. He was proud to leave his childhood and innocence behind, to be this thick skinned. To be this menacing and fearful. It must be hard to y a role all the time. And it was sad, because I would like to know the real person, not this avatar standing next to me. But maybe this afternoon, the person I was seeing in this soft sunset light was really Antonio. I never saw him talk this rxed, acts this rxed. I kinda liked this.


    "Okay Antonio," I said. I extended my hand "Nice to meet you, my name is Alice."


    He smiled, took my hand, then covered my hand with his other hand too. Like caressing my hand. Then gently gave me a two-handed handshake.


    "Nice to meet you too, Alice." he said in a soft sensual tone. I felt blood rushing to my cheeks in no time. I drew my hand, and instantly missed the warmth of his hands. What is wrong with me? Just a couple genuine words, and I was hooked. But I should have known better that this man was Anton Alonzo, and he would be cold as ever as soon as this moment passed.


    I sipped from my cocktail again, like an effort to dismiss all odd ideas. It was delicious actually. I was never fond of alcohol but I must admit, I never had drunk properly prepared cocktails either. I tried alcohol in college parties or in cheap bars we visited with friends. And it was different. Different from this heavenly delicious thing I was holding in my hand. If alcohol was something like that, I could have drunk more.


    I took anotherrge sip. Let the crushed ice in the cocktail cool down its road to my stomach.


    I raised my head and Anton''s eyes were still on me.


    "You better go slow with that.It''s not orange juice you know" he said smart-alecky pointing at my cocktail. Well should I say, wee back Anton?


    "You know, I really don''t like when you act like I am not capable of handling my own drink or even choosing my own meal." I said retorting.


    He looked taken aback. And a little bit sad. It made me feel worse. For the first time this man acted like a normal human being, and I didn''t encourage him. I took another gulp from my heavenly drink. It reminded me how he was not trusting me for even a drink. I left my ss on the side table and went to the pool without saying a word. I needed some cool water to calm my nerves.


    I dived in the water and glided under it with ease. I always liked swimming. It was like a ritual letting me mute all the world for a couple minutes when I was under the water. I swam around the bodies in the pool effortlessly. The water was cold, and clear. I broke the surface to take a big breath and I dived back again. The cool sensation, the touch of water on my body, the swaying of my hair with the motion of my body was like a hypnotic trance. Then I felt a touch of a hand. When I turned under the water to see what it was, I saw him. He was gliding on me with his huge body. But in the water he was moving weightlessly. He gently wrapped his arm around my waist and I let him. It was like we were in a different realm. And in this realm everything was possible. Everything was natural and at ease. He looked at me to confirm my willingness. And I gave him permission to whatever he was asking for, by a nod. Then he started gliding with me by pulling me closer to his body. I just let myself go, he took me and turned me under the water. Our bodies touched each other everywhere. It was mesmerizing. The gentleness of his touch on my skin was killing me. His chest was touching mine by his movements and the areas he touched were leaving a burning sensation behind. I was dizzy with the heat and him. He gave me a tour under the water, it was like skiing but on a killingly handsome billionaire ski. Then he took us to the surface to take a breath. When we broke the surface of water, it was like breaking the spell. I pushed myself away gently. To break his grip on me. He didn''t let me go. His arms were still wrapped around my waist tighter now. His wet hair falling on his dark brows, circling his ck eyes. For a second, none of us dared to look away. His gaze fell down to my lips. He licked his lower lip. I gulped. He followed the motion of my neck with his eyes. Then looked lower to my breasts. That''s enough! I pushed him away again, with much more force now. His arms were iron cages around my waist and I thought he won''t let me go again. After a hesitant moment, he loosened his arms around me and I swam away from him. When I found the edge of the pool, I pulled myself out and went back to my sun bed.


    I was trying to avoid what had just happened. I took my drink again, And sipped it hesitantly to clear my head. With the slurping sound of straw in the ss, I understood I already finished it. I motioned to the closest waitress, she came in no time and I took another fancy looking colorful thing from her tray by disposing of my old ss.


    I took a sip again, and it was divine too. Hell, how I missed these babies for all those years. I took genuine sips before Mr. smart-ass came and gave me lectures. And I wanted to clear my head before he came. What happened under the water, why did I burn under his touch?


    Then like an answer to all my questions, but maybe like more of a question himself, Antonio climbed out of the pool in front of me. His muscr arms grabbed the edge of the pool. His muscles rippled when he pulled his huge torso from the water. Hisrge chest is seen first, then his six packs then his... Oh my god Alice, turn away. It was not nice to check out someone''s bulge. He climbed off and stood in front of me. The water was gliding all over his body, drawing traces on his perfect chest. I thought that I could trace one of those drops with my finger on his body. Touch everywhere it goes. I wanted to feel those hard muscles under my touch. What would it be like? I guessed it would be like heaven. My eyes swept up from his torso to his strong jaw, and his full lips. What would it be like to be kissed with those lips?


    I took another generous sip from my drink. Instead of clearing my mind, it made me feel more dizzy. But I liked the sensation. I liked being lost in the moment with a nice drink in my hand and a nice view in front of me. My hands ached with the need to touch his perfect body. I wanted to feel him. I never touched a man sensually. And I was starting to feel like I was missing a lot. Not that I have seen such a body before. God, was he working out every day?


    The scene of him made my head even dizzier. I needed to run away from there, I needed to clear my mind. I stood up, and regretted it instantly.


    My whole world turned upside down, one minute I was standing the next I was falling face first to the ground. I was inches away from the floor when strong hands wrapped around my waist stopped me falling on the floor. And the rest went nk...

 Heat

    When I creak opened my eyes, I saw a wall of muscles in front of me, which I trusted my nose on it a second ago. I felt strong arms around my waist and under my legs, I was being carried, but I was feeling dizzy and couldn''t muster the strength to object to it. Sandalwood scent mixed with something spicey, which I was too high to detect, was filling my nose.


    I lifted my head to see my savior, but I only managed to see his jaw. A strong jaw. I wrapped my arms around his sturdy neck and supported myself a little bit higher. He felt my movement,


    "Are you okay?" he said with a toneced with concern.


    I looked up again, he slightly tilted his head towards me, then I saw a part of his face. The part that I saw was a handsome man. But I was not able to focus enough to wrap my mind around who he was. Familiar, definitely but I couldn''t make


    sure.


    "Geeezzz, you are handsssome!" I drawled. The words were not sounding as I wanted to but I was having a hard time rolling my tongue in my mouth. He smiled at my words, then I saw a dimple next to his mouth. Was he Matt? My heartbeat fastened.


    "You shouldn''t drink if you are this bad with alcohol."


    I didn''t like to be told what to do. My drunk brain was foggy and furious.


    "I didn''t knnooow I was, okay? And it''s noone of youur businesses." he chuckled again. I was about to start a fight when I felt soft mattresses under me.We were in a dark room, he couldn''t turn on the lights, maybe his hands were too full, well, with me. He gently dropped me on a bed. He was drawing himself to leave me there then I instinctively grabbed his arm. He halted, as suspended on me. I needed to see his whole face. I needed to know who he was. I extended my hands to his face and turned his face to me.


    Two piercing eyes fixed on me instantly. The room was so dark, but I could see his features vaguely. His hair was falling on his brows, his cut out cheekbones warming the insides of my palms. His plump lips were slightly open with surprise and something else I couldn''t put my finger on. I knew him, I knew my savior very well. Even though I didn''t look this devastating face from this close before, I knew this beautiful face by heart. The gap between our faces was getting shorter, and I felt like I was drawn to him. Like his lips were mas and my mere lips were iron, which has no option but to be drawn to him.


    The more the gap has been closed, the more I felt his intoxicating breath on my face. I didn''t know if it was alcohol. But I was doing nothing to stop it. Or maybe I was drawing him closer to me. I haven''t kissed anyone before. I haven''t been close this much to anyone. He was suspended on me on his elbows, which were ced at the two sides of my shoulders. His body above the waist was naked. His huge, muscr body was trapping me between him and bed. Like a human cage. But I wasn''t afraid. I wanted this closeness, I liked it.


    His face inched its way forward and forward, but he stopped right before my face. He looked like struggling. He was contemting but I wasn''t. I was drunk and daring for the first time in my life. I closed thest gap between us and put my mouth on his. After that, it was insanity.


    As soon as my mouth closed on his, an animalistic growl left his chest. All I did was touch his mouth and the rest was not in my control anymore. He grabbed my nape with one of his hands and pressed his mouth on me fervently. Like if he didn''t kiss me he would die. His lips pressed on mine opened, and his tongue started to search entry to my mouth. I didn''t know what I was doing, I only obeyed this silent plea and opened my mouth slightly. That was all he needed. He dug his tongue into my mouth and started searching every corner and every bit with it. My head went even more dizzier. My mind wasn''t capable of following up my body and my feelings. I was melting. The touch of his tongue in my mouth was driving me crazy. I felt like I was in a desert for a very long time, and his kiss was the water. I didn''t even know I needed this for too long, and I was afraid to lose it now. I wrapped my arms around his strong neck and pulled him closer. He willingly took this demand and flushed his heavy body on me. We parted for a second to have some air. In this minuscule moment he looked at my face, my swollen lips and with a hunger expression he assaulted again. And I was still fighting to see the whole face of him despite the darkness.


    Our mouths collided one more time. Our teeths crushed each other, our tongues found eachother again, but to my surprise, he pulled his tongue out for a second, then I understood why. He pulled my lower lip in his mouth and bit it. Not tenderly, he bit it hard and I felt the metallic taste of blood in my mouth. I would have thought biting was not a sexual thing, well I was wrong. With his bite, I was a mess, writhing and crawling for more. What was more of it I didn''t know but I wanted it. I felt a burning sensation between my legs. Unbearable. His hands started darting around on my body, and his palm found my breast. He squeezed it as giving me another wave of pleasure with pain. I moaned. My voice muffled in his mouth. But this turned him more and he started grinding between my legs. On the exact point that I need him. I was only wearing a swimsuit and he was wearing shorts. There wasn''t much fabric between us, and it was making me feel his throbbing thick member precisely. It was rubbing on my pussy and I was about to nk out with pleasure and need.


    His mouth left my mouth finally, maybe if I could get enough air, I could think clearer I thought. But not for long. When his mouthnded on my neck and started sucking it, thest bits of reason left the ship. His teeth grazed on my skin drawing goosebumps through all my body. He closed his mouth on my neck again. Sucking the sweet point between my neck and my shoulder, and at that moment, he poked between my legs with his giant member.


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    "Oww!" I cried with surprise. I felt him smiling onto my neck. And he did it again. Another


    "Ohww!" left my lips. I don''t know when he lowered the strap of my swimsuit and freed my breasts, I only recognized it when he halted and distanced himself enough to see them. He was hovering above me. His huge torso was shining under the moonlight while his face stayed in the shadows more threateningly. He seemed like a Greek god to me. He was looking at me as intensely as I watched him. He looked at my breasts as an artist marveling at a masterpiece or a hungry man looking to feast. I instinctively tried to hide them with my arms. I saw a darkened expression crossed from his eyes. He hissed in displease.


    "Never! Hide my meal from me!" he said angrily. Meal? It didn''t take long to understand what he meant. He instantly grabbed my wrists and pulled my hands above my head with one of his hands, leaving my breasts shieldless and assaulted them instantly with his mouth. He took one of my breasts into his mouth wholly. My small breasts didn''t challenge him to fit into his mouth. He swallowed my whole breast into his mouth and flicked my nipple with his tongue. I was not myself anymore, I was a writhing and sobbing mess. I was moaning meaninglessly. I was not in my right mind anymore.


    He freed one breast and continued to the other. I was writhing for a little bit more friction. I needed it and I didn''t even know why? He lifted his face from my breasts and smiled at me with those gorgeous dimples I adored most. "Pleeaasee!" I begged. I didn''t even know what I was begging for.


    He lowered his head to my neck again, pecked it with affectioned kisses.


    "What do you want Alice," he whispered into my ear with a husky voice sending chills down through my spine and curling my toes.


    "Pleasee" I begged again. He was positioned between my legs but refused to move. I was in agony now. I wanted him to grind again on my core desperately. He lowered his head to my breasts and asked onest time against my breast, sending chills throughout my body.


    "What do you want, Alice?"


    "Please" I said. His mouth sped around my nipple as jolting me in pleasure.Exclusive ? material by N?(/v)elDrama.Org.


    "Ahh! yes." I whispered. He deepened the work on my nipple and started grazing it with his teeth.


    A whimper tore from my mouth. I needed to cry his name. I wanted to test his name on my tongue.


    "Matt!" I whimpered again.


    He stilled instantly. I didn''t understand what happened. He just froze on me. Lifeless. And in a second, his weight on me vanished, I just heard the bang of the closing door after him. What just happened now?

 Screw Up

    I woke up with a wicked rm voice and a tremendous headache. My hand searched for the source blindly and finally I managed to close the rm of my phone. It was 6:30 am. Even though I was feeling like I was on a vacation, I still needed to work. I dragged myself out of the bed and managed to go to the bathroom. When I looked down to my body to peel off my pajamas, I saw that I was still in the swimming suit I wore yesterday. Why though?


    I tried to recall what I did yesterday. I remembered I went to the pool. I remembered the interesting swimming session with Mr. Alonzo. Then I remembered I was having more drinks than I used to. And the rest was nk. I kinda remembered that I passed out. How did I end up here then? Maybe one of the bodyguards has carried me here? Because I was remembering a huge man carrying me. And that was all.


    I felt disappointment and guilt instantly rushing into me. This was the first time that Mr. Alonzo took me with him on a business trip and I already messed it up. I felt defeated and ashamed. I forced myself to get in the shower. I hoped the water could rinse off some of the shame I felt. It didn''t.


    I hardly dressed myself. Because I knew as soon as I went out to the lounge I had to face the consequences. I wore a white shirt, with a tight cor of course but I left open top two buttons as suggested by Mr. Alonzo, and a navy pencil skirt, and I wrapped my hair into a low bun on my nape as usual.


    I left my room at 8:00 am and went to the kitchen instantly to prepare the coffee. When coffee was ready and I printed out the daily calendar from the printer in the entertainment room, yes there was even a printer, I prepared the lounge table to discuss the daily program. It was still 08:30 am. There was still a good hour for Mr. Alonzo came out of his room, because he never changes his schedule, so I felt at ease. I spread myself onto the chair facing the sea and took a cup of coffee for myself. I sipped it and instantly regretted it. I was really bad at preparing coffee. Then I heard the elevator dinged, and turned to see something.


    Something huge, muscr, sweaty and delicious. That thing was Mr. Alonzo. He looked likeing out of the gym. Apparently this kind of body was noting free. I thought he was working out, but until I saw him fresh out of the oven, I recognized that I didn''t understand its meaning so far. My eyes locked to his torso, the sharp edges of his chest and six packs shining in sweat. My mouth slightly open, my gaze climbed up, up, to his full lips, clenched jaw and finally piercing dark eyes. And there I saw anger. He avoided my gaze. Oh my god I was checking out my boss, no surprise he was angry!


    I looked away instantly and cleared my throat. "Good morning Mr. Alonzo,"


    He didn''t answer me, just sent daggers with eyes to me which was not surprising after yesterday, and went into his room. At 09:30 am, he stepped out from his room, looking sharp in one of his usual hand made suits. His dark hair wasbed back as always. He came to the table, I already ced his mug of coffee. He wasn''t looking at my face now. He sipped his coffee, spitted it back, like it was a part of his daily ritual. It has been nearly a month that I was working for him, but he never gave up tasting the coffee even though he was sure it was bad. It was giving me hope that maybe he was not pissed that much? Well not more than he usually was.


    I was waiting for him to look at me, or say something about yesterday, but he didn''t. He scanned the daily calendar. Checked his emails, looked in some finance reports that came from the office. Then he raised his gaze finally from the documents to my face. I was waiting for him to look at me since the beginning of the day, but now I regret it. He was looking furious.


    "Are you feeling okay today Ms. Wonderful?" he asked sarcastically. I felt the mocking undertone, but it was not a yful mocking, it was an angry one.


    I lowered my head and looked at my hands.


    "Look at my face when I am talking to you Ms. Wonderful!" he said in a dictatorial tone.


    I instantly raised my head. I had no way of hiding my reddened cheeks now.


    "Yes, I am feeling good, thank you Mr. Alonzo." I said with a small voice.


    "Hmm, you are remembering who I am then? Impressive."


    "Sorry?" I was lost. What did this even mean? Of course I knew who he was. My intimidating, grumpy boss.


    "You don''t remember a thing, do you?" Okay he was obviously mad about yesterday. And he was absolutely right about it. It was not professional to get drunk and nk out during a business trip. Maybe he would never take me with him again. Or, maybe... he would fire me. Oh god! Oh god! Who will pay for Rachel''s loan now. I inhaled a big breath and exhaled it to gather some courage about the apology I needed to make.


    "I am so sorry for yesterday Mr. Alonzo."


    "You are sorry about which part Ms. Wonderful?"


    "Well, I am sorry because drinking during a business trip and cking out ''obviously'' is not a professional behavior. Even though I was on my free time. And I am really, deeply sorry and ashamed. I am thankful for you to take care of me and have me carried to my room. I am sorry for causing you such a problem. I assure you it will never happen again."


    He bit his lower lip nervously, like he was stopping himself to say something.


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    "And the rest?" he asked.


    "The rest, sir?" I asked in response.


    He bit his lip again. Gosh, it was looking hot. I felt like I knew the taste of it. Like I knew how it would make me feel If I had those lips on mine. Crazy, stupid, horny mind! Stop it!


    "Anyway Ms. Wonderful. I hopest night taught you a good lesson. And I know this won''t happen again because I won''t let it happen again. And if it happens, you will find yourself out of the door."


    "Yes sir." I said and I gulped in anticipation. He followed the bob of my throat with his eyes and his eyes darkened.


    "Why is your cor open?" he asked.


    "Well, you said to me that I could open it when we are alone?"


    "I changed my mind. Button up those and please do not open it again in any case."


    "Yes sir." I said in a small voice and hurriedly started buttoning up. He looked away while I was doing it like I was naked and he was waiting for me to cover up. Which was insane, because he didn''t turn around when I was really naked before in the bathtub.


    When we were all set and about to leave for a meeting with ourwyer team, the elevator doors of our suit had dinged.


    We weren''t expecting that since it was a special suit. I thought it should be the bodyguards. Then the doors of the elevator opened and revealed thest person I was expecting to see.


    It was Matt.


    "Hello guys, did you miss me?"


    "What are you doing here Matt?" Mr. Anton asked, rolling his eyes boredly.


    "I missed you too brother." Matt answered mischievously.All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    "When did youe?" Asked Mr. Alonzo,


    "Yesterday night, and since my kind brother didn''t book a suit for three, I had to sleep in another one. And slept like a baby. Thank you for asking."


    Mr. Anton huffed in an irritated manner and turned his way to go to the elevator.


    Then Matt''s gaze darted to my side. His green eyes darkened somehow, his careless grin turned more wicked.


    "Hello to you too, love." he said and his smile grew bigger disying his gorgeous dimples. And I remembered instantly the shit I was about to do yesterday night. My cheeks started to burn instantly. Suddenly the room shrinked smaller, and I started to feel like I have squeezed in it with two brothers. One boss I got nk-out drunk next to him, the other boss I fucking kissed and made out.


    Damn Alice! Damn!! You screwed up big this time!

 Alonzo Sandwich

    I looked at Matt''s face then back to Anton''s face. They were standing there, ring at each other. It was like aser eye contest, and they were trying to see who would be turned to ashes first. Little did they know, I was the one who was about to turn to the ashes out of shame.


    I kissed Matt yesterday. I kissed Matt yesterday. I kissed... No use. How much I chant this thing in my mind, I still could not believe it was true. It was my first kiss and I was fucking drunk! I wasn''t even properly remembering it. God, I really have issues. I should have felt bad about crossing professional lines and kissing one of my bosses, instead I was whining about not remembering my first kiss. I was incurable.


    I stood up, went next to Mr. Anton and greeted Matt.


    "Wee, Mr. Alonzo." I said coolly. He smiled at me brightly. And melted my heart. I tried to keep it collected since I knew if I show any hint of emotion towards Matt, Mr. Anton would rip my heart out and feed it to the dogs.


    "We were on our way out, Matt. Now if you excuse us..." He turned his back to him, and walked into the elevator that Matt just emptied. I walked after him, and took my ce in the elevator next to him. To my surprise, Matt also followed us, squeezed me towards Mr. Anton, and took his ce in the elevator, too.


    Now I was sandwiched between two muscle-mountains. Matt''s arm brushed my arm, so I stepped aside and this time my other arm touched Mr.Anton''s arm. Matt took another step towards my side and made sure my arm was touching his. There was no room left between me and Mr.Anton too. And he was not budging over either. So now my two arms were trusted to the two muscr arms belonging to my bosses. I felt minuscule between these bodies and they had no intention to give me some room.


    "Where do you think you are going?" Mr. Anton asked Matt.


    "I am going with you." answered Matt.


    "Why?"


    "I am the co-CEO of thispany Antonio! I have every right that you have. And besides it''s a big agreement with Sanders, I want to make sure everything goes smoothly."


    "You didn''t make this connection but I did. So it''s my duty to make sure everything goes smoothly. There is no need for you. Also, don''t call me Antonio."


    "Come now, Alice will start to think you hate me, brother. And two hands are better than one."


    He turned his face to me and winked. I tried to keep my face straight but I bet I was turning pink immediately. I turned to Mr. Anton at the exact time to see a muscle on his jaw twitched by Matt''s wink.


    Finally our torturous elevator ride came to an end and I threw myself out first. Normally I was waiting Mr. Anton to go out first, but not today. Today I needed to get distant from them as soon as possible.


    We went to the conference room that had been booked for us. We met ourwyers there. I settled myself to a far seat fromwyers, thinking the Alonzo brothers would sit opposite to thewyers. I was right, Mr. Anton sat opposite to thewyers, and looked at me. He patted the seat next to him, I knew what it meant, there was no need for him to say more.


    I went to the seat that he pointed to, Matt was still standing up. As soon as I sat up, he came to my other side, and sat next to me. Mr. Anton sent him a stink eye, but he smirked widely in return. I was sandwiched between Alonzos again. I guess it was my new status, Alonzo sandwich. I kept my head low. I had zero intention to look at either of them during the meeting. So I kept my gaze straight and never raised my head from myptop.


    Meeting went normal,wyers informed them about details that they agreed with Sanders. Some extraments have been made by Matt, and everytime he suggested something, Mr.Anton disapproved. After a three-hour meeting, I was exhausted, hungry, and my neck was hurting from only looking in one direction. When Mr.Anton dered the end of the meeting, I jumped to my feet and went to the door. I wasn''t off the hook though.


    "Alice!" Matt called me. I turned to see a handsome smirk and a furious re from the same direction. Two brothers standing side by side, were looking at me at the same time. Like day and night, they were different. But their features were so simr, I felt the bold and light terms were really perfect fit for them. Matt''s messy brown hair was falling on his brows cascading his green eyes warmly while Anton''s ck hair slicked back was disying his dark eyes more intimidatingly. "Don''t call her Alice, we are working here." Mr. Anton grunted.


    "It''s lunch break, and I can call my assistant as I like."


    "Temporary assistant."


    "Who knows, maybe I can steal her from you." Matt teased, as facing his brother with a strange glint in his eyes.


    "Try... I dare you." said Mr. Anton. Now his voice was low and husky with a murderous tone in it. He was keeping Matt''s gaze, unyielding.


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    Matt opened his mouth to continue. But I had no intention to stay there and watch their dog fight. So I interrupted.


    "If there is no need for me, can I return to my room for lunch break?"


    Instantly Matt turned his head from his brother and came to my side in two long strides.


    "Don''t tell me you are nning to eat in your room? Not in this hotel. It''s one of the most amazing hotels in the world, and you are spending your free time in a room? I cannot let that happen." He took my hand and pulled me to a direction gently.


    "Come on. There is a wonderful A carte restaurant making seafood and sushi."


    Then I felt another tug from my other hand. There was no need for me to look to know who it was. But I looked anyway. Mr. Anton was pulling me from my other hand.


    "Eating in your room would be more suitable because I need your assistance in half an hour. Go to our suite and wait for me there, we can eat together there."


    My two hands were in two Alonzos, and they were ring at each other like they were looking at their enemies. My heart wanted to be with Matt and have a nice lunch at ease andfort he gives all the time. But my head known better, that Matt was only my temporary boss and when my time is up with him, I will be at the Mr. Anton''s mercy. And going to my room could save me from so much res and furious tantrums. So I chose thetter.This is from N?velDrama.Org.


    "I am going to our suite then." I said. "Thank you for the offer Mr. Alonzo, maybe next time." I replied to Matt and snatched my hands free from the two of them and turned my back instantly to leave there as soon as possible.


    Mr. Anton did note to have lunch with me. He just informed me with a text that he has some other businesses with partners and I shouldn''t wait for him to eat, but he was strongly suggesting that I need to stay in our suite, and follow up the work from there. I knew he had no intention to spend time with me. He just wanted to snatch me from Matt. But I had no objection to staying in my room as well. I ordered room service and had a lovely meal. Then I went to the ocean scenic balcony and spread myself into a hammock style chair with myptop. And I worked from there for the rest of the day.


    As soon as our shift ended, my cell phone dinged. It was a message from Matt.


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    ''The shift is over love. Wear your tiny bikini ande to the pool bar. I am waiting for you there."


    Oh, I was in deep shit. I was still embarrassed from yesterday''s events but a part of me wanted to go badly. And experience the same thing as sober this time. I knew it was crazy, and I shouldn''t. But in ten minutes, I was wearing a damn bikini and was ready to go.


    When I left my room to the lounge, my nightmare was sitting there coolly. He was still in his suit and he was still working with hisptop. He raised his head, and his eyes widened slightly. He took in my view from head to toe. "Where are you going?"


    "To the pool." I said.


    "I thought you won''t go back there after yesterday."


    "Well, I won''t drink alcohol this time. But I still want to swim in my free time." I said.


    "Wait for me to change then. I will escort you." He pushed back his chair to stand up. I raised my hand in the air to stop him. He halted and looked at my eyes piercingly. I mustered my whole courage and said,


    "No need sir, I won''t be alone. Mr.Matt will be there."


    His eyes darkened, his brows dropped onto his eyes threateningly.


    "Of course he will be," he said as clenching his teeth. I nodded hesitantly and went into the elevator. I pressed the close-doors button like ten times to make it close faster. I wanted to get free from the cage of his gaze as soon as possible. While the elevator doors closed, his prating gaze was still fixed on me.


    I knew he wasn''t happy about it, and I knew it would cost me dearly somehow.

 Game Is On

    I went to the pool bar and I saw him immediately. Matt... He was shining like a star among the whole crowd around the pool bar. He was sitting on a stool casually. Just wearing yellow swimming shorts. Like yesterday I thought. Forget it Alice! His upper body was naked. The sharp edges of his muscles and his tanned skin was making the girls passing him to turn around and look back again. And without failing he smiled at every one of them. ''Womanizer.'' The word that Mr. Anton used for him came to my mind. And I dismissed it immediately. It was none of my business. I wasn''t expecting anything from him. Was I?


    In confusion, I went to his direction. As soon as he saw me, his face lit up with a big smile. Different from the other smiles that he threw for other girls. Or I was just fooling myself, I didn''t know. Only thing I knew was that I wanted to be there with him at that moment. I went to the stool next to him and sat.


    "Hey you!" he said as he was eyeing me from head to toe. His gaze paused on my naked waist and on my cleavage. It should have made me ufortable. But somehow, I wanted his gaze more. I wanted his eyes all over me and just on me. Not any other passing girl. Am I jealous now?


    "Hey" I mustered finally as I was positioning myself on the stool.


    "So, you came..." he said with a smirk, pointing out the obvious.


    "I came." I said, blushing.


    "What can I get you love?" he asked as pointing the bar with his jaw.


    "I can get a mojito, virgin please." I said.


    "Virgin?" he asked. "Why?"


    "I don''t want to drink alcohol during business trips anymore."


    "Why?" he asked again, genuinely. His lovely green eyes were bright with a real curiosity and interest, like he really didn''t know why.


    "You know why..." All I could muster. I flushed like a damn raspberry. Why he was pushing the topic as he was aware of what happened between us yesterday.


    "Do I?" he said again with an almost realistic confusion. If I didn''t know I was with him yesterday, that I kissed those plump lips and I held that strong jaw in my hands, I would think that I was mistaken. What an act... Though it broke my heart. Why on earth was he ying dumb? Was he as embarrassed about what happened yesterday as I did? Or was it the way a womanizer acts after something happened with a girl? Maybe he didn''t want to be held responsible for what happened. And maybe he didn''t want any further interaction with me so he found it safe to y dumb.


    "From earth to Alice? Are you with me?" I jumped out of my thoughts. I forced a smile to my lips,


    "Here. Sorry, I spaced out."


    "What were you thinking, love? What kind of thoughts you have, in this beautiful head?"


    I didn''t reply. He continued,


    "You were about to say why you preferred virgin drinks?"


    "Well, I am not good with alcohol, that''s all." I said curtly. He looked at me with weighing eyes, like to decide if he could push this topic further or not. Then he decided not to.


    "A virgin mojito then!" he said rather loudly to make it heard by the barman.All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    Barman started preparing my drink. I busied myself watching the barman as I felt his piercing gaze all over me. I denied looking him back. I was feeling a little bit hurt. It was my first kiss. First intimate moment I shared with a man, and it was nothing for him. What I was thinking though? A billionaire, heart-breakingly handsome and a womanizer CEO would like me? Maybe he was drunk too. Maybe he felt my inexperience during the moment we shared and didn''t want to take responsibility. No wonder he left me in the middle of it. Maybe I was that bad. How should I know? I didn''t have a reference topare it, right? Maybe I did everything wrong. Oh my god, I was pathetic.


    When the barmanpleted my drink and ced it in front of me, I had no excuse left to not to look at him back. I turned my head and our eyes crushed again. Green ocean was looking at me intently, like he really cared. Yeah, right. I didn''t buy it. I looked at him back, daringly as much as I could.


    "What is wrong love?" he asked.


    "Nothing." I said.


    "I am feeling like I am missing something vital. Can you enlighten me, what is?"


    "I have no idea." I said again. He licked his lower lip as if trying to be patient. My eyes followed his tongue on his lip. Damn traitorous eyes of mine.


    He smiled at my little breakup. He opened those gorgeous lips again to say something, but I never heard what because,


    "Hey." a gruff voice cut in his line. When we raised our heads, we saw Anton standing next to us. He was also wearing nothing but swimming shorts. His tanned, muscr body was impressive as much as his brother''s. ck hair messily falling on his brows. When they were standing next to each other, I couldn''t help but gape at the simrity of their features one more time. Same wavy hair, same eye shape, same strong jaw. But one of them has darker shades than the other. The bold one and the light one, my first observation never failed.


    He didn''t wait to be invited and ced himself on the other stool next to mine. I was between Alonzo brothers again. The Alonzo sandwich was back.


    "Hey..." said Matt with a weak enthusiasm. Anton looked at my drink, then looked at me back with unbelieving eyes. I knew what he was implying. But I was not in the mood to tell him it was just a virgin drink, and I didn''t need another scolding. I dared his eyes. Was he thinking that I was stupid? Would I make the same mistake right after the first one? It was hard enough to digest that Matt didn''t want to be rted to me or admitst night. I couldn''t take an Anton Alonzo piece of mind.


    "Are you drinking alcohol? After yesterday?" he asked unbelievingly. Shit! He couldn''t let a thing lie, could he?


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    I just red at him. Fuming. Before I opened my mouth to reply to him, Matt cut in.


    "What the hell about yesterday? Can someone tell me what happened?" I kept the ring with Anton, he returned my re with equal fury. But he answered Matt''s question.


    "Ms. Wonderful got drunk yesterday and nked out." he said. Damn you Anton Alonzo! Damn your cruel heart, and soulless being.


    "Really?" Matt asked with unbelieving eyes darting from me to Anton and back. Like he didn''t really know. Or maybe he didn''t know because when he was with me in my room, I was certainly conscious.


    I was furious. Furious from the way Matt was looking at me with enjoyed eyes and Anton was looking at me with distaste. I jumped off my stool.


    "I am leaving, have a nice evening gentleman." I said in a low serial-killer calm voice.


    "Where do you think you are going?" Anton asked from my back gruffly as expected from him.


    "Somewhere away from you two." I answered without turning back to see their faces again. And walked away to the beach. One thing could only calm me right then. Cool ocean water.


    ***


    ANTON''S POV


    "What the hell you did?" asked Matt.


    "What?" I challenged him.


    "Why did you act like that to Alice?" I winced when he mentioned her with her first name. Were they that close? I was about to get that close yesterday, at the poolside. But every bit of intimacy had vanished after she called me that. "She was drinking a virgin cocktail you dumbass!" he said. Virgin? Damn! I scolded her for nothing.


    "And what happened yesterday. Tell me! There is something that you are keeping from me. She was acting weird too." Matt was restlessly asking.


    "You heard what happened. She got drunk, and nked out. She couldn''t even handle two cocktails. So I forbid her to drink alcohol during business trips. That''s all." And, I carried her to her room and we made out, but she moaned your name so I understood she was thinking that I was you for all the damn time. Of course I didn''t say these things to him.


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    "What? You forbid her?"


    "Yes."


    "Are you in your right mind Anton? She is not fifteen. You cannot forbid an adult from drinking. And you cannot forbid an employee from doing something in their free time. It''s not called free time for nothing!"


    "I don''t need a lecture from you Matt. Of course you don''t mind what your employees do during their free time as long as they do you!"


    "Oh, so you want to open the old chapters again."


    "We all suffered from your old chapters. If I am stuck with this stupid girl as an assistant it is because of your old chapters."


    "No, you stuck with this girl because you took her to prevent me from choosing her. And if you are not happy with her, I am ready to take her back."


    "She is mine!" I roared. And instantly recognized that I said it more possessively than I anticipated. My hands were curled to fists and my brows were creased in a threatening way. Matt recognized these too. "Easy tiger." he smirked.


    "You know, I would never think that any girl could get under your thick skin... Apparently I was wrong. Even though I am happy for your tin heart finally started beating, I am sorry I could not let you have her, brother. Not without a good fight.¡± "I have no idea what you are talking about." I said. I had every idea what he was talking about. She was the forbidden apple and both of us wanted her. Like we did a million times before, we were challenging again.


    He raised from his stool and patted my shoulder. Then lowered his head to my ear level and whispered into my ear.


    "Yes you do my brother! Game is on..."


    He turned and left.


    "Game is on..." I murmured as I was watching him leave.

 Lunch Break

    After I left two Alonzos at the pool bar, I went to the seaside and spent the rest of my day at the beach. It was really refreshing to be away from both of them, even for a couple hours. When I returned to my room, I silently, almost on tip-toe, went into my room and locked the door behind myself. I took a quick shower to rinse off all residual sands from my body and copsed on my bed with damp hair and the towel I wrapped around myself. I didn''t even turn on the lights in my room. I was feeling exhausted. Not physically but mentally. I kept thinking about Matt all those hours when I was at the beach. Him and why he didn''t want to be involved with me. I was feeling like a teenager, rejected by her crush. It was funny to feel these kinds of things when you were 23. These feelings were generally belonging to high school, or college in the worst scenario. But all those unlived, unexperienced feelings were catching up with me at this age.This is from N?velDrama.Org.


    I was heartbroken, and lonely. I felt pooling tears at the corners of my eyes. I closed my eyes and let the darkness of my room swallow me and my tears...


    When a hammering sound from my cell phone started banging, I opened my eyes and found myself on the bed. I couldn''t remember when I passed out after I cried for quite some time. I was still wrapped in the towel, it was half way dragged up revealing my naked thighs. My hair was dried by itself. I was sure it was in an odd shape. I stopped the rm and I jumped out of the bed.


    In an hour I was prepared and ready for the day, then my phone rang. It was my father.


    "Hello daddy."


    "Hello sweetheart. How is Hawaii going?"


    "It is okay." I said.


    "Okay? Well I knew it was hard to impress you but I was expecting better from Hawaii about stealing your heart." he said. I smiled at the phone silently.


    "Is everything alright dear?" Of course I was not nning to say anything to my father so I put on my biggest smile on my face to reflect it to my voice. "Everything wonderful daddy, don''t worry." I said.


    "Well, I have good news too. I found a perfect loan for Rachel''s college. With a good interest rate."


    "Oh really? It''s perfect daddy. How much should I pay?"


    "It''s 6000 dors per month. But I am able to pay 1500-2000 dors. It''s enough if you could send 4000 dors per month."


    "Okay daddy. I will send it as soon as I get my payment. Now I have to go, I am about to start my shift."


    "Of course honey, take care. And thank you for helping me in such a big way. I cannot pay back this favor in any way."


    "It''s nothing daddy. I am happy to be able to help. See youter."


    "See you honey." and he hung up. I was being paid generously. So, I was able to pay this rate. But, it was a fair payment for my monstrous boss and enduring him.


    I left my room, prepared the coffee, printed out the calendar and started waiting for him. I was wearing a camel pencil skirt and a cream shirt today. Ibed my hair into an updo this time to make a difference. I did my make-up painstakingly. I knew why I was being so thorough about my look today but I wasn''t ready to admit it to myself yet.


    He came out from his room just in time as always. He was wearing a brown suit this time with a cream shirt in it. It was almost like we were wearing matching clothes. He took me in with a dark gaze at once. I shivered from the intensity of his gaze. He came to the lounge table, imed the seat next to me and sat back. He was still looking at me intensely. He took the coffee from the table without breaking his stare and sipped it. I was waiting for him to spit it back but he didn''t. He swallowed. I waited to see the hint of disgust or something. But nothing, his perfect face didn''t falter.


    Finally he spoke,


    "I owe you an apology Ms.Wonderful." he said. I gawked in surprise. Did I hear it right?


    "For misjudging about the drink you hadst night. Matt informed me that it was a virgin drink." I started understanding the nature of the apology, but I didn''t intend to make it easier for him. So I just kept my silence and waited for him to finish it.


    "I am not the one to tell you what you can or cannot do. I was just a bit concerned about your safety and your well being."


    I kept staring. I didn''t start talking, still was waiting for him to go on. He cleared his throat, and continued.


    "Well, you know when you copsed there and I carried you to your room, I was very concerned that -"


    "Wait a minute!" I raised my hand to stop him in the middle of his sentence. I knew interrupting Mr. Alonzo was not a wise move, but I was shocked.


    "You have carried me to my room?"


    "Yes, when you nk out, I had no choice but to carry you there."


    "So you carried me?" I asked again, unbelievingly.


    "Yes," he said calmly. His eyes squinted a bit with a surprised amusement and curiosity.


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    What the hell? If he carried me to my room, then is it possible? He? I touched my lips involuntarily. His eyes followed my fingers and a smirk spread to his mouth. A reveal of understanding. No, no, no, no! This could not be happening. Was he the one I kissed that night? Did I share my first kiss with him? God, no!


    I gulped, he followed the bob of my throat. He was getting more cocky with every passing minute. Like he was enjoying when realization was taking over on me. He simply followed even my micro-expressions. I let myself take a minute to digest the idea. Then I dared to ask,


    "Mr. Alonzo, did anyone else visit our suite that night?"


    "No one can enter my suite without my permission Ms. Wonderful..." he said. And all hope left me in the moment. I wasted my first kiss to Mr. Anton and the worst part is I liked it.


    "Except, Matt." he added, smirking. I left out a big breath in relief. Maybe Mr. Anton carried me to my room, and left me then Matt came in and we made out? I couldn''t know that because my consciousness wasing and going. It makes sense right? It should have made sense. For my sanity.


    However, Mr. Anton looked like he didn''t like my relief. It annoyed him somehow. Oh, please god don''t let him be my first kiss. This could not be happening to me.


    He changed the topic to ask something about work and I was grateful for the distraction. We sat in silence and worked for three hours until lunch. At the lunch break we ordered to the suite and ate our orders in silence at the kitchen table. It was quite odd. I was sitting at the kitchen table, with the man I was most horrified with. He was eating a burger and I was eating a pizza in silence. Seeing him like that almost made me feel like he was a human too. Almost. Who can eat a burger without even smearing some ketchup on his lips or something. He ate even the burger in precision. He was doing everything in precision. That was terrifying and also admirable at the same time.


    When he ate half of his burger and patted on the side of his mouth with the napkin like it was necessary, he paid a nce at me to my struggle with pizza. I was used to taking slices in my hand and eating pizza like that. But when your boss ate a burger with this delicacy, you wouldn''t dare eat it like that and you would try to eat a fucking pizza with a knife and fork as I did.


    The knife was not sharp enough and I started feeling numb on my right hand to struggle with the knife to cut the pizza. He watched me for like five seconds then huffed in annoyance. Damn, I was sure he was thinking I was a discard. "Who eats a pizza with fork and knife? Take that damn slice into your hand and eat it normally please."


    I halted in nonplussed. Was he real? What did you do to Mr. Anton, you alien? He extended his perfectly manicured hand and tore off a slice. While he was bringing the slice near to his mouth he asked,


    "Would you mind?"


    I shake my head to wake myself up and said,


    "Oh? No, please have some." he nodded and took a generous bite. His plump lips looked even more delicious than pizza. I watched him when he momentarily closed his eyes while tasting the pizza and he said with a full mouth,


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    "Hmm, delicious." he just talked when his mouth was full. Wasn''t it like the first rule in the book of snobby rich people that you shouldn''t talk while your mouth is full?


    It encouraged me and I took a slice into my hand and took a bite. It was delicious. And I was dumbstruck. Not from the pizza but the way Mr. Anton behaves.


    Wepleted our meal and went right back to work. There was a lot to handle before the big agreement tomorrow, and also office works wereing through from the headquarters.


    When Mr. Alonzo announced the end of the day and I relieved my tense shoulders before going back to my room, my phone dinged. It was a message from Matt.


    ''You owe me dinner don''t you think?''


    ''Do I?''


    ''Definitely. You left me at the pool bar yesterday with my horrible brother. It costs more than a dinner normally but I will be easy on you.''


    ''How benevolent of you...''


    ''Yes, that''s one of my virtues. So?''


    ''Okay, I will buy you dinner.''


    ''Yes!!! I will take you in twenty minutes. Get ready!''


    ''Okay''


    I went into my room and changed into something sexy and elegant. It was a white linen dress, the bodice was holding my breasts and waist tightly, as emphasizing my thin waist. And the fabric was falling from my hips freely as showing me curly more than I was. I let down my hair in loose waves and wore a pink lipstick toplete the look. I looked at the mirror and I liked what I saw. Only thing that was bothering me were my sses now. I changed them with my contact lenses.


    And I heard a small knock on my door.


    "I aming!" I yelled enthusiastically. It had to be Matt. When I opened the door, the man behind the door held his breath for a moment. I even heard the hitch of his catching breath. I found Anton standing in front of me.

 Get In The Line

    Mr. Anton was standing in front of me, with a surprised and bewitched look in his eyes.


    "Hi." he said in a low voice, almost inaudible. Like we were in a bubble and he was afraid to pop it as talking loud.


    "Hi," I said in the same hushed voice. I didn''t know why but I felt like I had to. He took me in with hungry eyes darting head to toe and back. "Were you going somewhere?" he asked in a throaty voice. Like he was breathless.


    I blushed. Why the hell I was blushing. I really have issues.


    "Yes, I was going to dinner." I admit. I didn''t know why, but somehow I didn''t want to say that I was going with Matt, and I hoped he would not ask.


    "Can I apany you?" He was still watching me intently. If I didn''t know better, I could even say that he liked what he saw. I parted my mouth to answer,


    "She has a date with me, brother! Get in the line." Matt said as stepping out from the elevator. I was surprised to see him. Anton''s mesmerized looks turned into stone in no time.


    His eyes didn''t leave me while he spoke to his brother.


    "I am not interested to be in the line, have fun." he said as spitting the words. More like to me than to him. He turned his back in no time and went into the elevator that Matt vacated a moment ago. Matt didn''t bother to look at his leaving brother, he locked his eyes on me instead. However, I couldn''t help but stay locked in Anton''s stare, until he was in the elevator and the closing doors of it broke the stare for us. Until his eyes were hidden by the doors, their hook in my flesh didn''t let me go. A deep, dark and dangerous hook.


    Only when the charm had broken with closing doors I could return and saw another kind of hook before me. This one was yful, rascal and dangerous as well but for all kinds of different reasons.


    He blew a whistle as scanning me with his eyes.


    "You look dazzling, love. I would have invited you to dinner before, If I knew you would look this way."


    I blushed instantly. To hide my embarrassment I started mocking too,This is from N?velDrama.Org.


    "I am paying for dinner, remember?"


    Heughed. I looked at his beautiful face and damn dimples. I felt my breath catching in my lungs before his beauty. He was heavenly. Something this beautiful couldn''t be bad, could it?


    He was wearing pale blue linen trousers; the legs of the trousers were rolled up in a casual manner. And a white linen shirt, loosely falling from hisrge shoulders and revealing the top of his muscr chest by three open buttons. I gulped with the hint of broad chest and soft chest hairs can be seen between the open buttons. I wanted to dig my fingers in it and feel its softness with my fingertips. Like I did that night into his soft hair. Oh God''s sake, forget that Alice! He did, and you should do as well.


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    He extended his hand to me, and I took it without thinking any more. I screwed up the first time, but this time I would be prepared.


    ***


    Matt''s POV


    When the elevator doors opened and revealed him standing in front of her door, I saw red. Fucking bastard does not waste a minute to hit her. And he didn''t even want her in the first ce. Then I heard him asking to take her to dinner, and I smirked to myself. Not fast enough,


    "She has a date with me, brother! Get in the line." I said. I understood he got tensed from his shoulders even from his back.


    "I am not interested to be in the line, have fun." he answered as if he didn''t care. And turned back and left. But I knew better. I knew him well enough to know that wheels in his head started turning. He never let me have anything without a good fight and I was sure this time was no different. Maybe he was not even truly interested in her. But challenging me for her was enough encouragement for him to try. I have never seen him hitting an employee before. But Alice was different, I had to admit that. Even If I would have such rules about my personal life, I would have tried my chances for her anyway.


    The innocence in her eyes, but the lust her body offers were contracting each other in a way that could make any man crazy. And my brother and I were no exceptions. There, she was standing, in a white dress showing her fragile figure in the best way it could. Her thin waist wrapped in the fabric was so small, you could almost grab it with a hand. Her brte waves were falling like waterfalls from her delicate shoulders to her revealed back. Her slightlyrger hips were holding the skirt in ce and offering something sinful for seeking eyes. She was not wearing sses today. Even though I found it cute when she wore it, it suited her today to be like this. Her make-up was light but recognizable. It means, she also cared. Cared enough to pay the effort to seem better and be with me tonight despite my brother. And this thought only was enough to save my week. Which was on the brink of being ruined by Anton.


    He stole her to keep her away from me. But no one could keep me away from her. I decided that since the moment Iid eyes on her. She was mine! Anton anticipated that I wouldn''t bother toe all this way for just a girl. I wouldn''t, for just a girl. But this was Alice. Something about her was pulling me, every look she graced, every word she deigned was my doom. And this time I was determined to keep this for myself.


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    I blew a whistle to show my admiration for her.


    "You look dazzling, love. I would have invited you to dinner before, If I knew you would look this way." I said mockingly, I wouldn''t care if she wore a potato sack. I was sure she could manage to look beautiful even in that shit. But I just needed one of those smiles she gave.


    She blushed instantly. Even better. When she turned red from her cheeks to her ears, I just wanted to eat her.


    "I am paying for dinner, remember?" she said to distract herself.


    Iughed. She was thinking that I would really let her buy me dinner? I just wanted to make her believe that she was in control of tonight. But actually she was not. If I could y my cards correctly, and if I could keep my nosey brother away, I was nning to have her in my bed tonight.


    I extended my hand towards her and stered my most genuine smile on my face. She shouldn''t have suspected from a thing. She took my hand, her hand was shaking slightly. Excited, good...


    I took her to the ce I arranged beforehand. I prepared a hidden meeting ce just for the two of us. When I directed her towards the beach, her eyes widened in surprise. She was expecting me to take her to the restaurants. No way. I wanted to keep her to myself tonight.


    I made a team to prepare a ce under the palm trees on the beach. When we reached there, I saw they did a good job. You could be surprised what money could do. They prepared a setting for two under the night sky. As romantic as it could be. I didn''t know any girl could say no such a setting. There was a small round table with two chairs. I drew one and made her sit first. Then, I turned around the table and I ced myself opposite to her. She was looking around in disbelieving eyes, taking in every detail they did. She was impressed I could tell. Matteo 1, Antonio 0.


    I kindly held her hand over the table and kissed the back of it like a real gentleman. She giggled and the sound of her warmed my heart somehow. I knew I was not up to anything serious. I never did. But, I couldn''t help but admit that she was something more than a one night stand. Two nights maybe? Or a week. I would let myself decide when ites to that. But for now, I was just after one thing. Taking her to the bed tonight.

 Under The Night Sky

    I stood astonished. I have never seen anything more romantic or cute in my life. I wasn''t the girl who received big gestures. I was the girl helping the man to organize these gestures to their girlfriends. My friends. Whenever a boyfriend of my friends wanted to surprise them, I always helped them genuinely. But I must admit I always admired the girls who received such treatments, and I secretly wanted to have something like that.


    But tonight, everything was for me. When Matt pulled me from my hand towards the beach instead of restaurants, I didn''t understand what he was up to first. But, when he took me there, he touched a string in my heart I believe even he didn''t calcte.


    There, under the palm trees, a table for two was set with its perfect white cover and candles on it. There werenterns hanging between the palm trees to slightly enlighten the table but not enough to smother the twinkles of stars above us. A rattan carpet wasid under the table on the sandy floor, and a service cart was standing with a waiter next to it. Red roses in high vases were circling the rattan carpet and rose petals were spread on it as well. Everything was perfect on this beautiful summer night. Everything, including the handsome man standing next to me as holding my now sweaty hand.


    He sprinted forward and pulled one of the chairs for me. After he ced me, he turned the table and sat opposite to me. He took my hand and kissed the back of it. What a gentleman.


    I took in the view one more time. I was amazed by the beautiful setting under the night sky and the beauty of the gesture itself.


    "Did you like it, love?"


    "Like it? I love it. Thank you so much Matt."


    He smiled sheepishly. He was content to see me amazed I could tell. How I couldn''t.


    "This means more to me than you think. But you shouldn''t have troubled yourself this much."


    "I dly take trouble if ites from you, but this is not trouble at all, this is pleasure." he said.


    I instantly blushed again. His smile widened to disy the perfect dimples, and I found myself holding my breath. Before such a scene. Matt and his handsome face with perfect dimples, his eyes glimmering with the reflection of candle lights under the twinkling stars. I could have died in this moment as a content soul and never would haveined in after life.


    He gestured to the waiter to serve whatever he had them prepared. The waiter professionally opened a bottle of champagne first. Not in the world I am drinking this, but I didn''t say a word. He kindly raised his flute ss to me.


    "To the beauty of tonight, of you." he said. I smiled and mirrored his gesture. We clicked the sses gently and he raised his ss to his lips. I did the same, but I didn''t sip it. I just touched my lips to the ss. I had no intention of losing myself tonight.


    Then the waiter started serving the meal. It was sushi. I liked how Matt kept details about me in his mind, and had me served the meal I like most. I took a bite, it was delicious. But he didn''t. He just watched me eating. He was looking at me like I was the most important thing in the world and if he just averted his gaze I would evaporate.


    "Aren''t you eating?" I asked.


    "What? Are you after my meal again?" he said smiling. Iughed at this usation. "Not tonight Matt."


    "Why not?"


    "You prepared a beautiful meal for me, you deserve to get enough tonight." I said.


    He smiled again. What a view to look at. He casually dragged his fingers from his hair.


    "I don''t think I can get enough tonight." he said suggestively. I understood what he was implying and instantly my cheeks started burning. I avoided his gaze and looked at my te. He was like this all the time. All those ys and implies, but when ites to admitting what happened between us, he just acted like he did not remember it.Exclusive ? material by N?(/v)elDrama.Org.


    "I hope you can remember this time." I said. His brows slightly lifted towards his hairline.


    "What do you mean?" he asked. I bite my tongue in my mouth. I should keep my thoughts to myself. "Nothing." I lied.


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    "Love, what is going on? You know something that I don''t know, and somehow it is bugging you. Could you tell me what?"


    It started being really embarrassing now. Like I was eager to smear to his face what happened between us. Like I was the only one caring about this. I didn''t buy it. I simply shrugged.


    "Nothing. Nothing happened." I said as I was copying his denial. His eyes suspiciously darted all over me, but when he convinced, that I won''t exin anything further, he released an annoyed breath and continued talking normally. We chat about light subjects like the beauty of the night, how both of us liking the seaside, growing up with siblings and about our ex-love life. Well, his ex-love life. Mine was a giant zero.


    "... And she just threw the whole cake to my face when she found out." he finished a funny story about how one of his ex girlfriends freaked out and the night ended with a giant cake stered to his face. It was a really funny story and Iughed my eyes out. When the story ended, my jaw was aching fromughter and my eyes were watery.


    Heughed with me and dragged his beautiful fingers through his messy hair.


    "And what about you?" he asked finally, when I returned breathing as normally as possible after all thatughter.


    "About me?" I asked as I dried my eyes with the back of my hand.


    "What about your exes? Were they funny, or bad, or good enough to make me jealous?" he asked.


    "Well, none of those. I don''t have any exes to talk about."


    "What does it mean?" he asked, surprised. Damn! I felt ashamed. I was a grown up woman who had no rtionship in her life. It was a real shame. I felt the creeping sensation of climbing blood to my cheeks again. "You mean they were that bad, you choose not to talk about them?" I huffed with annoyance. But I wasn''t going to lie to him. I didn''t see anyone before as a boyfriend and it was a part of me. There was no use of lying.


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    "I mean I haven''t had a boyfriend so far." I said in a small voice, smaller than I intended to.


    And I saw his jaw dropped open. He stared at me with nk eyes and a dreamy look for a while, like a race of thoughts were going on in his mind. Then he shook his head slightly like bringing his consciousness back to the moment. "You mean... like you never... have any..."


    "Yeah I meant that." I cut short. It was getting more annoying with every passing minute. I pressed the back of my hands to my cheeks in the search of some coolness for my now burning cheeks.


    "I am sorry. I shouldn''t act like a jerk." He said instantly. I raised my head and looked into his green ocean eyes, and I saw genuine regret in there. He paused a little to let the apology sink in a bit between us. Then continued,


    "You have every right to decide when to have someone special in your life. It shouldn''t be so surprising that a girl like you couldn''t find a worthy man to share her precious attention so far."


    I blushed again but for a good reason this time.


    "It''s not that I didn''t want to. But I was always too busy to spare time for it, and men weren''t so eager to create time to have with me. So, I ended up being alone. And now I got quite used to the feeling and taking someone into my life seems like a burden to me." I blurted out more than I wanted to. He nodded in anticipation.


    He pushed his chair back suddenly and rose up. I watched him in a slight surprise to understand what he was up to next. Before I understood what was happening, the voice of a violin started to fill the crisp summer air. I looked behind him and saw a violinist ying a joyful dance song. He turned around the table and stood before me as holding his hand out for me to take. I took it without a second thought. I have never danced before with a man, except in the high school prom when my dad bribed a distant cousin to take me there. We only had one dance and he was holding me an arm length away from him while dancing. So, I was counting this as the first.


    He pulled me closer to his body. I tensed with his touch but didn''t cower back. I wanted this. I wanted to have this moment for me, and have its memory for the rest of my life. As the first night being dated out, the first gesture has been made to me and the first dance I share with someone that I actually liked.


    I ced one of my hands onto hisrge shoulder, and left the other in his palm. He raised the hand he was holding a bit and wrapped his other hand around my waist. I was in his embrace now. We started slowly rocking ording to the pace of the song. Cool summer breeze was caressing my cheeks as his breath touched my ear. I started losing track of time and ce. I was flooding over clouds in an indefinite moment and in the arms of a man that I dreamed of more than I wanted to admit. With ast note of violin, he gently twirled me around and lowered me down on the arm he ced behind my back. Our faces close each other enough to let our noses touch and his hair tickling my forehead. He leaned in closer, I could have felt his breath on my lips. Just a nudge, a small willingness would do the rest. I was about to kiss him, again...

 The Kiss

    I was about to kiss him. Again! But suddenly I didn''t want to. I remembered all the humiliation I felt, and anger rose in me from my stomach to my throat, as burning the ces it touched as it rose up. Not even just that, I was doing the exact thing Anton had warned me against. I was kissing my fucking boss. I turned my head in time, and he kissed my cheek instead. I felt his smile on my cheek for missing my lips, maybe he thought it was coyness, well it wasn''t.


    He pulled me back onto my legs into a normal position as we were finishing the dance. It was dark, and I wasn''t sure he saw the simmering anger of mine or the confusion on my face. What was he thinking? After he denied the first kiss we shared with such nonchnce, why was he trying to create a second scene to ignore?


    I ran my fingers through my hair to cool down a bit. I turned and looked back at the table we left, now the waiter had cleaned it off. And looked back at Matt again. He came closer to me, His hand traced my arm from my shoulder to my wrist. "What is it, love? Don''t you want me to be closer to you?" he asked softly. Almost a whisper.


    "Do you want to be closer to me?" I asked daringly.


    "Of course I do, if not why should I bother with all of these?" He pointed to the table behind us.


    "I really don''t get you Matt. Maybe you want to be close to me right now, but I am not sure, you will be in the same mind when you wake up. When the reality of ites to you."


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    "I am your employee, I am sure you don''t want to be closer to me. Not in a way crossing any line." I said. Like the first time he did and regretted it. I was sure it was because I am his employee, and that''s why he ignored everything that happened.


    "Oh love, you have no idea how many lines I am willing to cross if it means I will be closer to you." he said. He sneaked a hand around my waist and ced it to the small of my back. With his other hand he held my cheek, and caressed it with thezy strokes of his thumb. It was blurring my consciousness, with every stroke of his thumb, I was falling into a deeper trance. Then he tilted my face towards him and our foreheads met. He closed his eyes momentarily and took a deep breath before talking, like inhaling me.


    "But I am not willing to cross any line that you don''t want to cross with me," he said. Then he let me go. Suddenly. All the heat of his touch vanished in a second and my body freaked to feel it more. To taste his heat more. Share a breath again. But he was already on the way back to the hotel. He stopped before the pedestrian road leading back to the hotel, turned back and looked at me.


    "Are youing?"


    Then I realized I was stuck in the ce where he left me. I forced my legs to move and follow him. I had no right to feel resentful after I refused him a minute ago, but I was feeling a little hurt in a way that I couldn''t really describe or understand. When I reached him, he held my hand casually and led me back to the hotel. In ten minutes, I was outside the door of my room in the suite. We stood up in front of the door before I went in. "Well, thank you for this amazing night." I said.


    "Thank you for letting me have it with you." Matt said back. Smart mouth always knows what to say.


    We stood there a little bit longer, the silence stretched out, but none of us were willing to break it first, or finish the night.


    "Won''t you invite me inside?" he asked finally, smirking. He broke the silence and broke the shyness as well. He was very straightforward.


    "I won''t " I smirked back.


    "At least kiss me goodbye to help me sleep well." he said shamelessly.


    "Okay." I said.


    "Okay?" he asked in surprise. Before letting him think or do something, I fastly peck him on his mouth. Just a small, tiny kiss. I barely brushed his lips.


    He stopped frozen... Licked his lips like trying the taste of the kiss. Damn, it was so sexy. He could be my doom.


    "You cheated," he said with a gentle voice.


    "No I didn''t. You asked for a good night kiss and I gave you one." I said matter of factly. His eyes glinted with amusement and something more.


    "You barely touched my lips," he said again.


    "You didn''t describe the kiss." I said. He smirked widely this time.


    "Fair enough." he paused. "I want you to kiss me goodnight, with enough ferocity to rock my world and make me question why I am not worshiping you instead of god." he said as looking hungrily at my lips.


    My jaw dropped open. I tried toe up with some smart words for response but nothing came to my mind, and before I muster some words in response,


    "Fuck it!" he said and closed the distance between us with one fast step. He held me with his two hands cupping my cheeks and pulled me harshly on his mouth.


    It was so fast and so harsh, our teeth crashed first. I couldn''t do anything. Not even fight or join him. He was consuming me with such a hunger, enough to eat me whole. His kiss became more urgent, his lips roaming on my lips, his tongue seeking entrance. Then his tongue barged directly into my mouth. He shoved it down in my throat. I choked. I wasn''t passive anymore, lips, teeth, tongues daring each other, meeting ferociously. My lungs started burning with the need of breathe. But both of us knew, if he broke the kiss, it would be the end of it. So we kept going until thest kernel of breath that we shared now was consumed.


    Then he pulled back a little, just enough to take a breath, our forehead trusting each other, our noses still touching, still holding me trapped in his hands. Both of us were panting. Once he had enough breath, he started getting closer again, slowly this time, like testing the ground. But I couldn''t do that anymore, I shouldn''t. So I whispered breathlessly,


    "Good night Matt."


    He stopped. Still holding my face in his hands, still breathing hard on my face. Still our breaths were mixing each other. "Good night, love" he whispered back. He put ast peck on my mouth and drew himself back.


    I swung forward once his hands let me go. I instantly craved for the touch again. But he was my boss. The freaking CEO of Alonzopany. Who I was kidding, we were not a match. He went to the elevator without saying any other word. He turned his face to me while the doors of the elevator closed. His hair shuffled, his lips swollen and his eyes looking longingly. He winked just before the doors closed and separated us totally for the night.


    I went into my room, closed the door and trusted my back against it. Like I was stopping myself going after him and repeating same mistakes all over again. I touched my lips, now swollen and tender. I felt the taste of his lips still on mine. It was fresh like mint and lemons. And his smell was clinging to me. His expensive cologne. But it was different than I remembered. It was musk and iris. But I remembered something with sandalwood and spice from that night. Maybe he changed it. He was ridiculously rich, it was stupid to think that he had just one cologne.


    I knew this was wrong. I knew he was my boss and this thing between us could never be wise. It could definitely end my career and my life. Anton already threatened me about this. But I didn''t let myself think this tonight. "Regret it in the morning," I said to myself. But tonight I let myself enjoy it. The residuals of his touch and the butterflies in my stomach. Enjoy it Alice, only for tonight. And tomorrow, you have to turn to reality and never make this mistake again. Iid down on my bed, closed my eyes tightly and I reyed every detail, every touch, every breath again, over and over, until I fell asleep. And maybe even in my dream, I kept reying it.

 Hand in Hand

    I woke up with butterflies in my stomach with the anticipation that I was about to see Matt again. I dressed myself as well as I could in work attire, but definitely I was the most painstaking. Today was thest day of our stay here. We were nning to close the deal and if everything goes well, return to New York. I peeked at my phone, no messages from Matt.


    I left my room and found Mr. Anton Alonzo standing there in a stunning suit. He was early today. I could tell he was also painstaking about his looks. A navy suit, Italian cut, emphasizing hisrge shoulders and muscr waist, making him look like a cut out of magazines. A crisp white shirt in it with a matching navy tie. His hairbed back slickly dark as his eyes.Exclusive ? material by N?(/v)elDrama.Org.


    I recognized that I was holding my breath. I released it slightly confused. Why have I been affected this much? Maybe my libido was still high from yesterday and he was looking so much like Matt, except the color set of course.


    We gave small greetings to each other and he proceeded to the elevator. I followed him. No coffee session this morning? Strange. We went down in silence. There was something odd about him today. He was silent as always, but not like his usual grumpy silence. Like deep in thought silence.


    We finally sat at the table again with Sanders Group after a two day break.


    Daryl Sanders, the CEO of the Sanders Group, was sitting at the opposite side of the table with hiswyers and assistants. We were together also with our twowyers. But where was Matt? I thought he would be here also. I hoped. Daryl started talking about the twopanies'' history of friendship and alliance. He gave some pleasantries, paid a quick nce to me and started the meeting.


    It was a painful three long hours before they finally wrapped up the offer and agreed on terms. The entire time in my employment for him, I saw Mr. Alonzo loosened his tie for the first time.


    And finally the eptance of the contract has been dered. Both parties signed their parts and hands shook to show the binding of the contract.


    We all were on foot now, ready to leave. Lawyers started to leave first. Mr. Alonzo put his hand to the small of my back, I slightly stiffen with the touch of his hand. He guided me to the door to leave the meeting room as well. "Ms. Wondend?"


    Mr. Alonzo stopped behind me, his hand still on my back, we turned together to see the source of the call.


    Mr. Sanders was standing behind Mr. Alonzo,


    "Can I have a word with you?" he asked. "Alone," he added.


    "What do you have to discuss with my assistant that I shouldn''t know about?" Mr. Alonzo asked angrily.


    "She is an independent human being, you know Antonio?" he said.


    "She is working for me and it is her business hour. So, no. She is not an independent human being. Not during working hours." he said. He gently pushed me from the point his hand still rests on. A few inches above my ass. I turned to leave as he silentlymanded me right now, but a hand snatched my hand and made me turn on my spot.


    Mr. Sanderson swiftly dig his head to my ear, his silver blond hair tickled my neck, and whispered,


    "If you ever get bored from these two dickheads, call me." He forced something in my palm just in time, before Mr. Alonzo shoved him from his shoulder and made him stagger behind.


    "Don''t be a creep Daryl!" he said. Mr. Sanders smiled with a crazy glint in his pale blue eyes. Like the Cheshire cat. He raised his palms as if surrendered. And Mr. Alonzo shoved me out of the room without a second look.


    I uncurled my fingers, and peeked secretly to see what he squeezed there without letting Mr. Anton knows. It was a business card. His business card.


    We went back to our suite after the meeting. It was already lunch time. But I had no intention of spending a meal with him so I decided to stay in the suite and have my lunch there. Meanwhile he could go out for lunch, I presume he would go to some fancy a carte or something. When he stood up in the middle of the lounge, I was expecting him to turn to his room, instead;


    "Would you like to see around?"


    "Excuse me?" I caught off guard again.


    "Around, like out of the hotel. I guess it''s your first time visiting here?"


    "Yes, but the shift is not over."


    "Well, we wrapped up the contract pretty well. And I don''t have too much from the office, so... If you want..." He scratched the back of his neck, like he was having a hard time to find words. It was also a first. I have never seen him struggling before.


    "Well, I would. If it isn''t too much trouble for you?"


    "Not at all..." he kept staring at me. I was still standing next to the round table in the lounge.


    "Well, you change then. I can meet you here in 15 minutes, yes?"


    "Yes." I said. And I jumped on my feet to charge into my room, nearly running. I was excited. Excited to see outside of the hotel and Hawaii for the first time in my life. I hastily pulled a long skirted summer dress with spaghetti straps. It was a light green viscose fabric, with small flowers on it. It was revealing all my shoulders and the nes of my chest. I let down my hair in brown waves falling down from my shoulders. And grab a small straw bag matching with my straw sandals. I was ready in maybe less than 15 minutes. Was someone too eager? My hand went to my cell phone. I haven''t heard from Matt sincest night. Should I text him and ask if he is alright? No, it could show me desperate. He should call me, I said to myself. Then walk out of my room. Mr Alonzo was standing there. Not in a suit. He has changed as well. He was wearing beige linen pants and a white cotton shirt loosely dropping on his pants. His sleeves were folded upright showing his strong forearms. His hair was damp. I nearly forgot that he was showering twice a day. His hair was slightly messier now, not slicklybed back. Damn, he was handsome. If he were a little less scary, then he would be a sight to admire. He turned to me right after Ipleted my survey of his appearance. His eyes glinted, as he started surveying me now. His eyes darted from my head to my toe. He drank every detail in seconds. A slight grin curved at one side of his mouth. "Ready?" he asked.


    "Ready." I said.


    He extended his hand and I took it. Without a second thought. Like it was so natural, so right to hold his hand and let him guide me. Now we were hand in hand, leaving the suite. He didn''t let my hand go in the elevator either. I nervously peeked around, anywhere but him. I was super aware of the touch of his hand on my hand. Then heced his fingers with mine. My breath catches in my lungs, but I couldn''t find the will to uce my fingers from him. I craved even for more. We left the elevator, then the vast lounge of the hotel, still hand in hand. His guards fell behind us, followed until we were outside of the hotel. A big ck SUV was parked here. He left my hand and went to the car before me. And I instantly missed the touch. His guard went to the door of the car to open it for him, he pushed him aside, reached to the back door of the SUV and opened it for me. I jumped in the car without a second thought. He turned around and got in the car, next to me. His hand sneaked out to my side, found my hand andced his fingers again. Like he has the same longing for this touch. I turned my head from our inteced fingers, and looked out of the window. It was like, if I look at our hands and acknowledge this moment, it would vanish.


    There, at the back of the SUV, hand in hand with Anton Alonzo, we drove down to the town. I didn''t think Matt. And I was somehow happy...

 Getting Along

    When we started going down in the SUV I thought our hand in hand situation wouldst longer, but after five minutes or so, I had that urgent need to itch the back of my hand and just slightly squirmed it. As soon as Anton recognized my uneasiness, he drew his hand. And I missed the heat of his hand instantly. But I didn''t say a word. What could I say, ''Oh please Anton hold my hand again?'' pathetic. My hand instinctively went to my phone to check if Matt had sent me a text but I avoided the urge. It was something like I was trying to prove myself that I like Matt. But he didn''t call me or text me after yesterday, so maybe it was just me thinking that way. Even more pathetic. I turned my gaze to the window, while the car was crawling down from the coastal road to the downtown.


    The scene was maic. It instantly glued me to the window and washed away all of my thoughts. The light blue of the sea was turning to a darker shade as it spread through the horizon. The palm trees were dangling with the hot summer breeze elegantly and extending their leaves to the sea as if they wanted to touch it. I could not me them. The crystal clear water was calling every soul to look at it, as if demanding attention. Golden sands of the beaches were shining as a promise to make you feel better as soon as your bare feet touched it. I took a deep breath and filled my lungs with precious ocean air. The mesmerizing scent of the seaweed and ocean salt filled my nostrils.


    After a while, the buildings started to show up here and there, they were small vige houses with crooked walls, leaning each other cozily. Then they left their ces to bigger buildings as we proceeded into the town. Big tall buildings, shopping centers, restaurants were circling the crescent of clear blue ocean and coasts.


    We stopped in front of a bazaar ce. The driver, which was actually one of the guards got out of the car and went to the Mr. Anton''s door, while the other guard came to my door and opened it for me. He extended his hand to help me get out. I intended to take his hand because it was hard for me to get down from this huge SUV with my short height. I extended my hand towards him, but suddenly Mr. Anton nearly appeared from thin air, knocked his hand to the side with a not-so-gentle push and took my hand instead.


    Here, my hand was in his hand again. Budump, budump! Stop it stupid heart, we like Matt remember?


    He pulled me gently towards him, helped me climb down from the SUV and roughly told the guards to leave. My sole focus was again on my hand, still clutched in his grasp. He looked down at me tilting his head to be able to look at my face from his height. He was so tall, I had to raise my chin to match his stare. We looked at each other for a couple seconds, or hours I don''t know. We stayed there until he finally broke the spell that binding us there and talked,


    "Let''s go, shall we?" He extended his other hand towards the bazaar ce. I snapped myself from this daydream half heartedly and nodded.


    He gently pulled me from my hand and started guiding me into the crowd of the bazaar. When we stepped into this gorgeous ce, I forgot everything. My mouth dropped open to a silent ''Oh'' and my heart fluttered in excitement. Dresses, jewelry, ssware and trinkets in every size and shape even fresh fruits and food. Different colors were striking from every corner, demanding my attention but I only had one set of eyes. My head started whipping from one side to another, I was trying to take in everything about this ce. People were talking, bargaining and shopping everywhere and creating a humm in unison, like a luby for a background music for this unique ce. I have loved bazaars since I was a little girl. When I was a kid, my mom used to take me to small local bazaars and garage sales. And everytime we went, I was feeling like I was lost in tales, every piece was telling a different story and offering a different world.


    I started touching the fabrics, admiring the handiwork of crafts, intently watching the little sswares and looking and looking around. I was like in a dream of soft fabrics and intricate art pieces. We walked around the stalls, I watched people while shopping, I smelled the fresh spices and dusty books disyed side to side on different stalls. I wasn''t sure how long it had been since we came here. While I was touching fabrics and trinkets and watching everything withrge eyes, my stare crashed with Anton''s and I remembered who I came here with. His dark eyes were glinting with joy. Shiny. Maybe even shinier from any trinket, any jewelry that this ce could hold. He tucked a stray strand of mine behind my ear. He pulled a locket from a stall disy and extended it to me.


    "Please try this," he said.


    We were passing by a little stall selling antiques. It was a silvery, heart-shaped locket with a thin chain. He was expecting me to take the locket from his extended hand and put it around my neck. Instead, I held my hair in a fist, lifted it off from my neck and turned my back to him to let him put the locket on me, himself. I wasn''t facing him, but I felt the momentary pause and hesitation. Then I felt the heat of his body getting closer and closer. Finally he was right behind me, in just a short breath length. He reached the front of my neck by passing his arms over my shoulders, he ced the locket gently on the ne of my chest. His fingertips brushed my skin and I slightly shivered by his touch. Then he slowly, even agonizingly pulled his hands tracing my neck with his fingers as recing the touch of his fingers with the chain of the locket. I was feeling his breaths on my ear, short and fast. Finally his fingertips reached my nape. He locked the chain at the back of my neck and his fingers lingered there onest time, gently making a small circle as if caressing me, then left.


    "Here," he said in a hoarse voice. "It suits you well."


    I looked down at my chest where the locket was lying soundly. It was a small heart with two little ck gems carved in. ''Like his eyes,'' I thought unintentionally. I touched the small heart, and I felt like the locket, and this moment belonged to me and I liked it.


    "It''s beautiful." I said.


    Anton looked directly in my eyes, not even paid a nce to the locket and said,


    "Yes, beautiful," he said. I felt blood rushing to my cheeks. I averted my gaze because I had no courage left in me to look into his eyes again. "How much?" he asked the vendor.


    "Well it is a quite unique piece, it is white gold adorned with two ck diamonds. It is handmade, was a special gift, from a man to his wife for their marriage and it stayed with the woman for sixty years. After that it passed to their daughter and it passed in the family for three generations. So it is a little bit pricey sir."


    "How much?" he asked again.


    "This is a very special part indeed, rumor has it, this ne brought joy and love to every rtionship it has been witnessed. Every woman who inherited this beautiful ne had married the love of their lives and they lived happily ever after."


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    "And?" he asked again, a little bit impatient this time. The poor vendor has no idea he was before one of the wealthiest men in the world and no number he would name could surprise him.


    "One thousand dors," he said. "But we can bargain," he added hastily. Even he didn''t believe the number he said.


    "No way!" I cried. I won''t let Anton pay a thousand dors for an old ne. I hastily grabbed the lock of the chain and tried to rip it off from my neck. Anton''srge hand snapped like a thunder, on my hands trying to take it off. He held my hands at the back of my neck and immobilized me.


    "Okay! He said, "We are buying."


    "No Antonio, it is too expensive!" I cried. He turned to me with a surprised expression on his face, instantly morphed into joy and he gave the biggest smile I had seen on his face so far. Even both of his dimples appeared.


    "No Alice, it is not, and we are buying." He also called me by my first name like I did. And the way he sounded it instantly sent shivers to my spine. I liked it, more than I wanted to admit.


    He passed his credit card without even breaking the gaze he was keeping me hostage. The mischievous, amused gaze. The vendor took the credit card in no time and made the purchase. "But, b-but..." I stuttered, it was too much. How could I ept a gift this expensive from my boss?


    "Come." he said, putting an end to all discussion without even starting it. He grabbed my hand and guided me to a food cart. This was a small cart offering different kinds of sliced fruits, all of exotic and some of them I had never seen in my life. There were small stools lined in front of the counter of the cart, and sliced fruits were on disy. He guided me to sit on one of those and he sat next to me.


    There were a variety of exotic fruits on disy; apple bananas, breadfruit, coconuts, noni, papaya, pineapple. He served me some fruits himself that he thinks that I would like. While serving those, he also mentioned about the local fruits, especially mountain apples;


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    "... their blossoms are a tone of a fiery magenta, and when their brush-like petals drop, they cover the ground in a spray of color, very spectacr, I hope I can show you one day. When ripe, the fruits are ruby red, like this one. Try," He extended a fruit to me which looks like a red pear to me. The white flesh was mild in vor, very juicy, and was smelling like roses.


    "Hmm," I hummed in pleasure. His eyes twinkled with content. I looked at the scene right beside me again.


    He was so huge, it wasical to see him sitting on a small stool. And even on a stool in a bazaar ce and in casual outfits, he was still intimidating like a demi-god and still perfectly stiff under these circumstances. I smiled as I looked at him. "What?" he asked with a crooked smile in return.


    "Nothing,¡± I said. "It is just funny to see you like... that." I said. I gestured to all of him, it was the only word I could summon for such a view.


    "Don''t say to me you agree with Matt," he said. It was the first time he mentioned Matt casually around me.


    "Agree on what?" I asked, as I reached a bottle of water from the counter and brought it to my lips.


    "That I am sitting like a stick shoved in my ass," he said. Suddenly, I burst out the water I took into my mouth onto Anton mostly from my nose. My coughs mixed with myughter about thisment. He startedughing with me as he was passing some napkins to me from the counter. Hisughter was unbelievable. Like it was the first beam of light at dawn. Like you need to stay up all night to see but it''s definitely worth waiting.


    Hisughter made mine continue, Iughed andughed until tears started welling in my eyes. Heughed with me, not forced but easyughs. Like the ones you can have with your family or maybe with your best friends. Familiar,fortable and warm.Content is property ? N?velDrama.Org.


    Finally ourughter ceased to a stare. He kept my gaze hostage again in his beautiful ck diamond eyes. I wasn''t able to break it. I wasn''t that strong. So I drowned in that gaze. I let it take me wherever it wants to. I felt he was drawing closer to me. I felt I was drawing closer to him too. My eyes drop down to his lips. The exotic taste of mountain apples were still on my tongue. I wondered what he would taste like. Taste like an exotic fruit? Or a very local trouble? But I was about to jump in that trouble head first and feeling no resistance in me to tether me to reality.


    "It''s nice to see you''re finally getting along," a familiar mocking voice cracked all of my surreal dreams and the tether I was expecting to find mmed me on the face. It was Matt standing tall in front of us, hands in pockets, head tilted to a side predatorily and a look in his eyes, the first time I saw. It was the look I saw in Anton''s eyes a thousand times so far. Murderous...

 Surprise

    Alice''s POV


    We were out of the bazaar ce right now and he was questioning me. Me!


    "He was going to kiss you if I didn''t arrive on time for god''s sake. Didn''t yesterday mean anything to you?" he asked.


    Look at the audacity! He has abandoned me twice after we had intimate moments, and now he is standing before me and questioning my devotion to this rtionship? If there is one.


    "I guess I need to ask you the same question. You didn''t call me or text me after yesterday. Do you regret what we did yesterday?" I asked.


    He looked at me in shock like I suddenly grew a second head. I guess he wasn''t expecting the sweet little assistant to talk him back. He was thinking that he coulde to me anytime he likes and pull himself away, and I would wait for him no matter what. Because I was an inexperienced and foolish girl. But he was wrong about something. I was inexperienced but not a fool.


    He paced the area in front of me up and down and dragged his hand through his hair. Like he was searching for an answer to my question. Then turned and faced me one more time.


    "Look Alice. I am not the type of man that has romantic rtionships. I generally fuck and leave. But the thing I am feeling for you is different and new to me. And it scares me. I am fighting with my urges and my habits when ites to you." he said looking earnest. He extended a hand and cupped my face with his huge palm then caressed my cheek with his thumb.


    I looked into his eyes and felt like he was telling the truth. Even though he didn''t know it was true. His green eyes were full of emotions. And I really saw the jealousy back there when he saw us with Antonio. Maybe he was lost when ites to feelings. But what about me? He was right about one thing. I was about to kiss Antonio if he hadn''t arrived on time. What was I thinking?


    I pulled myself out of his touch. I was understanding him but this didn''t mean I forgave him.


    "What you did back there was rude and uneptable. I am not your property and I can be anywhere I like with anyone I choose. You are demanding so much for a man who has not deciphered his own feelings, yet. So you want me to stay in a safe ce until you decide to pick me or not. Well, I am not that girl."


    "I know, I know... I am sorry okay? I didn''t want to act like that. It was all impulsive."


    "I gave you enough opportunity to decide if you like me or not. I guess you need to think about it now from a distance."


    "What do you mean?" his green eyes shed with shock and question.


    "I mean I need to stay away from you a little bit, until you decide the nature of our ''friendship''." I emphasized the word ''friendship''.


    He shook his head in disbelief.


    "No Alice, this is not necessary. Please don''t keep yourself away from me."


    "Yes it is necessary. For me. I like you Matt, maybe a little bit more than that. But I also like myself and I cannot let anyone y with my head and my career over for a fling."


    "I am not ying with you Alice." He came closer and cupped my face with both of his hands now. Forced me to look into his eyes. The eyes like green forests.


    "I am honest with you. Yes I have been scared, and I was struggling. But I don''t want you to pull away from me. I cannot bear this Alice. I need you."All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    He was looking expectantly into my eyes. He was expecting for me to ept whatever he gives me and wait for him how long he needs to. Maybe eternity.


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    "I am sorry Matt. I cannot do that." I said and drew myself out of his touch one more time. He tried to hold me again but I shook him off. I saw a taxi driving nearer to us from the head of the road.


    I walked near to the road and gestured to the taxi to stop. Matt came after me and held my wrist.


    "Come on Alice, at least let me drive you back to the hotel."


    "No thank you. I need space now." I said, shaking his hold once more. I opened the door of the taxi and threw myself to the rear seat.


    "Grand Sanders Hotel please," I said to the driver. Matt was still standing next to the taxi and glowering at me through the window. I ignored his stare. Finally, the taxi drove off and left behind Matt and all the drama. I looked back and saw Matt was kicking a waste basket standing next to the sidewalk.


    I looked out of the window and thought about the day. What a day it was. Even though I knew I did the right thing, something in my chest was squeezing me and aching. I like Matt. Maybe a little bit more than that. But I cannot deny how he treated me after the slightest closeness we shared. It was obvious he had somemitment issues. But I didn''t have any real rtionship before and I wasn''t willing to dive into something which was clear would break my heart. Was I selfish? Maybe.


    I could not deny that this reflex of self preservation has caused me to be single and virgin so far. But it was safer than to be in a rtionship causing me to spend all of me but gain nothing in return. ''I did the right thing,'' Ifort myself. Did I?


    Taxi drew next to the entrance of the hotel. I paid and got out of it. I went back to our suite and headed directly to my room. Peeled off all of my clothes andid down on the bed with my undergarments.


    I was not sure how long passed while I was watching the ceiling and fighting with my thoughts. I like Matt but I hated the way he acted. And Antonio? I have no idea what I was feeling. Finally I decided to get up, pull something on me and take a ss of water.


    I went to the kitchen area of the suite. As soon as I entered the kitchen, I was startled with the person I saw standing in front of me. This was a woman. Her back was turned to me so I didn''t see her face at first. She was wearing a white shirt only. Even though the shirt was lookingrger for her, apparently it belonged to a man, it was barely covering her ass. She had long beautiful legs and a quite charming figure. Blonde hair, shoulder length. I felt like I knew her. She was getting a cup of water, and turned when sensed me behind her. She was Ronda Meyers.


    "Oh hi!" she shrieked when saw me.


    "Hi," I said shyly as I tried to look at her eyes rather than her body to not make her feel ufortable.


    "I wasn''t expecting to see you here," she said. Well I should be the one who was not expecting her but didn''t say this.


    "I am sharing this suite with Mr. Alonzo" I said instead. She slightly squeezed her eyes as if bothered from this. Of course she was bothered by my presence. She came to see her boyfriend. They must be dating. I knew I shouldn''t be surprised after seeing them at the office, but I never saw them publicly dating before and I thought it was not anything exclusive. So seeing her here was thest thing I was expecting. Maybe it was thest thing I was expecting after our moment with Antonio in the bazaar. Nonsense! Nothing happened. Just some fun time and holding hands. Why on earth, he held my hand? Why on earth, I liked that?


    "I see..." she said as pulling me back from my thoughts.


    "Anton was not in here, so I guessed maybe I could surprise him." She said as pulling the hems of the shirt to hide more of her body, uselessly.


    I just nodded.


    "Well we are not letting anyone know about our rtionship, so I would be happy if you can keep this to yourself. I guess it is your duty also, as the assistant of Anton."


    Rtionship... There it was, the word. The real reason why I didn''t see them together outside of the office after that day was this. But the word she used was rtionship. So they were dating.


    "Of course -..." my sentence was cut by the ding of the elevator and both of us turned to see who wasing. The elevator doors opened and the man behind the doors was seemed more surprised than us, "Ronda?" It was Antonio.

 Punch

    Matt''s POV "Ronda?"


    I was shocked when I saw Ronda standing in the kitchen next to Alice. Fuck! I forgot that I called and invited her here. When Alice thought I was Matt that night, I was furious and thought it was a good idea to fetch Ronda to distract me. She said she was busy, but would try to make an opening for this. So she did. But I wasn''t feeling the same way now. Not after we had a moment in the bazaar with Alice. Not after she lingered when Matt tried to pull her away from me. Well done Antonio, you managed to upset the applecart.


    I directly looked at Alice rather than Ronda. Was she upset? Was she annoyed? But when I looked at Alice''s face I found something more dangerous. Indifference. Her normally shining eyes were like zed. Frozen and unfeeling. She turned to me and looked at me just with enough interest as an assistant to a boss. Then she turned back to Ronda,


    "I am sorry to interrupt you Ms. Meyers. I was about to leave." she nodded for saluting her once more then turned to me.


    "I guess you don''t have any other task for me today Mr. Alonzo?"


    I looked at her face and couldn''t move my mouth. Ronda talked on behalf of me.


    "Yes sweety, you are dismissed. Go and spend your afternoon somewhere else." she said with enough venom to crawl even my skin. I gritted my teeth and glowered at Ronda. Who did she think she was! Alice was my assistant and she would leave when I say so. I expected Alice to look at me and search for confirmation but she didn''t. She just turned and walked to the elevator that I was still standing in front of. I grabbed her wrist while she was passing me by. She stopped and turned to me. Her face puzzled.


    I looked at her eyes. Big, brown and now blocked eyes to any emotion. She silently waited for me to talk. I felt Ronda''s eyes drilling holes at my back but I didn''t care.All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    "You don''t have to go Ms. Wondend. This is also your suite." I said.


    She shook her head slightly,


    "I don''t want to stay while you..." she said and stopped in the middle of the sentence. I understood what she implied. While I have sex with Ronda.


    "... While you have a meeting." Shepleted her sentence politely.


    "If you don''t have any objection, I would rather go downstairs sir."


    "Ihmm, hmm!" Ronda cleared her throat as if reminding she was standing there. Like I was fucking care.


    "Let her enjoy the facilities a little, Anton. I guess she has never been to a ce like this. She can return to her room at night."


    Alice pulled her wrist from my grasp and nodded to salute me solemnly. She was leaving. She went to the elevator without any other word and I watched her all the damn time until the doors of the elevator closed and hid her from my eyes. Then I turned to Ronda, and glowered at her.


    "What the hell do you think you are doing?" I asked. A shock passed through her face.


    "You called me, remember?"


    "I called you toe here and spend time with me. Not to stand in the middle of my suite half naked and belittle my assistant!" I thundered. "Belittle your assistant? Since when do you care about the feelings of your staff?"


    "Since when you started insulting people?" I answered. She sighed and looked at her feet, then raised her head.


    "Okay, it was not the best of me, but I wanted her to leave as soon as possible to be alone with you." She said then starteding at me slowly.


    She stopped in front of me then slowly dragged a finger from neck to my stomach tracing my muscles. Normally this little gesture was enough to unleash my beast and devour her in a jiffy. But not now. I was not in the mood. My mind left with Alice in that elevator and all my libido with it. She saw indifference in my gaze.


    "What''s the problem?" she asked.


    "I didn''t like the way you acted, Ronda. I am not exclusive with you and we have a strict rule not to let anyone know what we are doing, right?"


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    She looked in my eyes unbelievingly.


    "Again, you called me!" she said a little yelling this time.


    "I called you to have a good time together, yes, but didn''t call you to expose our rtion to everyone."


    "It was your god damned assistant!" she yelled again, a muscle in my jaw ticked when she mentioned from her like that. "I am sure as hell, you have made her sign a disclosure before she starts. I don''t understand why you are so upset about it. I am sure she will keep her mouth shut."


    I also knew that it wasn''t a big deal. Of course I made her sign a disclosure, involving keeping my personal life a secret too. But right now, this topic was keeping Ronda throwing herself onto me and I really didn''t want to go down that road. "Still, you came to my suite, passed all those receptionists and staff of the hotel. Don''t you know Sanders has ears all around. Why didn''t you book a room with your fake name as we always do and let me know that you came? You appeared half naked in my suite, what if the person who saw you was not my assistant but a hotel maid?"


    She paused. Considering what I said. And looked a little bit disturbed also. So, I hit the right string.


    "I-I am sorry" she stuttered. "I didn''t think that way. Since you called me to Sanders'' hotel, I thought you were willing to take the risk. And I wanted to surprise you. I should have been more careful."


    She dropped her gaze to her feet and looked really sorry. I felt like I didn''t need to push this topic more. I extended my hand and caressed her face.


    She raised her eyes expectantly. Fuck me, I was really a bad guy for what I was about to say. But I didn''t have the slightest interest in her now. I couldn''t even bring myself to kiss her.


    "Now, go change and leave my suite. Book yourself a room as we always do. I will see you at dinner." I said. Her eyes widened in disbelief and disappointment. I knew I was acting like a jerk. I made here all the way from New York to Hawaii. And now I was treating her like she was a garbage bag. But I couldn''t stop myself anymore to go after Alice andfort her.


    I need to go right away, exin to her what this was, and make things right again between us. Not that I found a reasonable excuse for this. It was all self exploratory. But I had to try. I had to make her believe I don''t care about Ronda. I turned my back instantly to Ronda and left the suite right away. I deliberately forced myself not to look at her again. Not to see what kind of damage I caused for her. When elevator doors closed I sighed in relief. I avoided her right now and I would think about her at night. Now I had to find Alice. Where could she be going? Beach? I didn''t think so. She was not wearing beach clothes, I guess she wouldn''t go to the beach or pool. So where else could she go? Fucking everywhere! This ce was huge.


    I called my bodyguard. Maybe he saw her. The head of my guards, Giani, was wise enough to understand what is important for me. Or who in this case. I wouldn''t be surprised if he was keeping an eye on her even though I didn''t say so. He picked up the call right before the elevator stopped.


    "Giani..."


    "Yes boss?"


    "Have you seen Ms. Wondend?"


    "She is in the gardens, sir."


    "Have you been tracking her?" I asked. Couldn''t keep to myself.


    "Shouldn''t I, sir?"


    "Do as you know best Giani."


    "Thank you boss." We hung up. That was why I assigned Giani as the head of my guards. He was always one step ahead.


    I changed my direction to the gardens. Which was really spectacr. Why shouldn''t I think that? Alice was fond of the flowers. I remembered the way she was watching the garden of La vie, when I took her to the lunch. Of course she was in the garden.


    I entered the garden area. This was a huge exotic garden, nearly a piece of heaven. She must be thrilled to be here. I hoped it eased a little bit of her disapointment after the encounter with Ronda.


    I went to the heart of the garden and there she was, standing in front of an ivy wall. Her arms crossed, her brows furrowed. A tall man standing in front of her, his back turned to me. Something was not right. Who was he, why was she looking furious? Before I analyzed the scene more, the man standing there made a move at her, squeezing her between him and the wall. He was trying to kiss her. And she pushed him back with all of her might but she was delicate as a leaf. Before I knew what I was doing, I leapt in there, pulled the man from his shoulder and buried my fist onto his cheek.


    Last thing I saw was the hideous smile of someone I knew very well. Someone, who enjoyed this beating because he knows what this means.


    I punched Daryl Sanders in the face...

 Crashing Lips

    Alice''s POV


    Why did it have to be like that all the time? Everytime I thought my life turned into a better way, it always ended up crashing me down harder. Yesterday, I was above the clouds after that excellent dinner with Matt and then that breathtaking kiss we shared. This morning, he didn''t deign to call me then showed up at the least expected moment and caused a scene.


    Still I could cope up with today since the time I spent with Antonio in the bazaar was fun and even though we had an awkward moment, I enjoyed it. But then Ronda had to show up. And had to make me know my ce. Not that I was not aware of. I was a mere assistant. And she was right that I have never been to a ce like this before. But being reminded that I will never be in the league of these people was hurtful and necessary in a way. I should have pulled myself together. I should have done it before Ronda made me. But not anymore. I wouldn''t let anyone mess with my head again. I could pull up my walls again just like I did back in college.


    I decided to remove all drama from my life. Matt and Anton. They were above my line and I needed to keep my distance, that would solve all the problems for me. Being just an assistant is easy and safe.


    With all those thoughts in my head, I roamed around without knowing where I went. I didn''t try to go to the beach or pool, since I was still wearing my dress, so I changed my route to a ce that I have never gone before while I was staying here. The botanical gardens. I saw it on the map of the hotel when I first came here, but never had a chance to go there. So, this was the time to go.


    I followed the narrow pathway leading the gardens and stepped in the most beautiful ce I have ever seen. This was a piece of heaven dropped from the skies to earth. Just because to remind people heaven exists. The narrow pathway was circled with wisteria vines smelling unearthly. Inviting all people into the depths of the garden who dared to set foot this pathway. Drooping willows wereying down their branches to artificialkes touching the mirror surfaces of the water delicately. All colors of the rainbow were spread on flower gardens like the rainbow itself exploded on it. The birds were chirping on the branches of golden shower trees, and long ash trees were shadowing them with their huge presence. Everything about this ce was breezy and breathy. It was making me feel like I had broken my cage atst and was floating on the clouds like a free bird. I unconsciously went into the center of the park. There was a circle in the center paved with stones and three short decorational walls facing each other to create that circling feeling stronger. British ivy was clinging on the walls and was making it look like even walls belonged to nature.


    I bent down in front of a wall, there was a small flowerbed in front of it, and I wanted to examine the flowers which I believe belonged to Hawaiian nature. Because I haven''t seen such beauties before. I was rubbing my fingers on a silky petal of a flower when I heard someone clearing his throat behind me.


    I turned back and looked up from the point I crouched. A man, tall and muscr, was standing there. First I thought it was Anton. But then I realized this man was blonde. His pale blue eyes were examining me with a weird interest from the point that he was standing.


    I stood up and faced him, but still I had to look up to be able to look into his eyes. He was so tall.


    "I see you are enjoying the nature of Hawaii Ms. Wondend."


    That was not a question. So I just politely smiled.


    "Hello Mr. Sanders, how can I help you?"


    "Hello, I was just checking if my guests are enjoying the facilities. So far, you are the only one admiring it I guess."


    "What do you mean?" I asked before I could stop myself.


    "Well, Matt Alonzo is drinking at the parlor, looking not so happy. Antonio Alonzo locked himself in his suite with his beautifulpanion Ronda Meyers. Though I cannot me him for it."


    So he was aware of Ronda. This somehow touched a string in my heart but I forced myself not to show it to him.


    "And you are the only one out here, making a good time out of it."


    "Well I guess I am also the only one who has never been to a ce like this. I believe they had enough opportunities to enjoy such picturesqueness before."


    "Maybe..." he said. Then took a step towards me. I took a step back to keep our distance. Then he took another step. I had no ce to go back so I had to stay where I was. Now I was tilting my chin higher to be able to look into his eyes. He extended his hand and took a strand of my hair and rubbed it between his thumb and index. I shook my head to cause him to drop it, but he didn''t.


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    "You know Ms. Wonderful... I always hated people who have too little appreciation for life when they have too many opportunities." He pulled the strand towards his lips, touching it lightly and smelled it closing his eyes. Then opened and directed his eyes to mine. His pale blue eyes were boring into mine, causing me pause.


    "But you are not like that. If you could have enough opportunity, I believe you would appreciate it beyond me and my kind of people never would understand. My kind; who was born into wealth."


    "I doubt that." I opposed. He came one more step towards me, now we were nearly chest to chest.


    "I cannot see which point you are trying to reach?" I snapped.


    "I am trying to say that I could give you all of that. I could make you a woman with money and power. And you didn''t have to work for it."


    I grimaced at those words. I understood what he was implying. And I had no interest in being a mistress of a rich man.


    "First, Mr. Sanders, please step back, you are in my personal space." I said.


    "Maybe I liked your personal space." he brought his face closer to me,


    "Second, I have no intention of being a mistress, so please leave and I will count as this conversation has never happened."


    "I don''t think so..." he said and in a blink, he came at me. Hisrge hand held my face and his lips crashed on me for a second before I knew what is happening,


    ''Bamm!''


    I heard the sickening sound of meat crashing with bones. I saw Anton standing before me. He grabbed my wrist and pulled me behind him protectively. Now he was standing between me and Darly Sanders who was lying on the floor. I looked at Daryl Sanders and to my surprise he was smiling as wiping a thin trail of blood from the corner of his mouth.


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    "I touched a nerve I guess? his smile grew wider.This is from N?velDrama.Org.


    "You touched what was not yours! If youy a finger on her again, I will make sure those fingers are broken one by one by my hands."


    "And who are you to her? Her boss? Her saver? Or... lover?" he said, smirking again. I didn''t have to be told that it was bad for Anton Alonzo to be addressed with his assistant. I have waited for him to deny it. And waited for him to tell Daryl that he was a delusional scumbag. But he didn''t.


    "I am the one who will hand you your ass next time." He turned back, pulled me harshly behind him and we left the gardens immediately. We went into one of the main buildings and turned to a corridor which was abandoned and silent. As soon as I made sure we were not followed, I pulled my hand from his grasp. He looked at me surprised.


    "Thank you Mr. Alonzo, I am okay now. But you didn''t have to defend me. I could take care of myself."


    "Was that defending yourself?" he glowered to me ferociously.


    "If you would have let me, I could." I said glowering him back.


    "Now this incident will cause nasty rumors for you. I don''t want you to be in such a condition because of me!" I said.


    "There won''t be any rumors, don''t worry. Daryl is a clever man to keep this to himself and not spend it on cheap rumors. And do not decide the conditions I should be in for me. I am aware enough and capable of deciding it for myself." he said in a harsh low tone. Nearly threatening me. I felt cold shivers run down on my spine. I fisted my hands and gritted my teeth.


    "Why on earth, you are doing this! Why are you caring!" I yelled at him. I had enough emotional confusion for a week. I was at my limit and I couldn''t keep it anymore.


    He just looked at me, his glower didn''t halt. Didn''t give away what he was thinking. And suddenly, he grabbed my hair harshly, pushed me to the wall and crashed his lips on mine.

 What Have I Done?

    Suddenly, he grabbed my hair harshly, pushed me to the wall and crashed his lips on mine.


    I couldn''t even understand what was happening before his mouth caught mine and his teeth bit my lower lip. I was paralyzed. His lips on mine were heavenly soft and tender, but nothing was tender about the kiss itself. He bit my upper lip next then forced his tongue into my mouth. I wasn''t doing anything but I wasn''t fighting with it too. I opened my mouth enough to let him deepen the kiss.


    He angled my head with the hand tangled in my hair. Slightly pulling to the direction he wanted me to. His tongue darted deeper into my throat. The mint and sweet taste of his salvia filled my mouth and my senses. His other handnded on the ne of my bare chest and pushed me harder against the wall and flushed his body on me. The hard edges of his torso and muscles perfectly fit with my soft curves. I felt my pebbling nipples grazed his chest. He must have felt it too, because he groaned in my mouth at the same time I yelped with the sensation of arousal on my nipples with friction. He broke the kiss just enough to let me take a small breath and barged his tongue into my mouth again. Like a starved man, if he stopped kissing me he would die. But that small breath was enough for me to clear my head just a bit to question my situation now. What was I doing? Yesterday I kissed Matt, today his brother? What would this make me? Technically they kissed me for both of the times, but I let them.


    Meanwhile Antonio stopped working on my lips and trailed down his kisses to my neck. He grazed his teeth on my neck first slowly, my reason wavered by the sharp ends of his teeth scraping my flesh. Then he bit it hard. I cried in pain and the pleasure explosion trailing afterwards. I didn''t know that being bitten could make me feel this good. Then he licked and sucked the ce he bit as if to ease the pain, and bit it again. As if he was marking me, leaving his trace on my flesh. He was like a predator on my neck, and I was a gazelle caught with his strong jaw. My neck was lying between his sharp teeth, and he was one minute away from snapping it. His scent of sweat mixture with sandalwood and the spice of his perfume filled my nostrils. My legs turned to jelly. My panties were drenched with my juices. If he wasn''t trusting his body against mine, I would have fallen to the ground long ago.


    "S-stop.." I whimpered. He didn''t. He continued licking and sucking on my neck. I didn''t know If I was thankful or resentful for him not to stop. The hand on my chest slid to my breast and cupped one of it wholly with his huge palm squeezing it. My skin was burning under his touch.


    "S-stopp, please..." I whimpered again. He pulled my hair harshly like I didn''t say anything and tilted my head to the other side and gave him a better ess to my neck. He licked my neck with a one long stroke starting from the connection point between my neck and shoulder, all the way up to the back of my ear. Then catched my earlobe with his teeth this time. His hot and wet touch on my earlobe drove me crazy. I was feeling his hard member poking my stomach. Threatening me to erase all of my reason and my will. But this must have stopped. I must have stopped it. Or I would wrap my legs around his waist and let him ride me into oblivion. Until nothing was left from my self consciousness. I gathered all the pieces left from my will and I called him onest time. More audible this time,


    "Antonio stop!"


    It was like a spell breaker, when I called his name. He halted on licking my ear. His grip on my hair and my breast still tight, but he stopped licking and sucking at least. I was just hearing his heavy breathing in my ear now. He was not moving but not willing to let me go still.


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    His hands slowly slid down, and he let me go reluctantly. He took onest breath on my neck, either to calm himself down or to pull my scent into him onest time, then he stepped back. He didn''t look me in the eyes, but didn''t leave the ce either. He was just standing there, shoulders hunched, arms dropped loose either side and eyes on the floor. Like a defeated man. I didn''t know what to think for a second. This gorgeous man, standing before me, clearly wanted me. But what was next? What did I mean to him? A toy? What did I mean to both of them?


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    They were ying with my head as they pleased. I was just a pawn in their game that they yed since childhood. Another trophy to collect. They were fighting over who would take it to his bedroom next. I was feeling tired and hurt. I was feeling lonelier than ever I felt in my life.


    "I am exhausted..." I said finally in a small voice now. "I am a simple girl, Mr. Alonzo. Simpler than you ever want to be involved with. And all these pull and push things are too much for me. Please stop messing with my head and leave me be." I said.


    An animalistic growl tore from his chest, I was startled with the sound. He looked furious. His dark eyes burned with an emotion I couldn''t read. Then he talked in a harsh, low voice sending shivers down my spine.


    "Am I the one pulling and pushing you?" he asked as raising a brow to his forehead. He was looking mad. I couldn''t tell if he was mad because he kissed me or because of the words I said. I didn''t reply to his question.


    "I wasn''t the one who made out with you and called someone else''s name. I wasn''t the one who acted like nothing happened the next day or made myself foolishly believe everything happened with someone else." I froze. Was he meaning I was dreaded the most?


    "W-what?" I stuttered.


    He huffed a breath in annoyance and turned on his heels.


    "Nothing Ms.Wonderful... Just keep away from dangerous guys next time. Including me." he said and left without a second nce.


    I looked behind him while he was pacing the corridor calmly like nothing happened and left me there like a bag of shit with all those feelings and words. My thighs locked, my pussy drenched, my mind fucked.


    Was he the one I kissed in the first ce then? No, no, no, this couldn''t be true. It was Matt. With all his dimples and gorgeous face. But Antonio had dimples too, rare to see but definitely there. I looked at him closely that night. But it was so dark, and Antonio was nearly identical with Matt except the colors of his eyes and hair. And in that darkness, maybe I couldn''t differentiate the colors of his features. But it must have been Matt. Or else I wouldn''t serve myself so willingly. Oh god! What have I done?

 Friends with Benefits

    Anton''s POV


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    I shouldn''t have tell her that she had made out with me that night and shouldn''t have kissed her again and shouldn''t have feel fucking miserable because I have stopped kissing her. What was wrong with me?


    I was still feeling her feathery soft lips between my teeth. The mesmerizing scent of her neck mixed with the maddening scent of her arousal. I breathed in her onest time and wanted to keep that breath in me forever. But the scent and the feel was fading with every damn step.


    But still I needed to get away from there immediately. I directed my route to my suite again unconsciously, while I was walking in thoughts and scrubbing my face with my palm in disbelief at what I have just done, again. My phone pinged in my pocket.


    I took it out and looked at the screen half numb, half expecting any distraction, from my still hard as steel cock. It was Ronda. Right, there was a Ronda I left abruptly in my suite. It was a text message consisting of two words; ''Room 708''. My eyes darkened, my cock twitched. Okay, I needed a distraction and I found a perfect one. Without a second thought I directly headed to her room.


    When I knocked on the door of room 708, a half naked Ronda opened the door. So I wasn''t the only one who needed this right here, right now. This was the one thing I really like about our rtionship with Ronda, no expectations, no attachment, just sex. I pushed the door open making her take a step back and shut it behind me. Without a word, I grabbed her blonde hair in a fist and dragged her to the bed at the back of the room. It wasn''t a room as big as mine, but it wasrge enough. So it was a long dragging before I reached the bed.


    I throw her to the bed. She gave a small yelp before hitting the soft mattresses. She smiled at me seductively. I grasped one ankle of her and pulled her to the edge of the bed. She spread her legs expectantly. Her blue eyes were looking intently and heated. But those were not the eyes I wanted to look at right now. I wanted a warm brown pair instead. Damn it. I held her one arm and flipped her as she would face the bed now. I pressed her head to the mattresses with one hand and unbuckled my pants with the other.


    "Oh! You are fast today." she giggled.


    "Shut up!" I hissed. I didn''t want her to speak. I didn''t want to hear her voice now. All I wanted to hear was a honey dipped shaking voice caressing my ear while I was biting her neck saying ''S-stop''.


    I freed my junk from my pants. It was a relief after forcing my zipper for thest half an hour. Ronda was only wearing a white g-string and ace bra. I yanked the g-string by pulling it up first. She gave another small yelp as the string wedged between her vagina first. Then without waiting any longer I thrusted in her with one hard stroke. She gave a loud cry. But I wanted to hear someone else''s cries instead. This made me more furious.


    I kept thrusting in and out hard. I pressed Ronda''s head to the mattresses more forcingly to muffle her voice. Ronda was a beautiful woman, no doubt. Long, creamy white legs, wless skin, and a beautiful face. But I all wanted a certain brte; petite and fragile. I thrusted more forcely. The headboard of the bed was banging on the wall loudly with every thrust of me. Ronda was getting nearer to the edge, her cries started getting louder, pussy started throbbing around my dick. But I wasn''t even close. I released her head, and held her hips with both of my hands instead. I pulled her towards me with every stroke to increase the effect of my thrusts. I hoped this may help me get closer toing. It surely helped Ronda, and she cried out my name and shuddered around me with her climax hitting her. I unfortunately wasn''t that lucky. I pulled out from her pussy, it was dripping wet and I needed more friction. I thrusted in her ass this time. My cock was slippery with all those juices and it went in without any major resistance but it was harder to push in. I bet it hurt as hell because Ronda''s breath hitched when I thrusted in first and she cried in pain; "Ahh! It hurts Anton!"


    I didn''t care. I needed my release and needed it now. I pulled her ass upper as pulling from her hips and thrust deeper inside her. She cried in pain again. I grabbed her hair with one of my hands again, and kept banging on her. The tears started trailing from her cheeks. Seeing her like that finally started pushing me to the edge. I pictured Alice instead. Would she cry like that if I thrusted in her pussy. I bet she was tight. Maybe tight as Ronda''s ass. I would ruin her dly. Would lick each and every tears she would spill as I was fucking her hard. Meanwhile Ronda had another climax. Fucking greedy.


    I pulled out from Ronda''s ass and flipped her to face my swollen dick. I squeezed her jaw with one hand to force her open her mouth. I barged my dick into her mouth thrusted it until the end of her throat. She gurgled with the sheer size of mine and gagged. She was sitting on the edge of the bed on four, her blue eyes still watery, her lipstick smeared. I didn''t want this. A million guys out there would kill to see such a scene. But not me. Right now I just wanted brown eyes and a small freckled face.


    "Close your eyes" I ordered her. She shut her eyes instantly. I wanted to fuck her small mouth not hers. But this was the closest I could get for now. I kept thrusting in her mouth, picturing Alice''s pink lips sping around my dick instead. Picturing she was the one I was drowning with my dick now, not Ronda. Like the times I was picturing her and palming my dick every time in my bathroom sessions. And these sessions started being frequent these days, more than I wanted to admit. Finally I managed toe in her mouth and slightly cursed as I was spilling my cum down her throat. I pulled my junk back and released her. She swallowed all of my cum while smiling at me. I didn''t smile back. It wasn''t as satisfactory for me as it was for her.


    I pulled up my pants again and buckled up. She was watching me puzzled.


    "We are leaving tonight at 8 pm. You can join us if you didn''te with your jet." I said while tucking my shirt into my pants.


    "Are we leaving already?" she asked.


    "Yes, our work here is done."


    "But... I thought we could spend the weekend here?" She was looking disappointed.


    "Why?" I asked.


    "I came here with a ten hour flight, I was expecting we could spend the weekend together at least?"


    Her burrow furrowed. She was angry. I was getting her, she was upset after spending 10 hours on the flight. But I asked her toe here on Tuesday. It was not my fault if it took this long for her toe here. And spending weekends together? It wasn''t our thing.


    "Come on Ronda, surely you didn''t expect us to make sunbathes and watch sunsets together as a couple? It''s not our deal, remember?"


    A hurt expression crossed from her face.


    "And why not?" she asked. I was speechless.


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    "We can change our deal." she said. "You invited me here, to Sanders'' hotel. You knew he would know I am here the moment I stepped in the hotel. So, unconsciously you also want others to know about us. Wasn''t it exhausting Anton? Keeping us as a secret. Maybe it is time to admit we are more than fuck buddies."


    I sighed in annoyance. Does every perfect thing have toe to an end? Our rtionship with Ronda was perfect. No emotions, just sex. But I guess this is not the case for her anymore. I pinched the bridge of my nose.


    "Look Ronda. There is no such thing as us." I said. "We had a perfect understanding of the nature of our rtionship. It was just sex, and nothing more. If it is not the case for you. Maybe we need to end this. Here and now. Before someone gets hurt."


    Sheughed sarcastically.


    "I guess this someone is me." Her eyes gleamed with unshed tears for a fraction of second then the impression got lost.


    "No, this is not necessary." she said. "I was just confused when you invited me here, but when I think of it, you are right. Being in terms of needs is the best way. You don''t have to cut the ties with me. I am okay staying as we are" she said. "I am happy to see that you came to your senses, Ronda. I am leaving now. Are youing with us tonight?"


    "No, I came with my own jet, and I guess I will stay over the weekend. Thank you for the offer."


    "Okay, see you then." I said and I turned and left the room. But just before I closed the door after me I swear I saw a hurt expression on her face.

 Family Reunion

    Alice''s POV


    After my encounter with both of the Alonzo''s, I had the worst flight back to New York. 10 hours of silent treatment in a personal jet... Maybe you could think that a flight in a super lux personal jet would be awesome. Well it was, to a certain point, but there was nothing pleasant to sit next to a b of ice, unresponsive Anton Alonzo, and trying to find ces to look at rather than murderous ck eyes.


    Finally when wended in New York, I was very close to kissing the ground. But silent torture left its ce to some other form of torture. Chasing after a long legged and pissed Anton Alonzo. After we stepped out of the ne Anton took the lead and I stumbled after him as fast as my stilettos let me. He went here and there in the airport and I half-runningly followed him everywhere.


    After we had managed to leave the airport finally, I was already exhausted from my sprint in the tail of him. When we ced ourselves on the back seats of a huge ck SUV, I was grateful that finally my buttocks found a ce to rest and my feet throbbing with pain had a break. He was sitting at the farthest end of the back seat as far as he could go, like I was infectious or something, and looking out of the window with a stone face. How far from the ride we had in Hawaii. When, our hands were holding each other. No, don''t go there Alice!


    The slight rocking of the SUV while driving us, the hum of the engine and tires while we rode and the perfect temperature inside the car was enough for me to roll in a restless sleep. I was already sleepless from the 10 hours flight at night, and even though the seats were fully expandable, we even had a couch, I couldn''t peacefully sleep while Anton''s annoyed presence was there.


    So before I knew it, I fell asleep at the back of the SUV. I didn''t know how long I slept or what I looked like. But when the car stopped, the sudden halt made me open my eyes slowly. I recognized that my head was resting on something hard, covered with a soft silk cloth and smelling like sandalwood mixed with spice.


    I slowly raised my head from its sturdy but surprisinglyfortable resting spot and I gasped when I recognized what it was. It was Anton''s shoulder. Somehow I managed to lean onto his shoulder during the sleepy ride and he didn''t pull it off. I saw a trail of salvia on his jacket when I looked down and I instantly buried myself in deep shame. I didn''t just sleep over his shoulder I also drooled on it. Stupid! Stupid Alice!!


    I finally managed to raise my head from my shame and looked out of the window, we were in front of my apartment. I wasn''t expecting that. I was expecting them to leave me in front of thepany building, and find my way back home by myself. While I was looking out of the window wondering why they brought me here, the guard sitting in the passenger seat at front came to my door and opened it for me. A sign for me to move. I turned my head to Mr. Alonzo, and bid him good night. He gave a grunt in return without paying a nce oto my side, I assumed it was a recement for goodbye and left.


    The guard opening my door also helped me with my luggage. He was a good looking man. Brown hair nearly matching the brown eyes, and a joyful smile. I have seen him before in the New York security crew. He carried my luggage to the third floor because my apartment had no elevator. He didn''tin once about my extremely heavy luggage. When we reached my door, he genuinely smiled again.


    "Thank you so much!" I shrieked. "I caused you a lot of trouble. The luggage was too heavy."


    "Not at all." he said,


    "Would you like to have a ss of water or something?" I looked at the beads of sweat formed on his forehead from the carrying.


    "No thank you I am okay." he said "This is Ean by the way."


    "This is Alice," I said. We shook hands.


    "I know," he smirked. "I thought it would be better to know each other, since we will see each other more around Mr. Alonzo."Exclusive ? material by N?(/v)elDrama.Org.


    "Yeah, I guess so," I said reluctantly.


    "See youter, Alice..." he said.


    "See youter Ean," I replied. He gave a wink, turned and walked to the stairs again. Meanwhile, I went into my apartment and locked it behind me.


    Then before changing my clothes or going into a well deserved shower, Iy down on my disturbed bed and slept.


    I didn''t know how long I slept there in my work clothes, I woke up with the ring of my cell phone.


    "Yeah?" I answered dizzly.


    "Alice?" It was Rachel.


    "Hi Riri"


    "Were you sleeping?" she asked.


    "Yeah"


    "Don''t tell me you forgot about our family weekend?" Oh god''s sake! How did I forget? Of Course I didn''t say I forgot.


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    "Of Course not! I am already dressed and got my bag ready. I was just taking a quick nap after our flight from Hawaii."


    "Oh god! I still cannot believe that you were in Hawaii. You should tell me everything!" she eximed with excitement.


    "I will. Let me hang up now or I will never make it on time there."


    "Okay. Don''t bete, mom expects you at the dinner and you know how she gets sour when her expectancy couldn''t be satisfied."


    "Rachel!" I added a warning big sister tone to my voice.


    "What? I am just pointing out the obvious." I couldn''t bring myself to discuss it now with her since I had a lot to do and I had to do those in 15 minutes.


    I hung up the phone and took the quickest shower of all time. Then pulledfy yoga pants and an oversized t-shirt on it. I missed being casual. I hurriedly stuffed some spare clothes, toothbrush and my purse in a backpack, and left the apartment without even opening my luggage.


    I was on the subway in twenty minutes and I had a long ride in front of me until I reached Jersey.


    It was three and half hourster when I finally made it home. My mom opened the door with a big smile on her face. The blonde curls of her head bounced when she hugged me into a tight embrace and announced my arrival to the rest of the household. She made me twirl around by myself by holding my one hand above my head.


    "Oh my baby, you look so thin, wasn''t thispany feeding you well on that trip?"


    "Mom, I am perfectly fine." Rachel and Bunny came to the entrance together from the second floor. I hugged both of them. I missed them a lot.


    Bunny started searching my back pack a minute after to find something she might like, and Rachel started talking about her eptance letters. We walked into the living room as a walking talking bundle and finally when I reached the living room I saw my dad. His warm brown eyes, the same set I inherited from him, shone brightly. His tall figure has started curling from the shoulders by the age but was still handsome. He stood up as he saw me and hugged me into a warm embrace. I guess, every child has a favorite parent, mine was my dad. He was always so devoted to us and loving towards us, I couldn''t even think of how it would be to have any other kind of dad. But mine was the perfect dad I could ever ask for from god.


    With the coziness of our house and the joy of being reunited, my heart blossomed with warmth and love to my family. The equation with two unknowns I found myself in, was not mattering that much anymore. I could do whatever it takes to provide and help for my family. Even if it was meant to bear the unbnced nature of Anton or inconclusive flirting attempts of Matt.


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    We ate our dinner in the same cacophony that we created with my sisters and my mom. But my dad was curiously silent and distant. I tried to include him in conversations but he skillfully dodged my attempts and kept his silence. After we had dinner and retired from the dining room to the living room again, I deliberately sat next to him.


    "Dad, is everything all right?"


    "Of course my sweet princes. Why have you asked?"


    "You look distracted. Like there is something bothering you?"


    "Not at all honey. I am so happy now that all of my family are together and my second daughter will start college soon. I am over the clouds." he said. But his eyes and expression were not matching with his words. Even so, I didn''t push the topic any further.


    The door rang at the same time our conversation was over. I jumped onto my feet, to answer the door. Dad came after me and held me in front of the main door.


    "You go back honey, I can answer it."


    "No worries dad, I am already here."


    "I told you to go back!" Suddenly he raised his voice.


    "Okay..." I said in confusion but returned and walked back towards the living room. But I halted at the edge of the living room door and eavesdropped on my dad. The door opened, I couldn''t see the faces behind the door but I heard two men talking in unison.


    "Good afternoon Mr. Wondend..."

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    "Good afternoon Mr. Wondend..." Two men greeted my dad in unison.


    "What are you doing here?" my dad answered in a pissed tone.


    "Ohe now Wondend, you weren''t that rude when you asked for help from us." one of the men replied.


    "Why are you here?"


    "Just for a kind reminder."


    "I still have time, okay?"


    "Sure, but Mr. Gusso hateste deliveries, and we have to make sure everyone who works with him knows it well. Tick tock Wondend."


    "I am perfectly aware of this. Now leave my doorstep and nevere back. I wille myself when the timees." dad said.


    "Don''t worry, next time we won''t visit for reminders. And if we visit, we won''t leave without a collection."


    "That won''t be necessary. I will make my payments in time."


    "Let''s hope that''s true... Good night Mr. Wondend." the mysterious man said again.


    "Good night." My dad replied curtly and banged the door closed to their faces.


    I went into the living room before he came after me. I sat in the same spot but couldn''t focus on the topics being discussed merrily by my sisters or mother in the living room. They didn''t have a clue what had been discussed at the door. What was that? What kind of payment my dad owed to these people. And how safe was he?


    I sat in silence and thought these things for the rest of the night while observing my dad''s quiet and uncharacteristically solemn expression. How did my sisters or mum not recognize this? He was acting weird all night. I bet he was acting weird before tonight too. But they are always so self indulgent, they never recognize what is happening around them.All text ? N?velD(r)a''ma.Org.


    I waited until all the household retired for bed, except my dad, who went out to the garden with a whiskey bottle. Weirrrdddd! My dad never drank more than a ss or two. Now carrying the bottle?


    I went after him. He was sitting under the oak tree he adores so much. We nted that tree together when we first moved to this house from a small apartment. I was so excited to finally have a garden to y in and he was more excited than me to finally provide a real house for his family. I was eight years old then, but I still remember how we dug a ce for this oak tree and nted it and how I helped him with my tiny hands. Rachel was a baby back then, and Bunny hadn''t been born yet.


    Now that tiny oak tree is a huge tree spread nearly half of the garden. My dad raised his head and started looking at the oak tree. When I reached his side, he didn''t show a hint of recognition but then talked in a small voice.


    "You know, this tree will always be my dearest. Because I nted this with you. And when I look back on my life, all my dearest memories are about or with you. You are a blessing for me Alice, you know that?" I sighed. He was always good to make me feel like I am important.


    "I know daddy. You are the same for me too."


    "No, I am not. I don''t deserve your love. And not deserve the love of the rest of my family..."


    "Why are you saying that daddy? You know we all love you so much and you are a devoted father that most of the children would die to have such a parent." He snorted.


    "If only you knew..." he said.


    "Then tell me daddy. Who were those guys? What were they asking from you?"


    He sighed and closed his eyes for a second. Then started talking before opening his eyes.


    "I made a mistake, Alice."


    "Tell me dad..."


    "Inded money from a loan shark. And it turned out he was connected with a local mafia and he transferred my debt to him. Now technically I am in debt with the mafia."


    I kept my silence for a second and tried not to give a major reaction. If I freaked out, it would make him more miserable about it. But I had to ask for more details so I talked calmly. "And why did you need money?"


    "Because of the Rachels college payment."


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    "But you said you were taking a loan from a bank?"


    "I lied." he sighed again.


    "Apparently, my finances were not good enough to make me trustable in banks'' evaluations. So, I went to that loan shark. He offered a reasonable rate and since you offered help in payment I thought there won''t be any problem. I couldn''t be more wrong."


    I was fighting with all my urges not to yell or cry. He could have asked me to take the loan. Could have consulted me before doing this. But it was not the time for what ifs, it was time for solutions. So I kept my calm with a huge internal war and talked again,


    "And why are they bothering you, have you skipped any payment?"


    "No. But they are dangerous guys. And they are not willing to respect the terms that I have agreed with the loan shark. I won''t be surprised if one day theye to my house and demand all the payment at once. These are dangerous guys and I am scared if they can harm my family." His voice wobbled at the end of the sentence and he burst into tears.


    I hugged him and rubbed his back. He cried silently onto my shoulder. My father, my strong never wavering father, my anchor to the earth and my tether of safety was crumbling into pieces. But this was not only about me. This was about our entire family. We should get rid of these guys and make this happen as soon as possible.


    when his sobs lessened and he lifted his head from my shoulder I asked


    "How much do you owe them dad?"


    "300K"


    I felt rising heat from my neck to my face. That was too much.


    "And what are the payment conditions?"


    "6K per month for four years."


    "Okay daddy. Don''t panic." Actually I was talking to myself because I was panicking.


    "We will pay it as we agreed, I will send you 4K per month and you will add 2K and pay every month. Don''t bete or don''t skip any payment okay? Meanwhile I will search for a way to take ourselves out of this deal." "Okay." he said solemnly.


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    "I am sorry Alice, I caused you a lot of trouble. A father should protect his children, not the other way around."


    "Don''t worry daddy. We will get out of this together."


    "Thank you honey." He hugged me again and I hugged him back. We stayed there a little while more under the oak tree and let this reality sink in. We were in a huge debt with the mafia now and that was our new reality.


    ***


    Next day, when I was turning back to New York, I was in a huge debt and I recognized that I needed my work more than I needed so far. So if it meant to lick Mr. Alonzo''s ass or bear all the nonsense he threw on my face, I would dly ept it. My family''s prosperity was at stake and I would do whatever I needed to to protect them.


    As if he heard what I was thinking, my cell phone rang.


    "An emergency has urred, you need to join me for a ck tie event this evening." Mr. Alonzo''s cold voice filled my ear and sent shivers down on my spine like an ice shower.


    "But sir..."


    "What? Are you against working on Sundays Ms. Wonderful? If so, I can find another assistant who is willing to work under these circumstances."


    Fuck my life. The day I became needy for this job, my boss started threatening me with it.


    "No, I was just gonna say that I am on my way from Jersey to New York, and there won''t be enough time left for me to find a suitable dress for your event. So maybe, you could consider to find someone-"


    He shut me up abruptly in the middle of the sentence.


    "No I need you! I will send you a dress."


    "But you don''t even know my size..."


    "Biiiiiiiiiiiip..."


    He hung up on my face. Okay he was acting perfectly himself today. No need to worry. But a ck tie event? That was something I should be worried about.

 Smile Alice

    10 minutes after I arrived at my house, the doorbell rang. When I opened the door I saw a huge man with a grin on his face. This was Ean.


    "Hello Alice,"


    "Hello Ean."


    "A busy weekend ha? I brought your dress"


    "Yeah..." I smiled ufortably. I extended my hands and he gentlyid the dress on my forearms. Like it was something special and delicate. Then he ced a paper bag next to the door.


    "Thank you." I said. "Would you like toe in?"


    "No thank you, I need to return to my job now. Have a nice evening Alice."


    "You too."


    He winked, as his signature move, and turned back to the stairs. I closed the door after him.


    Then all my focus was drawn into the dress thaty on my arms. I hastily spread it on the bed and opened the zipper of the bag. Oh-my-god! Emerald silk poured out from the bag and spread onto the bed like a green pool of water. I touched the soft fabric and all my body buzzed with pleasure. I hooked my fingers to the shoulders of the dress and held it out at arm''s length to see all of it.


    It was the most beautiful dress I have ever seen. A short cut dress with long sleeves and beautiful swarovski beads adorned on the skirt shows it like a swirling pool of light. I instantly peeled off my clothes and put that on.


    It fitted perfectly. It was like a special cut for me. How Mr. Alonzo knew my size? I swirled around myself and watched the dangling lights on the beads of the skirt. Then I dared to look at the mirror. No way! An elegant young woman looking back at me in a perfect dress. The dress''s short skirt was showing enough legs to show me like I have long legs but was stopping at a perfect spot not letting me show more than enough of my thighs. The fabric of the dress was hugging me from all the right spots to show all of my good features, like my small waist andrge hips. The envelope cut of the neck of the dress was revealing enough cleavage to trigger curiosity but nothing more. The long and loose sleeves were falling from my shoulders delicately, hiding my arms from the view. The dress was sexy and modest at the same time. A perfect bnce.


    Then my attention switched the paper bag that Ean left at the doorstep. I took that and poured the contents of it onto the bed.


    A silver clutch also adorned with swarovski beads. A matching stiletto, as shiny and ssy as the clutch. And arge, velvet box. What was it? I slowly opened the velvet box and my breath left my lungs instantly. It was a jewelry box. And in the center of the box, a diamond ne was lying between two diamond earrings. A simple, one row diamonds with simple one rock earrings. I knew these were real diamonds because the certificate of the pieces was also in the box. Even though I knew I would deliver back all of this stuff after the event I hesitated. Was it wise to carry such expensive jewelry on me? What if I lost them, or damaged them? I was already in debt till my nose thanks to my father, and I wasn''t really eager to have more on my name.


    But I thought Mr. Alonzo wouldn''t want to be seen with less than this. If he was taking me with him, I was sure as hell he wanted me to look presentable enough to walk with him. I was also his essory so I should have met his standards. That''s why he sent such expensive clothes and jewelry. To make me adequate for hispany. This thought surprisingly hurt me.


    What I was expecting? He invited me out of his good heart? Or he wanted to be seen with me? No, probably he needed someone who could take notes while he was discussing business with other attendees. And even though I was technically a recording machine there, he wanted me to be presentable like everything he owns.


    With the knowledge that I was just a possession he owned during the event, I started preparing myself less enthusiastically but adequate for his standards. I made a smokey eye make-up with a hint of green, which was making me look bolder and more mysterious than I was. And selected crimson red lipstick to pop in this modesty. I let my hair down and curled them slightly inrge dark waves falling from my shoulders to my back.


    I didn''t need to do anything else. The dress and the essories were doing the job so well, nearly a stic mannequin would look good in these clothes.Content is property ? N?velDrama.Org.


    Then my phone rang. It was Mr. Alonzo.


    "Yes sir?"


    "I am outside of your building."


    "I aming down."


    He hung up on me again of course. I paid onest look in the mirror and even though it was fake, I liked what I saw.


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    I went down stairs carefully, not to damage the dress or lose the jewelry. When I reached the road I saw a ck limo was waiting there, with the bodyguard waiting next to the back door to open it for me.


    When I approached, he gently saluted me with a head bow and opened the door for me. He held my hand and helped me climb in the car. When I turned back to salute Mr. Alonzo, I saw he was piercingly looking out of the car to the guard. Like he was a second away from killing him. What did he do wrong? But I knew better that there is nothing you should do to make Mr. Alonzo wants to kill you. He would find a reason anyway. Then finally, his gaze switched on mine. His murderous look slightly morphed into something more dangerous. His eyelids drooped a little, his pupils gotrger and nearly all of his iris became ck pits. His eyes darted between my eyes then to my lips and lingered there for a second. Then he took in all of me from head to toe, and gulped. I saw therge bob of his throat go up and down. Then he grunted,


    "You look... fine," he said. Well if you consider it came from Mr. Alonzo I guess it was apliment. I examined him back. He was wearing a ck tuxedo which made him look like jumped out of an Italian mafia movie. His dark hair slicked back perfectly, and he was looking like a perfection monument. God! He was unfortunately handsome. Unfortunate, because he had no heart and it was a waste to see this handsomeness was going waste with his empty rib cage. But I guess it was thew of nature that good looks rarelye with a good heart.


    "You look fine too, sir." I returned the feeble attempt of ttery with the same amount of enthusiasm. I recognized the car started going.


    "Where are we going?"


    "A charity ball for dolphins in the Pacific."


    "Whaat?" I snorted.


    He looked at me unphased and I understood he was waiting an exnation for why it was funny.


    "I wasn''t considering you a type of a charity man." I said.


    "I am not. But this is business. A businessman should be seen enough around the society and the names attending this ball are quite impressive. I wouldn''t mind saving a dolphin or two while securing my business ties." "Okay, that makes more sense." I said. And I was also surprised when he exined this.


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    "What should I be doing tonight?"


    "Nothing, enjoy the event," he said.


    "Nothing?" I asked again.


    "Are you sure, you don''t want me to take notes or something?"


    "I am capable of remembering conversations, Ms. Wonderful."


    "Yeah, but then, why are you needing me?"


    "I needed apany, the invitation requires a plus one. And someone who is not sticking afterwards. So you are convenient."


    "Oh! Okay." I nodded. So I am a convenience. How nice of him. I wasn''t thinking he was even trying to insult me. It was natural for him. Like breathing. But somehow he was managing to insult me in every sentence he put together. If the object is Alice, then the insult wasing itself. I didn''t mind. I was just a plus one and I didn''t need to work, just enjoy a fancy party. That was something a convenience could do.


    The car parked out of arge building that I saw for the first time in my life. The stone building was spot-lighted with dozens of projectors. A red carpet wasid from the point that our limo stopped till the entrance of therge building. At the two sides of the carpet, paparazzis were crushing each other to get a better view of the guests. When we arrived they were busy taking shots of the couple walking from the red carpet to the building. With the stopping of the car, all of their attention turned to us. I was panicked. I turned back to look at Mr. Alonzo, but I saw he had already got out of the car. My door has been opened by the guard. He offered his hand again to help me out, but before I could ce my hand in his hand, a strong hand snatched my hand and when I looked up, I saw Mr. Alonzo. He paid another murderous look to the guard who was pale as a yellow g right now, then helped me out of the car.


    Now we were standing next to each other, his hand skipped down to the small of my back, and we were giving a pose to the paparazzi.


    He leaned down to my ear and whispered.


    "Smile Alice, or they would think that I have forced you here."

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    Anton''s POV


    "Smile Alice, or they would think that I have forced you here."


    I whispered in Alice''s ear. She was looking like one heartbeat away from having a panic attack. I couldn''t me her. Probably she never joined a ck tie event before, nheless the most important event of the all year for business men in New York. This private charity night. The dolphins were just a mere excuse to gather up and discuss business for men and entertain their wives along the way by ''saving dolphins''.


    I leaned down to Alice and trusted my chest to her now slightly shaking shoulder. I wanted to give her some support to keep her standing in front of the press army. But, I have started to highly recognize all the points where our bodies touch each other. My hand on the small of her back started burning like I had pressed it on the hot iron. This damn woman.


    I hate the way she affects me this much. This has never happened to me before. But whenever I was with her, all my senses were awake. The smell of her hair, the touch of her hand, the way her body sways when she was walking, all of them were the bane of my existence. When I first saw her in front of the car, my breath left my lungs for a second. Then that idiot bodyguard held her hand, like it was necessary. I knew from the look in his eyes he desired her. Desired her like every normal man would do. She was looking gorgeous in this fucking dress. I regretted buying her this the moment I saw her. She was beautiful already, and sharing this opinion with Matt was annoying enough. And now, with my own hands I made it more clearer for every fucking man looking at her. But she was mine. And mine only.


    When the press had enough shots I gently pushed her from the small of her back where my hand was resting. We started walking slowly up from the red carpet. One of the paparazzis called after me,


    "Mr. Alonzo, who is this youngdy?"


    Normally I wouldn''t bother answering any paparazzi, but I wanted it to be known because otherwise, the magazines would explode tomorrow with the news of me dating. Which never happened in public before. "She is my assistant." I said curtly.


    "Don''t you think she is too gorgeous to be an assistant only?"


    I turned my head and my eyes found the man who was bbering pointless observations. Good, I know him; Mark Santiago. And he knew me too because when I looked at him, he went pale as a corpse. So he knew I marked him. One of the paparazzis will be losing his job tomorrow. Too bad.


    I nudged Alice slightly to make her keep walking. Finally another car stopped behind us and the focus of the paparazzis changed. We started walking slowly up from the red carpet to the building. I took her tiny hand and put it on my forearm. Now we were walking arm to arm.


    "Maybe it wasn''t a good idea bringing me here, sir?" Alice asked with a small voice. Her brown doe eyes were slightlyrger with anxiety.


    "Don''t worry. It would be worse if I brought someone other than my assistant. They were waiting for years to capture a single shot of me with a woman. Which I never gave the chance to. And I am not willing to do it now."


    "But you just did." she said. Damn right. I just gave my first pose to the paparazzis with a woman. I wasn''t fool to think that they wouldn''t gossip about this anyway. But I had my own mechanisms preventing any news that I wouldn''t like to pop up. Mechanisms can make Mark Santiago unemployed tomorrow morning.


    "This doesn''t count. You are my assistant. And this event is a forced plus one. So I had to bring someone with me. And everybody knows that. It was better to show up with my assistant than any other girl to stop them gossiping about my love life."


    Somehow her face fell slightly, like disappointed with my answer. Good. She should know that I didn''t invite her because I desired holding her tiny hand on my arm, and walking beside her distractingly curvy body. And I didn''t invite her because I couldn''t resist the temptation of keeping her for myself for a whole night. No, I just invited her because of this inconvenience. And maybe a little preventing Matt from inviting her.


    We entered therge gallery of the building, which normally was a museum but dressed for the night. As soon as we entered the room, a significant number of eyes turned to us. I knew why they were looking at us. Not me, but the date I brought with me. Before I could end the thought, Jasmine Celes, the wife of Rockie Celes, the baron of the oil market, and the hostess of the night, appeared in front of us nearly from thin air. It was obviously ironic that they were hosting this charity night, even though their billion dor drilling oil facilities were polluting the oceans and causing the death of sea animals in the first ce.


    "Ah! There you are, handsome." She held her hand in front of me to make me kiss it. I obeyed this plea politely. Barely touched my lips to the back of her hand. she giggled like a fifteen years old teenager girl, even though she was fifty. "Nice to see you Jasmine."


    "Nice to see you too Anton, but I guess my eyes are ying tricks on me. I am seeing a beautifulpanion next to you. What a rarity to witness"


    "Like you weren''t the one adding the rule of plus one to this event?" she giggled again and this disturbed me more than the fist one.


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    "I may have done such a thing to encourage some of our confirmed bachelors to get involved with some beautifulpanions like yours." Her eyes darted from my face to Alice. She took her in with a thorough look from head to toe and the corner of her mouth curved into a smile. If I didn''t know better, I would think that she was delighted to see Alice, but I knew Jasmine long enough to know that she wouldn''t like any other woman who looks more attractive than her. She continued her interrogation.


    "So, I don''t think we have been introduced before..." she extended her hand to Alice,Exclusive ? material by N?(/v)elDrama.Org.


    "Jasmine Celes, the executive assistant of National Treasures Protection Society, NTPS. And ofcourse the host of this wonderful night."


    "Alice Wondend" Alice replied in a hushed voice and shook her hand politely. But it wasn''t an enough answer for her. She kept Alice''s small hand encaptured in her ws for a second more, lingering and waiting for a title or an exnation. Even though I was tempted to leave it as is, and let her suffer from unknowing, I didn''t want to put a target on Alice''s back for the rest of the night.


    "She is my assistant." I exined. Instantly she dropped Alice''s hand like it was contiguous, because she was not a celebrity or a high-toned millionaire. She wouldn''t give a shit a person who is beneath the society standards of hers. Alice''s eyes wavered with surprise at this rude gesture. And I felt a sudden urge to rip off Jasmine''s extremely painted and botoxed head from her torso. I gritted my teeth and fisted my hands to prevent myself attacking her.


    "Anton Alonzo! How dare you!" she eximed with a false yfulness. "You cheated! You should have brought a plus one. It was the rule. Not an employee."


    Alice''s gaze shuttered with surprise and hurt this time. Fucking idiot Jasmine was below even my expectations tonight.


    "I brought a plus one. She is my assistant, yes. But she is not here to work tonight. She will just enjoy the night. And I will enjoy her pleasantpanion." I said curtly. Jasmine was surprised by the tone of my voice and she knew me as well as I knew her that I was not a type to shit with despite how much influence you had or not. I kept talking in a cold murderous tone letting her know her ce,


    "You didn''t think that I am that easy to showcase my personal life just for an invitation rule of plus one?"


    Jasmine''s nostrils red in annoyance. But she didn''t keep the argue going.


    "I guess I shouldn''t have expected any less from you. Well yed Alonzo."


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    "Thank you" I said cooly. She curtly nodded to Alice and went away to spread her poison to some other guests. And I was relieved knowing she won''t do any more digging on Alice for now.


    I took startled Alice''s hand and dragged her to a corner table in the gallery, where there were champagne sses and little hors d''oeuvres on it. I took a champagne ss and held it out for her.


    "Drink this, you have encountered the most vicious creature of LA society and you survived out of it. You should be proud."


    She faintly smiled but I was still seeing the hurt inside of those big brown eyes. She felt the sudden mood change and dismissal of Jasmine, when she found out who she was. And I was a second away from going back and ripping her ugly head from her shoulders again. The only thing keeping me at my spot was not to leave Alice in this predator''s cage.


    "Maybe you shouldn''t have brought me with you tonight. I am not a fit for this kind of event."


    "And who says that?" I asked. Her brown eyes darted away for a second and when I traced the direction, I saw she nced at Jasmine, who animationally talking animatedly with Henry and Kelly Hubbert, the owners of Hubbert Diamonds. "She is a pretentious asshole." I said. Alice''s eyes widened with shock and surprise hearing my curse. "Mr. Alonzo, you shouldn''t talk like that." She said.


    "I talk as I like and this does not even describe a little part of her filth. Did you know that she was nothing before marrying Rockie Celes? She was just a second ss model who was working on lousy jobs. But somehow she managed to meet with Rockie and got pregnant. And since Rockie needed an heir, he kept her by his side and married her after his son turned ten."


    Alice''s eyes widened more with this information but some of her color returned to her face.


    "So, don''t let anyone or Jasmine, who has the least character or value, to judge your worth."


    She nodded slightly and dropped her gaze to her shoes, like she was ashamed of this conversation. I was also about to cut this and switch to lighter topics, a polite cough for attracting our attention has been heard from the back of Alice. I didn''t even look to know who it was.


    "Greetings brother. What a lovelypanion you have."

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    Alice''s POV


    "Greetings, brother. What a lovelypanion you have."


    I didn''t have to turn back to find out who was standing behind me. I would know this honey-dipped tone of his even if my eyes were closed.


    Anton''s face hardened when he looked behind me, at the owner of the voice.


    "Hello brother." he replied curtly between gritted teeth. I turned back slowly to meet the owner as well. Matt, as I was expecting....


    What I was not expecting, thepanion he brought with him.


    "Helloo Anton," she saidzily, dragging the sybles in a seductive tone. She was wearing a gold sequined dress, which was gorgeously hugging her all the right ces and the low neck of the dress was showing her generous breasts and leaving very little to the imagination. I felt a huge urge to hide my tiny set with my arms as I was looking at her disy.


    "Keep your heads high girls," I murmured to my breasts under my breath. Matt smiled curiously and I hoped he didn''t hear it.


    Ronda Meyers was standing tall with all of her glory next to Matt, hand resting on his arm, and throwing judging looks at me while scanning me head to toe. Somehow, she made me feel worse than Jasmine did. But, I cleared my throat leisurely and greeted her.


    "Hello Ms. Meyers"


    Silence followed my words.


    I reminded myself that I was at the very bottom of tonight''s food pyramid, and it would be wise for me to take no offense to any dismissal and keep my stand as much as I could. So, I forced myself not to offend when Ronda looked in my direction, rolled her eyes a little bit, then turned her head like she didn''t hear me. I was in a better condition even at my first social encounter with Jasmine, when she basically threw my hand as she found out that I was no one. At least she held it in the first ce.


    I drew a big breath in and prepared myself to let it go, even the pricking in my eyes. But apparently, the Alonzo brothers weren''t ready to let it go yet.


    "Haven''t you heard of her?" asked Anton Alonzo, coolly. A murderous cool, much more intense than I was used to hearing in his tone. I felt like the temperature of the room had dropped dramatically in an instant. I looked at Matt''s face, which was distorted with fury now, looking at Ronda, with the biggest grimace that I had ever seen on his face. Ronda looked at Anton first, unbelieving what he said. Then she looked at Matt''s face and her jaw dropped with a wordless objection. She looked at Anton onest time, which was looking like a second away from shredding her into ribbons. She pulled her hand from Matt''s arm, shut her mouth and squeezed it tight before giving a fast nod in my direction as she looked disgusted as if, she smelled a bad odor.


    Even though it didn''t ease the tension on Anton''s face even a little bit, Matt was willing to dismiss this funeral air, and he nudged the topic in other directions.


    "So! Brother... How did youe up with this brilliant idea of taking this beautifulpanion as your plus one tonight?"


    Anton looked directly in the eye of Matt with his signature grimace again, like he was not happy with this topic as well. But I assumed Matt had been immune to it since childhood. Instead of being threatened, his lips curved into a smug smile with pleasure.


    "I was expecting that you would bring Ronda tonight. After you twoe out of the closet in Hawaii? When I heard she was avable, I couldn''t miss this opportunity to ask her toe with me tonight."


    Ronda''s attention was drawn to this topic as well. She stopped hugging herself with a sour face and turned her head to Anton, one brow high.Exclusive ? material by N?(/v)elDrama.Org.


    Anton gritted his teeth. This time I could swear that I heard the sound of it.


    "First of all, brother, it was a forced plus one and, as you know very well, I am fond of my privacy, unlike you, so I chose to bring my assistant to prevent any interference with my privacy. Which brings us to the second of all: we didn''te out of any closet in Hawaii with Ronda. Because we are not in a rtionship, right Ronda?"


    He turned his deadpan gaze to Ronda, and despite I wasn''t the one who was targeted with that gaze, I even shuddered at the coldness of it.


    Ronda''s big blue eyes slightly filled with a ghost of wetness, but she kept herself together and silently nodded again. But Matt wasn''t willing to leave this so easily.


    "Howe? Don''t you know better than that ying hooky at Daryl''s hotel means shouting to the world that you and her are having a rtionship?


    Even though I knew that they were seeing each other and I had seen Ronda in Hawaii, knowing exactly why she came, I felt like I got a hit to my stomach. Why, though? Ronda raised her chin defiantly, waiting for the response from Anton.


    "I don''t give a shit what Daryl knows or thinks he knows. And I don''t think I owe you an exnation. Ronda is a grown up and if this thing does bother her, she can talk. Besides, you are iming that being with her in Hawaii could mean I am with her. If so, what are you doing with her tonight?"


    I wasn''t a juvenile to think something happened between me and Anton Alonzo just because he acted civil for a moment, or he brought me here as "plus one". But I couldn''t prevent the annoyance I felt when he scolded his brother for bringing Ronda. Was he jealous of her? Of course, he was. Look at her, she was gorgeous. Everything about her was screaming elegance and old money. And on the other hand, I was a ceholder with a borrowed dress for Anton Alonzo to beat Jasmine in her own game. I was a pawn. And I didn''t feel it this much until that very moment. When I have been disyed in front of paparazzi like a bag in hand or when I have been treated like I am infectious by Jasmine. Nothing made it clearer for me that I did not belong here than seeing Ronda and how she carried herself. Of course, Anton was thinking the same. Of course, he was upset that his brother had taken her here tonight, but not him. Just because he wasn''t ready to reveal his rtionship with Ronda didn''t mean he liked it when he saw her with someone else. And the most interesting part of all that is that I wasn''t sad for Matt at all. I wasn''t feeling bothered about seeing him with Ronda tonight. But I was feeling out of ce to my bones.


    I hugged myself to keep myself on my legs. A shudder ran through my spine and for a second I felt like I was losing my footing.


    Matt''s deep green eyes instantly snatched at me. And Anton followed his gaze like he was realizing I was there for the first time. His piercing gaze shattered for the first time after the arrival of Matt and Ronda. His brow creased with something close to worry? I don''t think so. Anton Alonzo was thest man who would worry about the effect of his words. Not on me, not on anyone.


    Matt appeared next to me almost instantly and grabbed my arm with a firm hold and fixed my bnce again.


    "Are you alright?" he asked in the most tender tone.


    "Yeah, I am okay. I think it is champagne. I will be okay in no time."


    Anton paid a quick nce at my untouched champagne ss. I was an idiot maybe, but not that much that I can dare to drink tonight while I was this bad with alcohol.


    "Would you like me to take you out to have some fresh air?" asked Matt. Anton didn''t say a word.


    "No, thank you. I think it would be better if I could visit the bathroom and wash my face a little." "Okay, let me take you there..."


    "Please don''t. I can go myself. I would feel bad if I stole you from your lovelypanion and the party."


    "O-okay. If you say so" said Matt uncertainly.


    I finally pulled my arm out of his grasp and went in the direction of the bathroom. When I managed to go into a partition and closed the door behind me, I felt relieved. What a stupid idea it was toe here tonight. How stupid I was to think that I could pull this off. I have been humiliated in every way possible tonight. Yet, to my thick head, nothing hit as hard as seeing Anton jealous of Ronda. It was clear as day that they were meant for each other.


    I tried to stabilize my breath. Just an hour more. And that will be it. I would be in my bed in no time and all of this would be history. I meant nothing to no one here. I was an inconvenience that everybody who met with me tonight would forget before I left the door.


    I took a deep breath in three, and released in four. Then I took a breath in four and released it in five. Again and again until I felt my heart beating normally. Finally, I brushed my skirts with my palms to straighten a crease that most likely was not even there and left my partition.


    I Instantly regretted seeing the person waiting outside.

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    Ronda was standing outside of the partition.


    She was trusting her hip to the counter of thevatories and folded her arms in front of her. Looking as judgmental and disgusted as she was, before the Alonzo brothers had fixed her.


    I knew that nothing good woulde out of this confrontation, but I gritted my teeth and raised my chin as if nothing had happened, and I was not waiting for anything bad toe out from her wickedly plump and red lips. "So, Ms. Wondend, finally we are alone," she said.


    "Hello Ms. Meyers, I wasn''t aware that you were willing to be alone with me." I said.


    "You know, Ms. Wondend, I hate people who y dumb."


    "Good to know, luckily I am not that person." I said. Her blue eyes squinted with malice.


    "Now, now, look at this little mouse. The moment you wore a pretty dress you thought that you were out of your misery, Cindere, right? So, I guess it makes Anton your prince charming then?"


    "I am no Cindere, and I am not delusional to think that Mr. Alonzo is treating me specially just because he ordered, not asked, me to join him for an event."


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    "Look ma''am, I just want to get away with this night and go to my bed for the sake of my poor feet. But, this doesn''t mean that I will stay and listen while you are trying to insult me. If Mr. Alonzo is your boyfriend. Please go ahead and interrogate him for bringing me here tonight. I am a single person who can go out with anyone I like. I am neither responsible to you nor for working for you. Now, if you excuse me..."


    I turned to the door and gestured to her to step aside. As soon as I took my first step towards the door, she shot out her arm in front of me and blocked my path.


    "I don''t know who you are and what you are after little mouse, but Anton is mine. He is in love with me even though he didn''t realize the extent of his feelings. Now, when I am this close to finally having him, I won''t let you or anyone wedge between us."


    "If he is in love with you, then you have nothing to worry about," I replied. And suddenly, I was struck with a severe burning on my cheek. I held my face and looked at Ronda in disbelief. She had - pped - me.


    Ronda was smug with self-satisfaction, looking down at me.


    "Don''t forget this pain on your cheek, little mouse." She said with hatred dripping from every word.


    "I am capable of causing you such pain that the feeling you have now would be nothing topare. Even so, keep this as a reminder that I am Ronda Meyers and I can cause you pain in any means. I can crush you and all of your beloved ones under my heel. Don''t provoke me!" She hissed with venom and without a second nce, she left the bathroom.


    One hand cupped my face, the other holding the edge of the counter, I stood there and tried to make sense of all of the things. I have been humiliated in every way possible now. I looked at the reflection of myself in the mirror and inspected the now swollen - cheek of mine. I clearly saw the trace of five fingers of Ronda on my cheek. She must have used every bit of strength she has in her. Such hatred. I couldn''t wrap my head around all of these things. I raised my head and sent a pointed look to the roof, where I assumed god, or higher self or whatever holy things in the universe would be and asked "Is there any way left to make me feel more miserable?" And I wasn''t aware I could wish not to ask this and challenge the universe.


    I touched my burning cheek and tried to cool it with some water, but to no avail. Then I heard my phone''s buzzing in my bag. I took it out and saw Mr. Alonzo''s message.


    "Where have you gone? Come here right now!"


    Patronizing as always. Even on one night, he imed he took me to enjoy myself. I stuffed my phone into my small bag again and left the bathroom before someone else came in and saw my swollen face. I paid quick nces left and right, and after I made sure no one was looking, I sneaked out from the majestic hallway, by the double door opening to the garden.


    As soon as I left the building and stepped out onto the crisp summer night, the summer breeze gently licked my burning cheek and finally something brought me some semnce offort for the first time tonight.


    I slowly walked away from the building through the garden with ornate bushes and dressings and the voice of the crowd flooding from the ballroom had started fading away. With each step I took, I felt more relieved. If I could survive this evening without any other event, I could still count this as a win, but unfortunately, I wasn''t even that lucky.


    "Well, well, look who is here tonight. I guess you have a fondness for gardens?"


    Daryl Sanders, tall as ever and more intimidated in the darkness, was standing before me.


    "Sorry to bother, I am leaving right away." I said. Before I even had the chance to turn back, he grabbed my arm. I was surprised by the speed. One second he was standing before me, the next he was next to me and grabbing my arm. ¡°Please release my arm.¡± I said in frustration. Oh god, sorry for challenging you. I knew now that this night could go way worse, so I silently wished my angels to end my misery tonight. "Where are you going so fast, Ms. Wondend? To your precious Anton?"


    "Mr.Sanders, please release my arm and let me go. It is not nice to hold a woman like that."


    "What is it you are after, Ms. Wondend? Money? I have plenty. As much as Anton, maybe more. Looks? I guess I am not sore in the eyes. Sweet words? Well, I am doubtful Anton even knows any. So, why don''t you give me a try, ha?" "Thank you for the offer, Mr. Sanders, but I am neither interested in Mr. Alonzo nor you, and I am not after anything. I am just a standard assistant. I don''t have any desire to tempt you either."


    "Anything tempts Anton, tempts me! I saw how he looked at you and how he attacked me proves that he is interested in you. Besides, I cannot deny that you are attractive." he said with a vicious hunger and, to my disgust, he dug his nose into my neck and smelled me.


    "Imm, you smell delicious. I can eat you all night." he said.


    "She indeed smells delicious. Like apple pie and cinnamon."


    I turned and saw Matt standing behind me. A sudden relief filled my chest. Thank you angels.


    He held the hand of Daryl and forced him to release me.


    "Tisk tisk, Daryl. You should know better than touching a woman without her consent." Suddenly, without warning, Matt twisted his hand backwards and I heard a snap of a joint.


    Daryl Sanders cried in pain.


    "Ahhh! You idiot! You broke my wrist!"


    "No I didn''t. I just sprained it. But don''t force me to harm you beyond Daryl. You know what I am capable of."


    Daryl cradled his hand in his other hand and looked at Matt with smoldering eyes.


    "So you are after her as well. Not surprised Matt. Everything Anton likes tempts you as much as it tempts me."


    "I am not after anything that Anton liked first, Daryl. Besides, she is not a prize to hold. Anyone who thinks she is a bird in the hand can only be disappointed." Matt turned to me and looked at the apple of my eyes with such intensity. Suddenly, I felt a heat rising from my neck till my face. It was even tenser than the pain of Ronda''s p. I thanked the darkness of the night for concealing my face.


    "Come love, let''s get going," he said. He gently pushed me towards the building.


    When we reached the building, he took me through the kitchen inside the building and, instead of the ballroom, he took me to some kind of library with huge and tall bookcases and a heart in the middle of it with a couch and a swiveling chair before it. I was grateful that I didn''t return to the crowd of the ballroom with all the feelings I experienced tonight and a stamp on my face. He made me sit on the leather couch, and he was about to sit next to me when he suddenly shouted a loud curse;


    "What the fuck!"


    I didn''t understand what he was cursing at first, then he held my chin between his forefinger and thumb, then angled my face to examine the hand stamp of Ronda on my cheek. I shook his hold off my chin.


    "Who did this to you? Was it Daryl? I should have broken his wrist." he said furiously.


    "No it wasn''t him."


    "Who did this, Alice!"


    "Not important."


    "It is important to me, tell me love." he said thest part with such na?veness, after all the harshness of tonight, I couldn''t help but want to cave in, this littlefort of him suggesting.


    "It was Ronda. She thinks I am a danger for her shot with Mr. Anton."


    "Damn brute. I would have made her taste her own medicine if it was not a woman. Sorry love, I shouldn''t have brought her here tonight." He caressed my cheek delicately. Even though the touch of his palm hurt my cheek, I didn''tin. And tears started to fall down on their own ount. He silently wiped my tears and didn''t say any other word, and waited until I cried enough to ease the ache in my chest. I was grateful to him not trying to stop me from crying but letting me empty my load.


    When my sobs were sparse and my tears went dry, he pulled me from my hand and made me stand up again.


    "Where are we going?" I asked.


    "I say enough for a charity! Let''s make an exit"


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    Anton''s POV


    "Where have you gone? Come here right now!"


    I texted her, and she saw my message but didn''t reply. Where the hell was she? It was nearly half an hour but still she didn''t return, back from the bathroom. I scanned the ballroom with my eyes to find her beautiful figure or her long brown waterfall hair, but I couldn''t catch even a glimpse of her. So, even though it was rude, I went to the bathroom to find her.


    I knocked on the door of the bathroom and went in when nobody replied. But it was empty. Then I left there under the judgmental eyes of ady who was about to enter the bathroom while I was leaving.


    I went to the library. I knew she was a bookworm. Maybe she found a good book and couldn''t help herself to read it. But, she wasn''t there either. I went to the garden and found Daryl cradling one hand with another. He saw me the second I went out. And smiled like he knows something that I didn''t.


    "Are you searching for your little date?" he asked, as lippy as ever.


    "It''s none of your business, Daryl. I am not here to chat with you."


    "Too bad. If you were here to chat with me, I could have said that I had seen your little assistant and your brother drooling after her."


    "What?" I asked. But I wasn''t surprised. I should have known the second I left her alone, Matt woulde after her.


    "You know what I am talking about, Anton. He always likes to challenge you. But I must admit that I don''t mind challenging you too if she thinks of giving me a try as well. I can even take the risk of falling out with you," he said, smiling with a fake toothy grin.


    This damn bastard was thinking that he could challenge me?


    "I would like to see you try Daryl. And don''t feel bad about falling out. We should have been close in the first ce, because of falling out."


    "Oh,e now, Antonio. We are childhood friends."


    My eyes twitched when I heard he was calling me Antonio. It was a name saved for my beloved ones, and so far it was only my mother. And maybe Alice, if she likes to.


    "Don''t call me that, and don''t even think of getting close to her. Because this time, you cannot get away with a punch, Daryl. I personally can make it my business to ruin you and everything you care about."


    Daryl''s color left his face a little. Good. He knew that I wasn''t a man of false threats. And certainly was not a type to mess with. I already showed him enough patience only for the sake of the times we spent together as children. But my generosity was close to draining for him.


    "Good night Daryl. Don''t cross me again for the rest of the night."


    Without waiting for Daryl to answer, I turned my back and left the garden. I went to the kitchen area. There was a rush for preparing tes and loading tracks. But no trace of her there either.


    Then I left there and searched the corridors to see her around and finally, I saw her. But she was not alone. Matt was there, of course, pulling her to the exit. Was he taking her out? What the hell?


    I brought her here but was she leaving with that bastard? Was he that important to her?


    Before I could hold myself, words spilled from my mouth on their own.


    "Where do you think you are going?"


    They halted just a couple steps away from the door and turned to me to face me. Matt was looking as daring as always. That bastard! Whenever he smells annoyance, he likes to press harder on me. But Alice, she didn''t even fully turn her face. Half pivoted to the back door, she was looking like a second away from running.


    "What does that matter to you?" Matt asked. I didn''t even talk to you Matt.


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    I looked at Alice. I needed an answer. And an answer from her. I wanted to know if she really chose to go with Matt or whether the bastard pestered her so much, she hadn''t had a chance but to be dragged with him. Even though the second option was farfetching, I wanted it to be true. I wanted her to choose to stay with me. But Alice looked like she was about to cry somehow. What happened? Awh! There was something going on and I didn''t know what was killing me! "You didn''t bring her here as your date, brother, but as your plus one, remember? And she doesn''t have to exin anything to you." Matt continued. I gritted my teeth when I heard him answer on behalf of her again. Does he think that he was her spokesperson?


    "I have asked Alice," I said in a pissed tone.


    "Oh, now she is Alice then. Aren''t there any other ridiculous nicknames anymore? Did you even bother to look for her until now? While she had been attacked twice by your precious - friends?"


    Attacked? Twice! What the hell? I knew that something was off about this situation. Or else Alice would never leave without letting me know. I looked at her again. I tried to find something off about her. What kind of attack was it? Was it oral, or physical? Damn it, if anyone dared to harm her, I would erase their existence from this world. Alice turned her face from me even more.


    "What do you mean by ''attacked''? Are you okay Alice?" I asked hesitantly. Somehow, this attack Matt was talking about was linked to me. Because she looked like she resented me. Did I do something wrong? Did she get harmed because of me?


    "I am fine." she said, curtly. Being tough and curt was not a thing of hers.


    I got closer by a couple steps. I needed to be closer to her. I wanted to hold her and wrap my arms around her. Comfort her and tell her that I can fix everything for her. I can punish everyone for her. I can even bring this world to her feet if she likes. But instead I asked again,


    "What is it, Alice? What happened?"


    Matt interrupted me one more time,


    "She has had enough for tonight. Let us go, Anton."


    ''Us'' he said? ''Us''? When they became us. They were not. Alice was mine. And mine only. This bastard could pull his tricks as he had done for every girl, but I have never yed this game. So maybe he doesn''t know, but this is not a game for me. I will win her no matter what. Even if I have to step on my brother, I don''t care. I faced my annoying brother, this time letting him know that I was not taking any bullshit anymore.


    "Let ''us'' go? When you be ''us'' with her, Matt. I am not talking to you and I have started getting sick of you. Now, if you excuse ''us'', my assistant and I have to talk! Alone!"


    Matt was ready to argue and opened his mouth to object, but Alice cut in.


    "Give us a minute Matt. I will be with you as soon as I am done."


    That''s right bastard! Give ''us'' some time.


    He nodded slightly to her,


    "I will be outside."


    He left from the back door, and me and Alice were alone now.


    "Yes, I am listening." she said, trying to avoid my gaze. She was still half turned to the door. This annoyed me more than Matt could ever do.


    "What has happened, Alice? What is he talking about?" I asked.


    "Nothing important."


    "Howe you say that? He ims that you had been attacked. By whom? What happened? Talk to me!"


    She slightly turned her face to me and when I saw why she avoided looking at me all the time, we were standing there. I grabbed her cheek and gently forced her to turn her cheek. There was a bruise on her cheek.


    And I felt a cold sensation rising from my stomach to my throat. Someone hurt her! Someone dared to hit her. Dare toy hand on what''s mine! So someone was about to die.


    "What the hell happened? Who has done it to you?" I asked between gritted teeth.


    "Noting-"She started saying nothing happened again. But I was at my limit.


    "Stop saying nothing happened!"


    I looked directly in her eyes to let her know that I wouldn''t leave without getting the name. I won''t rest until I pay for this. I looked into her brown doe eyes and the only thing keeping me away from drifting in those eyes and losing myself into her beauty was my anger.


    "It was Ronda."


    I was struck by the name she gave. Ronda? howe.


    "Ronda?" I repeated. I wished I had heard her wrong. Because, for all the time we spent together, I always thought that Ronda was a better person than that. But apparently she was just another spoiled girl. And I knew many ways of punishing spoiled girls.


    "Yes, can I go now?¡± she answered, dismissing me. But I didn''t get everything I wanted. I needed answers so I can map my revenge. "Why?" I asked.


    "She thinks that I am trying to seduce you."


    I had to grit my teeth so hard to not leave Alice right now and go and throttle the monster.


    But I would all the time in the world to punish her once I am done getting answers.


    "Please do not confront her, Mr. Alonzo." I suddenly woke up from my revenge dreams when she called me Mr. Alonzo. As formal as it can be. So she was putting a wall of formality between us. Was she really intimidated by Ronda then? "I have enough to deal with. I don''t want to add a rich girl, who is mad at me, to the list."


    And I was right. She wasn''t willing to be the target of Ronda because of me. She was ready to let me go. But I didn''t let myself drift in these thoughts anymore. I needed one more answer from her. The second attacker.


    "And who was the second?


    "Second?"


    "Matt said you have been attacked twice. Who was the second person who attacked you and how?"


    I looked carefully at her face and neck and body to see another bruise. When I didn''t see it, I felt a kernel of relief.


    "It was Daryl Sanders. It wasn''t an actual attack. More like disturbance."


    Oh God! Why on earth I have to deal with every bastard in this city? But if he dared to touch her again...


    "Did he try to kiss you again?" I hardly asked as I was waiting for the answer to be yes. Because murdering Daryl could be a little bit trickier, but of course not impossible.


    "Noo, no. He just tried to talk."


    I released a big breath, to calm myself. Somehow, I was hoping that he would give me a reason to kill him. But enough of the attackers. I had tofort Alice first!


    I grabbed her shoulders and lowered my head to be aligned with her eyes. Her soft brown eyes wererger with surprise. She avoided eye contact at first but then surrendered and our eyes locked. For a second, I forgot what I was doing. God, I could have looked into those eyes forever. Then I remembered what I was about to do.


    "From now on, I won''t let anyone else hurt you, Alice. Ever." I looked into her eyes and made her feel that I was not joking. Hell I was not. I could kill anyone who made her feel ufortable. And I was meaning to start it now. "Do you trust me?" I asked her,


    "Yes," She whispered.


    "Good," I said. My little doe was trusting me. And it was enough for me to burn the world for her.


    "If you go now, you will let them win. I will be next to you for the rest of the night. I won''t let anybody even give you a side eye. But, you should stay and show them you are not afraid of them."


    She didn''t even look like she was debating this. She was certain about how she felt.


    "Look Mr. Alonzo. I don''t know what you were thinking while you were bringing me here, but they are right. I do not belong here. And I don''t want to be belong. I don''t have ambitions of surviving in society or proving to them who I am. I only want to go home, take these goddamn shoes off and fall asleep in front of the TV while watching an old movie that I have watched a dozen times before."


    Fuck, I was dying to do all those things with her. But I didn''t want her to lose her courage and let people make her feel bad. I wanted her to fight with them and see for herself that she was capable of outdone them. "Alice... Don''t go." I said slowly. But she didn''t answer me. She was ready to let this battle go. Even without fighting it.


    Then I realized I was still holding her shoulders. I released her. If she was not willing to stay and fight, who was I to force her to do it? I understood her security search, and I was ready to give her that sense of security. I wanted her to choose me instead of being locked in her apartment for security. But trust was to be earned, not for given. And I knew that I had to earn her trust. But not now. She only needs to get away now, and I have to give that to her.


    "If that''s all?" she gestured to the door. I silently nod. I had to let her go, the security she wanted and she needed. I had to make myselfe to admit that I needed to fight more to gain her trust and I would do it no matter what. "Good night Mr. Alonzo," she said. I forced all the objections toe to my tongue and just replied,


    "Good night Ms. Wondend."


    Then she left, without a second nce. I stood there and looked after her in the empty hallway for a second more. But I have to turn to the ballroom right now and find two people.


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