CHAPTER 1
* *used for action
( ) used for thinking
❄ used for being cold
💬 used for texting
📞 used for calling
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Good Morning babe🥰
Olive Martin (fl)
Good Morning *gloomy*
Lina Smith (fl bff)
why are you so gloomy earlier in the morning?
Lina Smith (fl bff)
What’s wrong?
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Did someone mistake you for the model again?
Olive Martin (fl)
*narrowed her eyes at her friend* 🤨
Olive Martin (fl)
And I don’t look anything like her.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
You have the same pale blue eyes and high cheekbones.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Her hair isn’t exactly the same platinum blonde shade as yours, but it’s close.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
But she doesn’t have your blunt bangs
Olive Martin (fl)
Can we not talk about the model who looks nothing like me, please
Lina Smith (fl bff)
of course sweetheart
Olive Martin (fl)
If you’ve come to speak to Alex,
Olive Martin (fl)
he’s not yet back from his lunch meeting,
Olive Martin (fl)
but he shouldn’t be much longer
Lina Smith (fl bff)
I came to check on you
Lina Smith (fl bff)
I saw Adrain enter the building earlier.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
The last time the idiot came here,
Lina Smith (fl bff)
you almost had to call security to remove him.
Olive Martin (fl)
I’m fine, just annoyed.
Olive Martin (fl)
He wanted to wait for Alex in his office.
Olive Martin (fl)
I said no.
Olive Martin (fl)
He tried flirting with me to get his way.
Olive Martin (fl)
I said no.
Olive Martin (fl)
He claimed he had a migraine and just needed a quiet place to sit.
Olive Martin (fl)
I said no.
Olive Martin (fl)
Then he got all mean and demanded I let him in.
Olive Martin (fl)
Again, I said no.
Olive Martin (fl)
We went around and around like that for a while until, finally,
Olive Martin (fl)
he stalked off—but not before threatening to have me fired
Lina Smith (fl bff)
leave it.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
He don't worth our time for morning gossip session
Olive Martin (fl)
yeah. that's true
Olive Martin (fl)
you know.
Olive Martin (fl)
I just discovered something about myself that I don’t like
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Ooh, I do that daily.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
So, what’d you discover?
Olive Martin (fl)
I can be very petty.
Olive Martin (fl)
See, I’m going to bump into my high school sweetheart today—a guy I was briefly engaged to.
Olive Martin (fl)
He’s rich and successful now.
Olive Martin (fl)
Although I don’t want him back
Olive Martin (fl)
I want him to look at me and see how much better my life is without him
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Girl, pretty much everyone wants their exes to feel that way.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
It doesn’t make you petty.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
It makes you human.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
And back up … you were engaged to this guy?
Lina Smith (fl bff)
How is it we’ve known each other for four years and I’ve never heard about this?
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Okay, walk me through how it all went down
Olive Martin (fl)
Short version—
Lina Smith (fl bff)
I want the long version
Olive Martin (fl)
Well, you’re getting the short one.
Olive Martin (fl)
Tom Raymond and I grew up together.
Olive Martin (fl)
He was one of my closest friends.
Olive Martin (fl)
We dated during the last few years of high school, and he proposed to me after graduation—
Olive Martin (fl)
it was a gesture to show that him going away to college wasn’t going to change anything between us.
Olive Martin (fl)
But he ended our relationship five months later
Olive Martin (fl)
He said we'd rushed into getting engaged and we were too young to make such a committment
Lina Smith (fl bff)
That a*"h@le crushed your teenage heart.
Olive Martin (fl)
He asked to remain friends,
Olive Martin (fl)
but I never saw or heard from him again after that
Lina Smith (fl bff)
not even once?
Olive Martin (fl)
I bumped into his aunt a few times over the years,
Olive Martin (fl)
so I know he’s married, has a kid, owns a huge house, and has a cushy job
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Well, you might not be married, rich, or live in a flashy house,
Lina Smith (fl bff)
but you’re a smart, confident woman who anyone would respect purely for working as Alex Blackford’s PA for a full four years.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Not many people could work so closely with a corporate psychopath.
Lina Smith (fl bff)
At least not without having a breakdown
Olive Martin (fl)
Granted, Alex is little difficult at times, but he’s not a psychopath
Lina Smith (fl bff)
You’ve not noticed the power-hunger,
Lina Smith (fl bff)
lack of empathy,
Lina Smith (fl bff)
absence of a conscience,
Lina Smith (fl bff)
or that he is a control freak?
Lina Smith (fl bff)
None of his PA's has lasted longer than 6 months
Olive Martin (fl)
(he liked power. Didn’t most CEOs?)
Olive Martin (fl)
(And, yes, he could be a little insensitive and careless with people’s feelings)
Olive Martin (fl)
(He was also ruthless, sure, but.... )
Olive Martin (fl)
He’s not cold or without a conscience.
Olive Martin (fl)
And he doesn’t lack empathy
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Come on,
Lina Smith (fl bff)
he even has that hunter stare
Olive Martin (fl)
(There was always a dangerous glint in his dark, steely eyes)
Olive Martin (fl)
(Even after four years of working for him)
Olive Martin (fl)
( I was not immune to that unflinching, relentless, apex-predator stare)
Olive Martin (fl)
(Not at all)
Lina Smith (fl bff)
* smiled* You know something?
Lina Smith (fl bff)
I think you like him
Olive Martin (fl)
(In all honesty, I’d had a harmless crush on my boss for years now)
Olive Martin (fl)
(it wasn’t just his appearance that made him so lethally seductive)
Olive Martin (fl)
(It was the entire package—his powerful personality, innate aura of authority, unshakable self-assuredness, and the untamed air about him that spoke of danger)
Lina Smith (fl bff)
You do have a thing for him,
Lina Smith (fl bff)
don’t you
Olive Martin (fl)
*snaped out of her thoughts*
Olive Martin (fl)
It’s not that,
Olive Martin (fl)
it’s just …
Olive Martin (fl)
he gave me an opportunity that not a lot of people would have
Lina Smith (fl bff)
And so you’d feel disloyal saying anything negative about him,
Lina Smith (fl bff)
I get it
Lina Smith (fl bff)
Speak of the psychopath
At Lina’s words, She snapped back to attention.
her gaze flew to the elevator and, sure enough,
Alex came walking out with that purposeful, sexy as hell, alpha-male stride.
Olive Martin (fl)
*flashed him a receptionist smile*
Olive Martin (fl)
Afternoon, Alex
Alex Blackford (ml)
*enter with dark and dangerous aura*
Comments
Mist fairy
Isn't she describing her own features?
2023-08-20
2
🥰CRYSTAL🥰
😂😂
2022-10-18
1
R✳️
oh defending defending
2022-09-27
1