A forbidden romance

Chapter One-The New Colleague

He grabs your hips and turns you to face away from him. His hands starts working it down your stomach until he gets to the waistband of your jeans, unbuttoning them he slides his hand down past your underwear. You take a deep breath and stretch your arms out behind you to wrap around his neck as he smears kisses over your jaw and neck. Taking his hand away from your underwear he spins you back around again to face him. Drawing your hand to the seam of his grey t-shirt, you rip it off him and before he can process what is happening, you're already pulling your jeans down your long legs. He does the same, as you trail your hand up his toned chest and wrap your other hand behind his neck pulling his face down so your lips are millimeters away. You can feel his eyes wandering down to your chest before bringing them up to stare into your soft caramel eyes. He smashes his lips down on yours, but the kiss isn't rough like you thought it would be its soft, calm, like the ocean at sunset, warm. He wraps his arms around your thighs and walks you over to the bed, you feel your back hitting the cool mattress as he hovers over you; never once breaking the kiss. You arch your back as his hand finds the clasp of your bra and unhooks it, letting it fall off your chest. You didn't even realize he had taken his underwear off until you feel him slip into your entrance. You are seeing stars, full constellations as he fills you with pleasure, it is great until...

You shoot up with a gasp, sweat dripping down your forehead. "It was a dream?" You question yourself and, in your voice, you can hear the disappointment. Once you are up you head to Starbucks on your way to your office. As you sit down behind your mahogany desk you hear a knock on the door, opening the door a young man with deep brown curls on the top of his head walks in. You stand to greet him and realize just how tall he is, 'He must be at least 6'1"' you think to yourself but as you look into those hazelnut eyes, you see trauma and loss. You recognize him after a few seconds of staring at those dark eyes. You get more anxious the longer you stand in front of the man of your dreams. "Can I help you?" You ask politely, trying to keep your voice from shaking. "Hi, erm...I'm your new assistant." You can tell he is nervous, and you raise a single eyebrow, waiting; "Jones, Oliver Jones." He adds after he gets your hint, "Cooper, Amelia Cooper." After you show Oliver to his desk just outside your office, you sit back down and cross one knee over the other and think. Hours pass before you notice that the only work you have done today was signing your name on a document you were too distracted to even read. "Oh fuck, Miss Miller is going to be so pissed." You groan as you pack your sewing machine up and place it on a shelf. You lock your office, say goodbye to Oliver and head home for the day, exhausted.

By now a week had passed since you first had that dream and you still had no hint as to why it was Oliver. You were sitting in your office when Oliver walked in with a folder and a notepad, "Miss Miller asked me to give you your contemporary designs and to take notes on each of them." You look up when he says that because you have barely done anything in the past week and are in desperate need of something sturdy to work from, "Can I please have your notes?" You ask with such desperation Oliver practically throws the notepad to you. "On you go then, work away Boss." And when he smiles, you could have sworn you melted right there.

Suddenly you hear a knock at the door "Hey, can we talk." Your best friend Grace walks in and a profound sense of relief all throughout your body. "Oh god, I thought you were...erm yeah sure what's up." You reply, "If anyone finds out you are going to get fired." She says to you "What are you talking about? I love this job." You say with confusion in both your voice and face. "Oh, come on it's so obvious, you can't stop looking at him, but it needs to stop, you signed a contract" She says to you. "Wait what, what contract, I don't remember a contract." You say still confused. "The contract clearly states that you can have no romantic relations within the office, and you signed it. I was walking by as you did it, you were with your assistant, you know the one you will not stop staring at" she teased making your cheeks flush red, "Shut up I know who you are talking about" you start, "I really fucked up didn't I? I didn't even realize I was fantasying about him. Listen I need to tell you something." You say nervously. "Ok, go on."

You tell her about your dream and how it is all that you could think about, ''I don't understand it was the weirdest thing, one minute I am having this real dream about this mystery man, whose face was Oliver's clear as day might I add, then the next day the mystery man is knocking on my office door telling me he is my new assistant. It threw my off and I don't know how to feel or what to think.'' you pause for a breath with tears in your eyes, "Will you help me?" You ask in desperation. She looks at you with sympathy, "Of course I will, what are friends for." You run to the other side of the room and hug her then start to cry from being overwhelmed by all the emotions that are going through your head and your heart. "What am I supposed to do, I don't want to lose my job, I love my job, but I also can't get him off of my mind." You say quickly. "Hey, hey look at me." She holds your face gently in her hands "it's okay, everything is going to be okay. As far as I am concerned no one is losing their jobs, not anytime soon at least. So put on a brave face, hold your head up high and get coffee with me." Grace demands with a smile.

You hear your office phone ring in the corner, you quickly dry your eyes and clear your throat, "Yes Oliver, what's wrong" you say when you answered, hoping he can't tell that you were just crying. "Nothing is wrong Miss Cooper, I was just wondering if you would like me to order you some lunch," Olivers smooth voice travels through your ears. "No thank you Oliver, Grace and I are going out to get coffee. We'll be back soon."