Arranged love - jaylor AU

secret messages

A/N thank you for 1k reads alreddy! Happy you guys seem to be enjoying the book

- joes pov -

Another week of Taylor ignoring me or being snappy at home, and it's driving me insane. How can she be so kind and caring about everyone else but with me she is acting passive aggressive. It's not an attractive trait, that's for sure. She needs to grow up and stop acting like all of this is my fault, I didn't choose this either.

There is so much work to do today and I keep going through document after document that needs to be signed or tossed. And this workload is even only half the stuff that needs to get done because Taylor takes the other half. I'm wondering how she is handling all that, is she even used to working that much. The prissy princess wouldn't want to get dirt under her newly manicured nails.... Ugh why am I even thinking about her, I have work to do but she is stuck in my mind.

Yet again I get distracted after going through two files, this time it is the picture my mom framed and insisted I had on my desk at work. It's the picture she took of me, Taylor and Lilly at the brunch they had a week and a half ago. I must admit it's a cute picture, if Taylor didn't hate me, it would be even cuter, I guess. Lilly is tucked safely into her mothers arms and I hold her legs. Being around that kid is not as bad as I thought it would be, yesterday she even convinced me to have another dance party just with her. How can you not get along with a bubbly, chatty little kid like her.

Another hour later I'm ready to get lunch, but there is a knock on the door just as I'm about to ask my assistant to get me something. So I tell the person that they can come in.

«Good afternoon Mr. Hilton. Your wife just sent me on a sushi mission, and I wanted to know if you want any lunch too so I can get it while I'm out» our shared personal assistant Rebecca Lawson says. «Thank you miss Lawson. Yes, I would like some sushi as well, that's kind of you» I say, and she hands me the menu to the place that she is getting it from.

«I'll take a California roll, and three pieces of nigiri with salmon please. And a Coke Zero» I tell her, and she takes note of what I want. «Mrs. Hilton ordered the same thing» she says and smiles at me. Maybe we have similar taste in something then, that's surprising. «Your wife is also having a bubble tea. Do you want that too?» She asks and I furrow my eyebrows.

«What is that?» I think I've heard of it, but I truly have no idea about what it is. «Well it's a type of tea that you can either have milk based or juice based. And then you pick if you want tapioca boba, which is black tapioca balls. Or you can have popping boba which have fruit in them. Or you can have jelly which are jelly balls» she says and explain the different things and show me the menu. If Taylor is having that I'm not going to be any less adventurous than her, so I need to try it too.

«Get me a non-milk verson with strawberry. I don't care what kind other than that, I just love strawberry» I decide. I have no idea what all the different things on this menu is, so strawberry sounds like a safe solution.

She leaves and I sigh looking at the picture on my desk again. She is so beautiful that its annoying. I hate that she makes me curious about who she is. The little I know her so far is that she is a control freak, but she is also a caring mother.

With the way she is acting I feel like she has all the power over me. She is controlling the environment and I hate that; I prefer to be in charge myself. There is no way I'm going to lose my position to her, she is not better than me. I've worked too hard to get to where I am and she isn't going to hold power over me. But then again, the picture on my desk shows a side of her that I wish I could get to know, the soft and caring side. I wonder about who that person is and what it would be like to know her.