Running (Walker Series Book 2)

Chapter 22

Another Alex's POV, I just like how his thoughts are 😩😩

Alex's POV

It's been an eventful two months working with Sage, I can tell she's warming up to me now, the first week she came back she still acted hostile towards me and I deserved it.

I shared to news of her return with my therapist and she was happy, I also told her how I felt relieved from the guilt after apologizing.

I've seen her with Clair a couple of times and seeing her smile stirred something in me that I don't know.

Ever since the incident with her I haven't seen Mr Winston, makes me wonder if he was still interested in working with us.

I had planned on asking her about what happened that day she quit but I've been feeling reluctant to, I don't want to pry into her life and I definitely do not want to make her feel uncomfortable around me by bringing up such a sour memory.

She has warmed up to the idea of calling me by my first name and I'm not gonna lie hearing it from her does crazy things to my mind.

She still gets nervous sometimes but I don't get angry anymore because I know it's not intentional, these days we have gotten close to each other and I kind of like it.

When I can, I drop her off at home from work but most times she objects and just go with Claire, I know she's still weary around me but it's fine, I'm still her boss no matter what.

My schedule says I have a meeting in a few minutes and I was waiting for her to come call me out, it has become a routine for her to always come get me for meetings even though I already know when I have them.

She knocks and I ask her to come in as I rearrange my table getting ready to get up

"The meeting is about to start and they're waiting for you in the conference room" she tells me, I just nod and get up "Mr Miller's gonna be asking for 40% of the proceeds, he always does that but we end up giving him 20%" she explains as we both walk out my office and head towards the meeting room.

"So if he asks for 40% I should oppose and stick to 20%" I ask her, she just nods and opens the door while I trail behind her.

Only when I'm inside do I realize it's the guy from a few months ago that spent all the time staring at her cleavage, the same one that made me almost call her a slut, I cringe at the memory and just go over to my seat, he has that stupid smile on his face for her and she returns it, God help me I'm able to control myself and not flip at her because that's the last thing I want right now.

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The meeting is over and as you can guess I was able to control my emotions even though that bastard made it almost impossible by simply gawking at my PA as if he'd never seen a lady before.

I walked out the conference room to find her laughing at something he said while he stands unusually close to her, that just ticks me off the more.

I clench my jaw and walk towards them, they don't even notice I'm there until I clear my throat, Sage just looks up at me her smile quickly fading away.

"Did you need something sir"? She asks, it's been long she referred to me as sir, it had always been Alex.

I clenched my jaw trying to keep cool "Yes I need the minutes in my office now" I tell her before taking long strides and leaving then there, I didn't want to burst up on her again.

I know it sounds weird but I hated seeing her with that bastard and smiling too, what was so funny about him that always got her smiling for him.

She never smiled that hard for me but here she was laughing at some lame ass joke he cracked.

I got into my office and I was already feeling hot, I took off my jacket to get me some air but it wasn't helping, it was too hot in here.

That's what she does to me, she gets under my skin without even trying, I can't help but feel frustrated, we were doing fine recently so why the fuck was she trying to ruin it with that fool.

I raked my hands through my hair and tried to calm down, she's just being friendly.

Why was I even bothered if she liked the bastard, it's not as if I like her or anything, she's just my PA. But somehow it still bothered me, the possibility of her having anything to do with him.

I sat down and tried to breath in and out but it wasn't helping, I need to see Aisha, and I need to leave this office before she brought the minutes else I might burst up and say something I'll regret to her

I quickly pick up my keys and headed for my therapists office.

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My talk with Aisha went quite well, I was calmer than I was when I left the office.

But she said something that had been on my mind since then, she said I was probably bothered by Sage and that dude because I was jealous.

Of course I laughed it off, I'm not jealous, you can only get jealous when you like someone and I don't like her like that.

Of course she's beautiful and attractive and I'm human so it's natural to find her attractive but that's all it is nothing more, I don't like her.

Suddenly my office phone went off indicating I had a call so picked up and it was none other than my PA

"Yes Sage what is it"? I asked her

"It's Mr Winston, he wants to set up a meeting and talk to you about the contract" she whispered, she sounded nervous again, it was beginning to bug me but I just cleared it off as one of those days.

That old man finally wants to talk business, I thought he was no longer interested

"Check my schedule and set it up at a convenient time" I told her, she muttered an 'okay' before the line went dead.

I relaxed back on my chair and my head resumed it's thoughts about Sage, she seems to be nervous whenever she talked about Winston, it's as if there's something going on that I don't know about.

I really want to find out but I don't want to creep her out.
Her nervousness was one of the reasons I disliked her when I just came.

It made me feel she wasn't as innocent and chivalrous as she portrayed.

Then I always compared her to Anna, I still do but not like before and now I don't get angry doing it.

Anna has always been my type of woman she doesn't pretend, she's fierce and she goes for what she wants, unlike Sage she doesn't do things to please others, she does things to please herself.

She's bold and upfront, she's straightforward regardless of what anyone thinks, she doesn't bottle up emotions. She steals attention anywhere she goes and she's not afraid to say what she feels.

But Sage is just the opposite of these things, she's too nice, always trying to please others even if it displeases her, she's not bold, don't get me wrong she's smart and intelligent but she doesn't really talk about her feelings no matter how much it affects her.

I can tell she has a lot on her mind but she hardly ever speaks up, she's good at what she does no doubt but her kindness is definitely a bad effect on her.

Trust me I like how nice she is, she goes out of her way for others but life isn't like that and I'd hate for her to learn it the hard way.

She's beautiful in her own way, eye catching and attractive not in the Anna kind of way tho.

Like I said she's just plain, smart, attractive, intelligent and beautiful but plain.

Short chapter yes I know

Alex is jealous 🙄🙄
Jealous Alex is a hot Alex 😩😩

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