BEAUTIFUL TWISTED LIES |18+

CHAPTER ONE

ALENA

I walk into the café across the street from my little apartment. I come here every day at exactly 7:00am for my morning coffee and I think the owner and I have come know each other pretty well at this point. I stand in line and glance at my watch. I have 20 minutes left before I have to go into the office.

I quickly order and right before I leave, I see Jamie come out from the back. "Hey Alee" he says and that brings a quick smile to my face. He and I have known each since I started coming here a couple of months ago and he always manages to put a smile on my face. "Hey Jay" I say. "You look oddly fluffy with that winter jacket on. Is it really necessary?" he says approaching me. "Well I get cold really easily, plus-" my statement is rudely cut off by the buzzing of my phone

Nicholas Vasilios: 'Where the hell are you?' I can already imagine the crease of his eyebrows as the types the message.

Nicholas Vasilios has been my boss for the past 5 months that I have been living here in New York. My abrupt uproot from my home town in Florida 6 months, was something impulsive but very necessary. I needed to escape at all costs.  When I came here, I knew no one and I had known that in order to survive I needed to get a job. That's when I started working at Vasilios Cyber Security as New York's most eligible bachelor and high end asshole's personal assistant.

I look at my watch and realize I still have 15 minutes before I have to be in the office but according to my wonderful and pleasant boss, I'm late. I wave goodbye at Jamie and walk out into the freezing cold cloudy weather. I'm not very used to this cold air which prompts me to run into the first cab I see and high tail it to the office. If it weren't for the cold, I would have taken my time, asshole be damned.

I walk into the building and see McKenna. She is the only friend I have in New York and she has become my best friend over the last few months. I walk behind her desk to chat and I know it's going to tick off the man with the tail upstairs but I don't care.

"Good morning Latina queen." McKenna says with an easy smile on the face that makes her radiant dark skin shine.
"You mean morning from hell" I say as I slump on the chair behind her desk.
"What happened now? Bad date last night? I told you to let me set you up once and you wouldn't regret it" she says while towering over me with her hands on her hips. She is quite tall in comparison to my 5'2 build but I love how I feel when I'm around her. Safe.

"Well, given how I was here till 9pm yesterday, I didn't have time for a date. I couldn't even enjoy my coffee this morning before the red tailed beast texted me saying I was late which I was not."
"Well if Nicholas texted you saying you're late then what are you doing here talking to me?''

"I am defying his law, trying to chat to my best friend and I look good doing it" I say as I flip my raven loose curled hair over my shoulder
"He can't even fire you because you are the best PA he's had in a year. You are an angel for lasting longer than a month here"

"Could you repeat that so I can play it back to him whenever he's being unbearable"
She laughs and throws her head back. I realize how lucky I am to have her here. "Just go upstairs and every time you feel like strangling him, remember lunch is on me today okay?" I simply nod my head and walk into the elevator. Only then do I notice I left my coffee back at the coffee shop and I have to deal with Nicholas without caffeine and I that will be a challenge.

I walk up to my desk and set my things and before I could even sit down, Nicholas storms out of his office and marches right up to my desk with an ice cold expression on his face. "Come into my office immediately" is all he says before he turns around and marches back into his office. Seῆor por favor ayύdame
Spanish: lord please help us all