meeting him loving him

fear

Hope's pov
been a week since I started working for Ethan James and I have gotten used to his schedule. I get ready and head to work, I make him his cup of coffee and go to the office
"Good morning sir" I say "here is you cup of coffee" I say while handing it to him
"Thank you" he says and I smile and go to my seat to start my work

Ethan's pov
I take glances at her as she does her work. It has been a week since she started working here and I feel myself slowly getting attracted to her and possessive of her.
As I look at her I almost forget to tell her about the business trip we are supposed to go on tomorrow to France
"Hope?" I call her
"Yes sir" she replies and looks at me
"The project we are working on in France with Mr Simon is almost complete and we therefore need to go there to have a meeting as well as inspect the progress made and so we will be going there tomorrow and we will be staying there for a month. I have a penthouse there that we can stay in, is that okay with you?" I say to her
"I have no problem with that sir" she says
"Good, then I'll pick you app from your apartment around 8" I informed her
"Ok sir" she replies with her gorgeous smile
"That would be all then" I say to her and she goes back to her work

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I came outside side my apartment to find him standing while leaning on his car
"Good morning sir" I said
"Good morning Hope, let me help you with that" he said
"Thank you" I said as he put my bag in the trunk
We went to his private jet and took of for France. I will be spending the next 8 hours with him in his jet and we sat next to each other.
As the jet started to take off, I felt my fear of height grow within me and I started to panic
"What's wrong Hope" he asked with a worried expression
I..I..I am..... afraid of hei...ghts" I say while stammering
"It's ok I'm here you can hold my hand if you like"he said to me and I did just that
His hands were soft and smooth that I felt my fear disappear and soon we had already taken of
"Thank you" I said to him but he still held my hand and I didn't say anything to him about it
"Your welcome" he said"since we we will be here for more that 8 hour why don't you tell me something about yourself"
"Well, as you know my name is Hope parker, I'm 22 years old, my elder brother Andrew is 24 years old, he is a cop. Our parents died when I was 10 and we stayed with my aunt, my mom's sister, until we were able to take care of ourselves and that was when my brother turned 18. My best friend Faith is the same age as me, we met while in high school and become friends, her parents treat me and Andrew like there own children.she has been dating Andrew for a while now and I can see that they love each other. Growing up I was never interested in finding a boyfriend and I just wanted a relationship like Faith's and Andrew's because love, care, appreciate and understand each other" I said all this while smiling until I realized that he has been looking at me the entire time and I felt embarrassed
"I'm sorry to hear about your parents but I would really like to meet them as they seem like interesting people and tell me what do you like and hate" he said
"I love chocolate and ice cream more than anything, Mango, watermelon,  pizza, McDonald's and meat but I'm allergic to pineapples, grapes, peaches and sea foods" I say "but enough about me ,tell me about yourself"
"Well you see I am 23 years old and I have two siblings, my brother, Allan he his three years younger than me and my elder sister Evelyn who is two years older than me, my brother is an actor and my sister Evelyn is a model and she is married and has cute little daughter Rose.I am the middle child and since my brother was not interested in the company I took over it. I mostly go to my parents during the weekends where we hold a family dinner, they are really nice people and you will love them my best friends, Victor and David have been with me since we were five we grew up together and were like Brothers to each other, one day you'll see them. And I just realized we have something in common, we both love mangoes and we're both allergic to sea food" he said to me
"Wow your family seems really nice and yeah I guess we have that in common, you know you're the first boss of mine who as ever been interested in my life otherwise it feels great to have someone to talk about rather than just office related work" I said
"Yes well we are going to be spending a month together in France in the same house at least we can get to know each other more and why did you previously work? He asked me
"Well after a graduated from from college I started working at a publishing company for the past two years"I replied
"You are a very interesting girl that I have ever met and even though you have been through a lot you are still brave and strong willed and determined and always have this smile on your face you are really interesting, you're kind to everyone even to those who don't like you and I must say you look really cute when you talk without a care in the world" he said
"Thank you sir and what can I say being an assistant for the one and only Ethan James attracts a lot of enemies who want to fill that position and so many people will not like me and what can I do. My mother always used to say before she died always treat people kindly and they will realize there is no point in being rude to you and you will live a care free life without the worry in the world"I said
"Your mother was a very wise person and I can see you are as wise as her" he said to me and that made me blush and he tacked a piece of strand of my hair behind my ear and said to me
"you are really beautiful" and that made me blush even more
"thank you, you are also really handsome" and he suddenly kissed my forehead and said "thank you" and now I think my chicks where I red as a tomato and his smiled at me and I saw that he had dimples and so I smiled back.