Falling in love with Mr CEO

Chapter 7

Monday morning***

Today I was going to meet ivy. I hope she gives me a chance to talk to her and explain. I shower and change and get into my Lamborghini and speed down to ivy's office. I park in front and walk in. I ignore all the lustful stares I get and walk to the elevator and make my way to the top floor. "Good morning, Mr carter" her assistant greets me. "Good morning" I reply and walk to ivy's door. I opened it and walked in. She looked beautiful in her white dress "Hello Mr Carter" she says as she looked up at me. Hello miss Miller" I say teasingly. She doesn't react to it "please take a seat" she says plainly. I'm confused.

"So, Mr carter..." she starts to say and I quickly interrupted her "ivy is everything ok" she didn't give me any reaction and just nodded her head. "Mr carter" she starts again. For fucks sake why won't she just call me Blake. "Ivy stop calling me that, Blake is fine" I say and shakes her head. "I don't want to overstep my boundaries, you are my client and I have been hired to do a job, once the job is complete, we can go back to our own lives" she says without blinking.

I was about to say something but she started speaking again before I could say anything. "So, Mr carter I trust you have seen the digital walkthrough I have sent you" I quickly scanned her face before nodding. "Yes Miss Miller". "Is there anything you would like to change sir" she says and I shook my head. She goes through the other designs and I agree with everything even though I'm barely listening and we make the necessary changes. 2 hours later we were done. "Thank you, Mr carter I shall see, you after lunch. If you could please leave your address and I will meet you there" she says and stands up. I quickly stand up In front of her, I need to talk to her "Ivy please let me take you to lunch and I will take you after" I say and she shakes her head. "Sorry Mr carter I have to politely decline" she says and walks out of the office. I watch as she leaves and my shoulders slump. I wonder what she's thinking. I miss the banter; I miss seeing her smile.

Ivy's POV

Today has been a long day. It was only 3pm and I've had 4 meetings with my employees, a new commission and I've been working on Blakes office interiors and house interiors. As I was scrolling through looking for inspiration for a mood board, I couldn't help my mind wander to Blake. He looked confused and upset when I called him Mr Carter and when I showed him no emotion. But I couldn't help but still feel hurt that he slept with Ellie. On the other hand, we're not together so I really shouldn't be angry at him for that.

Around 5pm I walked over to the café across the street and ordered myself a caramel macchiato. I thanked the barista and walked to an empty table. "Hey ivy" I heard someone say and I looked up to see Ethan Johnson. I designed Ethan's office; he owns a tech company. I smiled at him "hey Ethan how are you" I say. "I'm good thankyou princess, you look beautiful" he says making me blush. He let out a little chuckle. We drank our drinks and caught up with each other. "Oh shoot, its nearly 6, I should go, I promised to take my sister to the mall" I say standing up. Ethan stood up as well. "It was really nice meeting you, ivy, I was just wondering if you were free if you'd like to go on a date with me" he says and I furiously blushed. Ethan is a good-looking man. I couldn't help but think of Blake but I quickly shook my head to get rid of those thoughts. "I would love to Ethan" I say. He smiled at me. "Friday at 7, I'll pick you up" he says and I nod. I left the café and walked to my car and drove home.

My sisters Hallie and Lottie were sat on the couch waiting for me. "Sorry I'm late" I say sheepishly. "It's ok sis" Lottie says and the three of us head over to my G wagon. We make our way to the mall. Lorries meets up with a few friends from her school and decide to shop with them. Hallie and I made our way to the jewellery shop. My mom's birthday is tomorrow and we decided to buy her some jewellery and a handbag. A few hours later Lottie met back up with us and we got pizza and then went home.