Edser OS and Short Stories

Play Me (AU) Chapter 1

Eda couldn't believe her eyes, but in front of her stood a man over whom she was fangirling hard, listening to his compositions every night while eating pizza with ice creams, drowned in an abundant amount of wine, crying her eyes out and dreaming about the love his music was conveying to her. His music had the power to create in her emotions so intense that she was switching between his compositions and 'All by Myself', singing along with Celine Dion and crying even more.

Why did the only celebrity crush she had ever developed and mixed with her teenage crush, dreaming that this could be how her friend would look like at this age because they shared some physical similarities and a name, have to turn out to be an entitled asshole and womanizer? Couldn't even one of those famous men be good and decent? All of them had to be fake?

Eda was so stunned that didn't even notice that her crush was getting dangerously close to her, dangerously fast, so in a desperate movement not to forget herself and jump at the neck of the client, whom she was supposed to bring to the company, she extended her hand.

"Eda Yildiz." She introduced herself, shaking Serkan Bolat's hand. "The best PR specialist in this city. It's nice to meet you, Mr. Bolat."

She had to fight with all she had not to close her eyes and inhale his scent because damn, this man smelt amazing, no, sexy was the better word, and she couldn't help but notice how well his three-piece navy suit fitted him. 

Eda gulped, realizing that, in the flesh, he looked much better than in pictures or video clips. His hair was redder than she thought, and his eyes weren't brown but alternating between green and hazel, and she had a thing for men with this kind of hair and eyes. He even had freckles, tiny, barely visible, but he had the freaking freckles on his nose!

Before everything in Eda started to scream and red alarms went off in her head, Serkan Bolat smiled at her, forcing her out of her thoughts about her type in men, saving her from having a malfunction in the middle of the conference room. Although, to her doom, his smile was too beautiful to do her any good, but it was enough to bring her back to earth and make her brain work again. 

Eda didn't fail to make a mental note that she had never seen him smiling before, except for a fake, studied smile for cameras, but somehow, she knew this smile was sincere as if she had seen it before.

"Mr. Bolat is a bit too excessive, don't you think, Eda?" He said playfully, squeezing her hand a little too long than it was appropriate, and a shiver ran down Eda's spine, but she frowned at his unprofessionally casual tone and behavior. He acted like he was at a date instead of work-related meeting with his potential contractor.

"I prefer the professional relationship and basic rules of the distance between me and my client, Mr. Bolat." She said dryly.

Serkan's eyes widened as he dropped his smile. "You're kidding me, right?"

"No, I don't know what your idea of work and working relationship is, but mine is pretty straightforward, Mr. Bolat." Eda purposely addressed him by his surname for yet another time and added a stern look to make her point go through.

Serkan looked deeply shocked and took a step back while Eda did all that she could not to snort out loud in his presence. Did he just try to hit on her? He could forget it, forever. No wonder he had a terrible reputation and mess to clean up if he was acting like this with every woman he just met.

Serkan pursed his lips in an angry grimace and the smile disappeared completely from his face, making his features more harsh, still deadly handsome though, Eda didn't fail but notice.

"As you wish, Miss Yildiz." He said in a mocking tone, angering her even more. "You have one week to prove if you really are the best, or I'm dropping you."