He's the Boss ( Harry Styles)

Chapter 3

We sat silently in the car while Harry typed into his phone. I was beginning to wonder if this was all that he did with his time when my own phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Zoe! You're still alive thank God for that you had me so worried about you. I cannot believe that you left the house, and mom said you moved in with a stranger in London, are you absolutely bonkers, they could be a rapist or anything God you're just like dad so reckless and-" I sniffled feeling the tears pool in the corners of my eyes at her talking about my dad.

"Chloe, I'm alright my roommate is not a rapist we live in a nice flat on a nice part of town, and I found a job." I replied calmly. I listened to the sounds of my sister as she moved about her home in Bristol, saying things to issy, her daughter, while cooking her and Mia, my other sister breakfast probably.

"Are you coming to lunch at mom's?" she asked after the silence ticked on for a bit.

"No, I'll still be at work, but mom said you had something to ask me or something?"

"I'm putting issy up for adoption." I hung up in her face. When I looked over at Harry he was watching me, but quickly looked away once he realized he had been caught. He reached into his jacket pocket and retrieved something then offered it to me, it was a hankie.

"Your eyes are a bit reddened." he commented looking out the window with a disapproving look on his face. It was now that I decided to study his features. He had luscious looking chestnut curls atop his head that gave him a boyish look that was endearing. He had a strong defined jaw, you could see how tense he was in this time span as the muscles in his jaw were clenched. A very serious expression was etched upon his face, one of deep thought I suppose. Lastly, were his eyes that were a brilliant green and every time I looked into them they were swirling with mixed emotions. His lips turned into a smirk as he continued to look out the window where my eyes caught his in the reflection. I turned beet red and looked down at my lap fiddling my hands when he began to speak.

"Checking me out Ms. Sanders?"

"Just returning the favor Mr. Styles." I shot back and now it was his turn to blush and look back out the window. We sat in the awkward silence for about five minutes until Harry cleared his throat.

"We're here." he stated in a cold professional tone. We got out the car and he trailed closely behind me as I walked swaying my hips a bit as I heard him take in a deep breath, then stopped short causing him to run into me.

"Sorry, I don't know where we're supposed to be going." I said sheepishly.

"Right. We have to go to human resources." We walked in silence to into the nice looking building that looked vaguely familiar and took a right down a narrow hall that I knew I had seen before and into an office where a lady stood before me with a shocked look on he face and that's when it all clicked. "Zoe" the woman said to me and I looked at her mouth agape, I was at a loss for words here I was trying to run away from my past and it's looking me right in the face. She looked at me a little while longer before rushing over and engulfing me into a bear hug, and just like I remember she smelled of peppermint and cinnamon. I was enjoying the warmth of her, something I never got from my own mother when Harry cleared his throat.

"Sorry Mr. Styles" he nodded and told her that I was here for the pa position.

"Oh, okay well Ms. Sanders, we have all of your information on file so all we need is your current address, telephone number and signature and you'll be good to go."

"Andrea please, you're practically my mum, you can call me Zoe." I told her as Harry shook his head firmly and raised his voice. "No, that's not how we do things, we will not under no circumstances have an informal environment here, it leads to sloppiness which in turn leads to mistakes." I looked at him wide eyed as Andy looked unaffected by his outburst and nodded her head.

"I don't know my address, I just moved there last night." I said shyly, I was a little embarrassed about the situation.

"997 Willow road flat 12b." Harry said exasperatedly.

"Alright then Mr. Styles you have a banquet tonight, it's for one of our bigger investors so the company is dormant for the day, Mr. Tomlinson is in your office requesting to see you and the guidelines for Ms. Sanders to follow tonight are in your office. Your tux fitting is at 12 and I will give the rest of your agenda to Ms. Sanders since I'm assuming that she will be accompanying you for the day." He nodded and turned out the room as Andy turned to me. "He wouldn't want you working here under him." she said disapprovingly. "I didn't really have a lot of options seeing as though I was getting ready to be put out, and what's so bad about him anyway, he just bought dad's company after he died." I said and walked out to catch up with him as we walked into his office.

"Lou, get out."

"Hello to you too Harold, I come all the way from my company to yours for you to be rude to me and bring a gorgeous woman in here and not introduce me." The man Lou? Said.

"Some of us actually have work to do Louis." Harry replied as he ran his hands through his hair. Louis ignored him completely and turned to me and opened his arms for a hug.

"Louis Tomlinson, resident best friend and business partner." I looked at him before I made my own introduction and stepped into his embrace.

"Zoe Sanders current assistant to Mr. Styles and that's it really." he looked at me for a second then looked at Harry who looked a mixture between angry and confused at Louis hands which were still on my body but instead of being around my back the rested on my hips.

"Lou," he sighed "that's sexual harassment." Louis shook out of whatever daze he was in and let me go walking over to Harry and whispering something to his ear and left without another word leaving me confused and Harry looking angry.

"Zoe," he started as he got up and walked over to the door and locked it, "you could be fired for what you did." I was more confused than ever by this time.

"What the hell are you on about I've not done anything."

"You lied, you said you didn't know who I am when the real question is, how could you not? You can't pretend that you didn't know this was his building."

"I didn't realize that this was his building until I saw Andy but I wasn't lying when I said I didn't know who you were."

"I was at the funeral and the will reading, I saw you." his eyes darkening a shade but I paid no mind. "Excuse me for not paying attention to you because I was too busy mourning my dead father." he looked sad just then and I realized that he, like many others must have looked up to him. I felt like I had been too harsh, but now looking back I remembered his hair, I mean you don't forget hair like that. "Sorry. Look, here's all the things you need today and tonight, you can read them in the car but we must go." I nodded and followed him out the door.