Pleasure and Business

Chapter Two

Chapter two

This morning I woke up before the alarm avoiding its annoying sound, by 6:30 I was ready to leave to the office after I’ve had my relaxing coffee time and a long shower. I wore my favorite knee length grey skirt, a red shirt and shiny black high heels. This morning I had enough time to straighten my hair instead of wearing it as a bun as usually and to apply some eye liners and mascara. Before I head to work I looked at myself in the mirror and I was satisfied with my looks.

At 7:15 I got to the company and the offices were still empty, even Sofia wasn't there yet. As I opened my office's door I saw someone in there. Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God! This cannot be happening! My eyes widened with surprise and my jaw dropped. What is he doing here?? We were not expecting him before at least 3 weeks!

It was him! Kevin Jacobs is in New York already! In my office! I never imagined myself I could be this amazed! I know he looks good but I seem to forget how good!! He's about 6'1 tall; I can tell pretty much that he never skips a day without workout. He was standing behind the desk checking the books I have and looking at my pictures. I looked at him for a second before I said anything. He was wearing a slim fit grey suit, his hands in his pockets and cocking his head to the right as he was trying to read the title of a book. I noticed some gray hairs in his amazingly beautiful black thick hair. Even his back looks so sexy! How will I handle this Greek god in the office everyday!

"Excuse me sir" I said in a low tone so I won’t surprise him.

"We meet again Ms. Crown, or is it Mrs. now? He said with the shadow of a smile on his lips.

"It is still Ms." I replied calmly as I blushed. "It is good to have you here Mr. Jacobs" I said trying to divert the conversation from my relationship status.

"Thank you Ms. Crown" he answered serious as ever. He looked back to the pictures on shelves and asked me" Why don't you have a picture of your boyfriend here?" He asked without looking at me.

 It was then that I noticed I was still at the door with my bag in hand, so I came in and opened the door of the private room to put my bag on the sofa there. I looked at Kevin and he was still looking at the same picture of me and my mother hugging and smiling widely.

"That won’t be necessary sir, we are no longer together" I mumbled without seeing his reaction because he was still looking at my picture.

 After a few seconds that seemed like a decade he turned around, his expressions unreadable and said in a very serious tone "I am sorry I disturbed you Ms. Crown and invaded your space".

"It all belongs to you sir you can be wherever you want" I said smiling. He looked at me and I began to blush under his gaze.

His eyes never left mine, I remembered the eye contact we had last year on the charity dinner. After what seemed like eternity he wished me a good day and went out of my office.
Wow! That was pretty intense! Why are my days starting like this these days!
As he left I fell on one of the sofas in relief, I closed my eyes recalling what just happened. I know it is still 7:30am but I definitely need a glass of Chardonnay.

Before I knew it was already the board meeting, I took my tablet, my favorite green mug and went to the conference room. Here he was again, with his tall figure, black thick hair and deep blue eyes. I really have no idea how I will bring myself to work around him. But I had no time to worry about this now; I have a phone call to translate from Japanese to English and vice versa. We will be having a conference call with our Japanese partner to finalize the contract before beginning with the project.

It was minutes before the call was held, I needed to be fully concentrated and to run away from Kevin's constant gaze at me. So I decided to turn my back to him avoiding any eye contact that might disturb me. The conference call went smoothly; I completely turned the world around me off and forgot all about Kevin.
While the board members start leaving the room, I stayed in there for a couple of minutes to gather my stuff and rest a bit. As I closed my eyes for a second I felt a hand on my shoulder, I opened them to see Kevin above my head. He removed his hand quickly as he said looking into my eyes "Are you ok?"

"Yes I'm fine" I replied in astonishment," I was resting for a second before going back to my office."

"Isn't it your lunch break already?"

"Oh I didn't notice it was 2pm already" I gasped looking at my watch, "but I think I will skip it, I still have to email Mr. Yang and finish up some work."

"I don't think you should skip any meal, this is not healthy, otherwise your ability in interpreting might be affected, and I don't want that to happen because I like what I saw and heard in here." He snapped before rushing out of the door.

I grinned to myself as I thought of what Kevin Jacobs just said. He cared about my health and he complimented my work. From what I've heard he barely gives any compliments to his employees and he certainly does not give them health advices.
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