Love Trap (Slow Updates)

Seventy.

Aria's pov;

I paced up and down the busy hallway of the first floor, trying my best not to bump into anybody and disrupt their work. I waited for Josh to arrive, first thing in the morning, as he didn't seem to be back yesterday night, as I expected him to. I had to speak to him and call Joel as soon as possible, because he needed an answer and I was stalling a possibly very important point of the beginning of Harry's career, something I obviously never want to do.

When I saw him turn in the corner and walk into the hallway, towards his office, exactly outside of where I was standing, I let out a deep sigh of relief. "Josh, I need to speak to you"

"Let me open first, don't be impatient" He said, a playful smile plastered across his lips.

A light flush crept up my cheeks as I hadn't realized how impatient and rushed I came out to be. I was more nervous about the whole matter than I thought I was, because I'm afraid Josh will lose a part of his trust towards me.

I recognized the golden key in his hand, as he twisted it and pulled down the doorknob to reveal his office to himself and I, letting us both in. Flashes of Emily's file and the information that unraveled yesterday, flooded my mind, but I pushed them to the back, in order to concentrate on my main task at the moment. Getting approval from Josh to do an interview with Harry. It seemed to me like I only had a slight chance of being let to do such thing, as I'm not sure how trustworthy I am here yet. It has been a little over a month since I have become a new addition to this enterprise and I have done nothing to upset anybody. There's a spark of hope in me that remains, thinking he will let me do this.

Josh sat down on his leather chair, bringing it closer, positioning his elbows on his glass desk, focusing on a pile of papers on the right side of it. He put the papers away in a drawer under his desk and fixated his gaze on mine, clearing his throat. "So, how can I help? How are you feeling?"

"I'm okay" I said.

"Are you in physical pain because of your injury?" He asked me. I can't lie and say that Josh is completely indifferent for his employees. Although his is mischievous and cruel, he has times where he is concerned about others. At the end of the day, I risked getting injured to seal one of his most crucial cases, getting him the money Kol owed to him after his exchange.

"It's getting quite better, the meds are helping with the pain a lot and Brandon told me I will start exercising my leg again in a couple of days, to have it get used to the pressure again" I explained to him.

"Good to hear. I never really spoke to you about the incident and the case of Kol... But I have to thank you for what you did out there. It was really brave of you to step out, even if you are new to the job. I wouldn't want to lose any of my fighters, especially somebody as good as Harry. You and I both know what I would do to keep him" He said. I contained the frown to spread on my lips, as I drifted back to Emily's sketched death. He really would do anything for his moneymakers. "And I am also sorry we were unprepared for such an incident, we should have had back up with us as well"

Hearing Josh Stone apologizing for one of his misses regarding his enterprise is something rare and it is even more odd that I am the person he is apologizing to. The only person I can imagine him apologizing to would be Emily, as she seems to be rather close to him. It's comforting to know that he knows his boundaries between him and me.

"It's okay, it's all done now. I'm healing, the case is closed and those are the only things that matter" I reassured him, gladly accepting his apology.

He nodded in satisfaction with his decision to apologize and then suddenly knitted his eyebrows in concentration. "You wanted to speak to me about something, am I right?" He asked.