Strictly Professional ✔️

Chapter 25

After we had settled in his...
How should I say it?
MANSION! Or as Derick calls it HOME.
But I guess home is in the eye of the beholder or something like that.

"Still can't get over my house?"
"Nope, I'm still not over your penthouse back in Chicago"
"That was months ago"
"I had probably the strangest first month of employment in history"
"It was fun though wasn't it?"
"For you? Maybe, but it was hell of a lot of work for me"

He chuckled then looked at his watch and nodded approvingly.

"It's five PM, wanna go somewhere relaxing?"
"Like?"
"The park, unless you just wanna stay inside, that's also fine by me"
"No, the park sounds good"
"There's one nearby so we don't need to take the car"

When he was walking to the door I looked him up and down.
"What?"
"You're going in a suit?"
"What's wrong with that?"
"People are gonna think you're weird, plus this isn't New York, this is LA, where people wear khaki shorts and T-Shirts plus, isn't it uncomfortable?"
"I've spent almost two days straight in a suit, I'm used to it"

I huffed and grabbed his jacket.
"Stop making everything sound so sad, now take off your jacket"

I looked up and saw the expression on his face and how he was looking at my hands, that's when I noticed I pulled him way closer than I expected.

I pulled back and looked up embarrassed, I quickly shook off the feeling and gave him the puppy dog eyes.

"Please" I pouted.

He stared at me for a good two minutes until he cracked.

"Ugh! Fine, but I'm not wearing khaki shorts!"
"Deal! But do you even have casual clothes to wear?"
"I do! And even if I didn't I'd ask someone to buy it for me"
"Alright, alright don't shove your rich money in my face"

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"How does this look?"
When he walked out of the closet my breath hitched in my throat.

He was wearing a half sleeved light blue dress shirt with two of the first buttons unbuttoned showing off a fair bit of skin, from his biceps to his chest hair and it was paired off with dark beige trousers to contrast with the light shirt.

Damn, the blue makes his eyes pop out, I'm sure the sky is jealous of how blue they are.

"Hey! Are you done checking me out? I asked how it looked" He said, smirking when he saw the look on my face.
Was I drooling?
I was shaken out of daze and sighed my response.
"You look good"

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We walked side by side in the quite park, the sun was going to set any minute now and people were starting to fill out.

"It's strange"
I said trying to clear up the awkward air around us.
"What is?"
"Walking with you as though this is a normal occurrence, having dinner with you, calling you by your first name, I just didn't want to do something like this at the moment"

"If this wasn't something you wanted, why did you go on a date with Victor that day?"
"First of all I just felt like it and secondly how did you know I went out with Vick? I never said anything about that"

He looked down not answering me.
And it struck me.
He didn't do what I think he's done.
He did, didn't he?
God our lord and creator show this man some mercy...
Because I am about to kill him!

"Don't tell me you looked through my office computer!"
"I had to"
"You had to?! Is that even an excuse?! At least come up with a better one!"
"If I was giving you an excuse, I wouldn't have bothered giving you one anyway"
He said calmly like I didn't just fully lash out on him.