The Arrangement

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The next day...

I woke up to the sound of banging against my wall and I shot up. "Fucking shit." I groaned as I rubbed my eyes and adjusted them. I looked at the time and it was 8am. Who the fuck?

I looked outside my apartment window to see a moving van and some moving people. So I guess I'm not gonna get any sleep for a while.

I went outside, and walked down to the lobby to get my mail when I saw Ethan. Ethan? What? He was carrying two big boxes up the stairs and set them down. "Ethan? What are you-" he looked up and he looked different. He got a haircut? And dyed it lighter?

"I'm sorry?" He asks and I give him a weird look. "Oh no I'm Grayson, Ethans brother." He says and wipes the sweat from his forehead. "Brother?" I ask and then it clicks. "Yea well twin." He chuckles and my eyes go wide. Yep he really never clarified that. "Oh so your the one he was yelling at?" I giggled and he shrugged his I shoulders. "Yea pretty much? And who are you?" He asks and I shake my head. "Apologies, I'm Sutton Ryan's, Ethans uh... Colleague." I mutter out and he raises a brow. "Really huh?" He bites his lip a bit, just like Ethan did, and laughs. "Well you are way different from the last 'uh colleague'" he says sort of sarcastically and I furrow my brows together. "Excuse me?" I chuckle and he laughs. "Nothing. But it was nice to meet you Sutton." He gives a wide smile then squats to pick up the boxes and heads to his apartment... The door next to mine.

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"Mr. Dolan?" I asked and he pointed to his desk. "Take these files back to O'Reilly and tell them Dolan enterprises isn't interested if they are slacking on some shit." He daid aggressively and grabbed his phone. "Mr. Dolan I-" but he put his hand up and began talking. He looked at me raised his brows and pointed to the door then went back to his phonecall. What a dick.

I struggle to have a grip on the files, running down the halls,my heel clicking against the tile. I make it to the lobby when I run into a huge figure. The files drop and I get flustered. "Oh god fucking dammit!" I curse under my breath and squat to put them in order. "Oh shit sorry." A familiar voice apologizes and helps me with them. "Oh thank you- Oh uh hey." I say completely taken off guard. "Funny seeing you here." I laugh and he nods. "Well I work here so." He chuckles and I nod my head. "Oh right, stocks, forgot." I shake my head and shrug. "Do you need help." He asks and I scoff. "No no I'm fine, really, but I got to go, nice seeing you again." I smile and then I begin to run again.
One thing I hate about this job, is running in Heels down the busy street just to do my fucking job. Thats not really even my job.

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I run down the hall and into Ethans Office, no file sin hand. I negotiated with the board that Dolan enterprises wont be working with them due to divided interests. I walk in breathlessly and suddenly hear yelling but it stops once they see me. Grayson and Ethan sitting face to face, both red and flustered and both look angry. "Oh im sorry." I apologize and Ethan shakes his head. "No its fine, I was just showing my Brother out." He looks to him and shoots him a look and he arises and heads to the door. "I hope your happy with you new job Sutton. really, I hope you are." he says and then he grabs my hand squeezes it and heads out the door quickly. What was that about?

I look at Ethan as soon as the door closes and he just drops his eyes from my gaze and heads to his desk.

" what was that all about?" I ask eagerly and he just shakes his head. "Nothing that you have to worry about." He says and then drops the conversation. "Get everything together. Taylor will be here in 20."

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Welp...
And sorry for slacking. Been busy as hell. Updates soon to come. Ill just whip em up and then post them every other day. Sounds good? Yea sounds good.

Peace✌💜