Restart (A Billionaire Story)

5: Purely Professional

Alexander Greenfield's P.O.V

I was still in my office, finishing some last mails as I found my thoughts wandering back to Ms. Bauer. The way she had looked earlier worried me quite a bit but as always, I didn't show my emotions. After I had laid her down on the couch, I couldn't help but take in her facial features for a moment, feeling unwatched. I also had notcied how her outfit was different than to what she wore at the interview. It was quite a bit more dressed up and her make up also seemed to be done heavier today.

I quickly forced my thoughts back to work though and then closed my laptop as I was done. I did feel kinda bad for her earlier, which is why I decided to finish her work for her. I knew that she was exhausted and it wasn't even really a surprise to me that she didn't manage to do all of the tasks, since I ordered her way too much to begin with. Which is probably also why she didn't take any breaks to eat, causing her to collapse earlier.

Before I could feel any more guilty, I quickly called my driver and then made my way downstairs to get into the car. On long days like these I was always glad that I didn't have to deal with driving myself, however I did really like driving sometimes.
When I arrived at my place it was quite late already so I took a shower and then sat down on my couch to have a glass of whiskey and eat something.

I found myself smiling as I remembered her offering me some fries today and then getting flustered about it. It was pretty cute to be honest. I bit my lip as I looked down at my phone on the coffee table, knowing that I had her number in it. I quickly typed out a message but didn't send it yet.
I debated for quite a while but then took a large sip of my whiskey and just pressed the send button, instantly regretting my desicion though. What the fuck was I doing? Did I really just text my PA at almost 10pm? 'You're her boss Alex. That's it. Get a fucking grip!' I told myself and made a mental note to make that clear to her tomorrow as well. I didn't want her to get the wrong impression of our realationship, which was obviously purely professional. She's my PA, I'm her boss. Nothing more, nothing less.

About half an hour later I got her reply, which for some reason kinda surprised me at how short and professional it was. I didn't know why I was expecting her to answer to me differently. Maybe because for a moment today when we were sitting on my office couch together, she seemed to have forgotten who I was as we were just having a conversation. But I probably might've just misread that situation.

After checking my mails again, I put my phone down and made my way upstairs and to my bedroom, falling asleep shortly after.

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Okay I will leave it at that for Mr. Greenfield's P.O.V.
Tell me what you think about this view change.  :)
I know it's quite short but I wanna focuse mostly on Stefanie's P.O.V., for now at least.

xx Steffi