Mrs. Affair

[3] Her morning

I stirred in an uncomfortable position before blinking the pounding of my head away but the harsh beams of sunlight just made it worse.

Why the hell were the curtains even open?

My legs were uncomfortably and irritatingly tangled in my silky sheets that also dangled on my carpeted floor where also lay my messy covers. This shit was just too slippery.

I groaned while I kicked off the sheets and I was surprised to realise that I was only in my night dress and If I remembered correctly I wore a robe the previous day.

I tried recalling yesterday's events but the rest of the day after my repeatedly shots came back blank.

I couldn't remember anything from last night except drinking my life away. I decided to just brushed off the alarming thoughts and focused more on my sore and dry throat while I stumbled out of my room, to make it to kitchen and drink some water.

Once I stepped foot in the hallway though, my nostrils were assaulted with a delicious aroma of eggs, bacon and sausage that made my stomach rumble in hunger.

It was probably Mrs. Adams, my housekeeper cooking breakfast.

As I turned the corner, let's just say that the view that welcomed me was far from what I was expecting.

There in my kitchen graciously moved my bodyguard/driver/P.A.

Edward was walking around unbothered while shirtless with his basketball shorts dangling lowly on his hipbones and I had to admit the guy was deadass sexy.

He was the type of man that other men were afraid to walk with because it made them feel insecure.

The guy was a 6'4 hunk with a delicious chocolate brown skin covered with little tattoos here and there, he was extremely muscular, not that he wouldn't still look amazing without all the muscles. But still.

I had never liked bulging muscles like those on guys but on him, they just added up to his handsome face and then you had yourself a ladies' man even though he was anything but.

The guy was a person I saw every day yet I knew nothing about him. Thinking about this made me realize I had never even tried. He was partially a stranger to me but that was his job, wasn't it?

He was supposed to stay behind. Be my shadow and protect me. Some thing he was so good at.

The little I knew about him was that the guy was open. That is who Edward was, an open book, not that you could easily read him but because he'd tell you anything he had on his mind and that's what I liked about the guy. He was straight forward, a thing we had in common.

"Morning boss" Edward's deep voice startled my hangover day dreaming brain, making an embarrassing high pitched squeak leave my lips but instead of shying about it. I waved him off, walked to and opened the fridge retrieving some lemonade and hedex pills before gulping almost the whole ice cold jug down with two pills.

The juice refreshed my sore throat and woke up my fuzzy head while the pills did their magic in seconds.

As I made my way to the set up table for one person I felt his eyes on my back and turned to find the guy staring shamelessly at my butt.

"Enjoying the view?" I asked smirking with the intention of haunting the man but he just smirked back.

"Well, I am a normal man and not all of us wake up to a cute bubbly butted boss in their mini night dresses. It's a once in a life time opportunity " He fired back. See, the guy had no filter whatsoever.

But that was a lie. A big fat lie.

The guy had seen me naked a thousand times. He had cleaned my vomit and almost bathed me. He had carried my unmoving body. Hell, he had even brought me back from the dead once.

But I decided to play along. Anything for my anchor.

"Woah! Way to scare off a flirting woman" I feigned a shocked expression putting my fingers on my chest but that just made the guy chuckle, asked if I wanted coffee which I just declined then he excused himself to get ready for work and I watched his back as he left.

I thought for a second before I called him back.

"Edward?"

He was still in the kitchen since he had stopped to clean a little mess from his cooking session.

"What happened last night?" I asked awkwardly.

I was pretty sure it was another one of my embarrassing episodes when my drinking got the best of me.

Since the guy didn't sleep here often and when he did, that would be if we finished office work really late so Edward spending the night and adding that to my blank mind meant I was in for one of my worst of expectations.

"Well you drunk too much and then proceeded to pass out not before texting me. I came and found you passed out at 7 in the evening, carried you to your room then you fell asleep so with the bad shape you were in I just stayed in case something worse came out of it"

"Again" He mumbled the last word but I heard it perfectly and it made me feel pathetic and guilty but I just waved him off and jumped back in my breakfast.

"Are you okay?"

Startled, I looked up to realize that Edward hadn't left. He was still lingering in the door with a curious and concerned expression on his handsome face.

"I am fine Edward" I mumbled.

The words came out quieter and timid that it almost sounded like I didn't trust the statement myself.

"Get ready quickly and go fill in for me. I'm not in the mood for meetings today" I added while laughing it off awkwardly and avoiding his worried gaze.

I continued to eat my breakfast and after 5 seconds, I heard his fading soft footsteps before releasing a breath I didn't know I was holding.

Today was going to be a long ass day.