She checked in at the front desk, the elevator on her way to the penthouse apartments, finally with then with the guard at the doors before approaching the ornate double doors. The door opened before she had a chance to knock. He greeted her with his trademark wicked grin. She returned a taut tight lipped smile that didn\u2019t reach her eyes as he stepped aside to let her in. She moved past his towering figure, and caught a whiff of fresh-out-of-the-shower Dorian.<\/p>\n
He shut the door behind her and followed her into the lounge where she paused to wait for him.\u00a0 He motioned her further in as he passed and led her into the living room.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome on in. Don\u2019t be shy. We are best friends remember?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, we are not. You are my boss, I\u2019m your employee.\u201d She said with severity, and added as turned his bemused gaze her way. \u201cAnd may I take this moment to point out that this was supposed to be a strictly office desk job.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know Livy,\u201d there it was again. That purr. \u201cI\u2019m starting to get the impression you don\u2019t like my company. I can\u2019t figure why though. I mean, I\u2019m such a swell guy.\u201d He said with his back to her. He poured two tumblers and held one out to her.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo thanks Sir, I don\u2019t drink on the job.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you relax? You know, your job would be so much easier if you did, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/p>\n
She regarded him with her best business face and said \u201cI can\u2019t do that. It wouldn\u2019t be appr-\u201d He rolled his eyes and sighed exasperated. And the sight of it actually deflated her. She didn\u2019t like it. Sure, she was being stuffy and rigid, but it was good reason. She was working for him! Dorian Martelle! Notorious international playboy, the descriptions didn\u2019t do him any justice. The moment she met him she was lost.<\/p>\n
And no, it doesn\u2019t mean she fell in love with him. She was not so simple minded. She was just aware enough of herself, and rather quickly, him, to realize that if she didn\u2019t reinforce her defenses (which were in shambles at that moment) she would be looking at a messy pit she could never climb out of. In other words, \u2018Don\u2019t you touch that, Olivia Maher!\u2019<\/p>\n
He towered over her at 6ft 4inches. The dark and brooding type with a sardonic personality. He had a face a Greek god would turn green for and eyes so intense she couldn\u2019t look back at first. And his voice! She huffed, at the palpitations she got just thinking of the way he said her name. This man was DANGEROUS! And she had worked too hard to get here to allow herself to lose her senses over a man. Even worse, he just had to be her boss.<\/p>\n
Even now as she was thinking this, he had his arms crossed as he leaned against the drinks cabinet, playful look gone. It was replaced by an unimpressed expression. He wore a black V neck t-shirt that stretched out cross his wide rippling (yes, she used the word rippling, because she was the type to call a spade a spade) chest and shoulders. So she knew what he looked like under all that because she handled his gym subscriptions. She realized that her face must have been arranged in some sort of foreign long discarded childish pout when she came back into herself and it must have shown on her face because she saw his watchful gaze flicker with interest. The bit back an unintelligible grunt at herself, and set her chin manfully.<\/p>\n
No, He would not reduce her to a mindless chit, like all those glamourous socialites he was always with. She got the kind of paycheck she did because<\/em> she was an expert at dodging bullets. Especially these type of bullets. She would survive Dorian Martelle, and thrive dammit! Olivia sighed mildly and straightened up, assuming the grownup tone an adult would use for a child (which was ridiculous given Dorian was 5 years her senior).<\/p>\n \u201cWhy did you ask me here sir?\u201d Back to business. It was his turn to sigh, looking somewhat resigned.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are going to Europe tomorrow.\u201d He said, then added, at her expression, with that nasty grin, \u201cFor two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n She was dumbstruck. She went on leave for the Christmas holidays at the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She checked in at the front desk, the elevator on her way to the penthouse apartments, finally with then with the guard at the doors before approaching the ornate double doors. The door opened before she had a chance to knock. He greeted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"jetpack-portfolio-type":[],"jetpack-portfolio-tag":[],"class_list":["post-876","jetpack-portfolio","type-jetpack-portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jetpack-portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-type?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"jetpack-portfolio-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqrypted.co.ke\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jetpack-portfolio-tag?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}