Page 17 of Billionaire's Dangerous Desire

“It’s Manager Mayor-aide” I muttered under my breath before answering

“I’m over here” I called annoyed that my voice sounded a little shrill

I always preferred using my office voice whenever I was in the office it made me feel more in control

As he came close I looked up to see who he was, his face wasn’t familiar but I could remember seeing him on my first day in the board room.

The tail of the blue shirt he wore rumpled like it was tucked in before then he pulled it out, his round glasses were a little too big for his face making his eyes look small.

“I thought you’ll be closer to Luca’s office,” he asked pushing back his glasses as if to get a clearer look at me.

“Hmmph! I thought this office could be used for something else. It would have if Luca had agreed to get someone here to do the job” he said shaking his head

“\Well you’re here already ain’t you, so we’ve got to make do with you. Here’s the monthly report from the teachers including their budget requests, there was a small fire outbreak in one of the laboratories during the week so it’ll need to be renovated.

“So that was what caused the sharp smell I noticed while walking with Holden that Day,” I thought to myself.

I was about to say something to him but he had already walked out, I was a little glad because his tone was starting to annoy me “We’ve got to make do with you” like I was an extra appendage that wasn’t necessary.

I should probably have stopped him as I wasn’t exactly sure what I should do with the reports he’d just given me, I considered going to ask him but I wasn’t about to give him the benefit of proving him right.

I set out to look to Ryan, he’ll know what to do with them.

After walking around and I’d still not seen him I decided to call him before I realized I didn’t have his number, I made a mental note to get it once I saw him.

ChapterNine

The door opened and Ryan walked in smiling before I could ask what caused the wide grin on his face I saw who walked in and then I knew, his gold hair looked out of place and what was that he was holding “What is Holden holding?” quite a bad pun!

“Hey Ryan, I’ve been looking all over for you. Where’ve you been” I asked.

“I’ve been around, but that’s by the way, someone else has been looking for you” he smirked walking away and leaving both of us together.

There was an uncomfortable silence before Holden said “ Hi, I got these for you” holding out two cups of cappuccino and some donuts toward me.

“Go ahead take them” he urged me “Don’t worry I think Troy got these right this time,” he said smiling at me like, I didn’t just ditch our date earlier

“Wow, thanks a lot,” I said trying to hide my surprise but failing woefully

It wasn’t every day one got a delivery right during working hours, I was already conscious that almost everyone had left what they were doing and were now looking at us so I pulled him out hurriedly.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him almost breathlessly as I ran down the stairs pulling him with me

"To give this to you, since you couldn't care to turn up to our date. I decided to surprise you with this here" he said

"I had already apologized for that," I told him calmly

"Thanks for it though, I appreciate the thought and I'll love to sit here with you and check out Troy's latest attempt but I'm still working now. I'll give you a call once I'm done okay" I said.

"Alright Evelyn sees you later," he said as he gave me that wink of his before walking away his hands in his jeans, whistling to his Porsche, it's bright yellow like a stroke of paint in the driveway.

At this point, I was seriously confused as to whether we were still cool or he was still angry that I stood him up.

Immediately I entered back I was ambushed by Ryan

"So you and Holden are a thing?" He queried.

I wasn't about to answer that and feed any rumors so I deflected his question

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