Chapter 2

• I look at him, completely frozen and perplexed, My God, what a mess I've gotten myself into! With flushed cheeks, I look at his hand extended in front of me.
• "We haven't had the pleasure of introducing ourselves, miss..." trembling, I take his hand and force a smile.
• "Bella Swan," I reply in a low voice, avoiding his gaze. I feel like I'm about to melt because I feel his penetrating gaze on me as if he's shrinking me more and more.
• And I haven't even mentioned that our joined hands feel like acid-burning my skin. I try with all my might to retrieve my hand, but his grip is strong, and after a few seconds, he finally lets go of my hand."
• "I see you've already met Bill, your new colleague," he says, but his eyes convey hatred in the last part of his sentence.
• Why is it so difficult for me to control my temper?
• I nod and feel my face burning. I must be completely red. I start to look around at the things in my surroundings. The carpet my boss is standing on becomes very interesting.
• "Mr. Anders and you will work with me, understood?" I nod at his question and say nothing. "Which means the three of us will be spending a lot of time together," he mentions, and I try not to gasp in surprise.
• I truly am the worst person ever.
• "What exactly will our tasks be?" Bill asks, breaking the awkward silence.
• "You'll find out very soon," is the only response Mr. Dallas gives. "Well, that's all for now. I'm leaving. I don't have time for this," he says and bids farewell, giving me one last look before leaving.
• No matter how badly I've done, or how much I've messed up, or even if I've risked my job, honestly, I only have one thing on my mind.
• He looks so sexy in a suit!
• After he leaves, I recover from my embarrassment, return to my desk, and try to be productive at work, but I fail miserably. My thoughts only go back to our encounter, his beautiful eyes, his muscles, how handsome he is, and the fact that he's my new boss ruin everything completely.
• And I'm not stupid. I've seen and read many novels about bosses, and I don't want to be part of a stupid cliche story. But if only they could see him... they would understand me completely.
• "Are you tired?" Bill asks me from his desk.
• "Not, I guess I'm just having a really bad day," I reply.
• "Don't worry, we've all had a bad day at some point, but I have a good remedy for that. Coffee?"
• "I would appreciate it," I reply with a big smile.
• Bill leaves and doesn't take long to come back with two coffees. I thank him as I take one.
• I like Bill. I don't know him at all, but I try to cheer him up, and that makes him a very good person. He has a positive charisma that everyone likes.
• Our workday is over, so I gather my things, leave the office, and say goodbye to Bill before I go.
• As I'm in the elevator, I receive a text message from Bill saying that maybe next time we can go out to dinner to celebrate being colleagues. I find it amusing to read the message, as he could have told me all this time in the office, but apparently, he didn't dare. When I reach the lobby, the doors open, and I step out while typing a reply until I accidentally bump into someone.
• "Oh, I'm so sorry," before I can continue with my apology, my eyes widen in surprise, and I fall silent.
• Out of all the people who work in this company, I had to bump into him.
• Damn it!
• His eyes scan me from bottom to top slowly until his eyes stop at my phone. He looks suspiciously at my phone and his brow furrows.
• "You better look ahead when you walk. We don't want you to hurt someone," he says coldly. I'm about to respond, but he turns and continues on his way.
• I sigh at his coldness. It was indeed my fault, but he didn't have to be such a jerk.
• I keep walking until I get back to my phone and reply to Bill, walk towards the parking lot, reach my car and search for the keys in my purse, when I hear some laughter, I look around confused, and my eyes wander around looking for those laughs and my sight stops at the luxury black car that almost ran me over the day before as if it couldn't be any other way, my boss is standing in front of the car while smiling seductively at a young redhead with long legs, she is too attractive, I see why he is so infatuated, rolling my eyes I go back to my purse and keep looking for my keys, when I find them I open the car and get in quickly, I pass by my boss and his conquest.
• When I get home I immediately change into comfortable clothes and remove my makeup, it feels so good to be free, I heat a frozen pizza that I always keep in my fridge, I miss my mother's food so much, but I love pizza so much.
• I put on the soap opera that is currently airing on national television, it's a Turkish soap opera.
• I don't understand why she's crying, she was the one who cheated on him and crying won't make him come back to comfort her, silly romantic novel, just girls whining over a man.
• After a few hours I decide to take a shower and go to sleep, I hope tomorrow is a good day, I will see Mr Dallas again and I still don't know how to apologize for the past incident, God, I don't know why I talk so much if I were a little quieter maybe none of this would have happened, but no, I'm too stupid and talkative and said more than I should have, it's so sad that such a handsome man hates me so much... and with that thought, I fall asleep or at least try to, because my mind keeps thinking about him, I also think about how he was flirting with that girl and I know I shouldn't care, but I would love to be in her place, I sigh and change positions, maybe that way I can sleep a little and thank goodness, I succeed.
• In the early hours of the morning, I wake up again, exhausted I get up to go to the kitchen and have some warm milk, maybe that way I can manage to sleep a little.
• I take some milk from the fridge and put it in a pot to heat it, while I wait I decide to search for the name of my boss on the Internet, I will find information since he is the son of a great businessman.
• I'm not surprised to see so many magazine articles, awards, and biographies, but that's not what I'm looking for, I need photos so the best idea is to look him up on Instagram.
• It's a bit tricky but I finally find his Instagram profile, luckily his profile is public, I start looking at all his photos and he looks like a great model, could he be a model?
• I wouldn't be surprised if he were... he has everything it takes to be a great model, he looks so good in each of his photos.
• As I scroll through his profile and look at his photos, something in particular catches my attention, it's a beautiful woman who is with him with a flawless smile.
• They both look so comfortable and happy, as if the mere presence of the other person makes them so happy, I feel a little envious, I don't know who she is and I don't want to know, but I envy their happiness.
• The pot heating the milk starts boiling to the point where it's about to spill over and in a rush to prevent it, I accidentally like the photo...