🌹R O S E🌹

🌹CHAPTER FIFTEEN🌹

Did my ears hear his words right? I'm not sure about that. I give him a seriously confused look. "What?" I ask quietly, confusion written all over my face. "You bought it because of me? I don't understand" I ask him. I've always been puzzled around this guy, but now it's beyond anything.

He takes a few steps closer to me, then leans in. "You belong to me" He whispers in my ear. His words make me feel this anger rise within me. I back away from him. "Are you insane. I don't belong to anyone but myself. Least not to you" I yell at him and go into my office, making sure he knows I'm angry at him.

Who does he think he is? Saying I belong to him, it's crazy. He's always been crazy, but I never thought this crazy. I sit by my desk, and ideas are rushing into my head of what I can yell at him. It is true what they say. You always think of so many things you want to say after an argument.

I'm not even sure of this was an argument, I yelled at him, but he never yelled at me. Then again, everything he does makes me furious and angry at him, and want to yell at him. I guess each one of our conversations are arguments, because it always ends up with him saying something that makes me angry and me yelling at him.

I can't let him control my life, I take a deep breath and then exhale to calm myself down, and I do this quite a long time. While I'm calming myself down, I answer some emails, which are pretty easy to do. Mr. Knight doesn't have many meetings nowadays.

It's a bit strange. Mr. Selone had so many meetings every day, sometimes three or four. Few times he had one or none, which never happened that often. Then again, I had been working there for a week, so it might just have been a few times for me.

"Ms. Ace!" Mr. Knight's voice comes from his office. Sighing, I stand up and walk over there. I'm getting a bit tired to walk over there, knock and then he says something or orders me around and then I'm back here. Does it make me a bad person that I find all of this boring?

While I was working for Mr. Selone, he was always making jokes, telling me stories and just being a human being. With this guy, I know for a fact that he can't make a joke or tell a story, he can't even be a decent nice person to me or anyone. It's not fun to work with a person that is so rude and mean and cruel to me.

But, I have to remember that this is all for my own business, I need the money and this is the quickest way to get it. There may be other jobs that pay more than what I'm getting here, but those jobs have nothing to do with my education. I never studied to become a doctor or a lawyer or something.

I educated myself to be a business owner, that's what I'm been studying my whole life. It's all I've ever wanted and I'm not going to stop doing this until I have enough money to start my own business. That means that I have to keep my job here.

I'm not sure how I will be able to do that, when that horrible man makes me want to quit each time we talk to each other. Speaking of. I enter his office after he has rudely called out for me. I wonder if he can ever be nice? I do hope so, because I would like to see that side of him someday, I doubt it but I can't stop hoping for it.

"You called, Mr. Knight" I say with a nice smile. Remember all for the business, all for the business. I just need to handle this guy for some time, and soon I'll be my own boss with my own company. "Yes, do you see anything missing on my desk?" He asks.

I look at it and I don't see a thing that could be missing. "I'm not sure if I understand the question, sir" I tell him, I truly don't know what could be missing on his desk. It's his desk, he can have whatever he wants to have on it, how on earth am I supposed to know what is missing on his desk?

"My coffee, Ms Ace, my coffee is missing" He says, I realize that I haven't been able to get his coffee because I've been rather angry at him. "I'll go get it right away, Mr. Knight" I tell him and turn round to go out of his office. "In a second, Ms. Ace. I need to talk to you" He says.

I turn around again, to look at him. Judging by his facial expression, I can't tell if he wants to talk about business of argue with me about something totally different that has nothing to do with our work here. "What is it, Mr. Knight?" I ask him.

Saying that I'm not nervous is a lie, being alone with him always makes me nervous. I'm very good at hiding it, yet my heart is always beating faster than normally. "I would like you to reconsider my offer of being friends with me. It would be better if you work with me and not against me" He says to me.

Again with that, and I thought I had made myself pretty clear yesterday that I have no interest being friends with him, ever. I think he has bananas in his ears and didn't hear me. "I have no interest being friends with you and you keep messing that up. If you'd truly want to be friends with me, then you wouldn't have been so rude to me" I say.

He opens his mouth to speak, but I'm not finished. "You keep playing these cruel games on me, making me feel horrible. Just half an hour ago you claimed to own me. How often do I have to tell you that friends don't act this way" I tell him, with clear anger my voice.

I turn around and walk outside the door, not giving him to speak back. He has had enough of talking to me, and each time he opens his mouth to say any words to me, they're cruel and horrible or stupid. I go outside into the hallway and to the nearest coffee machine.

Why doesn't he just have a coffee machine in his office? That way he could get coffee whenever he wanted. I make the coffee for him and bring it to his office. The professional person in me knocks on the door and wait until he calls out for me to come in.

But, in reality, I want to storm in there, but I'm a professional. However, I don't want to act like that now. I open the door after hearing him call 'enter' and walk inside. I will never understand how a person can talk so much without emotions in their voice.

I walk over to his desk and set the coffee on it. "Here's your coffee, now your desk is complete. If there isn't anything else you need, I'll be in my office" I tell him and head for my office. "Wait" He says, his voice is softer than before, yet is still the horribly cruel and mean in it.

"Is there anything you need that concerns this company or it's clients, if not then you can close your mouth because I have no interest of hearing it" I tell him and cross my arms over my chest. He opens his mouth to speak, but he closes it right away.

"Thought so" I say and walk over to my office and walk inside. Sitting by my desk, I need to calm myself again. What is it with me and getting angry all the time? I swear, it has something to do with Alexander Knight. He's making my life a living hell, like he said he would.

But, I don't think he even knows it himself how he makes me feel. Or he does and he's yet again trying to mess with me, like he loves to do so much. I believe he's doing that because I can't find any other explanation of this whole thing.

Then out of the blue, my mind travels to Lena's words and how she said that he likes me. I don't think he likes me, I think that he does enjoy messing with me. I shake my head to rid myself off these thoughts, I don't want them to interrupt my work here.

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Lena invited me to her apartment to have some fun, and I really need it. Her apartment is still as messy as always but I'm not going to judge her for that, even if I'm the type of person that can't stand mess. I did once offer to clean her apartment for her, I wouldn't mind it though.

I do love cleaning. "You know, a rumor is going around the whole company" Lena tells me, and of course she's going to talk about something like that. She loves gossiping and telling rumors that others have told her. I'm not much of that kind of person but she loves telling me all of it, so I listen to it, for her sake, not because I want to.

"The whole company, that's a big place for a rumor to be going around, and how is it going that far. There are twenty-six floors, are you certain it isn't on your floor?" I ask, I find it unbelievable that a rumor is going around all twenty-six floors.

"I'm sure, trust me. Everyone's talking about it. And it just started today. You're going to want to hear it, trust me, you are" She tells me, I don't think she has ever been this serious about a rumor in her life. "Fine, tell me this rumor that everyone's talking about" I say.

"Ok, don't freak out. There is kind of a rumor going around about you and Mr, Knight" She says. My eyes widen and I'm not sure how to feel. Never in my life has there been a rumor about me, or not that I know of, at least. When in school, I was sort of just by myself.

I was never much around other kids, because they were a distraction for me. I had to get good grades and pass every exam because I needed that degree that I have now. And, if you ask me, it worked. I have a degree, I'm soon going to start my own business.

"Tell me" I say, anxious to know what this rumor is about me. And since it's not only about me, but also about Mr. Knight, some rumor about us is not going to be good. I know that for sure and even if it's bad, I don't want it to end up in the papers or the internet.

I've read int those articles how the paparazzi love to humiliate and dig up everything they can about some girl that he hanged out for about five minutes and then left her for another. "This is bad" She tells me, and just like that she has dug herself into a hole that she can't escape out of.

She's going to have to tell me this rumor now. I give her a serious look. "Fine, the rumor is about how you and Mr. Knight screwing. And, I know you would never do that sort of thing, even if it would be good for you. There were screams coming from his office, and believe always the worst. Knowing you, I know you were angry at him" She says, my jaw drops open. This can't be happening.