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🌹CHAPTER THIRTY - EIGHT🌹

We eat our food in the VIP room, and we're the only one's there, no big surprise there. I don't know why, but I feel even more nervous around him than ever before. "Tomorrow, I will be going to Paris" Alexander suddenly announces to me.

I stop eating my delicious hamburger and look at him with a shocked face, I don't even know why he's telling me this now. "Since you are my secretary, you shall come with me" He then says, and his eyes find mine. I give him an even shocked face than before, not even sure of that is possible.

"What?" I say, I've never been to Paris, or anywhere really. "It's work related. My family holds a charity ball every year and this year it has been decided it would be in Paris. I will need to be there and I need my secretary" He tells me, as if this is the most casual thing in the world.

My eyes are widened and my mouth is hanging open, I have no idea what I can say about this, he has just told me that I'm going to Paris. I've always dreamed of going to Paris, it is after all the city of love. "Why do you need me? I mean why do you need your secretary?" I ask him.

Somehow deep in my heart, it hurts to me only his secretary and nothing more, some part of me wishes that I'm something more, though, I doubt we will ever be something more. We just don't belong together, or maybe we do. I don't know.

He chuckles, I don't know if it's at my face or my words, either way he's chuckling. "Why would I not need you?" He asks, I frown. "You don't answer a question with a question" I tell him with a annoyed look on my face. His face makes a smirk.

"I just want you to be with me, be there with me" He admits, and for a small moment, I saw a blush on his cheeks, though he does hide it very well. I giggle. "Of course I will go with you. But, I will need time to pack" I say to him. I can't just go to Paris with nothing.

"Don't worry about that, everything will be provided for you on the trip. Also, you don't need to book a flight, it has already been arranged, and the hotel room too" He tells me. So, this guy has thought of everything. I start to eat my burger once again, I'm hungry and I'm not going to let this delicious food go to waste.

"How did you know I'd go with you?" I ask him, after a moment or two of silence. He looks up at me, with a surprised look. "I didn't" He simply says, then continues to eat. "Then how did you know to book everything before I even had the chance to say agree on it?" I ask him.

I finish the last bite of the hamburger. Alexander does look taken back by my words, clearly had not expected me to say that. "I just assumed you would agree to come with me, besides who's going to deny me?" He asks, though, I do believe that he wasn't asking that question to have it answered.

"You're so full of yourself" I mutter, loudly enough so he would hear me, and with a smirk on my face. He rolls his eyes. "Now, since we have finished, I'd like to drive you home. And you will sleep the whole night, I don't want to repeat the day we have had today. However, I did enjoy your snoring, it was so adorable" He says and laughs.

Standing up he pays the bill and leaves the tip. "I can assure you that I will not be making the same mistake again, besides this is the last time you will ever hear my snores, believe me" I say to him as we walk out of the restaurant, somehow I can't shake the smile of my face.

The information has sunk into my brain, I'm going to Paris. I can't believe it. I've never been and suddenly I'm going to Paris, in France. I've never even been out of the country and now I'm going to a whole another one, this is so amazing. I can't wait for it, I'm so exited for it.

Before I even knew what was happening, we were in front of my apartment. "There is no need to come to work tomorrow as we will be leaving early and have no time to work in the office. I will pick you up at nine, sharp. Not a minute after" He says, and his voice is serious, telling me that he will be coming here at nine, and I have to be ready by then or else.

I know that this man doesn't like being late, heck he doesn't even like mistakes, which I can understand because mistakes are horrible. "I'll be ready on time" I tell him. I unbuckle the seat belt and open the door of the car and he does the same thing.

Alexander walks over to me, and he walks with me to the door. "Thank you" I whisper to him. We just stand there, in front of the door, in a awkward silence, looking into each other's eyes. His eyes are always so beautiful and I can't help but get lost in them.

"For what?" He whispers back to me. "For everything you've done for me today" I whisper to him. Our whispers are only for ourselves, we are the only ones that hear it and that is all that matters. This is our moment. He starts to lean in and he catches my lips.

The kiss we shared didn't last very long, but I enjoyed every second of it. I'm, however, the one who breaks away the kiss. Afraid that one kiss will lead to something more and I'm not ready for that, not yet anyway. After our kiss, we just stare into each other's eyes again.

"I should go, I do need that sleep" I try to say, though I do stutter a bit with my words. My cheeks are burning hot and my heart is beating faster than it has ever been. Racing in my chest like it's in a race. "Good night, Rose" He says, his voice alone makes my knees buckle.

If I weren't up against the door, I would have fallen down. My legs don't like to be able to hold my body weight when I'm around him. "Good night, Alexander" I tell him. His name rolls of my tongue and he smirks when I say his name, but I only blush.

I open the door and walk inside and close the door behind me. I don't walk up the stairs, I just stand up against the wall beside the door and sigh. His kiss was sweet, yet it was also rough. He wanted more, I could tell, his tongue explored my mouth and he didn't want to break it, but I had to.

I stare dreamily at my shoes and for a moment, I stay there. I don't know for how long, but I don't care. When I feel my eyes grow tired, I walk upstairs to my apartment. When I open the door, I realize that I haven't been there for some time now, and I really missed being in my own apartment.

As I enter, it's exactly the same as it was before, when I left it. I go straight to bed. My mind can't stop thinking of the things that happened today. With the new secretary, who is not going to replace me, and how I slept the whole day and his words at dinner.

My last thoughts before I fall into the sleep and go into dreamland, were of Alexander and the kiss we just had, and how wonderful it really was, each kiss is special to me. And, I can't help but wonder, am I really falling in love with Alexander Knight?

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Waking up to my phone ringing, I check the ID. It's Damon. With everything going on, I had forgotten a bit about him, like I did once before. I know it's wrong of me, but I don't like him. I don't answer the call, I haven't really been answer his calls for some time now, or just since we last saw each other.

I really can't just answer him, I don't even know what to say to him. I don't know what to do when it comes to him. It's strange and weird and I'm on a loss on what do now. Besides, I can't think of that right now, since I'm going to have to get me ready for Paris.

Wearing the right clothes will be everything, I'm not much for clothes or fashion, but this is Paris we're talking about and I want to look beautiful when I visit the city of love, however, in my opinion, I already look beautiful. But, I want to look more beautiful in Paris.

Somehow I feel like this could be my chance to get closer to Alexander, and not just as an employee at his company or his secretary. I mean as in one day having a relationship with him. Everything says that we should not be together, but my feelings about him are screaming at me that we can be together, even when everything is against us.

Not knowing if he's feeling the same is also the thing that holds me back on this whole thing, I'm his secretary for god's sake, we're not supposed to be together, it's against the rules. Though, his kisses do also suggest that he does feel something for me, perhaps the same thing.

I shake my head to get rid of my thoughts as I hop in the shower and take a quick shower. When I'm done in the shower, I make myself some breakfast and I find myself missing Alexander's cooking, his cooking is so good and I could eat it any day.

Breakfast is also very boring without him, I do enjoy his company very much, even if he's so full of himself and loves nothing more but to show off. But, I do enjoy his smirking, even though it can be annoying, I think it's cute. And I'm going insane.

For the past few days, all my thoughts have been about him and him alone and our possible future together. Why am I even thinking like this? I don't like it, it's taking me away from my goals. I've always wanted to follow into my mother's footsteps and become a business owner and I can't do that if I'm too distracted.

I find the perfect clothes for me to wear and I've decided and I'm not going to think about him, at least until he comes. I call my mother while I wait, as I'm ready and I'm waiting for him to pick me up. "My darling, it's been such a long time since we last spoke" She answers in the phone.

"Mom, I've been meaning to call you, my life is just crazy right about now and it's about to get even more crazy" I tell her, it's best to tell her now than she learns it on herself. Somehow mom always finds everything out. "Oh, and how so, Rosie?" She asks.

"I'm going to Paris with Alexander and-" I don't even get the chance to finish my sentence before she lets out a loud squeal. "Oh, that's wonderful darling. And, I will meet you there since I've been invited to their charity ball, I assume that is the reason for the trip there" She says. "Yes, it is. But, I think it's more than that" I tell her.

"What do you mean?" She asks me into the phone. "I don't really know anymore. I feel like I'm falling in love with him and I feel like this trip to Paris will change everything for us" I say into the phone and then there silence from me. I can't believe I admitted this out loud and to my mother.