🌹R O S E II🌹

🌹CHAPTER ELEVEN🌹

The day has come, the day that I have to choice on what I have to do. At midnight my life will be ruined and I mean ruined. I didn't sleep a wink last night and I'm too tired. I've been thinking about my options and trying to come up with ways myself on what I can do about this whole thing.

The blackmail is clear and there is nothing that I can do to avoid it unless I do one of the two options that I had been given and after a long and hard time of thinking, I finally found the thing that I want to do and I know which choice I have to choose, even when I will hate this.

On my desk the ring sits and every now and then and by that I mean often my eyes would travel to that ring and it has kept me longer awake, giving me motivation and the fact that my hate runs deep and the thought of revenge does keep me a little awake, ok, maybe that is the only reason I looked at that ring.

Sighing I look out the window to see that the world that was so quiet in the night is starting to blossom and the day is rising once again, bringing people hope and love and new opportunities in life and staying awake is clearly doing something to me.

I take my office phone and dial a number that I want to call and then I wait, and I keep waiting. Clearly they aren't awake yet but to my surprise they do pick up the phone. "I'm in" I say into the phone before they have the chance to even say hello and then I hang up.

Setting the phone back where it is supposed to be, I stand up and I'm feeling a bit dizzy. My feet haven't been moved that much for the past hours that they've gotten used to that and don't want to do what my brain tells them to do, it's either that or my brain is just really slow at sending the message to my feet that I'm walking.

Semi-walking to the couch, I sit down or rather throw myself down at it but I end up lying down. That's better even, my body is so tired that I just want to close my eyelids that have been feeling so heavy for the past few hours due to lack of sleep and just go to sleep and before I even knew it, that is what I do and with smile on my face.

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"We should wake her. We should definitely wake her" I hear someone mutter but I'm asleep and I want to stay asleep and the voices are too distant for me to go to. I'm just going back to sleep. "Yes, I believe you are correct. However, be prepared for her to throw something in your face" I hear a rather familiar voice point out.

I'm confused. What is happening. All I see is black and I can barely feel my body. I'll just go back to sleep, that's better for me to do at this point because it will feel amazing. Besides my eyelids feel like they are glued stuck and I can't open them, at all.

"I say, he wakes her up..." Another voice says before saying something else that I couldn't hear. Come on, can't a girl sleep in peace here, I'm so tired and I really want to be asleep. I was dreaming so great. I don't remember it but it was great and I want to continue that dream.

Suddenly I feel someone very close to my face. "Rose. Wake up" A soft voice whispers to me and somehow my eyes flutter open, to be met with the eyes of Alexander Knight's. He shields the light that is coming for the windows from me which is good because I really don't want to be blinded by the light.

He has a smile on his face, a smile that I just adore. All right, I'm not going there. I look around and I see Miss Scott and Lena standing further back and both of them are looking rather nervous. Did I miss something or were they always like this.

I sit up and rub my eyes before I stand up and walk over to my desk and sit down there. Still more tired than I was before. I quickly take a look at the clock and it's only been about twenty minutes since I went to sleep. Are you kidding me?

"What are you doing in my office? I clearly did not invite you here and I clearly don't like it when you just show up here" I ask him but I notice that he along with Lena and Miss Scott have not moved from their spots where they were when I woke up.

Are they all right? Perhaps they are like this because I'm angry at him and I'm angry at everything else. I take a look at myself in the computer screen which is black but it shows my reflection and my hair and my face is decent, not prefect but then again I've not slept in hours and the only sleep I got was twenty minutes which only makes me angrier.

"You see, after I got your call I had to come here with contract so it could be signed sooner and the media will know of it" He tells me as he walks closer to me but I raise my eyebrow which makes him stop. Good I don't want him near me now that I'm joining business with him.

I give him a serious look. "And do you have that contract? I want to read it and have all my lawyers go over it just to make sure there are no hidden deals or betrayals or lies in it" I tell him, making sure that he knows that I'm angry at him, he should know because I'm more pissed at him than I've been in my entire life.

He points to my desk and I look down. Noticing that the contract is on the desk, which I overlooked but can you blame me. I haven't gotten much sleep. "You can sit down, this could take a while. Lena sits on the couch and Miss Scott please bring our guests some coffee and I want my usual" I say to the three of them which they all do what I ask.

It feels really nice to have this control over someone. They all do this quickly and quietly, I'm sure they don't want to make me more angry than I already am. I start reading the contract and I read every word and sentence very carefully to make sure there is nothing I'm missing but in my state right now I'm probably missing a couple of things.

Miss Scott returns with the coffees for them and my usual which is hot chocolate but no one needs to know that, it's very unprofessional in people's eyes. "Miss Scott, please call all my lawyers for me" I say to her and she smiles at me before she goes out the door.

That is weird, she's not said a single word to me and that isn't that much like her. And Lena isn't herself either. She hasn't gone all crazy with questions or anything. There is something fishy going on here and it's not the fish that some guy outside my office always brings for lunch.

I'm getting really sidetracked here, well it's not my fault. My brain is too tired to even think at this point and I have no idea what I'm doing right now. Suddenly before I could stop myself, my eyes go up and to Alexander who is watching me with an intense look on his face.

He's drinking his coffee but he never takes his eyes off me which is sweet and creepy at the same time and I don't like it. "Is there something on my face?" I ask him, thinking that he would look away but he doesn't. He doesn't even say anything, just continues to stare at me.

"You've read it, I take it?" He asks and I nod my head but I'm lying. My eyes started to see blurry and the words weren't making any sense. Lacking sleep and reading isn't something you should mix up together. "You know, why don't the two of you just kiss and make up all ready" Lena suddenly says after her being silent this whole time, which had me worried for a second but she's back to being herself.

And by that I mean she's more annoying than ever. I glare at her and I notice that he gives her a warning look, but she almost snarls at him. I guess she still hates him for what he has done, at least she's still on my side or I think she's still on my side and I hope so.

"Have you eaten?" Alexander asks me, such a random question to ask me. He doesn't care about me nor my health, why should he ask? "No and that doesn't matter now" I tell him. I'm completely lying and I hate it. My stomach has been complaining by a hungry lion since I woke up.

He must have heard it and just finds it so annoying and just want to shut it out and I can't blame him. I hate my stomach at this moment too. He stands up from the chair. "Then let's go" He tells me and I give a shocked and surprised look.

What does he think he's doing? He can't just waltz back into my life after seven months by the way and think that everything will go back to normal. "With all due respect, Mr. Knight. We must keep a professional relationship and eating together breaks every rule of that even if it's only a harmless breakfast" I tell him which does put a frown on his face but he's quick to hide it with a smirk.

I, too, am frowning, only on the inside because I'm pretty hungry and my body is tired. "Well then, Rose. You can just starve for all I care" He says and I take a sip of my hot chocolate that has finally cooled to the temperature that I like to drink it at, not too hot.

This will just have to do for now. I don't say anything after that and we fall into a very awkward silence which I don't really like, then again I'm with the one person that I hate most in the world but I don't really hate but just pretend to and my best friend who's not being supportive at this moment, because she's lost in her own world and not helping me out here when I really need her to be there for me.

He takes out his phone and does whatever in it which is none of my business and then he puts it back into his pocket and we're still in the awkward silence. I do want to speak but I just have nothing that I want to say and if I do begin to yell at him I know that I won't be able to stop until all my anger is out.

Five minutes later there is a knock on the door and then Miss Scott comes in holding a bag in her hands. I raise my eyes brows at her because I have no idea what is going on. "This came for you" She says and hands me the bag, why does this sound so familiar? Oh yes, because of the ring on my desk.

She leaves without a second word and that still makes me worried about her, when I get the time I will ask her about it. "Eat, Rose" Alexander says and I look at him. Did he just give me food and food from my favorite restaurant? Why am I not mad about this? I open the bag and start eating the food that's inside and I can't hide the small smile on my lips.