🌹R O S E  III🌹

🌹CHAPTER FORTY - THREE🌹

Sitting in my office with Alexander by my side as I begged him to take me to the office and he knew that I was not ready to go back to his office where we got shot, I don't think I will ever be ready to go in there at all. Alexander has been holding my hand this entire time as we sit there, and I get the feeling that he doesn't ever want to let go of my hand again.

Then again there is no way that I'm complaining about it, I actually like it when he holds my hand and it does make me feel safe. "Penny for your thoughts" He suddenly says and I realize that I had spaced out for a moment but his voice brought me back.

I raise an eyebrow at him. "I think my thoughts are worth more than a penny" I tell him trying to change the subject because I know that if I tell him how safe I feel when he's around me, he would never drop the subject and he would annoy me with it for the rest of our lives which I would rather avoid.

He chuckles. "I'll give you ten thousand if you tell me what you're thinking" He says and I smirk at that and nod my head. "All right, ten thousand" I agree and put my hand out for him to shake and I see the victory look on his face. What he doesn't know is that I'm messing with him.

We shake on it. "I'm thinking that now I'm ten thousand dollars richer than I was before and I don't know how to spend it" I tell him and smirk at him while his face playfully falls but I can see the amusement in his eyes, the amusement that I actually like seeing on his face since it brings forth this playfulness inside him that he normally would hide.

"You tricked me" He says as if had hurt him but I can see on is face that he's only playing. I grin at him. "I promise to share the money with you, but I don't think you would need it. You are after all so rich that you don't have any idea what to do with the money. Did you not say that to me once?" I ask him, reminding him what he had once told me.

He knows that I've caught him in that. "All right, you can have the money but I would still like to know what your beautiful mind is thinking" He tells me and I giggle. "You can't even see my mind, how would you know if it's beautiful or not?" I ask him and he raises an eyebrow at me.

"I'm trying to be a good fiancée and complimenting you and you're playing hard to get" He says and I smile at him. "Why would I play hard to get when you've already gotten me?" I ask him and he rolls his eyes at my words but I just give him an innocent smile as I turn back to look at the papers that we're working on.

Getting used to all of this is harder than I would've thought and after everything that has happened to me, I swore to myself that I would never feel so little and alone anymore and I would smile and get through it. This company does belong to me, even when it's much different than it was before yet I'm not going to stop trying.

"You like teasing me, don't you?" He asks me as he snakes his arm around my waist and pulls me closer to him but all he does is pull the chairs close together while I remain in the same spot that I was before. "It depends. But you're distracting me and I need to work and you do too" I tell him but it's hard to hide the smile that comes to my lips.

His touch does things to me that nothing else does and it always does make my mind run over to him when I truly need to focus on something else. Before I could react his face leans to my ear. "Oh, you are the one that distracts me. I cannot think clearly when you're around me and I feel my body aching to me near you" He whispers into my ear.

His voice or words or both sends shivers running up and down my spine as I feel the blush rise to my cheeks and I have a let out a breath that I did not know I was holding. His face then moves to my neck and starts to kiss my neck and moves the sweater that I'm wearing aside.

Without realizing it a moan has escaped past my lips and I gasp when he does this. My body feels hot all over and I don't know what is happening or what he's doing but whatever it, I don't want him to stop. This feels good. I close my eyes and allow him to continue to kiss me there.

While we can't do anything else for obvious reason, he does like teasing and I do like it when he does these things to me. "Alexander..." I moan slightly but I close my mouth when he chuckles. He's enjoying this as much as I am or perhaps he's enjoying this even better since I can almost feel the smirk while he kisses me.

A knock on the door breaks him from and he is quick to back away and act as if none of this happened. Right before the door opens I fix my sweater so that nothing can be seen. I glaze at him to see him smirking on me. Oh... it's on. He was waiting for this to happen.

Mrs. Ryder enters the office but I think she can sense the tension in the room right about now. She comes over and puts a folder on the desk before she silently walks out of the room and I glare at Alexander once she is gone and has closed the door.

"You're in big trouble" I tell him but he only smirks at me and I roll my eyes as I continue my work and I try to hide the small smile that has formed on my lips and I wonder if it always going to be so distracting to have him around me when I'm trying to work but I suppose it will just have to be like that from now on, since I do like having him with me, he just distracts me a lot.

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A hickey. He had given me a hickey. That man is going to be the death of me someday. I look closer in the mirror to see it's visible and if it were not for the sweater that I wear then everyone would be able to see it and now he's in more trouble that he was in before and I will make sure of it that he will get what is coming for him.

I just have to think about what that should be since I have no clue on how to get back at him but I will, somehow I will get back at him for giving me a hickey. He stepped over the line this time and there is no way that I'm going to tell him how much I enjoyed it. That will be a secret that I'm not going to share or I will have hickeys everywhere on my body which is something that I'd rather not have.

I walk out of the bathroom and go back to the office and make sure that he can see the glare on my face. I'm a bit slow at walking there since I do need to have this annoying cane with me everywhere I go and it does help me walk but it's starting to get annoying to walk so slow when I need to get somewhere.

Smiling at people as I pass them they smile back to me with happiness on their faces. Some even tell me that I'm doing great and I'm almost there and I just smile at them as I do walk on as I finally make it to the office where Alexander is waiting for me.

As soon as I walk inside I see him smirk at me and he knows that I've taken a look in the hickey that he had given me but I can also see fear in his eyes as he knows that now I'm about to get back at him. How? Neither one of us know. But, something will come to me soon enough and when it does he's going to regret what he did.

That I am sure of. "Did you enjoy going to the bathroom?" He asks. I can only give him a confused look. "You mean I was, enjoying peeing? Yeah... sure... I enjoyed that" I tell him with confusion. He laughs at my words. "Well, that is good news but I'm sure you enjoyed looking in the mirror at your neck" He says and once again I glare at him.

He's walking on extremely thin line that it's insane that he has not fallen by now but he manages to stay on for some miracle which I'm not sure will be in his favor forever. "We need to continue working. Nothing will get done if you continue like this" I tell him as I walk over to the desk and sit down.

We've barely done anything today and it's already noon. We've actually been playfully bickering or flirting as some would call it with each other and every so often he would pull me in for a kiss. Saying that he needs to feel my lips on his.

"That we have to do but that doesn't mean we can't do other things while working" He tells me and smirks at me. Rolling my eyes I turn to the computer and try to avoid his gaze. "Alexander, work. Now!" I order him and he laughs as he turns to the papers that he was going over.

We fall into silence. All the sounds we make is the work that we do. Him signing some papers and I on the computer use going over emails and other things, notes and such like that. But every so often I would look at him without even trying to and he would look at me and our eyes would meet.

Neither one of us speak at that but the smirk on his face says that he does enjoy it when our eyes meet and he would always try to have some kind of a contact with me. Like having our knees touch or take my hand with his other one or something like that.

He just wants to touch me and I don't really mind that since I do like it when he does hold me and like I've said before, his touch alone makes me feel safe. Or perhaps that is just him or perhaps just both but I do feel safe. I try to keep my eyes focused on the computer and try to read the email that I'm trying to answer but I read the same email over and over again as I can't focus on it.

My focus is on him and while it does annoy me more than it should, I also find myself falling deeper in love with him which I'm not sure is possible at this point since everything inside me already loves him more than anything in this world.

I lightly shake my head to keep my focus and trying not to look at him again which I'm failing horrible at when I hear him chuckle and I turn to face him but he's looking at the papers with a smirk as he can feel my gaze on his and I playfully frown.