Picture on side of Liam Bennett played by Liam Hemsworth (see what I did with the names, har har, okay sorry ignore) He's very hot! ------------------------>

Video on side of Jealous by Nick Jonas. Thought it fit Ashton in this chapter a little. Plus its a great song.

*****EVERYONE! I KNOW THIS BOOK HAS A LOT OF GRAMMAR MISTAKES AND AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE MULTIPLE TIMES I WILL EDIT THEM. I AM NOW JUST GETTING TO EDITING THE ENTIRE BOOK AND IT WILL TAKE TIME! I KNOW A LOT OF YOU ARE UPSET BUT IT'S NOT THAT HARD TO LOOK PAST IT FOR THE MEAN TIME! I WILL LET EVERYONE KNOW WHEN THE BOOK IS FULLY EDITED!!!!*****

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I stood next Liam in the exact same place I got coffee this morning, Sunrise Cafe. We stood behind a few people waiting to order.

"This place has really good food, and its quick if your in a rush." Liam said looking down at me. Even with my heels I'm shorter than everyone. We made it to the front and Liam immediately sprouted off his order to the younger girl. She shot him a small shy smiled as she clicked it into the computer. I waited for him to finished but Liam didn't move.

"Are you going to order?" He asked.

"Yeah but just waiting for you."

"No I am paying."

"No I won't let you pay." I said shaking my head. "I can pay for myself."

"Nope not going to happen. Think of it as your 'welcome to your first day' lunch." Seeing as he wouldn't budge I rolled my eyes. I ordered a Caribbean salad and just got water. "That's all your getting?" Liam asked as he handed over money to the girl.

"Yeah it sounds really good." I said shrugging. The salad had mandarin oranges, Chinese crutons, chicken, shredded almonds, and a good sounding dressing.

The girl handed him a number stand and Liam steered me towards an empty table by the window. I sat across from him and glanced out the window. People walked by in a brisk pace trying to get to where they are going.

"Thank you for lunch." I said sending Liam a smile.

"You are welcome." He smiled back. Before awkward silence could wrap around us I asked him a question.

"So you were born in Australia?" I asked leaning forward and resting my head on my hands staring at him.

"I was. I was born in a small town just a little outside of Sydney. I lived there until University when I got accepted into Columbia on a basketball scholarship." Liam said.

"Wow. You must have been really good at basketball to get a scholarship at Columbia. Did you just graduate?" He couldn't have been more than 2 years older than I was.

"Yeah I graduated almost 2 years ago. I'm 25." He said.

"What did you major in?"

"Well at first I didn't know what to major in, I thought i'd make my way through the four years than get drifted maybe. But my second year in I got hurt, really hurt and had to quit basketball. That's when I figured I better start going for something else. That's when I decided to major in business and math."

"I am sorry that sounds terrible." I said and I meant it. It would suck having all your dreams crash around you in just an instant. "But at least you got a good degree and are working at a nice place." I said trying to sound bright.

"Your right about that." He said chuckling. Just than someone came with our food and set it in front of us. My salad looked really good and was huge. My stomach growled the moment the plate came to rest in front of me. I blushed and shot Liam an embarrassed smile. He stared at me in amusement than shook his head.

"Someone is hungry." He said grabbing the sandwich he got.

"Yeah I am. I didn't get a chance to eat this morning." I starting eating my salad and was surprised by how good it was. It's weird to say a salad was this good but this one was. We ate in silence for the next few minutes before Liam asked me something.

"So how about you? Where did you go to college? Major?" He asked.

"Well I grew up about 30 minutes away from here. I went to NYU and just graduated last year, I'm 23. I majored in Journalism." I said.

"Journalism, that's pretty cool. What made you go into that?"

"I honestly don't know. I like to write and I like English so it was an obvious choice I guess."

We talked back and forth while we ate our lunch. Liam was easy to talk to and I could feel myself relaxing around him. I knew that I had at least one friend at work now. Looking down at my phone I saw it was way past 1 o'clock and I wanted to be back before Ashton.

"I think we better head back. It's almost 1:30." I said cleaning up my lunch.

"Your right. Here let me take that." Liam said grabbing my plate and going to the garbage. While he threw away our stuff I slipped my bag on my shoulder, grabbed my phone and fixed my outfit. "Ready?"

I nodded and followed Liam out the door and towards the building.

"Thanks for lunch Liam." I said smiling over at him.

"No problem. Your great company. I'm glad we'll be working together." He said sincerely. We walked through the doors of the building. I saw Neena and shot her a small wave. She waved back but was blocked as someone came up to the desk to talk to her. Silently we stood and waited for the elevator people standing around us. With a bing the doors opened and we were immediately surrounded by people. Liam and I were smashed against the side of the wall as more and more people trickled in. Liam's arm wrapped itself around my waist and pulled me back against him so my back was to his chest. I could feel warmth radiating off of his arm and through my blouse. I blushed and looked down not knowing what to do with his arm around me.

Slowly people exited off their floors but Liam still kept me pressed against him. We got closer to the 30th floor and we stood in the elevator with about 7 other people. That awkward elevator silence wrapped around us all. I resisted the urge to babble about nothing as we got closer. Thankfully a few minutes later the doors opened to our floor. Liam held me back as everyone left and slowly retracted his arm. My skin felt hot from where it had laid, I couldn't help but wonder why he did that. Lost in my thoughts I didn't notice we had stopped little bit ahead of Ashton office and Judy's desk, until I practically ran into Liam. I stumbled and his hand shot out steading me.

"Sorry I guess I was lost in thought." I said apologizing for running into him.

"No worries. Thank you for letting me intrude on your lunch."

"Thank you for intruding. I wouldn't have had any fun if I was alone."

"Good. I better go. It was nice having lunch with you Layla. If you need anything let me know I am only down the hall. Feel free to drop by anytime. See you later." He smiled his pretty smile at me than walked off. My name sounded so cool with his accent. I turned around to head to Judy my relaxed feeling fading away as I thought of what I had to do this afternoon. I didn't get very far before I ran into what felt like a brick wall.

"oomph." I glanced up and looked at a not very happy Ashton. His jaw was clenched and his blue eyes were narrowed and looked darker. I tried not to flinch at how he was staring at me, it was almost like I did something wrong but I haven't. You forgot to remind him about his lunch meeting. That annoying voice said once again. Oh wont you just shut up! I yelled back at it.

"Uh hi." I said stammering.

"My office. Now." With that he turned and strode to his office. He held the door open and looked at me. He gave me a look that said 'right now'. I gulped audibly and with shaky legs walked to his office, I slide by him and my shoulder rubbed against his chest. Ashton followed me and shut the door with a click. For some reason that click sounded so ominous. I slowly sunk into the chair I sat in early and waited for Ashton to talk. He sat in his chair and stared at me. For a good 3 minutes we sat there staring at each other. Me wondering what was going to happen and him like I had done something to royally piss him off.

"Nice weather we are having isn't it." I said breaking the thick tension in the room. Ashton still sat still glaring down at me.

"I have to pee." I blurted. My eyes widened as soon as the words left my mouth. Really? You have to pee?! You couldn't have said anything else, could you! I yelled at myself. The awkward turtle that I am was starting to burst through. It was one of those moments when the urge to pee came up at the most inopportune time. Like right before a race, just as the announcer starts counting down you realize you have to use the bathroom but by than its to late. Than as you run it disappears.

Ashton's eyebrows rose up and his face softened sightly but was still hard.

"Why did you have lunch with Mr. Bennett?" Ashton asked suddenly. I didn't expect him to talk just to sit there and make me squirm.

"What?"

"Why were you having lunch with Mr. Bennett, Layla." He asked again his voice hard.

"Why does it matter?" I said feeling slightly angry at how he was treating me.

"Because it just does! You are suppose to be doing your job instead of flirting with another co-worker." Flirting? I can't flirt, when I do try I sound like Ross from Friends talking about how gas is made. I think the only person I have flirted with was Ashton and for some reason it just came out around him. But still even than it wasn't the greatest flirting.

"I wasn't flirting with him. I was being polite because he offered to take to me lunch when I don't know anyone. You think I would flirt with someone at work, and on my first day?" I said feeling hurt. He sighed and run a hand down his face.

"No I guess not. I just don't want you to spend 2 hours at lunch with him when I need you here." He said leaning back in his chair.

"2 hours? I was only gone almost an hour."

"Around noon I went looking for you since you never came by my office. When I couldn't find you I figured you had left for lunch as does most at noon."

"I was in my office refiling what your stupid other assistants didn't do. And because you didn't tell me anything of what my job intels I did not know I could have lunch until 12:30. You can't get mad at me for getting something to eat with another co-worker. You should be happy I am meeting new people here and that I get along with them." I could feel myself getting angry. The way he's been treating me and now being angry that I went to lunch with someone, I felt myself about to snap. I stood up knowing I better not be in the same room as he is until both of us has cooled off little.

"I better get back to work. There is a lot I have to do. Whenever you want to go over those notes let me know." With that I left his office and headed to mine. I didn't do anything wrong and I wasn't going to sit there and hear Ashton yelling at me for something stupid. It wasn't like I kissed Liam or felt him up in front of anyone. Shaking my head I shut my office door and looked around my messy floor. Setting my bag down I grabbed my work phone and looked through it, looking to see if there was anything I really needed to do. Seeing nothing on my phone and a few things on the list Judy gave me, I got to work on those and refiling hoping it would occupy my mind for a while.

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4 o'clock rolled around and I was just sorting the files on the ground of oldest to newest when a knock sounded on my door. I shouted a 'come in' and kept doing what I was doing. My headache was back and my back hurt from leaning forward for hours. I heard my door click shut and glanced up. Ashton leaned against the door looking down at me with amusement in his eyes. An hour after I left Ashton's office I felt guilt flow through me, and I knew I acted slightly childish.

I slowly stood but being the clumsy person I am I somehow managed to trip on a pile of paper. I closed my eyes waiting for impact on the ground but after a second I didn't feel anything I opened them. A hard chest was right in front of me and a pair of strong arms wrapped around my waist. Looking up I saw Ashton had caught me before I hit the ground. My cheeks turned pink and untangled myself from his arms.

"Sorry." I said ignoring the feeling of wanting him to wrap his arms back around me.

"Your so clumsy." He said smirking down at me and sticking his hands in his pockets. The way he did it made his shoulders come in slightly and I swear I saw his tricep muscles bulged through his suit jacket. Ashton why are you so hot! I yelled in my head.

"And I don't have my shoes on either." I joked back. He shot me another smirk than stepped back.

"I came to see if you were busy. I wanted to go over those notes from this mornings meeting." He said.

"Yeah, one second let me clean this up." I said. Not thinking about it I turned and squatted to pick up the papers littering the floor. After stacking them in the order I wanted I laid them inside the cabinet and shut it. I would finish tomorrow. I felt Ashton's eyes on me as I worked and I self-consciously pulled my skirt down. Straightening up I slipped on my heels again and grabbed the folder on my desk from this morning. Turning around I saw Ashton staring at me a hungry look in his eyes. His blue eyes were almost black and his jaw and fist were clenched.

"Ready?" I asked him walking towards him.

"Uh...yes." He said shaking his head clearing his thoughts. Inside I was please I got that reaction out of him. Instead of his usual calm and collected look he actually looked flustered. Sending him a small smirk I slide past him purposely rubbing against him as I passed. Payback for being rude to me all day. I walked to his office and walked in hearing his footsteps behind me. He closed the door and walked to his desk. He once again had his calm and collected face back on. I slide the folder and my notes across the desk to him.

Ashton read the through my notes and he looked pretty please. He set them down after 5 minutes and looked at me.

"Good job. Were you at all lost during the meeting?" He asked.

'Little bit I figured it out while everyone talked." I said honestly. I knew tonight I would have to do some serious research on everything about Miller's Industries. I did not want to go blind if there is any important meetings this week.

"Good. The meetings are held about every month so I know what each department has going on and that we are all on the same page." I nodded. A few seconds of silence surrounded us. "Layla I-"

"Ashton I-" I started at the same time. I smiled at him than gestured for him to go first.

"I am sorry for getting upset with you earlier. I shouldn't have accused you of flirting with Mr. Bennett. When I couldn't find you I kind of got worried since I hadn't heard from you. I promise I won't do that again." He said his voice sincere. I held back a smile that he was the first to apologize.

"I'm sorry to Ashton. I shouldn't have lost track of time and reminded you of your meeting as well or at least texted you. And I am sorry I yelled at you than stormed out." I said.

"It's okay, I realize this is your first day and I've dumped a lot of stuff on you that you don't know how to do. I will try and be better at that as well."

"Thank you." I said smiling. He sent me one of his rare half smiles back.

"How about to make it up to you I take you to dinner." Ashton offered the look on his face almost nervous. Small butterflies filled my stomach as I thought about eating dinner with Ashton again.

"Sure I'd like that." I said biting my bottom lip.

"Good. Let's go. There's nothing else left to do here." He stood up and walked to my chair and held his hand out for me to take. I laid my small hand in his big one and let him pull me up and to the door.

"Just let me grab my stuff from my office." I shot him a quick smile I walked back to my office and grabbed my bag and phone. Turning the light off and shutting the door I walked back to Ashton who was saying goodbye to Judy.

"Have a good night Layla." Judy said once I stopped beside Ashton.

"You to Judy. Thanks for all the help today."

"No problem sweetie. Take care of her Ashton." She said her voice low in warning and looked at him. He nodded and put his hand on my lower back and guided me to the elevator. Since it was 4:30 people were starting to pack up their things and they stared at us as we walked by. I can bet there will be a rumor started by tomorrow about me sleeping with Ashton. Thankfully the elevator came a second after Ashton hit the button and no one else got in with us.

As we rode down to the lobby Ashton stood a little behind me with his hand on my lower back. I could feel the heat radiating off his hand and seeping through my thin blouse.

"By the way" Ashton whispered into my ear. His warm breath spreading goosebumps along my skin "You look very hot in that outfit." Just as the words left his lips the elevator dinged open and he sauntered out a smirk on his gorgeous face.

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Hello! I hope you guys like this chapter. It's not really much but you meet Liam, Layla's new co-worker, and you see Ashton somewhat jealous. So basically its a filler so I'm very sorry! I wrote this chapter like 5 times and I didn't like any of them so your stuck with this one. I promise next chapter there WILL be an Ashton POV.

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P.S I did go see 50 Shades of Grey. It was...okay kind of cheesy. The guy is pretty hot though I must say. If you like seeing womans boobies than go see it but if you want to see him they dont show it :( I would love to have a guy like that, and no not someone to dominate me you perverts! Someone hot, and can be sweet. Anyways just wanted to tell you guys. Have a good day my lovely perverts :)

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