My phone dinged in my pocked and I pulled it out and saw a text from Zach. I opened it and saw a picture of him and papa. Papa was on his hospital bed holding a bowl in his hands and Zach was sitting right beside him.

I smiled and typed a quick reply after shoving the phone back in my pocket and doing the work Mr. Rhodes had asked me to.

After a while I realised that I still hadn't been delivered the file that was with Sasha and I vividly remembered telling her to send that file to me before afternoon but as always, she forgot.

I got up from my chair and made my way out of the office towards the elevator to collect the file myself.

As I stepped out of the elevator, my eyes found Sasha's counter and I frowned when I saw it empty. I made my way towards it when Daniel jumped out of his cabin and smiled when he saw me. He walked over towards me as I waved at him.

"Do you have a name or should I call you mine?" Dan approached me and draped his arm around my shoulders.

"Pfttt that's the worst pick up line you could've thrown. Try harder dude, you ain't getting a girl like that," I laughed and threw his arm off as Dan feigned a hurtful expression and wiped the imaginary tears off.

"Okay here's another one. Are you French because damn eiffel for you," he gave me a toothy grin and I clutched my stomach and laughed like an idiot.

"Nahhh, still not swooning," I chuckled and winked as I saw a devilish smile creeping up on Dan's face.

He stepped closer to me and I narrowed my eyes at him and took a step back. He kept coming closer until my back was against the wall and he was practically hovering over me. He placed one hand on the wall, caging me between his body and the counter.

"Are you my homework because I'd slam you on the table and do you all night," he huskily whispered and I looked at him straight in the eyes before I burst out laughing like a maniac.

As I was laughing, I felt Dan tense up beside me and I lifted my head up and saw Mr. Rhodes standing there with his arms crossed over his chest. It seemed as if he was seconds away from killing someone.

Guess who's getting fired today?

"Mr. Jones and Miss Reinhart, I'm quite sure that I made the 'no dating policy among employees' very clear to everyone. You are violating the policy and this kind of behaviour is not acceptable, especially under my supervision," Mr. Rhodes face was devoid of any emotion but his eyes, God his eyes had this fire of rage and anger that in that very moment, I regretted being alive.

"We're sorry Mr.Rh-" Dan started but I cut him off.

"We're not dating," I blurted out without giving much thought to it because something told me that he needed to know this more than our sorries.

Mr. Rhodes nodded his head and titled it to one side as his eyes drank every emotion on my face and my heartbeat refused to slow down.

"Very well then. Miss Reinhart would you be so kind to deliver the file I had been anticipating since morning to my office?" Mr. Rhodes said, his eyes fixed on me.

"Of course," I managed to speak as I turned around and picked the file up from Sasha's table before flying out from between the two men.

I opened the door to Mr. Rhodes office and stepped inside. He wasn't in the office and I intended to throw the file on his desk and run for my life before he came back.

I set the file on the table, turned around and walked over to the door. As I was merely on an arm's distance from the door, the door flew open and I swore under my breath.

Mr. Rhodes entered inside and closed the door behind him and I held my breath and bit my lip in nervousness.

He turned around, his expressions showed that he wasn't surprised to see me standing in the middle of his office, rather as if he was expecting me to be here.

He took one step towards me and I moved my eyes downwards towards my feet and silently prayed that he would let me to go without interrogating the hell out of me first.

I could feel him getting closer to me until he was standing so close that I could feel the scent of his cologne reaching my nostrils.

"Miss Reinhart?" he said in a voice merely above a whisper.

I lifted my head up and saw him staring right at me. He was so close to me that if I leaned in a little bit, our faces would be touching.

Clear your head Isabelle.

"Y-yes Mr. Rhodes?" I whispered, my voice croaked.

He looked at me as if contemplating on something when a smirk grew on his lips and he said, "Take a seat Miss Reinhart, I need to discuss some things."

I closed my eyes and swore under my breath when I realised that though Mr. Rhodes had taken a step back, he was still shamelessly staring at me and my every move.

I opened my eyes and saw amusement dancing in his expressions. All I wanted right now was to slap the stupid smirk off his face.

As I was about to make my way over to his desk to sit down, he stopped me and told me to sit on the sofa instead and I, once again, was about to run for the hills.

I sat down on the sofa and not-so-fortunately, he sat down beside me.

He handed me the file and I looked up at his face and took the file from his hands.

What the hell did he expect me to do with it?

I hadn't even opened it once.

"Miss Reinhart, I want you to study this project and explain it to me right here and now," Mr. Rhodes said and I choked on my saliva.

What, from the bottom of my heart, the fuck?

"I'm sorry, Mr. Rhodes but I..." I trailed off and hoped for him to tell me that it was his way to saying that go to your office and read the file.

"You heard me," the mischievous glint in his eyes was still there but his expressions told me that he wasn't kidding at all.

Now everything aside, how the hell did this man expect me to study the damn project while him sitting right beside me the entire time? I couldn't even breathe properly around him and he expected me to study some project and explain it to him?

"S-sure, Mr. Rhodes."

I swear this man knew what he was doing.

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Fifteen minutes, it had been fifteen minutes since I had been sitting in Mr. Rhodes office and trying to concentrate on the project while him sitting less than an arm distance from me.

I felt him moving beside me and the next thing I knew, his arm was on the headrest of my side of the sofa. It was getting impossible to breathe properly and all I knew was that today, this man had all the time in the world to sit with his secretary and torture her till she died.

"How much have you covered yet?" Mr. Rhodes spoke up and I gulped down the rising bile in my throat.

"Almost half of it," I squeaked and dared not to look up at him.

After another half hour, with him sitting awfully close to me and me trying not to sound like an asthma patient every ten minutes, I had finally read all the pages in the file and was somewhat ready to give a synopsis of it to him.

I turned my head towards him and as expected, he was staring at me as if planning to eat me alive the moment I tried to run.

Without looking at him straight in the eyes, I cleared my throat and started speaking. I told him every aspect of the project that was mentioned in the file and the ways in which it would be beneficial for our company.

Mr. Rhodes actually listened to what I was saying. Although he kept scooting closer to me, his eyes would fall to my lips for a brief moment sometimes and my nervous ass would start stuttering the moment something like that happened.

Of course Mr. Rhodes found pleasure in teasing me like that but I was glad that he wasn't acting like a total douche and was somewhat paying attention to what I was explaining.

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