Alexander James P. O. V

Setting Nora's plate down in front of her and then my own, we both dig into our breakfast.

An amused smirk grows on my face as I watch her eat like she's never eaten before.

She was so adorable.

"What?" She questions looking at me, finishing her own while I still had half my plate left.

"Nothing." I say smugly.

The blush I've come to adore lightly coats her cheeks as she looks away from me.

She searches the kitchen for something and then looks for her phone which was currently lying on my bedside table.

I'm assuming she's looking for a clock and wants to know the time so I gaze down at my phone, picking it up and then checking the time.

"It's noonish." I say to hear, bending the truth just a little.

"Noonish?" She questions.

"Yup." I answer back still not telling her the precise time as I grab her plate and then mine, heading over to the sink.

"I should really be heading home." I hear her say as the scraping of the chair signals she's getting up.

For some reason her words don't sit well with me as I panic, not wanting her to go so soon.

Turning around, I look at her.

"Just stay for a little while," I try and not let the panic leak out into my voice. "We could watch a movie or something, just stay a little while longer." I was grasping for straws at this point.

I don't know why I wanted her to stay a little while longer but I just didn't want to get out and burst this little bubble we had, just to get thrown back out into the reality of us being boss and personal assistant.

Looking at me unsurely, I leave the dishes and head towards her, holding her in my arms as she doesn't even resist like she used to.

Leaning ever so close to her I make sure I don't lean it too much as I whisper to her.

"You sure there's no way I can tempt or bribe you?" I question here, letting my lips lightly graze hers.

I had to control every fiber in my being to not pounce on her.

She was so delectable with her cheeks blazing, her striking blue eyes wide in an alluring manner and her lips parted.

She didn't even have to answer me before I place my lips on hers.

Kissing her was my new favorite past time. One I don't I could ever get tired of.

All sorts of emotions course through me as she responds back and instead of denying them like I used to, I embrace them and make sure Nora knows it too.

Gasping for air, we both part all too soon while Nora smiles up at me and nods.

"I'll stay but just for a little while longer."

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Shifting a bit to get comfortable, I am careful to not jostle Nora around too much.

Nora was seemingly too enthralled in the movie that was playing on the tv.

While I was enthralled and captivated by her.

Every little thing about her was so enticing to me.

How whenever something drastic happened, in what I was assuming was a romance movie, her eyes would widen in shock and she would gasp as if she was being insulted by the words the characters threw at each other on screen.

Right now her eyes were watering up which quickly grabbed my attention.

Looking from the screen to her I quickly calm down as the two main characters are too busy making out on the screen.

"I'm so happy for them. They honestly deserved to be together." She says sniffling.

Holding her closer to me, I looks down at her in amusement.

"You do know that it is just a movie right."

Clearly that was the wrong thing to say as she whips her head round to me and narrows her eyes in a challenging gaze.

Raising my hand in surrender, the one that wasn't wrapped around her, I say.

"Damn, sorry."

She smiles at me and we both look at the screen to see the credits rolling.

We both sit in a comfortable silence until Nora decides to break it.

"Alexander?" She voiced out meekly.

"Hmm." I reply in complete content with her in my arms.

I was most certainly not expecting her next words which made my blood freeze and heart stop in both alarm and panic.

"What are we?"

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Nora Davis P. O. V

The unanswered question lingers in the air and I hold my breath.

I had vowed to myself the night before that I would get my answer to that very question no matter what.

No matter if it ended in us rejoicing or us coming to a complete standstill.

What is us?

What were we?

Dread courses through my veins as Alexander freezes up beside me.

Hopefully it was just because my question took him by surprise.

It even took me by surprise since I had tried to time it perfectly but it apparently slipped out.

"What do you mean by us?"

The lack of emotion in his voice makes me uneasy.

Alexander was always either rude, snarky, or playful.

And so it was completely plausible that what he would say next would not be in my favour.

Didn't he say he had some sort of feelings towards me when we were in his office together or was I just imaging that?

But he did ask me on a date and then did randomly kiss me.

Or was I just some latest conquest he wanted to conquer before moving on to some other brooding vixen he wanted to get his clutches on?

"I mean us as in 'what am I to you?'" My question comes out awkwardly and not correctly worded because I was in a haze.

A haze I wanted to desperately get out of before it was too late to escape.

Gaining enough courage, I look up at him, only for him to move away from me and sit straight.

I nearly whimper from the lack of contact and the warmth he took with him and away from me.

Trying not to look too affected, I stare at him.

His eyebrows are knitted together and frown lines line his face as he looks deep in thought, almost perturbed.

"I- I don't know." He says quietly.

Well damn that was comforting and helpful.

Knowing out of the two of us I'd have to actually grow some balls, I question.

"Well do you want us to be?"

I nearly reach out to him but stop and instead brace myself for his answer.

His mouth opens and the next words that leave his mouth, leave me almost gasping for air.

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