Alice POV:
"See I always told you to be professional at work! What if I had not come and Mr. Angry young man had canceled this event?" I wiggled my eye brows while scolding Emily and Mark.
"You saved us, Alice!" Emily was dead scared and she quickly hugged me and kissed my cheeks.
I hugged her back and broke the hug immediately when I remembered that how irresponsible she has become.
"This isn't answer to my question!" I kept her on toes with my question and asked it from Mark as well.
"We are sorry, Alice. We are actually busy in other event which took place two days ago and the routine was so hectic that I couldn't participate more in this event. I know we could have lost this event and it would be a seal to our company's progress." Mark said with low voice and he had guilt in his voice.
"It's okay, Mark. I know how hardworking you're. But this Emily" I said and turned Emily around to face me. "You need to work professionally. Else that Mr. Angry young man will kill me along with me because I have taken all of the responsibilities upon me." I scolded her and scowled when she pouted.
"Okay, madam." She said before rolling her eyes. "Well, if we are talking about professionalism, then how come Ms. Professional is late today?" She asked me while arching her brows.
She was taunting me, the nerve of this girl! I saved her and she is mocking my professionalism.
"Oh hello! How can you throw taunts at me? By the way, I'm late and that's for you. Because of you guys, I went to your office to get all the details and documents related to this event. I wanted everything to be organized that's why I got late." I scowled seeing her lack of thanklessness.
"Eee, I'm sorry. You're my best friend. Thank God you came on time and saved us!" She hugged me and I saw Mark smiling at both of us. I smiled and hugged her too.
She broke the hug and mischievously arched her eyebrow at me.
"Mark, did you notice something?" She asked him but she addressed it to me as well.
"What?" I asked her dumbfounded because she was smirking seeing me.
"Mr. James Ashton! He was drooling over her and when she came, his world stopped and he was looking at her adoringly! Because of her, he gave us another chance! Such a romantic couple they will make, Right Mark?" She said evilly and burst into laugh and along with her, Mark started laughing as well.
These are my friends, monkeys!
I was shocked at what she said and it directly stroke to my heart and I felt tingling sensation in my stomach and I felt out of the world. Was he staring at me? Was he looking at me adorably? Did he find me beautiful? All these questions started hitting me and I brushed them off.
"Stop it guys!" I yelled at them and snatched the files from Emily and started working. They were busy laughing at me and I was feeling tingling sensation thinking about James.
"Can we get back to work?" I scowled at them. They nodded and came near me and we started discussing the details about the event.
"The event is in four days and we do need ideas." Mark announced and all the workers came forward and rounded us. They started paying attention towards us.
"Yes, we do need ideas and it should be according to the venue. We need to gather little details and please come up with new ideas so that Mr. Ashton likes our work. He won't spare us if we made a mistake again." I addressed to everyone.
"Ma'am, we have not organized such a big event before that's why we are running out of good ideas. Mr. Ashton is here to guide us with the ideas but we can't ask him. I mean what if he gets angry?" One is the worker replied.
We all get tensed now. According to the location, we had not had many ideas and time was running short.
"Alice, you deal with James because he is always nice around you. You get some ideas from him. Once we get idea, we can implement it." Mark said to me to which everyone agreed.
What?! I decided not to go to near James and they are asking me to work with him. That's mean he'd be with me whole day! No, not at all. I can't accept it. His presence is dangerous for my system.
"That's a worst idea." I snarled with a deep frowned at Mark. What a pathetic suggestion he was giving to me.
"That's the best idea." Emily insisted. "What you guys say?" She asked the other people and they all started chanting until I agreed to work under James.
One thing I knew that either it was the start of hell or of heaven.
I took the files and went to find James. I found him outside the avenue talking to someone on a call. I took small steps towards him and I was facing his back.
He was tall, plain and simple, my height only falling an inch or below his shoulders. He was very muscular and broad shouldered. Maybe he felt my presence behind him. He turned around and my world stopped seeing him.
The man stood in front of me was the most handsome and good looking man in the world. He was dapper and charming. His jaw like was hard, stone like almost and his lips were rosy red yet they were rough and dry. But what stood out the most were his brown eyes. They were not the ordinary brown, they were light brown which was like an ocean revolving in it.
In the past, nowhere in my thoughts did I expect him to be good looking, never-mind handsome. He was a Greek God whose hair were perfectly gelled in his perfectly sculpted face. He was GORGEOUS.
His snap towards my face broke my imagination and I looked at him dumbfounded. I was so embarrassed that I had been looking at him! How embarrassing it was for me.
"Don't worry. I didn't mind though." He said with a light chuckle when he saw me getting crimson red with embarrassment. I cleared my throat and remember the reason of coming to him.
"Sir, we need your help." I said with a soft tone while looking at him with a small smile on my face.
He grimaced while my eyes widened. I didn't say anything wrong?
"Did I say something wrong, sir?" I asked with worried expression. My facial expressions were dripping that how tensed I had become in his presence. Though it had been only few minutes.
"Yes! You called me sir that too twice." I heard him saying and frowned. "Do I look like 50 years old to you?" He arched his eyebrow mischievously.
I understood and gave a chuckle. He smiled brightly at me.
"Okay then, what should I call you?" I asked him with a grin.
"You know, I have a beautiful name that you can call me with. Otherwise you have also kept a beautiful nickname for me. You can call me from that."
"What nickname?" I furrowed my eye brows and started thinking. When did I keep a nickname for him?
"Really? You don't know." He said with a smirk and chuckles when I shook my head. "I heard you referring me as Mr. angry young man. Remember, sweetie?" He said mischievously with a evil glint in his eyes.
It sounded like a child has been caught stealing a chocolate from fridge late night.
"No! I didn't say that." I immediately defended myself but he arched his eyebrow to which I stick out my tongue. "Yeah! But it was hypothetically. You know, you scared all the employees inside and they were frightened of your anger. They were calling me brave just because I talked with you." I said with giggles.
"Really?" He laughed along with me. "I don't sound that scary." He defended himself.
"Stop it, James! You were looking so scary. And you know what? They all are saying that you gave us another chance because of me." I said and rolled my eyes. "Why would you sacrifice your best friend's engagement because of me. They all speak rubbish" I said and started laughing.
Little did I notice that James started coming towards me. I saw him approaching me with strange expressions on his face that I couldn't decipher. I wanted to run away from him but my legs were rooted on the ground. He came near me and and started moving round off me.
I was feeling like a prey who was captured by a predator. He was way too near my proximity. His front was touching my back and I had shivers all along my spine.
I shivered when I felt his hand touching my hair above my ear. I flinched when he touched my hair, feeling a strand of my dark hair between his fingers before he tugged it behind my ear. My breathe hitched when his hand slightly touched my skin. I felt like my whole body was having electric shocks because of his little mere touch.
He came more near to my ear and I closed my eyes. His rough breathe which had scent of a coffee was hitting the skin near my ear. This was how dangerously close he was to me. I should have stopped him but I could not. I was letting him do whatever he was doing to me. He was casting a spell on me and I was not minding it at all.
"They are saying right, sweetie. I gave them a chance just because you asked me. Just because of you." He whispered in a hoarse voice and set my whole body on fire.
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Done with 29th chapter.
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