Kayleigh's P.O.V
I sat by the window staring out throughout the way, hoping that Beth and Patsy won't find out that I almost had sex with Eddie who is already dating someone else! After Beth got down from the car, I was eavesdropping on Eddie and Jay. I was really glad Eddie didn't tell Jay that I was the one who was making out with him. 'what was I thinking? I just met him and I didn't really know him while Beth and Patsy were trying to set me up with Jay, I was fucking around with his best friend!' I entered my house and ran straight in my room striping my clothes and slipping in a large t-shirt which was long enough to cover half of my legs. I laid on the bed looking up at the ceiling and tears streaming down my eyes. For a moment I thought it would be more than sex but turns out he was just playing around, this was nothing different from my life in LA. It's been two years since I was dating and only 3 single dates and this is what I get for reward! I didn't realise when I drifted off to sleep, I heard door bell ringing and groaned in sleep. The bell rang for another 5 mins, groaning I sleep walked to the door and opened the door to see Eddie standing in front of me with a bouquet of white roses in his hand. My eyes went wide in shock, "Eddie what are you doing here?" he gave me a half smile and glided his fingers on the back of his head, "I thought we should talk about last night!" I gulped in shock, "Wait here please!" I shut the door on his face and ran to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face. I came back running and opened the door to see him standing with an amused smiled plastered on his face, "Sorry, come in!" I opened the door wide to let him in and directed him towards the couch, "Coffee?" He smiled and nodded after sitting down, "Yes, thanks!" he sat on the couch while I poured coffee for us, I made my coffee black with 1 table spoon of sugar I turned to ask him his preference while he startled me, "Wow, that's a lot of sugar!" my lips curled up in a smile, "Yes I like my coffee sweet. How would you like your coffee?" He answered, "Black without sugar" I poured him coffee and we walked back to the living room and sat across each other. "So Eddie, How can I help you?" I studied him while he again gave me an amused smile, "Wow you are not stammering!" I took a sip of my coffee and looked at him confidently, "It only happens once in a while!" he nodded understanding and then taking a sip of his coffee and looking down at his coffee mug, we sat in silence for a minute until he broke the silence, "I came to talk to you about last night." I took a huge sip of coffee to keep my comments to myself, "I am listening" he looked at me with guilt in his eyes and that only made me angry "Kayleigh I am sorry, I shouldn't have done anything with you." He started stammering as he said that, "I mean I loved what we did and I don't regret it but I should have made things clear with my ex, I tried to break up with her but turns out she hasn't accepted the break up!" I bit my tongue trying not to lash out on him while he continued talking, "whatever we had was amazing and I would want more but I need to sort out some things first. Can you not tell anyone what happened between us last night?" I nodded while he let out a breath of relief, "So are we good now?" I nodded calming down the storm inside me, "Only if you don't try to get in my pants!" he chuckled and extended his hand, "I will try my best". I took his hand and shook while he walked towards the door, "oh, I almost forgot. These are for you!" I took the bouquet from his hand, "Thank you" He left closing the door behind him. I inhaled the fragrance of fresh roses and put it in the vase adding water. The rest of the day went in blur, Beth accompanied me for grocery shopping while we talked about work and other stuff and drove home with take out burgers and fries. We got home, watched Hot in Cleveland reruns for sometime and after a couple of episodes Beth went home to get some rest.
Next day morning I got to work and noticed everyone rushing around. I sat next to Samantha my colleague, "What's going on? Why is everyone running around?" Sam looked at me and reacted as if she had seen a ghost, "You don't know?" I shook my head cluelessly while she opened the search engine on her laptop, "So Patrick Raines, the CEO of Raines group of companies is stepping down from his position and letting his son take over." she pointed at the screen, "This is Edward Raines, the son of the tycoon. According to paparazzis he is a playboy sleeps with every hot women in town and later gives them white Roses to break up." My mouth wide open to see Eddie's picture on Sam's screen, I gulped still trying process everything I heard! "So you are telling me that he hands white roses to women to break up?'" Sam rolled her eyes, "Out of everything I just told you, that is the only thing you care about?" I opened my mouth but closed it again, "I heard everything but what does that has to do with us?" She pulled out a pen drive from her bag and inserted it inside her laptop, "He is giving exclusive interview with our magazine and he is coming to our office in sometime!" I nodded and looked at the screen trying to the read the article on my screen, my mind was definitely somewhere else because I didn't register the fact that he was coming here! I continued to work for another hour trying not to think about the stranger but sometime later I saw him walk-in in to the office with the chief editor. I pretended to drop my pen and dunk down inside the table but I guess I am too tall to hide, I heard him call out my name "Kayleigh, what are you doing here?" 'surprise' was return all over his face while I got up and stood on my feet, "Hi Edward! I work here, I guess!" He walked closer to me and gave me a friendly hug which only made me freeze on the spot, "You never told me you work for this magazine" I threw him a fake smile "you never told me that your name is Edward and not Eddie!?" He let out a soft chuckle, "My friends and family call me Eddie, I might have forgotten to tell you." the chief editor asked him to take the lead whole he kept on looking at me, "why don't you join me in the interview room?" I quickly answered, "I would love to but I have to finish three articles before 4 pm. I hope you understand." his smile faded but he nodded "Of course, So I will see you around?" I nodded and got back to my seat pretending nothing happened while Sam playfully teased me, "Do you know him?" I answered honestly "No, just an acquaintance".