The Billionaire’s Mistress

Fifteen

SELENA'S POV

My work wasn't so hectic. Luke shared me with everything that I needed to know and I didn't have any issues getting settled in.

I met most of the workers in my department. 

The first person who had come to meet me after Luke had introduced me as the new assistant was a girl with frizzly hair and an extremely short skirt suit. Probably the type that Lily would wear.

"Hiya." She winked at me. She was chewing gum, in fact not chewing, drawling at it. I'm Mercedes, what's your name?" 

"I'm Selena." I said. 

"So you're a cute one. I hope you don't end up like Anna." Mercedes said.

"Don't tell her that......" I heard another feminine voice say.

Another lady came up to me and pushed Mercedes aside and put stretched her hand in front of me.

"Hi I'm Alice." She said to me with a big smile stamped on her face.

Alice was the exact opposite of Mercedes. She had on an Alice Band planted on her head and a trouser suit on. A pair of glasses would have completed the whole look. She was the type of person who usually emerged Valedictorian. I suspected she did from her high school. She looked so book smart.

I smiled at her and shook her hand. "Hi, I'm Selena."

"Ignore what Mercedes just told you please. She has it on her mind set to destroy the reputation of this company." Alice said.

"Whatever." Mercedes rolled her eyes as she chewed her gum loudly.

"Would you stop chewing that gum? You sound like a proustite?" Alice said very annoyed.

"What else did you think I am?" Mercedes asked nastily and then she chewed her gum even louder. "Moreover I was with your ma last night looking for some customers."

Alice's face grew in color and then she turned to me. "Selena as much as i would have loved to stay around and hang with you, I wouldn't like to hang around with some people."

Then Alice gave Mercedes a scowl, Mercedes stuck her tongue out and a very enraged Alice marched off.

Mercedes laughed, then she turned to me. "I just love pulling her legs."

Then she smiled at me. "Come on let me introduce to everyone else. They are a boring bunch, but then I spend almost half of a day with them, so I have to pretend that I like them."

She took my hand without my permission and started pull me towards everyone's desk.

"This is Boring Ed." She said as she introduced me to a guy who looked as Irish as hell. "He is very boring, goes to church, stays at home on Friday and saturday nights and also lives with his mother."

"And so what about that?" Ed complained.

"Moving on." Mercedes announced as she swept me past Ed's office.

"This is Stella." Mercedes said to a large woman who was probably in her mid forties. "She is extremely nice and a homely mother of four squealing brats."

Stella gave Mercedes a warning look and then she turned to me with a big smile.

"How are you dear? Welcome to our office." She smiled at me.

When we had left Stella's office, Mercedes whispered to my ear.

"Just try your best to leave her on Monday mornings and Friday evenings. She is usually exhausted by her children and husband."

I took a mental note of that.

I met Ryan who was a very hot black man that every woman was in love with, even Stella. But then he kept on trying to talk to Mercedes, but she was always ignoring him.

"Nice to meet you." He shook my hand. "You're a very pretty girl. I would have tried to ask you out, but then It's your friend here I got eyes on."

I laughed at his joke. "No problem, I'm off the market anyways."

"You're married?" He asked me with surprise. "I see no wedding bands though."

I shook my head. "No please, I'm just not interested in a relationship right now."

He nodded and then he turned to Mercedes. "When are you going to let me take you out on that date Mercedes?"

She rolled her eyes at him. "Oh please. Never."

Then she pulled me away. 

"Ouch, I think he actually likes you." I said.

She looked at me. "Oh please, Ryan is going to f**k everything in skirt. Even if a toothbrush had skirts on, he would f**k it. Trust me."

There was Lilian who was more of a book worm, Logan who was the funny white guy in the building, Rachel who had large breasts and Will who was gay.

"So that is everyone in this department." Mercedes told me. "We work for the boss direct, which means that the lower departments beneath us are usually very jealous of us and that means that they are going to be jealous of you to."

So many things I had to take note of.

"Are we good?" She asked me.

I nodded my head uncertainly. "Yeah I think so."

Mercedes had this bad ass attitude. I suspected that her Lily would kick it off if they actually ever got to see.

"So if you have any issues you can come meet me." Mercedes said.

Then she picked out a cigar and started smoking.

"You don't mind do you?" She asked me.

I did sort of mind. I wasn't so keen on people smoking around me, but because this was a new friend that I had just made, I didn't want to offend her, I denied it.

"No of course not." I smiled. "I don't mind."

"Excuse me, no smoking in the office." Alice complained form her own office.

"Oh please. Mercedes drawled on her cigarette. "Everyone smokes her even Mr. Stonewell does in his office."

"What you are doing is wrong." Boring Ed said. "The bible says that we should-

"God nooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Everyone in the whole office complained.

I already liked them all here. They had somehow been able to help with my earlier discomfort. 

I remembered how Cian had smoked his Cigar. The way he had put them to his lips and taken them out, the way he had exhaled the cigar out. For the first time in my entire life, I was turned on by a man who was smoking a blunt even though I wa strongly against smoking. But just watching Cian smoke after I had lit it for him, had sent my tummy into hard knots

Uncomfortable knots I wasn't keen on having.

"Selena?" Mercedes said snapping me out of reality.

I jumped up with a start

"Are you ok?" Mercedes asked me.

I smiled at her. "Of course I am."

"Cause you seemed to have gone to dream world." She told me.

I followed through Cian's schedule, and dealt with his calls and appointments.

There was a photo shoot s***h interview from People's magazine. He was going to be on the f*****g cover of People's magazine.

When It was time I got up from my chair and knocked at the door.

"It's time for your interview with People's magazine." I told him.

He rose up from his seat and flung his jacket on me. Lucky enough for me, I caught it. 

"Have you called my head of security Levi?" He asked me.

Oh, he was talking about Grumpy Levi. The one who I hadn't met at the department store the night we had met.

"No, I haven't." I said confused. Was I supposed to? 

"To every meeting, conference, interview, shoots, gathering, dinners, name it." He told me as we headed out of the office with me following him behind like a lost mouse. "You are to always alert Levi."

Then he stood at the lift and turned to me and said. "Unless you are looking for a way to plan a kidnap and keep me hostage so you could get a reasonable ransom."

I just looked at him in shock with my mouth open. 

Everyone in the office had heard that and from the corner of my eyes, I could see them looking at me. I was so pissed off and embarrassed. 

Then I saw he was looking at me as If I was supposed to do something. His sea green eyes boring into the depths of my soul. I was totally lost.

Then I saw that we were supposed to be getting into the lift and it hit me that I was supposed to open the lift for him.

"Sorry." I mumbled hastily.

Then I rushed to open the Lift and then he got in. I was just about to step into the lift with him, but then he stopped me.

"I don't get into the lift with my assistants or anyone for that matter. Make sure I don't get there before you." He told me.

I watched in shock as the elevator closed in front of me, and then I turned to the office in utter confusion. How was I supposed to do this now? Fly?

"Take the stairs!" I heard Alice and Mercedes shout.

"Right! Thanks" I said.

I started to run off and then I realized that I had no idea where the stairs were. I turned back to the office and met everyone’s eyes.

“Where are the stairs please?” I asked.

“The door to your left at the rear end.” Boring Ed said.

“Right, thanks!” I said and then I ran off. 

I followed the directions and then I looked down. Damn, that was a damn lot of stairs. I doubted I was going to even be able to make it on time. 

I started running down the stairs in my heels. Cursing why I worked here, cursing why Cian who was my ex lover had to be my boss, and cursing why I had let Lily buy me this unnecessarily high heeled shoes. 

I ran and puffed and I puffed as I ran down the stairs trying to catch my breath.

God the monster had told me that he was not to get there before me. And at this rate, it didn’t seem likely that I was going to succeed.

“Fuck.” I swore.

Then I looked down at the stairs and saw the railings. An idea popped into my head. 

Then I climbed the railings and then I sat down on it comfortably and then I slid down. All the way to the last floor. Once I landed to the ground, I put on my heels and rushed to the lift. It hadn’t open yet.

Then I heard the lift make a silent ding and I knew it was about to open. 

I walked faster and just as it opened, I was standing right in front of Cian. My heart in my mouth as I was panting very heavily. 

He gave me a look. He didn’t give away his expression, neither did he say a word. 

He stepped out of the lift and then I followed him like a mouse clamoring after cheese that kept on running away. 

Once we got to the doors, I was about to open it for him, but Grumpy Levi already had it. And he wasn’t alone. There were about four heavily secured men standing beside him too.

As I was about to follow after Cian, Grumpy Levi closed the door and I hit my head on the glass.

“Ouch.” I swore in frustration and then I had to open the door for myself.

I gave grumpy Levi a very displeased and pissed off look.

Then he turned and saw me and it was then that he actually saw me. 

He looked shocked.

Then he came down beside me.

“What are you doing here?” He asked his eyes narrowing.

“I work here.” I shot at him.

He looked at me in utter disbelief.

“Get used to it Levi. She’s going to be here with us for a while.” I heard Cian’s deep and hollow voice say.

Levi gave me a look and I in turn didn’t waste time giving him mine. 

We walked to the cars and then I wasn’t sure which of the cars I was supposed to be getting it to. I didn’t want a situation where I got into the car with Cian and then he kicked me out. I was saving myself anymore embarrassment from this man.

A door was opened for Cian and then he got in. 

Grumpy Levi gave me a look and said. “Second car.”

I poured and went into the next car. 

We drove off, and I had to be looking through the previous Assistant’s notes on my work ipad and the book pad I had in my arm. 

When we finally got to the building, we stepped out and as usual, I had to follow Cian behind like a mouse. 

“Welcome Mr Stonewell.” A young man said. “Glad you could make it here.”

“You had better make it worth my time.” Cian said arrogantly. 

Then I started to wonder if I had always been this arrogant or it was just a new thing. Maybe I hadn’t just noticed it.

He went to his dressing woman and he emerged shirtless. Then he walked to a stool where he was going to be posing for the photo shoot.

I was just looking at him and admiring his body. The perfectly lined marks of his biceps and his shoulder. The way they formed neatly over his entire chest and down to his tummy. He was blazing hot.

“Hot isn’t he?” I heard someone say behind me.

I jumped and turned to see who it was. 

It was a girl within my age.

“Sorry what?” I asked seemingly lost.

“I was just saying he is hot.” She said. Then she looked at me. “Don’t you think?”

I blinked at her for a few seconds wondering what she was talking about and then it dawned on me. She was talking about Cian.

“Oh yeah he’s hot. Totally.” I said. 

She looked at me. “So you’re his assistant right?”

“Yeah I am.” I replied.

“You must be so f*****g lucky.” She said. 

“Why?” I asked. “Why do you say that?”

“He is the hottest man in the city. Every girl wants to sleep with him. Even gay men too. That’s how hot he is.” She told me

I turned and looked back at him as they prepared him for the set.

“If I were you I would be shagging him every f*****g day.” She said and then she left 

She walked to where he was and grabbed a few combs and was styling his hair. Oh so she was the hair stylist for the photo shoot. 

Funny how everyone wanted him now and I had him once.