Tempted By My Boss - Chapter 22

“Hailey! Hailey wake up!” She can hear the voice from a faint distance. She tries to place the voice, but she can’t. Then she feels herself being lifted off the ground, her body feels too heavy for her and she sinks back into a deep sleep.

She opens her eyes and she is in an unfamiliar place. Her head is throbbing so badly, She tries to shift but she hurts herself instead. “ouch.” she groans.

“I’m so glad you’re okay.” She turns to see Valerian.

She starts to panic, “how am I here?”

“Don’t you remember?”

Hailey lets out a small “No.”

“Someone broke into your house and they attacked you” as he raked his hand through his hair.

“That’s not possible.” as she responds in disbelief, who would do such a thing to her? What had she done so wrong. She started to think who had motive, Charlize maybe? But with what time since they were both at the dinner. She started to shudder at the thought that someone actually wanted to harm her.

How was she going to protect herself? She couldn’t hide forever and It gave her shivers that someone out there was trying to get her, and she didn’t know the reason for it.

“I bought you some food, you have been out for a while now. I’m sure you must be starving.” Said Valerian.

She looked at the food and he was right as her stomach started grumbling. He chuckled a bit when he heard that.

When he placed the food in front of her, she dug in to the plate very fast.

“Geez Hailey, you will actually kill yourself eating like that.”

Hailey didn’t pay attention to him at all as she continued eating her food. Valerian came and sat next to her on the bed, but she didn’t mind him as the food that she was eating was very delicious. Then she felt him wiping the sides of my mouth. As he was laughing.

“What?” She asked him.

“It’s cute the way you’re eating. You look like a little chipmunk.”

“Of all the animals you could compare me to, you decide to compare me to..”

Before she could finish her statement he then cut her off “swallow your food first.” as he wiped the side of her mouth again.

She nodded as she swallowed her food. “that’s my girl.”

She gave him a sarcastic look. Then he just winked at her. After she was done eating, “Are you full?” Valerian asked.

“I’m more than full.” she responded.

Then he took the tray from her lap and went with it. Then she started to notice her surroundings. The room that she was in was too huge. It had a big bed and the roof was made of glass, you could actually see the sky and the stars from the bed. It was really neat.

When he came back, she asked him “Is this your room?”

“Yes.” as he ruefully smiled at her.

She leaned back “what time is it? I have to go.”

“An intruder broke into your house and they hit you.” She saw his hand was clenched into a fist. “Thank goodness I heard your scream, or else it might have been worse.”

“Are you being stupid? What if they come back? Tell me what you will do?”

“I don’t know yet.” She couldn’t afford to move to a new place as of now. She had to find a plan, and real soon.

“Stay with me for now until you figure it out.” said Valerian.

“No thank you.” as she said it quickly. She just couldn’t chance staying with him. What would people at work think.

“There is no buts, I will move you into the guestroom tomorrow and you will meet Ruiza my house keeper.”

“Get some rest.” as he switched off the light and climbed into bed. “What are you doing?” she asked him.

“Going to sleep.” he replied.

“We have shared the same bed before, so what is the issue now?” as he pulled the blanket over the both of them, She couldn’t fall asleep, so she looked at the sky, it was really beautiful, it almost felt surreal.

“Beautiful isn’t it?”

“Yes.” She replied.

“Usually I look at them when I feel alone, but it feels amazing to share this view with someone, I don’t feel so alone.” as he was looking at the sky.

She looked at his face, so he felt lonely?

“Where are your parents?” She asked.

“They are in Lanstria with my sister, I rarely see them.” as she saw his eyes had an infinite amount of sadness.

She shifted slightly towards him, and she lay her head on his chest. He looks puzzled at first then he puts his hand on her small back. “Go to sleep.” She whispers to him.

Then she felt him press a light kiss on her head. “Thank you, princess,”

“Goodnight to you too.”

The weekend passed by and it was very nice staying at Valerian’s house. Ruiza was very nice, she was in her early fifties. She was very vibrant, and she had warm brown eyes to match her hair. She made her feel at home, and loved keeping her company.

She loved her cooking, and it was strange for her to wake up and do nothing. She was used to cooking and doing her own laundry.

Valerian and Hailey arrived at work, he opened the door for her and walked in self-consciously. She had tried to enter by herself, but he had insisted he open the door for her. She also wanted to come much earlier so people wouldn’t notice but he was bemused by her behavior when she woke him up early in the morning.

He had groaned and snatched the blanket from her and went back to sleep. Someone wasn’t a morning person after all.

“Morning sir.” as Clara and the other receptionists greeted him. She saw them glaring at her.

She quickly walked to her office, wanting to create as much space as possible. She went, and worked the whole day. She had tried to greet Clara and the others earlier on, but she was ignored, and Hailey could hear them laughing at her. They were calling her names.

So now she sat by herself and ate her lunch and focused on her work.

At the end of the day when everyone was leaving, Valerian came, “Let’s go.”

“Wait outside I forgot something in the office.” as he turned to get it

She took her things and went outside. Clara and the others were outside, they all ignored her.

“I’m so excited to go to blue room.” as Clara exclaimed.

“Yeah we deserve this after a long day of work.” as the others responded.

Then Valerian’s car pulled up. She was hoping that Clara and them, would have left.

Valerian came out “Have a great evening Sir.”

“Thank you, you too ladies.” as he replied them.

Valerian opened the door “Hailey what are you waiting for, let’s go home.”

She stiffened as walked over, and got into the car. She noticed Clara’s glaring at her with so much animosity.

“How was your day?”

“It was good and yours Sir?”

“I can’t complain.” he replied.

We got to his place and she went into the guestroom and changed.

Ruiza called her down for dinner and she went. Valerian wasn’t there, and Hailey knew he was probably preoccupied with work.

After dinner, she went to sleep. Hailey woke up the next morning and got ready, when she went downstairs, she found Valerian reading a newspaper and eating his breakfast. “Morning.” as she greeted him. “Morning Hailey.” as he greeted her back very warmly. Which left her very surprised.

They ate, and drove to work. When she went into the room that she worked in, she found her work was torn. Some of the other paper work she had done was missing. Hailey went and took fresh paper and started anew again. She knew who had done this but didn’t have any evidence.

She worked very hard, when she felt something cold touch her cheek. She looked up and it was Valerian. “I haven’t seen you outside since morning.” as he gave her a can of soda.

“What time is it?”

“Its three in the afternoon.” as he chuckled.

“What?” she screeched. Hailey didn’t expect it to be this late. She was really focused on her work. “What are you busy with?” as he looked down at her work. “this.” as she showed him. “very impressive.” as he assessed it. She felt a wave of pride when he said that and something else.

After thirty minutes Valerian left, it was actually nice to have company. She needed to go the bathroom, so she got up and went into the staff bathroom and got into one of the stalls. When she was done peeing, she tried to unlock the door, but it wouldn’t unlock.

She pulled and pulled really hard and finally it opened, the next thing, she was drenched in water that smelt like fish guts. Hailey saw the bucket that was set above. She couldn’t believe this had just happened. She went to the mirror and squeezed water from her hair and uniform.

She really smelled bad, As she came out the bathroom there was a huge burst of laughter. She walked back to her workplace and did her best to ignore them.

When She got there, she opened the door to find all her work torn up into shreds again, she ran inside but immediately fell. She saw that there was oil on the ground. She landed painfully on her fours, she crawled to her papers and picked them up and put it in the dustbin.

She started her work all over again, it was five at night, she started to pack up her work, so she could take it with her. She heard the door opening, and saw it was Valerian. “Let’s go, what’s that smell?”

“It’s me.” She replied quietly.

He looked her over “what happened to your knee?”

She looked at her knee and noticed that it was bleeding. “I don’t know.” she replied. She wasn’t in the mood.

She started to walk towards him, but she was limping a bit. “Wait.”

She looked up at him quizzically, he came over and he carried her bridal style. “Put me down, I’m fine I can walk on my own, I swear.”

“Stop it Hailey! You are hurt.” as his voice was now authoritative.

She kept quiet, she hid her face on his chest. He was really warm, She didn’t know how he could tolerate the smell as she really stunk. On the other hand, his scent was really intoxicating her. He smelt very nice. She looked to see if we were out, but she was only met by angry stares, that were in disbelief. It was Clara and the others, she could see Clara’s fists were folded. Hailey turned her head back into his chest and nuzzled against him, which he chuckled to. The driver opened the car door and he got in with her.

She was cradled on his lap. she tried to move out his lap as they drove off, but his grip only tightened, and she gave up and continued to lean against his chest.

They got to the house and immediately went to use the shower, she showered for over an hour, until she had taken the foul stench from her completely. She changed into pajamas and went downstairs, there she found Valerian already sitting. She sat next to him as her plate was set there.

Ruiza puts her dinner in front of her. “Thank you.”

“You are welcome my dear.”

“It’s nice to have someone to eat with at home.” Valerian smiles at her.

It’s a genuine smile and she can’t help but to smile back at him.

She digs in to her food, when she is done, Ruiza takes their plates. “Dessert?”she asks.

“Not now.” Valerian responds to her. Then he turns his attention to her.

“What happened at work Hailey?”

“What do you mean?” she responds.

“Please don’t act stupid, it doesn’t suit you at all.”

“I fell.”

“How?”

“It was….”

Before she could answer, Ruiza came and behind her was Matt.

“I got your message, let’s go.”said Matt.