A S T R I D

Gio made good on his promise and after our second and third rounds, I was too sore to move that night, not to mention the next day. I was stuck in a bath full of ice water for almost an hour. It was incredible how he managed to be rough yet gentle. In the evening, I remembered I actually had a job and I was fucking the boss, so I sat in his room that I moved into and caught up on some work. I've abandoned work for so long, it didn't shock me by the amount I had to do.

Even though I was still slightly sore, I didn't want to miss another day of work, so I showed up at Pierce's the day after. It felt different walking into the building. The stares I got, like they knew my dirtiest secrets. Of course, they did. Gio and I were plastered over every magazine as the new hot couple. I didn't like the attention on me but I had to suck it up because this was his life and if I am to be a part of it, it was something I had to get used to.

Logan wasn't too pleased. He expected it but he still wasn't happy about the relationship but there was nothing he could do about it. If Gio could accept his relationship with Blaire, the least he could was return the same notion.

Back to my predicament, the employees were giving me a hard time the past couple of days, throwing any work they couldn't bother to do themselves at me. I couldn't tell Gio about it because it would make the matter worse. I was the Personal Assistant screwing and in an intimate relationship with the boss. Might as well say we're married because it almost made me their boss. Except they were laying it thick knowing I wasn't going to snitch to Gio.

God, I hate my job.

Snapping me out of my thoughts, I heard a commotion, coming through the halls. I stood and looked in the direction of the noise to see the security guards trying to coax the screaming lady back in the elevator and out of the building.

"Don't touch me! I need to see him!" she shouted on the top of her lungs, flailing her arms around trying to avoid the men from holding her.

"Well, he doesn't want to see you." Venom laced in Blaire's voice as she glared at the skinny, raven haired woman. She seemed to know her.

"I don't—" She made eye contact with me and a fire blazed in her eyes. She pointed an accusing finger at me, my eyebrows raising high and eyes widened in confusion. "You! You stole him from me, you bitch!"

I was already bored of the drama, especially not knowing who this woman was. I stood still and watched her push everyone out of the way as she made her way towards me. I look over her shoulder to see Blaire putting her phone to her ear, probably calling Gio. She was two or three inches taller than me, so as much as she tried to look intimidating, she wasn't.

While she shouted in my face how Gio was hers and the tabloids mean nothing because our relationship won't last because they were meant to be together again, her saliva landing in my face, I glanced at Blaire and made faces as a way to ask who the crazy lady standing in front of me was.

"Victoria," She mouthed to me. I told Blaire that I knew about her so she was more comfortable with informing me of every bad thing the bitch did to Gio and his family. I stared at Victoria, picking at my fingernails and my teeth grazing against each other.

"Just wait. He'll throw you away like a piece of trash and come back to me," she taunts, a sly smirk on the corner of her lips and an evil glint in her eye.

Wiping her saliva off my face. "I doubt it, since his entire family hates you for what you did to him."

"You have no idea what you're talking about."

A dry laugh escapes my mouth. "You think I don't know how you squandered his money away like the gold digging bitch you are. It's audacious for you to come back here and think he's going to run into your arms after you left him at the altar without a second thought. Let me guess, you're short on money and you think because it's been long, he must've forgiven you by now to lend you some money? Keep dreaming, bitch."

"Astrid." Gio's voice interrupted our stare-down. "Victoria, in my office now."

My mouth fell agape, not believing my ears. She winked and sauntered away, swaying her hip past him and in his office. My mind was running so many scenarios, driving me crazy. He could be scolding her for showing up and screaming like that at his place of work. He could be talking her into leaving quietly without making a scene as the one she came in with. Or he could be fucking her on his desk. It wouldn't be the first time. When I began working for him, I walked in on him screwing his employee. Then a few months later, he was fucking me on the same desk.

A phone screen was shoved in my face, showing me the latest trending news. It was Gio and Victoria at the same diner we went to, chatting away. I was so lost in my thoughts, I hadn't noticed when they left the building. She looked to be flirty with him but his face gave away nothing about his true feelings. The headline read : Victoria Sanders and Giovanni Pierce going for a second try?"

This was social media, I shouldn't be affected by it. They would turn anything and nothing into something that it wasn't for a paycheck and gossip. It didn't matter whose life they were ruining in the process.

"They're going to get back together, you know. It doesn't feel good being the boss's fucktoy, does it?" The woman provoked. I wanted to slap her so hard but I restrained myself and pushed the phone back to her.

"Don't you have work to get back to?" I may have sounded unbothered but my chest was aching and I was finding it hard to breathe. I wanted to trust him and know that it was nothing but the irrational side of my brain wouldn't allow me to.

As soon as the clock struck eight, I packed my bag and gathered the files neatly in one pile and left the building. I didn't want to be there a minute or second more. At this point, I would've drowned myself in tequila by now but even that seemed redundant. Hence, why I'm on the couch eating mac and cheese and watching Criminal Minds.

He finally arrived home. I was going to say something sarcastic but I shook my head slightly, not bothering. He went upstairs and came back down half an hour later in his sweatpants and a black shirt.

"Tell me what's going on in your head." He sat beside me, facing me.

"Does it matter?"

"Yes, it matters because I need to know what part I need to clarify." I licked my lips, refusing to utter a word. He sighs and holds my legs placing them over his and turns me by my waits. He waited patiently but when he realized I wasn't going to answer he nodded.

"Okay. I led her into my office in order to get the matter behind closed doors and not where everyone could be in my business. She came off strong as predicted but I made it clear that whatever I felt for her those years ago, no longer exists." I knew he was telling the truth but again my brain decided not to rationalize things.

I stood from the couch and turned my back to him for a second before facing him again. "So, it was so hard for her to understand that, you had to take her to the Silver Spoon Diner? Was she that stupid and stubborn or did you just want to serenade her a little?"

He stood to his feet as well. "No, I was not trying to— God, Astrid. I just wanted her far away from you and the company. Yes, the tabloids made it seem like we were rekindling as lovers or whatever but that was not the case. I explained to her that she was not getting any more money from me and we were never going down that path again. I'm not going to go into details of what I said but she left. She's not coming back. You—We won't have to worry about her anymore."

I ran my hand through my hair, "I want to believe you, Gio, I do but she was the love of your life. You may forgive her down the line and realize that this." I gestured to the space between us. "Was a mistake and go back to her. I'm looking out for myself here. I won't put myself through that kind of pain when I can prevent it early."

He brought his hand up to his hair and pulled on it, groaning in frustration. "You have no idea how much you mean to me, do you? You have no idea how hard it was to convince myself that I don't love you. Every morning when I open my eyes, I think of you."

He was now closing the distance between us. "Every night before I go to sleep, I wish for you to have good dreams. Ever since the kidnapping false alarm, I used to check on you every night just to make sure that you're safe. I thought Victoria was my love but she had me wrapped around her finger."

Tears were welling in my eyes and my heart was beating at a concerning pace. His hand came up to the side of my face, pushing the hair behind my ear as he smiled down at me. "You, darling, are the one for me and you have me wrapped around your whole heart. I may have hated it before but I have no problem with it now. I am irrevocably in love with you and I will repeat it every minute of every day until you believe it, because I am not going anywhere."

His nose brushed against mine, head tilted until he lowered his lips onto mine, slow and passionately while the tears streamed down my face into our mouths. Our warm tongues teasing each other any chance they got. Goosebumps were rising in my skin while our hearts beat as one in perfect harmony. He squeezed my waist, pulling me flush into his body letting me feel his dick pressing into me. Submitting ourselves to the sensation surging through us as we held onto each other.

Running out of air, we broke apart resting his forehead against mine, staring into my eyes and breathing heavily. He planted a kiss on my forehead like he normally does then another one on both of my eyelids.

"I love you too, Gio."

31/01/22

Au revoir...

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