"He who once shown warmth was deeply wounded, now he shows nothing but coldness."

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F i r s t D a y

Isabelle's P.O.V

"Dammit! Why did one of my heel had to break in public! Arggh", I sighed, a scowl making it's way onto my face. I'm literally hopping on one feet because of this heel and I'm late, resulting in not being able to stop at a shoe store.

"Get out of the way lady!", I whipped my head to the side as I limped across the street, Lachowski's Industries came in view, the building towering over me, slightly intimidating me. Without further hesitation, I walked into the building with a smile on my face, exchanging pleasantries with my colleagues.

Just on time, Sebastian, as in Mr Lachowski's name, which I learned from one of my colleagues, made his presence known with his intimidating aura. The chattering ceased as they bowed their heads slightly. I stood there furrowing my eyebrows at the sight in front of me, confusion written all over my face. The colleague I was having a brief conversation with looked at me with horror, his hand shoving my head down slightly but the look he gave me made me shut my mouth.

"Miss Bennett!", I jumped in fright from the sudden outburst, realizing that it was Sebastian calling me, I walked-ran to his office, my heels clicking on the floor.
"Yes Sebastian?", I asked with a smile on my face, his name rolling off my tongue
"You MAY call me Mr Lachowski", the coldness in his eyes made me shiver slightly. He reached for a stack of folders while I took the time to take in his appearance. He was dressed in a royal blue blazer and a pair of expensive looking designer shoes, his hair well groomed this time but eye bags were still prominent. His eyebrows furrowed in concentration as he searched for something.

"Have this ready for me by the afternoon, I'll be needing them for a conference meeting", he stated handing me the stack of folders, he typed away on his laptop without throwing another glance at me. With a disheartened sigh, I left the office and went into mine.

What's wrong with me? First day working for the boss and these unwanted feelings surfacing. I pushed away my thoughts, focusing on the huge stack of folders that need to be done by afternoon.

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I heard the sound of glass shattering, jumping out of my seat I went to see what was all the commotion about.

To say I was shocked would be an understatement

I looked into Seb—— Mr Lacowski's office to see splinters of glass all over the polished floor, a scowl on his face while he runs his fingers through his hair in frustration. I turned to look at everybody, they looked calm and collected and went back to their work. I was about to rushed inside the office but a hand gripped mine drawing me away from the office.

"What the hell", I whispered-yelled at the same colleague from earlier. What was his name? Jack? John? Meh what's the difference.

"You do not want to interfere with him right now, he has quite the temper", he explained, letting go of my hand.

Temper?

My heart softened when I heard that, I know a thing or two about that.

"Uh—Oh, what happened John?", I asked him, All of a sudden, I felt intrigued to know more about Mr Lachowski's temper.

"It's Josh", he chuckled slightly, pink tinting his cheek to show that he was quite embarrassed that I didn't remember his name. Josh was pretty handsome, like a cute boyish kind of handsome. He had well groomed blonder hair, his big doe blue eyes and slight freckles rested on top of his cheeks. He cleared his throat snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Oh I'm sorry! I'm not really good at remembering things", I smiled sheepishly, heat creeping up on my cheeks when I realized that I was checking him out.

"Oh that's okay!", he waved off cheerfully. "Would you like to get lunch with me and I'll tell you all about it! If you want to I mean, but I would love if you could eat lunch with me, uh—-not that I want to force yo——"

"I would love to", I cut off his adorable ranting. His face broke out in a grin, "Really? Okay! It's soon 12, meet me outside?"

"Sure", I smiled and sauntered off into my office.

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"Finally", I mumbled, stretching my sore limbs. I looked at the clock above and I smiled.

LUNCH TIME!

With a bounce in my steps, I took up the stack of folders, already proofread and knocked on the glass door of Mr Lachowski's office.

"Come in"

"Here's the folders you asked for, may I be excused to lunch?", I bit my lip, he looks up, his eyes settled on my lips then cleared his throat.

"Yes you can, do you want to have lunch with me? Since you're new and I don't think you have many friends", he asked me with a blank face, his lips pressed into a thin line.

Suppressing my shock that he had been kind enough to ask me, I grinned widely but then my grin faltered when I realized that I already promised Josh.

"I would love to but I can't , I'm so sorry, I promised Josh that I'd have lunch with him already", I apologized, feeling disheartend.

"Okay whatever, It's not that I want your presence here anyways", he waved off dismissively like he could care less.
My heat sunk, he was just asking me because he felt sorry for me. I did the "walk of shame" out of his office and went to greet Josh that was patiently waiting for me.

"So, do you want to go to a cafe perhaps?", he asked sweetly. Nodding my head with a slight frown on my face, we made our way to Helen's Cafe down the street.

Josh must've noticed the frown on my face because he asked me if I was okay.

"I am, nothing to worry about", I gave him a small smile which he gladly returned.

"So uh what's the deal with Seb— Mr Lachowski?", I asked, holding the warm cup of mocha in my hand.

"Didn't you hear? It's a rumor but Mr Lachowski is the most feared mafia——"

"Josh, mind lending me Miss Bennett for a bit?, I heard a deep voice behind me that sent shivers down my spine.

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A/N - I'm so sorry that I haven't updated in a while, please forgive me for I have been so busy with school, I hope you enjoyed this chapter!

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