Eleonora

I feel good. I feel a bit of freedom once we establish the 'win me over' game. It's true that wasn't my initial plan and I know that I am playing with fire.

It was supposed to talk about a much more strict contact, I was supposed to tell him I didn't want any kind of relationship with him however I am sure that wouldn't be possible.

I had planned a dozen of pages with how we should behave and treat each other, how we should forget that kiss and draw a veil over that moment but that wasn't what I really wanted.

I need to manage to accept the truth, the truth is that I have feelings for him and I am scared of them however I hope things change.

Blaze has surprised me in different kinds of ways... Mostly positive and honestly, I am dying to know this flirtatious and romantic side of him.

I don't intend to play around with him. I want him to show me if this is what he really wants, I want him to show me how badly he wants it, because - I am that self-insecure.

Am I being a bad person for doing this? Maybe I am but my love life has left me insecure and depressed.

And Blaze, his history complicates this even more... Blaze has had quite a historical of lovers... Maybe I wouldn't call it lovers.

Let's just see what happens with this proposal I made him.

I woke up, took a shower and got dressed for work as normal. On these hot days, I love to take a morning shower and wait for the sun outside to dry my hair naturally.

It would make my hair waves much more salient!

"Good morning!" I exclaimed as I walked down the stairs

"Good morning Mrs. Eleonora!" I heard Dorothy say. Once I reached downstairs I looked over at the kitchen to find Dorothy cooking and Blaze sat on his usual sit, although in front of him was a big bouquet of flowers in a vase.

"Good morning" he said not looking at me. Curious as I am, I leaned over the table and trying to read the small paper over the flowers, maybe it said who it was from... And for who those flowers were...

I did not kill my curiosity as I realized that paper was the card of the store that made that set of red roses. Sadness came over to me as realized I didn't discover who those flowers belong to-

"Do I sense hope being vanished away?" I heard him question, I raise my eyebrow at his comment

"Hope?"

"Weren't you hoping to find out who they were from and this who they were?" He questioned as if he knew me

"No..." I said biting my lip

" I also sensed a bit of hope towards the card... Were you hoping your name was on it?" he questioned with a soft smile, lately he has been so smiley it makes me nauseous

"No" I chuckled lightly at his stupid comment. My name is on it why would that ever-

"Oh stop being mean to your wife Mr.Maxwell" Dorothy said placing my breakfast in front of me, something was happening and I clearly had no idea about it. "He can't be a love bird without messing with you" she mentioned making me cease my eyebrows together... a love bird- why would he-

oh my-

" You should eat, the eggs will get cold" he informed as I looked over at my plate. It was a normal breakfast like always but on top of it there was a black card with only five words in golden.

From your husband

To you

I was more than dumbfounded at this moment. My heart started to pound like crazy, was he being romantic? Of course, he was... but I never had seen a man this romantic and this was only a bouquet of flowers. I grabbed the card with my shaking hand and turned it around admiring the effort he was putting onto this. When I flipped the card there was a phrase on it that melted my heart and made my skin burn.

50 roses on this bouquet how many are left so I can win you over?

I'm unsure if he's being sincere, flirtatious, or teasing me. I gave him a puzzled look... he was definitely confident. "You can write the number below or just text me," he whispered, standing up and waving his goodbyes to Dorothy with a smile.

He got out of the apartment just like that... leaving me there with no possible answer or thought crossing my mind. What have I done?

"I must confess Miss... Not once did the thought of this man giving someone flowers crossed my mind but then again I never though he would marry" Dorothy said laughing to herself "You are the best thing he has ever had" Wow. No pressure at all.

After my breakfast I arrived my office, with a smiley receptionist waiting for me. "Good morning boss"

"Good morning Miles, how is everything around here"

"Pretty good... Way too good. Jen arrived earlier. Not the usual late, not on time... Earlier" he clarified making my smile drop. This wasn't good news.

"Meet me at my office in 5. Bring tissues and a chamomile tea" I stated, he noded following my orders and I hurriedly rushed to my office while quickly greeting everyone.

"Jen? Jennifer?" I asked as I opened the office door

"Oh no..." I mumbled watching her sat at the pink sofa with a pout and in front of her on the small table were some papers

"What is this?" I questioned sitting beside her and reading those papers

"I want to quit"

"WHAT?" I shouted in surprise

" I want to quit... Whether I quit or he does. I know he won't do that so... I will." by her angry speech I know the he she meant was Connor. What did he do this time?

"Ok, Jenny calm down and explain me what happened"

"I know this is totally unprofessional but I refuse to sacrifice myself" she said with tears in her eyes

"Ok babe look at me" I place a hand on her back and massaged it calmly. "Take a deep breath and explain me what happen"

"The tea and the tissues-" Miles said barging into the office. With that being sad Jennifer started to cry mercilessly and walked to Miles aggressively taking dozens- hundreds, in fact, issues.

"He is such a douchebag" she cried out. Miles sat on the other side of the couch and we waited till she was sat again between us. I grabbed the tea waiting for her to drink it, it was cold just like she liked it .

"What happened?" Miles questioned

"We were fine... everything was fine till I tried once again to kiss him. You don't understand he has given me every reason to do it, he said he liked me how could I not kiss him and then when I go for the kiss he simply grabbed my face with the palm of his hand and said. We shouldn't do that."

"What the hell is wrong with him?!" Miles mumbled, I looked at him with threatening eyes... He was not helping at all, I earned a shrug of shoulders by his side and honestly he was right... What was wrong with him.

"Is he Philemaphobic?" Miles pondered

"Is he what?" I asked furrowing my eyebrows together

"philemaphobic... afraid of kissing. It's a thing- look for it" Miles explained

"He doesn't have a phobia he is just playing me" Jen sobbed "He made me have feelings for him and now he doesn't want me."

Connor and Jennifer were really on weird terms since I tried to hook them up. I deeply regret that moment now that I think about it, I thought behind that strict posture was a nice and polite guy, however it doesn't seem like it.

"He is a big pain in the ass and I want to kill him in fact that's what I am about to do" she said standing up while Miles and I held her and pushed her back to the couch.

"You really shouldn't kill him, you don't have an agenda for a funeral right now" Miles informed making me give a disapproval look

"You are not going to kill him or quit your job. You are going to behave like mature woman go upstairs tell your feeling and talk your heart out. If he wants you then he better treat you right if he doesn't-"

"We will make sure to kill him for you" Miles interrupted

"Hm- I guess that works" I mumbled. Jenny embraces both of us under her amrs and between sobs and cries she tries to thank us.

"I am so stupid I feel in love again when I shouldn't" She mumbled, we tried to comfort but we were interrupted by work phone who started ringing.

I got up leaving the two on the couch and picked up the phone, only to greet my husbands voice. "Eleonora?" he asked, even over the phone the simple call of my name had an effect over me.

"Blaze-" I sort of whispered "Are you missing me already?" I asked with a smirk on... he wasn't the only one that knew how to flirt and I making sure to play hard to get but I can always spice things up.

"I am in fact. I need you" he mumbled making me not able to breathe..."did I just left you speechless?" he questioned and I could hear his smirk through the phone line

"What do you need me for?"

"A lot of things that I can't say over the phone but right now I just want you to come up and bring your assistant too, please" please? Wow, he was really making efforts.

"I will be there in 5" I mentioned

"3... I can't wait 2 more minutes without seeing you"

"Now you are being exaggerated" I rolled my eyes

"Well you like it" he said through a smile "I will be waiting for you" he said hanging up the phone

"Were you just phone sexing?" Miles asked caughting me off guard

"What? No... "

"She was phone flirting" Jen commented through sobs

"That isn't even a thing"

"It is" Miles nodded

"It is not" I stated "I was not phone-'anything' ok? Blaze wants me and Jen upstairs"

"So you were phone sexing with your husband" Miles insisted

"That is so disrespectful, I am miserable here El!"

"I know... I was not phone sexing c'Mon we need to go." I tried to lift her up

"What are we doing?"

"I don't know he didn't say"

"Maybe Connor told him to fire me!" She started crying her heart out at that thought

"Blase is not firing you. I am your boss"

"But he is your boss. That makes him my boss's boss, he is my double boss... he can fire me" Jennifer informed

"I am his wife, so no he cannot fire you unless I say so"

"You are so cool" she cried grabbing my hips and drooling over my black skirt

"I know. C'mon let's go" I grabbed her pulling off the sofa and guided us upstairs while Miles stood there cleaning the office from Jen's tears and tissues.

I walked through the tallest floor greeting everyone. Once near Blaze's door I pulled it to get in.

"Shouldn't you knock?!" Jennifer asked

"We don't do that" I explained getting in the office meeting a miserable and stressed Connor on the couch and a hot man leaning against his desk.

"Good morning ladies" Blaze greeted us

"Good morning Mr. Maxwell" Jennifer said while sniffing and cleaning the tears on her face

"I called you because it seems we have a problem Mrs. Maxwell." he said in a serious tome while looking at me, how will I take it seriously when he calls me Mrs.Maxwell?!

"Really?" I asked making him nod

"It seems my assistant wants to quit his job because of your assistant"

"Well that sounds similar to me because my assistant did the exact same thing" I confessed, he nodded understanding my words and asked politely for Jen and I to sit at the couch he sat near Connor right in front of me.

Connor looked like a mess, he has surely been crying for hours, his eyes were puffy and red and he kept unconsciously quietly sobbing.

"We should co something about this. I don't want to loose my assistant" Blaze mentioned

"I dot want to lose mine either. Do you have any solution in mind?"

"Glad you asked that Mrs.Maxwell. I do in fact have an idea"

"What that might be?"

"A dinner" he said making us three look at him with dumbfounded faces, doesn't he understand these two can't be together in the same building not even in the same room... that's the reason why they want to quit why would a dinner help?

He nodded at me and ceased his eyebrows mentioning me to help him carry on with that idea. Although I didn't know what is plan was I followed his lead.

"Of course. A dinner!I think that would be great!"

"Great! Tonight at our place, you should appear around 8 o'clock, is that good for you?" he questioned both assistants they simply nodded

"Very well, dinner it is! Let's go to work now! I have plenty of meetings and so does Mrs.Maxwell" he said standing up, Jenny and Connor stood up and left the office prepared to do their jobs as normal.

Once the door closed I looked at him with a raised eyebrow waiting for his explanation "Dinner?"

"Hm... it's good to make them remember the first time they knew each other don't you think?" he asked. That's true their first sort of date was at our house, Blaze is trying to revive their memories although I don't know if that is going to be enough. "I will talk to Connor about it"

"About what?"

"About his stupid timing for the kiss. He likes her so much and he is invested on doing things at the right time that he just might loser" he explained, I nodded agreeing with him

"Maybe I should tell her to be patient and hear him out then. Make sure you can make him step up and act like a man. Jen is heartbroken" I mentioned standing up

"Should I tell him to kiss her? " he said approaching me "Just like I kissed you" he whispered, his face inches away from mine

"You should" I said smirking preparing to leave

"When can we do repeat it? Although the image and feeling it's vivid in my mind the taste of your lips in vaguely disappearing from mine" he commented holding my face softly with his tight hand and brushing his thumb on my lips. Making me hold my breath and my bones burn.

I looked at his eyes, his beautiful grey eyes that held something in it, I think it was the kind of eyes you look at and get lost in... and I guess I did that.

I was so lost in him, in his smell, in his posture and eyes that right now at this moment- I really wanted him to kiss me.

"The problem is-" he whispered, his breath against mine, he leaned in, our lips so close like that have been before "If I kiss you again, I don't think I would be able to stop"

I swallowed my half breath watching him close his eyes and take a step back away from me..." I should win you over first" he mentioned making my body disappointed. What a stupid game, who the hell has the idea of this win-me-over game... he could've just kissed me!

Oh wait- I did.

"Hm- yeah... I should go..." I mumbled, I am in so much trouble he has me wrapped around his finger.

Lord have mercy on me.