Total pages in book: 59
Estimated words: 55353 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 277(@200wpm)___ 221(@250wpm)___ 185(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 55353 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 277(@200wpm)___ 221(@250wpm)___ 185(@300wpm)
Eventually, I stopped getting blocked and stopped getting responses. That was a little annoying because how could I bother her if she was just going to ignore me? It was only fun if I knew it was actually bugging her.
I was in the process of trying to decide what my next generated email address was going to be when I heard a bunch of banging and yelling outside my office door. I looked up from my desk and listened.
“Can I help--HEY! You can’t go back there!”
“Try and stop me!”
A smile sunrose on my face. I closed my laptop, stored the playboy magazine I’d been looking at in my drawer, and took one final look at the news article with Alexa’s picture on it before shoving it into my drawer as well.
“Stop it! Mr. Foxx only sees people by appointment!”
“I have an appointment!”
“I don’t see--”
The door to my office opened and Alexa stormed in. My personal assistant, Garrett, was right on her heels. He rushed around her into the office and started to push her out. He looked over his shoulder at me. “I’m sorry, Mr. Foxx. I’ve called security. She demanded to come in. I tried to tell her not to.” He was attempting to corral her out. “I’ll help you set up a formal appointment.”
I held up my hand. “Garrett, come on now, that’s no way to treat a beautiful woman.”
Garrett looked back over his shoulder again at me. I raised my eyebrows and he took a huge step back from Alexa. “Oh, um. Sorry sir. Should we just wait for security?”
“Call them off. Miss Storm and I do indeed have an appointment. A rather important one at that.”
Garrett hunched his brow and pulled out his phone. “I don’t see anything on your--”
“Garrett get out of my office,” I demanded.
Garrett swallowed deeply and bowed his head. “Yes sir.”
He threw a judgemental glance at Alexa as he walked around her and out of the office, closing the door behind him. I took in Alexa fully for the first time since she arrived. Her eyes were flaming with anger and her jaw was clenched in frustration. She had on black leggings, a pair of brown riding boots, and a rose-colored blouse. The aggressed expression on her face was downright sexy. I remembered it well from when we were in college, but it’d gotten even better in the years since I’d seen her last.
“It wasn’t worth making issues with your assistant. I just came here to tell you to leave me the hell alone.” She crossed her arms. “Good to see you’ve gotten more mature.”
I laughed. “It worked. You’re standing here aren’t you?”
“I’d rather walk blindfolded into traffic than work with you and your asshole brother. I’ll tell you exactly like I told him. I’m not interested, find someone else.”
I folded my hands into each other, and smiled at her. “What if I don’t want someone else?”
The truth was, I’d always had a thing for Alexa and I believed Harley did too. She completely ignored Harley and I back in college and I found that to be undeniably attractive. Women were usually nipping at our feet. We got women of all types; the sporty ones, the brainy ones, the politicians--if they liked men, there wasn’t a game we couldn’t run. Alexa was always a different case. She avoided us, ignored us, and whenever we tried to get attention of any kind from her, she turned the other direction. Maybe I was just one of those idiots that yearned recklessly for stuff I couldn’t have, but there was just something about the way Alexa carried herself that I liked, plus she really was good at her job. Having her around aside, we’d be lucky to have an anchor like her.
“I don’t care what you want,” Alexa responded. “Never have.”
“That is certainly true.” I leaned forward. “Are you so prideful that you would turn down a job that anyone in the industry would be happy to have?”
“It’s not about pride, it’s about sanity, and working for you I’d be siphoning it out by the liter.”
I stood up from behind my desk. “I take it Harley already offered you the salary and benefits?”
“Yep.”
“If that’s not enough, what would it take to get you to join us? There’s no bad answers and money is not an issue.”
“I can’t be bought. Just leave me alone and find someone else.”
“I already told you we don’t want someone else.” I walked around my desk and closed some of the distance between Alexa and I, stopping only when she started to take a few steps backwards. “Why don’t I offer you something no other company can offer you.”
“What’s that?”
I fanned out my arms. “An inside look into our lives of course. Insider exposé on the Foxx family. Can you imagine what someone would pay you for that kind of story?”