Chapter Four

The alarm clock rings but I don't want to go to work. I don't want to leave Mia alone, I don't want to go out, I have to talk to Alanna. I take my cell phone and call her, she is going to get paranoid when she knows. She answers after a few seconds, it doesn't take me too long and I tell her what happened. We both cried like when my parents made the decision to kick me out of the house. Alanna came immediately to take care of Mia, she couldn't miss work and she didn't want to put up with the idiot Ares either.

Once ready, I open the door to get into my car but then I see it, and I remember that it was missing a glass. Maybe it's not that bad, but you can see that last night some guys wrote things with aerosol spray and it's horrible. If I wanted to take the bus I had to walk 10 blocks, I was going to be very late. I couldn't ask Alanna for the car.

Then when I put my hand in my bag I find her card.

I dial the number on the back of it and wait.

"This is Rogers," she answered, his voice sounded very different, as if he had just woken up.

-Good morning Mr. Rogers, I'm Emma Harper- she was nervous, I didn't like asking anybody for favors, just All.

"Hello Emma, ​​please tell me Evan, are you okay?" Her hoarse voice gave me a strange feeling and I liked her concern.

-Yes, sorry for being so daring but I need to ask you a favor- she felt that my face burned.

-Of course tell me, don't be ashamed.

-My car is a mess and I have no means of transportation to get to my job, my boss would kill me if I'm late -and that if it was true, Ares was going to be more annoying than a fucking pimple on the buttocks if he was late.

-Of course I understand, right now I'm sending Patrick to go find you.

-Thank you very much Evan, bye.

He cut the call and I wait for his driver.

Patrick arrives in less than five minutes, I go up and give him the address of the company. I don't speak along the way, I just wonder about Mia and if they had sent me some kind of message threatening me, to which I answered no.

We arrived, before getting off I thanked him and quickly entered the building. I prayed that Ares is not waiting to scold me, not finding him I felt relieved. I go quickly to my position and I start doing everything I had to do.

Ares was not in his office or anywhere and that seemed a bit strange to me since he was always around at this time leaving me thousands of papers. My cell phone rang and I see that it was a message from All asking me how I was, when I was going to answer him I see that Ares was coming in with his typical sunglasses and he had a radiant smile on his face, that was weird but he looked nice.

-Good morning Emma, ​​I brought you this- I see you leave a coffee on my desk-

-Good morning sir, what is this? -It did not seem a credible scene that Ares is first happy and second; offering me a coffee.

-A cup of coffee, I don't know how you like it so I brought you an espresso.

-G ... thank you sir-I think by saying that I sound like Stephen Hawking.

-You're welcome, come to my office in thirty minutes.

He said that and went into his office, my face at this moment was of total confusion, I looked at the coffee on my desk surprised, did it have any poison or something? I shook my head to get that absurd assumption out of my head and drank it. It wasn't my favorite coffee but it didn't taste too bad. I answered the message to All before she starts calling me worried or worse, she starts calling the FBI or the CIA.

The thirty minutes passed and I hear how Ares calls me. I go to his office and once inside I notice that he is serious, as if he was thinking about murder or something similar. I was impatient that he did not tell me anything so I spoke:

"Do you need something sir?" He did not reply. "Are you okay?"

-Yes Miss Harper I'm sorry, I got lost in my thoughts, I wanted to tell you to reduce the hours, so he can go home early.

-Really? -A silly smile appeared on my face- wait, my salary will also decrease ?.

-No Miss Harper, so rest assured that her salary will remain the same- I was about to leave until she said something that perplexed me- Miss Harper would you like to go to dinner with me?

I couldn't believe what I had asked, my hand was still on the doorknob and my eyes were on the door. I hope it's just one of her bad jokes.

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I thought for a moment my brain had misheard and it was just a hallucination, but no, it wasn't. He was actually asking me to dinner and I didn't know what to say.

-Emma please, she agrees to have dinner with me. I was behaving like a real idiot with you- I couldn't look at him but his words sounded strange, sincere? -For Emma say something.

-Ares I don't ... don't lose.

-It will not be anything formal, just a dinner between boss and assistant. Sounds horrible I know. But we could be friends if you want ...- I did not know how to react and the next thing that came out of my mouth I did not think about it:

-Okay, you can pick me up at eight, I'll be waiting for you-I didn't know why I had accepted but maybe I should give him a chance to show me he's not an idiot.

"Really? I'll be there at eight o'clock." She had a smile that occupied almost her entire face. "Now you can retire and continue with your work, see you later." She left her office a bit stunned by what had happened.

When I told All about dinner with Ares, he first laughed for about fifteen minutes, then told me I shouldn't go, that he didn't know what Ares was planning to do. And if he maybe he was right but he had sounded sincere at his request. Maybe he would honestly apologize for harassing me.

I was not going to get so elegant, I did not want to give a confusing illusion so I opted for a high rise black rubber pants and a pink T-shirt which left my shoulders in sight. I painted my lips a light pink color, did my hair a little and that's it. I see the time, seven thirty, I sat down to play in bed with Mia on my lap and Alanna peeks out the door.

-Well, I thought you were going to be more elegant little sister- I looked at her with a smile. She didn't want Ares to confuse things, she had never exchanged more than three words with him and if she did it was just to argue.

-Being dressed like that is already elegant for me. You know I hate clothes so tight to the body- and if it was true, I love jeans and t-shirts a little baggy, and of course my leather jackets-do you think that's a lot?

-Hahaha not calm, she was just joking. Emma I ... I wanted to-note that he wanted to ask me something but he was ashamed-can I invite Liam to dinner? -I was not expecting that question but I saw that his cheeks had turned red and he was playing with his fingers, I could not leave her alone with Mia. It would not be fair for me to leave her and she is alone.

-Yes of course there, if you want to cook there are a couple of things in the fridge- said that her smile widened quickly and she hugged me.

-Thank you thank you thank you, I promise to leave everything clean- she was going to reply but I heard the horn of a car, I saw the time on my watch and it was eight o'clock. That was punctuality.

-See you there and if you want to do something wait until Mia falls asleep and there is protection on my nightstand. See you!!

I heard her curse me but I didn't understand very well, I went downstairs since the elevator didn't work. And then I see him leaning on his car with his arms crossed, he had black dress pants and a navy blue shirt. His hair was slightly tousled but it made him look wild. He barely saw me he glanced at me and gave me a smile. That smile that would be able to wet your panties in just an instant.

He opened the car door for me, told his driver to drive and we went to the restaurant.

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Well don't kill me for this somewhat confusing cap but maybe Emma would have to give Ares a chance, right? Do you think she will do something bad to him?

Thanks for being on the other side. I love you.