“Please be my date on Saturday night’s party…” Mr. Easton Gonzalez said after submitting the report I had written earlier. The yellow folder he was handing me back hung in the air as I stared at him in shock.
"Excuse me?" I shrieked, my gaze fixed on his. "I'm not going on a date with you!" I exclaimed, glaring at my boss.
“Don’t worry Miss Bell, it’s a fake date…” my boss informed me and I felt like I was splashed with cold water on the face.
Easton Gonzalez, the CEO of Gonzalez Steel Manufacturing and Industries asked his personal assistant Chloe Bell to be his fake date on their company’s Silver Anniversary to annoy and upset his ex-wife who cheated on him with his best friend. He chose Chloe out of all the girls around him because he knew Chloe wasn’t like the other girls who were crazy about him.

Boss, I'm Just Your Fake Date

After almost two hours of drinking two bottles of wine and some beer, Easton and I were both laughing and flirting our way to a state of mild intoxication. I was able to sense the tension leaving my body, and my attraction to him was no longer having the same effect on me as it had just a while ago.


‘‘You're so beautiful, Chloe… I can't believe Casper just left you with another girl...’’ he said while gazing at me with a distant expression in his eyes.


‘‘I don't know. Maybe, I’m not good enough for him… but if there’s one thing that is certain, it’s his loss of letting me go, not mine…’’ I murmured as I stared back at him, biting the inside of my lower lip nervously.


He gave a slight grunt as his eyes darted on my lips, and I didn't realize that he was inching closer to me until our faces were only a few inches apart from one another.


He lifted his hand and brushed a loose tendril of my hair, pushing it behind my ear, before he rested his palm on my cheek.


Chapter 20 MUTUAL