Chapter 223: Blood
He had to handle a lot of projects whilst dealing with family as the first born. It was a lot of hassle for someone running several companies all at once, and a young man at that.
She smiled to herself as she began to picture instances of herself and Matteo together handling stuff. It’d be the most precious moment she’d ever known with a man, one that she was sure would not lay a hand on her.
What makes you so certain that he will not lay a hand on you? Don’t get your hopes up, Stella.
Her thinking was her worst enemy right now, because she was beginning to enjoy her imagination.
That was probably what hindered her from getting herself another person in the first place. She rubbed her forehead with her fingers, willing the ache in her head to get away, but it was to no avail. What she needed was rest, but the instruction from Matteo was not to leave until he’d shown up. After all, she was his personal assistant, for the meantime probably. But till then.
She was still debating when, in the thick of the silence she had long become accustomed to, she heard the ding of the elevator like a distant muffled sound. She jerked her head up with a start, wondering what was happening.
Is this a possible robbery?!
"This is a skyscraper for God’s sake," She spoke to herself as she got up from her seat and started towards her door with her phone in her hand, just in case the intruder invades the main lights. She opened her door slowly, taking in the quietness that seconded her current surrounding, she wasn’t liking the silence that followed the elevator ding.
And she could not believe she was walking towards the sound.