CHAPTER SEVEN

"Mr Wayne you have a meeting by 8:30am, we should get going" Adeline said as she picked her bag and prepared to leave the house. She waited for Mr Wayne to leave first but the man still stood there with his eyes fixed on her. The grin was long gone now and he had a serious expression on his face as he watched her. Even though there was a distance between the both of them, Adeline could still feel the heat of his gaze from where she was standing.

'Fuck he's coming ' Adeline cursed in her head when she saw him take a few steps closer to her. She wanted to close her eyes and pray to God that all of this was just a daydream but she couldn't look away from his penetrating gaze. 

Now he was standing in front of her, he was so close that he now had her back touching the edge of the kitchen Island. Adeline bit her lips trying her best not to talk even though she had so much to say right now. She had to remind herself that he was her boss and she shouldn't be picking a fight. 

"You smell divine" 

Adeline heard his hoarse voice. She could feel his hands reaching out to touch her and then she felt his fingers lightly graze the side of her cheeks. 

"Mr Wayne, what are you doing?" Adeline asked as she leaned back, trying to create a little distance between them but then she felt his hand snake up around her waist as he pulled her in closer to himself like as if the closeness they shared wasn't enough. 

Adeline couldn't help the gasp that escaped her lips, she could hear her heart beat racing. 

"You interest me" Dylan confessed as he picked a few strands of her hair and twirled them in-between his fingers. 

"Interest you...how...how do you mean?" Adeline tried to stop herself from stuttering but she couldn't help it. Not when he was this close to her and his arm was around her, she could not even bring herself to think straight. 

"I don't know..." He answered and then added. "yet, but I'm very interested in finding out" he spoke before removing his hands from her waist. He took a step back and watched her, his eyes noticing her every expression. 

Adeline took in a deep breath as she closed her eyes, she had not realized that she had been holding her breath all this while he was finding the right words to answer her question. Her face was flushed, she had to take a few seconds to fix herself after hearing what he just said. 

'Why in hell would he suddenly have an interest in her?' 

Adeline couldn't believe that this was happening, she didn't have time to process all of this, at least not now. She looked at her wrist to check the time on the watch and her eyes widen in terror. 

"Mr Wayne we have to leave, the meeting, if we don't leave now then we are going to be late" Adeline panicked as she tried to persuade her boss to leave her apartment but it seemed like the man would rather stand and watch her instead of attending the important meeting she had been working on for weeks. 

"I can't be late to my own meeting, they won't dare to start before my arrival" Dylan spoke with a neutral expression on his face. He looked like he was damn sure that no one would start the meeting without him being present. 

"I know but we can't delay them, I had to call and beg them for weeks before they finally agreed to come discuss with you" Adeline explained. 

"Why would you beg them? It's my money so they should be the one begging " Dylan said, if only he could hear himself speak then he would call himself a fool. Infact he would laugh at his own reflection in the mirror now seeing how he was acting so different. 

"I know but over the years Wayne industries have been making marks in only some specific places, there are some secluded areas that you still need to make a mark on. If you can get them to see how good your technology and products are then you'll definitely win them over for sure. All you need to do is to get them to be on your side for now, they won't be important later on but for now you need them" Adeline paused to take in a deep breath, she had been talking too fast. She noticed that Dylan was silent and now had his eyes fixed on her, she guessed he was getting bored with her words. 

"You are probably getting bored with my words so I'll just make it clear and simple Mr Wayne. I spent three weeks working and trying to get those men to accept my proposal, you missing this meeting is going to mess up the whole thing. So I need you to walk out of my apartment and go for the meeting " Adeline said and then her hands flew over her face when she realized that she had been too strict with her words. She noticed how he arched his brows at her and she could tell she had crossed the line again. Though he was silent , the look on his face was enough to tell her what was to come. 

She had been so frustrated for the past three weeks because the investors were making her job so damn hard. She finally succeeded in getting them to come and now her boss wouldn't attend the meeting. Everything was too much for her to take in and so she had to let her frustrations out. But it was too late when she realized that she was half screaming at her boss, the man who signed her pay cheque. 

'Damn it Addie, how could you be so stupid?' She cursed herself as she watched him walk closer to her. 

Each step he took had her wondering what he would do, was he going to hit her. She couldn't tell what his reaction would be, judging from the kind of man he was Adeline could guess that no one had ever dared to talk to him in that manner and now she....'oh god she was going to be in trouble ' Adeline closed her eyes expecting the worse.