Chapter Ten

"I'm sick of your attitude?" Grey barked staring Clara down. Clara was manipulative, but she knew better than to be quiet when Grey was this angry.

"Please don't make a scene In Front of your employees" she pleaded in a quiet voice. "I'm making a scene?" Grey scoffed. "You're the one always making me angry"

"Okay I'm sorry" Clara said, holding onto Grey's arm. "She's just a cleaner, you don't have to get all worked up because of that"

"She's MY cleaner. She works for me personally, you don't talk to any of my personal employees like that" Grey warned again, ripping his hand from Clara's. "Just go" he sighed, rubbing his pinky across his left brow.

Clara looked back at Katrina clearly embarrassed. Katrina quickly averted her eyes back to her work not wanting it to be obvious she had been watching, because of course she'd never seen Grey this angry about any of them before"

Clara looked back at Grey with sad eyes. "You are still going to be present forr the dinner party tonight right? We can't let stuff like this come between us.

"I'll be there. Just leave" he sighed before turning around and walking into his office, slamming the door behind him.

He mentally blamed his father for trying to set him up with her in the first place. She always riled him up, and now he was stuck with him for the evening. With a loud sigh he adjusted his jacket for the meeting walking up to Katrina's table.

Bella placed her ear by the door trying to listen for Clara. She'd heard Grey shouting at her and felt scared to bump into her in the hallways.

"Where is Evan?" She heard Grey ask Katrina.

"He escorted Miss Richards out the building" she responded, making Bella let out a breath she didn't know she was holding.

"I'm going to email you a dress" Grey continued and Bella continued to eavesdrop. "Send it to Joe and tell him I need a suit to match, delivered to me before 5pm prompto" he instructed.

"Yes sir" Katrina replied quickly checking her computer for the email. "I'll do it right away sir"

"Good"

Bella sighed, summoning the courage, before finally pushing the door of the meeting room open. She walked out slowly looking between Katrina and Grey.

Grey nodded at Katrina before completely ignoring Bella, walking past her into the meeting room.

Katrina gave Bella a sorry look before continuing to contact Mr Joe- Grey's stylist and one of the biggest fashion designers in the state.

Bella walked towards the back room neatly dropping the cleaning brush before bursting out in laughter. Did she actually expect Mr Grey to comfort her?

She burst out laughing again holding unto her leg. "I've watched too many movies" she said in-between small laughs finally calming down.

She came out of the room a few minutes later, still smiling brightly when she bumped into Evan. "I'm so sorry" she said with a smile looking up at him.

"It's okay. You look happy" he commented, scanning her. "That's good"

"Thank you"

Mr Grey wants replace the clothes his fian_girlfriend smeared" Evan continued nudging at the stain on her shirt from Clara's make up.

Bella narrowed her eyes at him, she was sure she just heard him trying to say fiance. "Did you just say..?"

"I know what I said" Evan cut her off. "Please don't tell anyone, nobody's supposed to know. It Just kind of slipped out"

"Your secret is safe with me" she grinned putting her forefinger over her full lips.

"So.. the clothes?" Evan said again, "I need to get you new clothes and report back to the boss"

"Oh now it's okay" Bella tried to brush off. "I would just wash it off, it's an old shirt anyway"

"Mr Grey doesn't like to owe people" Evan said more firmly. "he's not taking no from an answer"

"O-okay. Just give me the cash" she suggested but Evan shook his head.

"You've finished your shift for today right?" He asked and she nodded in response. "Let's go then" he led and she followed hesitantly.

Picking her bag, and waving at Katrina who ignored her, she found herself sitting in the passenger seat of a car with Evan. She had remembered this was the same car that had hit her that evening and was surprised at the turn of events.

A few twenty minutes later, they were pulling into a luxury store making Bella's eyes pop out. "What are we doing here?" She questioned looking at the big store In Front of them.

"Getting you a new top" Evan replied, turning the car off. "Let's go in"

"I can't" Bella said, shaking her head. She wasn't really one to refuce a gift, but she felt the money could be added to the money she'd been saving for this month's payment.

"We're already here, just pick something nice and I'll drop you home" Evan encouraged unbuckling his seat belt.

"Drop me home?" Bella asked again, shocked.

"That was my exact reaction when Mr Grey told me" he mumbled under his breath, not loud enough for Bella to hear. "I have to go join the meeting, enough chit chat and let's go" Evan said now loud enough for her to hear.

"Okay" she sighed, finally accepting that nothing she said would change the situation. She walked right behind Evan who led her into the store. She could see the dirty looks the store keeper gave her, and was sure if Evan wasn't with her she wouldn't have been allowed inside.

"Okay go on and get something" he urged, pointing Bella towards the top aisle.

"Okay" she sighed walking towards where Evan had directed. From the corner of her eye, she could see one of the store keepers kept following her. She rolled her eyes at the young woman before finally picking another black turtle neck top that had beautiful silver stones lining it.

"850$??" She spat checking the price tag. No way she would get this.

"You like that?" Evan said, popping behind her. And before she could protest, he pulled it off the rack, hanging it over to the store keeper that had been following her.

Bella gave a satisfactory smirk at the woman before walking away towards the counter with Evan leading.

"Do you want anything else?" Evan asked, pulling out a black credit card.

"No!" she quickly replied urging him to pay, immediately storming out of there with the branded bag as soon as he did.

They both settled in the car as Evan turned ignited it. "Where do you live?" He asked with a sigh and Bella started the description.

A few minutes later, they pulled up in front of a small house that had overgrown grass in the side of its lawn. Evan turned to look at her surprised. "This is where you live?"

"In all it's glory" she beamed unbuckling her seat belt. Thank you for the ride" she nodded at him as he slowly pulled out of her lawn.

She saw nothing wrong with her apartment, but she figured since he'd spent so many years around Mr Grey, this was very different from what he was used to.

With a sigh, she walked away towards her door pulling out her keys from her bag. But the door creaked open from the inside instead, revealing a man.