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Wow, he was asking me and I was being uptight. I wasn’t used to going out with anyone but Mom. She was sometimes great company and at other times I was afraid to take her out. He was right; I needed to get out and let my hair down.
“Okay, Mr. Hamilton let’s have one drink.”
He smiled and said, “Sounds like a plan, and by the way just call me, Ross. Mr. Hamilton sounds too formal.”
I nodded thinking that I did refer to him as Ross, but I wanted to say formal. I had a feeling that anything else would lead us to trouble. I was only here for six weeks, I didn’t need any other type of trouble, my life was as complicated as it was, already.
Chapter Seven
Ross
I wondered whether it was a mistake taking her to the local bar. I’d had a fucking long day. The woman knew her shit; that got me curious about her. There wasn’t a thing that I asked her to do or was about to ask her to do that she hadn’t already thought about. It made me realize that she was head and shoulders above the girls that had been working for me until then.
Don’t get me wrong: once I told them what to do, they were always happy to run with it. But there was no thinking outside the box. Not like Olivia did, and she had only been working for me one day.
“Tell me something.”
She hesitated as she flicked her long dark hair. The hair that was so neatly wrapped up in a bun when she started had been let loose since we entered the bar. It just emphasized her green eyes and now it was my dick that was thinking outside the box. It seemed to have a mind of its own when it came to Olivia.
“Yes?” She quivered as she avoided looking at me. That could only mean one thing. She was fucking attracted to me too.
“Why the fuck are you a VA when you’re so damn talented?”
She seemed surprised by my little outburst, or it could have been because I couldn’t help but brush my hand along her shoulder. Shit, she probably thought I wanted to see her hands again.
“I’ve only worked for you one day, and I’m sure that you’ve had plenty of secretaries that can do the same thing that I’ve done today.”
I shook my head, “You’ve got to be kidding me. You’re one step ahead of the game all the time. I ask you for one thing and you give me three options. Graphs, data that I haven't even requested yet. You’re like a machine.”
She blushed, “Wow. Do you talk to all your secretaries like that?”
“Only the beautiful intelligent ones,” Shit, I was getting so sappy; I needed to get home. Better still just take her home, so that I didn’t get any more thoughts about all the things that I wanted to do to her. And I couldn’t get them out of my dirty mind. I was fucking trying, but it was so fucking hard.
“My mom’s sick, she has dementia and since she developed the disease, I’ve been her sole carer,” she sighed. Suddenly I felt like such a dick for thinking about sex.
Always sex.
“My dad died in a car accident about three years ago. I think that’s what set Mom off. Well, no one really knows. The doctors said sometimes a shock can trigger a disease early.”
“How old is she?”
“Only forty-eight.”
“Shit, and she has dementia already?”
“Yes, there are quite a few that suffer from it early on. She had me right out of high school. That’s when her and Dad got married.”
“Young love.”
She shrugged, “Yes, I think that she couldn’t cope without him. He was taken away from her so quickly. She went into depression at first; that’s when I quit my job as executive director for Swan Kick Techies.”
Shit, she’d been working for one of the top IT firms in the district. “You were a director at such a young age.”
She nodded. “But now I’m just a virtual assistant.”
She dismissed it as if she wasn’t doing something worthwhile.
“Hey, you shouldn’t dismiss it like that. It’s a lot more than that. You’ve sacrificed your life to look after your mom. That’s admirable.”
