All Chapters of Attracted to my billionaire boss : Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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Chapter One: WORLD ON FIRE

HannaI never thought I’d be back here again.Tonight the rain was vicious, lashing my skin furiously. If only it could have done the same on my battered heart.I was standing outside the bar, my bar, or at least what was left of it. Watching my most treasured possession, burn with a fire that the rain could barely put out.“Miss Hanna, if you could please step away from the wreckage. You could hurt yourself,” a firefighter said to me. I barely registered his concern.“Wreckage,” I whispered. “My bar is wreckage.”He pulled me away rather forcefully, and I merely stumbled along, numb and confused. Hurt, frustrated. Angry to tears.“What happened to my bar?” I demanded, wrenching my arm from the firefighter’s grip and finally looking at him. I paid no attention to the pity in his eyes, focusing all my energy on the anger building. “What happened to my bar?!”The man hung his head in pity. “It was an electric short circuit in your kitchens, ma’am. It spread rather quickly because, well,
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Chapter Two: INTO THE UNKNOWN

HannaThis place was a dump. No better way to put it. I stepped over more broken bottles than I cared to think about just to get to the front door of the small bungalow, all the while reciting to myself that I could’ve been sleeping in the street for the next few weeks.It was nearly midnight now. I watched Faith open the front door and push it open with a grunt.“Okay, this place looks worse than I remember,” I heard her mutter to herself. I entered the house behind her.The inside wasn’t altogether bad. There was a thick layer of dust over the floor, over the sparse furniture in the front room, everywhere. But the windows were intact, there was a forgotten couch I could dust and sleep on…“I don’t…think this is a good idea anymore,” Faith said, turning to me. “Maybe we can…”“No!” I practically screamed. I tried to relax. “No, it’s a great idea. Once I clean up I can actually stay here.”“But it’s so…”“Please,” I pleaded, voice cracking in that annoying way I hated. “I have no othe
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Chapter Three: FREE RENT?!

AaronSomeone’s been staying here, I observed.Only heaven knew what made me leave the office this early, and go to inspect my one property that had been abandoned for years. Seriously, I even wondered why I finally decided to renovate this place. But good for me that I did, because now I discovered that I had a squatter.Or a criminal hideout, which? As I walked through the house, I was careful not to touch anything or move anything from its place. There wasn’t much by way of property here, just a couch in the living room, a dusty oven and a stool in the kitchen, and a threadbare mattress in the bedroom that had rats scurrying around inside it. I noted that the water was running though, and hot. Someone never cut the power supply to this place.I stood in the center of the bedroom briefly, wondering. At first, I figured the front door was just jammed, and it was only when I forced it so hard that it fell off the hinges that I realized it had been locked.Who lived here? No personal e
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Chapter Four: WAVERLY STREET

HannaIt really didn’t even last 24 hours.As I watched the man leave, all I could feel was anger. Sad, upset, frustrated, but angry.How dare he? And he threatened Faith too, I’d heard him. I wouldn’t even blame Faith because if that was her boss, then damn, her boss really was an ass.“That was my…” Faith said, nudging a thumb over her shoulder to where the man entered his car – a damn Benz – and drove off recklessly.“That was your boss, yes.”I didn’t even know what to say, what to do, right then. I looked over to my bag of clothes still sitting on the ground outside, and decided to make the decision before someone as good as Faith had to kick me out.“I’ll just go, it’s fine. You’re too good a person, I can’t let you lose your job.”I went to pick up my bag, just as Faith said, “But where would you go?”I did not even want to think about that because I had no idea. But Faith didn’t need to know. She’d already tried to help.“I know somewhere.” I felt like the lie was so obvious.
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Chapter Five: BEEF SAUCE

HannaOver the next five hours, I did nothing but sit at Faith’s kitchen table and think. With a pen and paper, I’d found on it. I didn’t even step inside the room I’d been offered, slightly apprehensive for multitudes of reasons. So I just sat there and thought.I gave myself at worst, at the absolute worst, three months in this house. I’d find a job as soon as possible, within the next hour if it was within the sphere of human possibility. Depending on what my first paycheck would look like and when. I’d set aside at most fifty percent and put it together until I made up to a six-month rent on a normal apartment. Then I’d divide that into two, give Faith her half and… Yeah, I had to admit that there was no way I’d successfully pay Faith back in three months. But by God, I would try.A part of my mind was acknowledging the fact that this was rather masochistic of me. After all, I made all these plans for Big Dreams, didn’t I? And didn’t they literally go up in flames?Nevertheless, w
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Chapter Six: A Temporary Address

HannaIt had only been a few days on Waverly Street, but I could get used to living here with Faith. The clean, lush extra bedroom was completely lacking any personal objects that carried the weight of the life I had just lost in the fire. Waking up to enveloping silk sheets and staring at the white walls as the soft morning light leaked in through the large windows, it was a little easier for me to embrace the misfortune I had been handed without my consent.I spent most of my time these couple days in the kitchen, a small part because it was all I had to do and for the most part because of how Faith's eyes lit up when she walked into the kitchen every morning to a fresh pot of coffee I had just brewed and me standing at the stove tending a frittata or flipping some bacon for a BLT."How do you already know me so well?!" Faith would say to me on one such morning as she chugged her coffee, always black with a heap of sugar, and wharfed down bites of the omelette I had made as she heade
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Chapter Seven: HIGH STANDARDS

AaronI held myself to standards that were too high. These standards were always set for me, though, right out of the womb. Looking around my office this morning, I was reminded yet again of these standards. The expensive marbletop table in front of me, the expertly polished leather seats, and the custom Persian rug that lay on the floor beneath an artisan coffee table and matching settee that were all selected for me were impersonal and removed. This office was usually my sanctuary, but today it felt a little too big.Too many folders were stacked on my table. Demolition requests, lease agreements, property tax forms, building plans, finance documents, the works. I scanned through the documents absent-mindedly, wondering if I had lost touch with my responsibilities. How long has my assistant been letting random people stay in my unoccupied properties? I would admit that with the steady growth and expansion of the business, I have had a lot on my plate, focusing squarely on the big pic
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Chapter Eight: SETTING ME UP

AaronI finally slipped out of the meeting I had just spent the better part of my afternoon sitting through looking blankly at executives in suits who will never show me their real personalities but presented the overtly upright version of themselves, the versions they supposed I expected to see.Professionalism, I guess, but they only managed to bore the living day light out of me. One stock option after the other, one investment opportunity to the next. I wished someone would just talk about something else, like abandoned properties that needed renovation perhaps. Or a problem with squatters. Anyway.Running my hands through my dark hair and draping my corduroy jacket over my shoulders, I headed to the elevator to go down three floors, where my office and the overwhelming stack of duties I had left there unattended were still for certain awaiting my return. "Beep, beep" my phone chirped in my pocket. I reached in, pulled it out and turned on the screen to a text from my mother. "D
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Chapter Nine: FIGHTING SPIRIT

HannaI heard my belly rumble petulantly as I sat in the living room waiting for Faith to return home from work. I wanted to wait to have dinner together with her. The Dutch oven brimming with soupy coq au vin I had made a half hour ago was in the oven to stay warm, the lingering smell of caramelized garlic and onion still permeated the air.Having dinner with Faith the past couple nights has been a perfect way to wrap up what would have been an otherwise drab and heavy set of days for me. She always had a couple quips to report from her workday some related to her intense boss, the only character we both knew, as well as other random stuff. She was never opposed to fawning over the dinners I presented. But today was immediately different.Her car came to a still halt in the driveway and I heard a key turn in the door moments later. Nothing unusual yet, until I saw her countenance, that is.Faith walked into the living room with her shoulders slouched and her face bearing an uneasy e
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Chapter Ten: NEW BOSS

HannaA soft knock on the door woke me up from my uneasy sleep. The sun had not yet begun to stream light into the room."Come in" I said groggily, rubbing my eyes."Good morning." Faith stood at the door in her bathrobe, hair still wet, with a dress straddled on a plastic hanger inside her fist. She held it up to me. I got out of bed and took it from her. It was a muted tan color, simple, with ruffles at the hem. It was pretty and I ran a finger across the cap sleeve. "Thank you. Good morning." I said."It was the only thing in my closet small enough for you little miss petite, we need to take you shopping." She turned to leave."I'll go start breakfast.""I was thinking we could stop for coffee and a bite on the way. Save your energy. Just get dressed."And so I got into the shower and readied myself for a day I was not so sure about.It was a short drive to the Cafe Faith said she was a regular at until I started living with her. We both got coffees and breakfast sandwiches. Hopp
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