Emma works as a secretary in a distinguished company. Her boss is the attractive and arrogant Leonardo White, who one day, proposes a particular dinner with him, Emma agrees, without having any idea of the consequences that this will bring to her life and future. What is the price of falling in love with a heartthrob?
View MorePROLOGUE: LEONARDO WHITE.
The news that Leonardo White would be coming to pay a visit to the company had been one that had not been unheard of for at least two full weeks.There wasn't a secretary who didn't talk about it, or who wasn't intensely happy about it. Emma still did not fully understand it she did not understand it at all. She had too many doubts about Leonardo's visit, first of all, she did not even know who Leonardo White was, she was so disoriented."I guess I'll meet him soon," she said to herself, as she walked.She raised her hand so that it would be possible for her to see the time. Ten past seven in the morning. She quickened her pace, almost running, if she could find herself in shoes a little more comfortable, she would allow herself to run, too bad those high heels they required secretaries to wear, didn't even allow her to walk properly. It had always seemed to her, unfair in the fact that such an annoying emphasis was placed on women being groomed, without even a tousled strand, while men could be dressed almost as they wished.She had always considered that wrong, but she had never mustered enough courage to say anything, because, after all, she was just a simple secretary who needed the money and had been lucky enough to work there.She greeted the guard cordially and hurried her way, the reprimand for being late was horrendous, and if she did not arrive before seven twenty-five, she would receive it. She already had two warnings, the third one was the last: she would be fired. She cursed silently as she imagined herself being fired. That motivated her to keep walking faster.A pessimistic sigh escaped her trembling lips as she looked at the time again: nineteen past seven. She swallowed saliva, climbing the stairs that led her to the post she exercised, they were such extensive and uncomfortable stairs to climb that, she saw the possibility of taking off her heels as a way, but she did not exercise it, as there were a lot of other people climbing after her.Her footsteps hurried as she realized it was twenty-one past seven. She tightened her grip on her bag when she heard her name being called."I don't have time for this now," she thought, trudging up the last few steps.Her phone kept ringing. "Damn it! " she shrieked in her head, being forced to answer it. She started rummaging through her purse with one hand, while with the other she held the coffee that had kept her awake, the work at the office was getting too heavy by the minute, and she could barely manage to stand it."Who is this?" she asked, answering her cell phone, "Mom?""Emma, honey, could you come in and buy something for me?""Mom... I'm at the company, late... if I'm not here in six minutes, I'll be reprimanded"."But your father went out and...""Mom, I can't, I'm at the company" She took a frantic sip of her coffee, speeding up her pace, running, it was twenty-three past seven, and she had just two minutes to get there. "I have to hang up" She didn't wait for her mother's answer, she started to put the phone in her purse, and it was at that moment, when she looked away from her path for a fraction of a second, that her body collided violently with another person's body.Emma, a girl with a gaunt and haggard complexion, staggered so badly that she attempted to fall, but it was the hand of the same person with whom she had collided that prevented her from touching the ground.For an instant, everything in her spun around, she felt a kind of burning all over her face, it took her a few seconds to realize that it was the coffee, which she had thrown on her. Impulsively, she raised her hand, seven twenty-six. Late, she was already late, she cursed internally, clenching her fists and trying to regulate her breathing as if being late wasn't bad enough, the excessive sugar she had added to her coffee, seeking energy, was starting to show on her face."Are you all right?" asked the man with whom she had collided. She was so immersed in her guilty musings that she was unable to react in the instant that there was another person in front of her, the man with whom she had collided. "Was it hot?" When she raised her eyes, she saw him.Shrewd eyes, cocked smile, firm posture, broad shoulders, blond hair."Y-yes... I feel fine, and no, it wasn't too hot" Emma's gaze fell on the man's suit, which was stained with tiny drops of coffee. "I'm s-sorry, sir... I didn't mean to... dirty it, it's just that... I was distracted and...""Don't worry," he reassured her, the man's voice was indescribable, there was no adjective that could describe him, "I know it was an accident... unless you wanted to throw coffee on yourself".A faint laugh escaped Emma's lips, who, once again watched the time with a deep bitter feeling of resignation."I have to go... to me... to my office... excuse me... excuse me again... for the coffee..."She turned around, stepping firmly, in reality, she would not go to her office, she would go to the bathroom to try to remove the mess that stained her clothes. She knew that misfortune was on her side that day when for the first time she had put on her white shirt, that expensive one of a brand that she was unable to pronounce... that shirt that was stained by coffee."That stain won't come off even if I do a damn ritual to get it out," she thought, furious."Wait" The woman slowed her steps when she heard the man's voice once again; stopping for a fraction of a second to review him, she had never seen him in those surroundings. "What's your name?""Emma," she said, not hesitating to give him her name, but then ended up regretting it deeply, what if he was a supervisor and had asked for her name to make the burden of her reprimand even worse? She cursed herself at that moment."Beautiful name, Emma," said the man, drawing a tremulous smile from the woman, "Where are you going now?""Well, I'm going to the bathroom," she admitted, To rinse these coffee stains," she clarified."Are you a secretary here?"Those questions only further confirmed Emma's assumptions: he was a supervisor who was going to report her."Yes," she replied, surrendered, perhaps if she deserved to be reprimanded, "I am a secretary"."Aren't secretaries supposed to be at their posts at twenty-five past seven?""It is assumed, but...""You were late today," he finished for her, "If I'm not mistaken, there are reprimands for that, aren't there?"She gulped."There are".He was silent for a few seconds. His eyes carried an intensity impossible to describe as if they wanted to transmit something to her with complete dumbness that his lips were unwilling to break. He silently scanned her with his eyes, from her feet to her head. She awkwardly combed her hair to the right... not knowing too well how to react."Come with me," he demanded after a few minutes of quiet meditation, holding her by the arm, "Come, I will help you".‘Help her?’Her body became a rigid mass that was not too capable of moving, but she ended up being dragged by that stranger towards the area where the woman who would admonish Emma once she realized that she had arrived late was, seeing herself close to there, the woman, not being able to understand anything, braked abruptly, resisting him to continue guiding her."Where are you supposed to take me?" she asked, cautiously. There was a voice in her head that told her she must have asked that question about ten minutes ago, before she found herself there, almost no steps away from the place she least wanted to go."I'll save you" he murmured, pushing her to walk. "Marian," he called to the woman, who raised an eyebrow, suddenly, her face changed from apathetic to completely helpful, which planted a seed of doubt in Emma, who watched in complete silence."Sir, what can I do for you?" Emma wanted to laugh: Mirian was a rather rude woman, apathetic as only the word itself, coarse, brusque, cruel, bitter, her voice was hoarse like that of someone who has been sick for more than a decade... but suddenly, her voice had changed to a breath of sweetness, suddenly she had stopped being the ogre she always was."This girl... Emma" She took a trembling step forward, if nervousness had skin and bones, it was her, her eyes were not able to hide it, she could not receive one more reprimand. "By mistake, I threw a coffee on Emma, which caused her to stop and therefore, she was late, I know that brings a reprimand, that's why I came here... save the reprimand, for today, it was my fault," he asked, he dedicated one more indecipherable look to Emma and ended up leaving the same way he had arrived, in complete silence.For the first time, in Mirian's face, one did not see arrogance, anger, or cruelty; one saw perplexity, the deepest.The woman stood up with the urgency of a madman, running towards the door, then looking at Emma, as if unable to understand or provide any explanation for what had just happened, so much was the surprise on her face, that Emma was on the verge of asking her what was wrong, but the plump woman ended up going ahead of her."Do you know who that was?"Emma denied."Should I know?"A grimace was marked on Marian's face as if the words spoken by that insolent girl of only twenty-four were blasphemy. The greatest blasphemy."How can you not know who that is, Emma? You must know who that is"."Is it... someone important...?""Someone important?" Mirian asked, offended. "He's the owner's son!"Emma brought her hands to her chest, her brow creased, and her gaze touched the floor, for a second, replaying Marian's words in her head."Is he... the son of the owner of... the company?" To conclude that she had thrown coffee at the son of the owner of the company and that the latter, instead of getting upset, had saved her skin, was... there was no word to give her."Yes, it's Leonardo White! Your skin has just been saved by none other than Leonardo White himself!"Emma hurried to the door, trying to search for the man with her eyes, but he had already disappeared."Leonardo White," she repeated in a voice of almost no sound.For a moment, her gaze remained fixed on absolute nothingness.Leonardo White, the son of the owner of that company, had saved her skin..."This is a coincidence, I'll never see him again," she said to herself, not knowing how wrong she was.Not knowing how significant Leonardo White would be to her life from that moment on.Once in his apartment, which was quite luxurious, as she had imagined it, Leonardo offered her to go up to his room to chat, but Emma refused, saying that she would feel more comfortable chatting on the sofa, she did not know if he had proposed her to go up to his room with ulterior motives, but she supposed that a kiss would be born, then one thing would lead to the other, and Emma believed that it was too soon for that, for that reason, They were both on the sofa in that place, he was leaning on her shoulder, he had told her a couple of anecdotes, a couple of kisses had been given between them, kisses that had almost ended in something else, but that Emma had avoided, and at that moment, they were in a sepulchral silence, he seemed to have run out of anything to say, he held her feminine hand and caressed it, looking towards an indeterminate point, Emma decided to take advantage of that opportunity."Leonardo... I was thinking about... that I want to go to work for the company..."H
CHAPTER 31: LEONIDES.He knew that Emma felt an uncomfortable pressure on his shoulders every time they both went out holding hands, the looks of everyone stuck on them, were like needles that hurt Emma, he had told her to avoid gestures like that -even though everyone knew that she and Leonardo were in a relationship, and who did not know it, suspected it in a huge way-, but he did not like to ever obey what she asked, and he did it intentionally, because it was all about that plan he had devised weeks ago: to make Emma feel so uncomfortable in that company, that she would choose to leave on her own, so that she would be safe from any man who sought to seduce her, because he knew that if he told her directly: "Emma, I don't want you to work here anymore" and then explained his reasons, she would be angry because of his jealousy.Leonardo caressed Emma's hand as they walked, causing a smile to appear on the girl's lips. The blond opened the door where the meeting was taking place, he
CHAPTER 30: A MEETING.He had never ever experienced a feeling like that, that sweet but suffocating sensation in which a specific person did not leave his head, in which that person danced around the corners of his mind incessantly, in which that person appeared in his dreams. Never in all his life had he experienced a desperate and almost sickly longing to have someone close to him, that that person would not leave his side; he was Leonardo White, the most coveted bachelor of that city, and he could surely say that one of the most coveted bachelors of that country, he could have any woman he wanted, however, a woman as simple as Emma, kept him in insomnia, in constant anguish, Leonardo did not know how jealous he could become, until he found himself in danger of losing her, the most rational part of him told him that that danger was a false one, that he would not lose her, but there was a part of him - a very strong one - that screamed at him that yes, anyone else was capable of loo
CHAPTER 29: POSSESSION.Emma blinked repeatedly, looking at Leonardo from head to toe, her brow furrowed, she turned away from him, swallowing saliva with an ocher sensation in her mouth."W-what?""That you'll never see that guy again, Emma"."Of course I'll see him again, he's been my friend for like twelve years," she told him, angry, not only for his behavior, but for the behavior he had had when Liam had been there, she had not liked at all that her friend had been treated that way, especially when Liam was such a sweet man, who would have gotten along very well with Leonardo, if he hadn't attacked him, "Why did you treat him like that?""Emma, I arrived with food for both of us, I took time from where I didn't have, just to see you, you have no idea how desperate I was to see you, and I arrive to find you with... a guy giving you a cookie in your mouth? How did you want me to react?""You shouldn't have talked to him like that, he's my friend"."Why do you seem to care more abou
CHAPTER 28: JEALOUSY.Liam noticed the expression in the stranger's eyes, but Emma seemed not to. The girl wiped some of the pieces of cookie that had fallen on her clothes, and stood up, with a soft smile she walked towards Leonardo, who had remained static in his position, as if he was unable to believe his eyes, he blinked hard, as if by doing that, he would get that guy he didn't know, to leave the place where Emma lived.The girl walked towards Leonardo, opening her arms, giving him a hug that he did not even reciprocate, as he remained static, in his place, looking at Liam, who challenged him with his eyes, he did not even know why, Leonardo did not understand what that guy was doing with Emma, and Liam did not understand who that guy was and why Emma had hugged him and kissed him on the cheek, both men were in a mixture of doubts, Emma did not even realize that the looks of both seemed to battle without any reason."Leonardo, dear, I'm so glad you're here" The smile didn't leav
CHAPTER 27: LIAM.Three weeks had passed since Leonardo had fired those two secretaries, and if Emma had known the consequences that this would bring, she would have insisted on not having them fired; everyone in the company pointed an accusing eye at her, everyone told her that it was her fault that those two innocent girls had been fired, but no one told her directly, because, according to what Emma had heard, everyone was afraid that she would go to Leonardo to tell him about it. It seemed crazy to her how she went from being a nobody in that company, to being one -not to say the most- of the most hated ones there, cruel looks she met at every corner, if she needed help, and Leonardo was not by her side, nobody offered it, but to her joy, he was always by her side, even, to a point somewhat... suffocating for Emma."I'm quite a romantic man when I fall in love" she remembered his words, a smile tore from her face, she couldn't say she was lying, in a month, she had received the lov
CHAPTER 26: RUMORS.She had asked him for the discretion he didn't want to keep. "Why is it necessary to keep it a secret?" Leonardo had told her, he wanted to shout it everywhere, he wanted everyone to know that she was his girlfriend, so that no one would dare to try to seduce her, but Emma, still thought it looked too bad to be his boss's girlfriend, for that reason, she had asked him for just a couple of weeks. "Just wait a little, just a few weeks" she had told him, although he had noticed himself in complete disagreement he had agreed not to tell anyone, but that didn't stop his behavior from being the inappropriate one, at least there: kissing, caressing, almost in front of everyone.It was not even necessary to tell anyone that they were more than secretary and boss, because Emma had the idea that assumptions were circulating, everything was too obvious. A week and already what she had wanted to keep secret, was on everyone's lips, people looked at her differently. Whenever Le
CHAPTER 25: ONE MORE.Leonardo tilted his head carefully, fixing his gaze on an indeterminate point."If she had been one more, I wouldn't have brought her to this place, dad," was the only thing he answered, without looking at his father, a man who was quite well-built despite his age, "Don't you think so?""It makes sense," the man admitted, "But I don't know what tactics you are starting to use now, Leonardo".The blond gave his father a withering look."What do you mean by ‘tactics’? Do you believe all those rumors about me too? Because fuck, everything does believe all that shit, first Emma believing those rumors, the stupid secretaries at your company spreading it around, and now you, my father, believing them?""Leonardo, we both know these are not just rumors"."These are things that happened years ago, Dad, and you know they did, so why is it so hard to believe that I changed? Damn it, have you ever seen me doing the same thing again?""No, but...""Exactly, I stopped being l
CHAPTER 24: FAMILY.In her head, she replayed over and over again what had happened, too much in such a short time.Leonardo had told her that she didn't have to go back to work anymore, and long before she could even object, he had told her that she had to go to his parents' house to meet them.Emma had been stunned, meeting the White family? She wouldn't even know how to react, it was very likely that her nerves would suffocate her immediately Leonardo's father asked her any questions, but he had insisted, even though she had told him it was too soon to go to his family. "I went to yours," he had told her, winning her the conversation and ending up convincing her. "I'll get you a new raspberry colored dress, mom loves that color," she kept remembering Leonardo's words as she looked at that new dress, there had been too many in too short a time, she felt it wasn't something she could handle, she wasn't used to men gifting her with so many things, ever. She had the feeling that once s
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