THE BILLIONAIRE FORBIDDEN ASSISTANT

Elliot's Pov "You have exactly two hours to complete this task, if you fail, you can leave the building and never come back." I stared at the stack of papers Aiden Blackwood had just shoved into my hands, my brain went completely blank. This was not how the first days were supposed to go, I had been in his office less than ten minutes, he was already trying to get rid of me. The papers felt heavy, like they were made of lead instead of paper. I looked up at him, standing there in his perfect suit with his cold blue eyes, I knew he expected me to fail. "Well?" he said, his voice lacking any patience. I realized I hadn’t said anything, I was just standing there like an idiot. "I understand," I said, trying to keep my voice steady, but inside, I was screaming. What kind of person does this to someone on their first day? What kind of test was this? Why did his eyes look like they could see right through me and figure out every lie I ever told? "Good," Aiden said. He turned back to h

Elliot's Pov Three days later, I was still at Blackwood Tech and hadn't gotten fired yet, which felt like a miracle. Every day was the same, Aiden giving me impossible tasks, me finishing them and him looking at me like he was trying to solve a puzzle that didn’t make sense. The tension between us kept growing until I felt like I couldn’t breathe around him. Tonight was different, though, because Aiden asked me to stay late again. This time, he said we would work together on a presentation for a client meeting tomorrow. When everyone else had left and the office grew dark and quiet, I walked into his office with my laptop and sat in the chair across from his desk. "We need to go through these projections," Aiden said, sliding a stack of papers across the desk. I took them, and our fingers brushed for just a second. Electricity shot up my arm, and I pulled my hand back too fast. "Okay," I said, looking down at the papers because I couldn’t look at him. We started working, and the

Elliot’s povMy phone buzzed in my pocket during my morning coffee break, I pulled it out expecting a work email.Instead i saw a message from an unknown number. Stay away from Aiden Blackwood.My hands started shaking so bad, I almost dropped my phone right there in front of everyone. I looked around, nobody was watching me so I deleted it fast.It had to be Vivian because nobody else would send something like that. I tried to focus on work, but I kept checking over my shoulder every few minutes like someone was standing there.At exactly two o'clock everyone started heading to the conference room for the presentation. I grabbed my laptop, then followed behind some other assistants who were talking about lunch.Nobody talked to me much because I was still new so I just walked quiet behind them.Aiden was already in the conference room when we got there. He stood at the front with his arms crossed looking all serious like he always did before meetings.I sat down near the middle of th

Elliot's POVThe whispers started on Tuesday morning. I walked past a group of people near the copy machine, they stopped talking then stared at me until I turned the corner. At first I thought maybe I had something on my shirt but when I checked in the bathroom mirror everything looked normal.By lunch the staring got worse. Every time I walked through the office people would look at me then look away real quick when I caught them.Some of them did not even bother hiding it because they just stood there watching me like I was some kind of show.I tried to ignore it while I worked on the reports Aiden needed, but it was hard to focus when you could feel eyes on you all the time.Maya from accounting walked past my desk three times in one hour even though her office was on a completely different floor.The third time she did it I looked up so she smiled at me in this fake way then kept walking.Something was going on but I did not know what. Nobody would talk to me directly because the

Elliot's POV Aiden walked up to my desk on Thursday afternoon holding a folder which usually meant he had work for me, but instead he just stood there looking at me weird. "I have a business dinner tonight with some investors," he said. "I need you to come with me." I looked up from my computer confused. "You want me to come to dinner?" "Yes," he said like it was obvious. "I need someone there who actually understands the numbers we have been working on. My usual people are useless at explaining things." "Okay," I said even though my stomach flipped at the idea of being alone with Aiden outside the office. "What time?" "Seven," he said. "Wear something nice. We are going to Aurelio's." Aurelio's was one of the fanciest restaurants in the city which meant I needed to go home and change because my work clothes were not nice enough. Aiden must have seen the panic on my face because he added "Nothing too formal, just a button down and nice pants." "Got it," I said. He nodded the