Paige had packed up everything that was hers at the desk and then she decided to call it a day. She had finished everything that she had too and new this weekend she would be nothing but a blah of nerves. Though she had changed jobs a few times she knew that this was going to be something new.
She tried not to think about it but it was all she could think of until she went to sleep. Nothing was right anymore and she knew it. No one asked for her by name. No one requested her even though she was one of the best in the company. She tried to figure out who this new boss could possibly be. She had no clue. She didn’t even have an idea of what division he could be.
As she fell asleep the thoughts took over and invaded her dreams. She didn’t sleep well and decided to put off doing the few things that she knew she had to do. The laundry for one was one of those things that she didn’t want to do. She knew that when she did do it she would have to carve out the time to stay there. She had noticed that things disappeared when she didn’t stay there.
She could not afford to lose any more clothes though she had no idea what someone was doing with all of them. She was small. Smaller than most women and though she was also slightly curvy she had managed to make her own style that worked to hide what she had. One by one the pieces of clothing had disappeared and was not exactly what she had wanted to be left with.
No one in the apartment building could fit into her clothes. She really wanted to know who was taking them and why they were being used and what for. Then she thought about it some more and she wanted to scrap the entire idea. There was nothing that she wanted to know about what they were being used for.
She simply knew that she had to go and get some more sometime soon. However today she wanted nothing more to curl up on the couch and not do anything. She didn’t want to even answer her phone. There was nothing anyone could do right now to make her move from her spot.
Thoguh she normally did meal preps for the week she went ahead and ordered some lunch and dinner from a nearby place she had heard good things about. It wasn;t normal but she did have something to celebrate or that was her excuse for it.
She had been tight with her money so she could move. She didn’t like the area she lived in and tried to stay off the street most of the time. She knew it wasn’t the best when she moved into the house but she knew it was better than trying to figure out a long commute as well.
She wanted out of the area. She knew she had a few things to get before she could. She needed a car to be able to drive into the city. She really didn’t want to have to take a bus for two hours but she would if it meant she was slightly better off in a different area. She needed the down payment as well. There was so much that she could do that she needed to have a list. She was nearly done with her list.
Soon.
She knew she would have that peace of mind soon enough. Things were going to turn and start going her way soon enough.
They simply had too. She was working hard. Harder than most people she knew to make sure she could get the things she wanted. She didn’t even date anyone right now because she was that focused. Thoguh she though a man would be nice as a distraction some nights. She was still young enough to find someone in a year or so. Her job and moving meant everything to her. It was the way it had to be.
She settled more into he couch and waited for the food to be delivered and watched her old tv. There was nothing she really wanted to watch on but she just watched some home show and thought she could maybe one day use this information.
It was always maybe one day for her. That was fine as well. She stored the information on the off chance that one day she would have a completely different life.
A year had filled the castle house with many different things as Milo drove up to it from his long day at the office. His brothers with Maryanne’s help had pushed for him to take his rightful place in the company as a VP by their side. He had enjoyed getting to know them and their families over the past year. His father had also begun to acknowledge him for what and who he was as well along with Missy. However, coming home to Paige was the best part of every day.She had stopped working a few months before. She had been having some issues with getting around easily. Missy had been the one who finally said enough was enough and basically made her leave her position at the company. She had a new job now that was much more important than being his assistant. He smiled as he walked in the door to find her asleep on the couch near the front of the house with the small bundle on her chest. He walked over and lifted the small thing off of her as she woke up and l
Milo and Paige drove up the street to the house that stood there in the trees. She looked at it and knew this was hers. It was the most surreal feeling in the world to her knowing everything that happened in the past two days. She began to laugh. There was no stopping the laughter either.“What?” Milo asked as he looked at her as she got out of the car and looked at everything around her. This place was going to be their place together. A part of who they were, and it would allow them to grow together as well.“This.” She said as she looked at him. “All of this happened to me because I had no clothes to wear to work yesterday.”“Well, not really.” He said, chuckling. He had often thought the moment she walked into his office, everything in his life would change. He had a plan right from the start. Simple steps that would allow him to reach this goal with her. Everything went to hell as soon as the but
“Excuse me?” Paige asked as she looked at the older woman who was smiling at her. Paige was sure that she had heard the older woman wrong. Everything in her told her that she did. There was no way this woman just said that to her, not to Milo.“I had to charge you something, but a private sale is much easier to handle,” Missy said as she put the dollar in her pocket. “You see, the house is mine to do with as I please. I wanted a family to move in. I offered the house first to my children, but they all have the ones they wanted. I had no idea Milo was looking for one, or I would have found a way to offer it to him as well. I decided though to sell it to you, my dear. A long-standing tradition in my family is to make sure the women have something to hold on too not the men. My mother gave me the house when I got married though she still lived in it for some time. She wanted to make sure that I had something that I could
The pair drove in silence, and soon they were passing the house they were buying in the dim light of day. It was glowing there in the trees like a beacon that they would call home by the end of the week. He smiled as she sighed and pressed her face to the glass to look at it more as they drove past it. It was going to be their home.“Family dinner will be easy to get to.” He said with a chuckle.“For you.” She said with a laugh. “My family won’t be coming to dinner or us going over there too often.”“And why is that?” he asked.“Well, my family is slightly disconnected. The main part is I don’t want them thinking because I am with you, that means they can start asking you for things.” Paige said with a sigh.“And that means?” he asked.“Though I love my siblings very much, they have the worst ability to manage things and often find themsel
“I really don’t know how I should feel about this,” Milo said out of the blue as he looked at his computer later in the day. Paige was in the room, but she wasn’t working with him at the moment. She was keeping herself busy but also keeping an eye on him. He had quite the day already.“You should be happy but yet still a little leery of everything.” She said as she looked out the window. Her response was simple and straightforward. It was how she handled everything, including all of this, with him.“And you know this how?” he asked with a chuckle.“It is how I feel with everything that has happened to us.” She said as she turned around as she looked into his face as she spoke.“You don’t think that you should be happy?” he asked as he stood up and walked over to her. He looked down into her blue eyes and got lost for a moment in them. He was wondering
Paige walked out and looked between the two men standing there. Milo was looking at his father, and she knew he had so many questions to ask. She went to her area and took a seat as she let them talk. As the two left the hallway to go into the office, they left the door open. They knew that she would stop anyone from coming in, and they could discuss whatever with the knowledge she would keep their secrets. She was after all a part of this.“I have one question,” Milo asked the old man as he sat down on the couch, and Milo went to one of the chairs near it. Milo didn’t really know how to handle this conversation. It wasn’t something he was ever going to ask in the first place. Now everything was hinged on the answer his father would give.“And that is?” the old man asked as he raised his eyebrow.“Did you want me to know them?” Milo asked.“Know who?” the old man