TITLE: PERSONAL as-sISTANT✴️
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EPISODE 23
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“How about a little bit more of a female t©uçh
in my mansion?”
There was a slight sm-irk on his face as he
said that and it didn’t go unnoticed by
Elizabeth as she crossed her arms.
“My Mr. McGregor, you aren’t going soft are
you?” Daniel said laughing. “Trust me, just get
yourself a wife she’ll solve that problem for
you.”
Elizabeth looked away from the men as she
felt James his gaze burn into her skin.
Daniel was about to reopen his mouth again
when Paul popped his head into the room. “Sir,
it’s your wife on the phone, she’s asking about
Margret or something like that.” He said
shaking his head.
“O cra-p… Well speaking of the devil.” Daniel
stood up and walked out of the room.
“So…” James started looking down at the table
and then up slightly at her. “What else have
you got?”
“I’m sorry?” Elizabeth said shifting to standing
on one leg. “Well have you got something a
little bit cozier?” He said with an amused smile
on his face.
“No.” She said moving to pick up all of the
drawings and paperwork again. “You didn’t
really strike me as the person who’d go for
that kind of thing.” She said as he reached out
and gr@bb£d her hand. Her eyes went straight
up to his face with a surprised look on her
face. “You really think I’m that cold?” He said
feigning hurt and placing a hand over his
heart.
She pu-ll-ed her hand from his as she looked
down at the paperwork again and gr@bb£d the
last view. Clearing her throat she looked him
straight in the eye and said. “I’ll have the new
drawings done by Monday.”
“But that means you have to work in the
weekend.”
“I don’t mind.”
“But what about your plans?”
“Don’t have any.” She said as she was about to
leave the room when he gr@bb£d her arm.
“Good, because I wanted, to this time, actually
ask you out.” He said causing her to sigh.
“Wait to hear me out, I’ll take you anywhere
you like, and I’m paying so you just name it.”
“Now you think I can be bought?!” She said
with the anger clear in her voice and face. “No
no no no, that wasn’t how I meant it.” He said
realizing his mistake. “Just want to make you
happy and give you the perfect d@t£.”
Elizabeth scoffed at that and looked down at
the floor for a moment when she looked up
again and saw the fear of rejection in his eyes.
She sighed before saying, “Alright how about
this, you take me anywhere I want, just for the
weekend, and if after that I still want you to
leave me alone you will.”
“That sounds like music to my ears.” He said
with a smile on his face.
“So what do you want?” He asked as she
walked over to the door. “I’ll text you before
noon today.” She said walking out of the door.
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EPISODE 24
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11:49 was blinking in the t©p corner of the
screen of his l@pt©p as he sat waiting. He was
trying to focus on the task at hand but he just
couldn’t. All he wanted was to know her
answer. Where would she want to go? What
would she want to do?
Every time his phone buzzed he would look at
it anxiously, hoping just hoping that it would
be her. It wasn’t until the last minute however
when the message he received, was actually
from her.
He excitedly brou-ght the phone to his face and
re-ad the text.
‘Dear James,
After long consideration, I sadly have to say
that I couldn’t come up with a place… So
instead of me chasing a location and activity, I
propose a new idea. (Since I did say I’d go out
with you)
You come up with something, anything you
think I like. Just tell me what I nee-d and where
to be and I’ll be there.
I hope I can trust you,
Elizabeth’
A smile crept upon his face as he re-ad the
message. This meant that the ball was in his
court again. He dialed the number on his
phone…
Elizabeth had welcomed the early weekend as
she left the building at around 12:30. A smile
crept upon her face as she walked into the
light of the fall afternoon. The smile however
faded when James invaded her mind.
What would he come up with? Did she make a
mistake by letting him chose? She sighed as
she walked down the street. Her eyes were
glazing over as she just walked, not really
paying attention to the world around her.
Sure he had been nice to her. At times. I mean
it wasn’t like he had been the perfect gent to
her. It was strange the mood change towards
her. The painting was still in the back of her
mind as she felt her phone vibr@te in her
pocket.
Without really paying attention to the road in
front of her she took out her phone and
unlocked it. The background picture of a rose
fading into her text app.
A car honked, bringing her attention to the
outside world again as she noticed that she
had walked throu-gh a red light. Whilst saying
sorry she stepped back and put her phone
back into her pocket. Maybe New York isn’t
the best place to not be paying attention to the
traffic…
As she walked onward to her building she
quic-kened her pace as her curiosity to the text
grew and grew.
She said a quic-k hello to Wallace as she ran
past him and up into the elevator. With
surprise clear on his face as she did so. He
yelled a quic-k hey back as he turned his head
to watch her run into the elevator and slam the
bu-tton of her floor.
Once up in her room she quic-kly closed the
door behind her and set her bag down on the
floor. Without paying attention she hung up her
coat, which promptly fell down, but she took
no notice as she walked over to the couch.
She sat down as she unlocked her phone and
stared down at it, curious as to what he would
say…
‘Dear Elizabeth,
I have decided that our little ‘trip’ will be a
surprise. All I want you to bring is your
toiletries, anything else you’ll nee-d will be
taken care of…
I’ll pick you up at four…
Love,
James.’
Elizabeth sat there as she re-re-ad the message
over and over again. Her brows furrowed as
she realized what she had gotten herself into…
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EPISODE 26
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Elizabeth silently sat as she watched the
surroundings change around her. She listened
to the sound of the ac and radio softly
humming in the back. Her eyes were trained of
the window beside her.
She could feel his pres£nce beside her and
mostly, his eyes on her…
“Are you alright?” He asked her placing his
hand on her shoulder. Startled she jumped
slightly before turning to him. “Didn’t mean to
scare you.” He said with a sly smile on his
face.
“You didn’t… But yes I am alright. Just curious
about what you have planned.” She said
looking him in the eye. “Good.” He said
smiling as the car st©pped. “And I’ll guess
you’ll just have to wait and see.”
Suddenly the car door beside her opened and
a hand appeared beside her. She took the
hand and the man helped her out of the car.
Once she looked up her eyes were met with a
plane… A fv¢king plane….
“James?” She said nervously looking behind
her. “Something wrong?” He asked suddenly
standing beside her. “Why is there a plane?”
She said motioning towards it. “That’s for me
to know and for you to find out…” He said
extending his arm for her to take.
She drew in a breath as she looked at it for a
moment before taking his arm. He smiled at
her for a moment before leading her up the
stairs and into the plane. A young flight
attendant welcomed the two of them as they
walked by.
The inside of his pri-vate plane looked quite
different than his fathers had. Elizabeth thought
as she took it all in. This looked more, well
modern, more like him. He lead them over to
two arm chairs.
Elizabeth sat down in the first one and he said
down across from her. “So are you excited
yet?” He asked her as the flight attendant
handed him a glas-s of champagne. “I’m not
sure yet…” She said as the flight attendant
handed her a glas-s as well.
“Well, to a nice weekend!” He said raising his
glas-s.
Elizabeth wasn’t sure what to think of it all…
Hell she wasn’t even sure what to think about
this guy… She sighed as she took another sip
of her champagne.
“How was your week?” He said casually
setting down his own glas-s. “Fine.” She said
looking up at him. “Nothing really eventful
happened.”
There was a strange expression on his usually
stern face. One that seemed to be relaxed and
showing genuine interest in her week. It was
strange seeing the man before her, a man who
usually had no time for anything other then
work at all, make time for her.
She looked away for a moment, lost in thought
and staring out of the window. Why did he do
that? Why would he do that?
“Are you alright?” He said tou-ching her knee.
Elizabeth snapped back to reality and looked
him dead in the eye. “Uhm… Yeah, I’m fine…”
She said leaning back into her chair.
“You looked zoned out for a moment.” He said
brows still slightly furrowed. “I think I was.”
She said gr-abbing the champagne glas-s once
more and taking another sip.
“Now do tell me, what did the great James
McGregor Jr. do this week?” She said.
“The great?” He said with a smug look on his
face as he leaned back into his chair. “I must
say I never did care much for being named
after my father.” He said relaxing visibly. “I can
imagine.”
“I thought you liked the old man?”
“I do, it’s just that being named after someone
can put a lot of strain on someone. I mean
your father was quite the business man,
everyone knows his name. It can be very tough
to make a name of your own, and not to be
immediately as-sociated with him.” She said
recrossing her legs and drinking her
champagne.
“I just never liked having the same name as
that as-s-hole.” He replied chuckling.
“So were are we going?” Elizabeth said
changing the subject and putting her glas-s
down. “You’ll find out soon enough…”
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To be continued