A/N
Stephenie owns them all. I just like to play with the characters.
I hope you'll enjoy the next chapters! we're slowly but surely getting to know our characters.

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Thanks to AWallace10 for the inspiration for the ending of the next chapter ;)

Chapter Two.

I wanted to kill myself when the alarm on my phone started blaring. In my attempts to grab my phone off of the nightstand, it fell from my gasp under my bed.

Damnit

Stretching out my upper body, I reached for the device of hell and turned off the annoying duck sound.

I yawned.

Six-thirty.
It felt like I'd only just fallen asleep but a slight smile crept onto my face as I remembered why.

Last night I'd been so spontaneous I almost didn't recognize myself. Flashing my pussy to an almost total stranger left me feeling exhillerated. It's been a while since I was so blunt to a guy.

To my surprise, I had a text from the reason of my sleep-deprivation:

Warrior:
Good morning, Enchantress. Kick-ass today at work, I'll be thinking off you.

I couldn't believe he texted me good morning. Most guys online just enjoy the one-night fidgeting under the sheets and forget about you after. Me and Edward had started chatting quite a few weeks ago, mostly very casual about day to day life. Yesterday was the first time we went that far, though. And I kind of loved it. What baffled me more than him remembering me was the time he sent me the text: at five in the morning.

Did you even sleep though? Morning by the way, big day ahead

Warrior:
I did, from two to four forty-five ;-) You were totally worth the drowsiness today. Tell me more, Isabella.

I stopped feeling bad about my tired state, poor thing. I could imagine him looking so cute with sleepy eyes and that sexy stubble on his face.

Taking a chance at work today.. It'll make or break my time at the firm I work at. Trying to convince my boss to give me a promotion. Why on earth are you up so early?

I got up and walked over to my closet.
What do people wear on days like today?

I wanted to look fierce today, yet also didn't want Victoria to think I went behind her back with all of this. All the editing I did on James' book, I did on lunch breaks and after work and I never told her anything about it. But since I had my yearly review today, I would be having a meeting with her anyway. I figured I could slowly slip the rough draft under her eyes then.

My hands grabbed a red blazer, black silk camisole and some black skinny jeans, I threw them on and walked over to the bathroom to do my make-up.

Warrior :
Early gym session, just got to work now. Good luck, Enchantress. Use your charm, I bet that'll work (;

So he must be one of those avid gym people. Waking up before the crack of dawn to get the blood pumping. My mind wandered off, to Edward sweaty and sexy in the gym and stepping in some steamy shower afterwards
Gee sister, you need to get laid.

I did my make-up as usual. A full face, getting rid of the freckles on my nose and cheekbones completed by defining my dark brows and painting some eyeliner onto my tired, heavy eyelids. It made me instantly fresh and bright-eyed. Finishing off with some red lipstick, matching to my blazer, I combed my chest-length dark hair. Something came over me again and I decided to send my friend a selfie.

Looking in the front camera off my phone, I arranged my shirt so the cleavage wasn't too much or too little and gave him a cheeky, little smile.

Thank you, Warrior x

The watch in the kitchen told me it was time to leave for the office. I took my breakfast to-go: a banana and stuffed a yoghurt and bottle of water in my purse.
I grabbed my keys, slipped on some Nike's and walked over to the underground garage of my apartment building.

In the car I called my friend Rosalie, something I did often to kill time commuting to and from work. Since today was Friday, the topic of our conversation was where we were going tonight after work.

"I don't know, maybe we could go dancing? You promised you'd take me, remember?" Her sultry voice sounded through the speakers of my car.

I sighed in remembering my promise to her last month.

"Oh what the hell, I'm in." I giggled to her.

A 'yihaa' sounded from her side of the connection. Rose was born and raised in New Orleans, but moved over to Los Angeles after a brutal breakup back home. Ever since I met her we'd been inseparable.

"You won't regret it, babe! Meet me at my place after seven? I have pre-party booze." I smiled at her enthusiasm.
"Now, I have to go my client's here." Rosalie had opened her own hair-styling business right when I started working for Victoria.

We said our goodbyes and I continued my drive to work. Once I was parked, I checked to see if I had everything for my meeting with the boss. I checked my phone, which had a message ready for me.

Warrior:
You look stunning *wow*. Your boss is a lucky man… I'd return the favour but I'm just having the worst time coming up with a good idea for this dude's website. Design-block *sad*

So he's in web design, that's a really cool job. Could explain why he needs to blow off some steam in the gym, I thought.

I had about fifteen minutes until I needed to head upstairs, so I decided to reply him.

Cool job, for a nerd (; I bet you'll figure it out. Guessing you have enough imagination to come up with something nifty.

His answer came almost immediately.

Warrior:
Enough imagination. But they all have something to do with you right now, to be honest. I know I'm being very forward, but I really enjoy talking to you.

A sigh escaped my mouth. It's been a while since I had a guy this nice texting me. My last real relationship is about two years ago and I honestly grew tired from being alone all the time. Although I really enjoyed being single, I kind of feel semi-attached to my ex. Over the time we'd broken up, we have gotten together once in a while since we were wrong in all the ways except in the bedroom. Jake knew what I liked and if the need for release was too high, we kind of always found each other. But hopefully I won't need his services anytime soon. Not when this little fling kept going on.

Likewise Sir, really like that too. Plus, you're extremely cute.

Warrior:
You're a beauty. Need to go now, talk later? x

I stared at his little 'x' longer than I should have.
You're a grown woman, get over your little crush

Thank you *blush*
Good luck xo

Tucking my phone away, I locked the car and walked over to the elevator.

Having arrived on the fourth floor of the building, the sign of Greens Publishing greeted me. I greeted Jessica from the front desk and made my way to my desk outside of Victoria Green's office. She wasn't in yet.

I booted up my computer and went over her schedule for the day.

By ten sharp, Victoria emerged from the elevator, a stack of files in her hands.

"Morning, Isabella!" She greeted me, cheerful.
Good, she seemed to be in a great mood.

I didn't have a single reason to hate my boss though. Victoria Greens was insanely good to her employees and kind of had become a friend of mine. Or as close of a friend your boss can be.

"Good morning, need any help with that?" I nodded to the paperwork she was holding.

"Actually, yes, please." I took the documents from her and followed her into her glass office. Victoria was keen on her open door policy and never missed an opportunity to help out in any way.

She looked sharp today, a cream pantsuit with navy pinstripes hugged her body in all the right places and her high heeled shoes gave her a statuesque appearance. Victoria always said to me that being a woman in the publishing world came with perks. Men never think you're a bigshot if you're born with boobs and a nice face, so she often played out her looks in her advantage. In her career, she'd always worked hard and kept herself ahead of the masses. Long before the entire erotic chick lit was a big business, we had already signed tons of talented writers, making Greens Publishing an outstanding publishing house that she ran on intellect and good old gut feelings.

"Thanks for the hand, Bella." She put down her bag on the white desk and crossed her arms.

"You're in for a treat, sweetheart," she wiggled her brows at me and nodded at the book proposal I was holding. "If you're up to help me proof read this new book?" She asked me kindly.

I often crossed the boundaries of my secretary job to help her get through the great amounts of proposals Victoria got. It's one of the reasons I still work as her secretary, because all the mind-numbing calendar checks and phone calls just weren't up my alley. Also a big reason why I wanted to show her the work I had done on James' book.

"Of course, Victoria there is also something I wanted to discuss with you if you don't mind." I began.

"Sure, we can talk about it when you come in later for your review? I really need to get cracking now, Tyler from editing is coming in in about fifteen minutes and I still need to go over his last results."

I agreed and went over to my desk, preparing every appointment she had later. My talk with her was at three this afternoon, leaving me with other tasks for the rest of the day.

My ears were ringing from all the phone calls I had to take since Victoria was in meetings most of the morning when I noticed it was time for my lunch break.

"Hungry Bella?" It was Alice from PR.

"Hey girl, long time no see!" Alice just got back from meeting her family all the way in New York. She was a good colleague and friend of mine and we had agreed to go lunch today.

"I know, so good to be back honestly. With all that drama going on back home I needed a break from vacation," she laughed.

We walked over to the cafeteria together.

"You know, it's been so long since I ate here. I almost forgot how good a grilled cheese they make down here." Alice sniffed around the space, closing her eyes.

The cafeteria was shared with the two other companies that housed in the building and we always got weak in the knees from Franco's grilled cheese sandwiches.

"What's new in your life? You look tired, that a good sign?" She wiggled her eyebrows in a suggestive way. I just had to laugh at her. "Don't tell me Jake came over again?" She grumped.

"No, nothing like that. Haven't seen him in a while now, I think he's dating someone new." I told her.

"So, no guy?" She said dramatically.
"I wouldn't say no guy. But I also don't really know what this is." I shrugged.

The way she looked at me instructed me to keep going. Alice was a small person, yet so charismatic she could make you do almost anything. It has served her well in the business world, where men and women alike towered over her five feet form.

I told her about last night, not leaving out the details because I knew she'd pull them out of me anyway.

"You little vixen!" She almost shouted for the entire table sitting with us.

"Yeah, well. You wouldn't know what it's like to be alone for so long. Not with your happy relationship," I rolled my eyes at her. She and Jasper had been together for almost ten years, and she always made it very clear that there is no such thing as a sex live that's in a rut. She told me all about their little experimental naughty nights and more than once took me shopping in skimpy lingerie stores.

"I don't, but I do know that good chemistry is the foundation for a long, healthy relationship." She took a bite out of her sandwich.

"I feel like we do have chemistry. Like I said, he has been the sole reason for me to go on the game for the last couple of weeks."

"So, are you going to meet him then?" She asked me.

I didn't quite know how to answer that. Part of me wanted to go out with Edward, but I also got scared that when it got to real, I'd chicken out of that things would fall apart – as they had with Jake. Alice could see my hesitation and jumped in on it with a marvellous idea.

"Why don't you try FaceTime first? You know, talk and see what else you can enjoy about the man," she winked.

My mind wandered off to a hypothetical video chat with the dark and handsome warrior. I bet his voice was as sexy as his face. Speaking of the devil, my phone vibrated, showing me the message he'd send me.

Warrior:
I'm on my break now. Heading out for a quick bite before I yell at someone here, lol. Wish I could talk to you, do you want to maybe call later? I'd like to hear your voice.

I immediately replied.

How about talking face-to-face.. Want to skype later?

Hmm, I wonder how that'll go..

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