Hi! My name is Cassie Holt! I live in California right outside L.A. the city of Angels. I'm nineteen years old, though I can pass for older. I can admit I can be pretty naive, my grandmother has kept me isolated my whole life. I work as a waitress at a little dinner owned by a nice little old couple.

I have long auburn hair that goes to about my mid back, I have ice blue eyes, I'm very short at 5'2, I've got a dancer's body, and I have full red lips. I live with my grandma, but she could really care less about me. My parents bailed on me when I was ten. I had no other family than my grandma. She didn't want to take me in, but she did for money of course.

I'm working on saving money to get out of here. I want to travel the world. I graduated high school when I was sixteen, so now all I have to do is save the money. And find a way away from my grandma. My parents send her money as long as I live with her even though I'm over eighteen they still send her money.

If they find out I don't live there anymore, well bye-bye money. So naturally getting her to let me leave will be very hard to do. I know I'll have to sneak away when I finally have the money to get away. I just don't have the money to leave yet.

Currently I'm at work. We're slow tonight. There is no one here currently. I'm wiping down the counters when I hear the bell signaling a customer has come in. I put away my rag and turn around to welcome them. But when I see who it is my voice dies in my throat. The man who just walked in has to be the most beautiful man I have ever seen in my life.

He's so tall, at least a foot taller than me. He's built, extremely built, and he has short hair and piercing eyes. I have to remind myself to breathe. He notices my staring and smirks as he says, "See something interesting love?"

He has an English accent. Please excuse me while I pass out. I take a breath and try to calmly say, "Welcome to Sylvia's, take a seat wherever you like and I'll be right there to take your order."

He laughs a little then takes a seat at one of the tables. I turn and dig out my pencil and pad, which I really don't need, but I needed a second to calm down before facing this gorgeous man I have no chance with. Ok I can do this without embarrassing myself, hopefully.

I walk from behind the counter to his table. I hope he doesn't want a burger or anything fried. I'm the only one here and I can't really grill or fry. I put on my brightest smile and walk to the table he's sitting at and I say, "Hello! I'm Cassie. Can I take your order?"

He looks at me curiously then looks me up and down. I blush bright red and he notices because he smirks at me. Finally he says, "Just a cup of coffee, love." Nodding and still blushing, I hurry behind the counter and pour him a cup then I walk as calmly as I can back over to his table.

I set the cup full of coffee down in front of him and go to walk away, but he grabs my hand and says, "Will you join me?"

Normally I'd say no, that I had work to do, but I didn't want to say no to him so with a blush I say, "Sure."

I sit down in front of him and he says, "So Cassie, how long have you been working here?"

I smile and say, "Since I was fifteen so four years now."

He nods and asks, "How old are you now?"

I blush and say, "Nineteen."

He is shocked for a split second, but he covers it pretty quickly and says, "Well you could pass for your twenties darling."

I giggle and my blush darkens a little and I say, "I get that a lot. What about where do you work?"

He smirks and says, "I travel the world to sell and trade things."

I was so amazed that sounds so cool.

I ask, "Where have you traveled?"

He just smirks back and says, "All over the world."

I smile dreamily and say, "I'd love to travel the world. I'm saving money to do that. I graduated high school early and I have been working to save up the money to go. I just need to save money and escape my grandma and I'll see the world too."

He nods and says, "How much longer will it take you to save up to travel? And what do you mean escape from your grandmother?"

I sigh, "Well I'll be working here for at least seven more years before I can attempt to go anywhere and well my parents bailed on me when I was ten they will send my grandma money as long as I live with her. Even though I'm over eighteen. They don't send any money to me, just to her."

He nods again and says, "I see."

I smile and then I say, "You know I just realized I don't know your name or how old you are. Care to share?"

I giggled and he smirks as he says, "How rude of me. My name is Owen Shaw and I'm twenty-nine."

I say, "You don't look twenty-nine. I thought you were twenty-five."

He laughs a little and it was a weird sound, not bad it just sounded like he did it too often. I smile at him and he looks at me curiously and asks, "What?"

I giggle and say, "I like your laugh and your smile."

He looks a little shocked like he didn't realize he'd done either of those things. I pull out my phone to check the time and I jump out of my seat. It's time to close and I'm a little behind. As soon as I jump up he looks at me and asks, "What's wrong?"

I sigh and say, "It is closing time. I need to do a couple more things than I need to make my way home."

He looks outside and says, "I don't see a car out there, is someone picking you up?"

I shake my head and say, "No, I walk home every night."

It was like something in him snapped. He says, "You should not walk home anymore, it's too dangerous, me or one of my associates will start driving you home every night. Ok?"

This was so weird, but he looked so serious and the way he said it left no room for argument so I say, "Ok Owen. That is very kind of you."

He nods and kisses my cheek as he says, "Alright love I'll be waiting outside. When you're ready, come get in the car and I'll take you home." I nod and he kisses my forehead this time then he walks out the door.

I finish up the stuff I need to do then go out the door. I see the only car in the parking lot and I get in it. Owen looks at me and asks, "Where to love?"

I give him my address and he nods. It's not a far drive and when we get there he kills the engine. He turns to look at me and says, "I like you Cassie, would you like to go out with me tomorrow night?"

I say, "What about our age difference? What if my grandma doesn't approve of it?"

He smirks and says, "Leave your grandma to me she'll approve without a second thought when I talk to her. And for our age difference it doesn't bother me in the slightest. You are an adult old enough to make your own choices."

I smile and say, "Ok I would love to go out with you."

He smirks as he says, "Excellent. Tomorrow I'll send over an associate with one of my cards to take you shopping and I don't want any arguments from you about it. I want to make this the best first date you've ever had."

I went to protest, but he gave me a look that said don't even bother so I didn't. This will be only my third first date ever so it won't be hard to make it special. I don't want him to seem like a gold digger or like I am only after his money, but this seems important to him.

He nods, impressed that I didn't fight with him. Then he did the most shocking thing of all: he kisses me right on the lips. I froze then after a few seconds I began to respond. When we pulled back he gave me such a possessive look, I should be offended, but I actually kind of liked that look. We go to kiss again, but we were interrupted.

We hear yelling. I look up at the front porch and see my grandma there yelling. I get out of the car and to my surprise so did Owen. He came around to my side, kisses me one more time then tells me, "Go inside love, go to bed I'll take care of this."

I pause for a moment then nod as I pull out a pen and take his hand. I write my number on it and say, "Text me and tell me what happens."

He nods and takes my hand, he walks me to the porch. My grandma says, "You little brat bringing boys here! What the hell is wrong with you? I told you no dating!"

Owen pushes me softly and I just walk by my grandma into the house. I really hope Owen knows what he's doing. I walk up to my room and close the door.

Owen's P.O.V.

I look at Cassie's grandmother as she goes to go after Cassie. I say, "Stop."

She turns to glare at me and I smirk at her. I say, "Look I'm going to make you an offer and I recommend you take it. Understand?"

She glares at me and says, "Who do you think you are?"

I say, "Owen Shaw, a wealthy intelligent man who is going to make you a deal if you shut the hell up!"

She shut up after wealthy, greedy old bat. I say, "Good you understand me. Now I will be dating your granddaughter and eventually I'll take her away from here. Now you are going to let us date and when the time comes you're going to let her leave with me. Now if you coƶperate I'll give twenty grand and take your granddaughter that we both know you don't want off your hands. Do we have a deal?"

She thought it over for a second, but we both know what her answer was going to be. She finally says, "Fine we have a deal, but after I get my money I never want to see that little brat again."

I nod then I glare, "Let's make something clear till that woman leaves with me you better be the perfect grandmother and urge her to keep in this relationship with me. If you don't you'll be in the worst home for elderly I can find till the day you die without a penny to your name. Do you understand?"

She pales considerably, but nods and then hurries inside, obviously scared of me. I smirk at that. I love causing fear.

I text Cassie and tell her things went fine and that she is ok with us going out. She texted back quickly how excited she was and how amazing I am for getting her grandma to agree. She also is glad that we met so randomly tonight.

I smile at that. There was nothing random about our meeting. I saw her a couple of weeks ago while I was getting a team together for the jobs I have coming up in Europe. I came here for a job.

Anyway back to Cassie. I saw her one day and she was so beautiful and innocent. You could tell just back looking at her. She did something no one has done. She caught my interest and I got as much info on her as I could then I watched the dinner for a time when she was alone to stage a first meeting.

This girl is so kind and very submissive and that works very well for me. I could do all the jobs I needed to and my sweet little Cassie would never know she'd just think we were traveling for my work which we were.

I've just got a couple of weeks till we need to do a job in Russia so I need to make her fall fast which shouldn't be too hard. I'm obsessed with this girl that much I know, but I will have her and no one and I mean no one will take her from me. Or there will be hell to pay.

When I got back to our head-quarters I call out for Letty. She came from where we keep the cars and says, "What?"

I smirk at her and say, "Now, now Letty be nice. I need you to do a favor for me. Can you do that?"

She rolls her eyes and says, "Yeah whatever."

I smirk and give her one of my credit cards and Cassie's address and tell her, "Go get a girl named Cassie from this address and take her shopping with this card."

She was about to protest, but I just walked away as I was about to round a corner, I say, "Oh and Letty, play nice with her. I mean it."

With that said I walk away from Letty to find Riley, my dear cousin who will be Hobbs' partner for my next job. No one knows that though except me and that's how it will stay. We need to talk about strategy for dealing with Hobbs.

I just can't wait to take out my Cassie tomorrow night. Soon she will be mine and we will travel the world together. Time to get back to work though things don't steal themselves.