Chapter 3

OoO That Woman is Something Else... OoO

Her desk was nice, The computer was slow, but she decided it was not her concern and started uploading the appointments like Mr. Wyatt has told her to.

She thought for a moment about Mr. Wyatt.

Thos perfect cheekbones he hand, and that messy send blond hair made him look very sexy.

He wasn't as hot as Nathan, but he was defiantly a beautiful man.

The kind that grows on you.

She leaned forward in her chair so she could see him through the half open door of his office when someone spoke to her from behind.

"Hey, Piper."

She looked up to see James, smiling his boyish smile at her.

He was a less mature version of his older brother, his hair looked the same as Leo's but not quite as sexy.

"Hello." She said, smiling politely

"Haven't seen you coming in. Everything working for you Ok?"

"Yes." She said.

"Great." He flashed her another smile, and walked off to his office.

James was her age, she remembered him saying. She started guessing how old might Leo have been, and decided that probably not over thirty.

With a smile like his, he was probably married with three kids.

She looked through his appointments to see if there might be something like 'Lunch with the kids', but all she found was 'Dinner with Alison'. If that was a first name then it couldn't be one of the clients… his wife maybe.

She got back to typing when her cell phone rang.

"Hello?"

"Piper?" She heard Nathan's voice say. Damn Nathan.

"Yes? What do you want Nathan?"

"What do you mean? Where are you? It's not like you to be late for work." He said, and Piper swore to herself that if he was standing in front of her she would kick him where it hurts.

"Nathan, you fired me." She said, exasperated.

"What? Did I ever tell you you were fired?"

"Um, no. But I kind of guessed that when you said that I won't move to the next level in our relationship, meanind I have to move in with you and sleep with you of course."

"That is NOT what I meant!" He exclaimed.

"Right. What did you mean then?" She asked, while writing 'Nathan' On a sheet of papter in front of her, then putting lagre bold lines through the name.

"I meant exactly what I said! You were treating me worse then that hideous dog you found!"

"Excuse me? Don't you dare insult Ronald." Piper said, writing Ronald's name and putting a heart around it. Then adding another line across 'Nathan'.

"Ok Piper, whatever. I don't have time to argue with you. You need to come to work and NOW." He said, and Piper wanted to scream 'GO TO HELL!', but said;

"No. It doesn't work that way. You dumped me, so don't expect me to come to work like nothing ever happened."

"Damn in Piper, Don't do this to me! I need you at work."

"Sorry, I already have a new job."

"Oh, please Piper, what other job could you already find in a few days..."

"At Wyatt Investigations, which by the way where I am now, so I have to go, I am working you know..."

"Piper!"

"Have a nice life..." She said, somethig she has been saying to every boyfriend she had for the last three years, after what happened...

When she hung up he rang again but she shut it, not willing to listen.

Here she was, running from another relationship... But she can't fall for a guy, not ever again. She doesn't want the same that happened three years ago...

"So my guess is Nathan is your ex-boyfriend, and Ronald is your lover?" She heard Leo's deep voice behind her that got her out of her trance and turned to see him looking down at where she wrote the names.

"I don't believe listening to private phone calls is nice." She said, covering the names with her hand.

"But I am right, aren't I?" He said, smiling.

"Well, if you must know; Nathan is my ex-boyfriend and boss, and Ronald is my dog."

"Oh" He looked taken aback.

"Yes." Piper couldn't hide her smile. "Did you need me to do anything?"

"Right, I need you to look in the newspapers through January 1988 and see if you can find anything about a murder of a middle aged woman by the name of Julia Scarlet Carliyan." He said, and put a file on Piper's desk with the woman's name and some pictures.

"Ok." She started looking through the file, closing her eyes when there were piccturs of the woman's body.

"And also, tonight at eight one of the clients- Mr. Jackson, is seposed to call, but I will be out with my girlfriend so tell him he can come tomorrow at noon like we schedualed."

So he wasn't marrie after all...

"Ok." She said, writing the name down. "Anything else?"

"One thing. The coffee you gave me was really good. How did you make it?"

Piper smiled.

"I had your coffee when I was here last week for the job interview, and what you have here is not legal. It tasted like mud."

"Thank you for being honnest... I think."

"So I bought my own and through your's away." She said, gathering the file in her hands back into a pile.

"Ms. Dobbs loves that coffee. That is why we had to go on drinking it for all these years."

"Well, that's too bad for Ms. Dobbs then. Now, you'll have to excuse me..." And with a smile, she got up and walked down the hall where they kept the old newspapers, knowing very well that Leo's eyes were following her.

--OoO--

That woman is something else... Leo thought as he watched her disappear down the hall.

That ex of her must be crazy to let her go.

"What a woman, ha?" He heard his brother say from behing him.

"James..."

"What? She's hot, I know you think that. Especially after Ms. Morison..."

"James, you are not to sleep with Ms. Halliwell."

"Who said I was going to?"

"I know that look in your eyes. You are having dirty thoughts about her as we speak." Leo said, looking at his younger brother accusingly.

"So? A man can fantasize..."

"No he can't. Go back to work, and don't you dare stare at her ass. Because I know you will. So glue your eyes together and do some work."

"Yes, oh smart one, anything you say." James said in a mocking voice, and walked away to his office.

At about six that evening, Ms. Dobbs walked into Leo's office with a mug in her hand.

"What the hell happened with the coffee??"

"What? Oh, right, the coffee. Don't you like it?" Leo tried.

"It tastes like mud." Dobbs spat.

Leo couldn't help but smile, rememberint the same exact words coming out of Piper's mouth, yet sounding so much different... Hot.

"Um, well, Ms. Halliwell thought we should, um, try something new. She kind of through the old one away. But all with good intentions, of course." He hurried to add for Piper's sake.

"I cannot believe this! She's hardly been here a day and already she is taking over! That woman is no good news I am telling you."

Oh, yes she is. Leo thought briefly.

"Aren't you going to do something about it?" Ms. Dobbs asked, awaiting a positive answer.

"I like the new coffee." He said, thinking; 'I like the new secretary.'

Ms. Dobbs frowned, and walked out.

Shaking his head, Leo went back to his endless work.

--OoO--

"I can't believe you are doing this to me!!" Alison exclaimed.

They were out in a fancy resturant where Leo took her, in hopes of a nice and peaceful break-up.

He just told her "We are simply not ment to each other..." And she almost blew up.

"I am sorry that I am doing this, believe me I don't like it anymore then you do, but we can't keep ignoring the fact that we are too different in so many ways... It's just not working out anymore." He said carefully.

"I thought you were going to propose!"

"What?"

"I was going to say 'Yes'!"

"Alison, I am sorry, really, I am." He said.

"The hell you are! How can you do this to me?!"

"Keep you voice down, please..."

"All my friends are married and pregnant! I want kids too!"

"So do I, but I am not the right man for you, and you are not for me. I'm sorry."

Before he knew it she slapped him across the face and stood up almost triping the table, then rushed out of the restaurant, all eyes on her.

So much for a 'Nice and peaceful break-up'.

Yeah, right.

A confused waiter walked up to him with a questioning look, staring at the empty seat across from Leo.

"Champagne?"

AN: Once again, thank you for your reviews wich I very much appreciate, and hope to here more from all of you about this chapter. I don't know if you've noticed, but Piper is literally running away from all her relationships... Why? in one of the upcoming chapters you'll find out...

Next chapter: "Ex-Boyfriend Gone Crazy".