Just great, the guy who took care of me while I was drunk ends up being my boss and this week has just turned into a perfect fucking week.
My shock subsided and just turned into annoyance, I don't need this.
"You asked for me?" I said shifting my weight onto my right hip and crossing my arms across my chest, a habit I do when I'm annoyed.
Edward's face was surprised as well, but his smile quickly turned into a smirk and he let out a laugh.
"You're the great editor everyone has been talking about?" He said like he couldn't believe it, his elbows resting on his big fancy desk.
"The one and only, is there a problem?" I said getting impatient as to why he called me in here in the first place.
"Oh, just that the big, respected editor for this publishing company gets drunk on the weekend with her spare time." He said while leaning forward waiting for my response.
"What I do in my spare time, is really none of your fucking business." I said smiling sweetly, trying not to just yell at him.
"It is, when I was the one to take care of you." He said leaning back on his chair smiling again like hes the best thing in the entire building.
"Sorry don't remember that part, I remember some asshole bothering a poor innocent drunk girl." I said rolling my eyes and switching my weight, getting tired just standing here.
"What ever you say Miss. Swan, I just called you in here to inform you of the changes that are being made around here." He said calmly shuffling through papers on his desk.
"Like what?" I said running my hand through my hair.
"The business name will be changed to Mason publishing, and I will decide who edits what manuscripts from now one." He said giving me more attitude.
"You kidding right? Each editor has a specific genre, that's how we have been doing it for 2 years!" I said getting even more mad by the minute.
"Well, it's time for change then." He said his face cold as stone as he jotted down notes on his calender.
I was so mad, I have worked here longer than any editor, I know this company front and back. Edward comes in here and just decided to take over the place. Why because he has connections? The job was available and he bought his way to the top?
"You know what, do what you want. You get to the top with your money or your connections and suddenly you get to control what you think is yours. I have been working here longer than anyone in this office, and longer than you!" I yelled my hands curling into fists as I walked slowly toward his desk.
"I know this company better than you, I know the employees better than you. You get this job because why?" My voice getting louder my hands flat on his desk as I lean forward toward his face as my voice gets louder.
"You can shove your literature and business degrees right up your ass Mr. Mason." I said while turning on my heal and leaving the room back to my desk.
I took a bunch of deep breaths and tried to calm down. In and out and in and out.
"What happened?" Jessica screeched in my ear, my calmness just disappeared.
"Nothing, I met the new boss." I said typing away on my laptop finishing up editing the last manuscript that I had to do for the day.
"You yelled at him and told him to shove his degrees up his ass!" She said her hands flailing up in the air.
"What is he gonna do fire me?" I said knowing that he won't. I'm not gloating but I am pretty well know as a good editor and have worked on many top sellers.
"He could, your replaceable!" She said her hands on her hips.
"By who, you?" I said and snickered.
"What is with you lately, you always use to be quiet and -"
"And what, a push over?" I said cutting her off mid sentence and laughed at her comment.
I was a pushover, letting people do what they wanted with me. I was sick of that, I'm not going to have the long life like I thought but if I am going to be here for 12 months. I am not going to waste the little time I have being pushed around by people who don't even care about me.
"Yes!" She said and walked away to her own cubicle.
My phone rang, signalling me that it was the boss.
"Bella speaking." I said in a monotone just waiting to hear what he was going to say.
"Mrs. Swan I need a coffee as soon as possible, Starbucks please." He said I almost laughed right there on the phone.
"Mr. Mason, hire a PA with your fancy new job tittle before I shove your Starbucks coffee up you-" The line was cut off by Jessica hitting the end button on my phone and giving me another stern look.
I looked at her and just rolled my eyes, getting back to work.
I walk into the apartment, just ready to go to bed and forget what happened today.
"Bella, how was your day?" Alice asked, sitting at the dinning table with Rosalie, Emmett and Jasper.
I didn't respond, I just went to the fridge grabbed a beer and chugged it till there was nothing left.
"Rough day there Bells?" Emmett commented and laughed while he was putting on the cute smirk that Rosalie loved.
"You don't know the half of it." I said leaning against the counter and we all talked aimlessly about work and everything that we could think of.
Weeks went by and then a month.
Alice and Rosalie were thriving in there businesses and were extremely happy they could start upgrading.
Jasper and Alice have become very close, they have been dating for over a year and he is over almost every night and when he isn't she is at his place. I'm just waiting for them to get engaged.
Rosalie and Emmett have become official and are becoming quite serious, they have only been dating for about 6 months though.
Work was horrible, Edward kept giving me manuscripts that had no chance in making New York best sellers. He gave me short stories, Manuscripts about cats and dogs. He gave me the scraps. He gave the fiction manuscripts to Jessica, who didn't even know how to spell simple words like passion.
I managed, just gritting my teeth and nodding as I finished the manuscripts trying the make them salvageable and meeting with the authors giving suggestions. Everyday turned into a bigger argument with him. Fighting about manuscripts, about nothing. I dreaded work, and before he came I loved it.
"Mr. Mason, I have the finished edited copies of the manuscripts you needed as soon as possible? I said, dragging my feet as I have pulled an all nighter in the office trying to get the work done that he said he need desperately.
My eyes has black circles underneath them, my hair was a mess from running my hands through it and my outfit was rumpled and wrinkled. My high heels were discarded and I was going barefoot.
"Good, here are three more due first thing tomorrow morning on my desk." He said not evening looking me in the eye. He was putting his suit jacket on the back of the chair and putting his papers in order. He just got here and I have been here all night?
"You're joking right?" I said, I was exhausted running on the crappy coffee from the work room and my eyes hurt from reading so much.
"No, does it look like I'm joking?" He said and laughed a bit like I was the one that was kidding around.
"Well I was here all night, trying to fix the disaster of a manuscript you gave me yesterday, I need my sleep can't it wait till later?" I replied almost pleading, sick of the constant fighting now, like I had submitted to the wolf leader or something.
"Mrs. Swan either do the work or find your own replacement" He said signing and typing on his computer.
I paused for a minute and thought, He was right though. He was the boss he could fire me and I could be unemployed for how long.
"Right away." I said picking up the three manuscripts and walking back to my cubicle.
I phoned Alice to tell her I wouldn't be home tonight either as I had to finish more work.
"Hello?" Her high voice chimed over the phone.
"Hey, Alice." I said my voice even sounding tired.
"Hey Bella, You sound wiped. Are you on your way home now?" She chipped and I could hear ambient noises in the back ground from her rummaging through inventory for her next big party to plan.
"No, I won't be home tonight. He assigned me more manuscripts to edit. If I don't have them done by tomorrow I'm fired." I signed just giving up on the attitude I had toward him. I was too exhausted to care at this point.
"Are you serious, wow he is an ass hole. Well finish them quick and come home and sleep!." She said
"I'll try, Bye Alice." I said and hung up.
I started on the manuscripts hoping to get them done as soon as possible.
I lifted my head, it was resting on the keyboard of my computer. I just finished the last manuscript Edward wanted and must have dozed off. I check my watch it was 2:30 in the mourning.
The office was dark and empty and the only light was the desk lamp that was lite on my cubicle desk.
I photocopied and bounded the manuscripts and went to put them in Edward's office and then finally get home and get some sleep. My bed was calling for me.
To my surprise he was still there hunched over his desk and typing away furiously. He face scrunched up in a look that says he was concentrating.
It was the first time I really saw Edward, not yelling at him or giving him attitude just actually looking at him. He was actually gorgeous. Everyone thought it, Jessica said how good looking he was everyday but I guess I never saw past his condescending tone.
He was very tall, 6'3 and he had broad shoulders. He obviously worked out. He had unique bronze hair that looked like he kept putting his hands through it, but it looked perfect at the same time.
Hi jaw was sharp and his eyes were bright green. It's like the first time I saw him, relaxed and laid back not strict and frigid.
He has his jacked and tie off, his shirt was unbuttoned at the top revealing his chest and his sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, he looked beautiful.
I signed, too bad he didn't have a more sincere personality.
I knocked, not wanting to disturb him.
He jumped a bit, obviously surprised that someone was here as late as him.
"Sorry, didn't mean to scare you." I said
"Uhhh, it's okay. What is it?" He said looking as tired as I was.
"The manuscripts your wanted?" I said as I walked in and laid them down on the corner of his desk.
"You stayed up another night?" He said looking at me like he felt sorry for me. That look is what I have been trying to avoid since the doctor gave me the bad news.
"Yeah, no worries." I tried to smile but all I could think about was my comfy bed at home.
"Miss. Swan I Want to apologize about my attitude towards you since I have been here." He said signing and running his hands through his hair again.
"I knew you were right the first day, I don't really deserve this position and clearly you do." He said looking at me with sincere apology.
"It's fine." I said leaning against the side of the desk.
"No, it's not and you know it." He said looking at me right in the eyes, which is very uncommon for him to do.
"Well, you were being a bit of an ass hole." I said and laughed trying to ease the tension.
"Yeah, Kinda." He said laughing with me.
"I'll forgive you on one condition." I said and he raised his eyebrow at me suddenly amused.
"What's that Miss. Swan." He said he tone suggestive, like he was flirting with me.
"You stop giving me shitty manuscripts." I said and he nodded his head and laughed again.
"Well, I think I can do that." He said and began typing again on his computer.
"Ill see you tomorrow Mr. Mason." I said turning and leaving his office.
"Call me Edward, Miss Swan." He said as I was almost out of his office door.
"Call me Bella, Edward." I said leaving and grabbing my sweater and heading down to the elevator.
The elevator doors were just about to close when Edward's hand slid between them and stopped them.
"Wait." He said and looked at me standing in between the elevator doors preventing it from going anywhere.
"Please no more work!" I said begging him that this isn't why he stopped me.
"No not that, do you maybe want to go for a late coffee?" He said his shoulder leaning again the door his face staring at me intently.
I looked back at him confused.
"It's the least that I owe you for making you stay here for so long." He added, trying to convince me to go.
"Sure, Why not." I said because really what could it hurt, I need a good cup of coffee anyway.
We walked out of the lobby together and he told me just to follow him to this great coffee shop he knew.
I hopped in my truck and followed his shiny silver Volvo for about 10 minutes when we finally reached this antique, rustic, cute little coffee shop called Common Grounds.
I hopped out of my truck and walked to the entrance of the shop which surprisingly was still opened.
"This is cute, how did you find this place?" I asked as he held the door open for me.
"I don't know, I just drove by it on the way to the office and just had to walk in. They make the best coffee." He said while walking up the counter.
The coffee shop was empty except for the barrister sweeping behind the counter.
"What can I get you guys?" He said smiling a little longer at me.
Edward ordered a plain coffee with just milk.
"Will you two be paying together?" He said almost like he was asking if we were on a date.
"No." I said the same time Edward said "Yes."
"You are not paying for me." I protested and was trying to put on a serious face.
"Yes, I am." He said he serious face was way better than mine.
"No!" I said again, and gave him a stern look.
"Fine." He signed and took his coffee and gave the barrister the change.
I ordered a French Vanilla coffee.
"It's on the house beautiful." The young barrister said and winked.
I just put the money in the tip cup to prove that he wasn't doing me a favour.
"Thanks." I said and turned to Edward who was walking towards a cute table near the window.
"I have to ask, why did you get this job?" I said and sipped on my coffee. It was the best coffee I have had in a long time.
"Family business, My uncle was your boss before. He got sick of it and was wealthy enough to live comfortably so he handed it down to me." He said looking at me with a guilty look.
I just laughed because I was partially right, his connections are what got him the job.
"It's fine, don't need to look at me like I am a ticking time bomb."I replied with a smirk and drank some more of my coffee.
"So what do you really want to do in your life Bella?" He said sounded genially interested in what I wanted to do with my life, well with the 11 months I had left.
"Honestly, I want to write my own book and publish it myself. Make a name for myself and own my own publishing business." I said smiling as I still thought maybe I could soon, before my time ran out.
"I haven't known you that long, but I've seen what you do with manuscripts. You would make a terrific author." He said sincerely
"Thanks, so what about you?" I said knowing full well running a publishing business was not his dream job.
"I wanted to follow my dad's footsteps, become a doctor." he said his eyes casting down.
"Why don't you?" I said confused as to why he hasn't gone to medical school since it sounds his family is wealthy.
"I was almost finished medical school, but dropped out in the last semester. Family issues. Just never considered going back?" He said looking at me with regret.
"It's never too late." I said to him but mostly to my self. It's never too late to do things you have always dreamed of even if you have limited time.
"Yeah, one day I will." He said lighting the mood.
"I'll hold you to that." I said winking at him.
"It's getting really late, I got to get home and shower and sleep, I probably look like a wreck." I said and laughed standing up and grabbing my bag.
"I think you look beautiful." Edward said staring at me, a way no one has before.
"Uhh, Thanks so see you tomorrow?" I said nervous all of a sudden and I turned bright pink.
"Till tomorrow Bella." He said and winked, waving goodbye as he got into his Volvo and drove off.