So I've decided to continue this story!
Chapter 2
Emma ran towards the door of her office tower, clutching her coffee in one hand as she rubbed the tissues on her coffee-stained shirt and lifted her elbows to balance her purse slinging on her shoulder.
She entered the office of Jones Consolidated where she worked under the head corporate attorney David Nolan who was her boss as well as friend as he was married to the teacher, Mary Margaret, at the daycare center on the ground floor for all the businesses and their employees who had children.
Jones Consolidated's CEO Liam Jones suddenly resigned, forcing his younger brother – an apparently very handsome and charming Killian Jones – to rise from his days lounging around on his sailboat somewhere in Spain with god knows who and how many women. Today was the day when everyone would finally meet the infamous playboy Killian Jones.
Emma offered the receptionist a quick smile as she ran towards the conference room where everyone was gathered, judging from the empty office rooms and cubicles. Holy shit I'm getting fired Emma thought as she increased her pace, cursing herself and Ruby and that stupid coffee spiller guy as she was really, really late. Emma straightened her navy skirt and suit as she opened the door, all eyes inside automatically fixing on hers as Emma started, "I'm so sorry. I hope I'm not distur-"
"He's not here yet Emma" a voice spoke from the end of the room. A tall and strongly built man spoke, his hands resting on his waist as he peered down the tall glass windows behind him.
"We've been waiting for almost half an hour now" David continued, clearly displeased from his new CEO, "First day and late" he shook his head in disapproval.
Pleased from David's view of this Killian Jones lateness, as due to it he completely forgot about Emma being late, she took a seat beside him, finally tasting her coffee that the coffee ruiner man bought her.
As they all awaited their new CEO's arrival, munching on the muffins and croissants bought for the meeting, Emma's thoughts wandered back to the coffee ruiner. She needed a better name for him than that – perhaps, 'Hot Coffee'. He was insanely hot. Oh god Emma thought he was smoking hot. If he wasn't such a jerk and smug, this would've been a perfect opportunity for Emma to flirt with him and have him scratch her itch for one night. Just one night.
As Emma's thoughts drifted onto how the scenario in Starbucks could've gone different in ways that would've somehow ended up with him in her bed - the door opened, revealing a short man wearing a red hat. All the faces in the room (mostly females) dropped as the man walked in, straightening his red hat. Seriously Emma thought. It seemed like the rumors were false.
No one had ever seen Killian Jones except of David who had met him once at Liam's mansion. David had ranted endlessly about how the younger Jones was lounging between two women, reading his book as the women were watching some senseless reality show. As much as everyone was disappointed of Liam resigning as he was a great guy, people were also excited for Killian taking over as the guys were looking forward for all the parties while the women were hoping to probably be the one who wins his heart, marries him, and has his children. Well, some of them. The other ones like Emma didn't really care.
Sure Emma found guys attractive and this Killian Jones had piqued her interest and there were rumors of him being attractive, but all she ever looked for a guy was attractiveness, some basic manners, and whether or not he was a sociopath or a creep. What more do you need from a one night stand anyways?
So as the man in the red hat entered the room, and some women as well as Barry sighed in disappointment, Emma just rolled her eyes. She just wanted to see a pretty face. And once again her thought drifted to Hot Coffee.
" !" David spoke and everyone in the room let out a breath of relief, "Where is he?"
"He stopped for a coffee David, he's here. Just making a call to Liam" Smee informed them, offering a sorry smile and divulging into the muffins as he sat beside Barry.
Emma's phone vibrated indicating that was Ruby calling her, probably apologizing for the drunken rants she went on last night. She stood up and took the call, walking to the edge of the room facing the windows looking over the city.
The door opened with a slight creek and finally Killian Jones was revealed to the room. Emma heard people taking quick breaths and as she turned around, she saw everyone huddled around the man. The woman smiling extra wide as they shook his hand and then passed a knowing look to their friend. And the men grinning, as this man definitely looked like a party guy. Emma couldn't see the apparently insanely hot Killian Jones face, but judging from the reaction inside the room, thought the rumors were correct. She turned around towards the windows a last time to mutter Ruby a good bye as she heard David's voice, "And this is Emma Swan, one of our attorneys"
Emma shut her phone off quickly and turned. And froze. Jesus fucking Christ. No way in hell. Oh shit no. Her mouth gaped open as her eyebrows shot up, mirroring the expression the man in front of her was wearing who had not moments ago spilled her coffee and bought her a new one. And Emma had yelled "Fuck You" at him.
"Emma, this is our new CEO Killian Jones" David nudged her, confused by her reaction.
Emma stood there frozen but Killian seemed to recover, a smirk taking over his face as he extended his hand, "Emma Swan" he spoke, his tongue lining his lower lip.
"Killian Jones" Emma said, meeting his hand and purposely offering a hard hand shake which he didn't seem to notice as his eyes were fixated on hers.
They held onto each other's hands for a tad bit longer than usual before David spoke, "Killian – have a seat" and pushed a chair towards him.
Emma let go of his hand and soon settled herself beside David's chair, clutching her coffee. Once she took a sip out of it, she could feel Killian's glare on her.
David introduced Killian to his employees and Killian requested every employee to introduce themselves to him. The introductions started with a young woman sitting beside him who was smiling too much and brushing her hair off her face followed with a very stern woman, who was clearly not getting the hype around this man. Finally Emma's turn came and she straightened her back and finally made eye contact with Killian who was already looking at her.
With a challenging look in her eye, because no way Emma Swan was going to let herself be affected by him, she firmly stated, "Emma Swan, I'm one of the corporate lawyers here and I work under David"
Killian smiled, his lips forming into a pout as he tilted his head to look at her. Emma returned his gaze by raising her eyebrows and while holding his gaze, taking a sip of her coffee.
"That coffee must be delicious Miss Swan" he spoke in his deep British accented voice.
"It's okay" Emma replied, tilting her own head to match hers. Killian grinned lightly and as David continued to speak, kept glancing at Emma who kept her gaze anywhere but at him.
This was surely going to be interesting.
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