Love’n’Lust

Nathan had later gone back to his office to get his jacket after Belle left with Randy. He was about to get into the elevator on the top floor when he heard Laura Johnson.

“Don’t close the doors!” She increased her pace to the elevator since she couldn’t run.

Nathan waited for her and only when she got into the elevator did he push the button to close the door. It was silent inside the elevator for a while till Mrs Johnson said;

“I see the way you look at my assistant.”

“Me?” Nathan was going to deny it but Mrs Johnson wasn’t asking him at this point, she was simply stating what she had been observing.

“You do remember that having or starting a relationship other than friendship is not allowed in this company right?”

“I do.” Nathan assured her.ConTEent bel0ngs to Nôv(e)lD/rama(.)Org .

“Good for you. At least, now you have more than just one reason to avoid her.”

“More than one reason?”

“She’s probably in a relationship with someone of high status, stay away from her.” Laura Johnson warned. She wasn’t saying Ill of Belle, she was only pointing out to her colleague why he should not have an interest in her. She was just trying to help him be on a safer side.

Nathan had a short laugh after listening to all Mrs Johnson just said like he didn’t believe her but the fact was that he did. He knew she was saying the truth, even before Laura Johnson noticed he already knew.

Starting from the first time he saw Belle in his office, the clothes she wore told it all. She was wearing designer clothes to work, Nathan immediately knew she had someone powerful behind her.

Many others probably thought the clothes she wore were fake designer clothes but Nathan could tell they weren’t. The only thing he didn’t believe from Mrs Johnson was that Belle was in a relationship with someone of high status, he couldn’t believe it. There was no way she was sleeping with someone powerful and yet she would still decide to continue working as an assistant.

His own thought on it was that she was the daughter of someone rich and powerful and although he had researched, he couldn’t find her as one of the daughters of the affluential families in city S, he just assumed that she was not from here. He had found out after going through the CV she had submitted that she wasn’t from city S so he believed his theory was right; she was probably the daughter of a rich family from where she came from and was only here to gain experience by working as an assistant.

It was this reason he was overly nice to her. He wanted to get close to her and if possible, make her fall in love with him but she was giving him a tough time with that. She wasn’t even letting him a chance to get close to her.

“So you don’t believe me?” Laura Johnson asked after he laughed.

“No, I don’t.” He lied about not believing Belle was somehow related to wealth.

“It’s your choice Nathan, don’t say i didn’t warn you.” The elevator stopped and the door opened. Laura Johnson said that to him before she left for the main entrance of the building.

Now walking to his car alone, Nathan thought of it again. At first he just wanted to make her fall for him because if she was of a rich background then he wouldn’t have to work here anymore, he could use her but after that day in the car with her, he knew making her fall for him was going to be a very hard thing to do.

For some reason, he genuinely wanted to know her more after that day. She had this charming smile that made him rethink the initial reason he started being nice to her.

He knew now that although he still was going to be nice and all caring to her for her wealth, he also wanted to be around her. She was pretty, prettier than the girls he had dated previously, her eyes were the most attractive to him. He wanted to hold her so close and look into them, it wouldn’t hurt to adore her genuinely while he played her; he thought.

If she let him, he would want to sleep with her but that was not his ulterior motive, no, he wanted her for her financial worth, he could get a sex worker for a night if ever he wanted sex so badly but if Belle let him, then there was nothing stopping him from sleeping with her too. At this point, he wasn’t even going to care about the company policy of no office romance.

“Fuck their policy, fuck this place.” He said to himself as he left the building. He was going to think of more ways to try and woo Belle Miller as he drove home, he had to try harder to get her to fall for him. If she really was of a rich family background then she could change his life.