My Boss, His Wife and Me

By R.J. Adams

It's bad to enter into a relationship with your boss, especially when your boss is a married man. Aurelia knows this yet she cannot help but fall for the man she knows she cannot have.
Dalton begins working at the Advertising Agency where Aurelia works when the company starts to get into difficulty. Aurelia falls for his charm but she knows falling for a married man, and her boss is a terrible idea.
But all is not as it seems. Dalton begins to get close to Aurelia, pulling her in further until she is unable to resist and a sneaky office affair begins, but what about his wife? Aurelia knows what she is doing is wrong but she cannot keep away, however is wife is not the loving doting person Aurelia imagined her to be. There is a dark secret being hidden, Dalton's marriage and his life is not all as it appears to be.
As time goes on and Dalton and Aurelia become closer but tragedy lurks in the distance for the pair, is it true love? Or is it some steamy office affair that will cause complete devastation and severe consequences in their lives?
Read as the affair unfolds into something Aurelia and Dalton never saw coming.

• Language: English
• Publisher: R.J. Adams
• Release date: Oct 4, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370921379

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My boss, his wife and me

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Chapter 1

Love, that’s a strange feeling you might say. Love is an addiction that humanity craves I guess. We all want it when we have it and even when we don’t have it we crave it more; it’s something we always seek out.

I never knew what love was, how would you know you were or are in love? How would you know a feeling you have never felt before? We all know feelings, when we are hurt we feel pain, when we are upset we feel sadness, when we are angry we feel rage, so how do you feel love?

Your parents would always try and describe love to you when you were a child, but how can you understand a feeling you have never had?

I always asked myself the same question, being in a relationship and then when it ended, feeling hurt but never heartbroken, had I been in love with them? Did they love me? Is it love when you don’t miss them? Are you supposed to miss them? Being sad it is over but then when a new guy comes along you never miss the one you had before, does that mean you didn’t love them?

I thought I knew love, but it turns out, I didn’t. It wasn’t until I met Dalton, he was the sexy new office manager and new owner of our company that I thought about what love truly was. I wanted this man the moment he walked into our office, I never wanted anyone like that before.

I have been in my job for five years as the administrative and personal assistant to the CEO of Advertising Development Ltd. Good job you might think, it was, until the guy who owned it started having his life go down the pan.

The company was, well is great. Working in advertising definitely has some major ups. We get to deal with the billboards of new companies, advertisements for new brands or current brands, so much and it is very rewarding.

George, our former CEO was amazing at what he done, his advertising presentations were like art-work and the things he put together were so creative and people loved the work he done for them, the company was one of the top advertising agencies in New York, but that all changed a year ago.

He started having an affair with some girl he met one night at a casino whilst he was gambling, he started living the high-life and throwing his money away, why wouldn’t he, he was very successful and earned a lot of money.

But when his wife found out, she came into our office and I swear burning flames of rage were coming from her ears. All the drama kicked off with her screaming and shouting to everyone about what he had done. She was happily spreading all the dirty details of his naughty affair with a woman twenty years his senior.

Being his assistant and the person that was signing off everything he purchased, I knew something was going on when he was spending so much money on hotels, and I organised all his business trips for him, most of those trips he took I had not planned.

At first she blamed me for covering up for him, but even if I had known I couldn’t have said anything anyway. One, it’s my job; I cannot risk my job and two it’s none of my business about his personal life. She understood all that when she calmed down, eventually.

Since then it went from bad to worse and the company almost fell apart, he went through a nasty divorce, lost his house and started losing money and clients, so he put it up for sale and that’s when Dalton came in.

He became the new CEO and owner of Advertising Development Ltd. In his late thirties, he has mastered his wealth from buying and selling companies with the help of his father. However, going at it alone he decided not to sell ours off and instead keep it for himself. He got clients back on board so fast we wondered if he had bribed them, they had gotten on board before he had even stepped foot in the building.

The company’s profits were turning over at a high rate from day one and I began to wonder how he was doing this.

That first day, a few months ago when he walked into the office, my jaw almost hit the floor. This tall dark handsome man, with a crisp clean navy suit on and smart look was just beautiful.

Of course he was and is my boss so I never dreamed of going there, until recently. He has been flirtatious with me, and I’ve liked it. I’m not normally one to mix pleasure and work, those are normally bad combinations but something attracts me to him.

This six foot four, green eyed handsome man who seems to be interested in me. I spend most of my time in work with him than I do at home. If I’m not in the office, I’m at home daydreaming about him.

Infatuation you might say, not love. Maybe lust, I do not know, all I know is I cannot get this man out of my head. There is one problem though, the man is married! Yep, that’s right, married.

Walking into the office after my first weekend off in months, I feel happy. I have had a good restful weekend with my best friend, eaten some nice food and not had to worry about deadlines and media publications for two whole days.

As I walk into the office, it’s quiet and silent. I’m always the first one in, switching on the lights, setting up the coffee machine in Dalton’s office and getting things ready for the day. I’m always prepared like that, I guess that’s why I’m always praised, goodie-two-shoes you might say. I don’t mind it; the earlier I come in the more I get done in the day, that’s how I see it anyway,

Dalton enters not long after me. In a crisp clean grey suit with a white shirt, strutting across the office floor, head held high, he knows he has it all. I look at him and stare as my heart pumps with desire; I have never seen someone so beautiful. My desire to have him sometimes eats away at me, he’s just a man after-all. I don’t know why I want him so badly.

Sometimes I look and think maybe he’s just a spoilt little rich kid whose daddy helped him climb to the top, but then as I watch him work, his dedication and friendly manner, I then think he deserves this and works hard. He doesn’t dictate to anyone here, he asks kindly of they will do something and he doesn’t leave his job up to others, he does his own work too, not what you expect from a CEO, they normally pass down everything.

Aurelia, he calls out in his manly authoritative but gentle voice, have you put those papers on my desk for G and B productions? Their advert goes live this week and media billboards need to be finished.

I nod, Yes, they are all signed off actually, just need the last signature which is yours, and I’ve also spoken to Pete from Hunch, they want a new media production of their advert for their new range of shirts, something about the current one not being ‘weirdly unsatisfying I emphasise, and Jade from Human Resources needs your signature on this.

He takes the letter from my hand and looks it over, what is this?

It’s the new training plan for employees you asked them to draft up and sign off before they put the training in place.

He clears his throat slightly as he sits in his chair whipping off his tie, ahh good, I want everyone to have this training, although some people are good enough the way they are, he winks at me, butterflies flutter in my stomach, he hands it back to me, okay, make sure Hunch speak to me first, their new line is not as impressive as they think and will take a lot more advertising to get people to buy that crap. They will need new billboards and something more edgy if they really want it to sell.

I smile and head to my desk, once again daydreaming about a man I know I cannot have. He sits there sipping away his freshly made coffee, flipping through paperwork and ignoring the world around him.

As everyone else comes into work, I find myself thrown into an extremely busy day, phone calls and paperwork up to my eyeballs.

My phone has been going mental all morning, both cell and office line, I barely have time to stop and chat to anyone, maybe that’s why people see me as such a goodie-two-shoes, I never speak to anyone in the office, maybe the odd one or two that I have worked with since I started, always sat at my desk head down and doing work. That’s me!

Leaving my desk to send of the new mock-ups for the advertising billboard of a new fragrance line, my phone rings. Hands full, I quickly chuck it down and answer, Advertising Development Ltd, Aurelia speaking, how can I help?

Oh hi, an irritated voice responds, I want to speak to Dalton.

I’m very sorry, Mr West is currently busy, I am his personal assistant, all queries may go through me, is there anything I can help you with.

I hear an annoyed sigh on the other end, look lady, I want to speak to him now, I don’t have to go through you.

Yes you do miss; it’s what I am employed for, who’s calling please?

Mrs West, she snaps rudely.

Oh you must be his wife, I do apologise, I reply trying to be polite and professional, if you can bear with me I will just ring his line. She doesn’t say a word back to me as I place her on hold, what a rude woman! I could hear her talking through her teeth as if she was angry at me; I felt I was being scolded except I don’t know what I did. I try ringing his phone to pop her through but there is no answer.

I look over into his office through the glass partition between us and see he is just staring out of the window. I walk over and slightly tap on the glass; he gives me the nod to enter through the side door.

Aurelia, come in, he smiles, I have something I need to ask you, I sit in silence, caught in a trance as he speaks to me, I have a dinner tonight at the Tavistock Hotel, it’s to meet with a new client and hopefully get them signed on board, some sort of perfume line they want to launch and I have contacted them to pitch an advertising idea to them, I want you with me.

Wow my mouth is dry, he wants me to go and have dinner with him? Can I have dinner with him? Umm, wouldn’t you want to take your wife?

He rolls his eyes and moves over, propping himself on the edge of his desk, I need someone with experience who can help me pitch this; it’s a business dinner so I need someone in the business. I trust you and want you with me on this, I need someone who has been in this company for a while, so please say you will join me.

I nod in agreement, I don’t really know what to say, I cannot say no to my boss can I, pitching ideas is a great way to earn and meet new clients, okay, but speaking of wives, yours in on my line and she seems rather angry, rude in-fact.

He huffs, that doesn’t surprise me, that’s her in general. Tell her I’m in a meeting and I will call her this afternoon. I look at him like, ‘why are you lying’ but he just gives me his seductive sweet smile, it’s a long story, one that will definitely bore you to death and besides, I cannot deal with her attitude right now.

I go to head out but he calls me back, Oh Aurelia, I turn back and look at him, you need a dress for tonight, go and buy one at lunch, it’s a fancy restaurant so dress to impress, black tie sort of thing if you get me, he winks. I walk out hiding my blushing cheeks.

Picking up the phone, I can hear the heavy breathing, like panting out of anger, Umm, hello? Mrs West?

Yes, where is he? I wanted to speak to him not his new office piece. I asked you to go get him, clearly you cannot do your job well if it is you I am still speaking to, it’s not that hard to go fetch someone is it.

I want to bite her head off, no-one speaks to me like that, not even my own family degrade me like something on the bottom of their shoe. I don’t care who she is or how much money the bitch has, she clearly thinks she is above me and she bloody well isn’t, Mrs West, I grit through my teeth, he is in a meeting right now and will call you this afternoon, I hope you have a pleasant day, and I put the phone down before she has a chance to respond.

Chapter 2

Sat at my desk, sneakily looking online, I want to find a killer dress but also sophisticated and glamorous too. I guess I want to impress the boss, even though deep down I know I shouldn’t, I shouldn’t dress up for a man I know I cannot have. I never get dressed up for events like this; normally it’s a slutty dress for a night on the town with the girls, never anything fancy. I love hitting the town with the girls, it’s a great way to unwind after a week of working non-stop.

I think of his wife and why she was so mad, she had no right to be mad at me but then I guess here I am trying to dress to impress her husband. If he was my husband it would kill me some other girl doing that for him, I’d hate it. I feel a deep guilt in the pit of my stomach, but then I haven’t done anything wrong. Have I?

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