POVMillieI make it to Steph’s office only getting lost twice.The third-floor hallway is gorgeous, with beautiful light fixtures throughout the halls with cool beige walls, and all the doors, which belong to some of the big shots here are just as nice as X’s, all black with gold touches.Steph’s office is towards the end of the east hallway with a gold metal plaque on the side of the door that reads 321 Stephanie Taylor.A few other doors are reading other people's names too. I knock on the door and hear her say come in. When I walk in she’s sitting behind a mahogany desk with a comfortable-looking white chair behind it. The walls are a light slate blue and with beautiful landscape photos of sceneries from other countries.On her desk sits a laptop, phone, notebooks, pens, and small green plants, it’s so cute in here. She stands up and hugs me.“Give me one sec Mills, I’ll get you a chair,” Steph says leaving me for a minute and coming back with a folded white plastic chair.“Thanks
POVXJulian just left and I’m finishing off my phone call with Hugo’s partner. This deal with Colombia is kicking my ass lately and I just feel like giving up and saying fuck you to them but I can’t, we’re so close and after all this work it’d be a waste to give up now.I exhale loudly and rub the back of my neck. I heard Millie walking around the house a few minutes ago and I’m feeling uneasy about tonight because I want to talk to her about her mom. She’s probably going to be pissed that I looked into her past but there will be a lot of things that will bother her about me that are much more serious than this.I stand up from my black leather chair, push it in, and check to see if she’s in my bedroom.She’s sitting on the bed in all-black tight clothing, cross-legged, and doing something on her phone.“You wanna go now?” I ask her and she turns to me startled.“Oh hey, yeah,” she says and hops off the bed grabbing a thin zip-up hoodie from off her lap.We walk into the kitchen and
POVMillieI’m completely frozen, I can’t even turn around to look at him, everything has become deafening, if an explosion just went off right in front of me, I don’t think my body would even respond.June 22nd was the day my life forever changed.I somehow turn my body around back to the ocean after a minute, I don’t even pay attention that X is still here, a million thoughts are flooding my mind.“You still call her?” he asks and I look down at him with his back to me as he's looking out into the distance.“I never shut her phone off,” I say quietly enough that I don’t even know if he heard me.“Who told you?” I ask him at the same volume as my last statement.He pats the sand beside him indicating for me to sit back down and I slowly walk back over and do so.I’m still in a stunned state when I sit down and he puts his hand over mine in a comforting way.“How’d she die?” he asks and those words slice through me like a knife.“Me” I respond in the most monotone, staring into space
POV X I’m feeling beyond stupid for bringing up the situation with Millie’s mom the way I did. When I brought it up to her, I wasn’t in the least bit expecting how serious of a situation it was. During the time I got the report on Millie, I saw that her dad was deceased, which I already knew about, but I didn’t know it was only about 2-3 months ago. The report only said deceased, it didn’t say how he died, but she told me it was heroin. When I read that her mother was deceased too, I was floored, she died about three years ago, and of course no details or description of the circumstances relating to her death. I was thrown off seeing that, because the first moment I laid eyes on Millie, she was talking to her mom, which I now know she kept her mom's phone activated to call her and leave her messages. I feel like a total jackass because I insulted her about her relationship with her mom, not knowing the situation. It takes a lot for me to feel bad about something and I feel l
POV Millie I’m under the covers letting the salty tears stream down my face when there’s a light knock on the door and it opens. “Mills? It’s Steph.” Thank god. I remove the comforter away from the mess of a face I’m rocking right now and see Steph standing there. “Steph? What are you doing here?” I ask through a sob. “X called me,” she says quietly. I lay flat on the bed and looked to the ceiling “I’m mortified Steph.” I say. She walks over to the bed and sits down “Oh Mills, don’t be, he caught you completely off guard and he feels horrible.” she says gently running her fingers through my hair. She lays beside me and says “Come here” We lay together and both just cry. “I wish you could just forgive yourself, Millie, your mom would never want this for you,” Steph says through tears. “I know Steph, I just can’t help it,” I say wiping tears off my ears that gravity has filled them with. Steph holds my hand “One day at a time baby girl, one day at a time.” I’
POV X Today is a big day, all the members of my group are having a meeting today and we’ll be including Marco and Hugo over the phone. I slept like shit last night, I didn’t go to sleep until 3 am. When I left the penthouse last night I went over to Julian’s, we drank and smoked and he knew something was up with me but I only briefly told him what happened, I don’t want the whole world to know about Millie’s struggles. When I got back to the penthouse around 2:30, all the lights were still on and I thought maybe Millie was still awake, but when I went to my bedroom she was fast asleep and Stephanie was gone. I went over to Millie and said “I’m so sorry baby” even though I knew she couldn’t register any of it. I fell asleep a half hour later, tossing and turning all night long. When I got out of the shower, I got dressed and walked to the kitchen seeing Millie sitting at the island eating a granola bar. I walked over to her and took a bite out of it while she was holding it in
POV Millie I’ve spent the day binging The Bachelor and being lazy. I texted Chase to let him know that I'm fine and I texted Steph to thank her for last night. It's Friday night, and the girls are going to be partying and working tonight but we made plans to hang out tomorrow afternoon. It's now around 8 pm and I’m sitting out on the balcony just watching the now dark ocean when I hear X behind me, and he takes a seat in the chair next to me. “Beautiful, huh?” he asks and I nod still looking out at the deep blue ocean. “Want to have a fire?” He asks and I’m surprised by this. “Aren’t you going to the club though?” I ask. “Nah I don’t feel like it tonight, maybe I’ll go tomorrow,” he says and I know he’s only ditching it for me. “Well okay, yeah, I’d love to have a fire,” I say trying not to sound overly excited. He laughs and starts a fire in the fire pit out on the balcony that we’re on, “C'mon, sit over here.” he says sitting down in a chair around the pit. I get up
**WARNING** This chapter is very spicy! It contains in-depth sexual details, if you are not into this type of writing, I completely understand, please skip to the next chapter. POV X Millie follows me to the bed and I replay the sexiest words I’ve ever heard come out of her mouth in my head. Sure, I’ve heard those words coming out of numerous mouths before, but when it came out of that innocent mouth of hers, I could’ve just busted a nut right then and there. I lightly push her onto my bed and climb over her. I kiss her beautiful lips and then trail down to her neck staying there for several seconds. She's in her sexy black bra, pushing those perfect tits together, just waiting to be freed. I move my lips slowly from her neck, to just the top of her breasts. Even though I just want to rip off all of her remaining clothing right now and get down to business, I try to pace myself letting the build-up get the better of her. I lift up her back just enough to remove the r