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37 Days You got it, boss.
POVXWhen I’m done with my stressful calls, I’m exhausted from the day. I walk out of my office and see my bedroom door is creaked open with the lights on. I knock lightly on the door but no response, I peek in and she’s sleeping beautifully in my bed.The TV is on, and so are the lights, I start turning the lights off, and… what the fuck was she watching? Ah god, don’t tell me this girl likes these kinds of shows I think to myself and shake my head.I take the remote out of her soft hand and she shifts her body when I do so. She looks like a fucking angel sleeping so peacefully. I turn off the bullshit show she was watching and walk out of my room closing the door behind me and go to the couch to relax.After about ten minutes of relaxing, there’s a knock at my front door and I roll my eyes at whoever it is. I grunt and open the door to see Adria standing there with her arms crossed around her chest“What Adria?” I ask annoyed.She lets herself in and asks, “So? What happened in Mad
37 Days Overthinking
POVXWhen I’m done with my stressful calls, I’m exhausted from the day. I walk out of my office and see my bedroom door is creaked open with the lights on. I knock lightly on the door but no response, I peek in and she’s sleeping beautifully in my bed.The TV is on, and so are the lights, I start turning the lights off, and… what the fuck was she watching? Ah god, don’t tell me this girl likes these kinds of shows I think to myself and shake my head.I take the remote out of her soft hand and she shifts her body when I do so. She looks like a fucking angel sleeping so peacefully. I turn off the bullshit show she was watching and walk out of my room closing the door behind me and go to the couch to relax.After about ten minutes of relaxing, there’s a knock at my front door and I roll my eyes at whoever it is. I grunt and open the door to see Adria standing there with her arms crossed around her chest“What Adria?” I ask annoyed.She lets herself in and asks, “So? What happened in Mad
37 Days Ellen Hill
POVXI’m fully clothed now and in my office, Millie left ten minutes ago.I wanted this girl so fucking bad today but I ruined it by moving too fast. We did even fuck and it was the most sexually enticing experience I’ve had, which is saying a lot because I’ve had many threesomes, foursomes, and more.Millie has taken my desire to a whole new level. I should’ve known better that she’s not like these other girls who just give it up in a second, she’s a girl who needs time.I need to somehow deal with Adria too, Millie isn’t going to want to continue anything with me if she’s always overthinking everything.I get her fear of Adria, she’s a powerful woman and even most men don’t want to fuck with her. I need to stop obsessing over this and get started on work already.I open up my laptop and see an e-mail from Ray, my private investigator, and open it before even looking at any of the other emails that are probably more important. I asked Ray last week to give me a report on Chase. I wa
37 Days Steph’s office
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
37 Days June 22nd
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
37 Days Forever changed
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
37 Days What am I supposed to do?
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
37 Days Thank god for you
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’
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