Chapter 12

POV Ryan.

I watch Lisa leave in a languid walk, damn she is so beautiful. So elegant, so real, so far away from all these artifices around us. I knew it from the day I laid eyes on her, her hesitant but determined look, she looked like a little lamb that throws itself into the mouth of the big bad wolf but despite its fear decides to enter anyway. As soon as I saw her walk through the doors of the company, I felt like an electric current going through my body and I knew at that very moment that I wanted her for myself, but unfortunately, she is Mason's secretary. I smile, I will do whatever it takes to get her. I turn toward the coffee machine and meet Drake's gaze upon me. It's hard, filled with anger and frustration. Don't fucking tell me that? I've only been away for two weeks and when I come back, he's already laid eyes on her. I understand better why on the day Lisa was supposed to arrive, she was ordered to be treated very well, they never did that for any other employee, so i