Daniel Bennett

Lily

As the days turned into weeks, a new routine began to establish itself.

Before, my life was an ordinary desk job, overseeing meetings at times, but nothing else.

Now all of a sudden Alexander was dragging me to accompany him on his business meetings. I had thought the first was a fluke until the next one came the day after. Meeting after meeting, event after event, I followed him through it.

The constant whirlwind of activity threw me off balance. But I quickly adapted, at the risk of sacrificing my friend-dates with Malina and talking to Lisa and Ron in the office.

But even then, a part of me wondered why I was suddenly being dragged along for these things. Most of my time spent there was spent sitting down and doing absolutely nothing. It didn't help that Alexander, despite carrying me along, barely said a word to me aside from orders.

Being near him was frustrating from his constant silence, but his close proximity never failed to remind me of how attractive he was. During th