2 FOR 1

Friends Or More

Alessandro POV

"This is the 5th week you're gonna go out with her bro! Tell me why you haven't made her yours yet?!" Ace shouts from my living room as I rolled my eyes.

"First off, I'm not gonna disrespect her relationship. Second off, why the fuck are you so worried about what I'm doing. Why don't you get your lazy ass off my couch and go find your own place to live and find a job while you're at it" I snap back while smacking the back of his head making him groan.

"I do have a job, dumbass. You do realize the company dad passed down to you obviously wasn't just put under your name, right?" He retorts back making me scoff.

"You mean the company that I've been working my ass off at since we were kids to make mine. The one you haven't even stepped foot in since the first time dad showed it to us when we were kids" I argue back as he rolls his eyes while slumping back onto my couch.

"Whatever, I can still work there" he mutters as I laugh at his irritated expression.

"And when you decide to do that for the first time, give me a call and I'll try to see if the position of being my work bitch is open" I reply with a wink as he glares back before I left my penthouse apartment.

"Good afternoon Mr.Anderson" The bellhop man says as I walk out of the elevator with a nod.

Making my way to one of my cars in the underground parking lot, I gave the address of Jezzabelle's work to my driver as he quickly nods and starts to drive while I make sure to text her I was on my way.

Ever since our talking out lunch date, we have been going out on our lunches together for the past few weeks. It's been a little over a month already and although I respect her relationship, I can't say the past 5 weeks haven't increased my feelings for her ten times more than before.

Everything from the way she talked, the way she laughed, smile, and even ate made my heart swell. My heart has never beat any other woman more than the one that has been eating lunch with me for the past 5 weeks. I was never a romantic person that could fall in love in a flash, but this woman was making me feel things for her that I have never felt before.

The only thing I hated about my feelings for her, was the fact that I couldn't act out on them. She was starting to open up to me every single day and every time I dropped her back off at the end of our half our lunches, I felt a deep sadness within myself. It was like my body was filled with happiness every time I was with her but the moment my driver pulled up in front of her work building, my body was consumed with sadness.

Knowing the one source of my happiness was going home with someone else, that did nothing to appreciate and worship her the way I could, my body would shut down and go back to the dark empty feelings I always had when I would just work myself to the limit and go home alone. But instead of going home alone now, I go home to the annoying sound of my stupid twin brother who nags me for not making her mine.

I wasn't gonna take her away from the man she chose to be engaged to. To my knowledge she's been with the man since high school and she's loved him more than any other man she's known her whole life. She told me he was her first for everything and he was the only man she's grown to realize she'd want to grow old with.

I can tell by the look on her face when she talked about him, she was madly in love with him. And as much as I hated that she was in love with that asshole, I couldn't do anything about it. She didn't belong to me.

"Good afternoon Mister Anderson" The woman at the front desk says looking at me with her regular flirty smile.

"Is Misses Rose on her way down?" I ask looking down at me phone, seeing she hasn't read my text yet.