With my mind fully awake now and my consciousness in check, my first thought was if I’d slept in here…then where was Mr. Midnight?
Stop calling him that you dork, you know what his name is now…I lightly scolded myself, as I sat up from the bed up-stretching a wide yawn with both arms, before flinging back the soft fluffy covers and extending my yawn with a long body stretch.
‘’Mmm hmm, this feels sooooo nice’’ I smiled lazily out in front of me, before hopping off the bed still in the white slipper socks he’d given me, and tip-toeing my way across the soft white wine-colored carpeting of his room over to the door.
Everything in the apartment was quiet. A beautiful peaceful quiet that came I guess with the luxury of owning one’s home.
‘’Hudson?’’ I called out, lightly maneuvering my way around the apartment looking for him.
‘’Oh…oh wow…’’ I breathed, as my eyes caught sight of Hudson sprawled out fast asleep on the couch. He was lying on his stomach completely shirtless, with his delicious muscled arms propped under a couch pillow, and a white silky throw covering the bottom half of his six-foot and over body.
Oh god, I think I’ve gone blind…I drooled, because looking that good first thing in the morning must definitely be damaging for the eyes, lol. What drooled me the most though, and what I certainly wasn’t expecting to see what with his businessman stature and all, was the fierce-looking detailed viper tattoo trailing from his shoulders all the way down his back…damn, that’s kinda hot…okay, it's fucking hot! No. Stop it Taylor. You can’t think that way about him anymore, he’s your BOSS now…I scolded myself again.
With a deep breath of distraction, I directed my feet into the kitchen to try and work the fancy percolator machine I remembered seeing in there yesterday.
I needed a strong-ass coffee after witnessing all that manly goodness, and while there, I figured it was the least I could do to demonstrate my proactive PA skills, by kindly making my new boss a morning coffee also. I was yet to learn how he takes it, but something told me he was a black coffee in the morning, Bourbon in the evening kind of guy.
I’d always preferred mine with milk and sweetener, well, whenever I’d been fortunate enough to afford one at the local coffee shop that is. And with the events of yesterday still twirling me in a giddy tailspin, I wasted no time in making myself the biggest, most yummiest, and sweetest coffee I could.
Hudson wasn’t kidding when he said the kitchen was fully stocked, and away I went like a kid in a candy store over sweetening my coffee with Hazelnut, Vanilla, and Caramel syrup, from the array of fancy sweetener pumps I could see on the side.
‘’Mmm, ooh, mmm’’ I moaned at all the sugary goodness going down my throat, before taking my time and making my new boss a tall black coffee with two neat white sugar cubes and a teaspoon on the side. Balancing both carefully, I made my way back over to the couch and placed my mug down on the coffee table, before kneeling down beside Hudson with his.
HUDSON POV:
‘’Wakey wakey boss, rise and shine’’ a gentle voice chimed in my ear, and I stirred my eyes open to see Taylor knelt beside me with a steaming mug of hot coffee held out in her hand.
My first thought was panic. As I’d not had anyone live with me in well over 8 years, not since my ex Jessica and me broke up. And of course the last thing I needed, was for Taylor to see the heavy wood I woke up with every morning.
‘’Hey, good morning’’ I smiled at her, remembering only now that I’d slept on the couch last night, and with the couch pillow still clutched in my arms from sleeping, I swiftly maneuvered it across my lap over the throw covering me, before sitting up ‘’that for me?’’ I grinned.
‘’Good morning to you too, and yes it sure is’’ she beamed proudly, her slender hands with dark chipped nail polish handing it carefully to me in her sweet gesture.
‘’Mmm…how’d you know I’m a black coffee guy?’’ I grinned again, enjoying the smooth Blue Mountain coffee beans warming my throat at the perfect temperature she’d delivered my coffee to me.
‘’I’m a good judge of character’’ she grinned back, and reached for her own coffee on the table taking a large swig between her lips while looking at me. She really was very very pretty, and I realized in that moment that even with all the effort I’d put in last night to jerk out my usual initial attraction to beautiful women, that this one wasn’t going anywhere in a hurry. The situation at hand made the relationship I had with her unique to any other woman in my life. She was off-bounds by my own set rules, and by my own admission to hire her as my employee. The level of respect was definitely there…but so was the continued attraction I’d felt from last night. It was a problem alright, but at the same time an interesting challenge of my restraint as a man.
‘’So, you ready to go shopping with me today Taylor?’’
‘’Am I ever’’ she grinned, her warm blue eyes dancing in excitement as she sipped some more of her morning coffee.
‘’Well, I have my first assignment for you’’ I said setting the mug she’d brought me down on the table, which out of everything she had to choose from, just happened to be my favorite black mug bought from a trip a couple of years back when visiting the Maldives.
‘’Ooh yayy, exciting’’ she grinned ‘’okay boss, shoot’’
‘’Well first off, I must insist again that you please do call me Hudson. I get a little uncomfortable being called boss’’ I chuckled ‘’especially by the lady now living with me in my home’’
‘’Oopsie’’ she laughed ‘’okay then, Hudson it is’’
‘’I like that better’’ I smiled sweeping my eyes subtly over her bare legs. She wasn’t to know, but in a way ‘boss’ for me was a little like the term Daddy…a signature keyword I preferred used only inside the bedroom.
‘’So, what do you want me to do?’’ she asked standing herself up ready for the assignment I was going to give her.
Get back down on your knees…
‘’How about sifting through the hotel's menu and ordering us up some breakfast before we go’’ I grinned, pointing to The George’s online menu ordering portal by the wall of the kitchen, which every room in the hotel came equipped with.
‘’That’s my first assignment?’’ Wow, I love this job already’’ she grinned, and off she bounded to go select us something to eat, while I quickly stood from my seat with the couch cushion still covering my area, and hurried across the room on over to my bedroom ‘’order any and everything you like. I’ll have whatever you’re having, just tell them to put it on my bill’’ I called to her with my head peeking out the door ‘’In the meantime, I’m going to just grab a quick shower and change, then the bedrooms all yours to take your time and get ready in before we go’’