The Billionaire and His PA novel Chapter 29

Neither Felix nor Rose understood what Cassie had meant when she said that she had been in a much worse hostage situation and neither of them asked her about it.

Without any help from Felix, Cassie stood up from the ground and dusted herself off. Felix was in no way obligated to help her to her feet. He had cleaned up her wound. But then again, he was indirectly the reason she had the wound in the first place.

“It shouldn’t scar and even if it does, I don’t think it would be that bad,” Rose assured as she led Cassie toward her chair. “But I’d advise that you keep it moisturized once it heals properly. Use vitamin E and aloe vera gel and you should be fine. Do you understand?” She asked, stroking the back of Cassie’s hand; a gesture that made Cassie think of her own late mother.

Cassie almost nodded but then she remembered the terrible pain she had experienced the last time she had done that and decided to go for a verbal reply. “Yes. Thank you for all your help. And sorry about your dog sculpture.” She apologized profusely. The sculpture was a beautiful one and that much Cassie could tell even as it was broken. It was a shame she hadn’t noticed it before.

Rose waved Cassie off. “You don’t have to thank me as I didn’t do anything that special. It’s just a band-aid, my dear.” She assured, tapping Cassie’s nose. “And there’s no need to apologize about Sir Robert’s sculpture. Worst case scenario, my daughter, Amy, will make me another one. Oh, you should see some of her other works. I think I have some of the pictures of them on my phone.” She declared as she began to search her purse, which was really the largest handbag Cassie had ever seen, for said phone. “My Amy wants to be a paleontologist, you know? And she’s such a smart girl so it wouldn’t be a problem for her at all.” She bragged.

Behind them, Felix groaned. “Please Rose, let Miss Peters rest. Don’t harass her with pictures of Amy and tales of her many accomplishments.” Felix pleaded. “Miss Peters has had a hectic day and I need her in optimal working condition as work is not over for the day. She still has many errands to run today.”

Even though Cassie could feel the beginnings of a splitting headache coming on, she didn’t think that she would mind being ‘harassed’ with pictures and stories of Rose’s daughter. As a fellow ‘mum’ herself, she knew how much of a serotonin boost it was to show off pictures of the twins and their accomplishments to anyone who cared to see and she wasn’t about to deprive Rose of that joy. If she was being honest with herself, the only thing that she had minded was the fact that the only reason Felix wanted Rose to give her time to rest was so that he could continue to send her on errands the second she got better. What an inconsiderate asshole! He couldn’t even let her have the rest of the day off seeing as it was his crazy fling – or whatever the hell Sapphire was to him – that had assaulted her.

Rose clicked her tongue and stopped searching her purse for her phone. “Fine then.” She said with a dramatic roll of her eyes. “I’ll let her rest up. I believe you told me that you had a box of my stuff ready?”

Felix nodded. He walked further into his office and came back out with a cardboard box filled to the brim with Rose’s personal items. He placed the box on Cassie’s table and moved passed her to where the pieces of the wooden dog lay. He picked up the discarded halves of the wooden dog sculpture, cleaned off the blood and hair from it with a wet wipe, and placed it into the box. Then he moved to get the first aid kit but Rose stopped him.

“Oh no. Don’t worry about that. We both know I got it because of you. You used to have so many temper tantrums back then; your knuckles were absolutely ruined. I’m glad you’ve significantly improved.”

Felix responded with a tight-lipped smile. He remembered when Rose had first brought the first aid kit to the office and how determined she was to bandage up his wounds anytime his fists went punching through walls. He didn’t think he had significantly improved as he still had his temper tantrums; the state of his kitchen after Sapphire had left was a testament to that. But he didn’t like to call them temper tantrums. That made him seem like an immature man-child. He preferred the term ‘violent fits of rage’. Somehow, that sounded more mature and appropriate.

Rose closed the lid of the first aid kit and pushed it towards him. “Think of it as my parting gift to you.”

“An old first aid kit is a really shitty parting gift, Rose,” Felix responded in mock disappointment as he lifted the cardboard box from Cassie’s table. Rose elbowed him in the stomach and he pretended to be physically hurt by the action.

Both Rose and Felix made their way out of the office without a word of goodbye to Cassie. She had expected that much from ill-mannered Felix but not from Rose. Or perhaps Rose had forgotten all about goodbyes because of the handsome man that was escorting her out. Had she just referred to her boss as handsome? Inwardly, Cassie cringed. She got up from her chair and began to clean up the wads of bloodied cotton wool that Felix had abandoned on the ground. She could hardly blame him for making such a big mess as he had stopped the bleeding. As far as she was concerned, that was the only nice thing that Felix had done so far.

She had just dumped the cotton wool into the trash can when Felix entered the office. Gone was the happy demeanor he had on during most of Rose’s visit; his cold and indifferent mask had slipped back into place. Cassie guessed that his cheerful attitude was probably a mask that Felix put on whenever Rose was around. Although why he went to great lengths to appear well-mannered in the presence of his ex-staff was completely beyond her. And what was all that talk from Rose about Felix having temper tantrums and his knuckles being ruined?