The Billionaire's Ex Lover

When The Past Becomes The Present.

Grey's POV

I have been with Rosa since the day I asked my father for advice. If I am to get married someday, I think that she might the person I want to spend the rest of my life with. I wish I could say that it was that easy but it is not.

I don't know but I think the reason I am not sure if I want to get married is because of the same reason I fell for her. I am afraid that I am trying to fill some space in my heart, the space that has been there for years.

I have always been a ladies man, ever since my college years and as a result, I have dated many ladies. When I was in college I drafted every girl that threw themselves at me, it wasn't until after college that I realised that I might actually have a type.

The problem with that was that the type of woman I wanted resembled a particular girl. I then dated everyone who looked like her. I guess in a way, I was trying to find her in all of them, I never could fill that space because none of them was anything like her.

With Rosa it was different, she was nothing like her, well that is as far as looks go. Her intelligence was like hers in a way. I know that I messed up her and by the time I realised that, it was too late to do anything about it.

I guess getting older was becoming of me, I was in a place where I was tired of waking up with different women every morning. Rosa made me want to change, she loved me unconditionally, just like my ex did and that is why I was able to open myself up to her.

In some strange way, she made me want to be a better person, I wanted to be the man she could be proud of. I have been up for two hours now, Rosa was fast asleep in my bedroom.

We are now living together but not in the apartment where I work, I have decided to move us into the house I bought a couple of years ago. My partner said that we needed to find our new lawyer a place to stay since she lives an hour away from the office.

I told Jackson that she could use my place temporarily until we find her an apartment near the office. We pride ourselves by the way we treat our employees, especially ones that make us happy.

This new addition to our firm has done what none of us had done in our first week at the firm. She has managed to keep one of our biggest clients happy and now now she had brought in two more clients referred to her by Mrs Clayton.

I must admit that I thought that Jackson hired her because of her looks but now I see that she really deserved the position. I haven't met her yet but that was going to change today. We have a meeting where she is expected to come.

I must admit that I am not sure if I should meet this woman, the last time I saw her, I had to leave the office early and I didn't even see her face, I hope that she is at least not that attractive because it would be a problem.

There's a reason why this place was just overran by men, that is because there wasn't any distractions on my part, I don't know but I always somehow found myself in bed with them. Which is why we them decided to keep the female head count to be as minimal as possible.

We have also had to forbid office romance. That girl is a brunette and everyone knows my obsession with those types of girls, I am even thinking that Jackson did it on purpose, maybe this is a test to see if I have really changed.

Rosa had to leave early to prepare for a shoot, she said that she would be busy the whole day and that she would probably come back late. I don't mind because I have a lot of work to do. Moving into this house has been a hassle.

At least our new employee gets to live in the apartment. It comes fully furnished so she should be fine. I hope that she's not clumsy because I can't stand a messy place. A certain woman made me that way.

You see my ex was a neat freak, she never left anything out of place, which used to make so crazy but when I moved and started a life without her, I then realised how much I liked being organised and as a result, I have somewhat turned into her.

I had just taken a shower and I was standing in my closet wondering what suit would be best. I can't remember the last time I was this undecided about choosing the right suit for work. I decided on a Navy blue three piece Prada suit, a crisp white Prada shirt and a red Prada tie, for the shoes I chose my Louis Vuitton patent leather dress shoes.

I then put on my favourite Gucci Cologne. I took out my gold cufflinks and wore them. They were my favourite cufflinks, they were a graduation present from my ex. She said that she had saved up three months worth of her salary to buy them.

They were somewhat my good luck charm. I always felt like I could run the world with them and in a way, it kept me connected to her. I wonder what she would say if she found out that I was living in New York.

Especially because this was the last place I thought I would end up when I was in law school. I guess I grew up and realised where the real money was. It has been seven years and I still think about her.

I wonder if she's married, any guy would be very lucky to have her as a wife. I mean some guy is probably living my dream right now. I could feel myself getting angry. I took a deep breathe and I took my cat keys from the counter. I activated the alarm system and I went out.

I drove to the office, there was traffic but I was able to drive through it and make it on time. I think that my bodyguard needs to come back because I am not coping without him. His wife just had a baby and I gave him two weeks paid leave.

There's two other bodyguards on the team but I didn't want them, I just wanted Hector to come back soon. I went into the parking lot and I took the lift to my office. I greeted my assistant and went into my office.

I opened up my laptop and started on the contract I had been working on for a client. My assistant brought my coffee. I told her to order me some breakfast. A knock came on my door, it was Leah.

"Have you changed your mind about working on this floor?" I asked her.

"No, my boss has given me a list of things she wants and since you're the CEO, you need to sign off on them." she said and gave me the list. I signed it and gave it to her.

"You're not even going to read it?" she asked me as she took the papers.

"Nope, I have a lot to do today before our board meeting." I said.

"Yes about that, my boss asked if I could be present, she wants me to take minutes for her." Leah asked.

"It's not necessary, she will only be attending for a few minutes, it's just an intro, Jackson suggested that it would be a good idea for her to meet the board." I said.

"Okay and what about the gala dinner? is she invited? " Leah asked.

"Yes she is, pin it in her diary, tell her about now because it is in a few months, it will give her time to prepare." I said.

"Okay then." Leah said and left the office.

I went back to work and soon my assistant rang my phone and told me that it was time for the board meeting. I was usually the first to arrive at meetings but today I was running a bit late. Everyone was already there.

I walked in and went straight to my chair. I didn't even look at the people in there.

"sorry I am late..." I said and went back to my iPad.

"It's okay, now everyone this is our newest member of our team, Miss Abigail Brown..." He said and at the mention of that name I looked up. I once knew someone named Abigail Brown.

When I looked up, my eyes locked with hers for a second and it was like someone has punched me on my chest. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was the same Abigail Brown that I knew except now she looked even more beautiful than I remember.

After I ghosted her, I have tried to look for her on the social media platforms but I could never find her, I figured that she might have gotten married and changed her name. I can't believe how beautiful she looks. I didn't even hear the rest of what Jackson was saying.

"Well I am glad to be part of this wonderful firm, I hope to keep the high standard of this place moving forward." she said with a smile.

"Well I heard that you have rather made a name for yourself on the first week of the job..." Paul, my other business partner said.

I heard them talking but my attention was on her and what she was saying. She didn't even as much give me a second look, it was like she didn't know me, like I meant nothing to her and I must admit that it hurt a bit.

I know that it has been seven years but if I can recognise her, then she can recognise me as well. I have always wondered if she hated me for what I did to her and judging by how she looks right now, it's pretty clear how she feels about me.

A few moments later she was done and she excused herself. I wanted to run after her but I also didn't want to raise any suspicions. I stayed for the board meeting and the whole time I kept on looking at my watch.

"Mr Bolton do we bore you?" Jackson asked me.

"Well I have a lot to do and this meeting is taking longer than expected." I said.

"You are the CEO so you are supposed to be here." He said.

"Yes you are right, I am the CEO and right now I need to be somewhere, you can forward me the rest of the minutes for this meeting." I said as a I stood up.

I know that if I stay here then I will go crazy, I have to see her, now. I went out of the boardroom and straight to the lift. I went to the floor where Abigail was. Leah was sitting by her desk.

"Is she in?" I asked Leah.

"Yes but she's on a conference call, Mrs Clayton is in Paris." Leah said.

"Fine..." I said.

"Do you have a message for her?" Leah asked me.

"No, I am not leaving." I said and went into her office without knocking.

"What the..." She said looking surprised.

"We need to talk..." I said with a straight face.

"Mrs Clayton can I call you back later? I want to go through the papers you sent me." She said.

"Okay dear, we'll talk later then." Mrs Clayton said on the speaker phone.

"Bye for now..." Abigail said and hung up the phone.

"What are you doing here?" I asked her.

"Working, obviously. What do you want Mr Bolton." she said in a professional tone, and did she just call me Mr Bolton?

"Mr Bolton?" I asked her.

"Yes Mr Bolton, unless if you changed your last name in that case I would just call you sir." She said.

"Abigail what are you doing in New York, working in my firm? " I asked her.

"Mr Bolton, this is not the time to be talking to you about my personal life, if it has nothing to do with work I don't want to hear it and next time, knock before coming into my office, I don't care if this is your firm." She said and took a seat.

"Abigail this is me you are talking to, I mean we were lovers, we have gone past the point of being "just" colleagues." I said.

"What do you want?" she asked me.

"Why did you act like you didn't know me in there?" I asked her.

"That's because I don't, I learned that seven years ago." she said.

"It's not like that..." I said.

"Oh really? what is like then? you know what? I don't want to know." she said and opened up her laptop.

"How about I take you out to dinner and we can talk about everything then, I want a chance to explain." I said.

"Dinner? no thanks and you don't need to explain anything, it was a long time ago." she said but I didn't quiet believe what she said.

"Fine, just dinner then, we can catch up for all time sake." I said.

"No, now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do." she said.

"Abigail come on, it's just dinner, no strings attached." I said.

"No thank you..." she said and stood up from her chair. She took her things and put them in her bag. She then stood up and walked to the door.

"Come on Abby..." I said and she stopped on her tracks. She turned around stalked towards me.

"You don't get to call me that anymore you here me? I won't go anywhere with you and if you think that I am going to fall for your tricks again then you have another thing coming.

You listen and you listen to me carefully, that young, sweet and innocent Abigail is gone, you are my past and there's no future there, whatever we had is gone, I am over it and I am over you." she said and walked away.

I know she meant what she said but I don't think that she believes the words that are coming out of her mouth, if she was over me, she wouldn't be so worked up. Seeing her here changes things for me.

Before today I never even thought that I would ever see her again and now that she was here working in my firm, I realised that I might not be over her as I thought. If she thinks that this is the last time she sees me, she has another thing coming.

I cannot leave her alone and I think that she knows that as well. The only reason I was even able to stop seeing her was because I was far away. I didn't think that I would one day see her again but somehow faith must have brought us back together again.

"Is everything Okay? she looks mad." Leah asked me.

"Yes Leah, Miss Brown and I had a little disagreement, she will be fine." I said and made my way out.

Time has certainly been good to her. She even gained weight in all the right places if you know what I mean. She was right, this was not the girl I knew, this was a woman, a woman I wanted to get to know better if she gave me a chance.

There's just so much I need to explain to her, I also have a lot to apologize for. I suppose I should start with an apology and I have just the idea. I left her office and went to my office. I took my phone and called the flourist, I ordered her a huge bunch of her favourite flowers, I told them to add a note.

The note only had three words. "I am sorry..." It didn't say who it was from but I figured that she would know they were from me. She might say that she is not the same girl anymore but I am sure that her taste in flowers haven't changed.

An hour passed when I heard a knock on my door. I thought that it might be Abigail, but when the door opened, Rosa came in.

"My shoot ended earlier than I thought..." she said with a smile as she came to my desk to give me a kiss. When she was done I looked over her shoulder and realised that the door was open, not only that but I saw Abigail walking away, right now my guess would be that she saw me with Rosa.

"Can you excuse me for a sec." I said to Rosa as I stood up and ran after Abigail. She was making her way into the lift when I caught up with her.

"Abigail it's not what it looks like..." I said knowing very well that I was lying through my teeth.

"I don't care what it looks like, I came to tell you that I don't appreciate you sending me flowers, what would my boyfriend think knowing that another man is sending me flowers?" she said and I could say I didn't care but it hurt.

"You have a boyfriend?" I asked her.

"Yes I do..." she said and walked away.

I turned and walked to my office, Rosa was standing by the door. I think it's safe to say that she saw the whole thing.

"who is that?" she asked me.

"Oh she's new... where were we?" I said as I got in and closed the door behind me. I knew that she would ask questions so I kissed her instead.