Clay Beresford x Assistants Mum!Reader.
Based on this post | This, however, is set months past what is described in the original post.
I couldn't come up with a name for the assistant, so I just named her after the character that inspired her (aka Zara). Ngl I almost named her Joey but then i remembered there's already a Clay fic with a kid named Joey, haha.
"'Couldn't stay away could ya?!" Was the first thing Clay heard, upon entering his office. The lovesick smile he wore on his face, after spending the day with you, quickly washing away at the look of disapproval on his employees face. A look much akin to the one his mother used to wear, when he'd return home after doing something he shouldn't.
And in turn he was, the lengths you'd gone through to make sure Zara didn't find out, leading to the same conclusion he'd often find with Lily. With her arms crossed and the toe of her heel tapping against the floorboards as she scolded him for going behind her back.
"No, you listen," She snapped, the usually timid and kind girl he once knew, now gone and replaced with a possessed version of her, set on dismantling whoever wished her mother harm. A side he, up until his mother's sacrifice, identified with but was too scared to say, with her staring him down to his grave. Close to facing those dreaded hospital hallways, stuck in limbo, once again just by one look,
"I've been working for you, for four. fucking. years and I've not once seen you make this much effort to woo a woman if it didn't mean leaving a notch in your belt and the one time, THE ONE FUCKING TIME, you wanna play lover boy, IS WITH MY MUM?!"
"Y--yes?" He stuttered, his face cringing at the absurdity of the situation. How can two generations of women have him so choked up in one day? Zara, with her glaring and you, with your eyes.
And your smile, and the way you talk and dress and....
"--Yeah, well, not on my watch," what?
"You're ending it, for good this time." She sets him straight, not leaving room for hi to argue back, "I don't care if you have to tell her you're dying and need another heart transplant or what... Just. end. It. Before either of you get too deep in... whatever this is."
The thing is -- if his mother's ring burning in his coat pocket was anything to go by -- he already was. And he'd be damned if he let Sam's memory or even Zara, get in the way of you and him.
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