Chapter 3- Fall In Love
She sits on the floor and was about to stand up when she feels a wet pact on her trousers, she feels it with her hands and she looks around to see several co workers looking at her. She felt sorry for herself and messes her hair to cover her identity and she tries to stand up but fails because of the slippery ground. So, she gets on her knees and is about to crawl to the wall to hold it as support but she sees a hand stretched in her way.
She sees some hope and hurriedly grab onto his hand and stands up. Then she suddenly bows her head and whispers to him without looking at whom because of her embarrassed state and whispers,
“Thank you sir, for your help. ”
He walks away and she looks around before turning and walking away, she hears whispers in her way but she ignores them and goes to the other elevator. She comes to the down floor and walks directly to the receptionist still with her head down, she whispered to her,
“Mum, I am sorry to disturb you on my first day but if you don’t mind. Please inform the manager that I will be out for a bit.”
The old lady looks at her pitifully and nods her head. She sees this and hurries out of the building, as soon as she steps out, she hails a taxi and it drives away. She looks down dejectedly and thinks,
‘Rose, I thought it was all over and all the humiliations and abandonment was over. But see where I have brought myself, none of them standing around thought of helping me out until he walked over. Who was he? I should find him later and thank him properly. As for him, we are at a war front from now on.’
In the company, he arrives in front of the door with the sign CEO pasted on the door, he sighs and opens the door to reveal a huge room and with a desk at the far right of the room. And in the desk sits a man with a grey hair but looks like a forty years old man, he smirks and walks towards the busily working man.
When he arrives at his desk, he rushes towards him and cuddles him from the back laughing his heart out. This catches the man off guard but he smiles when he senses the familiarity, he gets away from his back and sits on the desk smiling. The old man shakes his head and says to him,
“Quit playing around, playtime is over. It’s time to take up your responsibilities as a Royal, Fred. And I won’t be taking no as an answer, I am getting old and so I need to spend some quiet time with my wife. That’s the reason I called you here this time, you have no way out.”
He stands up from the desk and walks to the bigger desk he sits in the highest chair and look towards the old man and says,
“Mr. Adams Royal, look at this boy sitting in this chair, do I look like someone to sit in here? My place is at the clubs, beaches and hotels so I can enjoy life to the fullest. My father thankfully owns so much that, it can take care of my descendants even if all of us do not work our entire lives but just enjoy.”
Adams expression changes and he looks at Fred with unhappiness, he then says to him,
“If your great grand father had fun when he was alive with the time, we wouldn’t be called the Royals with respect and dignity as at now. So if you want to have fun all your life, it will be better for you to leave the name Royal behind as you do.”
He stands up from the chair with joy and bows to him and says,
“With your permission, I will gladly do that. That name is too much of a burden. Even if I am to do it, you are not prepared for me, you don’t even have a secretary so I will take that lean way out.”
Adams smiles with a sparkle in his eyes and he says to him,
“I have everything prepared for you, your work clothes, shoes, watches, ties and a secretary personally yours. She is perfect in image, I am warning you, do not fall in love with her.”
An image and a feeling passes through his eyes but he hurriedly ignores it but this doesn’t pass Adams eyes and so he asks,
“You can’t fall in love with anyone but Promise. She might have wronged you but that’s what couples do.”
He stops speaking and looks at his son to see him glaring at him with his eyebrows knitted and his fist clenched then he says to him,
“I never want to hear that name in my life again. I have shown her the mercy she doesn’t deserve otherwise I would have killed her.”
Adams looks at his expression and suddenly feels confused and thinks,
‘Wasn’t he the one playing with me just now? Even I don’t understand him, my boy is rather dangerous than I am. How can you cripple your own fiancée over something we all have no idea about?’
He sighs and says to Fred,
“If you are not willing to love her, at least marry her.”
Fred, breaths in and out and tries his possible best to calm down but still his words came out of gritting teeth, try g to change the subject,
“Where is the Secretary and why didn’t she come to work today? You could have introduced us two.”
Adams sighs and replies,
“I was called from the reception some minutes ago and was told, she had gone out to change her clothes. Because she spilled coffee on herself accidentally.”
Fred recalls what happened in the elevator and he says to him hurriedly,
“Sack her. I don’t want her as my secretary, she is too clumsy.”