Chapter five- Personal Secretary
He enters the building and looks in the woman’s way, he smiles at her and says to her with a cheeky voice,
“How are you doing my love? How is the day going? Is he at work?”
She snorts and replies to him,
“You have always been a lazy bum, I am wondering how the company will be in your hands. He has been in his office for two hours now and you are the last person to enter the company. Do you want some beating from me?”
He raises his hand and laughs out then he walks away. As soon as he enters the elevator, she comes out of the other one and rushes in the way of the receptionist, a broad smile on her face. He sees her passing by with a smile just as the elevator is about to close and his heart skips a beat.
He is about to stop the door from closing but he stops and retrieves his hand slowly. His hand goes to his hair and he combs it in it. And he thinks,
“Who is that girl? And why does she have this kind of effect on me? I might be going crazy, maybe I should get closer to her and I might be able to figure things out.”
Her smile keeps playing in his mind and he touches his heart and he feels that it is beating as if he has just run a race. He sighs and says to himself,
“Maybe, I have starved myself for too long. I should go clubbing tonight. I might get a good catch worth spending the night with.”
Her image crosses his mind once again and he curses at himself,
“Get a hold of yourself, it’s not your first time seeing a beauty. Fred, at this rate, you will end up in her bed in a day. Humm, that is if she is interested in you as you are. What? Interested? Cut the crap. You don’t even know what you are thinking now.”
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Fred and a young handsome looking man, and the old man Royal as he is called are sitting in the huge meeting room capable of occupying hundreds of people. These three people are seated at the top most chairs and in a breath of silence, the old man says,
“Fred, this is the general manager of this company and it’s other branches. His name is …”
“Jacob Shawn, the first young man in his twenties to become a professor. I have heard about you and why wouldn’t I know the manager of my company?”
He smiles in his way and replies,
“Of course, you would know me after all I work for you. Welcome home Sir.”
He nods his head and looks in the old man’s way to see his eyes closed. He clears his throat and inquires,
“All okay with you, Dad?”
He nods his head and replies,
“I am okay, my eyes are just tired from opening for so long. I wanted to close them for a while before the meeting starts. The employees will be coming in, in ten minutes. Fred, get ready if you have a speech to give.”
He nods his head but suddenly asks,
“What about the girl I asked you to sack?”
He sighs and replies with his eyes still closed and leaning on the chair,
“She is staying.”
“Dad!!”
He raises his hand and says to him,
“Let’s discuss this after the meeting okay?”
They are about to continue bickering but then, they hear hurrying heel sounds coming from the hallway. They stop as soon as, they reach the door, they stop and a more concise footsteps come into the hall. They all turn in the way of who the person could be and she walks right to them with her head high. She is dressed in a peach colored suit and a skinny skirt to match the heels she is wearing.
As soon as her eyes set on the old man Royal, she walks in his way and bows slightly and says to him,
“Good morning sir, you wanted to meet me here?”
She looks at the people at his sides and she bows in Jacob’s way, she was about to bow to the other person but she stops and look up right in his eyes and she says to him,
“Good morning to you too.”
Her eyes move to the old man in a speed that can’t be counted as a second and smiles in his way. He looks at her and back to Fred who is now looking in the other way and he smirks, then he says to her,
“This young man on my left is the general manager of the company, have you met him already?”
Tilda smiles slightly and responds to him,
“I have met him the first day I came here but I had no idea he was the general manager.”
She looks at her cropped fingers and gives him a sly smile as if she is shy of him. The old man nods his head and he stretches his hand towards Fred and introduces him,
“He is Fred Royal, my son and he is going to be the new CEO of company and your direct boss. You will be working as his personal secretary from today.”
Everyone looks at her closely to see her reaction but she just nods her head without looking in his way. She bites her lips and closes her eyes before speaking out,
“Sir, I would like to ask a question.”
He nods towards her giving her permission and Tilda looks up slightly and glances at him to see that he is still ignoring her presence and so she speaks,
“Can I resign from the company without paying anything? I just worked here yesterday and I haven’t worked on any files yet. So I don’t know any of the company’s secret to let out there. So how about I just walk out and never return?”