Chapter nine- Breach of contract
She walks inside the room and sees him busily typing on his laptop. She clears her throat and just as she is about to speak, he beats her to it and says to her,
“Sit down, I will get back to you in a few minutes. Meanwhile, find something for yourself and get busy.”
She nods her head and walks to the couch behind her and takes a seat. She looks at the huge empty book case behind her and she sighs and stands up. She sees several books packed beside it and a stand with numerous books as well. Tilda decides to organize them to stop lazing around. He sees her organizing the books and he sneers and asks,
“Are you hungry? I haven’t eaten anything yet and I believe you haven’t either as you are my secretary. So I asked them to cook us something, until you have finished eating, don’t do anything.”
She looks in his way to retort but he is already back to what he is doing.
Tilda decides to obey him and goes back to the seat, a few seconds later and they hear a knock on the door. He hums come in and two people enter the room with a tray and a cart of food, he looks up and nods in the way of the table in front of Tilda. They understand his intentions and walks towards her.
The food is served on the table and she sees that the food was enough to feed five people, she looks in his way and sees that he is continuously typing. She continues staring at his face and a tiny smile appears on her face and she thinks,
‘Rose, how come I didn’t see that, he looked so handsome before? His features are merged with both masculine and feminine lines. He is rather beautiful for a man, but he is too arrogant and that is a problem.’
He looks up from typing and sees her gorging at her. He clears his throat and she blinks her eyes, she blinks it once again before saying,
“The painting beside you looks really amazing don’t you think?”
He sneers and thinks,
‘You think, you can fool me by saying this? I know you were admiring me. But you wouldn’t say the truth will you?’
He stands up from the chair and walks towards her, he sits on the couch in front of her and says to her,
“The food in front of you is yours to eat and the ones in front of me are mine. Are we clear with ourselves? If you don’t finish the food in front of you, get ready to pay the penalty for breach of contract.”
She stands up and shouts,
“Fred Royale, what do you think you are doing? Do you want to take my dead body from this company today? I can’t finish this much food when I have eaten too much already.”
He raises his eyebrows and talks in an arrogant tone,
“Oh, is that so? I thought you were hungry and ordered this much food for you out of sympathy of starving you on our first day working together. But look at you shouting at me like I have committed a crime. Matilda, do you have some sense of emotions at all?”
“She sighs slowly and silently and sits down, she looks at all the food in front of her and she thinks of something, an idea pops in her head and she says to him,
"After I finish all these foods, you will terminate my contract of working with you. Since I wouldn’t want to work or see you ever again in my life.”
He looks at the food in front of them and he smiles wickedly and nods hurriedly and says to her,
“I have no condition for you if you finish everything you have been given. The only condition is that, you can’t vomit anything until you have finished the entire meal.”
Tilda smiles nervously and picks up spoon and starts eating the food. Thirty minutes later, she is massaging her bulging stomach slowly and food is stacked in her food. Her cheeks are filled with food and she is breathing tiredly. Unlike her, he has his hands cropped on his chest and his leg on the other as he washes her eat. He has an amused expression on his face and he is thinking,
‘Our first meeting was unfortunate and I had given you a bad impression about me. You had to just quit and leave silently but it seems you are a raging fire that can’t be quenched with just a bucket of water. Before I learnt to hate you, you have already pronounced your hatred for me. Do you think that I will let you off that easily? When your hatred grows stronger, I won’t bring myself to think or feel for you.’
He hears her sigh and he stops thinking and sees her holding her mouth and stomach. She stands up suddenly and shakes her head, there’s still two plates of food on the table, she shakes her head once again and runs out of the room. He watches her back with a smile, it disappears as soon as he can’t see her anymore and he thinks,
‘Have I out done it? She will be okay right? How can she eat this much after she has eaten so much before? This will make her hate me more right?’
She rushes into the staff washroom and sees that no one is in it. She rushes to the wash and starts vomiting, the sound of her vomit can be heard in the corridors of the hall. She holds her stomach and brings out almost everything she has eaten. Tears escape her eyes and she stretches her hand to pick up a tissue, she feels it in her palm and she takes it to clean her eyes and lips. She sees a medicine beside the tap and just as she is about to look up, she hears someone say to her,
“Drink this medicine and you will be alright.”