OLIVIA."Don't you watch where you're going? How dare you?" She spat angrily while I rubbed my bruised cheeks that has been brutalized. She was the one who hit me and she was the one who was also yelling at the same time."If you had let me apologize then—""Are you still talking right back at me?" She cut me short. "You stepped on me you idiot. I should hit you again but I would just try my best not to. Now get out!" She yelled at me. I looked around to find everyone staring at me, everyone including Davion. When our eyes met, he looked from me back to the reporter who had hit me before walking away.I felt hurt that he had abandoned me in such manner. I mean, I know that I asked him to stay away from me but I was his employee. Shouldn't he step up to help me? Isn't that what bosses do for their workers? He was just so annoying on a whole lot of levels."You might be Davion's employee but that doesn't give you the right to act more than your status. Filthy peasant." She glared at me
DAVION.I watched Olivia panic in fright when I ushered her to take my place instead. She looked at me and I could see the terror flash through them. I know that I have been nothing but a meanie throughout today but I have no other choice but to do so.She was the one who requested that we should remain professional and in as much as I didn't want to, I had no choice to comply. It was her wish after all and I didn't want to rush her.I won't have to lie though. I felt kinda heartbroken when she turned down my breakfast proposal in the morning. I liked her a lot but all my efforts to make her like me back somehow proved abortive. Not like I could complain though. She recently just came out of a horrible divorce so I don't expect her to open up to me yet but I just wanted her to see me differently and I won't stop until she does.She might hate me now but I was determined to make her see past her hurt, no matter how long it takes."S-Sir?" She stammered, her eyes pleading with me to re
OLIVIA.I was shocked that Davion had stood up for me. I didn't think that he would do something so selfless for me. It made me had a rethink if I maybe did the right thing by declining his request to be my friend. He wasn't so bad after all.Although I loved how he stood up for me but I didn't like how upset it made him. The hell! I almost shit my pants when he yelled at the people present in the board. Damn!And as if it wasn't enough, he had asked me to continue. I don't know if I should feel happy or sad about it. The look on their faces told me that they still didn't approve of me speaking on his behalf but he had specifically asked me to so it wasn't like I had any choice than to continue.I explained what was written on the paper to the best of my ability, making sure to highlight the merits and demerit of what this project might cost us. I felt so elated when they all listened to me. This was the very first time I was given a task such as this one and it made me feel a sudden
DAVION.I couldn't believe my eyes at the scene that was being displayed on the huge advertisement screen outside the company. Who on earth would stoop so low as to play this in public for the whole world to see? What exactly was the world turning into now?I turned around to look at Olivia who was already lost in the scene that was played in front of us. I clenched and unclenched my fists beside me. I couldn't believe that something like this had happened without my prior knowledge.I heard the stifled laughter from behind me as the reporters gathered around us, taking snaps and pictures of us while I fumed in anger."What exactly is this Olivia?" I pointed at the screen and she swallowed, unable to meet my gsze."It's nothing Sir. Please, let's just go." She made to leave but I pulled her back by her wrists."Would you tell me why she slapped you and why the incident is being displayed on the screen right now?" I demanded but she only remained quiet. Goodness!"Olivia, I am your bo
DAVION."I thought I told you not to get involved Davion." Olivia queried me the minute I stepped out of the company where I had gone to confront the reporter who had hit her earlier."Why don't you ever listen to me?" She groaned feeling frustrated. "I know that you're a billionaire and you're used to doing things on your own but when I say that I don't want you to get involved in something, I truly mean it Davion.""She harassed you.""Because I stepped on her. It's a logical explanation. If I hadn't stepped on her then she wouldn't have hit me." She tried to explain to me but I wouldn't listen."That's what you want to go with? Would you had hit someone else if you were in her shoes?""No I wouldn't—""Because you know it's wrong and you also know that it was a mistake. She had no right to hit you that way Olivia. How long would you let people step on you?" I asked, the veins on my forehead slowly visible. Why couldn't she just understand that I am doing my very best to help her.
DAVION."I heard that you called off the project with the foreign investors" Karla accused "We've been working on this for the past two months Davion so how could you make such drastic decisions without letting me know or at least giving me the heads up first?""They called off the project Karla. I had nothing to do with it.""Yeah right because you made them do it." She fired back. Obviously angry at what had happened. I know that news travels fast but it's barely been a day that all of this shit happened so how on earth was she able to find out about it."Who told you?" I breathed out heavily."Does it matter who told me or where I heard it from?" She countered, her hands firmly holding her hips. "The point is that it happened and that's it. You made it happen. They cancelled the project because you made your glorified secretary take the stage instead of doing it yourself.""Olivia is not a glorified secretary." I shunned her. "She's a friend and a very good one at that.""That's n
OLIVIA.Weekdays are probably the busiest days for me and working for a huge multinational company such as this one added to the burden that was already weighing down my shoulders. I wonder how I've been able to cope with all the whisperings, fingers pointings from my colleagues that were so bent on gossiping and back biting me.I knew that they gossiped about me whenever I passed by them and even though they do it in a subtle manner, it still doesn't change the fact that they still judged me.I didn't let it get to me though. They don't know half of what I've been through. They only see the stuff that's being displayed on the internet by the media. They were able to talk shit because deep down, if they were given my shoes, it probably wouldn't fit at all and so I let them. As long as they don't pay my bills of do anything to help me, their words would only be mere words to me and that's it.I arrived at my office the next day and threw my things on the table. I didn't have the liber
OLIVIA."Here's your coffee sir," I placed the cup on his table and took a step back. "I hope that we can put whatever happened behind us and move forward. Is that okay?""I'm not upset with you Olivia and there's no need to put anything behind us." He said with a straight face. "You did what you wanted by accepting a ride from someone else so I won't hold it against you.""You're just saying this now but we both know that it wouldn't take a while before you snap at me again. You always find a way to get upset with me for the tiniest things so I'm getting used to you now."He chuckled. "You're just saying that. I know that you probably hate me for always getting up in your business at the slightest.""I don't hate you Davion." I whispered truthfully. "The thing is, I admire you a lot but only as my boss and nothing else. Whatever happened between us was a mistake and a thing of the moment. I don't want you holding on to what might be and what might not be.""I respect you a lot Davio