5. The contract

"I think this is all you need to know miss Bella,we only have one place left,and since it's almost lunch time,let's just go to the cafeteria and have our meals,"Jane, Kevin's secretary spoke politely,she wasn't the harsh arrogant type of secretary that are always heard of to be commonly found in the offices.

Actually she had liked Bella already seeing she wasn't the arrogant rich young mistress that she always encountered in the office and she thought maybe they could be friends, after all she didn't have a lot of friends in this office, save from Ryan, the receptionist.

"Just call me Bella, after all we are almost age mates," Bella said smiling politely, she has never liked any time one refers to her with miss, it always makes her feel old.

"Okay, you should also call me Jane," and just like that they left for the cafeteria, but only to meet Ryan who was also on his way, and so they tagged along but all this while all the eyes in the room were following them until they took there seat.

"Hello there, am Ryan, nice to meet you again," Ryan introduced himself, he just couldn't believe his luck, he finally met her so he couldn't miss this chance to get to know her.

"Call me Bella,"and after the introduction,they dug into their meals as they were chatting here and there.

Once lunch was over, Bella returned to the CEO's office for allocation of work since she didn't know at what post she'll working.

"Excuse me sir, if I may ask, on which department would I be working?" Bella asked Jason, Kevin PA, she had noticed that he was the only person apart from the secretary who had the access to the last floor of the building so she thought he could be of some assistance to her.

"You're miss Bella right," Jason asked Bella and got a nod as affirmation in response, "don't worry about the department, I got everything prepared for you, and by the way you can just call me Jason, and am the CEO'S personal assistant, in case of anything feel free to consult with me, I'll be happy to help," Jason added as he led the way to Mr Kevin's office but not even once did it cross on Bella's mind that that's the place where she would be working.

"Come in," Kevin responded to the knocked door from inside, he already knew who it was, it wasn't like he was busy at all.

No!

He hadn't even had his lunch yet and neither was he concentrating on his work at all, he had lost all the concentration since that girl had entered his office, this wasn't like him at all, and he knew there was only one reason to this, he hated her that much that he couldn't concentrate.

"Sir, I..." Bella started off immediately she entered but only to be cut off by Kevin.

"Where are you coming from?" Kevin asked maintaining a cold emotionless face.

"I just took my lunch from the cafeteria," Bella replied straightforward, she didn't see any wrong in taking lunch as it was already about lunch time when she left.

"Why did you take your lunch from the cafeteria?" Kevin asked angrily but seeing her innocent clueless eyes, he remembered she hadn't read the contract at all, she just signed so he didn't see the need to be angry at her comparing this was only her first day here, so he instead took the contract she had signed and photocopied for her a copy of the full contract and gave it to her before he sank back on his chair, eyes on the files piled up on his table, he would at times steal glances at her.

Seeing varied facial expressions on her face as she read the contract made him to nearly laugh out, he thought it was funny and cute, but be couldn't want to be found out by her, so he maintained an emotionless poker face all along.

Bella read the contract silently but she silently cursed herself for being careless, she had signed it without reading even a single term on it.

She found all the terms in the contract to be so ridiculous.

1.Party B would work as the personal assistant to the CEO and has to accompany the CEO everywhere including during the meals.

2.Working hour starts at 8am and only ends at the same time as the CEO'S.

3.Party B will have to move in stay with the CEO to ease the conveniences and movement of working.

4.As the secretary to the CEO, party B has to accompany the CEO to both local and international trips, inclusive of the vacations and parties.

5.Party B would be given a monthly salary of USD 15000 per month, which is an exclusion of several allowances, including medical allowances.

6.Breaching of this contract once signed would result to a penalty of USD 1000,000 from the party involved.

On reading the last clause of the contract, Bella knew that she had no way out of this mess that she had put herself into.

The second last term of the contract was all it took for Bella to restrain herself from complaining about this unreasonable terms that she thought were so ridiculous, after all who wouldn't want that much amount of money after every month.

Kevin cleared up his desk before he rose from his seat, he glanced at Bella who in her mind was already budgeting on how she would use this amount that one would mistaken that she had won the lottery.

"Come on, get up let's go," Kevin said picking up his car keys from the desk... but seeing a clueless girl on the desk, he explained to her.

"I still haven't taken my lunch yet, and he left leaving her still in daze before she hurriedly followed him.

"Here are the keys," Kevin said to Bella when she caught up with him, Bella stared at the keys, though she had quite a great knowledge with the cars, she had never driven one all her life, and looking at the key she had in her hand, she couldn't lie that she could even start the car, to avoid the embarrassment she rejected him.

"I don't know how to drive," she said returning the key back to him, Kevin made a mental note of this, he won't take it that she would work with him without knowing how to drive.

"Why are you getting on the back seat, am not your chaffeour, come on, get on the passenger seat," he added as he opened the car door and sat on the driver seat.

Kevin was even shocked with himself, not even once in his life had he ever been this polite with anyone, save for his younger brother and that one girl that he had once met when they were kids.

Bella obediently sat down and fastened her seatbelt, she didn't want to be reminded of that too. At some point when she looked over at Kevin she felt ashamed of herself, while he was putting on a three piece tailored suit, she was only putting on some ragged black pants that were not even official at all, but it's not like she really cared at all it's not like she had any official dressing at all anyway.

Kevin drove into the Hilton hotel, he threw the keys to the valet and signalled Bella to follow him inside,he convinced himself that he was only treating her well because she still wasn't aware of his preferences and schedule.

On one corner of the restaurant, there was a sign written VIP, and Bella wasn't surprised at all when Kevin took the seat at that section, so she blindly followed him ad took her seat before him..

At that very same moment, the waitresses started setting up the table that Bella thought that there's someone joining them in the table.

The table is set based on my preference, so what would you like?" Bella had already taken her lunch, she just perused through the menu and settled for the simplest and cheapest dish she on the menu, not like she had any idea of all was written on the menu really were.

Kevin was aware of this, so he instead ordered a simple dish for her, consisting of an omelette.

They silently took their meals, and seeing how efficient she used the cutlery set despite the fact that she had grown up in an orphanage, he thought she must have been brought up very well.

It's not shocking that he already knew about her upbringing, he normally doesn't allow anyone to get close to him without knowing their background, he had already had someone look in to her background just from their very first encounter.

There was only one thing that was troubling Kevin though, there was a certain section of her childhood that was missing, it was like she just came out of nowhere, because her parents and her upbringing up to when she was five years old were missing, her history starts when she was six at the time when she was taken in the care of aunty Sara at Good news orphanage.

Just at the time when they were almost done with their lunch, their erupted some chaos at the entrance of the restaurant, and there came in a model-like looking lady, with designer clothes and sunglasses on, she looked really beautiful that even Bella for a moment stared at her moment but she hurriedly averted her eyes when she saw the glare that Kevin was throwing at her.

The girl directly marched to the corner where Kevin and Bella sat, she was smiling sweetly at him, and when she turned towards Bella she glared at her.

Since the table was only set for two, this means there wasn't any additional seat for the visitor that had joined them, so out of respect Bella took her glass of water and gulped down before she stood excusing herself before she headed out to where the car was parked and sat in, since she didn't know what relationship the lady had with Kevin, she decided to give them room.

Kevin wanted to stop her from leaving, he didn't like Winnie at all, it was only that they had once had a one night stand and since then she was always bugging him, and had even told the media that they were dating, though he didn't like it, he played dumb on this, but seeing she even had the gut to follow him around while he was having lunch, he knew he had to put an end to all this.

"Hey darling, why have you been avoiding me recently, and who is that girl that you were seating with, don't tell me you have really lowered your standards to go for a begger like h..."

Just before she could finish her sentence, a slap landed on her right cheek drawing attention from all the people in the room, and as people started whispering by themselves she stood up and glared at them angrily stomping her feet on the ground, picking up her handbag from the table and left, her palm on her itching cheeks.