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Mr. CEO and His Secretary Chapter 42
MaxwellThings were quiet between us. The elevator rides, the talks in my office and now on another elevator ride.I wondered why she wasn't talking back or lashing out like she normally did. It was one thing I loved about her, even though it was annoying.It was like she had just lost every ounce of fight within her and I wondered if it was because of what I had said the other day.That must be why you're a single mother.I felt like kicking myself.Why did I have to say that?That was something that probably served a deep wound to her and I had said it so nonchalantly and coldly.I collected the files from her hand and sat down on my seat.She was quiet and waiting for my next instructions."Coffee, make me some coffee"She nodded and went out to get it while I looked through the files she had given me.Possible ideas for the re-branding.Nice, but I needed something more subtle and elegant. Even better if we could do it in time for the cosmetic release.I pursed my lips and pondere
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Raya"What? Business trip?" Kendall was just as flabbergasted as I was when I told her later that evening at her house and she turned away from the cookies she had just popped into her oven."But you've never had to go on a business trip before.""I know right. It's just so sudden.""To which country though?"I cocked my eyebrows at her, "that's not the point here. It's the fact that I'm going to be separated from Kyle and I don't even know for how long.""True" she toned down the happiness I had seen on her face."But still... You could use it as a mini-vacation. You have, like, literally never gone out of New York since you were born."I rolled my eyes, "true, but it's called a business trip for a reason, not a mini-vacation.""Hey, but I'm sure you'll be able to relax, sight-see and eat foreign foods." I rolled my eyes again, "how do I tell Kyle though? We've, literally, never separated from each other before, and it might seem strange to him.""Are you sure you're not the one bei
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RayaI handed my bag to the flight attendant, staring in awe as they led us up to the place where we would sit inside the plane.What? This sh*t was fancy. Like really fancy."I didn't know your family had a private airline," I said in an attempt not to seem too nervous, but I was.My palms were sweating, and I was feeling quite nauseous."We do. You should know that as a Sterling group employee"I rolled my eyes, "just because I work for Sterling doesn't mean I have to get myself involved in their lives."He turned to me and stared once we were seated.I glanced away, "what?""You're nervous, aren't you?""Uhn?""You're more talkative than you've been in the past few days."I glanced away.That was because he had hit a nerve with the statement he made that day at his house.That was why I was a single mother.The motherf*cker. But what was I expecting? He's an a**hole anyway, and I've decided not to let his words get to me.Though I think he must have been hurt to react like that
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RayaWhat?A wedding?I paused in my tracks to process that and waited for Mr. Sterling to notice my absence from his side, before confronting him about it."What are we doing here? At your brother and his fiancée's wedding...""I was invited, remember?""But I wasn't.""You're here to help me, not to attend the wedding. We'll just be here till it's over"I stared at him dumbfounded but had to follow after him. After all, he kind of made sense, but he could just have put me in a hotel or something, instead of bringing me here."This is where you'll be staying" the assistant who had led us the whole way to our room said as she stopped in front of a door and I waited for her to show us another door.They both walked in, and I went in after them too."If you need anything, you can get me on that landline.""Okay, that'll be all then.""Wait? What of my room?" They both turned to me like I was an alien.Mr. Sterling waved the woman away, and I turned to him, flabbergasted, "I need my room
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Raya"Are you just going to stand there?" I turned to Mr. Sterling, who was moving out of the room again, and I followed after him, packing my messy hair into a ponytail.That must be why she had touched my hair. But, servant's quarters?The woman was really something.I thought she would be chill like she had been the other day at his house, but guess she had developed some beef with me since that day."Where are we going?" I asked Mr. Sterling once I was beside him again, and he glanced at me."I'm guessing you must not be hungry then.""Uhn...""I thought you would be hungry since we've not had anything to eat since our meal on the airplane.""Oh.""You must have had a nice sleep though, considering how disheveled you are."He gave me a look from head to toe and I immediately rubbed my face, looking away from him, "it's jet lag.""I know.""But where did you go all this while?" I asked, cause there was no way he was just coming to the room when he saw me with Miss. Diane and ah, d
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MaxwellI stared at my secretary who left, confused about what I had done.But wasn't that the truth?She had a child yet was always acting coy and innocent like she had never had sex before or seen a naked man before.I huffed and got into the bathroom, taking a long shower and by the time I got out, she was still not back in the room.Where could she have gone?I shook the thought off my mind, and got on my bed to roam around the internet as well as focus on work a bit and when I heard footsteps heading close to the room, I wasn't sure why I did it, but I pretended to be asleep.Maybe for her comfort, maybe to avoid the awkwardness, I stayed still on the bed as she shuffled around the room, then I heard her talking quietly, away from me."My baby""I miss you too.""I didn't call, because I thought it would be night.""How are you doing?"She must be talking to her son.I stayed like that till she was done with the call, holding my breath in order not to give myself away, and I took
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RayaI stood up after sitting out with Mr. Sterling for a while, "uhm... I'll head inside."He nodded, and I walked back to our room, wondering why he had been so nice to me. Taking me out to the beach to sit with me was not something every boss did with their secretary.I gasped and rushed to put away my sleeping pills once I saw them on the table.He must have seen them, right?It was probably why he did that, because he pitied me.I sighed and ran a hand through my hair again before lying back on the couch.It was just around 4am, so I couldn't roam about the place like I would like to. I had only seen a fraction of the establishment, and it had been in the night too, so I sat up to do some work on my laptop.I gathered the reports that Mr. Sterling had asked for, glancing at him momentarily when he walked back into the room, and he laid quietly on the bed, while I worked, though I could feel his eyes on my back.Why was he staring at me?I didn't fall asleep again until it was mo
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MaxwellMost of the guests were already arriving by the time we got back to the resort and that included my parents too.I excused myself from the room to go meet them.My mum immediately hugged me on seeing me, "I'm guessing you've accepted it now, seeing that you came early."I rolled my eyes, "I came for business, not just the wedding, and did you really have to fly out people just to hold the wedding in Thailand?""The bride wanted it" my dad interjected, "...and her family agreed too""Well, whatever.""I'm proud of how you handled the matter" my dad said, sitting up on the bed that was just as big as the one in my room.Mom was unpacking their things, "I've always had a knack for handling things well."My mum chuckled, and my dad smiled, "We all know that's not true.""Have you greeted your brother?" My mom asked as I was about to leave and I shook my head."We're going to see each other at the rehearsal dinner, anyway, so...""Please, make sure you behave yourself."I shrugged,
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RayaThe day of the wedding arrived, my dress ready, the makeup artist, and the hair stylist in my room to make me the most beautiful bride ever, and I had the support of my best friend and soon-to-be mother-in-law."My God, you look so beautiful," she said when I finally put on the dress, my hair and makeup done, and I scrunched my face, trying not to cry."Thank you.""I'll be the best mother I can be to you, and trust that you can tell me anything and everything."I knew that already considering the time we had spent together before even getting proposed to and the time for me to walk down the aisle finally came, Maxwell's dad meeting by the door where he was to lead me to the aisle because I had asked him to hold my arms.He was going to be the dad I never had, was already even, and I felt myself tearing up as I finally saw my husband-to-be by the pastor at the front of the little audience.I had only invited the closest people to me, which weren't many. My son, of course, Kendall
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RayaI was pregnant.The pregnancy kit test had said so, and I had done it multiple times, my heart dropping even lower as each one confirmed that fact, and now I was going to my best friend's house to tell her."You're pregnant?"She looked happy, but should she? I mean, I wasn't sure I was."Why aren't you happy? This is good news, right?"I shrugged, my panic probably showing in my eyes, and she held my hands. "I mean, what if he doesn't want it?""And why wouldn't he want it?""I... I don't know."She squeezed my hand, drawing back my attention to her, and her face looked fierce. "Don't you dare let your past invade your future again. I thought we were past that."I thought we were too, but the memory of William kicking me and beating me when I first told him I was pregnant wouldn't just get out of my head."I don't know Kendall; I'm scared." She pulled me into her arm, squeezing me tight as I let out my tears, and I sniffed loudly when I was done."So what are you going to do now
Mr. CEO and His Secretary Chapter 161
RayaI couldn't believe this.Maxwell had proposed.Like, yes, I had suspected something was up with the way Kendall kept acting suspicious when she took me to the mall from my workshop, and it had basically to get into a new dress, which she said was for an event she wanted me to accompany her to, but guess what? She wasn't dressed up, so which event?My proposal.The thought made me laugh after we pulled away from the kiss and Maxwell stared into my eyes, "What?""It's just... Did you put Kendall up to that? Getting me to dress up and keeping me away from my house."He chuckled at the realization too, "Uhm... Yeah, I couldn't let you find out that I was proposing until I was ready, and did she do a good job?"I shrugged, "Not bad, but I did suspect something was up.""I know, right?"I stared into his eyes seriously after we stopped chuckling and pulled him even closer to me, "I love you."He smiled, "I love you too.""I love you even more."We kept going until he picked me off the
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Maxwell"And how is the pop-up event coming up?" I sat on the chair in my office, having a Zoom meeting with our manager over in South Korea, and he nodded his head."Going well, it'll be announced during the official campaign of the new collection.""Okay good. Send me a final review when it is ready, okay?""Okay sir"I cut the line and I turned to my secretary, who had been waiting for me to finish."So...""The financial report, sir.""Right. Are they ready for me?""Yes sir""Good"I took the report from her, taking a look at it as we headed to the financial department for our meeting, and I had a meeting with the marketing department before deciding that it was time to clock off work.It'll soon be time for Kyle's football competition, so I had to close early."Maxwell..." Raya waved at me from where she sat with Kendall and Leah because Michael was also playing too when I got there and I made my way to them."Babe"I kissed her on the lips lightly, smiling at the small kid tha
Mr. CEO and His Secretary Chapter 159
RayaIt was no surprise to both me and Maxwell when Diane finally got admitted into a mental hospital two years later after injuring her supposed best friend, Tyla, whose relationship she had also scattered, and the world seemed confused by that.Not so much me and Maxwell though, even though it was quite crazy considering how normal she looked.Like, who would have thought she was an unhinged person with issues?Anyway, I made progress in my school, ignoring the scandals and all that always seemed to involve me and my boyfriend, and when I was finally done with it, like, can you imagine, I was finally a graduate in fashion designing, my son and boyfriend were there with me to support me.I walked onto that stage with pride to receive my certificate, and the sight of my son and boyfriend cheering me up in the crowd made me tear up.We took photos when we were out, and my son took photos of me and Maxwell while he carried me into the air.It felt so surreal.Kyle wasn't a little boy ei
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RayaI couldn't concentrate on anything due to the recent happenings, and I still hadn't heard from Maxwell.It was disheartening.He must be annoyed that I had slept with another person even though I had been drugged, right?I too was jealous about him and Tyla, but the whole matter had died down just as quickly as it had risen up. The people had found something else to talk about.As for me, I hadn't moved on because I was the one involved and the other person involved still hadn't called me.He wasn't picking up his calls either, and his friend had no idea where he had gone.So I got into my car the next day to go back to his house. I'll stop on the way to see Kyle at the family house, then maybe I'll have some more strength to face all this because if I said I wasn't discouraged, I would be lying.Kyle was happy to see me as well as Maxwell's parents, though they had seen the news, so I had to explain everything to them.Maxwell's father seemed to be doing better, maybe because he
Mr. CEO and His Secretary Chapter 157
MaxwellA trip to our family hospital confirmed that not only Raya had been drugged but me also, and that made me baffled.I picked up my phone when it rang, "And?"It was Raya, so I knew she wanted to know the results."We were both drugged.""But why? Why would anyone do that?"I wanted to know too. Why would she want to destroy our relationship?After all, she had been the one to dump me, not the other way around.I cut the call with Raya after a while in order to go find my answers, and I cocked an eyebrow when I saw Tyla's car leaving her compound just as I drove in."Diane!"She came to the door, surprised when she saw me, and she let me in. "What's wrong?"I turned on her almost immediately, "What's wrong? Really? Are you trying to play dumb right now?""What's wrong? I don't understand.""You don't understand? What don't you understand? Drugging someone or arranging with your best friend to destroy my relationship."Her face was blank, like she didn't know what I was talking
Mr. CEO and His Secretary Chapter 156
MaxwellI woke up to the feeling of someone's arms around me. Soft and feminine.The smell too.Wait, that's not... That's not Raya's smell.That's...The f*ck!I opened my eyes to see the person wrapped around me to be Tyla, and I jumped off the bed, almost pushing her to the ground in the process."The f*ck!"No, no, there's no way.My God."Maxwell...""No, no, don't you dare."She stirred on the bed, finally coming to her senses, but she didn't look... Surprised.If anything, she was calm."Can't you see that we're... We're naked?""Yes, naked indeed."She looked down at my d*ck, which I hadn't even known was exposed. I thought I had my freaking boxers on, and I picked it up from the ground immediately to put it on."God. How could you? How are you...."She turned on the bed, the covers slipping off her body, and I shook my head at her exposed breast.There was no point in talking to her.I had been a fool.I picked up the rest of my clothes, putting them on as I left the room, an
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RayaThe bar was loud, the music playing over the speakers as people danced on the floor, and I went through my phone again.Still no message or calls from Maxwell.He should have called by now, or maybe he was just busy."Raya, you promised not to sit in a secluded corner while the rest of the world had fun. What are you? A female character in an enemies-to-lovers novel?"I chuckled as my roommate, Hailey, came to meet me by the counter.She had been the one to drag me out on a Friday night because I was obviously such an introvert who needed to have fun, whether I had a boyfriend or not."You don't have to hook up with anyone; just dance and have fun.""Yes, but you're forgetting that I offered to come so I could take you home. I'm having fun; I'm not much of a dancer."She rolled her eyes and picked up a new glass of alcohol before swirling away back into the crowd, and I went through my phone again until someone sat beside me.I sighed, ready to give the speech of how I was taken,
