Ella stepped into the office and looked at the man sitting on the couch casually going through some papers."Mr Williams. Please excuse my appearance. I was on my way out for a morning jog." She addressed the man ,extending her hand out to him.He shook her hand firmly and she took a seat behind the desk."Miss Woods. I believe that this hotel has been opened for the last six months but there seems to be a problem with your paperwork." Mr Williams picked up a dirty, frayed paper. " This is your cleaning schedule."Ella looked surprised," there must be some mistake. Mr Jon here is my manager and he is really good at his job."Jon smiled at her flattering words. Although she could see how incompetent he is, she chose to defend him."Good at his job? Maybe being a bell hop but when it comes to the record keeping he has just messed up. This means that this hotel cannot be open. It needs to be shut down immediately." Mr Williams raised an eyebrow and smirked at them. He had authority and h
Patrick Ray bent down and picked up Jon from the floor." I am not firing you Jon. You have been a good employee. You are a good employee. Ella has already told me that you have been working under a lot of pressure and I understand. We have been short staffed and losing Judy had just made it worse."Jon looked at Ella thankfully. She was a good person. Jon wiped his face and looked at his boss." Jon. Please set up an advert to hire the staff that you need to elevate the workload that you have. Also I do remember we had a hostess on each floor but somehow we are missing one on our floor. Where is the old little lady that was employed?" Patrick asked." You mean Mrs styles. The old cow that's probably related to Bobby?" Ella snapped. She had even forgotten that she had fired her when she came to the hotel." Ella. She isn't related to Bobby. They just share the same surname." Patrick replied. He couldn't believe his daughter would make such a rash decision based on a surname. " Did you
" I only simply removed his tongue. I wanted to remove his vocals chords but I felt lenient that night." Annie smiled.This was too much to wrap around her tiny little head."Ella, I wish I could stay back and sort out this hotel mess. There is only a week before this hotel closes down if everything is not in order." Patrick held his daughters hand in his."Dad, do you have to go? What's going to happen to the hotel? Is it going to close down?" Ella asked frantically. This was not part of her plan. When she made that call last night, she didn't expect that the tax consultant would be so harsh. She thought that it would be a routine check and that they would have time to get things in order.She regretted waking up early this morning and taking out documents which were already filed."No Ella. I wouldn't just let this place close down. This is your hotel. I am going to hire an accountant and a personal assistant that would get this place in order." Patrick said thoughtfully. " While we
Patrick Ray wheeled his bag down the stairs and into the lobby with Stella in tow.They kissed their daughter goodbye and Ella promised them she would be back in three weeks.She knew she needed to complete the year at Palm beach and get her life in order. Her father's money had gotten her a lot of privileges but she wanted to be her own person."By the way Ella. I forgot to tell you.""Tell me what?" Ella asked her father."That they short story that you wrote. The one I read to you last night? It's been published in the most popular short story book that will be released in a month's time. They have asked me if I could get you to write another piece." Patrick said excitedly."Dad. You are lying. Me? A famous author? Dad. Eeeeek. I'm so happy. I feel like I might explode." Ella shrieked." You have the talent Ella. Use it. Maybe this is your calling. A famous author, a journalist, the sky is the limit." Patrick said as he kissed his daughters forehead.Stella hugged Ella tightly." My
Ella refused to think about this now. "Ella. You need to stop this in it's tracks now." Annie insisted."Who? Bobby as the note says or Jason as you suspect?" Ella asked. " I have so much work to complete. I don't have the time for this.""Bobby. I don't know how he got this note in here but we need to solve it." Annie knew that she could not speak a word against Jason Duke. Ella would become defensive. She would just have to keep her suspicions to herself and investigate him on the down low."Annie. I don't care what you do but I think that him living in a jail cell is punishment." Ella shrugged and continued sorting documents." If you are done. Help me sort this out."" Your father pays me to make sure you are alright and that is what I am going to do. No because it is my job, but because I have watched you all your life. You are too soft. You may have changed your look and your name, but inside, you are still that same naive girl. And right now Bobby is sending you these notes to
"Oh my gosh." Ella squeezed loudly.In a matter of thirty seconds, Annie was at her door.She looked at officer Duke in his uniform, holding the handles of the food trolley."Sorry. Annie. I didn't mean to alert you. I just didn't expect Jason to be here ." Ella apologized."Are you going to let me in?" Jason asked huskily.Ella moved aside and let him in."I have brought you your favourite meal. Chicken a la king noodles." Jason opened the lid." That looks delicious but it's not my favourite. It used to be......" Ella was about to say Bobby's but then she realised she was no longer Summer and that might raise suspicion."It used to be?" Jason pressed on."Yeah. It used to he my dad's favourite dish until he tasted my super buttery butter chicken with naan. Now he is hooked on that." Ella lied. She closed the door because Annie was looking at Jason suspiciously."Shall we eat?" Ella asked. " I am starving. This would literally be the first meal of the day." Ella changed the subject
The next morning Ella woke up early. She knew she had a full day of interviews.Dressing in her best business suit, she tied her hair up in a high ponytail and out on a pair of boots.Ella entered the lobby and looked at all the candidates who looked nervous.Some where having joyous banter with eachother but others kept to themselves.She wished she could hire all of them but there were more than a hundred candidates.She decided she would narrow them down.She walked into the office and took a seat at the now neat desk.She picked up the phone on the desk and called Annie who entered the room five minutes later."Annie. Today I need you to sit in with me on all the interviews. I want to narrow them down to some. I have thirty general positions for the hotel and five for my boutique. There are one hundred or more candidates. If I get a few more good people than the thirty five that I actually need. I will find positions based on their abilities and qualifications." Ella said as she b
Ella stopped in her tracks. Her leg was still in the air when she turned and looked at the handsome figure in the doorway. He had a bottle of wine and roses.Ella felt her cheeks get hot."I just came to apologize for my behaviour." Jason said , holding out the roses to her.Ella blushed and took the roses, smelling it's sweet scent."You look good in a business suit." Jason flattered her and she just couldn't stop smiling." Wana get some glasses?" Jason asked her and she picked up the phone and made a call." I was actually going to have dinner now in the dining hall. Would you like to join me after we have a glass of wine?" Ella asked." I would love to. I'm also starving. I just got off duty and I just had to see you. Did you get my roses from the morning?" Jason smiled."Yes. Thank you." Ella didn't want to think about this mornings drama. She just couldn't imagine, Jason to be a man of such evil doings."Ella." Annie called but didn't complete her sentence. She looked like she w