I waited almost eagerly for the closing time. Something I have never done. Sitting down there all day and doing nothing was not my forte.I watched as everyone around me hurried about going on with their work. Perhaps was it Henry's plan to keep me here bored and practically useless?I signed.Reaching for my bag I searched for my phone to watch some movies. When a message from Jasmine popped up.Hey babes. I replied immediately.Hi Jas.She was typing. She must be in the kitchen or the restroom probably hiding from manager Lee.How's it over there?Boring without you I guess.Aww, you love me so much, don't You?Unfortunately. I laughed.Wanna hang out after work? I would love to but I can't. Work happened.Alright.I typed againKitchen or restroom? Where are you hiding? You know me too well. Restroom. Gotta go now. Being gone for long wouldn't want Manager Lee to bite my head off.Byeee!I missed my former workplace. Asher hadn't said anything to me since we last saw, when he h
The next day, I left for work very early, since I was expected to come an hour earlier than my boss. This was ridiculous. I get the fact that as employees that we need to arrive early butan hour earlier is ridiculous and what's more ridiculous is the fact that if one arrives a minute later it would be considered late.Despite my efforts to make it to the office an hour earlier than Henry who arrives exactly at 7 am, I arrived at the office thirteen minutes past six. The traffic was horrible. The receptionist was more friendly than the last one. I met her yesterday when I was going home. She had smiled at me saying she hopes we get along. Hopefully she still won't be strict with the arrival time thing.‘Good morning Lorie.’ She was smiling brightly at me. It wasn't fake.I returned the smile.‘Good morning Mia.’ I said waving at her.‘You came exactly thirteen minutes late. I will assume it’s because you are new.’ She said, glancing briefly at her watch and gave me a booklet. ‘write
Asher's pov.‘If you are not going to do a better job, hand in your resignation letter. I don’t want a lazy person working for me.’ I shouted at the trembling man in my office.Ever since Lorie left, the man was acting as my secretary and so far he was doing a very horrible job. He messed up my emails, the calculations were wrong and he even mixed up the numbers.‘I'm.. I'm so sorry sir. I will do my best.’ He replied. Could he quit stammering? It was getting on my nerves.‘that was what you promised on the first day, yet you keep on doing floppy shit. This is obviously your best.’ I could barely hold in my anger as I flung the reports at him. It was filled with misspelled words and the report was not even accurate.A knock came and Director Smith entered.‘Sir, please calm down, you wouldn't want the company to know that their boss has anger management issues.’ He said picking the report papers scattered on the floor and waving the scared secretary away. They already say things ab
Lorie’s pov ‘I have said it and that's final.’ He said throwing his shoe at me. Luckily my reflex was good. I bent down dodging the shoe aimed at my head. I wasn’t ready to show up at work with a bruise or masked with makeup to cover the dark spots caused by his hits.‘Garrett I can't really. We are having a gala hosted by the company that day and as the secretary I ought to be there.’ I said trying to make him see reasons with me but being Garrett he was adamant.He wanted me to go to his family house the same day we were hosting a gala, to help his mother with house chores. The thing is, they have a house help yet they wanted me to come over to assist as their son's girlfriend claiming it was a traditional thing. If it weren't for the gala I might have considered going.‘Who the hell is giving you the audacity to talk back at me?’ He growled as his hands reached out for my throat but I was quicker. Days like this with Garrett have made my reflex response better.‘I'm just saying th
Henry stared at me blankly. ‘Drop it there. I will send it when I'm done.’ He turned to continue his conversation with William. But I couldn't let this chance slip out of my hand especially when there's every possibility that Henry could have falsified the evidence he had against Asher.I glanced quickly at the flash underneath Henry's desk.‘You can just call for me instead sir.’ I gave him another smile hoping it wasn't as weird as the first. He nodded and kept on talking to Williams in hushed tones but Williams' sharp eyes were fixed on me. He gazed at me suspiciously.Had he noticed?What if he knows I now recognise him?Pretending not to notice, I walked past them and rushed into my office making sure to lock the door. I placed my hand on my chest to calm my racing heart.Calm down Lorie.Yes, Let's calm down and be rational.First try to think of what to do.Should I call Asher?No! not without evidence.Or should I confront Henry?That would be like walking into a war zone un
Henry stared at me blankly. drop it there. I will send it when I'm done.’ He turned to continue his conversation with William. But I couldn't let this chance slip out of my hand especially when there's every possibility that Henry could have falsified the evidence he had against Asher.I glanced quickly at the flash underneath Henry's desk.‘You can just call for me instead sir.’ I gave him another smile hoping it wasn't as weird as the first. He nodded and kept on talking to Williams in hushed tones but Williams' sharp eyes were fixed on me. He gazed at me suspiciously.Had he noticed?What if he knows I now recognize him?Pretending not to notice, I walked past them and rushed into my office making sure to lock the door. I placed my hand on my chest to calm my racing heart.Calm down Lorie.Yes, Let's calm down and be rational.First try to think of what to do.Should I call Asher?No! not without evidence.Or should I confront Henry?That would be like walking into a war zone unp
Asher pov.I felt stressed.I turned on the blinds so I could get a shut-eye. Then there was a knock on my door. Thinking it was Tom since I had requested he get me something to eat, I called out that he could enter.My door opened revealing Lorie’s friend. She closed the door behind her. ‘Hello, sir. You seemed so tired when you came in. I thought I should come to help you feel fine.’‘don't bother, I feel great.’ I replied, smoothing my hair bun. ‘Don't worry sir, I will make you feel better.’ Her skirt was raised shorter than it supposedly was. If it was before, I mean met Lorie, I would have accepted her seduction but right now, I don't feel a thing. She was cute I admit but I just could not do this. What was wrong with me? I was getting soft-hearted. I didn’t want to hurt Lorie.‘what are you doing?’ I asked as she came closer.‘I am going to satisfy you, sir.’ ‘Look here, this is an office and you need to put your acts together.’‘I know you want it too.’ She smiled.This w
Lorie’s pov.Things were almost going smoothly, I mean, I was re-employed to work at Hardin's GroupandCo. I was happy. Henry was arrested, his bad deeds were exposed, and he had gotten the clip from our company from one of the guys that Asher had fired the other day. Turns out the guy was threatened with his family's lives and he was forced to manipulate the CCTV files and give him the flash. Asher had gone to the station himself as a victim the day Henry was arrested. He gave his testimony on how Henry threatened him with fake evidence after infiltrating his company and threatening his workers.I woke up the next morning to the sound of my alarm. I rushed into the bathroom. If you love where you work, you'd be excited to go to work every morning.I did my makeup and selected my clothes carefully from the wardrobe. I picked a new black pencil skirt I had bought earlier this year. I was saving it for an important occasion, turns out this was it. I chose a yellow top and a black coat o