“You should still be careful,” Estelle had more to say but Skyler was already walking over to her with a bowl of soup prepared by Aunt Frances. Hence, she said her goodbyes to Paige and ended the call.After talking to Estelle and getting her support and reassurance, Paige’s mood got even better. After lunch, she left her room and thought of walking around the office to help ease her digestion. Perhaps because she did not exercise lately, Paige felt her tummy upset for the past two days. Coincidentally, some of the employees shared the same thoughts as her. As Paige got to the terrace at the end of the corridor, she saw two female staff already there.Paige instinctively thought of changing to another spot but she overheard something that stopped her in her steps. “Say, why do you think Manager Zion suddenly had a change of heart when he’s been single for so long? If I knew this would happen, I would’ve tried harder, and who knows, I might have been that person.”The female staff
As she said those words, Paige raised one of her brows and looked toward the intern as if she subtly teased Zion for having an office romance.“Well, not as much as compared to you. I mean, the debt collectors are still lingering around at the main entrance, but you still seem to have the time to be roaming around,” Zion simply treated her as one of the employees who wanted to watch the fun. Hence, he did not think too much about it. With the coffee mug in his hands, Zion passed by her and headed toward the pantry.Paige silently let out a sigh of relief as she thought to herself that it might be a good idea for Zion to be in an office romance as he would get distracted. She guessed that Zion would leave her alone for the time being.She could not help but take another look at the female intern and coincidentally, the intern looked at her too. Both of them exchanged glances and got all awkward. In the end, the intern looked away and went out of Zion’s office to return to her worksta
The first person that she thought of was, of course, Zion. She roamed out of her office to look for Zion. She scanned around and realized that Zion was nowhere to be seen. Paige thought that he might have already left the office and her plan to lend his phone failed.A gentle voice called out to her suddenly, “Director Fabian, are you looking for the Managing Director? He just went out for a meeting, and I guess it’ll be sometime before he returns.”It was Zion’s newly recruited intern. She sounded soft and polite. “Oh? Meeting? Why didn’t I know about it?” Paige was taken aback as she thought that Zion was behaviorsidelining her. Zion may be excluding her from meetings and perhaps after a few days, he might even be forging her signature and kicking her out of the company.The intern just started working and it was obvious that she did not know of the drama that went on in the company. She then simply answered, “It’s a short meeting that was requested by the department heads. I th
Madison was not aware of the grudges between Yoel Fabian and Zion. Seeing how Yoel was friendly, she thought that they were good colleagues as well as good working partners.The corner of Paige’s lips twitched but she did not explain herself. Instead, she left hurriedly and waited anxiously at the side doors. Paige was worried that people would see them when she picked up the morning-after pills from the delivery guy, then the fact that she could order for delivery would be exposed.After approximately half an hour, someone dressed in a bright yellow uniform was spotted in the hallway. Paige hurriedly waved toward the delivery guy and said, “I’m here! Don’t walk in further!”The delivery guy followed the sound and walked over with a look of surprise on his face. “Director Fabian? It’s you again? We must be fated!” He then pointed toward the pair of kangaroo ears on his head and added, “Look, I’ve already bought a new one and this one seems tougher than the previous one.”“I thought
Paige finally felt a sense of relief after taking the morning-after pills. She put the box into her pockets just in case Zion’s secretary happened to see the box.Throughout the past few days, Zion’s secretary did not lurk around that often as he did not have to search high and low for the other missing part of the kangaroo ears. Though it got Paige worried about exposing herself, she made it a point to keep the boxes of pills close to her.The phone in her office rang at noontime. Seeing how she finally received a call after all this while, Paige hurriedly answered the call. “It’s the Director’s office, anything that I can help with?”Paige was used to working as a secretary for Skyler. Hence, she blurted those words out of habit.Luckily for Paige that the person on the other end of the line could not be bothered. The staff at the front desk mumbled into the phone unwillingly, “There’s a meeting at the great hall in half an hour.”“Noted,” Paige furrowed her brows at the thought
In the past few weeks, though Zion left her alone, his supporters made sure that Paige was still no one in the company aside from having the title as the director.“Director Fabian, all this while you’ve been happy with just doing nothing. Could it be that you popped the wrong pills today? Why are you suddenly asking about the company affairs?” The way Zion treated Paige was completely different than how he treated Madison.“You said it yourself, I’m Director Fabian. What’s so wrong about the director asking about the company affairs of their own company?” argued Paige.Madison looked at Paige then turned to look at Zion and started to wonder if something was wrong but she still recorded the meeting minutes like she was asked to.Zion thought that as Madison was new, he did not want to scare her with the drama that went on in the company. It was a rare sight that Zion did not continue to argue with Paige but said instead to the higher-up, “Explain it to Director Fabian.”The high
Luckily someone caught hold of her in time and asked in concern, “Director Fabian, are you alright?”“Ah, I’m fine,” Paige hurriedly got back onto her feet to see that it was Zion’s intern, Madison, who lent a hand to her. “That’s good to know. Will you be able to walk?” Madison was always a kind person and she immediately placed files under her arms as she wanted to help Paige get up the stairs.Paige was after all disguised as a man hence she could not allow herself to be helped by a lady. She tried moving her legs as she fought back the pain coming from her twisted ankle and insisted, “Not a problem at all. It’s such a pity to have someone as kind as you to be working with the cunning old fox, Zion.”“I think that the manager’s a nice person,” Madison could not help but start defending Zion as she continued, “he’s a gentleman and also extremely patient. It’s just that he can be quite strict when it comes to working.”Young ladies would of course fantasize about being in a rela
“Okay. Director Fabian, would you mind passing these files to Manager Zion?” Madison looked at Paige while she handed over the stack of files to Paige and added, “Manager Zion said that he wanted to go over what we discussed in the meeting earlier, so I got him the materials from each department. I think he needs them quite urgently.”While explaining to Paige, Madison arranged the files according to the departments so that Zion would be able to go through the files easily.Paige did not expect that she would need to hand the files to Zion. Almost immediately, Paige felt as if she held a hot potato in her hands. Feeling slightly awkward, she said to Madison, “Actually, you can pass these files to him when you get back later. I’m sure he wouldn’t mind.”“I don’t think it’s a great idea,” sounding serious, Madison explained, “I’ve promised Manager Zion that I’d send over the files immediately. It’d be too late once I get back.”Biting her lips, Madison looked conflicted at the though