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
He stared intently at Paige as if he wanted desperately to stare at a hole in her.“Haha, I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Paige chuckled awkwardly as she was worried that Zion might bring up the incident in the bar that night. She defended herself and said, “If you’re trying to get me to admit that I set a trap up for you, I’m afraid I don’t know anything about it.”Zion looked like he was about to bring up all the bad deeds that Paige did to him as he scoffed, “Oh really? Well, don’t tell me that the chili powder just ended up in the fruit platter.”“There’s a high chance that the waiter served the wrong table,” Seeing how Zion was unaware of the fact that he was drugged, and neither did he recall anything about what happened in the hotel room that night, Paige decided to blame someone else. “And besides, do you have a problem with me having fruits with chili powder? I was still wondering who ate my fruits instead.”After all, the fruit platter could not be used as eviden
Her voice got softer toward the end. Seeing how Zion looked all confused, Madison simply reached into her pockets and took out the box of pills, and showed it to him. “So I went to get this.”Staring at the familiar packaging of the box and the prescription, Zion nearly choked on his saliva.The box that Yoel dropped were morning-after pills? Why would a man carry those pills around? Plus, he looked like he did not want anyone to know.Zion felt as if he found out some earth-shattering news and different expressions flashed across his face.“Sir, is it because I went out during working hours?” Madison asked carefully as she thought that Zion was upset at her.Upon seeing Madison beating up herself, Zion quickly came back to his senses and explained to her, “Of course not. Have you taken the pills? You should not drag it out any longer and go take them now. I don’t need your help for now.”Madison pulled into a smile as she thought that Zion was a considerate person. “Thank you, S
“Leave it to me,” Madison was always passionate when it came to getting work done, even when it was just helping to refill her boss’ coffee. She reached for Zion’s coffee mug and left the room.Zion, on the other hand, made a call to his secretary, “Leon, can you come to my office now?”Without wanting to waste any time, Leon rushed toward Zion’s office in the shortest amount of time. Without Zion saying anything, he locked the door behind him after he entered Zion’s office. “Sir, did something happen again?”Leon ran into Madison who headed toward the pantry to get coffee and he immediately concluded that Zion purposely sent her away to run some errands. He lowered his voice and asked, “Did word go around about the incident that night?”“No, it’s not that, it’s about Yoel,” Seeing how Leon got sidetracked, Zion explained helplessly, “[please refrain from bringing up Madison's situation, not even when you’re with me. I don’t want to see her not getting through this.”“Sure,” Leon
Seeing how his boss suddenly became such an empathetic person, Leon instinctively concluded that it was all because of Madison. He nodded and said, “Don’t worry, Yoel crossed the lines. Once we've tracked down the poor lady, we’ll get her to help us chase Yoel out from the Remington Group!”As Skyler interfered in the fraud case, it was almost impossible for them to use the same charges on Yoel to get him locked in jail. Hence, they could only come up with another solution.“Hmm, that’s indeed a good idea. But we have to protect the girl’s identity.” Zion’s eyes sank as he thought of a series of measures.With most of the higher-ups on his side, once Zion had his hands on the evidence, he planned to attack Yoel in the meeting right when he was not expecting it. After thinking it through, he then added, “Okay, I’ll leave this matter in your hands. The rest of your work can wait.”Paige’s good days were nearing the end. She realized that Zion indeed left her alone but Zion’s secretar