chapter 3

“I don't care. Do it again. I hate it." Dan threw the designs for the new company project across the room in anger.

They had been going at it for three hours and no one had come up with anything worth seeing.

“For God's sake, the final meeting is next week. We have nothing to present to the investors. All these designs are horrible and I can't even look at them and neither would the investors." He could see the tired looks on his employees faces and he knew they were out of it and won't contribute so much to this anymore.

He was tired himself. He had stayed up all night trying to do his own job and had come here straight in the morning hoping to put ideas together with what his employees had to offer.

Apparently, it wasn't much.

“Sir, we are designing based on the ideas and instructions you have given us. I believe none of us went outside this."

Dan was shaking his head before she even finished the sentence. Of course, he wasn't blind. He could see that they had inculcated his ideas into their drawings but it just wasn't enough for him.

He took a deep breath and placed his hands in his pockets.

“Okay, take these drawings back. Do something about them, improve them. I can't even stand how they look and I'm sure the investors wouldn't. Bring me back something better. Meeting dismissed."

Relief washed over everyone's face and they quickly got out of their seats and scurried away.

“Sarah, come to my office with your work. I saw something I liked." Dan hadn't been looking at her when he said and walked out of the room else he would have seen the massive grin that broke out on her face.

As soon as Dan was out of sight, she picked up her work and rushed to the bathroom excited. She turned to the mirror and fixed her hair and makeup. She wanted to look sexy for Dan.

Maybe a short skirt would even give her more advantage. She pulled her skirt up and straightened it out.

When she was satisfied with her look, she hurried out of the room so she wouldn't keep him waiting. As she walked down the corridor, she popped open two of her blouse buttons letting her cleavage run deep.

Her knock was light but precise and when he answered, she pushed the glass doors and the butterflies on her belly won't just calm down.

“Sir, you asked to see me." She walked closer to his table and Dan hadn't raised his head up to look at her.

“Yes, set it down on the table, let's see." Sarah moved closer to him and set the paper down.

Dan hesitantly looked away from his laptop and down at the paper. He studied it for some minutes before picking up a pencil.

“Remove this, it's not supposed to be here. Straighten this building out, it seems crooked and the grass looks bleached." There were a lot of other things that were wrong with the drawing but Dan was too busy to point them out now.

This was the reason she was a professional. She should be able to point out her own mistakes.

“That's all for now. You can go." He quickly dismissed her so he could go back to work.

For some reason, he momentarily lifted up his head and caught a glimpse of her breasts that were almost spilling out of her blouse as she bent down.

He let out a loud sigh and rested back in his chair.

“I run a company and not a strip club. If you feel it is okay for you to go around dressing like that, then I'm going to ask you to get out."

The way he said the words effortlessly and the way his eyes stayed focused on her face and never drifted to her breasts was what marveled her.

She stood speechless in front of him until he gestured with his hand for her to get out. As she quickly scurried away, he shook his head with disgust and turned back to his work.

He had always been like this, never finding interest in women who threw themselves at him. He just didn't fancy the idea of sleeping around and his cousin and mainly every other guy around him was crazy.

Some even thought he was gay. However, he didn't care what anyone thought. Those were his standards and he was going to stick to them.

It was not like these women weren't beautiful. It was just that he never found any one of them attractive in the very least. Thankfully, he has also never been bothered by sex since that had never happened before.

These women were only with him because of his money, because of what he looked like now. A decade ago, they would have made fun of him and treated him like a child or an outcast.

They would never have taken him seriously if he came within three feet of them. He had suffered that greatly in high school. He had been the nerd, the geeky kid that had no friends aside from his science buddies.

He has greatly envied his cousin, Micheal who had been on the school football team and was the captain. He has many friends and a lot of very pretty girls are always around him.

He got invited to a lot of parties and whenever he got into a fight, he always had people to defend him. He was very handsome and everybody wanted to be his friend.

That was the contrast of Dan's life. Growing up, he had been chubby and he never thought it was a problem until he got to high school.

The kids weren't nice like back in elementary school, he noticed so the only option was to blend in and even that wasn't easy..

He was made fun of, pushed from side to side, bullied, insulted. Some even called him Dan the Bull.

He had his fair share of suffering but nothing was more intense than Senior Year.