Chapter 3 – Meeting not-so-Prince Charming (1)

“Come with me, let’s get your contract and paperwork done with HR, the three-month contract is over and above your contract for the PA position”.

Reyna gets up and follows Mr. Reynolds to the HR office, which happens to be on the same floor. As they are walking past the elevator, they hear the elevator doors open. They turn around to try and see who is getting out, but their line of sight is blocked by two big, scary men wearing black suites. Someone gets off after the two men and it seems his presence can be felt in the office, the whole floor goes quiet, you can hear a pin drop. Reyna see’s Mr. Reynolds is walking to HR without stopping so she follows him even thou her curiosity is getting the better of her.

As they walk away, Reyna hears a man’s voice, greeting the staff. Must be the new CEO, seems everyone is greeting him, but you can feel the tension in the office. She realises she never asked who the new owners were and the name of the CEO taking over. Something is nagging at the back of head, that voice sounded so familiar, but she was too far away now to try and see his face.

“Oh well, I will find out soon enough, sure Mr Reynolds will tell me who I’m going to be working for”, she says to herself. She shrugs it off and keeps following him to the HR department.

 They get all the paperwork done and its almost 9:00AM, she remembers that Maria mentioned there is a management meeting happening at 9:00AM, she is wondering if she is supposed to attend to it.

As they walk back over to the elevator Reyna asks “Mr. Reynolds, the meeting Maria mentioned is happening now at 9, am I meant to attend with you”?

“No, you don’t have to worry about that meeting for now, I will take you up to the 20^th floor, where you will be working from for you to get settled. Once the meeting is done the CEO and I will go through what is needed from you”.

“Okay, I understand, by the way who is the new CEO, I didn’t get his name from Maria, it was chaos when I came in.”

Before Mr. Reynolds can answer her, his phone rings “Yes, Sir, I am on my way, I won’t be late I’m just showing Ms. Vasquez to her office. Yes, sir I will do that and come immediately to the boardroom”, he sounds on edge, and hangs up the phone, shaking his head.

“Sorry Reyna, slight change in plan, the CEO is demanding I come immediately to the boardroom, his PA, Sonja will be waiting for you on the 20^th floor, she will take you to your office and help you settle in”.

As he finishes, the doors of the elevator open and he usher’s me in, “I’ll see you later, and we can chat further”.

“Thanks Sir, see you later”, Reyna walks into the elevator, pushes the 20^th floor button and waits anxiously as the elevator is going up.

“I’m so nervous I can’t mess this up”, she tells herself, her brain is working overtime trying to figure out what these people are expecting from her, before she knows it, she hears the ping in the elevator and she looks up to the doors opening and a tall, blonde lady standing by the doors.

“Are you Ms. Vasquez, please follow me”, the lady doesn’t even wait for Reyna to reply, she turns and starts walking away from the elevator. Reyna rushes out and walks as fast as she can to keep up with the tall blonde.

“God, can’t she walk a bit slower”, Reyna mumbles to herself.

The tall blonde abruptly stops, turns to make sure Reyna is standing behind her and ushers into an office, Reyna can see that there are three other offices on this floor. The biggest one is in the farthest right corner of the building, must be the CEO’s office, she thinks to herself. Her office is directly across from his one.

“Come now, get inside, I don’t have all day to stand here. I’m a very busy person, and my boss is waiting for me to join him in the meeting”.

“Oh, sorry, Reyna replies and walk into the office. “Rude much”, is what Reyna actually wants to say but bites her lip and keeps quiet.

She hasn’t even entered the office and she hears the tall blonde saying “I’m Sonja you can get yourself settled when I’m done in the meeting I will come back and get you to meet the boss, there is a coffee station just outside on the left of the floor, help yourself. There is no-one else on the floor for now, we all in the meeting. Just hang tight here till we come back”.

She smiles at Reyna, not so a genuine smile, and walks out before Reyna can ask her the boss’s name.

“What the hell is wrong with her, she has a stick stuck up her ass”, Reyna is speaking into the air, not expecting a reply.

She goes to her desk, puts her bag down, switches the laptop on. Sign’s in with the credentials she was given and then arranges her desk the way she wants it. Finally decides to go and get herself a cup of coffee and then comes back to her desk.

Waiting and having nothing to do is driving her insane, she keeps checking the time, eventually just after 10:00AM she hears voice’s coming from outside her office. She goes to open her office door and as she pulls the door open Sonja is standing there looking at her with this icy look on her face.

‘What crawled up her ass and died’, Reyna was dying to ask her that out load but stopped herself and rather smiled at her, “Hi Sonja, I heard voices wanted to come check who was here”.

“You heard right, we all back, I was sent to come get you and take you to the boss’s office, Mr Reynolds is also waiting for you”.

“Ok, thanks”, and she followed Sonja to the boss’s office, praying silently that everything was going to be fine.

Sonja knocked on the door, “come in”, a deep husky voice could be heard from inside the office. Sonja opened the door and showed Reyna to enter.

Reyna took a deep breath, calmed herself and walked in. Mr Reynolds was facing her and smiled at her, the CEO’s back was facing her, he was busy on a call. Reyna walked in and stopped at desk looking at Mr. Reynolds waiting for him to say something.

Staring at the back of the CEO, something seemed so familiar about him, Reyna couldn’t shake the feeling she knew him, she could see is build, he was tall and well built, expensive Navy-blue Armani suite was hugging his body. “And this was only from the back, imagine his body from the front”, her mind is telling her. “We match, we are wearing the same colours”, she mumbled to herself.

As she is watching him, Mr. Reynolds gets up from his seat, “I’ll be right back, need to make a call”, he whispers to Reyna and points at his phone, “tell Mr. Reyes’ I’ll be back shortly”.