Chapter 5 – Finding her way in the castle

Reyna slumps into the chair by the desk and rubs her knee, trying to ease the pain. Still in shock of what all just happened. How cruel is fate to place her in a job at a company Rodrigo has just taken over.  She is trying so hard to leave her past behind her but at every turn her past comes back to bite her in the ass.

While she is still contemplating whether it’s worth it to keep working for Rodrigo, the office door opens, Sonja is glaring at her. “What the hell are you still sitting in the boss’s office, get back to your office right now”.

‘Can this woman be any more demanding and bossier, you swear it’s her office’, Reyna mouthed internally, not daring to say it out loud.

Without saying anything Reyna got up and walked out of the office with Sonja still standing in the door, Sonja stared at her as she walked past her and into her office.

When Reyna enters the office and goes to sit down to calm down her beating heart, she hears a knock at the door, “come in”, she gets up to see who’s at the door, hoping it’s not Sonja.

The door opens and in walks Mr. Reynold’s with a smile on his face. Looking at him he reminds her of her father, but just far more caring and sweeter.

“Mr. Reynolds, Mr. Reyes’ said you would show me what needed to be done”, she made sure to not use Rodrigo’s name, she didn’t want anyone knowing they had a past.

Yes, I’ve already emailed you the necessary instructions and sent you the links for where all the paperwork is related to the transactions we are querying. Mr. Reyes advised me that he gave you a deadline for tomorrow morning for the report to be done, between you and me I think it’s an impossible deadline, it will take you at least 2-3days to compile a report. If you see you not done by the end of the day, don’t worry about it, I will explain to him how tedious a task it is”, he smiled at her and gave her a reassuring pat on the back.

“Oh, one last thing, cafeteria is on the 10^th floor, I will send Grace from my department to come get you around 1:00PM so you can have lunch and she will show you around. She is my niece. She is interning here this year”.

“Thank you, Sir, I appreciate it, I was going to ask Sonja, but she seems a bit cold, so I was going to try and find the cafeteria on my own, but you have come to my rescue”, she said while laughing.

Mr. Reynolds laughed with her, “I agree, Sonja is as cold as her boss” and he grinned while saying it, “so thought it’s best if I send someone who is easier to get along with”.

“You have nothing to worry about while you are working here, most of the staff are very friendly and I will make sure Grace is always around to assist you”, he gave her a reassuring smile.

“Thank you again, Sir, I’m already feeling less stressed knowing this, I should start with my work now, wouldn’t want the CEO to be upset with me on my first day,” she said this knowing that the Demon was already furious with her.

“Ok, great, let me know if you need any help with those docs, see you later”. He patted her on the back and walked out closing the door behind him.

She walked around to her desk, and opened her emails, “let’s get started and let’s see what I’ve gotten myself into, Reyna was speaking out loud to herself.

Reyna started by checking all the transactions on the list provided and sorting them in date order, then she went into the various link to copy those docs into one folder, easier for her to work from one point. When she finally looked up from her desk, she realised it was almost 1:00PM, she was starving and couldn’t wait for Grace to come get her.

The phone on her desk rang, and she got a bit of a shock, she answered, not sure who was calling her.

“Hello, Reyna speaking”.

“Hi, Its Grace, are you ready for lunch, I’ll be there in a few minutes”.

“Yes, I’m actually starving”.

“I’m on my way, just tell your stomach to hold on”, she heard Grace giggle on the other side and hang up.

She was glad to finally get out of her office, it was a small office and she hated confined spaces, she needed fresh air.

“She got up, took her bag and went to leave the office, she would wait for Grace outside the office, she was thinking she should let Sonja know she is taking lunch in case Rodrigo looked for her.

She walked over to Sonja’s office which was next to Rodrigo’s and knocked, opened the door when she heard Sonja’s telling her to come in.

“I’m taking a lunch break, Grace from Mr. Reynold’s department is coming to get me”.

Sonja looked at her blankly, “why are you telling me, I could care less what you do with your lunch break, I’m very busy so leave and close the door on your way out”. She scoffed and looked back down at her laptop.

“Wow, no need to be so rude”, Reyna realised she said that out loud and not in her head, “shit”, that wasn’t meant to come out, my mouth needed to betray me.

“Who are you calling rude”, Sonja said angrily, stood up and walked over to Reyna still standing at the door.

“Well, it’s the truth, I just met you today and you have been very impolite to me the whole time”. Reyna crossed her arms in front of her chest and glared at Sonja. Reyna didn’t see why she had to keep quiet, it was the truth after all. She isn’t some weakling anymore for someone to treat her badly and get away with it. These last five years have made her stronger.

Before Sonja could reply, Grace walked up to Reyna and introduced herself, she greeted Sonja and then told Reyna to follow her, “Let’s go get something to eat, I’m in need of food”.

Grace was a short, chubby girl with long black hair and green eyes. She looked Cute in her Pink dress and black pumps.

She grabbed Reyna’s arm and pulled her towards the elevator before Reyna could response.

“You so pretty”, Grace gushed, “my uncle told me to look after you and make sure you settle in”.

“I’m sure you going to like working here, I heard you met the new boss in person, is he really as scary as he looks?”

Reyna shook her head at the overzealous girl, “calm down, we have plenty of time to chat”, Reyna chuckled.

Grace blushed, “sorry, I can get a bit excited”, she smiled and got into the lift when the doors opened, Reyna followed her in.

Grace was telling her about herself, which Reyna was glad for the distraction, the elevator was full, and she was feeling uncomfortable in the tight space.

Luckily the ride was quick on the elevator, when the doors opened on the 10^th floor Reyna couldn’t get out of the lift fast enough.

“Is everything okay”, Grace asked Reyna with a worried expression on her face.

“Yes, sorry for pushing through the people to get out, I don’t like small spaces”.

“Oh, okay, don’t worry about it, let’s go get something to eat”.

As they walked into the cafeteria Reyna was in awe of how big it was, and the setup looked like a restaurant and not a simple cafeteria. Grace explained to her that the Reyes had the place revamped when they took over, they wanted the employees to enjoy their lunch and not be forced to eat horrible cafeteria food. Reyna knew this was Rodrigo’s idea, he loved good food and he was an excellent cook, they would always cook together.

She smiled, “I love the setup, which food would you suggest we get”?

“Follow me, the pastas are always the best”.

Reyna nodded and walked behind Grace to the food section she was talking about, they both ordered the Chicken Parmesan Pasta. They picked their food and Reyna followed Grace to a table at the back of the cafeteria. There was 4 other people at the table, Grace obviously knew then, they all smiled and greeted when she got to the table.

“Hi, guys, this is Reyna, it’s her first day, she is the new PA that was supposed to start in our department today but got hijacked by the boss man”. She giggled and smiled at Reyna.

“Hi, I’m Olly, I’m an intern like Grace”, Olly was tall and slender, wore glasses had had red hair.

“Hey, I’m Lucy, I’m the go to person in the finance department, she chuckled. Lucy was short like Grace. She had a pixie haircut, and her hair was dyed pink. You could see she was a fun person just by looking at her.

The other two, greeted at the same time, “I’m Joe and I’m Fay”, “We are interns in the marketing department” Fay said. Fay was a tall blonde with green eyes and Joe was well built, soft on the eyes. He had wavy brown hair and dark brown eyes. Reyna was sure he was a chic magnet and by the way Lucy and Grace were looking at him it was obvious they were into him.

“Nice to meet you guys, I’m Reyna as you know”. They all chuckled and told her to sit down.

They were talking to each, gossiping about the happenings at the company since it was sold, filing Reyna in on all the going on. They seem like a nice bunch, Reyna thought to herself.  It’s been a while since she mixed with people.

She checked her watch and realised it was almost 2:00PM, “Grace we better get going, I don’t want Sonja freaking out that I took longer than an hour lunch break”.

“Oh, so you also think Sonja is a grade A bitch”, Lucy said flatly. Reyna looked at her, a bit shocked by the remark. “Don’t look at me like that, you guys know I’m right, that woman think she owns the place, waltzing around like she was our boss”. You could hear from Lucy’s tone. She had beef with Sonja.

“Let’s get back, we can discuss the bitch another time”, I winked at them and got up. Grace just grinned and grabbed my arm, while the others packed out laughing. We walked back to the elevator and when we got on to her floor, Reyna got out the elevator while Grace stayed inside, they said their goodbyes and Reyna walked back to her office. Grace and she agreed to meet after work and had swapped contact info.

“This wasn’t so a bad place to work, just avoid the Demon in an Armani Suit and you will be fine”, Reyna was rationalising to herself. She was feeling better now that she had got to know some people and Grace seemed like a nice girl to be friends with.

She smiled with herself when she got back into her office, she immediately started working and couldn’t wait for the day to be over. She needed a long bath to recover from the drama of today.