"If you hate him you will die."
William and Sarah froze on their seat with wide eyes as they both thought about William's words. Sarah eyed William with a glare as sudden anger brew inside of her at her husband's careless talks. The silence was too much for William as he was not sure what Jamie would ask and how he would answer.
"What?"
Jamie asks suddenly bursting into fits of laughter. Lauren joins Jamie laughing out her heart. "Dad what are you saying? But I believe you are right." Lauren says between her laugh.
"W-What do you mean?" Sarah speaks stuttering and sweating with anticipation as she was wondering if Lauren knew about them marrying each other.
"Mom. Look every day Jamie comes home she keeps yelling how her day went bad. If she didn't befriend him and kept being enemies she would end up dead with all the work and stress." Lauren says laughing hard at the end. Jamie rolls her eye at Lauren.
All of a sudden, The older couple start laughing but it seemed awkward as they couldn't figure out why they were laughing but both knew, they were relieved. They sign and continue their dinner.
__________
NEXT DAY
Early in the morning, Jamie was getting ready for her leave. After getting dressed properly she makes her way out of the house. She bid goodbye to her family and enter the car and drove off to her company.
Once she reaches her company, she parks her car and makes her way inside. She greeted the staff on her way towards the elevator. As she reached for the button to open the door of the elevator, another hand pressed the button of the door at that time. She looked at her side to see her boss with wide eyes and a phone on his ear by his other hand. He gets startled with this sudden appearance beside him making him stutter.
"Ah.. y-yeah. Okay."
He says and ends the call with his surprised gaze still fixed on Jamie beside him. Jamie smiles brightly.
"Good morning sir."
She greets him but he was just frozen. Seeing his secretary greeting him with a smile which was rare till yesterday made him surprised. At this moment he was unsure if he should greet back. He just nods his head and enters the elevator. Jamie enters right after him and they stand side by side.
Ethan then presses the fourth-fourth button and stands straight clearing his throat as he side-eye Jamie who was on looking somewhere else. Ethan glanced towards Jamie's time and again when Jamie was not paying attention. But none spoke, the elevator ride was silent.
The elevator door opens with a ding and they make their way out. Ethan felt this day very unusual as everything that has been happening was not what it would happen daily. And this did confuse him, mostly the sudden change in his secretary's behavior. He signs making his way to the office but his mind was at his secretary who had been following behind silently.
"Good morning Sir!"
"Hello, sir! Have a nice day."
"Good morning."
"Good morning Sir."
The staff passing by greeted him which he just replied with a nod. The staff passing by Ethan smiled and greeted Jamie the same way. Passing by the hall they make their way inside the office.
Once being inside, he felt uncomfortable the same way he was yesterday being close to Jamie. He felt his heart picking up its speed just at the thought of being along with Jamie inside the room- that too when he was having problems controlling himself.
[Avoid him. Just avoid that crazy boy. Ahh!]
He says walking towards his desk and takes his seat.
He then gazes towards the door but he couldn't see his secretary entering inside. He frowns with his hands placed on the desk. He stands a little and stretches himself a little further to see if his secretary was making his way inside but he saw no movement. He sits back annoyed by Jamie's sudden disappearance as Jamie was really walking behind him.
[Why am I being like this? Ugh! I just need to avoid him. You can do this!!]
With annoyance and anticipation eating him from inside, he stands up making his way out but he flinches backward when the door burst open. There entered Jamie with coffee on her hand. She eyed her boss but seeing him in an awkward position with a scarred face make her surprised. But she started laughing but soon she stops when she receives a deadly glare from him.
"Um... Sorry, sir. Here is your coffee." She says handing him the coffee and walks away towards her small compartment. She laughs without any sound with her hand blocking her mouth. She then clears her throat and grabs the file on her desk making her way out.
"Sir?" She says and Ethan looks at her distracting himself from the file he had been inspecting.
"Yes."
"Today, We need to visit our site. And there is no meeting and appointments. What time would you like to take a leave from here?" Jamie says glancing up at her boss once she completes her statement.
"I have to talk to Mr. Chen if he would want to join us. He was wanting to see the site with his own eyes. So I guess it would be good to ask him." Jamie listens to him nodding her head.
"I will ask him. " Jamie says making her way to her small compartment. She grabs her telephone and press the number and wait for the person of the other line to pick up.
"Hello?" The person on the other line speaks.
"Hello, sir. I am the personal assistant of Mr. Bryne from The TL Company. Is this Mr. Chen?" Jamie speaks with a polite and hostile tone.
"Ah... Yes. " He replies.
"I called you to inform you that we will be heading to the site for inspection. And as per your wish, We will like to invite you there." She says being professional and formal.
"Okay. I would love to. Can you send me the location and time of arrival? I will there. "
"Of course sir. Thank you."
"My pleasure."
The call ends. Jamie sighs and grabs her phone typing the location. She comes out of her compartment.
"Sir. Are we heading out now?" She questions with her eyes on her mobile.
"Yes, Why?"
"Ahh... Mr. Chen asked me to send the time of arrival. How long will it take to reach the site?" Jamie questions. Ethan has his index finger on his chin calculating the time according to him.
"Umm... Maybe about an hour and a half. Inform him to be there in one hour and a half. And we should move to. " He says standing up on his feet and he assembles the paperwork he had been going through in a neat pile.
"Sir, we haven't informed the group of this project. " Jamie says hesitating a bit.
"Then go and inform them. Bring all the required documents and layouts. I want not even one paper missing. Hurry up!!"
Jamie nods her head and runs out of the office. She takes Lift and reaches the second floor where all staff was working. " Team leader Lee, We are heading for a site inspection. You are asked to come down in the parking area with the group and all the documents along with layouts. Make sure none is missing. I will head out then." She says making the other rustle here and there piling up the documents for the inspection.
Jamie head down to the parking area to see her boss ready with a big van enough for the teammates. He then makes his way towards his car parked nearby.
"Mr. Jamie hurry up. We are leaving."
Ethan speaks getting inside the car. Jamie approaches the car and peeks inside from the window.
"But sir, Others?"
"They will follow us behind. We need to move. Being the CEO I can't reach there late. Now come on. What are you doing, get inside."
With that Jamie enters the car and they drive away towards the site.