"Good morning sir", Isabelle greeted with so much respect. "Morning", he replied her and opened the door to the office. He settled himself into the seat while Isabelle stood in front of him, " Have your seat", he pointed to the chair in front of the desk and Isabelle sat down. He decided to keep a straight face, he removed the sunglasses with hope that she would recognise him but no reaction came from her and he was surprised, he looked at her intently but still, no reaction came from her. He stopped looking at her when he noticed that she was becoming uncomfortable and restless, he cleared his throat and said, " I'm your boss now, I'm sure you must have heard about the news", Isabelle nodded and replied, "Sorry for loss sir, I pray God forgives the lost soul", she bowed a little. He raised his right eyebrow and said, " Oh well, but he's not dead", Isabelle immediately clamped her mouth with her hand and apologized, "I'm really sorry boss, its what I heard in the news, I'm really sorry sir". 'First was sir, now is boss, how do I make her know and understand that she's my woman', he said to himself. " Hmmm, its all well. I want us to visit him after today's work", he said to her. "No problem sir". He was tempted to ask her if she remembered him or not but he decided to keep quiet. " Here's my schedule and you know the work of a P.A., don't you?", he asked as he hands over a tab to her. "Yes sir, I already looked it up on the internet", she spilled and apologized immediately, " Oops, I'm sorry sir", she bowed a little. He scoffed, "So you don't know until you browsed it?", 'Always straightforward', he smiled to himself. "You can have your cubicle in my office", he said to her and continued, " You will meet up with the. receptionist to have your cubicle set and she'll hand you some gadgets for your own use", he sighed, "Okay thank you sir", she said and left. 'Isabelle Mayor, my woman. Ryan's step sister', he thought to himself, he even wondered if she ever wants to meet her dad. He also wants to meet her mum, to know how she's been coping and all what she went through, bringing up Isabelle all on her own. He picked his phone and dialed a number, the person picked at the first ring, " Get me all about Isabelle Mayor, a background check", he said to the person on the other side of the phone.
11am
"Excuse me sir, you have a meeting in the next 5 minutes with the Chinese investors", Isabelle said as she stood up from her seat and walked to Jason who was busy signing some documents, he was lost in his thoughts as he. wasn't aware of his surrounding, he sighed as he dropped his pen, he made move to lean back but stopped as he sights Isabelle standing close to his table, " You startled me", he said and finally leaned back. "You barely even flinch", she clamped her mouth for the nth time that day as she was spitting rude words towards almost everyone at her first day at work, 'I hope I won't be retrenched immediately', she thought to herself. As though he read her thought, he said, " Don't worry, I like truthful people around me so I won't dismiss you from work", and she smiled, 'Look at her looking all flawless with the smile', he said to himself, "Is the conference room set?", he asked and she nodded. At exactly 5 minutes, they both left for the conference room, as they entered, she noticed everyone standing up to their feet and they became extremely quiet, Jason sat as though nothing happened meanwhile Isabelle made a mental note to discuss it with him. After a very long silence, Jason was forced to talk, " Are you all here to admire my flawless beauty or what?", he asked with a killer smile, at that point, Isabelle admired the hell out of him but almost immediately, she felt a sharp pain from her head and she let out a groan to stop her from screaming out. Jason who saw this wanted to stand up but stopped when one of the Chinese investors, Mr Lee, talked, "We heard Lyan is dead so we're here to withdraw our investment with the company", he said with a thick Chinese intonation which made Jason laughed a bit. Jason smiled and said, " Mr Lee, it is Ryan not Lyan. Its an 'R'", he continued, "And about that, sorry to burst your bubbles, Ryan is perfectly fine and he's taking a vacation after his little accident. About the withdrawal of the contract, hope you know you have to pay the company an amount of $20 million", he concluded which made the Chinese investors shocked, he loved the look on their faces and with that, he stood up, walked to Isabelle, took her arm and opened the door for her and they both left the conference room together. People in the office saw this and started spreading rumors that Isabelle was a rude one and she slept her way into the company. They got to the office, Jason made her sit and got her a glass of water, she took the water and drank immediately, when she realized that it was her boss who got her water, she spat the water on his face mistakenly and dropped the glass, she apologized immediately and bowed. She remained in that position till Jason mooed his face with his face towel and touched her to have her sit, she refused as her eyes got misty, she said, " I'll resign, you don't have to sack me", tears fell from her face. Jason walked to her and cleaned her tears with his thumb, he said, "I don't ever want to see you cry, no matter what the condition or situation is, don't spill tears on this beautiful face", he said with so much authority which made her tremble but she stepped back to be at alert, he smiled and offered her seat on the cushion in the office and asked, " What happened earlier?, I saw you wincing in pain in the conference room? ", he sat beside her. " Its something private", she said with her head down. 'Did she have a flash of that night? She seems to be withdrawn from me', he decided to let it go, he made move to stand up but stopped when she talked, "Its almost lunch time boss", she said with a huge smile on her face.