"Here you go,you can read it but don't take the whole day I will come back to take it back after you've signed it"Howard handed her the contract
"Thank you"
"Just do the sighing I will be down for a bit,if you want to talk to me about the sighing you can call me through this phone here" his eyes moved to the phone sitting by the wall.
'Ok this is it now' Mitchelle spoke to herself,she read every word and sentence profoundly.This contract here was the start she needed to get her head into motion.
Her eyes moved around the large room, the long mahogany conference table gleamed, reflecting the fluorescent light. Raising her head up it beamed into her eyes which she immediately closed and opened again to the leather executives chairs surrounding it. Her eyes darted towards the floor to ceiling window, everything was like a deja vu to her. Her father's conference room was smaller but almost the same as this.
After taking her time on the clauses at what must be done and what must not be, she phoned Howard stating she was okay with everything and was fine with sighing it.
Howard helped her in signing it "Am I free to leave now?". She draped her bag over her shoulder. Yeah, she was desperate but not too desperate to start her job on the first day.
She needed time and rest for herself,to start it off with a cool and relaxing head,who knew that ain't going to be happening.
Howard's face fell, sad also,his boss was so weird,who starts working on the same day of the signing.
Well him!
"No miss,sorry but not sorry to inform you that you will be starting today and now!"
"Now!"Mitchelle exclaimed incredulously. She wasn't scared but was amazed "ok as you say so,where do I begin?"
"Not so fast miss mitchelle,I would first have to introduce you to my boss"
Mitchelle smiled inwardly,this was the most awaited part,to meet up with the culprit. The CEO and perpetrator.
"Can we go now?"grinning, she moved to the front and he followed her to the door adjacent to the conference's "here we go miss mitchelle,don't mess this up for me,I picked you up myself"Howard noted. Mason would eat him up, if this turns out badly. His father won't save him this time.
"I won't fail you"she promised but this was just the beginning of their failure to employ their enemy unbeknownst to them. Howard pulled the door open to a mason,who was reading something on his laptop with his face put up on a frown.
Is his face always in a frown? Howard internally asked himself.
Clearing his throat, Howard announced "Boss your new secretary"
Mason whose face was in a deep frown brightened up instantly. The frown dissipated like the sea that was in turmoil until Jesus came in and cleared the storm. He swept his eyes at her.
Hmm, modest. Pretty. She was not too beautiful to look seducing, striking pretty where she could catch someone's eyes on a sea of beautiful girls.
"She is good,where did you find her?" He asked Howard who stood at the back of mitchelle, like she was not there.
Find her? Was she some kind of goods? Mitchelle frowned.
Clearing his throat,Howard chin up "I didn't find her boss,her resume was outstanding and I decided to pick her"
"Ok, why are you here?"
Was his boss dumb or was he really trying to act dumb right now. What will he be here for?
Introduction of course?! Howard nearly screamed at his face but instead he said "I wanted you to see her since you are the one she is working for?"and not me!
"I've seen her" he fixed his eyes back at his laptop waving his hands at him "Take her around or you can assign someone to her. Direct her on how the schedule works"mason nonchalant attitude caught mitchelle and she stared up at him.
They locked eyes with Mitchelle feeling entranced to him. Mitchelle couldn't utter a word, while she read all the articles about the empire and all. She didn't see the all mighty CEO on the internet. Mitchelle felt lost to him.
Why him?.
It appeared he could not recall her face after that night but she could clearly remember him anywhere and anytime. That night,she can never forget that night she felt safe for once after her father died and her mother went into shock. A time she felt safe in another's embrace which wasn't her parents'
He was her safe haven.
She could testify,she can hardly get him off her head after that night.
"You are…?"mason asked
Taking in his appearance,Mitchelle revered her eyes on Mason,the man that helped her on a desolate night,her saviour. In her twenty five years no man had made her heart skip but he did,he did it again and again. Only the thought of him made it beat.
Why the hell was it him?
Why?she thought.
She shook off every ill thought of love in her head standing upon her revenge game. Nothing can stop her from getting her revenge on those who killed her father and destroyed her family turning her mom into a mad woman.
No one, not even him!!
"Michelle…mitchelle" she smiled sheepishly at him, at least trying to play the timid girl "Hmm a good name for an innocent girl like you"mason commented, his eyes twinkled.
Wait, was that a compliment or…
"Thank you"
"Mr howard here will take you on a tour of the company and teach how my works and schedule goes"
"That's not a problem sir"
Howard who has been standing with them whilst they did their staring competition heard his name and nodded with a smiley face to him. "Off you two go"mason ordered
While Mitchelle moved with Howard to the exit,she felt someone boring holes at her back.Turning back she connected eyes with Mason who stood his ground still staring into her eyes she removed hers and went away with Howard.