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Are You Unaware That You Have Been Promoted
“What do you want?” He asked. “We clearly have been avoiding eachother for months so why should you be here?”
“It’s you who’s avoiding me, sir. I don’t dare to reveal myself before you unless you send for me. I don’t want to bother you by demanding for your attention but I don’t want to leave you anymore, sir.”
“Any tangible reason behind that?” He was still yet to grab why the woman that always want to leave suddenly wish to stay. If he knows the reason why she isn’t ready to leave, perhaps, he can handle it for her.
“I just want to be your friend.”
“Friend?” That sounded very awkward in his ear. He didn’t have any friend, male nor female and he never intend to have any. “You want to be friend with a monster? Don’t be ridiculous. Sign it or I’ll force you to.”
“I don’t care what other people think of you, I choose to see the good side of you.”
“Everything around me is worse. Now sign it or I force you.” He said and she nodded sadly.
She walked towards the paper and took the pen, about to scribble her signature, he stood and spoke, “hold on!”
She turned to him, this time, there was already tears in her face. He spoke rather gently, “what is there to like about me, woman?”
“I know it’s weird that I like you when infact, everyone hates you. But I choose my poison and it’s you,” she said and lowered her head.
“Getting close to me is too dangerous for you. I have too many enemies and too many dark secretes all of which will devour anyone around me.”
“I don’t care. I still like you that way,” she said. Although she was using the word ‘Like,’ it’s just so it wouldn’t sound awkward, the truth is, her feelings for him was that of Love.
He looked inside her cat blue eyes and said, “I can’t take care of your kids the way you want. You need a father for your kids. This is why you need to go out there and find a man”
“I am capable of taking care of my kids. All I need from you is to…”
“To what?”
She shook her head sheepishly, not knowing how to say such words out of fear of rejection.
“I don’t know how to be friends with anyone. I like being alone.” He said and added, “let me tell you this, I have only a few months left to live.”
“Sir!” Her eyes sparkled in fear. “Why did you say that, sir?”
“Infact, the only reason why I’m staying alive is so I can take revenge on those who destroyed me. I already took down Miguel Marcola and one of the seven lords of the Wigglesworth’s family. I’m planning a mass attack on them soon and all of them will either die in this attack or it is me who will die but one of it must happen.”
“If I die, without a mother, without a father, without children, nobody will miss me. Nobody cares, a few people will talk about my death and I’ll be forgotten. My wealth had already been willed to many charity organizations. So being with me can’t profit you in any way.”
“I don’t want your money nor your property,” she said.
“Many women have said that in the past. If you still insist on staying then you must be ready to live with a mistress. Since I can not take Cassie as a wife, I’ll take her as my mistress. Is that also okay by you?”
How can that be okay be her? But if she leaves him, Cassie is evil and would only destroy him more than he already is. She just needs to make him love her and Cassie would soon be forgotten. For now, seems she had to endure. Though she was quiet aware it would not be easy to make a man like Ragnar Marshall fall in love with her neither will it be easy to co-exist in this house with that bitch, Cassie.
“That’s okay by me.” She answered.
“Well, that settles it. You may leave now.” Then he went back to sit.
“One more thing, sir…”
“Go on.”
“Can I request to see you at any time. I am always worried you may be angry I’m disturbing you. I don’t want to bother you at all but I also will like to spend a some time with you.”
“You must be aware that I have promised my attention to Cassie, requesting for more of my attention is just putting unnecessary burden on me.” He said sincerely.
“Oh!” That hurts! She nodded and walked away wordlessly.
A couple of days later, she stepped into her working hall as usual but she immediately sensed the strange atmosphere. Everyone was looking at her awkwardly as though she killed someone overnight. Although she hadn’t made friend with any of her colleagues, she didn’t make any enemy either.
After she had sat, she asked the female colleague whose seat was right beside her, “what’s the matter?”
“It was said that you seduced the bosses of our company and used your body to find your way to the top.” The woman said.
“I am confused. Find my way to the top with my body? Who is carrying such rumor plus are we not both in the same department?”
The woman looked at her with a puzzled look and smirked, “are you unaware that you have been promoted?”
“Promoted?” She repeated shockingly. When was that? She immediately remembered she had received a notification of an email yesterday on her phone and she was just too tired to open it. She thought it was one of the HR’s boring circular.
She immediately removed her phone from her pocket and checked the mail, to her surprise, she saw a proposal to the post of the secretary to the CEO.
How? What did she do to deserve this? She should be happy, yes, but why is everyone even aware she was promoted when she was yet to tell anyone. Plus she hasn”t even accepted the proposal. Why would they think she would sell her body just to rise to the top.
To her, it was probably her hard work that took her to the top. It’s weird to think that way though cause she had barely been working here for one year and a few months.
She then stood at once and walked to the company’s Manager’s office. She had been told to report there to dictate her approval or rejection of the promotion.
On entering the manager’s office, she furrowed her brow on whom the manager turned out to be.