MORE THAN A SECRETARY

She spent most of the day in bed, woke up only to eat, and then went back to sleep, everyone must have been tired from the party because even when she went outside, the whole place was calm and quiet as if the day was a day off.

When she woke up again it was 4 pm, in the afternoon. she wanted to call him to know what’s up, but she knew Lucas too well that he wouldn’t want to be disturbed so instead of calling him, she chose to go over the whole Reuben related proposer, she spent hours on it that by the time she looked up again, the sun had already set.

She was nervous about tomorrow, it was one thing to accompany the boss, but it was another thing entirely to do the boss’s job and this was a huge Deal too but Lucas trusted her with it, she didn’t want to do anything to break that trust, so she learned every little detail about what Lucas wanted to show to the old man, she knew she couldn’t do a job as good as Lucas would do at least, she will try.

Her phone rang and she rushed to pick it up thinking it was Lucas but it was a strange number, she wondered who it was.

“Hello?” She called but the person on the other line didn’t say a word.

“Hello? Are you there?”

Still no response, after a few seconds the call ended without the caller talking, she felt chills in her bones for some reason, maybe it was the person that has been sending those creepy messages.

She decided to call Jordan since her parent may already be in bed, it had been a while she heard from them she would call them tomorrow or when she gets to Arizona, she dialed Jordan’s number, he picked up but he must be in a club because she could only make out noise, he ended the call and sent her a text which confirmed her thoughts.

‘Sorry, can’t talk I am at a party,’

The text said, leave it to Jordan to party even when his workplace is on fire, she dropped everything she was doing and laid on this bed, which brought back memories of what happened and what almost happened on this bed, she felt her body tingle in response, Lucas said they will talk about it when he got back, she knew he wanted her and she did too, she loved him but he doesn’t do love that much she was sure of, she knew if they had anything together it can only be a fling, she has only seen Lucas in love once and he wasn’t with her, he almost got married to the lady but they broke it off, she still didn’t know why though, it had only been like a month to the wedding when Lucas called it to quit, sometimes she wondered what happened but she couldn’t ask because it wasn’t in her place to.

“Stop thinking about that Kat, get some sleep, you have a lot to do tomorrow,”

She said to herself and tried to get some sleep, even though she tried it still took a while to fall asleep.

She jumped from the bed the next morning, she checked the time and let out a breath of relief, she thought she had overslept but it was still early and she still had time until the scheduled meeting with Reuben which was by ten, she wondered if she should call Lucas and find out how he is doing, but since it morning, he might be in a meeting which was a bad time to call.

“Whatever, let’s just do what we have to do here,”

She said to herself, she got dressed, ate breakfast, and went over the files again, she left the room at nine-thirty and went towards the conference area where the meeting would be held, when she got there, she saw that some aspirants were already there, she greeted everyone and sat down. about twenty minutes later, Reuben came in, everyone stood up to welcome him he sat down with a smile on his face.

Katrina looked around, she was the only lady in the room which made her even more nervous, fuck Benjamin for creating a problem and putting her in this position.

“Thank you, everyone, for honoring my invites despite the late information and for gracing my party, and putting a smile on my old face,”

He said.

“Katrina, your boyfriend called that you will be representing him, that he had some issues to settle back in New York,”

“Yes, sir,”

“He must trust you a lot to let you handle this,”

Katrina smiled, yeah she wondered what made Lucas trust her with this.

“Anyway, gentlemen and lady, I don’t have much to say today, as you all already know, I am giving away my property in New York away, and until I decided to let go of my city life, that had been my treasure, so I don’t want to go into the wrong hands, so I had to know who I am giving it to even though they are paying, although everyone here looks good to me, I can only sell to one person, you can drop your plans on what you want to do with the property and I will select, the best candidate, I am sorry it can only be one person, once again thank you for taking time out of your busy lives to be here with me this week, I do hope to see you all again,”

The old man concluded and everyone chorused a response.

A lady came in and introduced herself as his PA and she collected their plans, and the meeting was over, it went better than she thought, they didn’t even have to talk much.

As they left the venue, Reuben called to her and she went to meet him.

“Sir,”

“Katrina, I hope everything is fine with Lucas, he sounded worried when he spoke to me,”

“Yes, he is on it, I can’t say right now but I know he will take care of whatever it is,”

“Good, once again I admire his confidence in you, you work for him don’t you?”

“Yes sir, I am his personal assistant and secretary.”

“Aha, a love between a boss and his employee, nice,”

He said patting my shoulder.

“Enjoy the rest of your days here,”

“I will sir,”

She said and they walked together towards the housing area, she went up to the room laid down, and breathed a breath of relief.

Her phone beeped signaling an incoming message, she checked and saw a text from Jordan.

“Kathy, check the news, I can’t talk now,”

The text read, she took the remote and turned on the TV in the room, the headline made her heart sink.

“EVANS COOPERATION DIRECTOR EMBEZZLES COMPANY FUNDS, STOCKS TAKES A BiG DIP,”

“Oh no,”

She cried out reaching out for her phone to call Lucas, she paced up and down waiting for him to pick up but he didn’t, she sat back down on the bed.

“What did I expect? Of course, he will be busy,”

She said to herself as she clicked on the company site, and as she feared stocks were still dropping.

“Where is Lucas?”

She texted back to Jordan.

“In a meeting with some investors and board of directors, his dad is here too,”

“Wow, this is huge,”

“Yes, it is, I got to go, I will call you later,”

Jordan texted back.

She dropped the phone and looked at the news again, there was a picture of Benjamin and that of Lucas too, this didn’t look like just a show.

“This is bad,”

She thought praying that everything works out fine, Lucas always finds a way, she hoped he would find one too, this time.