Chapter 2 First day at work.

CHAPTER 2.

Cherry's POV

I walked briskly towards the lady with big glasses that sat at the front desk who looked like she was in her mid-thirties but still managed to hold her own when it came to fashion. She wore a nice dress I recognized from fenti's latest catalogue. Spoiler alert, Chloe made me watch late night fashion shows. I mean who watches fashion shows at 11pm? Only a Chloe.

Mrs big glasses smiled at me as I approached. A smile that appeared forced like it was something she was meant to do, even though she didn't want to do so at the time. I smiled back.

"Are you Miss Allen?" She asked me sweetly extending her hand for a handshake

" Yes ma'am," I replied, taking her hand in a handshake."Cherry Allen, the new statistics economist".

" Well I'm Mary Rosie, and quit with the ma'am talk, just call me Mary." She chuckled." Welcome to Blacks Incorporated."

"Thank you Mary" I smiled, already liking her.

" Anytime, uhmm, please follow me, let me show you to your office" She said as she left the front desk and motioned for me to go with her. I followed quickly behind her as she took me down a hallway to an elevator. We both boarded the elevator with Mary pressing the destination to the 11th floor. The ride was awkward but Mary evened it out with huming to one of Taylor Swift's songs. It was only the both of us in the elevator. We finally got to the 11th floor and she took me to the third door on the hallway and unlocked it.

"Well pumpkin," she said as we both stepped into the office "this is your office."

My jaw literally dropped. I knew I would be having a personal office but I didn't expect that I would get the whole room to myself. I mean, I was expecting a cubicle with several other workers at atleast a 2 feet distance from me, separated only by wooden demarcations.

This was a whole new surprise!

"Wow" I whispered still amazed.

"I know right?" Mary laughed "talk about advantages of working with Black Inc. you get to decorate your space as you wish" she said.

I walked further into the office and began touching the furniture. The table that, the leather comfy chair. The cupboards. So exquisite! Chloe needed to hear about this.

"This is so amazing" I turned to face Mary.

" Yeahh, I better go back to the front desk," she said " God knows I'll be in for a lot of trouble if mr Black comes and doesn't find me there. Catch you later." She said as she exited, giving me the privilege to survey my new office in alone.

The beautiful floor to ceiling window was facing towards the city. It allowed me see the multitude of people that were hurrying to get to their various destinations. Maybe a majority of Seattle citizens prefared to walk to work.

I quickly grabbed my phone and sent Chloe a text.

OMG! You won't believe how big my office is!!!

I sat down to feel the comfortability of the leather seat and I winced in reminder again of what transpired between me and the mysterious guy, Brad, last night. Well more like this morning. I wondered what he would be thinking of me. Some sort of girl from high school who ran away after a good fuck.

My phone beeped with a text. It was from Chloe.

Really?! Send me a pic! ASAP!!

Thoughts of mr handsome left my mind as I laughed out loud and opened my camera app and took a nice photo of the room from my table that showed the general features of the room. I sent it to Chloe with a cool emoji. The one that had the cool sunglasses on. When I checked and saw that the message had been delivered. I counted.

One. Two. Three.

A face time notification came from Chloe.

I laughed as I tapped my phone screen to receive it.

"Are you kidding me?!" She exclaimed "an entire office for just you?"

"I know right?!" I laughed. "I'm still in shock myself."

"You totally need to ask them if they need a certified dentist in their company, I'm readily available" she proclaimed.

" I thought you said you only either worked for the government or for yourself?" I asked puzzled.

" Are you kidding me? I've changed my mind you idiot! You're not the only one who loves a private, large as fuck office." she said.

" Spoiler alert," I said "not everyone likes having a dentist around"

" Well not everyone likes having a bad tooth." She retorted.

" Whatever," I said " you'd better be serious about getting yourself a job. You can't sit there in your pajamas all day eating all our food."

" I'm hurt," she said rolling her eyes with fake sadness "you're right there telling me to go get a job because you've landed yourself a major deal?"

" Well, what do you expect me to say?" I shrugged "someone has to drag your lazy ass all the time, even on sa__"

There was a sharp knock on my door.

" Chloe, I'm gonna have to call you back okay?" I whispered as I ended my call.

" Yeah, come in" I called to whoever it was at the door. The door opened and a young handsome blond guy popped in his head wearing a really interesting smile.

"Hi!" He said as he walked into the office.

"Hi!" I smiled back as I stood up on instincts.

"I'm Sean Steve" he introduced himself as he stretched his hand for a handshake "head of the PR department"

"Cherry Allen," I shook his hands, "the new statistics economist." I said.

" Nice to meet you Miss Allen, can I call you Miss or are you...?" He said temporarily confused

I laughed

"No no, it's a Miss but Cherry is fine" I smiled and be returned the smile back, relieved at my answer. "And nice to meet you too"

"The pleasure is mine." He beamed. "So we're having an impromptu meeting with the boss and Mrs Rosie asked me to let you know since your email has not been uploaded into the company's portal"

Ohh so she was married.

" Okay," I said looking around to check if I'm supposed to pick something. "Am I supposed to come alone or pick something?"

" Yeah you need to pick up your laptop and a notebook, and a pen". He said " common, I'll walk you there, to save you the stress" he offered

" That's nice of you" I smiled, I picked up my stuff and followed him out of the office.

"I must warn you," he whispered " boss is not really in a good mood today. Try to keep your distance and avoid unnecessary questions."

" Sure" I said as we walked into the elevator. Sean pressed the button to the 16th floor. "So, do you also work on the 16th floor?" I asked

" Me? No, I also work on the 11th floor. With you" he replied.

The elevator dinged and opened on the 13th floor to carry two guys in crisply ironed suits and ties who were chatting excitedly about something on the crypto market. They reduced the pitch of their voices when they joined us. The shorter one nodded towards us in greeting and Sean replied with a curt nod. It seemed like we were all headed to the same floor and probably to the same meeting.

The elevator dinged when we got to the 16th floor and automatically slid open. The four of us stepped out into the hallway where we met Mary who was holding a couple of files and accompanied by a young guy.

"Oh hi!" Mary said beaming with genuine smiles this time. "seems you've met Mr Steve, I actually asked him to bring you here since your email address, my bad actually, hadn't been uploaded into the portal. I was going to do that this morning before the meeting but," she motioned towards the young guy with her. "I had to attend to the intern"

"That's okay Mary," I smiled "I do appreciate your help"

" Yeah," Sean said, " besides I got the chance to meet Miss Allen here."

" It's Cherry." I reminded him.

" Ohh right." He said.

Mary laughed and said.

" Well you'd better hurry on to the conference room, Mr Black is sure not in a good mood." She said

" So I was told." I said

"I'll join y'all later". She said as she walked away with the intern. Sean and I walked towards a room with large glass doors. Sean pushed the door open and urshered me in before following me behind. The room was almost filled with people, with a few seats left unoccupied.

I quickly scanned the room for the nearest seat to perch myself when my eyes landed on the boss and I got a mini heart attack.

Fuck!

The boss, Mr Black turned out to be no other person but my sexy mysterious one night stand named Brad.

Oh shit! Things just got wierd.

Brad, or Mr Black who happened to be studying a file with a deep scroll on his handsome face had not noticed my arrival and that gave me a relief. Temporarily. God knows what'll happen when he finds out who I am.

I held my breath as Sean and I took our seats quietly. There were atleast twenty people already sitted, with Brad -Mr Black at the head of the table. On the other end of the table was a large as fuck power point board.

I quietly took a sneak peek at Mr Black. Man sure knew how to clean up nicely. He wore a form fitted royal blue suit on a crispy white dress shirt and a red tie. His hair looked unruly which would totally look unkept for any other normal guy but looked great on him. He was really good looking I'd give him that.

Mary and the intern and a couple other employees walked into the conference Hall and quietly took their seats.

After a couple of minutes, when everyone had arrived and all the empty seats were occupied, Mr Black looked up from the files he was studying.

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen." He said in his deep voice that reminded me of things. Yunno how he moaned in my ears a few hours ago.

"Good morning sir". Everyone said in unison. Everyone except me. I didn't want him to hear my voice. I wanted him to carry on with this meeting while I remained invincible.

"This past week has recorded a decline in the feedback from our clients. This morning I got a call from our partnering company in Tanzania that they won't continue to partner with us if this continues. I was only able to talk them into calming down and letting us do background check and find out the root of the issue because this is the first time this is happening."

Everyone remained silent. He spoke with so much authority and elegance that I was practically getting wet.

What the fuck is wrong with me damnit!

I can't believe I actually left this 'goodie' this morning. On the other hand I can't believe I actually fucked this goodie. I mean I know I had good taste in men but me landing a hottie this big is a serious feat for me.

"....Mary will show you the pie chart organization for this week." He said and sat down as Mary stood up to continue from where he stopped.

"As Mr Black said, we've drawn a plan for the week and the ones coming to improve our relationship with our clients and intending clients. We do not want to lose any customers and we wish to promptly repair the damages already caused. " Mary said. " Which brings us to introducing two new additions to the family. We have Miss Cherry Allen"-

OMG! My heart beat has skyrocketed.

" -the new economic statistician and Mr Matthew Daves the new intern to assist in these tasks. Miss Allen and Mr Matthew can you please stand up for recognition?"

You've got to be kidding me!!!!

Immediately I stood up and looked at Mr Black, he looked up at the two of us with interest and something like expectation? Until those were replaced with recognition and temporary shock. I saw the way his pupils dilated with, was that fury?

"Thank you so much. You may both sit down". Mary said. The show spoiler.

We both sat down and I kept my head down while the remaining presentation was going on. If he says he doesn't want me as an employee anymore I'll totally understand. Maybe I should drop in my resignation letter of just quit since I only started today.

I sneak a quick look at Mr Black and he's there staring at me with ......a smirk?

OMG! This doesn't look good. No it doesn't!

Maybe I should quit now!----

"Mr Black do you have anything to say or add?" Mary asked him.

I looked at him. He was still staring at me. He wasn't even hiding it.

"Thank you so much Mary that was fantastic. That being said this meeting is dismissed. I'd like to speak with Miss Allen and Mr Matthew alone please". He said.

Shit!

Everyone stood up and left. Except for me and the intern.

"Mr Matthew I would like you to run a survey of the activities of this company and give me the report by tomorrow morning. Take your time. Don't be in a hurry" he said

" Yes sir" the intern replied.

"Good. You can leave now." He said. The intern nodded and left . All these while I've had my head low.

Mr Black stands up from his seat and walks to where I'm seated. He leans on the table and folds his hands facing me.

God he smelled so fucking good. I almost moaned.

"Hello Miss Allen". He greeted sarcastically.

" Hi Mr Black" I muttered quietly.

He said nothing. I looked up and found him staring at me.

"Do you want to explain what happened this morning?"

What?! That! I thought he'd be disappointed in me.

Well he looked disappointed but not for the right reasons.

"I'm so sorry that happened sir" I said not looking up at him.

" I wasn't done with you. " He said. " Came back from the bathroom and you were gone"

" I'm really sorry Mr Black, I just----"

" Call me Brad" he said. I stopped talking. " My name is Brandon Black". I nodded and remained silent attempting to pick invincible lint from my smooth skirt.

" I want a redo". He stated

" What?" I asked in shock.

" I'm sorry are you deaf?" He asked irritated. I kept quiet.

After a few seconds he said in a more calming voice.

"I want to fuck you again". He stated matter of factly. " You atleast owed me that"

What? I do?

I looked up at him. As sweet and charming as this man was in bed, he was a mean and arrogant prick outside. But God , he was so handsome.

"I'll think about it" I said.

"I want you today" he demanded. "So if you're thinking about it you only have until closing. After which you're going home with me." He stood up straight.

I didn't know what else to say to that Chloe was the one who thought faster in situations like this.

"Okayy" I said trying to think of the next thing to do or say.

" Good." He said satisfied

He started leaving but then turned to me

"And miss Allen, come prepared" he said and left me alone.

Omg I needed to call Chloe and fast!!

After Brad--- Mr Brandon Black- left I stood up and almost collapsed on the floor from my shaky legs which I didn't realize were shaking until then.

I almost ran to the lift and was relieved when I found out that I was the only one boarding it. Everyone had long returned to their offices.

Once I got to my office, I secured the lock and immediately dialed Chloe's number.

"Hey bitch!" She greeted sarcastically.

" Chloe! You won't believe who my boss is!" I whisper yelled into the phone

" Uhhhm, okayyy....well then who is it? Your ex Jacob?" She asked

" What?" That took me aback " no!"

"Well then who is it?" She asked

" My one night stand from last night". I let out.

Chloe went silent. I could only hear my breathing.

"Are you still there?" I asked getting impatient

" Fuck." Chloe said.

"I know" I practically slapped my face.

"This looks bad Cherry" she said.

"Well duh! Like I didn't know that" .

"What are you going to do now?"

" Me? What are we going to do now?" I corrected.

" Hey I wasn't holding up your hair while he fucked you senseless last night! Why drag me into this?" She protested.

" Because Chloe you're the one who knows exactly what to do in situations like this." I told her.

" Well thanks for having that much faith in me ....even though it's for the wrong reasons". She said and I imagined her rolling her eyes. Chloe went silent and I imagined her thinking.

"He asked to fuck me again." I told her .

" The audacity!" She cried.

"Tell me about it." I muttered.

"Well don't." She stated.

"Really?" I asked confused. "Because I already told him I'd think about it and that usually comes with a favorable reply".

" Well you did think about it and decided it's a bad idea," she said, " besides it is a favorable reply, for you". She pointed out.

" Okayyy"

" You really don't want to fuck up this big chance of working with an established company like that because of some prick who wants to smother his ego." She stated.

" Well....what if my refusing is ruining my chances of being here in the first place?" I asked confused

" Well if he's half as intelligent as he's supposed to be for someone who owns and runs a multi millionaire company, he wouldn't sack you for refusing to have sex with him ."

Chloe's right. He wouldn't do that if he values professionalism to pleasure.

" Chloe you're the best. I didn't believe I would be asking you for an advice but I'm glad I did." I smiled.

God knows what I would have done without her.

"Anytime, just try not to make it everytime." She said, probably smiling.

" So I'm just going to tell him no?"

"No, ignore him." She said.

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Later that evening, once it was 4pm sharp I pretended to wait behind while everyone else left. Chloe wasn't coming to pick me up so I had to order a Uber. Once I found out that I was literally the only one on my floor and quickly gathered my things and pulled out my phone to order a ride home. My phone's connection was slow so it took me an entire ride with the elevator from my floor to the ground floor for the app to load. I began making my order as soon as the connection was restored.

"Oh hi, Miss Allen." Someone called from the front desk. It took me a while to realize that it was Mary Rosie, the receptionist at the front desk. She was smiling warmly at me. I returned her smile.

"Hi Mary." I tried not to be surprised that she hadn't left for home.

Wasn't she married? This was like, I looked at my wristwatch, getting to 5pm.

"You're still around." She beat me to say.

I was going to come up with a lie about being busy and not knowing when the time had passed but ended up blurting out;

"My phone's connection was bad so I couldn't order an Uber ride earlier."

I winced at my own stupid lie. She didn't seem like she thought I was lying though. She looked concerned.

"Oh, that happens a lot, especially when the maintenance guys were running around touching shit." She said.

Phew! Thank fuck.

"Yeah." I replied. That was a close one.

" So have you been able to book a ride?" She asked me.

" Uhm no." I smiled wryly. "Still isn't coming up" .

Atleast my lie was actually frustrating me. My inner subconscious rolled her eyes at me.

"Well then, if you don't mind," she said. "We can share mine."

I was surprised.

"I mean I booked a few minutes ago and the ride would soon be here." She said smiling. She was offering me a joint ride back home.

That would even save more expenses as we'd both the sharing the bill if we were both headed in the same direction.

"Why are you still around anyway?" I asked.

Mary laughed like it was such a silly question to ask.

"I usually leave last." She explained. " I'm the receptionist remember, the overall secretary." She reminded me.

Ohh so that meant....

"That means I should welcome and say goodbye to all the employees including the boss. First to come, last to leave." She said.

" Speaking about the boss," I said prying a little. " Is he still around?" I asked.

"Oh no. He left for an emergency earlier. Even before closing period." She informed me.

Oh thank fuck. I breathed in relief.

I tried to hide that though.

This meant that I could come up with a lie about waiting for him and him not showing up. That way I wouldn't have to be the one to be blamed anymore. I thought.

"Well, it appears that our ride is here." Mary said.

I waited for Mary to grab her things and we both walked out of the building.