Chapter 5 Dating Friends

"You're so stupid Alexa! Just a small job like that you're incompetent!" Ef looked at Alexa angrily.

It was only the first task that Alexa had failed and upset him.

"It was beyond my expectations, sir. I was about to succeed, but Alvin walked into CEO Arley's room. It was so sudden, I didn't have time to hide," Alexa said.

Again, there was something that annoyed Ef. The woman he had assigned to spy on Arley, was in fact very persistent, there were just answers coming out of the woman's lips.

"What information did you find out today?" Ef asked.

"That's... CEO Arley has a meeting today with the company ...." Alexa was speechless.

"What company?"

"I don't know, I haven't had a chance to ask," Alexa replied.

Ef squeezed his own hair. "Get out of my room, go back to your office and give me any information about Arley and his company, and remember. If you can't get information from Arley or her office, you can certainly get information from her staff. Do you understand, Alexa?" Ef asked reassuringly.

Alexa nodded her head. "Yes, I understand."

She immediately got up from her seat, currently in Ef's room. She came to Ef's office as directed by the man.

"Then excuse me, Mr. Ef."

As instructed by Ef, Alexa returned to the office. As she was about to get into the elevator to go to her room. She could hear some of the staff talking about the CEO there.

"Crazy, how can there be someone as perfect as Mr. Arley, already handsome, established smart too,"

"Even though that was the only client who was the most fussy, CEO Arley was able to make that client satisfied with his own design," another staff member exclaimed.

Alexa, who was behind the staff, only nodded slightly. She still continued to sharpen her hearing, in order to get more information.

"It's fussy, but it's a golden client for this company."

"Moon Group has always faithfully used Williams Group's interior design services."

"Moon Group?" muttered Alexa.

Having gotten enough information, Alexa walked ahead of the two staff. She entered the elevator that would take her to the floor where the room was located.

"I'll tell Mr. Ef," Alexa said.

After getting out of the elevator, Alexa immediately went to Arley's room, to see if her boss had eaten or not.

This afternoon Alexa had not prepared lunch for Arley, as the young CEO had decided to leave at lunchtime.

"Excuse me, sir. Good afternoon," Alexa greeted in the doorway.

"Yes, noon. What's up?"

For some time, the man's voice had warmed Alexa's ears. Every time he spoke, there was only a chill in his voice.

"Have you had lunch yet, sir? If not, I'll prepare it," Alexa said.

"Already, I'm letting you off the hook this afternoon for not preparing me a meal. You may return to your office," Arley pleaded.

"Can I just stay here, I'm not doing anything in my room. Besides, Master didn't give me any assignments today, how could I just sleep in the office," Alexa complained.

Arley looked at Alexa who was still standing in front of her with her desk blocked.

"That's a good idea, you can sleep until office hours, in your room and not here. So, don't bother me!" Arley's voice sounded very stern.

Alexa furrowed her brow. Yes, her only job was to sleep in the office, the woman was getting more and more clueless with her boss. How could he hire someone just to sleep.

"Does that mean I'm eating a blind paycheck? Or is it the other way around, I don't get paid?"

"I've only been working for a few days and I'm already talking about salary!"

In the middle of them talking, Alvin entered suddenly, presumably not knowing that Alexa was also in Arley's room.

"Alexa are you here?" Alvin asked.

"Yes, you saw it didn't you, why ask again?" said Alexa.

Alvin only shook his head slightly at Alexa's answer.

"If you have nothing else to do, you can leave my room, Alexa!" Arley pleaded.

"Alright, excuse me." Alexa led the way out of the room.

Alexa did exit the room, but she didn't really leave. Women eavesdropped from outside Arley's room. This was her chance, to find out what the two men were talking about.

"Sir, tonight there is an invitation to dinner at Night's Restaurant, and there happens to be a new assistant, whose job is to accompany you to the invitation or just a date," Alvin said.

Behind the door, Alexa's eyes rounded perfectly when she found out what his job was. No wonder she had only been asked to prepare meals for the past few days and not given any office work.

It was clear what her duties as the young CEO's assistant were.

"Date!" Her face flushed, she didn't like her job.

If only she had known what her job was at the beginning. She would have refused to apply for the company.

"Yes, she can already perform her duties starting tonight. Prepare clothes for her and other necessities for tonight and give them to her," Arley said.

"Tell her I'll pick her up at seven tonight," Arley said.

Alvin nodded in understanding. "Yes, sir. Excuse me." Alvin left Arley's room.

Hurriedly, Alexa quickly left there and went inside her office.

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Alexa still can't accept that she is only used as a date under the guise of an assistant. She felt her self-esteem was very low.

It felt so sick, if she remembered the incident this afternoon and now, she was actually waiting for Arley to pick her up.

"What kind of job is this? How ridiculous, can't that man find a woman to date? Why does he have to justify finding an employee to be an assistant? If, in reality, it's just a date!" Alexa thumped the sofa cushions.

She was waiting for Arley's arrival in the living room.

"What's wrong with you? You're already pretty and presentable like this, but you're making an annoyed face." Steve sat on the single sofa in the living room.

"It's a woman, Alexa must be upset because her boyfriend is late picking her up," Daisy said, half teasing her daughter.

"What the hell Mom? I don't have a boyfriend yet, he's just my friend." Alexa lied, how could she have a friend like Arley, they were 10 years apart in age.

As planned, Arley picked Alexa up at her house. Alexa's address was clearly listed on the application paperwork back then, it wasn't hard to find her address either.

"Come out, I'm at your gate, I'll be there in a minute!" Arley immediately turned off the phone.

For a moment she took a look at Alexa's house. He thought Alexa's house was quite big, and it didn't look like she was from an ordinary family.

Within 1 minute, sure enough, he saw Alexa running towards the gate opened by the gatekeeper there.

From inside his car, he was quite stunned by the woman who ran. He did not expect that Alexa could look beautiful and graceful in a foot-long dress that had a high slit.

His reverie was awakened by a knock on the glass from outside the car. Yes, Alexa knocked so hard.

"Get in!" Arley kept straight ahead.

Alexa got into the car with her annoyed face still dominating.

"Practice smiling, I don't want you to act like this in front of my colleagues later," Arley said.

"I don't care! Tonight is my last night of work!"