His Alluring Obsession

A grating alarm went off across the room, so loud it nearly broke her eardrum. Dunn swung her left hand angrily, slamming it into the alarm and seriously damaging it.

With bags under her eyes, she mouthed, "A blissful morning to get late," as she got out of bed.

"I shouldn't have started that drama, now I'm doomed for not being able to sleep" When she realized that today was the general meeting with the higher-ups, her whining continued.

"What the.." She cried out and bolted into the bathroom. This girl woke up at eight thirty am and is expected to resume by nine am, so she will not be spending the twenty to thirty minutes that a normal girl would spend in the restroom.

She spent an additional minute after taking a shower because she nearly forgot to brush her teeth. She cast a glance in her closet in search of an understated yet elegant dress.

She was still grumpy at the thought of the big meeting with the superiors today. With a sigh, Dunn chose a corporate teal gown that fit her well-it was not too big or too tight.

She leaned over to try to find a heel, but none was on offer.

"Damn!!" She exclaimed looking at how pathetic she was. She placed her legs into a black boot and carried her normal cross bag to fit it.

She told herself, "I look gorgeous and expensive," but her feelings deceived her and she started to laugh at herself.

"But I am way better than that Los Angeles model." She growled and left the house. After tossing her keys into the bag and closing her door, she realized she had not eaten.

She dismissed it with a shrug and called a cab to get her to work.

She made a mouthful, "Lavender News station please." She works as a secretary for the general manager of the station.

She hissed, making the driver look at her disgustingly through the mirror as she said, "That flirty old man." She swiftly collected herself and settled back to enjoy the ride as soon as she realized that.

"Your money is $100, ma'am. We are here." As she heard the driver's voice, she forced herself to slowly open her eyes and stretch.

"Gratitude" After that, she got off and turned to face the building ahead of her.

"I'm partially doomed" She stumbled in and nearly fell, tripping over her shoelaces. She bent over to tie it properly.

"You're still tying your laces, The time is nine fifteen am and I took permission to come call you on the phone" She heard my friend and colleague's voice making her raise her head.

"Don't worry, I lied on your behalf so just go in and tell them you had a runny stomach due to indigestion which made you come late" Laura, Her friend smirked.

She mumbled as a result of thinking, "When I thought she had helped me, how do I say something so awkward in front of everyone?"

"Now that you are following me, walk as though you are dehydrated." With a laugh, Laura entered the station, Dunn trailing closely behind.

The moment she stepped her feet into the meeting hall, The faces that turned in her direction, their eyes alone made her dehydrated so no need to pretend.

"You shouldn't have any excuse to come late for a meeting like this " Thank goodness no one witnessed her flirtatious old boss, Mr. Lake, almost scream, causing her to squirt in disgust.

With his customary flirtatious tone, Johnny said, "Come and sit here."

Hiding her distaste, she thought, "I have a legitimate reason for detesting Johnny since I hate guys who are clingy and love talking naughty."

"Unfortunately, someone who deliberately investigated one of the wealthiest models and brought attention to our news station has to be fired." With anticipation of learning what would happen next, everyone looked up.

The mention of Dunn's name had everyone in a state of extreme shock.

Her lower lips drop down immediately as she stutters, overwhelmed with confusion.

"Dear Dunn Edwards, you are hereby fired as a secretary to the general manager of this station for digging out an unfavorable article about Joan, One of our most cherished and loved models in the whole of the United States" The man was known to be the CEO of the station mouthed and penned down.

She and the other staff's confusion skyrocketed as they watched the higher-ups leave the meeting room.

"Why did you do that?" Nancy mouthed, putting on a sympathetic look.

"Do what? I didn't know anything" She mouthed looking at Nancy with confusion all over her facial expression.

"Everyone here knows how much you detest Joan, so I'm not surprised you could do it " Except for Laura, Nancy walked out of the meeting hall wearing an evil smile that she quickly covered up.

"I will come meet you at home, but you have to leave now before they call the security," Laura said, looking pitifully at her friend.

"I will stay till three pm before I get going, I have to pack my things too" Dunn smiled sadly. She stood up and proceeded to rest and pack her things later in the day.

"To celebrate my defeat, I am positive I will head to the club and get wasted." With sobs and dejected eyes, she too left.

************

Joan was seen with her phone placed on her right ear. She was receiving a call which made her smile.

"I got the job done ma'am" One of the girls she sent on an errand voice came in through her phone.

"I will send you the remaining payment now, I will clear away people that dislike me. I'm Joan, America's treasure and hottest model" She smirked, putting an end to the phone call.

She smiled satisfied at the result of her actions "I don't care if I stooped so low but I'm coming to New York soon and I need a clear path" She mouthed, picking up the glass cup in front of her and placing her lips on the edge of the cup to gulp down the content.

"What the hell is this?" She screamed, spitting out the wine angrily.

"I apologize, ma. You were occupied on the phone when I brought it, so it became mixed with room temperature." One of the maids begs on her knees.

"You are a crazy bitch; you ought to have shoved your meaningless justifications down my throat." She yelled, throwing the glass cup in her direction and she dared not try to dodge it.

" You are fired! " She screamed. She stood up and walked away to avoid getting angrier just by looking at those lowlifes.

Today is the fourth of July, a very sad day for Mason.

"Good afternoon Boss" He heard a male voice with his steps disturbing his ears.

"Can't you stop being a nuisance?" He yelled at the man approaching with his cold voice sending fears into his spine immediately.

He doesn't care about people, He just lives in this world to maybe avenge his parent's death and after that, he will exit. Nothing interests him as he does say.

"I'm sorry boss, I came to tell you about the meeting, The board of directors and the companies to work with us have been waiting for like one hour and they are complaining" He mouthed shivering, almost peeing on himself.

Mason sighed in anger turning to the window side, looking at the outside view to prevent him from thinking, and about the board of directors, he intentionally made them wait because of their pride.

He can't let anyone come into his company and try to control him, it can not work even in his next life. He believes that making them wait will teach them a lesson.

They dare not leave without seeing Mason for the approval of the current projects, He is the King of New York as they call him, He has the most successful business there which made their economy stable and one of the things making New York stand is the taxes and revenues the company generate for them, Ooks Group of company alone taxes and revenues is enough to skyrocket their economy.

He looked over to his secretary who was still on his feet waiting for Mason to walk forward so he could follow.

"Are you sure all of the board of directors are there? Did they all arrive at the proposed time? " He asked, he is willing to deal with any of them that aren't there or that arrive late.

"Almost all of them came before the meeting time but only the company to handle the fifth hotel furniture is unavailable" The secretary mouthed, He shifted his glasses up to be able to see well.

"They sent a message this morning but due to your order, I didn't check it, This is the message sir" The secretary stretched the iPad to Mason with his head bowed, he dared not look at Mason's face. The frown on Mason's face alone could depress a child and make an adult tremble at his feet.

Mason collected the iPad and scrolled up to see the message from the furniture company. A loud laugh escaped his mouth, making the secretary wonder what happened.

"So stupid" His laugh turned into a frown immediately. He threw the iPad at the secretary not minding if he would catch it or not. The secretary knows that he must catch it or else he wants to get fired.

"Let's go to the meeting and make sure you hold the iPad, You will read out the message to everyone in the meeting" He mouthed and picked up his jacket and threw it on before picking his steps one by one.

Everyone who met him on the way trembled in fear at his aura and walked steps alone. Greetings rain from different angles but he ignores as always.

** In the meeting hall**

Everyone was murmuring and complaining. They had been sitting down for more than one hour and nobody showed up to address them about the reason for the lateness.

"This is the highest of it, How dare he make me sit down and wait for him? His father was never like this" Mr. Dennis, one of the sassiest of them all, is one of the oldest board of directors who once walked with Mr. Larry, Mason's father, and also was the closest manager to his father in the entertainment industry.

"You have the balls, If you know you couldn't wait without complaining you should have left the moment you came" Mason's voice came up making the hall silent immediately, The secretary opened the door for him. One step into the Hall everyone's head was bowed.

He walked towards the CEO's seat and sat down pulling off his jacket to give his secretary to hold.

All the board of directors and representatives of each company involved in the project sat down after him. His eyes went directly to a particular seat, the faces looked strange, The look on his face alone asked the question.

The representative stood up with a strange face.

"Good morning Sir, we heard that the furniture company dropped the project which made me bring my friend's furniture company alongside us. We are in a partnership contract" The representative uttered, almost shaking because he knows what Mason Brooks is capable of. He can order that they should be removed.

Surprise filled everyone's face as they heard his statement.

"You can sit down but make sure they sign the contract for the furniture today" His cold voice came up, and even his secretary was surprised.

"Let's go straight to the purpose of the meeting" He proposed returning the business atmosphere to the meeting hall.

The Zinc Company representative was the first to stand up.

"After the readjusting and rewriting, we have concluded that our company alone cannot handle the project due to a shortage of zinc materials. We then decided to work in hand with the Indriz Zinc Company located in Nigeria, but their branch here is the one we signed the contract with" He explained and waited for Mason's reply.

"You should know by now that I don't care whichever companies you partner with, My only concern is that the Zinc should be provided at the required amount and quality" Mason replied looking at the representative with his emotionless gaze.

The representative sat down silently and closed the contract book.

"Everyone should forward the whole estimate of materials needed and the amount to my secretary, I will look over it and get back to everyone" Mason mouthed and stood up.

"The meeting has finally come to an end, Thank you" He collected his jacket and walked out.

Another round of murmuring begins as all exit the meeting room one by one.

****

Mason got to his office and sat down dejected as he reminisced about his ex-fiancee. If she was still with him, he would have been eating a delicious lunch by now but what can he do other than order food?

"What should I order for you Sir, it's lunch time" He heard his secretary's voice. He was about to reject it again when his stomach rumbling got louder.

"Just get me a burger and fries. You must get it here before five minutes if you don't want to get fired" He threatened.

He heard his secretary chuckle from afar. He was supposed to smile if it was some years back but now even the chuckle made him angry.

" I'm not okay sitting here, Everyone is looking at me with either hatred or pity and I hate it" Dunn complained uncomfortably.

" I told you to go home and rest, I will help you pack your things but your blocked ears won't listen to me so I'm not moved by your complaint" Laura replied, walking towards the second seat located beside Dunn but it's only for staff.

" I know you will want to go to the club today but I will advise you to go home and sleep" Laura chuckled.

Dunn sighed facing another direction, She saw Nancy coming towards her which made her scoff, irritated. She stood up to leave. Her hands searched for her bag but it was nowhere to be found.

"Looking for this?" Nancy was raising the bag with a smirk playing on her lips.

"Get your dirty hands off my bag" Dunn yelled, collecting her bag forcefully.

"You know what, I've always thought highly of you but your actions made me lose the little respect I had for you" Nancy made a clicking sound with her lips.

Dunn was somehow confused about what brought about the issue of respect in this discussion.

"I never needed your respect anyway, Answer the question I asked. How did you get hold of my bag? "

" You mean how did I get hold of that sack you call a bag" Nancy released a mocking laugh.

"Hey Nancy, I've had enough of your stupid and unnecessary banters with someone more smart and successful than you. Even though she got fired today, the things she had achieved at this current age even if you date the richest man you can't achieve because you are a failure" Laura mouthed. Her statement called attention immediately as everyone focused on them.

Nancy's mocking laugh got stuck in her throat as she looked at Laura with hatred. She was boiling in anger like a tiger ready to pounce on its prey.

"Wow, This whole statement is just to support your evil friend. I'm a hundred times better than her at least I didn't dig out lies just to spoil someone's image" Nancy fired back making Dunn's eyes widen, her emotions were mixed.

Is it because of the lies told against her or because of the looks on her?

Laura turned to Dunn and mouthed "Please just ignore her stupidity, She is trying so hard to make a comeback" Laura knew how dangerous Dunn's anger could be but it was already late as the next thing heard was someone's cry and a chair hitting the ground.

Dunn hit Nancy's head with an office chair causing her to fall on the ground with a bleeding head.

Everyone there was stunned as they looked at the bleeding girl on the ground.

"Next time you will know when to keep quiet and you can't send the cops to arrest me because it's an act of provocation" She picked up her back and waved at Laura.

" An ambulance will be here soon, I will call them on my way out," She said and dialed the emergency number,911.

"There is a bleeding patient in the lavender news station. She may die in the next five minutes if there is no medical help" She said on the phone and clicked the red button on her phone screen.

"Goodbye Lavender News Station, I will never have the opportunity to work here again, rather I will have the opportunity to deal with everyone that comes together to lie against me" In a grand style, she walked out of the entrance.

In two minutes, Two ambulances parked in front of Lavender news station and rushed in to carry Nancy who had almost bled out the whole blood in her body.

"Dunn" Laura covered her face after calling her friend's name.

"I love what you did" She smiled before pretending to sympathize with the rest of the workers.

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The sky was becoming dark already which made it nice for a good drink.

Loud music was heard coming out from the club, Different people and drinks flying around.

Strippers, Hypemen and women, DJs, and so on were doing their business in the club. Different dancing steps were invented by the drunk ones.

Dunn entered the club through the second entrance, She met bodyguards standing there but for reasons unknown to her they let her in which also surprised her. Her dress was not too bitchy as she put on a long armless gown with a slit on both sides, She was putting on a jacket that covered her chest.

"This place doesn't look like the regular club. Hope I'm not lost, She thought, looking around.

No music was heard, Just normal people having a drink. She was very worried but after a while, she shrugged it off and decided to go for a tequila.

She sighted the bartender and walked towards him. Her heels were hitting the ground with a classy sound that turned attention to her. The guys in there were wondering who the hell she was. A model or a public figure.

"Why is everyone looking at me? Am I that gorgeous?" She thought and put on a smile before going to sit on the chair near the bartender.

The bartender walked towards her and bowed. "What would you like to take ma'am?"

"Can you get me three bottles of tequila? I want to get wasted" She smiled as the bartender nodded.

In no time her orders were brought to her.

She mouthed a thank you before opening the drink with the opener on the table. She gulps down the tequila from the bottle. Within thirty minutes she finished the three bottles and ordered for more.

The bartender was surprised but what's his business, He was employed to sell.

"I hate lavender news stations and if I eventually get the person who lied against me, I will strangle that person" She hissed, opening the fourth bottle as she gulped it down once. Anyone looking at her right now will crown her a professional drinker.

"I need to empty my bladder, Please" She belched and struggled to stand up. She staggered back, almost falling but she helped herself by holding onto the chair.

She opened her bag to take out her debit card and stretch it out to the bartender.

"Please place your thumb here" The bartender mouthed. After the transaction was successful, He gave her the debit card and she put it back into her bag.

" I'm okay" She smiled weirdly. She carried her bag and phone and found her way to the bathroom as her eyes read. Unfortunately for her, she entered into a VIP room and made use of the toilet with her bag and phone.

She almost dropped it into the bathtub as she was staggering. She walked out of the toilet and dropped her back on the bed stand. She was about to hit her head on the wall when a hand held her.

"Wow, My Superman" She staggered and hugged the person tightly.

"Who the hell are you? And what are you doing in my room?" Mason's voice came up looking at the drunk lady in front of him.

"My Superman" She mouthed and vomited on him before falling to the ground.

"Ewww" Mason screamed and tore his shirt in disgust. He picked up the telephone and phoned customer service.

"Come and clean up this mess now" He yelled and dropped the phone.

"Who the hell is this disgusting creature?" He mouthed looking at the blinking doll on the ground.

" Don't you dare threaten me" Dunn mouthed as she struggled to stand up only to slap Mason across the face.

"What the .." He exclaimed, holding his red cheeks.