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Chapter 12

"May I come in sir? Maya asked after knocking on Nicolas's door.

"Yes of course Miss James, I was expecting you. I need to talk to you about something" He was at his office window with his back to her. He seemed to be contemplating something.

"And now he is going to announce me that I am fired" Maya thought. She froze temporarily at the thought but then she decided that if this was going to be their last encounter, he was going to hear her side of the story.

"Yes there is something I want to talk to you about too" she replied to him and was ready to start telling him about the night of the party, when he quickly interrupted her.

"Before you say anything, I would like to apologize about my behavior last night. It was totally uncalled for. You were a perfect professional to me yesterday all day long and I should have been more civil while giving you your purse"

Maya was speechless. She did not expect him to apologize to her, although she was a little bit disappointed that he regretted not being professional and not the fact that he hurt her feelings by humiliating her. Well she didn't know why she wished something different from him. After all he was her boss that accidentally slept with a night where she got drunk, and did not even remember it as a matter of fact.

"Focus Maya. Now is your chance to explain yourself over that night." She encouraged herself.

"Mr. Larkson I understand that you probably felt my behavior was inexcusable two days before. That's why I wanted to explain myself about some things." She told him.

"There is no reason to explain anything Miss James. We had a night together. You made it perfectly clear that that was it and now are relationship is back to strictly professional. I actually appreciate that, because I don't usually have sexual relationships with my employees. It can be awkward on our work field."

After that comment Maya couldn't help but feel hurt. He was relieved they were not in a relationship. Well no news there. Apparently she was not enough for a man and they always seemed to realize it after they slept with her. Maybe what that slut girlfriend of her ex was right and she was so bad at bed that men tend to leave her afterwards.... well she was not going to leave that affect her work. He hired her for her work skills not how good she was in bed!

"I still think I should clarify what happened that night for our better future relations. Work wise of course."

"Ok if you feel we must"

"I do! That night of the party it was the first time after many months that I had gone out to have that much fun and that much to drink. I know that that might seem to you too many details, but I am trying to explain to you why I got so drunk!"

Nicolas laughed a little and Maya could not stop herself from thinking how handsome he was when he smiled!

"It is ok miss James I was a little bit tipsy myself that night since it was the first time for me to unwind a little bit after so much time that I was away for work."

"Yes but what I am trying to say is that I hadn't had time to eat something that day and got drunk a little bit early on the party. To be perfectly honest I don't even remember meeting you that day... let alone what happened after the party. So when I woke up in your bed the next morning I had no idea where I was or with whom, I got panicked and left the house running. Nothing like this has ever happened to me and I freaked out." The last two sentences where spoken barely audibly. It was evident she was deeply ashamed of what she had just admitted.

Maya at that point kept looking at the folders she had in her hands. She just couldn't face him at the moment. A few moments passed and Nicolas did not say anything. Even if she did not want to, she knew she had to face him. So she looked up and saw him looking at her like she had two heads. And that is when he spoke.

"Are you really telling me that you don't remember anything about when we slept together?"

Maya turned immediately a bright shade of red. She rarely blushed but around Nicolas these two days, apple red was her new color!

"Like I said I don't remember much about that night. I got drunk before you came. I don't even remember us being introduced that night."

"And you expect me to believe you?"

"It is the truth... You can even ask July who I called the next day to give me the gory details of my behavior the previous night."

"She told you that we left together?"

"No! She had no idea when or whom with I left her place. And I would appreciate if that stayed that way. I don't want everybody to start gossiping about me. July was even searching for my purse until this morning. She and I both thought that I was so drunk when I left the party that I did not have enough clarity to take it with me"

"And how can you be so sure that someone else from the office did not see us leave together?" Nicolas asked her just to see her reaction. He could not believe that she claimed she did not remember the night they spent together. The best night of his life and she had no recollection of it? He just could not believe it. Not because he was so full of himself but because she was so active that night and so responsive that he just could not believe it. And all the talk about not wanting anyone to know. How was she planning to have power over him and do whatever she wanted at work, if people at the office did not know her status as not only his assistant. She was becoming a mystery to him, when he really thought he had her figured out.

Maya's face drained of all color. One minute she was apple red and at the next she was paper white. She had not thought of the possibility that someone else might have seen them leaving together. The files dropped of her hands and she all but collapsed to the nearby chair.

"Oh my God! I did not think of that. Oh God, oh God not again! But but but if something like that had happened would would not someone already have told me something to me? Oh my God someone talked to you about it? Oh shit I am screwed. Now everyone will start gossiping about me, that I slept with you to get the job, and when you'll fire me that I could not keep you." She had her head in her hands now and seemed to be hyperventilating. Nicolas dropped on his knees next to her chair and tried to calm her.

"Maya, Maya listen to me. Stop panicking. I am sure no one saw us leave together."

"You can't possibly know that. Even if word has not reached our ears yet, if we left together maybe someone noticed us when the door open and we exited, or something."

"No, no that is not the way it happened."

"What do you mean?"

"You left before me from the party. I left a little bit after you, grabbed a cub since I was in no condition to drive and found you walking on the sideway. I asked the cub driver to make a stop and asked you if you wanted a ride. You said that you sure would like to ride me and got in the cub with me. After that you can imagine what happened."

Maya seemed to be dumbfounded. Her eyes and mouth were wide open, and she looked pretty freaked out. She kept looking him like that for a few more minutes and then she whispered.

"Is any of that truth?"

"Of course it is. So don't worry about anyone noticing us together."

Maya looked down and whispered something that Nicolas could not hear.

"What? I can't hear you."

"I never act like that. What did I do next?" She whispered as little bit louder, enough for him to hear her.

 "Nothing to be ashamed of I assure you" Nicolas tried to make her feel better. It was obvious to him that she really was that drunk that night that she did not remember a thing.  Maybe he had misunderstood her. Maybe she was not like his previous assistant that took advantage of her relationship with his friend.

"I was a little tipsy myself that night and didn't realize you were that drunk. I now feel like I took advantage of you"

"I am sure that if you weren't tipsy you wouldn't have started anything with me. Don't worry. Could we please put this behind as I really don't want to lose my job over a night i got drunk."

"Your job was never on the line Maya, you proved your worth all this time I was away. Now, you can go back to your office."

"But I have brought the files we need to discuss."

"Not now, I received a call from a client and I have to meet him in half an hour. We will talk about the files tomorrow. This appointment will take most of my day."

"Do you need me to come with you?"

"No I need you to stay here."

"Ok" Maya said and bent over to pick up her discarded files. Just before she was ready to open his office door, Nicolas said.

"Oh and Maya"

"Yes sir?"

"Call me Nicolas like everyone else does. We don't want them to think you are treated differently from everybody else.

 "Thanks you sir" she replied and left the office leaving him more puzzled than before

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