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What is he going to do?

What is he going to say?

Well, he looks mad. He should be, I just yelled at him. Right in front of his ear.

But he deserved it--- Remember, Ava, he's the one firing you. I admitted my inner voice's wise thoughts.

He came closer to me. I could see his muscles tighten from the black suit he was wearing that fitted him perfectly.

He stopped right in front of me. His tall figure made me look even smaller.

It was like I'm a small plant, whose under the shade of a tall tree.

God! Why you made me so small and one thing more--- Why he is standing so near me? Didn't he remember what just happened a few seconds ago. I was inches away from his face and then his crotch.

Ugh! I still hate what happened just a minute ago. I don't even want to remember that anymore.

There are some things you just want to forget, forever. It's one of them.

He was now standing so near me and I could feel the heat radiating off of him. But I stood still and didn't move a bit.

It's confirmed that he's fumed, but I don't care.

What does he think that he can intimidate me? Make me fear him?

Well, Mr. Aaron I'm a strong girl. You can't easily make me fear you. No matter how tough you try to make your look.

Despite the assurance that I was giving to myself that I'm a strong girl, still I was looking everywhere around the room but him.

A few minutes ago when I looked into his blue eyes it resulted in me going into a state of shock and I wasn't able to mutter a single word. Like Ursula from The Little Mermaid movies have taken my power of speech, the way she did with Ariel. Anyways if I did look in his eyes again, I think this time I might end up dead.

Okay, enough Ava--- his eyes are not even that beautiful.

'Actually they are.' I debated with my inner voice.

"Here look at this damn paper!" He yelled bringing the paper close to my face.

The only thing I heard from him was 'shush' and this was the first time I heard him speak a full sentence and his voive really was quite--- coarse and his teeth so white like he just came from a commercial of a toothpaste.

I looked at him and his eyes showed that how mad he was right now.

"I have seen this damn paper that's why I'm here" I said rather politetly, glaring into his now blue eyes darken with annoyance.

"You stupid girl!" this time he growled, gritting his teeth. "Look once again!"

How dare he called me stupid!

At least he called you a 'girl', don't be ungrateful.

Why does he yell so much? He thinks he will look more dominant. Well, his voice is quite dangerous but it doesn't affect me at all. Well--- a little bit, but not too much.

"You know what, just tell me why are you firing me?" I straightened my shoulders and looking up at his face I asked him.

He clenched his left hand's long fingers into a ball of fist and I saw his veins getting visible around his clenched fist and that clearly stated that he was getting more annoyed.

But why he has to get mad? I know I yelled, but isn't he the one firing me?

I think he's just about the body and hotness and there're no brains in that beautiful shaped skull.

Beautiful shaped skull?

Ava--- you're ruined.

He opened his mouth to say something and I knew he will yell once again, so I interuupted him before he could yell at me once more.

Okay Ava face it, Mr. Jr has decided to fire you and now you have to leave, so then why won't you do something bad here that he'll always regret firing you.

"Now that you're firing me--- I won't even ask." I said while looking around the room, searching for something I can ruin in this room before leaving this company. I really liked my inner voice's idea.

But I should warn him first. Al least that's a civilized thing to do.

"You know what I'm gonna---" I pointed my finger at his face and I was about to warn him about what I'm going to do when he interrupted me.

"Don't point your finger at me!" He warned but this time he didn't yell yet his voice was commanding and I really did move my finger down.

Looks like he don't like people pointing fingers at him.

But I didn't give him another second to say something else and I completed what I was about to say to him earlier, "As I was saying, now that you're firing me, I'm going to ruin your all so precious room."

He stroked his forehead clearly getting more and more irritated.

I moved around the room finding things to destroy. But this room didn't have much except beautiful black leathered couches and fancy decorations.

My eyes landed on some files and papers on his desk. Well, these papers look important.

I went to his desk but he stood still at the last place he was standing and his face was now facing the door, opposite to me and he didn't even turn to see what I was about to do.

I held as much papers from as much files I could in my hands and floated them in the air.

"Stop." His voice was polite.

"No, Mister!" I rolled my eyes while holding more papers and this time I turned and saw him standing right behind me.

I looked at him and then threw the papers on the floor, scattering them all over the floor.

"Stop!" He said once again and his voice still polite.

I haven't done enough damage and I didn't want to stop.

Mr. Aaron I'll ruin more things and then I'll stop myself.

"Mr. Jr. do you even know who I was before you decided to fire me or you just did a game where you randomly picked a name of your employee and decided to fire him or her?" I moved to the couches finding more things to destroy.

I was about to hold a beautiful vase when he grabbed my right hand's wrist hardly and swirled me around so that I faced him and his pull was so hard that for once I thought my arm is dislocated.

My right side collided with his heavy chest.

How dare he grabbed me like this? What does he think of me--- a puppet?

There were hard lines on his forehead due to anger. But he didn't knew the anger that was burning inside of me.

I jerked my right arm, which he was holding so hard, and I escaped his hold.

Even thought I knew he didn't like being pointed at, but still because of my anger I pointed my finger right at his face and warned him, "Don't ever hold me or any other girl like this ever again!"

What does he think that he's a man so now he can grab any girl and swirl her around here and there like a toy?

"I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to offend you." He apologized in a very gentle manner, like he really meant it.

So he can be a gentleman too, huh!

I calmed down too and guessed that it's time I should leave.

Even though he didn't tell me the reason of firing me and now that I've ruined all his important files. I think I should go or else he might call the guards and throw me out of this building.

I was about to leave when he said, "Wait, Miss Williams."

No body ever called me that. How does he even know my last name?

I turned around to face him. There was a distance between us.

He moved near me but this time he stopped a few inches away from me and handed me the paper.

"It's a warning letter." He exclaimed politely.

What? A warning letter? No ,I remember it clearly.

I held the paper from him and read it. When I read it clearly, it was written; 'you will be fired'.

I gaped looking at the letter and when I looked up there was a hint of a smile on his face.

How could I make such a mistake? It was a warning letter and I thought he had fired me.

God Ava, you're so silly.

I looked down at the paper once again not able to see him in the eye. I was so embarrassed. I yelled at him and ruined his whole room when he had done nothing. Well, he did gave me a warning letter, but still.

I looked up at him to apologize and there was still a little smile on his face.

Brit said he didn't smile. I mean it isn't a complete smile, but I have to say it looks beautiful on his face.

His smile eventually faded and I came back to reality, "I'm sorry, Mr. Aaron."

"Sir!" he corrected me.

I remembered Brit told me that he asked the staff to call him only 'Sir'.

I looked at the room and papers were scattered all over the floor.

Shit Ava! What have you done.This is what happens when you activate your action mode. My inner voice rolled her eyes at me.

I hate my inner voice. Even though she's wise sometimes, but she can be a bitch too.

I moved to the papers and started picking them up. At least I can put them back to make up for what I did.

"Just leave it!" he ordered, making me stop.

"Are you sure? I mean I can try to get them back to their position." I asked him when I knew that I could never put them back to their files in order.

"No. You probably won't understand the pattern of the files." He moved to his chair and sat on it, sprawling on it like an eagle.

He looked exhausted. Well, who asked him to start ordering people on the first day?

Is it even tiring to order people? I think it's fun.

"Ask Kourtney to come in and rearrange this mess." I nodded at his order and I was about to leave when he said moving his long fingers through his silky hair, "and Miss Williams, I don't just order around and I didn't send you that letter without even looking at your files. Your last months report has been very poor and you weren't there at the meeting, too, today. It was a warning letter for you to maintain your performance that you are showing for the last three months. First I thought of giving you four months, but after what you did today--- now you have only one month to prove yourself. I hope that's clear?"

He looked up to see if I would say anything about this. I think he thought I'll be mad at his decision of giving me only one month to show my performance.

But I smiled and nodded, making him raise his brow in disapproval.

"Goodbye, Sir." I said and got out.

Well, I know it's not very cool that I lost my time span to show better results by yelling at Mr. Aaron Smith and ruining his room.

But Mr. Aaron I don't think you know that I only need a month and after that I'm leaving this company myself.

When I got out. The girl who was sitting outside was already up from her seat and was still frightened. Clearly she'll be thinking what the hell was going on inside, but I doubt she heard anything from the soundproofed room.

"You're Kourtney?" I asked and she nodded.

"Mr. Aaron--- I mean Sir is calling you inside." I told her and she quickly ran to the room.

She opened it and I was about to reach the elevator when I heard her gasp.

Sorry, dear Kourt, I know you have now got a lot of work to do.

Poor girl will now have to rearrange all the papers back into their files.

I moved inside the elevator and clicked for my department.

♣

The door of the elevator opened to my department and everyone looked at me while I entered.

Ken quickly came to me and inquired, "What happened?"

"Ken why didn't you tell me it was a warning letter?" I protested.

"I did try to stop you, but you were so angry. First I thought you didn't get what's written on the letter. Then I thought you were so angry because he sent you a warning letter."

Well, Ken you did kind of stopped me but I wasn't listening to anyone at that moment.

I came to my compartment and Brit was already there. Clearly she needed details.

Dear Lord! Brit and her long for gossips.

Ken left me and went back to work.

"So what did you say to him?" Britney asked excitedly.

"Don't ask. The whole situation was so messed up. I yelled at him. But then he told me it was a warning letter." I summarized.

"Did he said anything to you after he told you that it was just a warning."

"No, he didn't."

It was weird or maybe it was nice, but he really didn't say anything to me. After all I did, he was quite calm but he did pulled me tightly towards him. I think he calmed down after I told him to never touch me or any girl like that.

"Are you serious? This can't be true." Brit asked again puzzled.

Clearly she needed more drama and that I wasn't going to share it with her.

"At first he was mad but then he calmed down. He omitted three months from my warning letter, leaving me with one month only to show my performance." I told her honestly.

So I think new boss isn't quite that bad. He was generous to not fire me.

"And what did you think about him? I mean you have to admit that he was hot, right?" Brit wiggled her brows.

I rolled my eyes at her expression.

"Yeah, he was quite hot." I admitted and Brit giggled a bit making me chuckle a bit too.

"Okay, ladies, back to work!" Ken ordered pointing at us from a distance and Brit got up from my desk and moved to her compartment.

I looked at my laptop screen.

Okay Ava, only one month. Just work nicely in this one month and then you don't have to worry if Mr. Jr. kicks you or keeps you because you'll be leaving Smith's Initiative yourself.

What can I say, I have to focus on my dream job too.

♣

Most of my fellow workers started leaving.

It was 7:00 PM and it was now end of today's hectic day.

Brit passed by my desk and announced, "See you tomorrow, Ava."

"See you!" I also gathered my stuff and took my purse.

Kendrick was still on call with somebody.

"Bye, Ken." I waved at him and he looked up at me and smiled at me, but then again turned his attention to the papers that were next to him.

He always work so much. I don't know when he go back to his home.

I, before leaving my department, went to the bathroom and changed into my blue jeans and white top that I brought with me.

I pulled my hair in a ponytail.

Ah! Now I felt much better.

I stuffed my bag with the suit that I was wearing before.

Perfect! Now I'm ready to go.

I came out of the bathroom and Ken was still on phone. But he was busy enough to not look at me.

I got in the elevator and finally reached the ground floor.

I was about to leave through the exit when I saw Mr. David Smith, my former C.E.O, father of Mr. rude and polite.

I rushed towards him to say hello.

"Hello, Mr. Smith." I smiled walking with him to his car.

"Oh, Ava, so you came today. I thought you went on a leave once again without even informing." He mocked like he always do.

But I love him.

"Sorry, Mr. Smith. I try hard not to be late, but there's so much stuff to do in the morning." I explained, a little truth and a little lie.

"Don't say sorry to me--- say sorry to your new boss." He said as we reached closer to car which wasn't his. "How's your mother?"

"She's good." He mostly ask me that. I don't know why, but it's okay. He's very caring.

"Oh. Good."

We reached to a car and someone had his arms on it's door and looked like was waiting.

"Oh, I met your son. He's a nice person." I told him as we finally reached the car.

"Am I?" The guy leaning to the car looked at me and Holy Cow! It was Mr. rude and polite.

God! I felt embarrassed. Did I just tell that he's nice right in front of him? Yeah, I surely did.

I didn't reply him and looked down at my knotted fingers.

Damn you, Ava! You should look around before speaking.

He opened the passenger seat for his dad and Mr. Smith sat inside. He closed the door and then looked at me.

He eyes moved down my body.

What is he doing? Is there something wrong with me? Is he checking me out?

I hope he isn't because I'm in no mood of beating him up.

But then I saw his face getting confused.

"What happened to your office attire?" He asked.

For a few seconds I stood like a dumb person who didn't know what the hell was going on. But then I looked down at my clothes and finally realized that I was in jeans.

Now I get why he was looking at me as if I were an alien.

No one from my office has ever seen me in jeans right after the day ends except Mr. Smith and Ken once saw me too.

"My suit went all dirty so I had to change it." I lied.

"Well, where these jeans came from?" He asked gesturing towards my clothes.

Oh God! Why did you bless him with both hotness and wisdom.

Well, every dumb person can get that.

"Well, I always keeps a spare dress with me--- you know in case something happens." I tried to sound as much normal as I could. "It's totally normal!"

He frowned but then started walking towards the driver's seat of the car.

He opened the door and once again looked at me. This time he scanned my expression.

For once I though he looked straight through me. He was still confused about me wearing jeans right after office ends.

I know it looks odd and I don't want him to know. If he knew that why I wore it, he's going to fire me the next day because then he'll know why my performance been poor in last few months.

I looked away and started walking the other way. I heard the car door close and heard the engine roar.

He reversed the car and then drove it near me, slowing it down when he reached me.

He opened the window of his side and said smirking, "I'm really looking forward to your next day at office, Miss Williams. I've quite a lot of things for you."

After that he closed the window and roared his car.

That smirking jerk! What does he really meant by that?

Oh Ava, I have a bad feeling about this.

I shook my head off of these all thoughts.

It's time to go at Nathan's.

Nathan's place is quite near the office and it actually gets very easy.

I moved through the streets and finally reached a dump, dark, lone street with a large old building. It's windows were broken and door was half opened.

I smiled.

Ava, let's go.

I moved inside and it was roaring with rock music and sound of kicks and punches--- the sound of total action.

It is the only place I like. The only thing I love in my life.

Even though I was worried about whole of today's drama at the office I was finally going to calm down.

"Ava, so you finally came!" Nathan came out of nowhere dripping in sweat and wearing a black vest.

Recenltly I've started to like him a lot. Despite the reason he is my hot trainer. He has become a friend too.

He threw punching gloves at me and I smiled while catching them perfectly.

"How about a match, huh! You still got much training to do." He said while leading me to a fighting wring where a lot of other people were training too.

Let's get into it, Ava.

FIGHT!

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N e x t :
3rd Chapter.

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D e s i g n e r | XantheRowd ⤴

(I love this cover so much. I'm so much thankful to the designer for making this for me).

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