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AIDLE

This was just ridiculous. I am tired of coming here again and again. More from that female who was my so-called mother controlling my life. Today this was all going to end.

"Hi Sophia, please inform my mom that I am coming to her office." I didn't even wait for my mother's secretary to reply and walked by her, I was just too furious to even wait for a second.

"Miss Aidle! Please Wait! She is already –" she stopped as I was already inside her office.

That's when she saw him again.

This was the same face she always saw when she came to her mother's office, and it looked like he was taunting her. She wondered why he was there and why her mother seemed so comfortable with him as if she knew him before.

"Why is he here again?" I asked in a firm voice. My mother stared at me and then at the man who just sat there without saying a word. Finally, her mother spoke.

"He is here because I asked him to be. He is here to help you from now on. Your new manager."

My head was spinning, a male manager? I thought I will always got female manager because my mother has never allowed me to be near any male till now.

It's not like I have never gone near any men. I have had enough man experiences but this was not how my mother works. She had never trusted men.

When my father died she had soo many bad experiences with men which she never told me but she always kept saying that men were not meant to be trusted ever, and since my childhood till now she had never ever done this.

Then why was she doing this now?

I met his gaze, wondering what he was thinking. He maintained an expressionless face before finally speaking up, "Hi, It's nice to see you again," I don't want to create any scene in front of an stranger so I held my tongue and nodded instead.

It was then that I saw a glimmer of something in his eyes, something I couldn't identify but in that moment, I knew this was something different. I had a feeling that he was here to stay, and I wasn't sure if I should be scared or nervous.

"Mr. Zian, If you don't mind can I talk to my mother alone?" I fake smiled so hard that even he was unsure whether I was just being nice or like really nice.

He looked at my mother asking for permission and my mother nodded.

Well he'll get to know very soon.

She could sense my unease and asked him to wait outside. As soon as he left, I confronted my mother. "What the hell is wrong with you?" I half yelled at her, "You have never hired a guy as a manager so what happened now?"

"First, You tell me why are you making this such a big deal, it's not like you are uncomfortable or like you have never worked with any guy? Then what's the big fuss is about" My mother just stood there and lifted her chin as she waited for my answer. I knew she was right - I was blowing this out of proportion.

But I also knew this was not her usual self, she would never do this unnecessarily, something was really going on in her mind and I'll had to find out because I won't become the pawn of her schemes again.

I refused to be used again.

I didn't know how to answer her, So I decided to take a different approach - I asked her – "Why the sudden change now?" She thought for a few seconds and seemed to struggle for words.

After a few moments, she finally shared what was on her mind, "Nothing, Just the earlier agency told us that they are tired of sending their employees here and they don't want you to harass their employees anymore."

"So they have backed out and you have to hire the new agency, Is that right?" She only gave a single nod.

"Well, that's fantastic!" I couldn't be more happier. All of my hard work was finally paid off. Now nobody will tell each and everything to my mother. I hated that agency. Hopefully, the new one won't be like that.

"AIDLE!" My mother gave me a hard look as if that was going to do something to me.

"Oh, I am just happy. Finally!" Phew

"Why don't you leave my office now?"

"Sure, Why not?" Though I tried to contain my excitement, I couldn't help but issue a little smile and a nod of recognition as my mother uttered her words of chagrin. I knew I had done it; achieved the goal I had set out to accomplish.

As I got up to leave, my mother's stern gaze followed me across the room. I knew that she was not pleased with the situation, but she also knew that I had done my best and found success in the end.

But wait was she doing it again with the new guy as well? Why was he here?

Was it going to be the same things again? Oh my god! I can't let that happen.

I'll start this war even before anyone can do anything.

Not my mom.

Not that handsome manager.