🌹R O S E🌹

🌹CHAPTER FOURTEEN🌹

"Ok, spill, Ms. Hiding from the boss" Lena says, when we're in front of my apartment. If I want to go home someday, I might as well tell her, I really do want to lie down on my bed. This has been one crazy day, that reminds me, I need to call my mom and tell her everything.

"Fine. He's a jerk and I sort of snapped at him. He also told me he wants to be friends with me, which is sick because he played me for a fool" I tell her, feeling the anger in me arise within seconds, there is so much I want to yell at him and snap at him, say the words that I should have said before.

"Wow, hold on a second. You snapped at him. I've known you for quite some time, Rose Ace, and when you snap at people, it usually goes deeper than that. You never tell anyone off unless someone has offended you. What exactly did he say?" She asks, and here come the never ending questions, I should have kept my mouth shut when I had the chance.

"He said it was all a test. Firing me and everything. Then he dare asking me that he wants us to be friends. He's such a dick and a jerk, and he loves to play with other people's feelings" I say, I'm angry at him, I'm hurt by his action and I feel so humiliated.

In my mind, friends don't do things like that, enemies do it. "He's a bastard, that's the thing. And a player. Though, I thought for sure that the two of you would hit it off right away. I mean, the chemistry in the air is happening and the attractions is visible" She says.

It's like she's talking in another language, I have no idea what she's trying to tell me. I lost her after player and now I don't understand what's she saying. "You're crazy" I tell her. "I may be crazy, but you are insane for him and he's insane for you" Lena tells me with a smirk.

"What?" I say, giving her a puzzled look. I'm highly confused, it's like we're not talking about the same thing anymore. "You like him and he likes you" She says, her words shock the living life out of me. My eyes widen, and my jaw drops open.

"Me... liking... him" I stammer. I don't like him and I never will. He's annoyingly a jerk, and arrogant, and a dick. How many times do I have to tell her that before she understands that I loath the guy. He has hurt me and made me feel horrible, I hate him.

"Of course, you never talk about anything but him. Besides, didn't you tell me that he took you out to dinner with his friend when you could have gone on a date with a very hot guy. Sounds to me that he was jealous because he likes you" Lena says.

"I've had enough of this" I say, and open the car door and get out of the car. "You can deny the words, but not the attraction" She says as I slam the car door and make my way to my apartment. Finally getting rest from him and Lena. I walk inside my apartment, and I'm greeted by nothingness, which I like.

The silence does comfort me, at least there is no one to annoy me, to make me feel horrible, to humiliate me, to speak of things that aren't true. I sit on my bed, and I can't help but wonder about Lena's words about me liking him. There's no way that I could ever like him.

But, him liking me. It doesn't make any sense to me, no sense at all. He's a jerk and he just screwed the girl that helped getting me fired, and he did nothing to prevent it or do something else about it. Alexander Knight doesn't like me and I don't like him, that's how it is and that's how it will always be. No matter what Lena or anyone says, it will never come to pass.

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"I heard you got your job back. Congratulations. Maybe, I should find something embarrassing of the boss and show everyone, to get a raise" Harry says, as I enter the building the next day. "I don't advise you to do that, you might get fired. The opposite of what I managed to do" I tell him.

"Thanks for the advice, I'll see you later" He says with a smile. "Bye" I tell him and continue my way to the 26th floor, where my second day of back to work, but never lost it in the first place day begins. Does it make me a bad person that I don't want to go up there and face Mr. Knight after yesterday.

I'm sure he has some sort of punishment for me, some plan to humiliate me further. Because that's the way that he is, he will use his full power to destroy me. I walk out of the elevator and into my office, with seven minutes to spare. As soon as I close the door to my office, I hear the annoying voice of Mr. Knight calling out for me from his office.

And here I was, thinking that I might have a little more time in my office than just a few seconds before he calls for me, I'm guessing that he either wants to talk about the thing that happened yesterday or work that will happen today, but either way, I need to go in there. He is after all my boss, much to my annoyance.

After knocking and him being so cruel by answering, I enter his office. "Sit" He says, before I have the chance to even open my mouth. With disgust, I go and sit on one of the chairs, which I really don't want to do. Some nasty things were done there, and I'm not really wanting to sit on a chair after knowing that.

"A big meeting will take place in an hour, I want you to be present and do your thing. However, I don't want a word out of your mouth, not even if asked is for your name. You will remain silent the whole time, bite your own tongue of you have to. This client is very important, don't screw this up for me, or you will be fired. For good this time" He tells me in a warning tone.

I get the feeling that he's not lying about this, and he's completely serious about this, that is for sure. "You can't threaten to fire me" I say, technically he can but I'm angry at him and I want to yell at him for something, might as well be this.

"I can say whatever I want or do whatever I want with you, you are my secretary, and I'm your boss" He says, and then he smirks and chuckles. "You might want to consider being friends with me, after all, no one likes being an enemy of mine. It would be a shame that your life will be made hell because you denied me" He tells me.

This only makes me angrier. "You are low. Threatening to make my life hell, only to be friends with you. Has yesterday thought you'd nothing. Friends don't humiliate, hurt or threaten each other. That's why we will never, ever, ever be friends, not in this lifetime or another. Never" I practically yell at him and stand up and storm back into my office, feeling satisfied that I am sticking up to myself and making sure that he can't boss me around like he did two days before.

He may be my boss, but he will never be able to ruin my life, I don't let that happen to me. He loves destroying lives, but this life will not be destroyed by the man that calls himself Alexander Knight. In my office, I sit down by my desk and open my computer and prepare myself for this meeting that I will be going to.

If this client is so important, then I really need to know information about this person and why this person is so important for the company. Though, I think that Mr. Knight just wants to punish me, and this client isn't that important. Even though all clients are important but not speaking or saying even my own name, that's where I draw the line.

Before I know it, the meeting is about to start. I don't even know a thing about the client. The only thing I could find out was the fact that the client is a new business owner and I have no idea what he wants to do with Mr. Knight. I guess it will all be revealed in just few minutes.

One man is seated in the meeting room, and then Mr. Knight and I are there. The man looks like he's in his sixties or something. He doesn't even glance my way, like I'm not even here at all. But, I'm used to it. This is normal on a meeting like this, and I hate it.

The meeting didn't take very long, and it's soon over. The man was trying to buy Selone Inc. but that didn't work out because Mr. Knight turned him down each time. He even tried to bribe Mr. Knight, even that didn't work out for him.

He just bought this place, I'm pretty sure he's not just going to sell it any time soon. Even to the highest bidder. I found out on this meeting that even if this man is new in the business world, he's crazy rich. Like, he's loaded with money and he wants to buy everything he can.

The meeting ends and they shake hands, even if they didn't do any business at all. I begin to walk to my office. "Ms. Ace" Mr. Knight calls out. This happens every time after a meeting, someone calls for me and wants to talk to me. Usually that never happened with Mr. Selone, he just talked to me in his office few hours later or something.

I just went back to work and doing my work after the meeting, sometimes he's want to talk to me about it, but most of the time, he just anted to teach me things. He was the greatest mentor that I've ever had and I'm sad that he left the company.

I turn around to face. "Yes, Mr. Knight?" I ask, with a smile. I'm trying to be in a cheerful mood, shake the whole angry thing and forget that it happened, though I doubt I'll be able to forget it any time soon. "Do you know why I'm not selling this humble company?" He asks.

Did he just say humble? And here I thought that he bought it because he liked it or something. I don't really know why he's asking me this, he should not be asking me this. How am I suppose to know why he buys things and why he doesn't? It is none of my business what he does.

"No, Mr. Knight. I do not know" I tell him. He takes a few steps closer to me. Our bodies close together. I'm not falling for this again. He's fooled me once, he won't do it again. I take a few steps back, to not be as close to him as he likes to be.

Being polite to him is a bit harder than it looks, because someone I feel like yelling at him. This guy makes me frustrated and angry all the time, no one has ever done that before. His thumb goes under my chin and lifts my face up. I make the mistake of looking into his eyes. "I bought it because of you" He says.