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🌹CHAPTER NINE🌹

William seems like a nice guy. He loves showing himself off, like he keeps telling me stuff about himself and how great he is at everything. But other than that, he also does enjoy messing with Mr. Knight. Telling me embarrassing childhood stories.

I also figured out that this isn't a business dinner, rather two friends meeting and a secretary. I'm a bit mad at Mr. Knight for this, but I'm very good at concealing my feelings and I've decided that I'm going to kindly ask him about it in the car, and when I say kindly I'm going to yell at him.

The dinners ends with Mr. Knight paying because he invited both of us, and he insisted on it. We leave the restaurant and when we're in the parking lot, they handshake and hug like they did before. "Alexander, don't let this one go. I have a feeling that she's the one" William says. Mr. Knight doesn't answer him, only nods his head.

I don't understand what he means. He goes to his car and when I notice it, I gape at the car. It's a white Lamborghini, I've never seen one up close, only in movies. He drives off somewhere. I turn around to face Mr. Knight and I give him the most angriest glare I've ever done.

He just gets into the car and I follow behind him, though I know he saw that I'm angry at him. I don't know if he's afraid, but he should be. I can get pretty mean when I'm angry, which doesn't happen that often but when it happens, you better not be close to me.

"What was that?!" I ask, the anger clearly visible in my voice. "What, Ms. Ace?" He asks, a smirk plastered on his handsome face. Wait what? I can't believe that I thought that. Okay, I can't deny that he isn't handsome, because he is rather good-looking, but he's not my type.

"That wasn't a business dinner, you said the client was important when it wasn't even a client to begin with. What was the point of dragging me there when I had nothing to do in there!" I practically yell at him, I don't want to go to harsh on him because he is my boss and I really don't want to lose my job after one day of working for him.

I keep glaring at him. "I did this to save you from Damon Garder. He's known for leaving women crying after the first intimate night. Saved you tears and saved me time of dealing with your tears" He says with no emotion in his voice, and now he is back to being an idiot to me like he was at work. At least at dinner, I did see a side of him that he hides.

"Kind of like you do, right? If I learned one thing in this dinner is that you have your own fair share of heartbroken women" I snap at him. "And why would you care of I got my heart broken anyway?" I ask, I don't know why but I can't be angry at him for long, this man is seriously giving me a headache without the actually headache.

"I don't care. I just don't want to have to fire you because you can't work due to a broken heart" He says, for a small millisecond, I could hear something (else) than cruelness in his voice, it somehow sounded like he cares. "So you're just protecting me?" I ask, raising my eyebrow.

"Yes" He snaps at me. "How noble. I have a knight in shining armor that I never asked for. I don't need protecting and I especially don't need you to protect me" I say with sarcasm laced in my voice, at least on the first sentence. "Why do you do it?" He asks.

I give him a confused look, I'm really surprised of his question. "Why do I do what?" I ask, still not forgetting that I'm angry at him. I don't know why I'm so angry at him, perhaps because he lied to me. "You come from a rich family. Your mother is a successful business owner. You don't need to work, why do you do it?" He asks.

He's completely changing the subject here, he's trying to get away from this, but he won't. "You background checked me? Seriously? It's none of your business why I work" I tell him, still angry at him. Now I'm angry at him for two reasons.

"It is my business. You work for me and I do whatever is best for the company. Did mommy cut your allowance?" He asks. Is he serious? If his goal is trying to make me calm down, then he's failing at it, because he's only making me more angrier by the second.

"Allowance? What are you? Ten?" I ask, he sure is asking like it. The car stops in front of my apartment. Finally, because I've had it with this night and this man. He's making me furious here. I open the car door. "For your information, I want to do this on my own. With no one's help. That's why I work. And, I had a good night. But, not with you!" I yell at him and get out of the car and slam the door before he has the chance to do or say anything.

I hurry to go up to my apartment, but I still hear the car drive away. Good he's gone. Hopefully I never have to go to dinner with him again because he's such a jerk and so arrogant and so cruel to me. I'm just glad that this evening is over.

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And just when I thought I would catch a break from Mr. Knight, I show up at work. I don't even feel guilty of the words that I said last night. He should apologize to me, for the way he acted, how he lied to me, and just for being rude and a jerk to me.

I walk into my office and do the normal things, open my computer and email Mr. Knight his schedule. Is it weird that I would rather not see him today? I may not feel guilty of everything I said, but I'm embarrassed of it and nervous for how he will act to me today. He will probably still be a jerk.

"Ms. Ace!" He calls from his office, a minute after I send him the email with his schedule for today. I stand up and take a deep breath. I was hoping that I wouldn't have to see him today, or at least not so soon. I go over to the door and knock on it. I wait for him to yell out 'Enter' and when I hear it, I open the door.

The first thing I'm faced with when I walk inside is his strong scented cologne, it's the same one he worse last night, but it seems it has been scaled up a bit. "You called, Mr. Knight?" I ask kindly and professionally. I might still be angry at him, but I really want to keep my job.

"See these files over here?" He asks, referring to the stack of files that I brought him yesterday. "Yes" I tell him. I a bit confused of in what direction this conversation is going. "One paper is missing" He says, his voice turns dark. "What?" I ask shocked.

I went over those files so many times yesterday, it's impossible. "I can't have a mistake like that go unnoticed, Ms. Ace. This is serious" He tells me. "I swear, everything was in there when I printed it out. I check it a dozen times or so. It must be there. Perhaps it accidentally went to the wrong place" I suggest.

This can't be happening. "No, Ms. Ace it is not. I've gone over every single file, the paper is missing. Leave!" He suddenly orders me. With water forming in my eyes, I go into my office. Closing the door behind me I clench my fists to stop myself from crying.

I can't cry, not now. I can't believe that I made a mistake. I don't like it when I make mistakes. It makes me feel low of myself. I sit by my desk and I think. I go over the scene in my head. I remember that I did print every paper out and I did put every single paper where they are supposed to be, there's no way that it just went missing, just like that.

This makes me feel so bad. Not only did I make a mistake but I also made a mistake on the first day that I'm working for Mr. Knight and he's the man that doesn't tolerate mistakes. He told me that when we first met and not I might be paying the price for my mistake.

I don't know what he will do, I know for a fact that he has some sort of punishment for me in mind, some extra work or something. I think that's his style and he will do something like that. Besides, I don't think he likes me very much, he might even despise me.

I can't say that I like him either, because he's been nothing but rude and mean to me, and I don't like that and it might be starting to become hate. But, I'm giving him a change, because he might be different. I saw a side of him last night that makes me think that he's faking this mean persona.

Why am I even thinking about this? About him? I should be printing out the missing page from the file it belonged to. However, I don't know what page is missing and I don't know from which file it belongs to. I guess I will have to do the only thing I can do.

I send the files to the printer again, this time, I check over every single page and make sure that nothing is truly missing. It takes a few hours to go over all the files on the computer. Then I walk out of my office and go to the printer. I don't see Vicky anywhere near her desk, but I figured that she's out for lunch, it is after all lunchtime.

My stomach growls but I have no time to eat anything at the moment, I need to get these files sorted and to Mr. Knight before he becomes angry at me again. He hasn't called me to his office and he doesn't have any meetings today, he cleared them all yesterday.

I'm just hoping he will forgive me for my mistake, though I doubt he would. He might forget it. But I hope he will forgive me and give me another chance. I also think he's punishing me for last night, perhaps I do feel a bit guilty now. If I knew that I would be punished for the words that I said, I would never have said them, never in a thousand years.

I check the files over at least three times, just to make sure that everything is in the files and it is. I find it rather odd that one single paper went missing, I promise that I won't let it happen again. Though, I do wonder how this did happen.

With the files in my hands, I walk over to Mr. Knight's office. Knock on the door and once he yells 'Enter' I walk inside the office. Vicky is sitting in one of the chairs, looking happy and she's smirking. "Mr. Knight, I have the files, with every single paper in it" I tell him.

I just stand there, waiting for him to respond. But, I never thought that he would say the words that he spoke next. "That won't be necessary, Ms. Ace. You're fired!"