🌹R O S E🌹

🌹CHAPTER TWENTY - TWO🌹

I walk to work, trying to be brave and forget the fact that hundreds or more like millions of people have seen the article of me in the paper and I hate it. I hate the fact that people are going to whispering things about me behind my back, it's not a comforting feeling.

But, I've decided to not let it bother me, that much. Not thinking about it is a great way. My way up the elevator with three other people is embarrassing. I can practically hear them thinking and laughing at me in their head and that isn't helping my case.

Finally, I make my way to the office. I let out a gasp when I notice something when I open the door. On my desk is a clear vase and side are a dozen or so white roses, exactly the same roses as the ones that I had looked at when Mr. Knight and I were in theta florist shop.

I walk over to the desk and touch one of the roses, they're fresh and so beautiful. I've never gotten flowers from anyone, except for my dad, but that's different. Someone has given me flowers and I'm pretty sure I know who they are from as there were only two people with me when I looked at them.

And, I'm pretty sure that woman, Mrs. Theary did not give me flower, which only leaves one person that could have possible given me flowers. Mr. Knight. I just stand there and look at them and lightly touch them, they are just so fascinating.

I walk over to the door that connects the two offices and knock on it, like usual he calls out harshly 'Enter' and I open the door and walk inside. He's sitting by his desk and I've never noticed it but he looks so good. He's hot, I don't know why I've never noticed, but he is. I'm not going to deny that.

He's writing something on a paper. "Mr. Knight, did you give me flowers?" I ask. There wasn't a note with the flowers so I have no idea from whom they are from, but I can always take a guess on him. And, I just want to be sure. My question makes him stop writing and his head snaps to me.

Our eyes meet for a second and they stay that way. The eye contact is short, but it felt like eternity, yet a good eternity. When he breaks the contact, I feel this longing inside me to keep looking into his eyes. "Yes, yes I did" He only says. His voice is cruel, yet it's hiding something inside it.

Something that I've never heard from him and it's new to me. "Why?" I only ask, it doesn't make any sense to me why he of all people would be sending me flowers, or giving them to me or whatever. I just don't understand it, and I'm pretty sure I never will.

"A kind gesture, Ms. Ace, only that" He says, he goes back to writing on that paper that he was writing on when I came, in reality, I should have expecting him to say something like this. He's not the type of person that says nice things to others.

His words don't hurt me at all, because I already knew that he was going to say something like that. It was only hope that he would say something nice to me and be a normal human being, then again he did give me flowers. "Thank you, anyway, it made me smile" I say as I head for my office.

He doesn't say anything so I take it as a hint and leave and close the door. As my eyes look back to the roses, I smile. It really does put a smile on my face and make me happy. It also helps me forget how screwed up my life has become and my image ruined.

Even if I become a successful business owner in the future, people will be able to find this article only and know that people thought I was a criminal and a horrible and a bad person, which I'm not and if people knew that, then they wouldn't have written all those things about me.

I log into my computer and check Mr. Knight's schedule, and I notice that there are a lot of meetings for him today. I quickly email the schedule to him. I also make sure to ask him in the email if he wanted me to attend the meetings. The phone rings and I take it up and answer it. "Mr. Knight's office, Rose speaking" I answer into the phone.

"My name is Melissa, and I'm Ms. Krystal's secretary. Ms. Krystal wants to reschedule her meeting with Mr. Knight tomorrow for personal reasons" A woman on the other line speaks. Quickly, I pull up his schedule tomorrow and he does have a meeting with Ms. Krystal tomorrow.

"Of course, is there any day, she would prefer?" I ask her. Today is the only day of the week that Mr. Knight has a busy schedule, while there are more calming days ahead and than next week he has more meetings. "Friday, at one in the afternoon is what she would prefer" She says.

Looking over at Friday and at the time that she requested, I notice that Mr. Knight has a meeting then. "Mr. Knight is unavailable at the time, however is it all right at three in the afternoon?" I ask, when I see that he isn't busy then.

"Yes, that will work" She says and she hangs up without even saying anything else, Well, that was kind of ride of her to do that, but then again she could be in a horrible mood or something. I know one thing, because of the roses, I feel much better.

And, I'm not bringing myself down because of the thing that happened this morning, I feel like smiling and being happy. Mr. Knight doesn't know it, but he cheered me up when I really needed it, he might think of it as a kind gesture but it actually just made my day.

Before I forget, I change Mr. Knight's schedule tomorrow and take out the meeting he had with Ms. Krystal and set it on Friday at three. I answer few emails and just as I was reading one, I hear yelling coming from Mr. Knight's office, but he's not yelling at me to come to him.

He's yelling at someone, only I don't know who or why. His office isn't soundproof but right now I wish it was, because I can't concentrate with his yelling. He's angry, that's for sure. I've heard him be angry before, but never like this. This is a whole another level of angry.

I can't hear the words he's saying, but I know he's angry and yelling at someone. I stand up and walk over to the door, I better figure out who he's yelling at and save that poor person from his wrath. I knock on the door, however I can tell that he isn't going to be able to hear me knocking with all his yelling of anger.

I open the door and walk inside. As soon as I walk inside the office, Mr. Knight's voice calms down and he actually goes quiet. Two people are sitting almost in tears in the two chairs, I feel kind of bad for those people. It's a woman and a man, and the two of them are so frightened of him.

I would be too, if I were the one being yelled at. I've always hated being yelled at. My mom never really yelled at me but when she did, I always cried. "Good, Ms. Ace, come here" He orders me, his voice softens. A lot, and he's actually talking nicely to me, which is strange.

He was angry only few seconds and now he's sort of nice, it's confusing, then again everything about him is so confusing to me. I walk over to him. He mentions me to come all the way to him, behind his desk. He stands up. "Sit" He whispers to me and I do that.

With a puzzled look, I sit on his chair, by his desk. It feels so nice, yet it feels so nice. His chair is a lot softer than mine and his desk is bigger, I've never noticed that. The office also looks larger than it actually is from the view in the chair. I can also see the two people better.

I look up at Mr. Knight who is standing. "Now, Ms. Ace, those two people are the reason why you are on the front page this morning" He tells me and I can feel the shock overtake me, but then the anger takes its hold in me. My eyes darken as I look at the two of them.

The sympathy that I had before has completely vanished from my mind. "Exactly, what do you wish to do to them?" He asks me, he doesn't look at them. His focus is only on me and my focus is only on me. If we were in a different situation, I would have loved this, but not now, not when the two people responsible for that article are in the room.

"I don't think I understand your question, Mr. Knight" I say, my eyes glance at the two people and they're nervous, that's as clear as the day outside. "Ms. Ace, would you like me to fire them from their company, bankrupt the company, ruin the company, sending them broke, ruin their image and reputation..." He trails off.

I let his words sink into my brain and I think about it for a bit. Each one of those sounds rather tempting and it's actually kind of hard to pick what I want to do. My gaze goes back to them and I see that they're shaking in their seats. They're afraid, and they should be.

I let out an evil smirk. "What about all of the above?" I ask him, not looking at him but looking at the two of them to see their reaction. They're sweating out of fear, they look at Mr. Knight to see how he will respond to my question. "Well, that is a bit too much" He says but then pauses. I do sense there's a but coming.

"But" He says, there it is. "When it comes to someone I care about, nothing is too much. Consider it done, Ms. Ace" He says and my cheeks instantly heat up. But, I hide it rather well. "You two may leave now, your boss will be getting a call and your banks too" Mr. Knight says and they practically run out of his office.

I still sit there and a silence fall upon us, I don't know exactly know what I should do at the moment. "Thank you" I whisper after a moment or two of silence. "You're welcome" He only says. His words that he spoke before about him caring about me comes into mind.

I never knew that he cared about me, we haven't known each for that long and he's been pretty cruel to me the whole time. "I'm sorry for everything that happened, I will make everything better for you" He says. I look up at him, and his eyes are only fixed on me.

The blood rushes to my cheeks and I can't stop blushing. "Thank you for that, it means a lot to me" I tell him with a kind smile, which he returns. The first time that he has actually returned a smile or even smiled at all. He looks handsome when he smiles.

The change that I'm seeing in him in just one day is something that I've never seen before and the fact that she's being nice to me and giving me flowers are making me see another side of him, a side that I never knew existed. A side, I'm pretty sure not many have seen. Perhaps I was wrong about him.