🌹R O S E🌹

🌹CHAPTER TWO🌹

"Delighted to meet you, Ms. Ace" Mr. Knight speaks, his voice sends chills down my spine. "You too, Mr. Knight" I tell him, with a kind smile. "Now that the two of you have met, you should continue. Mr. Knight, tell me why you believe yourself qualified candidate for the company?" Mr. Selone him.

I take note on the question and what the answer will be. I sit in the chair professionally and I make sure not to state my opinion, because whatever deal it is that Mr. Knight and Mr. Selone are discussing doesn't apply to me and I'm only here to do my job, even when I don't know what the meeting's about.

"Mr. Selone, I have a degree in business. My family owns the largest business line in the world. I've been the CEO of bigger companies than this humble one" Mr. Knight speaks, his voice is cold and distant, monotone like, almost as if he has been practicing to say that.

Those words were a bit rude and unnecessary, apparently I'm not the only one who thinks that. Mr. Selone becomes angry at it. I haven't been working here for long, but I know for a fact that this company is not humble, far from it actually.

I bite my tongue to keep myself from saying anything. When a secretary speaks up, it means that the deal is off. That's the first rule. Keep quiet in meetings. Don't say anything unless spoken too. I'm here to look pretty and take notes that no one needs. I'm supposed to be seen and not heard.

I hate those rules, when I have my own business, I will change the rules at my company. Hopefully that will inspire other companies to do the same. "Mr. Knight, if you wish to buy my company, then please don't undermine it. Other candidates have offered higher amount of money" Mr. Selone says, trying to maintain his anger. He's pretty good at it.

Learning from Mr. Selone on how to run a business is good and he's a great mentor. His words shock everything out of me. The look of surprise and shock on my face doesn't go past anyone, though neither of them are paying attention to me. None of them have looked at me for some time now, like I'm not even here at all.

Every word that they speak, I write down on my notepad. I have a feeling that this meeting is an important one. "You may be the perfect candidate, having the education and being the youngest billionaire in the world. It does make you qualified for the job. However, all of this points to the fact that you will demolish my company and build a new for yourself or to have a reputation" Mr. Selone says.

"Mr. Selone, please take into the consideration that I may do that, but I will pay more than any of the other candidates. I highly doubt anyone would want this company if I refuse to take the offer. You'd at least get thirty thousand for it, and even then, your company will be ruined, that's how it will be demolished. If I don't get it, then no one does" Mr. Knight speaks, his voice is dark and holds a lot of power.

I watch his moves, he doesn't mess up on anything. Now when I take a closer look at him, his suit doesn't have wrinkles on it, his hair is tangled, yet it looks professional. His body language is professional in every possible way, he really came prepared, but it still looks like he's always like this. "I was warned about you" Mr. Selone says.

"How you use blackmail to get everything you want" He continues. Mr. Knight is a man that will certainly annoy me to my limits and even beyond that. I see that he's a spoiled, arrogant prick. "Now that we've established that, you ready to make a deal?" Mr. Knight asks, he doesn't even sound offended.

"The contract is here, and I might as well sell now. However, I will have to fire the staff on the floor for you. The company policy is that once a new CEO owns it, new staff will be provided to their liking" Mr. Selone speaks, his eyes catches mine.

I look with sadness at him. I just started working here a week ago and I need this job. It pays a lot and I need the money to start my own business. "Of course, I have one request before I sign. I want Ms. Ace to be my secretary" Mr. Knight speaks, finally looking at me. I look at him with shock written all over my face.

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The deal was signed and now the paperwork is already in the process and soon this company will have a new CEO. The owner will still be Mr. Selone, but he just won't be the CEO. That is until he sells the ownership of the company, which I believe he will sometime do, if Mr. Knight takes care of it.

They say their final word and the meeting is over, they hand shake and Mr. Selone goes somewhere, probably his office. I exit the meeting room. "Ms. Ace" Mr. Knight's voice calls out to me as I was about to go to my office. I turn around to face him. "Yes?" I ask him, he stands a few centimeters away from me, just a little too close for my taste.

He takes a step closer to me, our bodies almost touching. I back away a bit, not rally liking being this close to him. Even though I back away, I can still smell his cologne. I don't know what smell it is, but I sure do like it. "I don't tolerate mistakes" He tells me.

Then he just walks away and pretends that we never had this conversation, or just doesn't care that we had it. What an idiot. Mentally shaking my head to try to understand what had taken place here, I make my way to my office. The words that were spoken on that meeting still haunt my memory.

Mr. Selone loves this company and now he's giving it away to someone else. I know for a fact that he has worked for this company from the beginning, he built it from scratch and it comes in second of his wife. And he's selling it, and to that man.

I've always been told to never judge a book by its cover but I know for a fact that Mr. Knight will be a horrible boss. I guess they can't all be Mr. Selone, the best boss in the whole world, even if I have only been working for him for a week, but it has been the best work week ever.

Being his secretary, I'm treated the right way and he isn't rude to me or anyone. He's nice and kind to me, kinder than my last boss and any boss that I've been working for. Mr. Selone understands that in every employee, there is hard work that most bosses don't see, and they do most of the work.

I go through some files that need to go over before Mr. Selone will sign them. It's hard to even focus on the work I need to do, because somehow all my thoughts return to that meeting. But, maybe it's not the meeting that I'm thinking about, but the client in the meeting.

The one that will one day be my new boss. Mr. Selone refused to have me unemployed, he even changed the deal that I'm not to be fired by Mr. Knight at any time. I can only quit on my own free will, with no bribes or forced out of it, it will have to be my choice. And I was supposed to be treated with the respect that a human being deserves and a woman deserves.

The hours pass by slowly, but surly. I didn't see Mr. Selone after that meeting, he had no other meetings, as he wanted me to cancel them all, and he didn't call out of me to help him with something. I took calls and emails from clients and sent few emails to Mr. Selone about clients and about the calls.

Five in the afternoon, I pack my stuff and head out of my office, finishing up the day. Before I exit my office, I knock on the door that connects my office to Mr. Selone's. "Come in, Ms. Ace" I hear him say. I open the door, he's sitting by his desk, drowning in paperwork. Guess we've both been busy with paperwork.

"I'll be leaving now, Mr. Selone" I say, I don't enter the office, just stand on the threshold. He nods his head. "Good night, Ms. Ace" He says. I smile at him with a kind smile. "Good night, Mr. Selone" I say to him and close the door behind me.

I walk into the elevator and wait until it goes down to the lobby, until it opens and I walk out of it. The lobby is always full of life at five in the evening, when people are done working, they often just stands there and talk and gossip about everything between the earth and the sun.

Walking out into the parking lot, I see that Lena is waiting for me in front of the building. Hopefully she isn't mad for the stunt I pulled this morning. I open the car door and get inside. "Finally, you took forever" Is the first thing she says when I close the car door behind me.

"I had work, you know how it's important to me" I remind her. Putting on my seat belt, she starts the car and drives off to my apartment. She doesn't live that far away from me, so it's good that she always drives me to work and back home, it works in both out favors.

"Seriously, girl, you need to get a life" She tells me. "I have a life" I tell her. She rolls her eyes when she stops at a red light. "Other than work and work related. I'll take you to a bar tomorrow night" She says, exited out of her mind. I shake my head. "There is no way that I'm going to a bar. I like working" I say, reassuring her that I don't need to I go to a bar.

"Working is boring, it will be fun. Just one night and then I won't bother you again with the subject. By then you'll have realized what real fun is" She says. I already know that she isn't going to stop until she gets what she wants, she will continue to bug me until I say yes.

I might as well give in now and spare myself the time of her calling, texting, and showing up on my doorsteps and knocking on my door until I agree. She has done it once and I'm not about to let it happen again. She's pretty headstrong about everything.

Once an idea gets into her head, she won't stop until she succeeds. Sometimes I admire her about it, I wish I would have the courage for things like that. "Fine, I'll go. One night, that's it. No more and no less" I tell her, really regretting my decision of saying yes.

Bars and parties aren't my style. In collage, I was always the girl who would skip them to study and read books, not the fun party type or the skipping school type. She squeals, as she parks in front of my apartment. "This will the night you won't forget" She says.

"Yeah, I don't think so" I tell her and go out of the car. If I had stayed she'd lecture me about how I'm supposed to look like and act and drink. All the rules of being in a bar that she wants me to know. I open the door of my apartment and get inside. Tomorrow night will be disaster, I just know it.