TW : In the next chapter there will be violence ,blood .Mentions of assault and prostitution.Readers discretion is advised.

Now on with the story.
______________________________

Too stunned to speak, he's smiling,people are eagerly staring waiting for my reply.Their eyes scream say yes, they are oblivious to the danger of the world I'm involved in. What looks like a cute proposal is ultimately a conniving way for him to make sure I don't back out.

He's smiling but his eyes are dead straight. There's no way out of this,I must say yes. Yes to him. I clench my jaw and I swallow my anger,I'm sure it is evident on my face right now that I'm irritated.

I faked a lot of proposals with men the chamber had business with. This feels different he has something up his sleeves,my mother is written all over this . She's probably somewhere near watching me. I need to find out what she wants,I'm being way too slow with this.

He stretches his hand and takes my left hand,a smirk crooks up his cheek. His eyes flicker over my red thumb which Sasha almost ruined earlier,he rubs it softly. A tiny scarlet box emerges from his pocket as he brings his hand from behind him.

"Eliza Renovo ....will you make me the happiest man... "

"Yes"

I get off my chair and I pull him to his feet with a huge smile on my face.People applaud and chant congratulations. His emerald eyes observe me curiously as I wrap my hands around his neck. He chuckles and whispers into my hear "You're full of surprises".I kiss him softly on his cheek and another little chuckle follows.

"You made a huge mistake" I whisper into his ear and I gently pull away before his stupid cologne drowns me .He looks at me closely with a sick smile on his face,he comes closer to my face and he does the unthinkable. This man really wants to die,he kisses me lightly on the forehead and hugs me again

"I doubt it"he says and carefully slides the ring on my finger.

After sitting through what seemed like a forced breakfast. I return to the office and he walks me to the entrance.I stop as her turns me around to face him,I push his hand away.

"I'd love to introduce you to my family tomorrow, you'll come. Right?"

"Will she be there?"

He frowns"Yes". Doesn't he like her?,they are collectively trying to ruin me so he must like her .

That's enough for me,I'll finally get to speak with her .I have a hunch that this is big, something terrible is going on. I'm looking into his soulless serpent eyes ,where does he fit into in all of this?.

He kisses me on the cheek "Don't think too much of it ,see you tommorow" he says and walks to his car. I push open the glass door and I return to retrieve the documents I dropped off at reception. Elle hands them over and I walk to the elevator. I pull the diamond encrusted ring into my pocket.

I push the button and it opens,once I'm inside I take a huge breath .Fuck!,I push the button for eight floor.The elevator opens and I'm greeted by a shy secretary.I nod politely and I walk to Mrs Smith's office to hand her the papers that had irregularities I spotted earlier.

I open the door and I see her purple hair Bob up from her laptop. She frowns ,this woman isn't exactly very friendly or in other words she's a bitch and I'm in no mood to tolerate a bitch.

"Good morning Ava"I say and I lower myself into the chair opposite hers. Her office reeks of latte with makeup and hairspray .I sniffle,she hums to my greeting.I lay the documents open and I point out the numbers to her. She rolls her eyes,wow just great.I see no reason for her to act like this. With Jason and Daniel she is always on her best behaviour but with me it's like her bitch switch just gets flipped.

She scuffles"This isn't a ME problem",I can't do this right now,the last thing I need is her bad attitude. I'm the director and I won't be tolerating this today.She is in charge of all documents leaving this department,how is this not HER problem ?.

"I could've sent Sasha to bring them over but I wanted to avoid this and also you looking stupid in front of her"

"Excuse me" she is yelling at the top of her voice and my hangover migraines return. Her blue eyes flare at me through her false lashes that she shouldn't be wearing because they do her no good.

"Lower your voice ,this is a work environment." I say sternly but she continues spewing nonsense and I just can't.The reason Daniel hired her remains a mystery to me. She's not even that qualified,she is pretty though . That's a possible reason.

I gather the rest of the documents,she stands to her feet"Miss Renovo I won't be tolerating this rudeness from you .HR will be hearing about this "

She has no respect for higher authority,her mistakes could've gotten her fired if Daniel or Jason saw them.I slam the rest of the papers on her table and I get up.

"Do your homework and send it back to me before you clock out"

I close her door and I'm now walking to the elevator.

The day goes by and I finish with my meetings. I'm typing a report on my computer,a knock on the door pulls away my attention.

"Come in"

Sasha shyly steps in,"Mister Keith would like to see you . He's in the conference room".He could've called me,I nod and I say thank you.She leaves.

I leave my seat, sunlight drapes across the little frame of the three of us on my table. A deep sigh escapes my lips , I totally forgot to call Daniel .I pull my phone out of my purse and I lean on my table as I dial his number .His name is saved as pretty eyes on my phone and it has been this way for a long time.The reason? I don't know.

"Hi"

"Hey Daniel,are you feeling better?"

"Mhmm"

"Are you sure ?What happened?"

"I'm fine, just a cold"he laughs. His voice does sound weird. I suddenly remember what happened yesterday. Before I can ask he says it

"This isn't about yesterday"

So he remembers...,he wasn't drunk?,what am I saying?,he didn't taste like alcohol.What the hell am I thinking?

He laughs"I'm still here"

"Oh! I got to go. Bye"

I hang up and I go to our dear Vice president who asked for me. Sasha has all her attention on him and is staring at him so dearly.She has her head rested on her hand ,the other is stiring her cup of tea. I turn my attention to our lover boy who is seating in the conference room.

He's flipping pages, and also staring intensively at his system . It's three pm currently, he's having his meeting in the next hour. I stop staring at our girl who is head over heels in love with someone who doesn't give her a time of day.

His eyes leave his system as I enter. He pushes a remote ,now the glass walls are cloaked so no one can see inside .I sit at the opposite side of the long table .

"You asked for me?"I say leaning into my chair and spinning it in the opposite direction.

"Yeah I did"

I immediately turn my chair to face him,his tone is irritated.

"CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED BETWEEN YOU AND SMITH FROM FINANCES!"

He yelled at me. He can yell all he wants though I don't give a shit. I spin the chair again

"Lower your voice,I don't like your tone"I warn him . This is the first time he's yelling at me at work.

"Lower my voice?.....lower my voice?.You harassed a woman to the point she went crying to HR"

" That's neat, really neat.And?"

"Eliza fucking look at me. This is work, this isn't OUR world. You can't do that to people. She was so fucking scared"

I jolt out of my chair and I slam my hands on the table to match his aggressiveness"So because she cried and called me a brute who scared her so damn much. You believed her "

"I know you Eliza,I want you to apologise to her. Getting a replacement like her won't be easy" he adds

I laugh and I fall back into my seat,he curves his eyebrows down. There's a reason I don't fight with Jason, this won't end well because we are both very sturrbon and neither of us will back down .But the thing is I hate lies and snakes,I won't back down now.

"No"

"No ,WHAT?" He shouts.

I giggle , this is definitely getting on his nerves"I won't apologize for what I didn't do .You better get ready to find her replacement".

He frowns"Just because you have power doesn't give you the right to misuse it"

I rub my eyes and I get up"I didn't harass anyone. You say you know me so well but you don't".I yawn and I stretch my hands, bringing my eyes to my watch as I lower them.

"Eliza we're not done talking" he demands as I walk to the door.

"We're done"

I close the door behind me and I make my way back to my office. Sasha looks away from me and a few other employees do the same .I continue my report until a knock on the door stops me.

"Come in"

"Miss Renovo,HR is asking to speak with you" Sasha says peaking slightly through the door.I puff and I roll my eyes.

"That's a no" she giggles.

I give a small smile"Send them in but only if they bring Smith with them"

She nods and quietly shuts the door,oh she messes with the wrong person today. My door opens again,two women usher themselves in along with the sly bitch hidding away behind them like I'm gonna pounce on her.

She's scared of nothing,I wave them to sit and Ava stands in the middle. I bring my chairs closer with my hands in a praying manner.

"Good afternoon Mrs Renovo we're here to talk about a few work ethics and what transpired between the both of you"

"Of course"I say as I walk to one of my shelves.This isn't the first time Ava has entered numbers that can be viewed as deceitful into the records. I've let it go once or twice and just corrected it myself. Good thing I kept those records.

I bend over as I trace the logs to the letter S,bingo. The red folder settles into my hand and I return to my desk.

I push the documents to them"This is proof of you tampering with company records for the past year and I've corrected your mistakes time and time again without notifying Mister Bramante. Do you have anything to say? "

Her crooked nose flares and her eyes are blazing like there's fire in them. She can't hide her nasty expression.

"So what?"

"Are you that dumb?" I tell her

"So what?,You forged company records and I'm sure if I look into it, you've been doing this for a while now"

"You have no proof, I'm an honest and hard-working woman. You're accusing me of theft, this could've been done by anyone"

This woman is quite dumb,she just opened the gates to her doom, she literally is the one that computes all the numbers necessary for the projects we take.The two women look at her collectively .She stops.

I pull a paper out along with a pen and I settle it in front of them.

"You had the audacity to lie about me harassing you when I only came to correct your mistakes because I thought they were honest ones."

The blonde woman turns her head to her"Do you have anything to say".The other woman looks through the documents and her eyes continue to widen.

"Ava this is theft"she yells .Poor Ava is shaking. I'm sure she's cursing me under her breath .I rest my back into my chair and I'm now looking at my watch. It's Four-thirty. It's almost time to clock off this work and move to the chamber's .I watch as she grabs her satin shirt for comfort

"I......I'm sorry"

She like all snakes when caught is not sorry. She is only sorry she got caught.

"Take that pen and paper,I want an hand written apology for wasting my time and also turn in your resignation letter . You're fired"

Yes ,I can do that. I oversea all the departments in this company,I won't let some purple headed obnoxious reptile insult me and get away with it .Not only that too she's been stealing for quite sometime so this is just a lucky opening for me.Her jaw drops,

"Fuck you,you can't do this!"

She claws at me and I try to lean back but she pulls me by the hair and her nails dig into my skin

Shit ,she cut me.

I must resist the urge to land her one right here right now.

She continues tugging until both women manage to drag her away .I grab my bleeding cheek "Fuck".

My hand lands on the Telecom "Sasha send in security"

I come over to the front of my desk,she is not happy at all .I smile and she launches at me again.

"You ugly slut"she yells. With all the ruckus I'm sure Jason can hear.I hope it doesn't ruin his meeting though.

I fold my hands and she continues tugging my hair and this time her hand emerges victorious with a fist full of my black hair. I want to put my hands on her so bad,I must resist .I know she's a psycho but I didn't expect this.

Security barges in and they unhook her from my body,I don't think I'm getting that hand written apology .They carry her out of my office and the two women follow.

Sasha runs in "Are you okay?",I nod.I look at my watch its five .She offers me a tissue for my bleeding cheek,"Thank you"I say as I grab it and latch it to my face.

She helps me pick up the papers the crazy bitch scattered. I arrange them all into their respective shelf spaces,I take my purse and I drop my phone into it.

"Shouldn't you be off ?"I ask her,I close the door behind is as we both get out."Mister Keith isn't off yet,I'll wait till he finishes his meeting."

I smile at her,"Is that so?"

The conference door opens ,three men Wal out,Sasha greets them and walks them over to the elevator.

I grab another round of tissue from her desk, and I dip the bloodied on into the bin.
Jason walks out next ,he pays me no attention and I do the same to him.

"Five-thirty at Daniels don't be late"he says and walks in the direction of his office. His footsteps return to where I'm standing,he grabs my arm and turns me to face him .I hit his hand away,he steps closer and turns my chin to see my cheek

"What happened?"his Olive eyes look intensively at my cut .I pull my face out of his hand and I drop the tissue in the bin. After that shit he pulled today he doesn't get to care about me anymore.

"Don't touch me" I order .I leave him and I walk to the elevator. It opens and Sasha steps out,I tell her goodnight and I step in .
My phone beeps and I fish it out of my purse,it's from an unknown number. I walk out of the elevator and I open the message

Hi,it's Damien. How was your day?

"Fucking green eyes bastard".

Elle stares at me with her eyes widened,I'm yelling.I give a smile

"See you on monday Mrs Renovo" she yells as I walk past her. I wave and I exit the building.

I'm in my vehicle now and I'm about to drive to Daniels. My mind is spiralling,I can't imagine what my mother is planning . Tommorow will tell .Now I must perform my obligations to the chamber.

Thank you for reading
Don't forget to vote and leave your comments down below.