It seems Matt lives far closer to the office than I realised. I had gotten up at a stupid hour this morning, due to a rather inconvenient phone call. Either he was here early or he had seen me arrive. None the less, I was happy he had followed my instructions. Dad had called me on the way to the office, saying he had organised two office’s side by side, at the front of our floor. He didn’t seem very pleased that I had given him the task to move people around but I didn’t care much. I was happy that he was also following my instructions.
I got out fo the car with a rather large smile on my face, making Matt smile with me. I had read through his paperwork yesterday and was very surprised. He was efficient and none of his paperwork seemed rushed. He had gotten all the grants and slips approved. It did concern me a little bit but I would rather have him beside me if he is a spy, that was it will be easier to kill him off.
“Good morning ma’am”
“It is a good morning Matt. Walk with me. We will discuss your promotion and your new case”
“Promotion? I don’t understand, I thought you summoned me early to fire me”
“Of course not. If I wanted to fire you, I would have humiliated you in front of everyone yesterday”
We rode the elevator up to our floor. I found the two office space and saw my father had already written my new name on one of the doors. I opened the unnamed room and ushered Matt in.
“What exactly was your job here Matt? Your file is empty”
“I am a simple intern”
“Yes I understand that, but all interns should have cases, or at least notes by their supervisors. Who is your supervisor?”
“Mya Berry, she’s one of the senior staff here”
“Your jobs?”
“She made me do the morning coffee runs, printer runs, photocopy runs. I was doing nothing all day and still getting paid for it. It was a fair enough pay so there was no point in quitting”
“Alright your new job will be my personal assistant slash secretary. You will be doing odd jobs around the office. You will be getting your own cases that I will expect you to finish along with your daily jobs. I may get you to do some pretty crazy jobs and the occasional coffee runs. I hope you don’t have a social life or a girlfriend because I will be expecting you here early and late every day. Any questions?”
“No”
“Alright. This is your new office. You have ten minutes before your actual day starts. So pack up your cubicle and brag for all I care, be back here before seven thirty. Understand?”
“Yes ma’am”
He left and I dumped my bag in my new office. It was bare and had no furniture, I guess that will be one the first of many odd jobs for Matt. I followed back down the hall to the room full of cubicles. Everyone was already in which I was thankful on. It looks like they took my warning. Matt had no expression his face and everyone around him watch him pack up his cubicle in pity. He must not have made many friends while he worked here.
“Good morning everyone”
The heads of everyone shot up and I heard a group grumble of ‘morning’. Matt had finished and was standing next to me. He still hadn’t given them any clue that he was getting promotion. I smiled at the pity they all gave hime. They thought he was getting fired.
“I have now moved into the front of the building. Since I am now the new CEO, everything starting from today will go through me”
“What about Mr Martin?”
“He will be the new Head of Directors and when I’m not available he will fill in for me as well. You will still report to Mr Martin but now all paperwork will go through me. I do hope we all get along and no one gets on my bad side. There will be a few new rules that you will need to follow. No one, under any circumstances are to enter my office. Everything will and must be process through Matthew here, who is now in the office beside me”
I watched a grin split on Matt’s face and the pity turn into anger. Some of these people have served my father for a very long time. Unfortunately my father is an idiot and so are the people under him. I will not have anyone beside me who cannot fix a simple merge. I also want to keep an eye Matt as well. There was something fishy I couldn’t quite grab onto.
“What?”
“Why him?”
“He’s only an intern”
“And yet, he closed the merge yesterday in under two hours. Which reminds me. Mya Berry?”
“Ma’am”
The voice came from behind me and I turned to see a rather pretty blonde standing behind me. She had a rather sly smile on her face. Owen must be here.
“Yes”
“Your husband is here to see you”
Then I heard him shout from the other side of the building.
“S, for god’s sake, tell your handy security man to keep his bloody hands off me”
“Tell the security to stand down. I will be there in a second”
She nodded and head back out, swaying her hips a little too much.
“Now where was I. Oh yes. Mya Berry?”
“Yes ma’am”
“You’re fired. You need to leave the building within the hour. Matt, dump your stuff and find me a good interior designer. I’m going to have my office walls painted purple. Don’t dawdle Ms Berry”
I walked back to the reception desk, rising my eyebrow at Owen who was being sized up by a large security man. Looks like I missed a few people with the transition.
“Is there a problem here?”
“No ma’am, security protocol for person without a security tag”
“He’s husband and this information was in the briefing”
“My apologies ma’am”
“Owen”
He scowled at the security guard, who sneered back, before following me into my office.
“Is something wrong?”
“No”
“Then why are you here?”
“I wanted to see my wife, that’s all”
“Why the fuck are you here Owen?”
I eyed him as I sat down in my chair. I hate it when he’s like this, all sentimental and shit. We married over four years ago now and he knew full well what this marriage meant before agreeing to it. This meant nothing to me but a mere business proposal. I need his fathers company and he was in a tight spot. It was a win win for the both of us. I even encouraged him to find himself a mistress because I was not going to sleep with him.
“I’m bored”
“Don’t you have work to do?”
“Well, I was going to start to clean up our merge by someone from here already finished that for me”
“Don’t you have other clients to attend to?”
“No”
“What have you been doing for the past six years?”
Owen shrugged his shoulders and I sighed. I moved out of my chair and stood in front of him. I saw him gulp and realised what he actually came in here for. I leant down in front of him, watching his eyes dart between my eyes and the low cleavage of my dress. I placed a soft hand o this cheek and he sucked in a sharp intake of breath. I pulled my hand away, But Owen grabbed hold of it, pulling me onto his lap, making me blush at the suddenness. I don’t understand where any of this was coming from and why now? Was something happening and am I meant to be distracted? Maybe I shouldn’t be worrying about Matthew being the spy. What if they managed to plant one right in front of me?
“Owen we talked about this”
“No, you talked and I didn’t listen. You can’t stop me and I know you won’t. I can feel you”
I moaned when he bit into my collar bone, sending a rush of electricity through my body. It’s been a while since I’ve felt this hot. I felt Owen chuckle into my neck as he kissed his way up to my face. A knock on my office door, bought me back to reality and I pushed myself off Owen. I straightened my face and dress before sitting back down in my chair.
“Come in”
Matt popped his head in and I motioned for him to come in. He glanced at Owen, making him shift in his seat.
“What is it Matt?”
“There was some paperwork that came through that you need to look through and sign”
I eyed him as he passed the paperwork over. He mood changed, he was no longer jittery. See I knew there was something fishy about him.
“Who do you exactly work for Matthew?”
“I work for you S, though Mr Matthews wasn’t very pleased that you haven’t reported back to him yet”
“I see. Is he back in New York?”
“Heavens no S. He knows that you know what you are doing. He wishes you started to change the staff to more of our people. He doesn’t like the fact that there are witness everywhere”
“It that all?”
“Yes ma’am”
“Have you found an interior designer yet”
“Yes, I have sent them your designs from your office back in New Haven”
“Yes thank you. You can leave now”
He gave Owen on last questioning glance, before leaving my office. Fuck.
“Well this isn’t going well”
“You shut your fucking mouth Owen. Now go back to your office. I will have a list of people emailed over to you and you can actually do some work. And for the love of god, don’t ever come back over here wanting sex from me. You know very well what happens to people who disobey me”
Owen nodded and shuffled out of my office. I hate being like this to him but somedays he acts like a hormonal teenager. And to think he’s older than me. I know he serves os much better but I didn’t have the time to push for a divorce and plus my partner might disagree with me. Men. I wished he found his pleasure somewhere else.
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