CHAPTER 4
1129 Words
“We are almost done with the business deal in Arizona. The only problem is that the construction team is refusing to cooperate over the agreed budget. They are increasing the budget originally agreed by 20 percent, sir. We’ve tried our best to negotiate with them, but it’s not working. I think it will be better if you do the negotiation yourself, sir.”
My personal assistant keeps informing me about our deal to open a restaurant in Arizona, but I just cannot concentrate on her voice again. I am overjoyed. She just called me, and for some unknown reason, I cannot seem to contain the joy I feel about the fact that I just heard her solemnly beautiful voice.
“Alex? Are you listening?” Samantha, my personal assistant, says, bringing me back to the present from the fantasy I have transported myself into.
“Um, I’m sorry. You were saying?”
I try to concentrate on what I am doing, but it is pretty hard for me to get her pretty small face out of my head.
“Okay, now I am intrigued. What are you thinking about? Or should I ask ‘who’?” Samantha says, a hint of jealousy evident in her tone.
“It is none of your business, Samantha. You seem to have forgotten that I am the boss here, and you are the employee. So do not question me!”
I caution her harshly, which makes her face fall with disappointment. She gives me her popular pitiful gaze, hoping that I would fall for it like I always did in the past, but that just makes me angrier. For some reason, everything she does, which normally turns me on, now infuriates me.
“You know what? Get out!” I say coldly.
My reply stuns Samantha as I see the serious shocked expression on her face. She didn’t expect that. She thought everything would unfold as usual. A scenario where she would get me angry, I would lash out at her angrily, then she would bat her large eyelashes at me, then I would be turned on, then I would bend her over the table and forget about business.
However, at the moment, I just want her to get out of my office. She also sees the determined expression on my face as she begins to pack her stuff. She knows me all too well, that’s one of the reasons I like her. She knows when I’m being serious or flirtatious.
Knowing that she cannot change my mind at that moment, she does the best trick she can at the moment. She walks out of my office seductively, making sure to take large strides as she walks, revealing the slit of her wine dress to show off her thighs.
But again, I feel nothing. And I can see the disappointed expression on her face as she finally looks back at me when she wants to shut the door. Still, I am not moved. She really needs to understand that a NO is a NO.
However, as I think about what just happened, I cannot help but wonder what is wrong with me. Samantha is a hot lady. Very hot. That is one of the main reasons I appointed her as my personal assistant amidst the 52 applicants.
“Why am I not interested in her again?” I wonder.
But I am brought out of my daze when a message notification pops up on my phone. I quickly check to see what it is only for my joy to quadruple when I see that Cynthia just replied to the message I sent to her. I feel like I am on top of the world, and I still struggle to understand the reason for my sudden obsession with her.
A simple “okay” from her has gotten me smiling like an i***t at my phone. I have been smiling ever since I received her call about 15 minutes ago. The moment I heard her voice earlier, my gloomy day transformed into a bright one.
I had been disturbed and confused the past few days as I expected her call. When I dropped the note with my card, I was hoping she would call me later that night, but she didn’t, and it got me very disturbed.
I nearly lost a business deal just because she was on my mind. I would wonder why she hadn’t called me. Had I lost my mojo? It had been five days and she had yet to call me. Every few seconds, I glanced at my phone wondering if I would see it vibrating with an unknown number on display. But I got nothing.
So you can imagine how happy I am now when she called and told me she would love to discuss more about the relationship I talked about in the card. I feel fulfilled. My sense of accomplishment was totally activated as I sent her a text of the location and time we should meet today.
And again, I am so happy that she didn’t say she would be too busy to meet me today. Instead, she just replied to me with an “okay”. And for the first time ever, I am happy about that ordinary word like I never thought I would.
I am really having a lot of firsts with this young lady, and I intend to keep it up until I unravel all the mysteries about her. She seems like a challenge, and I love challenges.
Knowing that I will not be able to concentrate on my work again, I pick up the keys to my recently exchanged BMW and walk out of my office.
The moment I got out, I can see the surprised expression on the faces of my employees, and they are right to be surprised because I normally do not leave my office until 5 pm. I may be a playboy, but I still value my job. Else, I will have a problem with my father, and I don’t want that. So I can imagine what will be going through my employees’ minds as I am leaving at 1:30 pm.
This Cynthia lady is really having a strong effect on me. And the best way I know to overcome such an effect is to satisfy my curiosity about her.
I wonder what kind of expression she will have on her face as I meet her today. One of the most elite men in South Africa coming to look for her personally? With a mysterious deal to offer?
I smile as I imagine how beautiful her brown eyes will be as she takes my deal in. Suddenly I really, really want to see that expression.
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