The Other Woman

3. GISELLE

It's the summer holidays of 2023 and that's when my life changed. I got a job at Nellview club in New York. It's in the Soho area so only the richest of the richest go there. Their boutique section needed a manager who will double as a Marketing specialist and I mean, I'm already in my final year of marketing at NYU so I can do it. The pay wasn't bad about $3000 monthly, I can also save for my living expenses and tuition.

It was just a regular evening, the store attendant just finished attending to a customer and he walked in. The air suddenly felt different as if it has been sucked out of the boutique. He was 6'5ft tall and he wore a white polo with blue shorts with a pair of Nike Air sneakers I was dazzled at how a simple outfit can scream class and wealth. The calm look on his face and his wrist lined with two silver bracelets, the staggering gold wedding band on his fourth finger was enough to stop me from staring but I couldn't. I had to attend to him myself, I knew that I should stop but I had to talk to him so I asked the store attendant to take a ten minutes break.

I did a quick bathroom trip to reapply my rouge red lipstick and perfume and went back to my office desk. I got up from my office desk and walked down to him . I really tried to put my nerves under control but I couldn't. I stopped two feet from him and put on my most dazzling smile with my white pearly teeth showing "Hello, Welcome to Nellview Boutique" "Might I ask, what piece are you interested in?" To which he replied "Oh I'm just looking around, anything that catches my fancy I will get it" I went further to ask "does that include humans" I have come to the acceptance that my brain has left my mouth to just be talking. He smiled a wide smile and said "Maybe, we'll see". I said "Come on let me show you some shorts you'll absolutely love since you aren't sure about humans" I heard him chuckle behind me so I turned and smiled again.

We strolled to the shorts aisle and I pulled out a gray shorts that had Nike logo on it. I mean he seem like a Nike kind of man, showed it to him and he asked for the size, told him it was 3xl so it will definitely fit his waist. We went further to the accessories line, showed him the different sunshades we had, showed him bracelets and then I saw it. A beautiful silver bracelet that will fit his wrist so I said "This will look good on your wrist" he replied "you think?" I told him "I know so" he decided to give it a try and I picked up the bracelet and wrapped around his wrist. After putting it on my fingers traced the other bracelets and I looked up to see that he was staring at me with something I couldn't quite understand. So I cleared my throat and said let's go to the shoe aisle. He said " I think I've shopped enough for today Miss..." I said "Giselle" to which he said "I guess you aren't the store attendant" I had to ask "what made you to say so" he said "you don't have a name tag" s**t Gigi now you look dumb. I smiled and said "I'm the manager" and he replied "that's actually nice, so to what do I owe the pleasure of the manager attending to me herself" I had to come up with a lie quickly and said "the store attendant is not feeling too well so I'm assisting her today" He said ok. So I calculated his orders, packed it up for him and I brought out our boutique card and gave to him.

He collected it and opened his wallet and gave me his own card, that's when I saw his name "Maxwell Bjor" with his contact info and he added "Make sure you contact me" and I said "If we meet again, then I will" certainly not going to make it easy for him. I went back to my desk and I looked over at Regina as she attended to some new customers that just walked in. I started creating marketing funnels for the week because this previous week was quite slow so I have to drive foot traffic to the store again.

I got on our website and called our web developer to update it because it's slow and that's bad for business. Due to the fact that we're high priority clients he does it immediately. Soon it's 7pm and I need to go out with Ashley and George her new interest but I just feel like cancelling buy knowing Ashley she won't take it from me. So I called Regina and told her I'll be closing early that's when she asked me "Do you know who you were attending to earlier" considering it's just one person I attended to today I said "No, is it someone of importance?" And she goes "O my Good Gracious God" I began to grow impatient as she was still hyperventilating. I opened my laptop again and searched "Maxwell Bjor" that's when I saw it.

A nultibilionaire in shipping that just inherited his father's company at 40. He didn't look anything like 40, if I had to guess I'll guess he was 36 at most. Regina decides to speak again "The acquisition was all over the news hoelw didn't you know" Well, newsflash Regina I don't watch the news so how will I know. I just told her to turn off the lights and ensure the door is locked properly when she she's going and dashed out. Ashley lives for this type of gist. Ashley is my closest friend that I met last year when I was applying for scholarships. Honestly I love that girl a lot as she's the only one I talk and process my feelings with.