CHAPTER FOUR
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Corey had always been against having a personal assistant, he does consider the secretary role but a personal assistant? Very unnecessary but his manager had managed to convince his closest friend to make him accept the idea of having a personal assistant. Corey had planned diverse ways of getting rid of Chloe and this setting was exactly what he needed...
A sound buzzed from the entry of the office...
"Come in" Corey ordered
"The files are right at the door sir" The file clerk said bowing down
Corey waved to bring them in and the clerk rolled in two racks of unsorted disorganized files.
The clerk waited for orders for him to start sorting the files but since they never came, he quietly took receding steps towards the door.
"You're fired" he heard from behind him
"Sir?! I'm sorry. Pardon my manners. I'm new sir, I've never attended to office requests before sir" the clerk said almost breaking down.
"You haven't attended to office requests before and you couldn't wait for orders?!" Corey said with a cold voice raising his head from the book he was working on. The clerk shivered.
"I'm sorry sir, it will never happen again. I promise,"
"Get out"
"Yes sir" she hurriedly ran out of the office to avoid provoking him again. She had heard stories about this man but never knew just his aura could be so menacing. Immediately she got out of the office, she met the secretary in front of her...
"Excuse me, miss" The file clerk said bowing and tried to walk away
"Did he have you fired?"
"Yes ma" she responded at the brink of tears
"I can make you stay you know?" Skyler said with a glummy smile
The clerk immediately went on her knees, "I would really appreciate it ma, I'll be so grateful ma, thank you so much ma"
"There's a condition though"
"Anything ma, anything at all. I'll do it"
"Uhnnnn... I see. Follow me" Skyler said cat walking into her office and the clerk hurriedly ran after her.
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Riiiinnngggg...
It took Chloe a while to realize it was her landline phone that was vibrating but once she did, she automatically switched to professional mode.
"Good morning, this is Chloe Anderson at SKYE COOPERATION, how can I help you?"
"Get into my office now"
*It was the boss? Why did he call the phone when he could have just called my name? How stupid!* Chloe thought and stood up adjusting her dress and walked up to the CEO'S desk.
" Yes sir? "
" Arrange those files " Corey said with looking up pointing slightly at the rack of files in front of him.
" Uhm, sir, I can send it to the file clerk's office if you want it sorted out as soon as possible " Chloe responded baffled at why he would have her do the job of the clerk. These files are even way too much for her to sort alone that if she started now, she would be finishing up at midnight and it was just few minutes ago she signed in.
Corey said nothing but rather gave her a piercing glare that sent her packing up the files...
"Where do you think you're going?"
"To arrange the files sir" *just like you ordered dumbass* Chloe said
"Arrange them right there"
"I won't be comfortable sitting..."
Chloe was cut short by the look on his face. A look that said 'say one thing again and I'll have you fired'. She sat down on the bare floor and started sorting the files one after the other, board by board.
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It was lunch time already and Corey had gone for a meeting hours earlier ordering Chloe to ~~not leave~~ stay glued to the job he gave her.
Chloe yawned and peeped around to check if there was any camera the boss might be spying on her with and when she couldn't find any, she stood up and smiled.
'Yall better back of in that cafeteria. The queen is coming' she said to herself and chuckled.
Just as she was able to stand up a file fell from her lap, she was about to throw it down when the heading of the first article caught her attention.
"Conspiracy theories about the chief executive officer of Skye's cooperation" she read out loud. *These are the office files...these are files written by the employees of this company, who might have written this*. Looking a bit lower at the bottom edge she saw a name written there. 'Oh my!' was she supposed to think much of this file? She doesn't know but one thing she knew was that as a journalist, everything must be kept and nothing should be swept under the rug. She took the file and walked over to her drawer, kept it there and locked the safe.
She got outside their office hoping to see the secretary but didn't. She herself must also have gone for lunch, Chloe thought. She adjusted her posture, smiled and skipped to the cafeteria.
*That was one hell of a meal* Chloe thought and belched while rubbing her almost protuding belly. If she had no flat stomach, people would have thought she was pregnant but Chloe didn't care at all, as long as she was being fed, everything is fine with her. She stood up,carried the nylon of food she took for the secretary, and walked into the elevator going to her office.
Ding, she got off the elevator and was surprised to see the secretary eating but not so surprised since she knew it was lunch hour.
"Hi. I didn't see you at the hall so I thought you went somewhere else" Chloe said smiling, she stretched the nylon towards Skyler, "I took some food for you"
"Urgh, please get out of my face" Skyler retorted looking at her like she was dressed in rag.
"Apologies, I didn't know you took your food in" Chloe said still smiling and was about to walk away when Skyler stopped her.
"Now I feel bad, drop the food dear. Thank you for your concern" Skyler said smiling
"Oh it's alright. We're always here for each other" Chloe responded and dropped the food before walking in.
Shock was written all over Chloe's face at the sight in front of her, it was as if the files had doubled up when she went to eat.
"Where are you coming from?" Corey said with a smug face
"I... I went for lunch "
" Didn't I ask you to stay glued to that place"
" I was hungry sir"
" Get back to work"
How Chloe was going to finish the sorting these files, she had no idea but one thing was clear, she hates the boss.
She dragged herself to the pile of files in front of her and started arranging them one by one.
A knock was heard on their office door,
" Come in"
" Boss, there's an emergency!!! The file clerk has been poisoned"
" So?"
" Your personal assistant is responsible. She gave the clerk the lunch she ate"
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