The Cold CEO I Fell In Love With

Chapter4:The next day 2

They sat for a few minutes after finishing their meal, to get some air. ‘ Atleast some energy to finish up the day’ said Nira, ‘Yeah, let's head back to work now,’ Melda responded. They carried their leftover food trays to the trash but Melda noticed something in the drinks' setup; almost all the flavors she could think of were all available in the cafeteria. She then tapped Nira’s back to point her towards the wide range of flavors. ‘ You said they only had grape flavor, but I see pineapple too,’ said Melda. Kanira was hesitant in responding back because she remembered what made her lose her mind and pick grape, ‘Anywho, nevermind,’ said Melda. They walked back to the office and Nira asked, ‘So, where exactly is the CEO’s office?’ Nira asked. ‘Oh, Mr Vincent’s office is on the third floor next to the conference room. The rest of the offices are here on the second floor and a few on the first floor. The first floor holds the front desk and waiting area too, but beware, he is so arrogant looking at how close you’ll be working with him.’ Melda responded, Nira thanked Melda for an amazing tour in a short sentence, saying ‘ You’re the best you know’.

Getting settled in their respective seats, Nira found a pending email received on her computer 5 minutes ago. She opened it, and it was the CEO who sent it. All surprised, she whispered ‘ he is around’. The email read, “Come to my office ASAP.” After reading it, she quickly carried her phone and notebook and headed to his office. She hesitated to knock on the door when she got to his office because it was going to be her first meeting with the CEO. After a few breaths, she knocked, and he immediately responded ‘ come in’ with his calm, muscular voice.

Opening the door, she walked into the office and Mr. Vincent’s chair was facing the wall. She immediately spoke, ‘ Hello sir’ and the chair turned to face her, and he immediately spoke, ‘ Don’t call me sir, call me Mr. Shah’. But before she could say anything, his face caught her attention and she said ‘You’re the gentle man’, but he looked at her with a pissed face and ignored her and focused on his computer. Nira noticed his reaction, and she just nodded her head in response. ‘What work do you have for me, Mr. Shah?’ she asked. He then raised his head up towards her and said, ‘ Take a sit, maybe you’ll reduce talking,’ hearing that Nira sat down on a chair that was next to Mr. Shah’s table and quietly held her notebook and pen tight because she was not comfortable and confused by how the gental man who once gave her a ride would sound so harsh. After 2 hours of silence, Mr. Shah got up from his seat and went to stand by the window because he didn’t want to have any form of eye contact with Nira, and he went ahead and said You’ll be working with me during your whole internship period. You’re now in charge of all my schedules. Don’t miss any. He slowly spoke with his hands in his pocket. Nira nervously wrote down everything he said, and she gave her response, ‘ Yes, Mr. Shah’. ‘You can leave, that’s all for today and, if anything, I’ll call you,’ he spoke calmly in his muscular voice. Nira carried her phone and stood up to leave. When she was about to open the door, he asked ‘what is your name?’, she looked back and responded ‘I’m Kanira,’ then she opened the door and left.

She reached to her desk and found that her workmates were done with their work and had already left. She checked Melda’s desk to see if she packed all her stuff, or she was just somewhere in the building, but she also left. Nira sat at her desk and rested her head on the table. She had so many thoughts: ‘Did I just misidentify someone, or was he just acting like he has never seen me?’ she thought to herself. She then opened her phone to ask Melda if she had already got home, but she found a message Melda sent to her when she was leaving the office: ‘ Hey Nira, I am done with my work. I am rushing through the mall to get some cosmetics before the store closes, so I am leaving now.’ Nira smiled after reading the message and sent a reply saying ‘Okay, see you tomorrow’. She glanced at her watch, and it was already 5pm, she packed her staff into her handbag and prepared herself to head out of the office. She slowly walked out of the Shah Enterprise building having so much thought, reflecting what happened earlier between Mr. Shah and herself.

Mr. Shah couldn’t help but curse himself for how he reacted and behaved around her. He regretted every harsh second he spent with her when all he wanted was to know that he was the gentle man that helped her yesterday, but a part of him was happy, like a kid who had just got a lot of candy on Halloween because he now got her name, and he is going to be working with her closely. ‘ Now I’ll learn so much about her, her likes and dislikes’ he said to himself wearing a gental smile. He sat at his table to clear it and prepare to leave, but he thought, ‘Should I call her to clear my table in order? That will be good for me because I’ll have another time to see her again and smell her beautiful perfume.’ But he decided not to call because he thought she had already left the building by now. Deep down he had a warm heart behind that cold face he always had. He cleared his table and got in the elevator to go down to the basement parking lot to his car, privately saved for the CEO away from other employees' vehicles. He got in and drove out.

She stood outside the building waiting for her. She had just ordered, then suddenly Mr. Shah drove past her slowly. Then they looked at their eyes, and he pulled out his car window to avoid more eye contact with her and then drove off. She muttered ‘ how rude’ and in 2 minutes time her ride arrived, she got in and gave the driver her destination. She quietly sat behind and kept speaking in her head: ‘It was him because that was the same car he was driving yesterday when he gave me a lift.’ How arrogant to just ignore me like that. He hated it that he was her boss and that she'd be working closely with him. But on the other hand, Mr. Shah was very happy that he was working closely with her and that she was his assistant. After a while, the car stopped and the driver told her, ‘Ma’am, we are here’. They arrived outside her apartment. She paid him and got out and slowly walked to her door. She rushed to the kitchen to wash her hands before she could touch anything else. She couldn’t wait to get upstairs to change and have a warm long bath. Mr. Shah had also reached his apartment earlier than her and even freshened up. He was just resting on his couch and all he did was think about her and how beautiful she was.