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I went straight to his office without having eye contact with anyone.
"Michelle, what are you doing here?", he asked really surprised to see me,".
I swallowed hard.
"Sir I.... I..."
"Please sit", he could see the distress on my face.
"What is it?".
"Uhm... I need your help, I know, you don't know me and you're probably thinking I'm using this whole pregnancy thing as a .. ..a medium to ask but it's not I promise, I don't want to be a burden to you so I would probably take it out and uhm... uhm... if that's ok with you but uhm... that's not why I'm here, my sister... she got a kidney cancer and uhm...we had to do a surgery to take the kidney out of her body but ... now the second one is failing and... and she needs a kidney transplant and she has Anemia and it's draining her blood, she takes blood like water every moment and the bills are going so high everyday and her doctor said she has to do the surgery and everything before next week, else she won't make it and she's my.... only family, I have no one else left.
And all the money I've been getting from work goes there I don't even have money for myself... but that's not the problem I just... I really need your help, if I can get a loan, I'll work for you till I've cleared it".
"How much do you need?".
"About a.... a million dollar".
He paused to think for a moment, he pulled out his cheque booklet and wrote a three million dollar cheque. My heart was beating dangerously fast. There's no way this is happening.
"I'll give you the cheque, but there's going to be a catch. Now my Dad wants to hand over this company to me, but he's not going to allow that until I have a family. Now you're pregnant for my child, keep the Baby, pretend to be my wife till you give birth. We divorce and you get whatever you want and move on if you want to of you can stick around for your baby, the choice is yours ".
What the f**k.
"Uhm... this is going to be very crazy when I say this but uhm... how am I supposed to pretend to be your wife and be coming to work here? I mean people clearly know that I just started working here".
"First of all, you don't have to work here anymore. You don't get to work until after you've given birth and then I'll get you another job at another company, better pay or whatever you want. And what people are going to say is really none of my business ", he said.
"This is a crazy ass idea".
"The choice is yours, if you agree, we'll get your sister booked up for a surgery between today and tomorrow morning and then we go see my parents. Pretend that we're in love and all , tell them we're getting married next week. I get the company, I keep you around cuz you're with my child and then immediately after childbirth we divorce", he stated.
I nodded.
"Okay", I said.
"You're down for it?".
Live with a rich billionaire for 7 months, my sister gets surgery, I get profit at the end of all of this and still get a job? even if he was a serial killer I don't give a f**k I'd accept regardless.
"Anything for my sister", I said.
He handed me the cheque.
"Write down all the informations about her and the hospital she's in and everything", he said handing me a piece of paper.
"She's in Washington".
"Why that far?".
"Their health care system is better somehow, plus the hospital she's in... the doctors there are a lot more caring and understanding than others".
"Let's transfer her here, she needs to be closer to you, we'll move her to our hospital. You're my assistant, you should make the arrangements and all, give me a feedback at the end of today... I have a meeting", he said standing up to leave.
"Sir thank you so so much. I can't appreciate you enough, I can't, I'm really grateful ".
He gave me a small smile, ", You're welcome", he said and left the office.
I sighed.
I'm not going to be working here anymore, just two months and it's all gone.
I should go say Goodbye to Miriam and Vera.
I left Mr Greenwood's office and went to hers.
"Oh hi love, you're back to office, why aren't you on uniform?", Miriam asked.
"Uhm....well I uhh, I no longer work here", I said.
They looked at me, shocked.
"What happened?"
"You got fired?
"Oh my gosh is it because of the email?".
"No it's not, uhm actually it's a good reason, I'm pregnant and I'm on a maternity leave... but I don't know if I'll come back "..
"Oh my gosh I'm so happy for you, congratulations, but how is this affecting you from not coming back?".
I didn't even know what to say, "Mr Greenwood would probably have a better assistant, I mean he'd changing now ".
"That's cuz you made him change for the better, you can't possibly tell me that he's not going to call you back after you give birth ", Vera stated.
"I don't know guys but... you're not going to be seeing me at work for a while ", I said.
"Gosh we're going to miss you", vera Said coming to hug me.
"I'll miss you guys too", I said and hugged her.
"Just when things finally started turning around for the better ", Miriam said.
"Well at least your name is going to get into history in this office, the woman that got the balls to tell Mr Greenwood how he truly was and he actually did not fire her, he actually got a suggestion box cuz he wanted to change ".
I joined them to laugh
"We'll come see you every chance we get, we promise ", Miriam said.
"Thank you ", I said.
Quite unfortunate that I won't even be living in my house.
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