The bastard billionaire

The job

It was just before dawn at around five O’clock in the morning and Claire was already up from bed, it seemed too early on a normal day but she had to beat the morning traffic to meet up with work.

LOS Angeles is known for its long lasting traffic jams, that could last for hours so waking up at early hours of the mornings would become the new black for Claire who had now moved here almost permanently.

It was her first day of work and You know what they say, the first impression always matters so she had to be on her best attitude.

Claire had just come out of the shower, as a lover of music she was singing along to the Ed sheeran shape of you song playing over the music box just on her bed, she reaches for her makeup kit inside her bag, she proceeds to sit on the soft wobbly water bed which was like a trade mark of the Aventura hotels.

She checked out downstairs at the reception just before she left the hotel, “oh! I forgot to have breakfast” Claire exclaimed.

She walked down the road, a few blocks from her hotel to the subway. Where she got a train that was going downtown where her company was located.

She was happy that she got the job and at the same time she was so nervous because it was her first day of work, that she forgot to have breakfast.

On getting to her new work place, she was even more nervous so she paused for a while, looking at the glass covered building that towered into the sky. It was so tall and it looked like it had no end. It was taller than what she had ever seen before , coming from Arizona where skyscrapers where not very common.

She took a deep breath just to calm her nerves. Just before she stepped into the building and just as she took a few steps into the building.

“Claire is that you?”, she heard a deep voice calling out to her softly from a little distance away.

she turned to find out in complete disbelief,

“Jason!, what are you doing here?” Surprised, Claire asked him.

it was the hunk of a guy she met in the flight the previous day. He was coincidentally the manager of her new company. She was relieved to find out that she already knew someone who worked here, at least he would help her acclimatise to her new work place.

He introduced Claire as the new accountant of the company and showed her around, he took her and showed her the office which she was to occupy on the fifth floor and helped her arranged her stuff.

As they discussed, she was curious as to why he didn’t tell her previously, that he was the Chief Executive Officer of such a big company.

“I feel like it is a show off when I go around telling people what I do. Moreover, It was not important at that time,” he replied to her.

She was surprised to hear that her new friend Jason Ferdinand was actually a billionaire but yet was a really humble guy.

“So what is your excuse now for not calling me yesterday as we had agreed,” Claire asked again.

but he told her that he had a serious meeting with the board of directors after which he was so tired to do anything.

“coffee?” Jason asks Claire as he walks over to the coffeemaker by the side of her newly arranged office.

“yea, of course,” she replies “you know, I do not really know how to use that,” she says as she sat down on her desk.

“really!” he replies in shock “why not come over let me show you a thing or two as I am trying to get us some coffee,” gesturing with his head for her to come.

It was just past noon and Claire was invited to meet the board members of the company to be officially welcomed as the accountant of the company.

After meeting with the board members, she proceeds to have lunch just at the cafe across the road. The cafe was not that big, but it is a life saver because it is like the only cafe in that area, so after being in queue for a few minutes she is finally able to get a burger and a bottle of coke.

While she sits down to eat, a child comes running through the cafe clipping her table causing her carbonated soft drink to spill all over her dress.

“Oh my God!,” Claire shouts as her reflexes make her jerk back a little bit. “what am I going to do now,” she says as she tries wiping some of it off as much as she can with some serviette in the cafe.

Unhappy, Claire leaves the cafe and walks back to her office all stained and wet. Her once beautiful day has now been ruined by this incident.

“you can have the day off,” Jason tells her seeing the state of her clothes.

“thank you so much, I am so sorry this is happening on my first day on the job, it will not happen again,” Claire replies, looking depressed.

“Cheer up dear, and do not think about it too much,” Jason says, patting her on the shoulders.

He then offers to drop her off at her hotel.

“I am so grateful for how much you have helped me today,” Claire says as she alights from his car and closes the door.

Once she got back to her hotel room, she takes a warm shower and as she tries falling asleep she gets a call from her friend Amanda, trying to check up on her friend.

“It was actually a nice first day, except that I spilled some cola on myself,” she narrated to Amanda.

“that must have been crazy,” Amanda said as she bursts into laughter.

After the call Claire decided to just watch a Movie because the call had cleared the sleep from Claire’s eyes. She couldn’t seem to get over how nice Jason was to her on the first day of her job.