Anonymous and Incognito

Chapter 3

Anna's P.O.V

I am so tired.

After the joy ride I had yesterday by busy daydreaming instead of getting some sleep, now the consequences of my actions have come to taunt me.

I wake up to the sound of an alarm... as always. I get up, brush my teeth and take a quick shower and decide to wash my hair since I haven't done so in a little over a week.

I tie my hair in a simple low ponytail.

I decide to wear a sage green cropped cardigan, high rise light blue mom jeans and a pair of plain white sneakers.

I don't even bother checking myself in the mirror cause today I wasn't dressed to impress, as if I do on any other day. But today I just wore the first thing I came across with in my closet. I grab my backpack and head out to work.

Since my car is still at the dealership I decide on getting some exercise and just take a walk to work instead of catching a taxi or requesting for an Uber.

I luckily get to work in less than forty minutes.

"Good morning everyone, apologies for being a bit late-" I greet to my colleagues and apologise before being cut off by Betty.

"Good morning sweetie pie. It's okay no need to apologise, I'm even surprised you decided to come in today given how tired you were yesterday and you have classes to attend..." She responds and stops to smile before allowing herself to get carried away. "Oh and he hasn't arrived if that makes you feel a bit better." She smiles before heading off to do some work.

To be honest I don't think I even have the strength to wait for Anonymous today, I just wanna get my lectures done with and get this day over and done with.

I head off into my office space so I can get started with work.

I open my laptop and I'm reminded by the email that was sent by my father with regards to buying shares of the coffee shop, which I think is just purely pathetic crap and to be honest I'm really not that interested in whatever he has to offer because I just don't see myself working alongside him, which, knowing my father, would most likely turn into a dictatorship and yeah I'm not about to be controlled and mentally deranged again.

Adrien's P.O.V

I was fighting so many demons and so many temptations to stay in at home and not go to the office. But I unfortunately I have managed to pile myself up with work and I really need to be at the office today cause sadly enough, there's just some things you can't do online at the comfort of your home.

I have yet again managed to surprise myself by fighting my temptations and now I'm headed to my favourite coffee shop to get myself of energy which is obviously a nice and hot cup of coffee.

I arrive there and I'm served by this blonde girl who was trying to seduce me the entire time.

"b***h maybe if you take that energy you using to try sand seduce me and actually invest it in your life and do something productive and useful with yourself, maybe, just maybe you wouldn't be working as a god danm waitress!" I was beyond outraged when I lashed out on the girl, who just simply walked away with her head facing the ground and her fiddling with her fingers as she walked off. It really got to me that some women out here changed men as if they changing lingerie, and vice versa with men. I guess it got to me that people could get sick and end up having children and they don't even spare themselves time for their children and that way a child ends up maturing way too fast and having a short lived childhood, and as for the sick part... some things are easily avoided but story for another day.

Now let's get back to reality.

I get a little disappointed when I realise that Anna hasn't arrived today and that she wasn't the one who served me coffee today. I guess I just took it for granted when she was the one serving me all these years and I just never really noticed her and now I feel horrible for that. And come to think of it, she was the only person who served me each and every single time I came here... well up until today when this blonde tried to seduce me.

I'd love to sit here all day and try figure out the whole serving thing but time is a luxury that I currently can't afford, and speaking of which, I need to start heading to the office.

After a fifteen minute drive, I finally arrive at the building, also known as Dalton Holdings.

I check in at the front desk and head straight to the boardroom where I'll be sitting in with the whole of HR alongside my assistant and the other majority shareholder.

"Good morning Mr.Dalton, I hope you all rested and have enough coffee cause I"m not going to lie to you, we are going to be in here for a long time." Head of HR greets me as we both take our seats at the larger marble table.

"it's going to be a long day now isn't it?" I ask as I mentally prepare myself for yet another long and draining day of work.

"Do you want me to be brutally honest about it or should I attempt to sugarcoat it?" My assistant Stephanie responds to my question looking as if she's about to get carried away in her own world.

"Oh boy... Well than, let's not waste any further time and let's get started." I say so I can just get this over and done with.

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Anna's P.O.V

It's finally lunch!!

I am starving to death and it only hits me now that I didn't have any breakfast because I was in such a rush in the morning and my mind was all over the place.

I decide I should just get myself a sandwich to eat and maybe a really nice, cold and cooling drink.

"Oh my god I am so drained right now Betty... I just wanna eat and go home and sleep for the entire weekend. Are you guys done with my order or should I wait a bit longer?" I ask hoping they're done so I can take a small nap before my lunch break ends.

"Don't worry sweetie pie your order is done... here you go." She hands my sandwich with two brownies and nice large cold drink. "Oh and before I forget, Anonymous was here and he kinda told of Sandra cause apparently she was trying to seduce him and he was looking around as if looking for something or rather someone... hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge. And in the end he kinda left with a sort of like sad expression on his face." She adds and gives me a mischeious smile before she walked off towards her office before I could say anything.

I decide I should probably go take a seat and start eating and I do exactly that. 

Surprisingly enough I haven't opened my phone all day so I decide meh, why not do it now.

Instant anxiety flashes through my blood when the first thing that pops up on my screen when I unlock my phone is more than fifteen missed calls from an unknown number.

You know what, I usually wouldn't call back but now I'm just anxious to know who it is, how did they got my number and what on earth is it that they want from me that is so dang important that requires them to call me fifteen bloody times.

I manage to finish up my lunch and take a forty-five minute nap before my lunch break ends.

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Adrien's P.O.V

It's been the entire day since we've been sitting in this board room and looking through applications.

I'm beyond tired and drained and I just want to go back to my apartment and sleep throughout the entire weekend.

"Okay uhm last application guys so stay with me." Head of HR says trying to motivate us.

"Okay so name is Annalise Lennox, twenty-three years old, currently doing her first year in a PhD degree. So what are our thoughts on her guys?" Stephanie asks looking at everyone with an straight face.

"Did she apply for an internship or a studentship?" I ask out of pure curiosity.

"Studentship." Head of HR responds

"Well that's a shame." Stephanie says with a sad expression on her face.

"And why is that?" Another board member asks with a confused look plastered on his face.

"Well she is the youngest but she would be the most experienced, education wise, given that she is doing her PhD in coperate law. And if she finishes her studentship with us and she delivers on her work then I really think she would be a valuable asset to the company." I respond to the board member and manage to stop myself before I blab on about how Stephanie has a point.

"Exactly what he said." Stephanie says with a satisfied smile on her face.

"On paper, I really like her guys. And she is the only one who applied for the studentship so if we were to accept her that means she would have our undivided attention meaning she could easily catch on to the works of the company and she wouldn't even need to be an intern if we decide to hire her amongst the legal counsel." Stephanie adds on while getting carried away with the thought of hiring a really experienced yet young professional.

"Well, sounds to me like we are all on board with scheduling an interview with Annalise Lennox." Head of HR says with her one eyebrow lifted.

"Yes ma'am." Everyone in the board room says in unison.

We all get up and pack up our stuff so we can all head back to our homes and finally relax after this long day. I think I might need to go see an optometrist because wow my eyes feel so strained after starring at a big ass screen for the entire day.

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Anna's P.O.V

It's really super duper late so I decided to close up because again I will be taking a walk from work to my apartment since I am in no rush whatsoever even though I'm tired, I do feel much better than when I woke up in the morning.

When I'm nearly halfway through to my destination, I decide to take a short cut through Central Park which is basically a park.

I somehow have this bad feeling that I cant shake off that something bad is going to happen so I decide it's better that I speed up my walking pace to avoid any kind of trouble.

After a few minutes when I'm nearly about to exit Central Park I hear some footsteps behind me which sound like more than one person is following me.

I speed up my pace even further but that clearly fails when the footsteps behind me also speed up. 

I hear voices whispering behind me and I decide I should take out my knife out of the sleeve of my cardigan just in case these people try to do some risky s**t.

Then suddenly I feel someone place their hand over my mouth and I quickly pull out my knife and manage to stab the person in their lower obdomen and they let go of me and fall to the ground.

But unfortunately for me, the second person had a gun with them, which is pointed at me.

"Where do you think you're going doll face? We just want to have some fun I don't see a problem with that." The one with the gun says to me with a sadistic grin plastered on his face.

He slowly walks towards me and I realise that he's fucken drunk. "Don't even think about screaming your lungs out or else I'll shoot your brains out!! Understood?!" He adds before he forces himself onto me and using his large body to tower over my slim small framed body.

With tears streaming down my face and a gun pinned to the side of my head I have no choice but to sadly be submissive to his demands.

"Please... you don't have to do this I can give you all the money you want-" I attempt to get him off me before this turns into a ugly s**t show

"Shut up! I don't want your money I-" He says before he got interrupted, I hear two gunshots being fired before he falls on the ground.