Secretly Living With My Boss

Chapter 3

“f**k! I hate it when everything goes wrong early in the morning!” Raven yelled, causing Hestia to panic.

All Hestia could think about was the fear of getting fired. On her first day, she had already messed up, and she dreaded the possibility of her boss getting irritated and firing her. She couldn’t afford to lose this job, as she didn’t know where else she would end up. So, even though she felt disheartened and on the verge of tears, she quickly apologized to her boss.

“Sorry, Sir. I apologize. Sir... I’ll clean this up,” she pleaded with Raven before focusing on the spilled coffee. She didn’t even mind that the coffee had stained her blouse. She rushed to find a cloth to wipe the spilled liquid off the floor.

As she cleaned the floor and caught a glimpse of her reflection, she couldn’t help but feel sorry for herself. Not because of what she was doing at that moment, but because of the reason why it had happened. Sandra had instructed her to put sugar in her boss’ coffee. Sandra used to be Raven’s temporary secretary, so she should have known that he didn’t like sugar in his coffee. But that’s what Sandra had told her to do, deliberately provoking Raven even though she knew he would be angry.

What was the point? To get scolded? She used to think that her dear Ma’am Sandra cared for her, that she looked out for her, but apparently, she didn’t. She didn’t expect that the person she trusted would do this to her. In that moment, she couldn’t hold back her tears. She wiped them off her cheek and tried to stop them from pouring, but she was overcome with intense emotions. Her tears started flowing again.

“Are you crying?” her boss asked, his annoyance still evident in his voice. “Stop with all the apologies and do something! I don’t want a weepy secretary. Fix yourself up, stand there! And one more thing? You’re my secretary, why are you the one cleaning? Are you a janitor?” he sarcastically remarked, causing Hestia to freeze.

She panicked once again at his tone of speech.

She quickly stood up, wiped away her tears, and looked at Raven, saying, “Sorry—”

“Stop apologizing and get moving! Go to the powder room and fix yourself!” he shouted, and he knew she heard him.

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Raven noticed Hestia’s panic as she ran towards the powder room, her blouse drenched with coffee that he accidentally spilled on his secretary. He admitted that he kind of felt guilty for dirtying her clothes. He couldn’t handle another secretary resigning on him, especially not after ten secretaries who had resigned out of fear. Most of them didn’t even last a day with him. His schedule was such a mess, and he didn’t want Sandra to return as his secretary either.

He glanced at the form that fell from her when she dashed into the powder room. He picked it up and saw that it was a cash advance form. He quickly pocketed the paper and looked towards the powder room. “I’ll go ahead to the conference room, you follow there immediately, make it quick!” he shouted, and he knows that Hestia heard him.

He grabbed his laptop and left the office to get to the conference room first. He just hoped that Hestia would follow him there. Unlike his other secretaries who didn’t finish the day and just escaped. He wanted to wait for her, but he might be late for the important board meeting today.

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“You can do this, Hestia. Don’t lose hope, you need this job because otherwise, you’ll go hungry,” she told herself while looking at her reflection in the mirror.

Compared to earlier, she was now a bit calmer. She needed to calm herself down if she wanted to get anywhere. So, she decided to follow Sir Raven quickly, or else she might lose her job if she lingered too long in the powder room. She walked out of the powder room and looked at her stained blouse. She grabbed her coat hanging on her chair and put it on to hide the stain. After that, she headed to the conference room where the other board members were waiting. She saw her boss having coffee at the coffee corner of the room, so she approached him.

“Good, my secretary is here. Let’s start,” he said, carrying his cup of coffee and sitting at the end of the table.

Hestia was speechless, realizing that she was the only one he had been waiting for.

How embarrassing! She felt like hiding under the table out of shame, especially since everyone in the room was looking at her, probably thinking she was trying to be important. She approached her boss and sat on the vacant chair beside him. She sat there and took out her notebook and cellphone, then opened the recorder to record the discussions in the meeting.

“Take the minutes of this meeting,” Raven whispered to her, and she nodded. “Then we will talk after this,” he added.

Because of that, she became nervous again, thinking that she might hear a terrifying sermon from her boss later.

‘He might fire me!’

That’s what she shouted in her mind. At this moment, she felt like crying again, feeling scared. But she held back, and focused on the meeting, hoping that Raven wouldn’t notice her wandering thoughts and that she would be focused on their conversation.

The board meeting started, and she did her job as the secretary. Aside from recording the discussions so she wouldn’t forget anything, she also started taking down notes to make it easier for her to transfer them into the report she would pass to Raven.

She glanced at her boss who was speaking directly, and it was obvious that aside from his good looks, he also seemed intelligent. She thought that maybe the reason why this business was successful was because of her boss’ intelligence in running it.

The meeting, which was about the new products that needed to be launched, lasted all day, so they had lunch there as well. Food was served to them while the meeting continued. And it was almost four o’clock when it ended.

One by one, everyone left the room. She folded her notebook before looking at her boss who was talking to one of the managers in this company. After that, Raven excused himself and looked at her.

“Let’s go, I still need to talk to you before you go home,” Raven said to her before leaving the room without a glance.

Her heart was pounding as she followed him back to their office. On their way there, she repeatedly thought about what she would say, her pleas if Raven would say that she was going to be fired. So, when they arrived at the office and Raven hadn’t even sat on his swivel chair yet, she burst into tears and begged for mercy for whatever he might say.

‘It’s better to say it first before he tells me that I’m fired.’

“Sir! Sir! Please, I beg of you!” she said before kneeling and approaching Raven. “I’m really sorry, Sir! It won’t happen again! I won’t make a mistake in preparing your coffee. I won’t be late for the meeting!” she continued, with her eyes closed, and approached Raven. At this moment, she didn’t hesitate to embrace Raven’s legs while still pleading. “Please, Sir! Don’t fire me! I need this job! Please don’t let me go,” she begged, not caring where her face was, while hugging Raven.

Raven placed his hand on his face when he felt Hestia’s face right in the middle of his lower body, where his readiness was hidden and was now being affected by it.

“Hes—” He tried calling her name, but the embrace tightened, and her head was pressed closer to the center of his pants.

“Sir! Please! I won’t let go until you tell me that you won’t fire me!” she pleaded, while pressing her face even more on what she thought was just his knee. Until she felt something hard and throbbing inside his pants, which she felt on her cheek. Because of that, she opened her eyes and saw where her face was facing.