chapter 2
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Throughout that week, Eva made it her top priority to arrive at the office first and by the end of the week she managed to arrive before Kate.
Kate then proceeded to make jokes about how if she had been the one who had caught a glimpse of her boss naked she’d also be more motivated to come in to work early.
“Come on, describe it to me”, Kate smiled teasingly.
“ No, I'm working!”, she said, typing on her computer.
There was an event coming up, and she was betting on Marcus getting too drunk to come in to work on a Saturday. That way she’d have her weekend all to herself, so she was making sure to finish up any work she had left for the week.
“Me and half of the other women in New York want to have s*x with him. You cannot tell me you don’t like him!”
Eva typed away ignoring Kate, who proceeded to give an account of Marcus’s scandals that week, and while Eva loved her friend she really wished she’d shut up sometimes because, for some reason, it just ate at her that Marcus was out there being sighted by various women and not her, she was annoyed that it bothered her so much lately.
“Kate please”,she sighed, looking up.
“Not even a little bit?”
“What?”
“Marcus! You are not attracted to him? You don’t want him to f**k you?”
“Kate!” she shouted, quickly looking around. “Okay, maybe a little now. Let me alone. I have work to do!”
“I knew it”
Kate started laughing and was about to say something when Marcus walked into the room and passed them with Rocky, his bodyguard trailing right behind him.
“Good morning Mr Berkeley”,they said.
He gave Kate a quick nod and kept walking.
“What’s his problem?” Kate whispered before hurrying back to her own work space.
Marcus coming to work in a bad mood was never a good sign. Shortly after, the phone line between his office and her desk rang.
“Miss Leighton, my office now”
The call dropped immediately and Eva was puzzled by his mood. He had been perfectly fine all week, she packed up reports she needed to show him and walked into his office .
“These are the reports from the salt and vinegar chips sales for the past month sir”
She was talking right from the moment she walked in because she thought it was possible that the drop in sales of their latest and least popular product could be what was affecting his mood. He looked annoyed at her.
“I didn’t call you in for the reports Eva”,he said giving Rocky a quick nod to dismiss him,Rocky left the room immediately.
“What is this?” Marcus asked, turning the front page of the newspaper in his hand to her.
“A Newspaper?” she replied before focusing on what was written on its front page.
It was a picture of Marcus’s very naked body from the back, and she was staring up at him with what at the time to her had been anger but in the picture it looked like passion, and the headline read “Marcus Berkeley’s New office Girlfriend and Assistant!”. She reached over and grabbed the newspaper out of his hand.
“Well obviously you haven’t seen it”
“Of course I haven’t!, why are you asking me like that?”,she replied glaring at him “oh my God you big headed man!,you think I sold the story?”
“Big headed?!” He looked genuinely confused and offended, but she was too angry to care.
“Yes, big-headed!, full of yourself so much that you think after working for you for three years the one day I walked in on you…by accident by the way. You think I sold a story and picture of you to the paparazzi!” She was increasingly getting angry at this point.
“Well, I mean it says you’re my girlfriend!”
Could he be any more dense at the moment?!
“Well I’m not the one bringing women into my office instead of taking them home like a normal person!”She took a deep breath while she watched the realization hit him.
“The redhead!”
“Of course it’s the redhead, she was basically just lying there while you were strutting around the place”, she grumbled.
Marcus leaned back in his chair grinning. Was this man insane? There was nothing funny about the situation, he was the one naked in the front of tabloids. She could bet that it wasn’t just this particular newspaper the redhead would have sold "eye candy" pictures of Marcus Berkeley to.
“I will get on the phone with the PR and legal teams immediately sir!”, she said, thinking about how Kate would definitely have seen the body she begged her to describe to her on the front page of a trashy newspaper.
“Of course,I would like to sue them for the publication of my picture but we cannot sue about their claims that you’re my girlfriend”
“Wait what?,we can!It's false!”
“And we would under…normal circumstances”
He said staring at her,she felt the hairs on her body stand on end as she waited for him to explain what he meant by “under normal circumstances”.
“My mother already saw the tabloids before I or my so-called "assistant" did”
“Wait, you think this is my fault?”, she asked, screaming at him, but he held up his hand.
“We just have to do some damage control… First you'll have to be my plus one to Alvandrez’s party.”
“Wouldn’t that just fuel the rumors even more?”, she didn’t understand what was going on anymore.
“Kind of”
She opened her mouth, stunned by what he was suggesting.
“And you’ll be meeting my Mother.”
“What?!”, she yells.
“My mom truly believes that we are dating, she asked to meet you”
“Then just tell her that it's just made up rubbish by the gossip rags!”,she said, shaking her head furiously.
“Can’t”
“Why?”
“Just do it okay? She’s my mother, so this has to be done rather delicately, okay?”
He wasn’t making any sense, but she could see he’d made up his mind.
“Okay sir”, she answered reluctantly.
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