THE BILLIONAIRE'S UNDOING

Episode 4 ELEVATOR WAYS

"Maybe the bangs were too good," his inner voice said to him, reminding him of his escapades of the night before.

Luke kept staring at the door after his PA had closed it after her. His adrenaline always rushed when he had work to do. There was not much stillness in his life. He was a hard-working worker and a workaholic.

However, today's wind seemed to be blowing him against the tide. If anything, his hesitation to get up and go after his ride was an indication that today was one of his lazy days.

One of the rarest things that happened in his life.

He began to smile before he caught himself.

"Money well spent ," he said and he was right.

He shouldn't be making it a casual thing in his life. But he gave himself grace for it. After all, he had last visited the penthouse three months ago. And he knew that this particular time, he could go for another three to six months without visiting.

He forced himself to get up. He wouldn't like his PA to come back in here anyway. Tacky as she was, she sure knew how to get in on him on his lazy days. She'd just push her head so he could see her through a half closed door, clear her throat and say,

"Sir, you seem tired. I already called to cancel the appointment."

Most times, she hadn't called any company. She only just knew that he never liked tardiness however tired he may be. She used it to her advantage. Or should we say to his advantage.

After all, it was for his good. Boy, that scheme worked wonders for Luke. But he didn't want her to go through the stress of doing that today. Especially when he had no reason whatsoever to be tardy.

Just as he had speculated Violet knocked and pushed the door open by half, pushing her head in with a phone in her hand. However when she saw that he was already up, she opened the door fully and walked into his office once more.

"Are you ready sir?" She asked, smiling. He nodded in affirmation.

A young beautiful British woman who had managed cleverly to assimilate into American society, although she still carried her royal air about. She headed for his chair and took his suit from whence he had left it hanging.

"Would you be needing this?"

"Just get what you think is needful Violet."

She took a few things that he would need off the table too. By that time he was already out the door. She locked up and followed swiftly. She arranged all that she carried neatly in one hand and still managed to take graceful strides as she did that.

She handed over his suit as they walked down the hall. Instead of handing it in his hand as she had neatly handed him, he decided to wear it as they were walking towards the elevator.

They passed his father's office and he smiled while still putting on the suit. He had made sure to leave that office intact. Although he was CEO now and his father didn't come in a lot anymore, the respect for the founder should still be maintained.

"Here's your schedule for the rest of today. Along with the preview of what your meeting is going to be about," she said, handing him the iPad as they reached the elevator. She pressed the buttons while Luke studied what was in his space for the day.

"This is interesting, " Luke said as he flipped through the screen.

"Quite interesting sir. You've already made a good impression," Violet said,"The other members have agreed to that amount."

She had given an accurate breakdown of everything he needed to say and do. With the way she was going, Violet would eventually become a business owner or manager soon. Although he didn't tell her much often, she was one of the employees that a boss would consider too good to be true. Brain, brawn and beauty, one of the country's finest. Too bad America didn't own her.

"You think Mr Theo is looking for some ego stroking?" He asked, using his hand to trace a line repeatedly.

"You bet he is sir. And we're offering him exactly what he needs."

"You don't like him?"

"Not a lot," Violet said.

He passed the phone back to her as the elevator neared its destination. It had a mirror so he had proper time and equipment to adjust himself with. It hit with a soft clang, a timer went off and the door opened.

Luke walked out with the aura of a go-getter not minding to look up or watch his steps and this landed on the toes of an incoming lady.

Or rather rammed into her. It was a miracle that she still managed to stay rooted to the floor, on her feet. However, her valuables didn't make it. They all scattered all over the floor including her tablet. From the look of things, the tablet might even be broken.

The lady bent down and began to pick her things. Violet joined her, apologising with each passing second. Luke stared for a few seconds and then walked away briskly wondering why Violet was drooling all over the lady. He didn't know that she was into her gender. She didn't look at it.

It took her too much time to get to him. He was already seated in the car when she came out into the garage. What had taken her so long though? Whatever had fallen from the lady's hands couldn't have taken that much time to pick up. He observed Violet's countenance from the car as she walked towards him.

She was pouting, walking as if she was ready to give someone a scolding or a good beating. Whichever it was, Luke wasn't sure. And he didn't know whom either.

When she opened the front door and stepped in, Luke didn't need a pastor or a soothsayer to tell him that he was the offender and he was about to get it from his dutiful PA. Even the driver froze in his seat.

She pointed out in front and said to the driver, "Drive!"

"Yes ma'am!" He turned on the ignition and rolled the car out of the garage and onto the road.

Violet's breathing seemed to be emitting a lot of heat although the AC was turned on and it was too loud for Luke to hear any other thing. Perhaps she wasn't doing anything, it was his conscience just judging him. After some time, he couldn't bear it anymore.

"You want to say something?" He asked.

The driver tried to distract himself by staring way too seriously at the open road in front of him so he wouldn't get caught in their cross-fire.

"What was that Luke! Did you know who that was?"

It isn't quite clear or rather, we don't know if PA'S were allowed to scold their bosses but this one sure did a good job at it sometimes. It was one of the reasons his father had hired her for him, he was sure. One of the only few people who wasn't afraid to call you out, especially when it concerned work.

However, Luke was pissed that she was pouting over the identity of a random stranger.

"What has that got to do with anything?" He fired back.