You are my addiction

Chapter- 2 He is going to select a secretary,

Drake was thinking about what Lucy had said to him as he was sweating badly. He had to continually wipe his sweat and attempt to calm himself. At that moment one of his fellow department employees made an announcement.

“You all have to attend a meeting in an hour with the President. He is going to select a secretary,” she revealed before walking away from there.

What!!! He was going to select a secretary like that. I mean he was president. He must have wanted his secretary to be well educated and high profile but why had he wanted to choose his secretary like he was buying clothes. He wondered. He had been finding that this President was a bit of a moron and it was only lunch time.

Everybody got up from their seats to head to lunch, but Drake had still been sitting at his desk looking lost. He got up from his seat to go look outside of the window. He didn't know why, but today he had been feeling like something was wrong. He had not been feeling good. He was looking outside, lost in his own thoughts when Lucy came up behind him.

“Hey, Drake what happened? Why are you not going to lunch?” Lucy asked Drake as he looked at her. As he did so he remembered what she had said to him that morning. He clutched his palm tightly as he tried to calm himself.

“No, I am fine. I just don’t want to eat,” Drake admitted to Lucy with a little smile.

“Then why are you sweating? The air conditioner is working well, the whole room is cold so why are you sweating? Are you sick?” Lucy asked, that was when he realized that he had been sweating. He wiped his sweat from his forehead as he smiled at Lucy. But he knew Lucy, if he did not go to lunch then she would ask him a lot of questions. Ones that he would not be able to answer.

“Nothing, now I am hungry. Let’s go and eat something,” Drake suggested to Lucy, causing her to narrow her eyes at him. Drake had not paid attention to her instead he began to walk away from there. She had been observing him, he had been acting differently. Actually he had been hiding his face from her. He was walking quickly without checking to see if she was coming or not. Lucy had followed close behind him.

They both went to the office café, all seats were full but luckily they were able to grab two seats. Lucy went to order something good, but Drake knew what she would get. Over the past year, he had memorized the entire menu of the cafe. Actually he hated the food at the office café, it was boring for him to eat it daily but due to money constraints it was all he could afford to eat. The office café food was not that tasty but it was not expensive. So he had to eat what he could get.

She brought over the food and Drake looked down at the plate, it was still the same old boring thing. He let out a sad sigh as he started to eat it. He was eating as he looked at his phone. He was scrolling through i********: looking at some posts and laughing when he got a message from Emma.

Women around them had been talking about the chairman's son and they were still acting like crazy teen fangirls over their favorite heartthrob about his handsomeness and his sexiness. Lucy was smiling as she glanced at them. She had also been thinking about him. Drake looked at her, he knew that she was also lost for him.

"Hey Lucy, do you know who our President is and what is his name?" Drake asked her, a bright smile appeared on her face as he had engaged her in her favorite topic.

"Oh my god!! Drake, finally you want to talk about him. No, I don't know who he is because I have never seen him before. I have heard his name, but I don't remember it. If you want, I can ask someone for you," Lucy said with a smile.

"No, I just wanted to know. I work in a lower department, so I will never meet him while I work here, so that information is wasted on me. Plus, I am not interested in him," Drake remarked Lucy only nodded her head.

He opened the message and saw that it was really from Emma. He read the message as his eyes widened due to shock.

“OMG why is this girl always doing this!!” He exclaimed in frustration while Lucy looked at him. Drake seemed frustrated. He got up from his seat as Lucy watched him. He had not eaten properly. He had only eaten two or three bites before he had gotten up.

“Hey, Drake, where are you going? Please eat then after that we will go together,” Lucy suggested to him, he always did this. She knew he did not like the food from the office cafe because he always tried to escape from eating it but he looked at her and said.

“Lucy, I will be back in half an hour. I have to take care of something urgant,” Drake informed Lucy. She was surprised by what he was telling her. She glanced down at her watch. They had arrived at the cafe late because he had not been willing to come and now he was saying that he was leaving.

“Hey, Drake are you crazy? Our meeting is about to start in ten minutes. How can you leave like this?” She asked him. No, she was yelling, she had yelled at him. This meeting was being held by the new President at which he was going to choose his secretary. If he did not attend it, that meant that he would be insulting him and insulting the President meant losing his job.

“Lucy, I have to go,” Drake reiterated, putting his phone back in his pocket. But when she heard him Lucy panicked and stood up from the chair.

“Drake! Do you realize that you can lose your job if you do this? If they discover that you did not attend the meeting then they will fire you from your job at this company.” Lucy said as she held his hand tightly not letting him go. Drake knew that she was worried about him, but he had already made up his mind.

“I know, but no one will notice if I am missing. The President is going to choose his secretary, he will choose a well-educated, beautiful, hot, and sexy woman. He is not looking for me,” Drake shrugged before he ran away from her. Lucy watched him leave as he vanished from her sight. Then she turned her heel to go back to her desk.

Two women were walking ahead of her, they were talking about something.

"Why is every road and street blocked today? Is someone important coming?" A woman asked.

"Some people were saying that Gabriel Dominic Valentine and Edward Carter are coming, their bodyguards have blockaded the area for their safety," she said when the second woman heard Gabriel's name she squealed.

"What!!! Gabriel Dominic Valentine and Edward Carter are coming!!" She squealed again.

"You used to live out of the country, that's why you don't know. The two of them are best friends and the worst combination of cruelness," she remarked as she went crazy over both of them.

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Edward walked out of his mansion towards his parked car. He hurried like he was going to be late when in reality he was going to be an hour early for his meeting.

“Edward!!” He heard his name called. He stopped and turned around to look back. He saw Jesse, he was coming toward him.

“Why do you want to live in another house? Your dad is sad, you know.” Jesse remarked to him. He was also sad that Edward wanted to move out of the mansion.

“Don’t worry, I will come back to visit you and my dad. You will not be able to steal my dad from me,” Edward said, causing Jesse to narrow his eyes at him. This had been Edward’s favorite line, that he had been hearing for years, to the point that now it no longer had any effect on him. He used this line when he did not answer him.

“I know today is a big day in your life. But please control your temper and don’t do anything that will cause you pain,” Jesse advised Edward as he smiled at him.

“I know. Did dad tell you to say these things to make me emotional?” Edward smiled.

“Yes! My hubby told me to lecture you about all of it but I want you to do what you want to. Go and get him then never let him escape from your hold,” Jesse advised Edward.

“You just wait and see. My hold will be the shackles to him, he will regret his whole life.” Edward said it in a dangerous tone as he got into his car. Jesse watched him driving his car at a breakneck speed and smiled. He knew his obsession.