The Perfect Secretary for the Stoic Billionaire

GALA NIGHT 1: The man

"So.. you slept in the boss's house, yesterday?"

"Yeah"

"In the same bed?"

"Guest room."

"But you slept with him!"

"Shhh!"

Inside the pantry room of the production department office, three employees are seated in a high stool chair infront of a round table, secretary Hyde and Production Manager Jano is seated close next to each other while Marketing Supervisor Gene is across them happily munching on his cream bun, enjoying the full cream filling as he chew on the bread.

Hyde put his pointing finger in his mouth, gesturing for Jano to not be too loud. He even looked around to check if there were other people in the pantry room but gladly, there were no other besides from the three of them.

"Don't phrase it like that! It sounds weird" Hyde said, yelling in a whisper.

Jano shrugged while Gene who's eating cream bun and seated on the chair infront of them were laughing at their conversation.

"But you still slept at his house." Jano kept going.

"Yeah, in the guest room. He took me in because he found me drunk and wasted in the middle of the road"

"Oh, I didn't know our boss has that soft side to him?"

Because of what Jano said, Hyde recalled how their infamous stoic boss took care of him. Early in a Monday morning, Hyde dragged his two closest friends to the pantry room to gossip- get off his chest- what happened last yesterday as that's what he only remembered, forgetting what happened the night before. When he woke up, K showed up and then when he almost fell, K was able to catch him, holding him with his brusque arms. Now that Hyde look back at the scenes yesterday in K's house, he couldn't help but blush, knowing a different side to his expressionless boss.

Jano and Gene exchanged confused gazes, Hyde fell silent and suddenly his cheeks were painted pink.

"Ooh, something crazy and naughty might have happened between the two of you inside his guest room, I'm calling it!" Jano started to tease the blushing secretary, emphasizing some of his words that implies other meaning. He's starting to doubt whether they only sleep in different rooms.

Hyde drop his sight to the ground to hide his flushed face, the mention of the word crazy and naughty has affected him to feel hot all of a sudden although there were no particular event to fill those words.

"Shut it," Hyde checked the time in his wrist watch, a meeting to be held in not more than thirty minutes from now were about to start. He arise from his seat and nod his head to the way outside, indicating they have to leave. "Both of you are essential for the meeting, let's go."

The three started walking, heading to the conference room while Jano still couldn't let go of their conversation, he keep on insinuating something else going on.

"Also.. you can't assume him to be romantically involved with a guy, that's impossible for us."

Hyde snapped his fingers infront of the chatterbox, fed up with his running mouth, he uttered those words without properly weighing them.

The other guy who couldn't read between the moods were pinched by Gene but brushed him off along with the pain.

"We're in modern days, secretary Hyde, it's not like you're living in the indigenous era, don't perceived things in an old-fashioned way."

"Tsh."

"You know, anything that has a hole can be poked-- OUCH!"

Before Jano can even step inside the conference room, Hyde had already closed the door, slamming it to his nosy face.

After he was sure Jano was able to keep his mouth shut, Hyde proceeded to open the door for him.

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"This is the statistics chart of our data, for four months, we could observe that there is a gradual and excessive growth of our stocks in the market, this bullish trend encouraged a number of of potential investors to be highly interested in our company. So far, this could be described as a positive impact. This outcome brought us a good image, these results persuades outside investors and enables us to win a trustable rating in terms of satisfying our current stockholders."

The analyzed report were presented in detail about the performance of the company in terms of how well it's doing in the stocks market. It was just five months ago that Times Corporation expanded and legally incorporated, successfully venturing on different areas as well however, if there is triumph then there's also those who are wishing for them to become a laughing mess. They cannot sit back and relax because even a king who hold the throne and own the crown has the highest numbers of enemies.

A humble amount of growth is nothing to be proud of.

Mr. Samson, the team leader of finance department who was responsible with the reporting went inside with a confident stance and expecting a small compliment from their boss contrary to that, he flinched seeing the infamous stoic expression of their CEO. His eyes were rather fixated on the portfolio containing the hardcopy of the reports.

The room felt cold, everyone could feel the heavy weight in the air on their own shoulders amidst that, Mr. Samson swallows a sticky saliva. Shamelessly moist sweat arises on the forehead. He's trying to suppress the fear and prevent his weak heart to collapse while waiting for their boss's reaction and comment.

After a moment of silence, Keikazu Li Isles closed the portfolio with a loud thud, raising his gaze to face the people inside. His stoic face hardened as he opened his mouth to speak.

"This result is not something to be complacent about. Growth is only at the first stage, we're starting on a rocky path. I want an outcome that is worth my time."

Just as what everyone expected, this time around were the same response. Although they have made a progress, everything is not enough for K. He wants two times- no, maybe even more than that, the result were still lacking compared to the bigger picture in his mind.

"Get back to work!"

The wave of employee inside dispersed in no time.

Secretary Hyde watched K's next move and waited to pull open the door for him however, the stoic boss remained sitting, motionless.

"You go first, secretary Hyde" K spoke in almost a whisper, his voice were soft and seem to not carry any conviction, it was weak and airy, had the room is not sound proof or if it's not only the two of them inside, it would become impossible for him to hear what the latter said.

Although the smaller guy were weirded out with the strange action and request, he didn't speak of it instead obeyed and went ahead.

In reality, K remained inside, by himself to not be discovered.

All the time while the meeting was going on, it felt like inside the whole room were only him and secretary Hyde, as if there were only the two of them, he was all that he could notice making him unable to focus on the report, if there were no hardcopy for him to read and catch up, he would have been caught gaping at his secretary in broad daylight.

"Stupid heart"

Let me breathe normally, stop racing like a stomping horse's hoof.

K managed to calm himself and returned to his office, finding Hyde completely immersed in his work but when the secretary heard the click of the closing door, he lifted his gaze and their eyes locked. The smaller guy swiftly looked away as if it was nothing while K's restless heart went rampage, too conscious of his secretary's attention.

Finally, he was able to reach his seat and be seated comfortably only to be jumpy when he saw Hyde standing infront of his table.

"What is it?" Barely holding it in, K who's suppressing his giddy emotions appeared to be more stern and grumpy than usual.

Hyde were surprised seeing that, he hesitated to speak but were left no choice because it's his work.

He raise a silver plated card in his hands, making it visible in K's sight yet it quickly dawned on him what the card were about.

"It's about the GALA NIGHT taking place two days from now, on Wednesday night."

"Yeah, I heard of it. That was a token of appreciation from the founder of Angel's Home for the continuous support they get in every organization's charity foundation, I didn't know it would be held this early."

Angel's Home is an orphanage that Time's Corporation have been supporting without faltering since K were still at the starting point of building his career and name. That foundation holds a special place in his heart.

"And.. I found out that Mr. Gibson has another motive for this event.."

"Hmm, what do you mean?"

"He's set out to find a suitable and amiable man to arrange a marriage with his sole heiress, young miss Mika."

"I see.." What does that got to do with him? Somehow, it fails him to have to witness Hyde adding useless information, or so he thought.

"You're the top candidate that Mr. Gibson is looking out for."

"Oh."