nagging assistant
1886 Words
/Adrian's pov/
I clear everything off the vanity in one full swoop before running my hand through my toffee brown hair because I know that I have slipped up very badly
I pick up one of the throw pillows on the bed and scream into it because thinking about what I did alone is making my skin crawl.
"I am nothing but a cheating bastard" I repeat like a mantra as I drop helplessly on my knees.
I wish this was nothing but a bad dream so that I can just wake up from it and make sure that what happened didn't happen but I know too well that it is reality and the fact that I can't do anything to change it tears me apart.
It's is just like I am reliving the moment I lost my koala again because I can feel my stomach harden and my throat closing up, in the same way, I felt that day.
It is just like me going through the same pain of having my heart ripped out of me and my soul shattering into bits only for me to get interrupted by my phone ringing in the pocket of my trouser that I dumped on the ground as soon as I entered the room.
I decide to ignore the call because I am not in the right emotional state to entertain any conversation right now but the phone won't stop ringing so I pick it up in a fit of rage to silence the call only for me to realize that Rhea is the one calling.
"What does she want from me again" I groan as I swipe right to pick the call
I know that if I don't pick up, she will keep on calling me because she is just so annoyingly persistent.
"Adrian?" she asks in an inquiry tone
" yes Rhea, how can I help you?" I question in a voice that sounds pinched like it was squeezing through a straw so I clear my throat.
" How can you help me?" She scoffs
"Seriously?" She questions dramatically and I roll my eyes because anytime she says seriously, she is making preparations to start ranting.
"We have a meeting to attend this morning and you know it but you intentionally decided to run late just because you want me to carry the title of the nagging assistant on my head like a brand logo every single morning" She starts her nagging in full swing but I am not in the mood to fuel her nagging appetite so I just keep quiet and listen to her.
"On a more serious note, it is not like I like to nag every single time but take a look at what happened this morning, the meeting is in the next thirty minutes and there is no sign of you neither am I sure that you will make your way here before the start of the meeting so tell me, Adrain Sawyer, how will I not nag? " she continues with her nagging while I massage my forehead tiredly.
"Which meeting is that?" I inquire because out of everything she said the only thing that stuck in was the meeting she mentioned.
"Excuse me?" She asks and I sigh because I know that I just opened the chapter for another phase of nagging and I don't want it.
"You don't keep track of your meetings anymore?" she questions and I just keep quiet so that I won't fuel the fire
" This is exactly what happens when you refuse to listen to your COO when she kept on telling you that you need a personal assistant," she says and I realize that she won't go stop nagging me this morning So I draw in my breath and release it before speaking
"Hiring a personal assistant or not, do whatsoever pleases you," I say in an attempt to hang up the call and turn off my phone
"Don't you dare hang up the call on me because I know that you only agree with me when you are about to hang up the call otherwise you will leave me with no choice but to involve your father in this" she warns.
"I have to go now, I am not in the mood for all this right now" I dismiss her.
"I won't take that from you because this meeting is very important and it will look bad on the reputation of the company if you as the CEO is absent," she says and I roll my eyes again.
"I don't know why you like making a mountain out of a molehill when with or without my presence at the meeting, everything will still go smoothly." I express with an impatient sneer.
"That is immaterial” she quickly cuts in
“your attention is needed at the office and you need to make your way here before I involve your father in this," she threatens again
"Good luck with involving my father but even if you do, I will just tell him that I am indisposed and I won't be able to anchor any meeting but he doesn't have to worry since you are more than capable to handle everything" I answer her
"Indisposed?" She scoffs
"But you were perfectly fine yesterday........" She trails off and I have a feeling that she is driving at a point
"At least you were strong enough to carry that shy Emerald from your underground parking lot to only God knows where," Rhea says and a pang of guilt hits me at the mention of Ember
"Are you keeping tabs on me?" I question her
"Of course not, I just happen to be good at what I do as the COO of E shine jewelry which includes me overseeing all company operations " she answers calmly
"From overseeing all company operations, you have graduated to poking your nose into other people's business right? " I question her
"I won't call that poking my nose, I just happened to see you with that shy Emerald and you don't expect me to close my eyes, or do you?" She stresses
"Why do you refer to her as the shy Emerald? That lady has a name and it is Ember Weston" I caution Rhea
"It's no news to you that Ember and I used to attend the same university, and more so both both our girl gangs, The Emeralds, and The Queen Bees were mortal enemies in college” she states
“more so, she is the shy Emerald so why won't I refer to her that way?" Rhea states clearly and I roll my eyes because I am not interested in any college drama at the moment
"Does referring to her as the shy Emerald bother you that much because she is your latest fling? " Rhea questions and I pause
"It will interest you to know that your latest fling is still yet to report to work by this time of the day" Rhea informs and I curse under my breath because her absence is my fault.
"Inform the HR department that I asked her to do a market survey for me so she is taking the day off " I instruct Rhea instead of pleading to help me with the favour otherwise Rhea will investigate the truth like my father's police dog that she truly is.
"Market survey?" She questions and I know she is trying to find out more.
"Just do as you are told” I instruct.
“I need to get ready to be in the office as soon as possible" I add before hanging up the call.
"I can't even vent my pain a frustration in peace because of my nagging assistant," I say through gritted teeth as I still sit on the bed fuming in anger at the thought of Rhea thinking she can control my life.
"Instead of continuing with my episode of emotional breakdown here, I guess it will be better to hurry to the office if I don't want Rhea postponing the meeting to come over to this house uninvited to confirm if I am really indisposed or not" I finally decide after a while.
I left Ember sleeping peacefully in the other room without any idea about anything that happened as of yet and it will be very unfair if she wakes up and walks into my lounge to meet Rhea who sometimes says things without stopping to think if it will go down well with the other person or not.
After what I did to Ember, I won't like to add any more difficulties to her issue, moreso I know that my face is the very last thing that she will want to see after she wakes up because if I were the one in her shoes, I won't also like to see myself.
"Even if I appear in front of Ember, I don't know how I am going to face her, I don't even know if I am supposed to start with an apology or not so I guess it will be better for me to get out of this house before she walks out of the room " I conclude getting up from the helpless position that I have been sited for quite a while now to surf my closet.
“There is no need to go back to my room to take my bath or look for something fresh to wear since Ember is still inside so I guess I will just take my bath here, wear the clothes I wore yesterday” I strategize before it suddenly occurred to me that Rhea has been paying special were room to me so she will definitely ask questions if she sees me wearing the same outfit I wore yesterday and the last thing I want right now is to entertain unnecessary questions.
I guess the best bet for me now will be going out through the backdoor and probably stopping by at a boutique to get something clean to wear before going to the office.
I open the big closet and take put a big fluffy towel from the pile of neatly arranged towels that Mrs. Davis my housekeeper arranged in the closet before this time before quickly navigating my way through the small plastic containers in the drawers where I like my toiletries to be stored, it is stored that way in my room and every other room in this house because that was how my mom raised me to do my things.
It is easy for me to navigate through the closet of this visitors room because Olive understood how I like my things to be arranged while we were still in college and made sure to explain to my housekeeper who I was always having problems with because of how she constantly displaced my stuff while cleaning.
My koala personally saw to the arrangement of things in this house after I moved out of the dormitory during my college days because we spent the majority of our time together since then which is why I can't allow any other housekeeper to work for me because I am not ready to allow someone else to erase olives traces in this house
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