A ROSE FOR THE BILLIONAIRE

12. ANXIETY

IVY’S POV

Jeff called me from my office where I was having a chat with Ace and I had to leave immediately. Ace was suddenly all good and I was enjoying his company.

However, since our client’s come first, I decided to follow him and attend to that emergency.

“Where is the patient?” I asked Jeff as we headed to the laboratory department.

“There is no patient. I just want to talk to you,” He mumbled.

“Come on, don’t do this. You know I was talking to my client,” I told me throwing my hands in the air in tantrum.

“Trust me, what I have to tell you is important,” He tried to explain to me.

“There can be nothing more important than me talking to my client,” I told him and started walking back to my office but he held my hand.

“The thing that I want to tell you is concerning your client. There is something that I want to tell you about him,” He told me and I was quite interested.

Besides, what would I lose if I talk to him? I was not so busy after all therefore I gave Jeff the opportunity to talk to me.

“I am giving you only three minutes,” I told him and he led me to a safe space and that was the board room. Good thing is that, no one was in there therefore we had a time to talk one on one without someone interfering with our talk.

“So, what about my client. By the way, I hope you know that what we are doing is wrong. You know so well that we are not supposed to discuss our clients.” I made it clear to him and he was there waiting with anticipation for his juncture to talk to me.

“Listen, okay, stop with the talking,” He said.

“Alright, so tell me,” I told him.

“Well, your client is a billionaire. I hoped you worked well with him,” He jested.

“Stop with the jokes okay, Ace can never be a billionaire. He is just a regular person,” I told him.

“Are you for real Ivy? This is Mountain View Hospital in Mountain View town which is the town of the rich. Does that ring a bell?” He asked me.

“I know this is the town of the rich, but that does not mean that everyone is a billionaire,” I countered him.

“You have to believe me, Ace Kennedy’s is a billionaire,” He told me.

“I don’t f*****g believe you. Tell me the proof,” I tattled.             

“You go and check Forbes website. I think when you see that for yourself, you will believe what I am telling you is true,” He explained.

“Please, don’t lie to me. If I get that you are lying, I will not talk to you again, ever,” I told him before leaving the boardroom.

I went back to my office and I found Elle Harris had taken over. I have lost tract of time. It was already noon and she was the one in shift at the moment.

We exchanged pleasantries and I took my bag and headed to my house in the staff quarters. What Jeff said to me disturbed me and I promised to confirm the validity of his words when I get home.

I mean, I would be in so much trouble when I find out that he is a Billionaire for when we talked at first, I scolded him and that could also be like an insult.

I should really know how to talk to people. A billionaire is a very powerful person and he can just turn my life from better to worse in a flash of a second.

I threw my handbag in the coach and headed to the kitchen. I had just taken an apple since morning and I was starving. I added some milk to my cereal and started snaking on it right away.

After I was done, I took a shower and changed to more comfortable cloths, a grey sweat pant and a white crop top.

I tied my hair onto a neat bun and took my laptop from the small drawer. I wanted to do my research. Jeff can be full of jokes and I was hoping this is one of them for if it is really true that he is a Billionaire, I will be in problems.

There was a WIFI in the quarters. I connected it with my laptop and my first search item was Forbes.

Someone should shoot me right now because I don’t know what to do. I am already a dead meat. Jeff was definitely telling me the truth.

Gracing the website cover was Ace Kennedy in a neat suit. He looked elegant and the watch on his hand screamed money. He looked so hot and I looked at my hand in disbelief thinking of how it is possible that he shook my hand today.

I suddenly got too interested to read his story. He was so inspiring and he told people who looked up to him to keep working hard.

What made me freeze as if I had been bitten with a freeze bug is when I learnt that he was a lawyer and he got all his money in the law business since he is now working on his family’s law firm THE KENNEDY’S LAW FIRM.

I started sweating and my mind become hay due to many thoughts. Now that he is a lawyer, he was definitely taking me to court for talking to him like that.

Things were now starting to make clear sense to me. He wanted to know my name so that he could give it out when he is writing a statement against me.

I have never been so terrified kike this. I have messed up badly in my first day of work and I might possibly lose this work that would bring me more fortune.

Tears started forming at the slit ends of my eyes and my hands started becoming so sweaty. I started shaking like a blade of grass in a whirl wind. Suddenly I felt the urge to pee. Butterflies were released on my stomach and my stomach felt like a pit of nerves,

What had I done?

I really need to do something. I really need to apologize to him before things go out of control. Despite all this adrenaline rush that I was feeling that made me weak and hopeless, I somehow managed to send him an email asking for him to forgive me for scolding him.