The Billionaire's Interest

The Expected Day

I walk to my desk tiredly, performances does exhaust me to the bone because its dance and when we dance as a group, its rehearsals. I did not expect to see my boss at Ravings last night. He was with other guys, it looked like it was a bachelor party. I stayed the rest of the evening inside my dressing room. Clara, my apartment mate is out most of the time, but she works with me at Ravings. I sit at my desk, switching on my computer, Laura wasn't at her desk when I came in. I display admin work on my desk. I do not bother knocking on MR Holt's door, its closed as usual and I'm postponing the moment of trouble. I rest my head in my hands on my desk. I jump in my seat as a pile of paper work is slammed on my desk. 

I look up to find MR Holt, in an Armani suit, fits perfectly in the right places. Reading glasses in place as he is typing away on his phone. Hot and sexy wrapped in one. Then he looks at me, serious as usual. "Miss Gibbs, if staring is what you do best, then I suggest you find a job where staring is applicable" 

"Sorry MR Holt" I immediately take the pile of paper work, and sort through it. I feel eyes burn into me. But I continue to work. These are contracts of upcoming site developments, and renovations. 

"You hardly speak, do you?" his serious gaze burns into me. I squirm in my seat. 

"I only speak when necessary MR Holt" I say as I lick my lips from dryness.

"How will you be in meetings and deal with clients when you hardly speak?" his eyebrows rise, expecting an answer and a glimmer of a slight smile forms only by his eyes.

"Got it MR Holt"

"We got a meeting at one today, I want you to be part of it" with that he goes back to his office. 

He hasn't said anything about last night and I sure as hell am not going to bring it up either. I go through all the contracts, and emails of enquiries. Putting all the contracts on a spreadsheet on my computer. 

"So how's the lovely lady doing today?" Laura asks while she sits at the end of my desk. She must love pencil skirts because she is wearing one again and a blue blouse tucked into her skirt this time. Her hair is in a neat bun, tendrils hanging lose on the side that curls, revealing her silver studded earrings. 

"I am okay, just been shoved into work" I gesture to the pile of paper work.

"He always does that, no assistant likes him though, if you can stick around for long and handle his moods, then that's a huge plus. Word of advice, know him inside out, what he likes and what you can't do, if you surprise him that way, that's a major plus" she winks at me through her reading glasses. "oh and take notice of everything in meetings, pay attention, that's a humongous plus" 

"Wow, I guess I have a lot of work to do then" I laugh.

"Want to get lunch together at twelve?" 

"Yeah, sure" I smile.

"I will leave you to your work then, see you later" with that she walks away. 

I got a lot to do with everything now. Its my work, and getting to know my boss without him knowing, maybe Laura has more details and knowledge about him that she can help me with, like what type of coffee he likes. 

The time rushes by when lunch time comes, I meet Laura at her desk. We go all the way down to the main entrance of the building with the elevator. We walk through the rotating glass door, it is a sunny warm day. Today I am wearing a white formal dress, hugging every curve of my body, the length just above my knees. I am wearing black heels to have black with the white color. I have my wallet with me, there is a bit of a wind that blows through my straight loose hair. We order hot dogs at the hot dog stand just close to Holt Architecture.

"Man, I'm so hungry" Laura says when she unwraps her hot dog, we eat standing on the side walk just outside Holt Architecture's entrance. 

"Well I'm too nervous to leave my desk for anything around HR Holt" I say. 

"He won't let you starve, as long as you get most of the work done, he will let you have your lunch, trust me there were days when the previous assistants were starved because they didn't get most of the work done. There was this one assistant, Jake, cute guy. He was on his phone playing games, MR Holt came out and slapped him against the back of his head with a stack of papers, and fired him. So that's the part that you don't want to slack with work. Always try to be on his best side" 

"I love architecture, it's been my life, and no matter what, I will always work hard in it and to get the work done. I don't want to be shoved in a dance career, my mom has been trying to do that for a certain time period and she succeeded. They have the money but I get my own things on my own" I say watching the cars drive by.

"That's brilliant" Laura says. I take a step back on the side walk, my heel got stuck in a c***k and I stumble back hitting against someone, the person catching me in time. I look up into MR Holt's magnetic blue eyes, expression serious, yet there seems to be a bit of concern? I am too stunned and breathless, he makes sure that I am okay to stand. "Nice catch MR Holt" Laura smiles at him while she goes back into the building.

"I came to find you because we need to prepare for the meeting, I do not like anyone being late, and I suggest that you keep your cellphone on you at all times when you leave your desk. I want to be able to reach you in an instant" 

"Okay" I say as I walk behind him through the rotating glass door. As the man walks I take in his physique, muscle in the right places, great ass I may add. 

He walks into the open elevator door, I follow him inside. He hits the thirtieth floor button. I am standing a little behind him, he looks straight ahead. I hold my wallet close to my chest, silently praying for the elevator to get to the top fast, because it is so awkward standing like this with my boss, in silence. This time the elevator takes us straight up, he is the boss after all so he should have a key card for the elevator to take him straight to the top. The elevator doors open and he walks out as if he is on a mission, well he is on a mission, the meeting. 

I hasten my steps to catch up with him, I follow him to our area, I get to my desk, dropping my wallet into my desk drawer. 

"In my office, Now" he demands as he enters his office. "With a notebook" I quickly get my notebook and pen. I enter his office and I close the door behind me. I sit in the seat by his desk, while he sits down in his seat. "The project that we will be doing first and having the meeting about is two sites. Where a hotel will be built and a mall, this client is Landon Corporate World. This is the biggest project to focus on this far, MR Landon is what I call a challenge, so steer clear from him. Jot down anything you want, but never interrupt" 

"Understood" I feel awkward because his gaze never leaves mine. No expression at all, I break the eye contact and I look down at my notebook. He gives me a few things to jot down about the project, and the time has come for the meeting. He stands up grabbing notebooks, pages and what is important for the meeting, he puts his reading glasses on as he walks toward the door, and I follow him out of his office.

We enter the boardroom, there are people sitting around the boardroom table already. I see a classically handsome man, very blue eyes, looks like he has a lot of muscle under that grey suit, hair curling a bit but its neatly combed to the back. He gives me a polite smile which is gorgeous. I bump into MR Holt's back as he stops, my book and pages falling to the floor. 

"Sorry" I say as I crouch down to pick up my scattered pages in front of me, MR Holt crouches front of me, picking up the rest of my pages.

"Clumsy I see" I look up into his disappointed expression. He hands me the pages and gets up. "Good afternoon, this is my assistant Stacy, she will be assisting me on projects from now on" 

I get up and walk around the table to find my seat, I drop my book and pages on the table as I take a seat. MR Holt stands in front of the boardroom table, explaining, gesturing to ideas of the project, seeing the sketches of the floorplans, elevations and perspectives on the screen. 

"I'm impressed, Holt" the blue eyed man says.

"That is why my company is number one recommended, we do things to how it is planned and in the due deadline MR Landon" my eyes shoot up to MR Landon, he is MR Landon. I bite the end of my pen. MR Holt coughs in the front, I look immediately to him and he is looking at me to focus while he is presenting. I stop biting the end of my pen. After hearing what MR Holt explains, I see a bit of a different point of view. 

"I do think that fountains isn't quite necessary, fountains can waste water, we want to try to save as much water as possible. Look at drought, there wouldn't be any water, so in my point of view, will the tourists be attracted to the fountain? Which will only be on display in front of the hotel and mall. I say remove those and instead put the logo of Landon Hotel on that section where the fountain suppose to be, apart from the Landon Hotel that will also be visible as the sign on the hotel building. For the mall I do think instead of the fountain, either create more parking lots or as I have said with the Landon Hotel, do the same for the mall" I look at MR Holt, he isn't impressed of what I said. I look down at my notebook embarrassed, realizing that I interrupted him.

"I think that it's a brilliant idea, and we are going with Stacy's idea" MR Landon says proudly. 

The meeting ended, and I walk to my desk. HR Holt walking on a mission to his office. "In my office now!" he demands furiously as he waits for me annoyingly by his office door, I quickly walk into his office. He closes the door behind me, turning towards me. "Do you have any idea of what you just did in there?" he asks, eyes penetrating into mine. 

"No, I didn't realize until afterwards" I say softly looking down.

"Look at me" I look up into his furious eyes. "This is not to happen again, if you have any ideas, you discuss it with me first, because your ideas might not be so bright and you do not interrupt me while I present again, is that clear Miss Gibbs?" That hurt. After all my work is brilliant.

"Yes MR Holt" 

"You are free to go" he walks past me to his desk, I open the door, closing it behind me, I take my belongings by my desk and I leave in a hurry after that.