MY BADASS SECRETARY

CHAPTER 3

Ryke quickly gets off from his bed when he sees the time on the alarm clock on the nightstand that he failed to set before he dozed off last night. It's already half-past eight in the morning. His eyes widened and ran to the bathroom and freshened up himself. He only has thirty minutes to prepare and reach Walters Corporation. He quickly leaves his house and drives as fast as he can so that he almost makes his sports car fly on the busy highway.

Ryke arrived ten minutes early. He saw Benny and Hendrick entering the exclusive lift for the CEO while passing to the security guards.

"Wait for me! Mr. Walters! Benny!"

Hendrick heard and saw him. He ignored the person who was calling him and grinned evilly seeing Ryke running towards the lift and pressing the button.

Ryke thought his boss was pressing the button to hold the door but to his surprise, it was closing and the door finally closed when he got in front of the exclusive lift.

"You! Beast! Lion King!" Ryke mumbled and kicked the door of the lift.

He sighed and looked at the other lift. His eyes widened when he noticed everyone's eyes were with him. They are queuing up and patiently waiting for the lift to open. Some reactions are like are-you-i***t-eyes.

He shyly walks to the last person in the queue of the third lift.

"Hi, are you new here?" The man while fanning his face.

"You don't have to ask him, it's obvious." The other guy said and rolled his eyes.

"Ah yeah, I'm Ryke Wilson, I am the new CEO's secretary. Nice meeting you." Ryke extended his arms to shake hands and smile widely.

"I'm Adam Lewis, he is Aries Smith . We are both from the Finance Department. Welcome to Walters Corporation and good luck." Adam laughed behind his fan.

The three finally hopped to the lift and the two bid farewell when the lift opened on the 51st floor which is the Finance Department. It takes forever before Ryke reaches the 52nd floor because of the almost floor to floor passenger.

Benny opened the door for him and let him enter the CEO's office. The secretary's working table is inside the CEO's office. He quickly runs to Hendrick's table. He is about to greet his boss and bow his head but Hendrick starts to speak first.

"You are five minutes late Mr. Wilson."

"It's your fault." Ryke pouted.

"It's not my obligation to remind you to wake up early Mr. Wilson."

"I arrived early, it's just you are heartless." Ryke gritted his teeth.

"Who is the boss here?"

"Ehem, yeah...I'm a secretary."

"Good. You don't have manners, Mr. Wilson. I don't like it."

"What do you mean?"

"You should address me, sir, greet me when you see me and you should bring me coffee when you enter my office."

"Hmph, I am just starting, how would I know, you should have told me yesterday, sir!"

"That is why you should come early so you have time to read your work descriptions and details I placed on your table."

"I'm sorry sir." Ryke apologizes but his face is showing no remorse.

"Shameless! What are you waiting for?"

"Ok, good morning, by the way, sir."

Ryke was about to leave when he remembered to ask.

"Ahm, sir, may I know where the pantry room is?"

"To your right, there is a name."

"Thank you, sir." Ryke turns his back and enters the pantry room, but quickly shows his half body while holding the door and asks in a loud voice.

"How would you like your coffee sir?"

Hendrick opens his mouth agape. Is this really Mr. Wilson's son?

"Up to you!" He answered and saw his secretary slam the door.

Hendrick just sighs and massages his temple but his lips are curving. He is laughing in his thoughts, he can't forget Ryke's facial expression when he closed the lift. He is so cute and adorable when he is mad.

In the pantry room, Ryke is preparing the coffee. He made three cups, one for him, one for Benny, and of course, for the great beast Lion King. Ryke can't stop cursing every time he remembers Hendrick's facial expression in the lift incident.

Ryke picks the sugar and adds one teaspoon to the two cups he separated and the other one, he didn't add. He smiles evilly and pick the container of the salt and adds one teaspoon to the other cup he separated.

Ryke gives the cup of coffee first to Benny just right next door to the pantry room. Benny thanked him, this is the first time Benny received a cup of coffee from Hendrick's secretary.

Ryke left his own coffee on his working table and put Hendrick's coffee in a separate tray and smiled. He gets out from the pantry room humming and walks towards the CEO's table and gracefully puts down the tray with a cup of coffee.

"Here sir, hope you like it." Ryke smiles innocently and leaves.

Hendrick is just staring intently at the coffee, it smells good and this is his everyday routine and morning warm-up, sip a cup of coffee before he will start his job.

Hendrick holds the cup gently and brings it to his lips and sip enough amount. When he tasted the salty coffee, he splurted it out from his mouth and put down the coffee that also spilled on his table.

"Ryke!" Hendrick shouted from the top of his lungs like he wanted to collapse the whole building.

Ryke comes to the CEO's table like an innocent rabbit.

"Yes sir?"

"You don't know the taste of sugar?"

"I know sir..."

"Here, try this." Hendrick picks the cup with some remaining coffee.

Ryke shivers when he saw Hendrick's death glare.

"Taste it!"

"I don't like it. Why would I if you, yourself don't like it? Look at your mess here." Ryke plays innocently and picks some ply of tissue and wipe the wet table with spilled coffee.

Hendrick gritted his teeth and just watched Ryke starting to clean his table. Ryke arranged his table and went to the kitchen and found a towel to make it wet and wring it. He goes back to the table and wipes the sticky table until it is clean again. He saw Hendrick sitting on the couch massaging his temple.

"Sir, it's done. Next time be more extra careful." Ryke said impassively while holding the clean cup he washed in the kitchen.

"What?" Hendrick can't understand. It is crystal clear, Ryke put salt instead of sugar to his coffee yet he is playing innocent. Shameless!

"I'm going, sir." Ryke bows his head.

"Where are you going?" Hendrick quickly stands up.

"To the Finance Department. Want to go with me, sir?" Ryke's brows furrowed.

"Ah yeah, go go! quickly." Hendrick finally calms down. He thought Ryke was resigning already. He then remembers that the secretary must pick the report at the Finance Department daily every nine-thirty in the morning.

It's just the first day working with Ryke but Hendrick's shield and wall are already broken into pieces and scattered on the floor like shattered glass. He just watches his secretary walk away until he closes the door. Hendrick put his right palm on his chest and breathed deeply. Did I make a wrong decision to help Mr. Wilson?

Benny on the other hand pulls sticky notes and writes Hendrick and Ryke's code and marks the scores.

Player 1 ~ /

Player 2 ~ /

Benny smiles and sticks it on the corner side of his monitor and continues his work.

Hendrick is waiting for Ryke, until now. He didn't get back since he left to take the report from the manager of the Finance Department. He is losing his patience, the Finance Department is only next down to his floor but why is Ryke not yet in the office. Hendrick decided to follow Ryke and go straight to the lift. As he got out of the lift, he saw Ryke chatting happily to the two staff. He is smiling with his cute bunny teeth while holding a file. Hendrick checks his wristwatch. His blood boils suddenly and quickly walks towards them.

"Are you done?" Ryke flinched when he heard the very cold voice.

"I am done sir, I took it already. Here, take it." Ryke waved the file and waited for Hendrick to take it. To his surprise, Hendrick grabs his wrist and drags him to the lift. Adam and Aries left dumbfounded. Hendrick didn't bother to scold them because it is their break time, but not Ryke.

Benny quickly stands and opens the door. He closes it quickly after the two enter safely and pull the sticky notes again and write a bar scoring Player 1.

Inside the CEO's office, Hendrick is just sitting on his swivel chair while Ryke is standing in front of his table.

"Mr. Wilson, what exactly is your purpose? Why do you want to work here?" Hendrick asked calmly but with a very serious face.

"I-I want to learn sir." Ryke answered while the voice was trembling and nervous.

"If you want to learn, then put it in your heart, Mr. Wilson. Not because you helped me yesterday and I returned you the favor, you can slack off here. Don't waste my time or your time here. The door is open, you can leave now if you want." Hendrick explained his disappointment.

"Ok sir, I'm sorry sir." Ryke bows his head and proceeds to his working table and reads his next things to do as secretary.

Hendrick left dumbfounded. He doesn't know if Ryke is serious or not. He grabs his hair and brushes it with his fingers.

It's lunchtime now, Hendrick checks his watch and checks Ryke on his table. He is not there anymore. Ryke has details on his breaks depending on Hendrick's flow of his routine. If there is no appointment outside the company or special meeting, he is free to leave and take his one-hour lunch break which he did right now.

Hendrick stood from his chair and decided to have his lunch too. Ryke goes to the cafeteria and his eyes are busy looking for the two-person. He plans to join them since he doesn't have any friends here yet. Aries saw him and waved his hand.

"Ryke, over here."

Ryke happily walks towards them holding his tray and starts to dig in his food. They were busy chatting and laughing, the sound of the fork and spoon, a loud noise from a crowded cafeteria suddenly stopped, everything was like a slow-motion movement and paused for a moment when the CEO entered the cafeteria for the very first time. For the long time worker in Walterss, and everyone who knows about the CEO who never stepped foot in this place was all shocked.

"It's his first time coming in here." Adam whispers while munching his food carefully and swallows it.

"Why?" Ryke asked in curiosity.

"We don't know but it is not his place to have lunch here." Aries explained.

The three continue to eat without looking at the CEO again. They are almost finished when a tray of food is placed near Ryke and a man is sitting beside him. He looked at the person and his eyes widened.

"Just eat." Hendrick said. Aries and Adam grab their glasses of water and gulp it in one go in unison.

The CEO started to eat his food and Ryke just watched him silently. After he finishes, he drinks water and looks at Ryke while wiping his mouth with a tissue.

Ryke turns his gaze to the two-person who is observing them. Adam and Aries were deadpanned and just looked down avoiding the CEO's eyes to meet theirs.

"Let's go." Hendrick said and looked at Ryke who was puzzled and curious about what was going on around and why everyone was too quiet.

"Ahm, Mr. CEO, we still have time for a break, we want to stay here." Adam answered respectfully. Aries just nods his head to support his friend and motions his hand to Ryke to just go.

Ryke and Hendrick stood up and brought their trays to the window of the dishwashing area and left the cafeteria.

"What was that?" Adam and the rest of the employees who witnessed and saw the CEO eating in the cafeteria were all shocked and started to give their own opinion and the cafeteria became noisy again.