busy with setting up batches of paid campaigns and new social accounts. She could start to feel some traction in her work. They were getting more visitors to the company website and more comments, likes and shares, retweets and so on across the board. She felt fairly confident this would positively affect sales eventually.
The products the company made were absolutely amazing, they didn’t need much of a kick in the right direction… she loved the mood murals best of all and posted lots of images and information about them on their accounts. She just needed a few more weeks to get everything in place and set up a regular maintenance plan.
Thankfully she had not laid eyes on Mr nice eyes since their intimate little meeting round the table. Her senses were very calm and collected in his absence. She had previously checked his outlook calendar and noticed he was away in Bonn for the last two days at a trade fair with Mr Lin the Technology & Design Director, but apparently he was back today.
It was 4pm Friday afternoon and she was really looking forward to her weekend off. This week had been very tiring for her in a variety of ways. Discovering who her boss was being the main one. She was sitting alone in the office, Everyone else had just left for the day. The phone suddenly rang and on the phone LCD display and she could see it was him, her beloved CEO.
Oh no… what did he want so late at the end of the week? She wondered.
She answered it with a curt “Hello Mr Karrigan….”
“Miss Green, I have a task for you. Would you come up here please? Bring your coat and bag with you.”
Curiously she went up to his office as instructed. He was waiting outside the door.
”I have an important meeting with a prospective Joint Venture client this afternoon. I want to know how we can forge ahead with this partnership in certain social ways. So I need you with me. I apologise for the short notice. I have just arranged it.” He explained briefly.
“Of course I’ll do what I can to help” She managed. He needed her? Well that was a good sign. She was useful! She basked in the knowledge of being needed for a moment. Sadly her good feeling didn’t last for very long.
“Miss Green, if there is alcohol at this event. Can I trust you to behave yourself?”
“I beg your pardon?” She replied quite offended.
“I need you to guarantee you will not become intoxicated and misbehave… am I clear?”
”As clear as glass” She said very icily, fuming. They went up in the lift to the car parking area where the car was waiting. They got in the back in silence. She was completely seething. She couldn’t control her tongue any more so she let him have it full force once the driver had closed the dividing window and they set off through the city.
“Sir, I find your last remark totally unnecessary. You agreed we would draw a line. I have been totally professional since I started working here and I mean to carry on that way. I wouldn’t dream of getting drunk at a corporate event! I am offended and rather upset you would think I would!”
She had her head turned towards him and gave him an icy glare. He was looking at her with a small smile starting at the corner of his mouth…
She realised quite suddenly just how ruthless, clever and manipulative he must be to own and run this company. And from what she gathered from Alistair, there were many others. She felt like a lamb sitting next to a lion.
He had only said that to deliberately rile her and she walked straight into it! She pursed her lips and flashed her angry eyes at him.
“Is that so?” He replied staring at her intently “Why should what I say or think offend or upset you Serry?”
Oh dear, he had caught her out there, she thought…and trying to disarm her with the pet name too….
“You are my boss. Of course you can upset and offend me. I am very deeply concerned what you think of me actually” She admitted truthfully. She might as well be honest
The products the company made were absolutely amazing, they didn’t need much of a kick in the right direction… she loved the mood murals best of all and posted lots of images and information about them on their accounts. She just needed a few more weeks to get everything in place and set up a regular maintenance plan.
Thankfully she had not laid eyes on Mr nice eyes since their intimate little meeting round the table. Her senses were very calm and collected in his absence. She had previously checked his outlook calendar and noticed he was away in Bonn for the last two days at a trade fair with Mr Lin the Technology & Design Director, but apparently he was back today.
It was 4pm Friday afternoon and she was really looking forward to her weekend off. This week had been very tiring for her in a variety of ways. Discovering who her boss was being the main one. She was sitting alone in the office, Everyone else had just left for the day. The phone suddenly rang and on the phone LCD display and she could see it was him, her beloved CEO.
Oh no… what did he want so late at the end of the week? She wondered.
She answered it with a curt “Hello Mr Karrigan….”
“Miss Green, I have a task for you. Would you come up here please? Bring your coat and bag with you.”
Curiously she went up to his office as instructed. He was waiting outside the door.
”I have an important meeting with a prospective Joint Venture client this afternoon. I want to know how we can forge ahead with this partnership in certain social ways. So I need you with me. I apologise for the short notice. I have just arranged it.” He explained briefly.
“Of course I’ll do what I can to help” She managed. He needed her? Well that was a good sign. She was useful! She basked in the knowledge of being needed for a moment. Sadly her good feeling didn’t last for very long.
“Miss Green, if there is alcohol at this event. Can I trust you to behave yourself?”
“I beg your pardon?” She replied quite offended.
“I need you to guarantee you will not become intoxicated and misbehave… am I clear?”
”As clear as glass” She said very icily, fuming. They went up in the lift to the car parking area where the car was waiting. They got in the back in silence. She was completely seething. She couldn’t control her tongue any more so she let him have it full force once the driver had closed the dividing window and they set off through the city.
“Sir, I find your last remark totally unnecessary. You agreed we would draw a line. I have been totally professional since I started working here and I mean to carry on that way. I wouldn’t dream of getting drunk at a corporate event! I am offended and rather upset you would think I would!”
She had her head turned towards him and gave him an icy glare. He was looking at her with a small smile starting at the corner of his mouth…
She realised quite suddenly just how ruthless, clever and manipulative he must be to own and run this company. And from what she gathered from Alistair, there were many others. She felt like a lamb sitting next to a lion.
He had only said that to deliberately rile her and she walked straight into it! She pursed her lips and flashed her angry eyes at him.
“Is that so?” He replied staring at her intently “Why should what I say or think offend or upset you Serry?”
Oh dear, he had caught her out there, she thought…and trying to disarm her with the pet name too….
“You are my boss. Of course you can upset and offend me. I am very deeply concerned what you think of me actually” She admitted truthfully. She might as well be honest
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