"My heart aches badly because you call me your secretary and your submissive, yet you pushed me out of your car under the burning sun because I fell asleep while you were away. You poured away the dish I prepared because I did not ask you if you wanted to eat lunch. Why?" Tina flared out as she hung her pyjama shirt on her shoulder and rushed to Mr. Gavriel as she held his t-shirt collar so tight."What the hell are you doing? How dare you touch me!" Mr. Gavriel asked."I don't care... I absolutely do not care... What are you going to do to me now, hmm? Kill me? Hit me? I freaking do not care because I can endure the pain. Any pain you inflict on me, I absolutely do not care. Who the hell do you think you are?" Tina replied as she slowly released her grip on his collar, then put her hands on her forehead and faced the floor.She massaged her head vigorously as if she were insane... truly, she was hurt... she couldn't take it anymore... It was already too much... she was too young to b
AUTHOR'S POV It was a windy day in the month of February due to the hurricane, and all the clocks were striking thirteen. Tina lay on her bed, so tired, as the windy air blew into her room and sent shivers down her spine, yet she was still hot and fuming with anger. She felt like pouring down those annoying words and bad luck she had been experiencing on someone at that moment. She glanced around the room from side to side as she stared at each and every newspaper scattered on the reading table, the floor, and on her bed as her eye came across job vacancies. She circled it out with a red pen. As a matter of fact, she felt like she was cursed or was destined not to ever get a good opportunity in life. She was so unfortunate when it came to a lot of things, most especially getting a job, which was the main reason she was jobless at that moment. She lost her parents in a gas accident when she was 11. She started fending for herself with the little she could do until her dad's brothe
TINA'S POV"I won't tell you right now; that's going to be a surprise," Nicole says excitedly."Nicole, you know I hate surprises; just tell me where we are going!" I demanded it because I know Nicole is a partly high-class young lady, and I wouldn't go there if I knew exactly where Nicole was taking her."Trust me, you will love it," Nicole says with full assurance."Nicole, I don't care; I'm only going there because you forced me with your words to do so," I say as I demonstrate the meaning of my words, as if Nicole were there with her."Tina, I also don't care; all I know is that you should be prepared.""I'll come over to pick you up by sunset," Nicole stated."Okay, I will do as you say," I replied, like a child subjecting myself to my mother."Tina remembers to wear something very nice, okay?" Nicole says."Hahahaha, something nice, well, I will. Are you happy now?" I asked."It's not funny, Tina, and I will be happy if you do as I say and not otherwise," Nicole states."Okay, I
IN JORDAN COSMETIC INDUSTRY Thump "Come in," Nicole says as Susan Johnson, the director's own associate, strolls into her office. "How may I help you?" Nicole inquired. "Good day, Miss Nicole. You are required in the director's office at this moment," Susan said, passing the administrator message to her. "OK, I will be there shortly." Nicole expresses tranquility as Susan gestures to her head and heads out of the workplace. "Tina, I need to go now; I have something to take care of," Nicole says. "OK, bye, be careful," Tina says. "Better believe it, deal with yourself as well, and remember to eat," Nicole tells her. "Sure, I will. Bye," Tina says as she hangs up. Nicole Scott is a 21-year-old woman who works as a dermatologist and also serves as the managing director of the Jordan Cosmetics company. She has been in the industry for three years, thanks to her parents, Mr. Bradley and Mrs. Irene Scott, who assisted her in obtaining the position. "Why would the Chairman want t
She was frozen at the chairman's order as she raised her face and stared at him. "You have to pay the price to get what is actually written down there; you use what you have to get what you want, that's the saying right, Nicole," Mr Gilbert says as he gets up from his chair and walks to the window in his office. "I don't understand you, Mr. Gilbert; you are speaking in parables. If you don't mind, I would ask that you go straight to the point," Nicole asked. Now that feeling of being scared ten minutes ago which she obviously forgot, had come back in a thousand folds and totally consumed her. She knew something wasn't right, starting from the moment Mr. Gilbert asked for her presence in his office. "Sure, I will go straight to the point," Mr. Gilbert said as he closed the window curtains and headed to where Nicole was sitting and started fondling her hair. "You know you are a nice, talented, and beautiful young lady, right?" "I would sincerely love to give you this posit
TINA'S POV "Nicole, oh my gosh, this is New York!" I exclaimed. The city was splendid. It was on the outskirts of Mexico. Of course, it took us an hour or so to get here without traffic. Oh my goodness, it's been a year since I came here, and everything here has changed so much. We were standing in front of McSorley's Old Ale House, one of the popular bars in New York. I knew this would happen that day when Nicole told me we should go out to get some fresh air. This wasn't our class; we actually didn't belong here, but right now I have no say in it, and I loved it. "Oh my gosh, this air is worth it," I exclaimed immediately. I felt the air drive its way into my sweat pores and give me lots of goosebumps. "Nicole," I called her as I checked my sides but couldn't find her. I got my way through the bouncers; thank goodness I didn't dress awkwardly. "At least I didn't dress like a commoner," I said to myself. Finally, I found Nicole at the counter; she was talking to the
"YOU WILL PAY DEARLY FOR THIS," he said furiously.He said as he stormed out of the bar, and at that moment I couldn't ascertain what was going on, I didn't know if it was Nicole or the interview letter I received, or when I bumped into the handsome man, or when I threw up on the handsome man, or when he told me I would pay dearly for what I did to him."Oh my gosh, life is so unfair," I whispered to myself as I sat on the tiled floor near the counter.I have always wanted this job, but now that I got the interview, I don't know why I was scared and feeling so sick." Oh, Christina," I said as I simultaneously used my hands to hit my head over and over again."I forgot this was the effect of the drink I had moments ago," I said to myself as I managed to get up and staggered out of the bar as I thought about Nicole. I just couldn't leave her here, and she brought me here, it would be so rude to go without her.After arguing with myself about my thoughts, I finally concluded that she wo
Shares of Seamus Group of Companies (OMC) slid 0.24% to $67.31 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 1.90% to 4,567.00 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 1.86% to 34,483.72. This was the stock's fourth consecutive day of losses. Seamus Group of Companies closed $19.07 short of its 52-week high ($86.38), which the company achieved on January 30th. Despite its losses, the stock outperformed some of its competitors Tuesday, as Publicis Groupe S.A. ADR PUBGY fell 1.07% to $16.19 and Interpublic Group of Companies IPG fell 1.66% to $33.19. Trading volume (5.2 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.7 M. Further down the income statement, the operating margin was down slightly from 16.4% to 16.1%, and earnings per share ticked up from $1.84 to $1.95, outpacing the consensus at $1.73. CEO Gavriel said: "Our teams are working together in powerful new ways -- with leading technology and da