Come Back To Work

Nicholas's POV

The meeting had been time consuming and I was so happy once I'd got to kick everybody out.

Miles was the only one left, and that was because he was my P. A and somewhat my best friend.

"Alright then, I'll order what we'll have for dinner tonight." Mike said, and I didn't know if he was joking or being serious. I heaved in a deep sigh and closed the files before me to focus on him.

"Mike, it's two in the afternoon, we just had lunch two hours ago, and you're already thinking about dinner?"

"I shouldn't have mentioned. My bad." He turned and was about to leave, as if what I had just said didn't matter at all. Then he paused, maybe remembering something. "Sir, are you going to let her go just like that?"

I groaned in disbelief. "Dude, I hate it when you call me sir."

"Sorry, Mr. Walton--"

"--oh for the love of God--"

"--I'm talking about that smart finance assistant." Mike successfully ignored me and went on with his little talk. "She left in her resignation letter yesterday already, but I don't like that she's leaving so suddenly."

"First off, why would you think I care about that? Secondly, aren't the rest of them smart as well? She left in resignation letter because she's tired and wants to leave, or she has something better to do. Why should I care?"

"Because you're a professional who's after the growth of the company. And we need people like her around. She's really good with customers and all of her jobs have always been balanced."

"Maybe it's just... Uh, beginner's luck."

"She's been working here for four years now." Mike interrupted.

"Well it still doesn't ring a bell. What's her name? Does it even matter? She's already going anyway--"

"Miss Regina Mildred, twenty six years old now. She has been working here the last four years. Not so tall, fair skinned, beautiful with baby-ish face--"

"Slow down on the description of your crush, but she doesn't ring a bell. Sorry." I was telling the truth anyway. I didn't have time to start studying all of the staff at work. "Let's just move on and let her go, okay?--"

The door barged open and two ladies rushed in. "I'm so sorry sir, but there's been a crises! I mean, issue--!"

"This better be worth your daring boldness to barge into my office without knocking and waiting for my response." I made sure my face was stern and hard as possible.

They both looked like they were on the verge of tears. Mike and I followed after them.

"So the customer is causing a scene out there?" Mike was saying to one of the ladies who fidgeted as she explained what happened. Apparently, since we were busy with the meeting, there had been an issue downstairs and they didn't want to interrupt the meeting so they waited until we were done.

"There's been an issue, someone has made a complete mess and the ledger isn't balanced. This customer has receipts that are clearly up to date, but it's not in our record."

I couldn't actually believe what I was hearing. "You could be fired right after this mess has been solved. Why would something like this happen??" I tried to keep my voice down while scolding them, but remained as calm as I could while facing the customer. He was a tall well built man, but also influential and powerful as well, Frank Doyle.

"I don't care who you might be, with all due respect. I want to see Regina, and right now. I don't care if you've sacked her or not, bring her here right now."

Although he sounded annoying now, but he was a very important customer of the company and had a weird link towards... The face... I was starting to remember her now. That lady... Frank loved her so much for some reason. And he wasn't the only customer who commended on the lady's job. Mike was right.

"We need to call miss Regina." Mike whispered in my ears but I didn't want to admit it to him.

"It's fine. We'll do well without her, we have been doing well four years ago, haven't we? We don't need her, Mike."

Regina's POV

I still couldn't believe it. Just like that, Dan and I were over before it actually began. He would end up with Kimberly... Of all people!

The other day, I had wanted to talk bad about Lloyd in front of everyone! But apparently, their security was so strong they had threw me outside before I even got the chance. After what they did to me, they needed to pay! But how? I was a poor jobless poor lady with no friends, no family.

How could I have allowed myself to be used like that? I felt like slapping myself hard on the cheeks till my lips burst! "You moron! Why did you dare resign! Now you have no where to start from?" Of course I would have to start dropping in my CV across companies, but Dan and his family were a bunch of sadists and won't rest until they've punished me!

My phone buzzed, cutting me off from my afternoon drinking and thinking. The number there was strange because why would I see Mr. Walton CFO. I wiped away the tears in my eyes already and clicked on the phone to answer the call.

"Hello?"

"I was starting to think you've really moved on." Said the voice from over the phone. Said the voice that sounded so much like Mr Walton for real! It wasn't a prank call.

"Um, hello. Mr. Walton, uh, hi."

I was still sad and depressed, but now I was starting to wonder why he called me.

"Name your price, any amount at all so you can come back to work. Your attention is needed right now."

I blinked. I didn't hear him well. "You want me to... You're offering me my old job back?" Just like that?

With speed, I quickly changed into one of my formal outfits and improved my appearance from a drunk idiot to a classy lady as best as I could, and stormed off.

Once I arrived at work, I knew exactly what was going on. It had happened before, where Frank always caused a scene like this.

I sat him down and promised everything would be alright.

"You're here! It's so good to see you, now, I'm more relieved." He sat like a king on the sofa, resting his back comfortably. There was a vip office for guests so that was where he sat at.

A tall handsome figure walked in. Now, I had seen a lot of handsome men in my life, Dan was handsome! But this one, I was forced to take a closer look at him again. He was helplessly gorgeous, from his tall dominating stance to his neatly styled hair and damn...those eyes must have belonged to a god. A smoking fucking hot god--

"You're here. It's you, isn't it?" Even his voice was charming... I didn't realize how handsome Mr. Walton was! Now, I haven't really met with him one on one. He only passed information sometimes on the general platform and I've heard his voice there.

I stood still and fell out of my trance. "Yes. Wait, you're Mr. Nick?"

He flashed me a soured look. "Nicholas. Mr. Nicholas."

"Oh sure. Just like Saint Nicholas, ha!" What was wrong with me!

"Are you sure she's the one?" I heard him whisper to another handsome man beside him.

"No. I am, I mean, I've got this. Please, trust me."

"It's never been advisable to trust anyone, I only trust two people in my life. I'm not even included on the list," Nicholas said, pronouncing his words very carefully. At least they sounded like that in my ears.

"I'll get to work then." I quickly disappeared from his sight to find Dawn. I had work to do!