Chapter 7: Close Proximity

Serena, Marc’s secretary had given a tour to Lisa showing her the cluster room, and introducing the R&D team, of course, there’d be an official welcome party that evening but Serena made sure to get everyone acquainted.

They walked through the Analytics Department, towards the manufacturing unit and took an elevator to the 35th floor where her office would be. The working units were on the lower floors, and the Directors, CEOs, and Heads of Departments were all on the top floor.

Marc is waiting for you in the office, announced Serena. She walked Lisa into his office.

She was dressed in a plain black dress that hugged her figure well. Marc was there when Erica picked up the dress.

“She has to look brilliant on her first day. This would be great. Don’t you think?”

“Yes,”

“Hump. You are turning into the king of monosyllables. Show some enthusiasm, hon”

“Sorry. I was distracted. That dress would look on you. Yes.”

“Not me. LISAAA.” She exaggerated.

“Ah. Yes. I am sorry.” Erica snorted irritably. Was he losing interest in the marriage already? He barely speaks however, he doesn’t fail to do anything else. He always accompanies her on shopping sprees. He never said no to sex. He joined her in operas. He would also tag along for her visits to the clubs with her other friends. If only he’d offer more words, she wondered.

Now that he saw Lisa in this dress, he was tempted to let a smile slip. He wanted to walk quickly to where she stood. Close the door after Serena until it was just the two of them.

He wanted nothing more at the moment than to press her against the door and step closer, leaving no space between them. So much for him wanting to control his desires. If he knew who he was, she’d yell in fear. If she could feel his desires, would they scare her?

“Welcome, Lisa. Take a seat.”

Serena left them alone.

Lisa did as told. She was beaming with confidence. The job was perfect. She had wanted to work for SolTech for a while, and when Tobias offered her the job, Lisa could barely contain her excitement.

“Thanks,”

“The Assistant head to the R&D will brief you on the current projects we are working on. You will report directly to me.

Your first goal is to improve the efficiency of the materials by 5% and check if they can be made into films that can be used for sunroofs on cars. We also want to tint the windows with these films,”

“We’d need even finer films for that. Let me speak to everyone in the team. See who the best people to work with might be. I will assign their necessary workload and have a report by the end of this week,” Sara said with determination.

This was a side of her he hadn’t seen before. She was timid as a student, always with a smile on her face but quiet in her demeanor.

Erica was the only one who had to always initiate conversations. Erica would go on about the trends in the fashion industry, and Lias would look at them with wonder as if they spoke different languages.

Now that Lisa was speaking about something she excelled in, she radiated the kind of confidence that had Marc’s attention drawn to her in seconds.

“I have a few materials I want to test first, But I am going to need some time. Also, I’d like to request Chris to work on my team.”

Chris is the man she was dancing with the other evening. He made her smile effortlessly. They were classmates at Haward. The image of his hand on her waist sent a wave of jealousy through him. It didn’t help matters that every emotion intensified when he was in her presence.

“Chris?”

“Yes, he has recently been working on an algorithm that can help me assess the material performances but he struggles with Physical analytics. I’d like to help with him those, and our team can simultaneously run experiments to check their practical performance.”

Marc got up from his seat, walked around the table and stood to her. Leaning his butt against the table he took down, first towards his feat, then to Lisa’s and traced the length of her legs. He stopped when their gaze met. He couldn’t let any form of unprofessional behaviour slip.

She looked at him with blue. confident eyes. He wanted to understand her. He wanted to keep looking her in the eye, pull her chair towards him, and lower his pants. This was getting out of hand. If she stayed any longer, he would want to love his face onto hers.

“Sure.”

Lisa could sense a trace of disappointment in his voice.

“I will have Serena do the paperwork for the departmental transfer. You can get on this as soon as the paperwork comes through. I have another meeting. I will see you at the welcome party later tonight,” Saying this Marc left the room as if trying to escape a prison Like he couldn’t bare standing next to her for another second.

“Does he dislike me that much,?” Lisa wondered