Part Four.

"Hmmm! Stop!!" Beatrice whined with a slight groan straining her voice in her sleep as she tried to stop her little dog from licking her face.

"Cody! Come on!" She groaned annoyingly as her dog kept on disturbing her from her precious sleep but on the other hand, little Cody was trying to save her ass.

Beatrice forcefully opened her eyes and grabbed Cody as she turned on her side, cuddling her pet dog while she ran her fingers through its soft fur sleepily.

"Be a good boy and let mama sleep!" She murmured with a sleepy smile on her face but Cody was adamant as it began to bark and scratched her arm with its claws.

"Oh! Jeeez! What now?" Beatrice asked, her temper rising frustratedly at her dog as she sat up and turned and stared at her alarm to know what time it is, soon enough her eyes widened and wanted to fall off their sockets when it finally dawned on her she overslept past her actual time for work.

"I'm dreaming, right?" She asked no one in particular wiping her hands over her face, so she could see clearly as she scraped off the duvets from her body then dragged her butt on the bed closer to her draw and picked up the alarm on it hurriedly when her eyes don't seem to be playing her.

"Why the fuck didn't you ring?" She screamed at the alarm in terror as she stared at the time which says, '6:45a.m' and she needed to be at work, latest '7:30a.m' 

"Fuck!" She cussed standing up from the bed with a loose nightgown covering her nudity as she threw the alarm on her bed.

"Cody! You should have woken me earlier," She cried accusingly while her dog curled up itself on her bed with looks that gave the expression, 'I did so,' and barked at her as she ran into the bathroom.

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One hour fifteen minutes later,

"Oh, God! Oh, God!! I'm fucking late," Beatrice whispered to herself in agitation as she ran into the building.

"Oh, dear! You're late," Lady Zara said behind the desk as Beatrice ran past her.

"Morning! Please write my name and Time, I'll sign later," Beatrice said loudly for her to hear in heavy breaths as she ran over to the elevator, brushing past people on her way to the elevator while she kept on mumbling sorry to them.

She pressed the elevator button repeatedly as she bent her back placing her left hand on her knees while she tried to catch her breath.

The elevator door opened and she quickly got in and pressed the number 2 button as the elevator door closed.

Beatrice closed her eyes while her chest still heaved up and down. 

"Dear Lord, don't let Mr. Fin get annoyed with me," She spoke softly praying heavily in her heart.

Even though Mr.Fin was the coolest and kindest boss anyone could hope for, he doesn't tolerate lateness. To him, it was as if you were taking your work for granted.

She brought out her Pink scented handkerchief and wiped off the beads of sweat that invaded her forehead.

"Open! Open!! Open!!!" She said impatiently, as she glanced at the time on her wristwatch, which was screaming, '8:25 a.m Beatrice!'

She patted her right palm on the houndstooth suit she was wearing with a black sheer shirt as an inner while she held her black purse in her right hand.

The elevator door beeped and opened suddenly as Beatrice scurried out to her office.  She got into her office, dropped her purse at God knows where and hurriedly left her office to prepare Coffee for her boss.

She couldn't eat anything in the morning and she had no gut of making a coffee for herself even with how badly she was craving to have one at the moment.

Luckily for her, the coffee machine was on the second floor where her office was. Making the texture of how Mr. Fin wants his coffee, all creamy with 2 cubes of sugar giving it that foamy and golden brown color, the way Mr. Fin liked his coffee, she marched hesitantly to the elevator careful enough not to spoil her boss's coffee as the sounding clicks of her heels to the ground added to her disrupted frustration as she pressed the button to open it.

Getting to the first floor which was remote and very quiet with only the sounds of her clicking heels heard, Beatrice got to her boss's office.

With a deep breath and a pleading prayer in her heart, she knocked on the door once and firmly, then turned the knob of the door as it swiftly unlock and she walked in.

"I thought you weren't going to come," A sarcastic deep icy voice echoed in the entire office as Beatrice's feet became weak immediately while the hairs on her body stood straight due to terror as her hand which she was using to hold the cup of coffee became jelly as she gazed at the piercing blue eyes staring at her seats away.

"Ben!" She muttered so lowly under her breath as she became all sweaty immediately.

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