CHAPTER 6 New Boss

　　"Yeah, yeah. What did you call his name just now?" Raya also asked curiously.

　　Wondering why her friends were so interested in his name, she repeated it to them. "Perry Moore. Why do you ask? Do you guys know him or something?" She asked them with raised eyebrows.

　　"The question should be how do you not know him?" Ella exclaimed.

　　"Almost, if not all ladies in the country know that name!" Raya supported.

　　"Who is he?"

　　"The fucking famous golden bachelor of the city, Autumn!" Ella exclaimed and scoffed. "Are you even in this city at all?"

　　"I bet she's not," Raya replied.

　　Autumn shrugged, unbothered by their hype of the said man. "So? What if he's the wanted bachelor, or whatever you guys called him?"

　　"He's not just that. He's the fucking CEO of this popular company!" Raya said to her. "I can't remember the name of the company though." She then turned to Ella. "Do you?"

　　"Nah, I don't," Ella replied to her.

　　Autumn shrugged her shoulders once again. "I don't mind whoever he is. I'll only get married when I'm ready to, and that will be to someone I love dearly, besides, I don't want to marry at this young age. What's most important to me right now is my career, and I won't let some guy scatter that for me."

　　Her friends looked at her like she had no idea what she was saying. "Oh, so you still plan to divorce him even after knowing who he is?" Ella asked her, a look of disbelief on her face.

　　"Yeah, and that's my final decision. I ain't going back."

　　"You're so unbelievable," Raya said to her and Ella shook her head at her. "You must be crazy to divorce someone like him."

　　"I guess I am," Autumn said and stood up so the discussion could end there. "I'm off to dance," she said and walked to the dance floor, leaving her friends on the table.

　　Trek Tech Company sat in the middle of the metropolis with its tall and shiny tower. It looked like a world of its own. A tech business world owned by one of the world's renowned billionaires. Trek Tech Company had such an incontestable reputation that no one could just waltz into the building looking like a well-dressed hobo and claim they were there for an interview.

　　"Good morning," Autumn said and stood in front of the receptionist. "I am here as the new Junior Front End Engineer."

　　The receptionist looked at her without a word and proceeded to press some buttons on her computer. "Name?"

　　"Autumn."

　　"Autumn?" The receptionist raised her head to look at Autumn again, giving her a disapproving stare. "Do you not have a last name?"

　　Though the receptionist sounded rude, she knew she had to be calm.

　　It was her first day of work and she needed to be on her best behaviour, besides, it was her fault for not saying her last name first. She heaved a sigh to calm herself from reacting, and then, she replied. "It's Dax. Autumn Dax."

　　Confirming that 'Autumn Dax' was on the list of new employees, she gave the latter a brisk nod and murmured, "the tenth floor."

　　"Thank you," Autumn replied with false pleasantness and walked towards the elevator.

　　On getting to the tenth floor's waiting hall, a middle-aged woman stepped out of the office directly opposite her and called out, "Autumn Dax."

　　"Here!" She replied and commenced to her feet. The woman pushed the office door open and she walked in.

　　The room was massive. She hadn't expected it and had almost stumbled at the sheer size of it. What she hadn't expected more was the man who sat behind the large black mahogany table in the room.

　　She stood frozen, taking him in, he was huge, his mane of dark brown hair was mid-length, and thick strands lay tousled and her body arched.

　　His eyebrows were thick and furrowed together as he read something off his tablet. She couldn't see his eyes, but his pink lips moved as he mouthed the words he read. His back flexed the navy blue suit he wore, showing off the powerful arms and shoulders that rippled with each tiny movement.

　　"Wow! He is going to be my boss, I have a lot of work to do," she thought to herself.?

　　Briskly, she walked towards the chair he had pointed to and paused midway as she recalled something quite important. The man before her looked familiar, she didn't think much before she remembered where they had met.

　　For all the love of good things, her new boss was her husband, whom she signed a marriage contract with! "Shit!" She blurted out in shock.

　　Perry Moore's head shot upwards at the cuss word. In all his many years as a businessman, he had never had a meeting with a new employee that started with a cuss.

　　He raised a brow at the speaker; a dark brown head with hazel eyes stared at him like a deer trapped by a hunter, immediately, he recognised her as the woman he just married.

　　A mischievous smile graced his face as he dropped his tablet on his table, and folded his arms.

　　"We meet again, my wife," Perry said to Autumn with a large grin on his face, while she simply stared at the man before her, who was her new boss.

　　Only then did her mind go back to the words of her friends when they had told her Perry Moore was the CEO of a popular tech company. When they said it was popular, she should have guessed it was the one and only Trek Tech Company. She let out a sigh as she thought about why her path kept crossing with the young man's own.

　　"Good morning… sir," Autumn started. "I'm here as the new employee and I was asked to be at your office by 8 am this morning."

　　Perry looked at his wall clock and motioned his head in the direction for her to also look at it. She turned her head slowly to check the time. It was five minutes past 8. "Then you're late," he said.