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CHAPTER 6

LUCIANA MILANO

It was already 5am and the sun is almost up as I see a little light shining through my closed curtains. Ophelia was asleep in her room all peacefully like a little angel she is. Today is one of the biggest days of my life well second biggest day, the first was when I gave birth to my little angel, I would never forget that day and of course I pain I had to go through.

You are wondering why I am awake at 5am in the morning, well you see I am a person that likes to overthink stuff, actually I hate doing that but it’s just in my nature. Once my mind is on overdrive I have no control over it. So that is what I am doing at 5am in the morning. Today is the day I start my job and I am nervous as hell. My mind is thinking about all the stuff that could probably go right and mostly wrong. So here I am laying in my bed staring at my ceiling overthinking.

Suddenly my room door opened and my little angel stood there in her unicorn pyjamas carrying her teddy bear with her thumb in her mouth. I smiled at her appearance “good morning Olly” I greeted as she jumped on my bed and cuddled with me. “good morning mama” she replied kissing my cheeks.

I cuddled with Olly until she fell asleep again. I then got out of bed and made my way to the bathroom to have a shower. Once I was done doing my normal routine in the bathroom I walked out and checked that it was already 7am. I needed to be at work at 8am. I quickly rushed to my closet to take out my outfit for the day. I put on my outfit which was a black tight fitting skirt that came to my knees and a black blouse and I paired that with my black heels. I left my hair open and wavy as I always do and I added a little mascara and my infamous red lipstick. Once I was done changing I stood in front of my mirror and took a deep breath in “you can do this Luciana, whatever you doing is for Ophelia’s happiness and future” I said to myself as I smiled at the person standing in front of the mirror.

I entered my bedroom to find a sleeping Ophelia, I was supposed to drop her off at school by looking at the and I know for sure I’m going to be late but I have no one else to take her because Lynn have photoshoot and my parents are out of the city on a vacation so I’m the only person that can take her and I don’t want her to miss school even though it’s just preschool.

After I have woken up my little angle and gave her a bath and gotten her ready for school it was already 7;45am. Shit! I’m definitely going to be late but I am sure Ares would understand right but he doesn’t know I am a mother of a 4-year-old girl and I am not planning for him to know anytime soon either. Once Olly was done and ready I quickly walked out of the building with Olly holding my hand tightly with her princess jasmine backpack on her shoulder.

“mama, why are you rushing to swool?” she asked slowly, I looked down at her as we walked down the road towards her school which was just around the corner. “it’s school baby” I corrected “and mama is late for work so this is why I am rushing us both, I’m sorry my angel” I continued as I entered the school.

After I left her in her classroom and giving her kiss on her cheek and telling her to be a good girl I walked out of the class and towards the exit of the school. I looked down at my watch and saw that it was already 8:30am and right at this moment I knew I was super late and also my boss could also fire me.

When I reached the building it was already 8:45am, I took a deep breath and walked into the building. I greeted the receptionist whose name I learnt is Anna. She gave a me sly smile and nodded her head towards the elevator indicating that the Ares is up there waiting for me. I waked into the elevator and prayed that I still have this job.

The elevator door opened and I walked towards Ares’s office which also where I would be working at. Before I could knock on the door the door suddenly flew opened and a familiar blonde guy a little taller than me walked out of the office with a tired look on his face.

When he looked at me he gave me a smirk “you must be the personal assistant” he said smiling down at me, I nodded my head and tried to look inside the office “he hates late workers” he replied looking behind him, I sighed as he looked at me “just try not to piss him off more” he said walking pass me, I nodded and walked into the office.

Ares was sitting in his chair by his table with his hand on his head, it looks like he has a really bad headache. “you are 1-hour late Miss Silvia” he said lifting his head to look at me with a tired look on his face. “I am sorry Mr Vasilios; it won’t happen again” I apologised looking at him. He then woke up from his sit and stood in front of me. He was using another black suit that fitted his body perfectly. “ again? What makes you think you still have your job Miss Silvia, I hate late comers especially if they are 1 hour late for work” he replied with power dripping in his voice. My eyes widened when he said that I could lose my job, I panicked that’s all I could do.

“Please Mr Vasilios, I really need this job and I promised I would never be late again, please give me another chance” I pleaded as I thought about if I really lost my job, I wouldn’t have any other job and also I wouldn’t have any money to see for Ophelia needs. Oh god please help me save my job I prayed as I looked down at my shoes.

“just this once time Luciana, I don’t tolerate late comers so this would be your first warning and don’t repeat this.” He replied and looked at him with hope in my eyes “thank you so much sir and yes I will not repeat this again” I said softly with a smile. He nodded “but you would have to stay an hour late because you have a lot of work to finish up” he finished off and I nodded grateful that I still have my job.