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31. A DEVIL WITHIN US
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THE CEO'S PET 32. COUNTER ATTACK
Amber had previously personally sent the set launching date to Dave Lin, but he declined the offer of being present with the excuse that he had so much to do, and it would be really inconvenient for him to come down to Chicago. She even gave him the option of rescheduling the event, but he was against it, claiming that this was the perfect time to launch the collection and his presence wouldn’t determine the public’s acceptability. She made sure to finish the project and finalize everything needed before she went to Paris for the art exhibition and Tom was fully in charge of the launching, since he hates ugly turnouts of events, he personally decided to coordinate it. He made sure to check all the clothes before the launching day and rechecked even a day to the event to prevent any issues before giving a go ahead for the event to hold. He was surprised when Amber informed her that Dave Lin was now in Chicago two days before the event, without informing them of that. The information w
THE CEO'S PET 33. I WANT TO CANCEL
Amber was picked up from the hotel by the car Lawrence sent over when she finished dressing up for the event. Her heart was almost jumping out of her mouth as she stepped a foot into the exhibition venue with her black bow mule heels and her teal wrap dress to match. The reporters rushed to worship her gracious entrance with a series of camera flashes as Lawrence introduced her. “I had released the names of every other artist and left one hidden purposely because they needed time to reveal themselves to the public. I don’t know if you are familiar with the artist with the awesome stroke on the internet, but ladies and gentlemen, I am pleased to reveal to you the face of Artist Umbra”, Lawrence introduced, and the camera flashed nonstop as she stood up and walked to his side for identification. Her mother was busy watching the news at the hospital when she suddenly saw Amber on the television being revealed as an Artist. She was confused about all that was going on because she had nev
THE CEO'S PET 34. HANDS TIED
Tom knew it was a set-up. Immediately, he saw Joseph cut in when Dave was talking, although he was not sure if Dave was part of the plan, but one thing was sure, Joseph had a hand in this mess he had found himself. The crazy aspect was that there is no way to prove it was ruined by someone and provide evidence. He was going crazy at every tick of the clock. “I think you should calm down, Mr. Dave Lin and let’s cool down to solve this”, he pleaded, but Dave would not have it. He was scarily furious, and his French accent took over. The more he was pleaded to, the more he was getting angrier and seeing this, Tom concluded that it would be best to reschedule a meeting instead of wasting all day pleading with him and calm him down on camera. He succeeded in calming him down at some point and told him, “Mr. Dave Lin, I promise you that we will sort this out, so let’s have a talk tomorrow instead of fighting like this”, making him cool down a bit. “Even if we have a meeting tomorrow, do no
THE CEO'S PET 35. BITE BACK
Tom was still trying hard to persuade Dave Lin about the clothes when one of the staff ran in to inform him of what was going on with Amber on the TV. “Put the TV on”, he commanded with worries laced in his eyes. He had warned everyone never to tell her, but she ended up finding out on TV, a live broadcast at that. Everyone in the conference room turned to watch her speech with them and saw how the interviewer asked her about the ripped clothes incident. She hesitated for a bit before replying with a confused face but comported herself to answer the sudden question. “I am surprised that you heard about the ripped clothes incident. That is incredible, but there is nothing much to the ripped cloth. It must have come as a shock to the public, and it’s understandable because it was a decision we took without consulting the designer or giving the public notice. The clothes were sent to us just a few days before the exhibition and the designer himself confirmed that he would not be presen
THE CEO'S PET 36. BETRAYED
FEW DAYS EARLIER Immediately, the employee, Joseph’s secretary, came to threaten to leave his presence. She thought about the offer, and it was honestly tempting, but thinking about how Amber pleaded with her before leaving to make sure everything went well, gave her some money and had always been a good colleague to her, she decided to forfeit the money she was promised and called Amber to inform her of what was going. “I can’t believe he’s going this far to ruin his hard work”, Amber, who couldn’t believe what she had just heard, remarked in shock. She was grateful that the employee considered telling her instead of just going ahead to do what she was told to do. She went silent for some minutes, trying to think of a plan, but couldn’t find one. “Send a picture of the clothes to me, I want to confirm something” she asked, and a few minutes later, it dropped on her phone. She had suspicions about the fabric being fake when she first got the clothes but wanted to confirm it once ag
THE CEO'S PET 37. THE DATE
Lawrence asked Amber out on a tour date with her the next day, and she readily agreed. She had promised to tour around Paris after her schedule and she was glad that he was offering to be the tour guide. She threw on washed jeans and a black dotted blouse, and a pair of black sneakers to match. “Wow! You look completely different from what I saw yesterday”, he complimented her when she got out of the hotel and she smiled. On getting into the car, she asked “How exactly am I different from yesterday?” she wanted to get the context behind the compliment in order to give the right expression. “Hmm… how should I put it? Yesterday was more of a femmie fatale, but today, you are giving the girlfriend vibe”, he responded, making her blush hard. He was absolutely right after all, she had dressed corporately for all her meetings and now that she suddenly switched style, it was normal for him to marvel at the drastic change because she looked a bit smaller and cute. “I guess it’s because I w
THE CEO'S PET 38. NICE TO MEET YOU
Charles and Joseph met up at their usual joint where Joseph was downing alcohol uncontrollably. He was furious about the mess that backfired on him. He didn’t have the slightest doubt that his plan would fall through. He was confident. “You should take it easy, you can always strategize again and shoot another shot. You will get sick if you down alcohol like that”, Charles warned, but he only responded with silence. “This is why I say you are pathetic sometimes, you let your emotion get the best of you. You should remain cool-headed all the time”, Charles lashed at him and removed the alcohol bottle from his front. “Then what am I supposed to do? Laugh like a crazy being? Cry? Or whine? I can only take the anger out on the alcohol, so return my bottle!” he roared at Charles, who wasn’t even moved a bit. “If you get drunk this night, you will wake up with a blissful head-splitting headache tomorrow and the loss will still be there to stick its tongue right at you, in the face. Instead
THE CEO'S PET 39. THANK YOU
Although she had talked to her mother and confirmed that she was fine, sleep left her eyes for the night. She kept thinking about who could be responsible for the incident that had happened to her mom, but couldn’t pinpoint anyone. She finally had to rule it out as a coincidence when Josie’s call came through. “Hello Amber, is something going on with you? Someone is going around gathering information about you from the secretary forum. They said they are your old classmates, but it seemed suspicious because they could easily contact you at Shellhouse. I just wanted to inform you in case something is indeed wrong”, she revealed, and it dawned on her that there was no way the incident was a coincidence, someone was surely involved but who exactly it was is the puzzle she couldn’t put together. *** Amber’s mother was still confused about Tom’s presence but was more confused when he revealed himself to be her boss from work. He had always heard her talk about her boss once in a while, b
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