VISITING THE CEMETERY

Alessia had a nervous look on her face, unsure about why she was being called as she walked towards the main board room.

The door to the boardroom opened, giving her a way to walk through and that's when all eyes seated turned to look at her. She was a minute late for the meeting.

She gulped down her saliva, as the burning gaze of almost everyone's eyes in the room was on her, but a particular set of eyes made her legs go weak and she almost fell.

Her eyes met with his and she gasped in shock. He was sitting on the CEO's chair. Does it mean he was the CEO? All this while she had been bumping into him in the elevator and the thought never came to her. That was when realization came to her that she had once heard one of the board members mentioning his name during her presentation and when he had introduced himself as Marcus, the thought of him being the CEO had never crossed her mind, she only thought that he was just another employee like her.

She pushed some strands of her hair ou