Cassie spent most of the morning on her knees. The hard marble tiling of the floor of Felix’s office might have been pretty to look at but it was hell to have to kneel on it as she sorted through the mountain of paper on the ground.
She had only gotten a few minutes off from kneeling and arranging when she had to run over to other departments in Tech Town to deliver the papers that didn’t belong in Felix’s office. She put the very last folder into the filing cabinet and managed to walk over to the rug in the middle of the room to let her body drop to the ground as if she were a discarded rag doll. She hung her arm over her head to protect her eyes from the bright fluorescent light in the ceiling. She had no idea that being a personal assistant would have been that hard and tedious.
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Felix waited for his new personal assistant to hunt for a notepad and a pen to take to their meeting. She was wasting too much time with her search for the items and ordinarily, he would have snapped at her but he wasn’t looking forward to attending the meeting and for once in his life, he was grateful for having his time wasted.“I’m ready.” She announced, trotting towards him. She was clutching the items she had found close to her chest: the notepad with the company’s letterhead had come from somewhere in his office but he had no idea where the glittery pink pen with an obnoxiously large pom pom on top of it had come from because he definitely had never owned something like that in his life.Felix gave her a curt nod. “Follow me.” He instructed. The pair began to walk towards the elevator at the end of the brightly lit hall. “All you have to do at this meeting is sit in the corner and take notes throughout. Preferably, take them in shorthand and then after the meeting, typ
It was drawing close to seven o’clock in the evening when Felix felt a presence hovering above him. He ignored it and continued to type on his keyboard determinedly. He had been able to spot the errors in the program he had been writing all week and intended on correcting them before he answered whoever it was that required his attention. He looked up from his laptop’s screen. His eyes were red and his back was sore from the lengthy time he had spent hunched over the laptop. He found his new personal assistant staring down at him earnestly.Despite the day’s tasking events, she still managed to look put together and generally unaffected. He probably looked like the walking dead. He was glad there wasn’t a mirror nearby for him to see how disheveled he looked. Cassie was an excellent PA, often going the extra mile for all the tasks that he asked her to do. She was quick and efficient and used her initiative when performing tasks. She might not have known it, but her suggesti
So are you on an errand from the boss right now?” Daniel asked.Cassie shook her head. “Nope. I’m clocking out for the day.” Cassie was glad that she was done for the day, if she spent any more seconds with Felix in his lavish office, she might just strangle him; lawsuit and layoff be damned.Surprised, Daniel looked at his watch. “You’re extremely lucky. I have a meeting scheduled to take place in the next twenty minutes. I just stepped out to stretch my legs.” The elevator’s doors slid open and they both stepped out. “Speaking of meetings, I heard that some bad shittery went down at one of the meetings you most likely attended this afternoon.“Calling what went down at that meeting ‘bad shittery’ is probably the understatement of the year.” Cassie snorted. “It was horrible and completely unprofessional; a complete waste of everyone’s time.” She had no qualms admitting how much of a waste of time the meeting was to Daniel. She would never tell Felix that he was right, not after he ha
The rest of Cassie’s week, just as Daniel had predicted, had actually gone a lot better. The main reason the week had gone on so smoothly was that Felix hadn’t been around for most of the time. He had a series of meetings to attend on the other side of the country so Cassie was mostly left to herself. It wasn’t entirely that she was free to do whatever she wanted in the office or to completely slack off as she still had to come to work during those days.No matter how early she got to work, Felix always arrived before her. She would walk in with his cup of black coffee to find him in front of his laptop or bent over numerous files. He would accept the coffee without a word and then she would go to her corner to begin work for the day; mostly answering phone calls and confirming appointments. Sometime around ten, Felix would leave the office to take the company’s jet to his meeting all the way in Washington. Once, he didn’t return back to Tech Town until it was almost time f
“Where is who?” Cassie asked right back, deciding to play dumb.“Felix Callahan,” Sapphire replied, rolling her eyes. She pulled the key out of the door that she had locked and slipped it into the pocket of her coat.Cassie held up her hands in mock ignorance. “I have absolutely no idea who that is.” She declared with the straightest face she could muster. “I think you might be in the wrong office.”Sapphire glared at her. She hated to be made a fool of. “I know this is his office. His name was on the fucking door and only someone who is a billionaire would be allocated an office that looks like this.” She waved her arms around. “And besides, this place has the same decoration theme as his house. So don’t try to play dumb with me, bitch. I know that Felix works here and I know that this is his office. So just do me a favor and bring him out from wherever you might be hiding him.” She demanded.“No can do Sapphire. Felix is not in at the moment so
For the second time in less than an hour, Cassie heard her boss laugh. Just like the first laugh of the day, it was a sarcastic one. The thing that unnerved Cassie about Felix’s laugh was that she had never seen him crack even a little smile. Hearing him burst out in laughter, even if it was a sarcastic one and not bred from genuinely finding something amusing or funny, was more than odd.He threw his head back and let out a disbelieving but sarcastic chuckle. “Sapphire, I really must commend you on your great acting performance. I mean, bravo. When we first met, you pretended to be a sane person capable of making logical decisions. Looking at you now, I can see that you are probably the least sane and least logical person in the entire world.” Felix explained.“I’m not some cheap whore that you can just use and discard.” Sapphire snarled.“Only one part of that sentence is true.” Felix said. “You’re not exactly cheap, Sapphire. No one on Fantasies is.”Sapphire’s face clouded over an
Neither Felix nor Rose understood what Cassie had meant when she said that she had been in a much worse hostage situation and neither of them asked her about it.Without any help from Felix, Cassie stood up from the ground and dusted herself off. Felix was in no way obligated to help her to her feet. He had cleaned up her wound. But then again, he was indirectly the reason she had the wound in the first place.“It shouldn’t scar and even if it does, I don’t think it would be that bad,” Rose assured as she led Cassie toward her chair. “But I’d advise that you keep it moisturized once it heals properly. Use vitamin E and aloe vera gel and you should be fine. Do you understand?” She asked, stroking the back of Cassie’s hand; a gesture that made Cassie think of her own late mother.Cassie almost nodded but then she remembered the terrible pain she had experienced the last time she had done that and decided to go for a verbal reply. “Yes. Thank you for all your help. And sorry about your d
“I’m sorry I’m late!” Cassie yelled, as a manner of greeting as she pushed open the door to Books-A-Plenty, dragging Aaron and Lily behind her.The woman who had been pushing off the last of the bookstore’s dirt into a dustpan looked up and smiled. Amanda Collins was an old friend of Cassie’s mum who ran Books-A-Plenty alongside her novelist husband, Timothy. She had been much older than Cassie’s mum but the two of them had gotten along well. Amanda had given Cassie her first job in the bookstore when she was just thirteen and Cassie had found it hard to quit ever since then. Hence, her shifts had changed from two hours after school to as long as she felt like on Sundays. Back when Cassie’s parents were still alive, Amanda had voluntarily babysat for them and had done it without pay, claiming that they were the ones doing her a favor as all of her grandchildren lived too far away to be properly babied. After Mr. and Mrs. Peters had passed, leaving Cassie to care for th