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CHAPTER SIX

Author: Deborah
last update Last Updated: 2023-01-07 04:33:20

The door to Tristan’s office opened and Ivy jumped up, pushed past the people that were coming out and marched straight to Tristan’s table. She slammed her bag on his table and pointed to me furiously.

“I want her fired!” she yelled and Tristan raised a brow

“Oh?”

“Oh? Is that all you have to say, Tristan? This girl here was just rude to me. She insulted me”

“Well, that doesn't sound unlikely. I know she's rude but I'm not so sure about the insult part. I did hear you screaming though, do you know you were being way too loud and disturbing my meeting?”

Ivy pouted and crossed her arms, her loud voice suddenly becoming gentle “it's her fault. She was just giving me this wild attitude”

Tristan turned to me “Miss Cameron, what happened?”

I told him everything including the part about her threatening me “I don't know why I should be feeling unsafe at work because of your guests….” I deliberately let my voice break to sound as if I was about to cry and I could have sworn I saw a look of concern cross his face as Ivy stared at me with wide eyes and her jaw dropped. If she wanted to act, I can do that too

“It's unfair I have to be treated this way all for what? Doing my job?” I sniffed and Tristan gave Ivy a look

“That's not true. She's being over dramatic…”

“Ivy, this is not the first time you've come into my office and threatened my female staff. What exactly is the matter with you? What do you have against my staff?”

“Are you believing her word over mine?” she asked with shock

“Yes. Yes, I am because I know you, Ivy, I know what you're capable of. Just so you know, she's my assistant, she's in charge of my schedule and if she says you can't be here, you can't”

Ivy stared at Tristan in disbelief then she asked if they can have a private conversation and Tristan told Angela to excuse them while they talked.

__________

Ivy walked out with her head held high, she stopped at Angela's desk and turned to check if anybody was coming before bending over to face Angela

“Listen to me very carefully, I'm Tristan’s best friend, you're just his worker, I'm rich, hot, powerful and famous, you're a nobody. Don't think even for once that you matter to him. I can have you fired if I want to. And not just fired, I will use my connections to ensure that you NEVER get a job in this city, so WATCH YOUR BACK!”

Angela just smiled, leaned back in her chair and said “we'll see”

“The battle line between the both of us has just been drawn!” Ivy said and stormed off

Truth be told, Angela was a bit shaken because of Ivy's threat. ‘Could she do it?’ she wondered. Angela had a new mission ‘to get on Tristan’s good side by all means possible’

Tristan was more powerful than Ivy considering his achievements and if she was on his good side, she was practically untouchable

She became more determined to get better at her job and be on Tristan's good side by all means.

Her intercom began to buzz and she picked it

“Hello”

“Can you step into my office please”

“Okay sir”

She stood up and entered his office, he was sitting at his desk, his head buried in his phone

“Miss Cameron, please have a seat” he gestured for me to sit on one of the chairs in front of his desk and I did. He looked up at me after a while

“You can't go home today.”

I frowned confused at his statement “I'm afraid I don't understand sir” he sighed

“What I'm saying is that you know I told you to update my calendar because some meetings popped up?”

“Yes sir” I nodded

“If you check, you would know that the last thing on my agenda for today is the retrospective meeting in Ontario”

“Yes sir”

“And it starts at ten p.m but you'll notice that I didn't include the time the meeting would end. That's because I have no idea when we're gonna be done, the retrospective meeting includes all of my companies and since most of my companies are in Ontario, we're gonna have to go there, those who can't be there physically will join us through zoom but as the CEO, it's important that I'm there. It's an almost three hours flight from Manitoba to Ontario which means we won't be back today. So we'll lodge at a hotel in Ontario and be back tomorrow which means you can't go home today” he paused for a while “are you cool with that?”

My first instinct was to say no, this is discomfort of the highest order. Let him handle his company's meetings alone, why must I go with him? Then I remembered my vow just moments ago, I had promised myself that I would get on his good side and joining him on this trip would not only put me on his good side but we could actually have a boss and employee bonding time.

She smiled and replied “I'm cool with it sir”

“Excellent, I've ordered pizza and chocolate ice cream for you, it should get here in about…” he glanced at his wrist watch “fifteen minutes. Once you're done with it, we'll be on our way to the airport.”

“Thank you sir”

“You're welcome”

I realized this was the very first time he had ever replied to my ‘thank you’ he usually just nods his head. I headed out of his office and texted Jane that I won't be coming home tonight. She replied immediately telling me that this was how people fell in love in all the novels she read and I rolled my eyes and sent her a rolling eyes emoji.

**********

“Are you ready?” Tristan asked coming out of his office without his suit on, he had on just the dress shirt under his suit and he looked even more handsome with his dress shirt outlining his biceps.

“Yes sir” I said struggling to keep my eyes off his biceps, he seemed to have an amused expression on his face and I blushed hard. Does he know I'm checking him out? Why am I even checking him out? Sure he was handsome but I don't feel anything for him…I hope

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