Chapter six

Emily's eyes widened at the time on her phone. She quickly threw the sheets aside and jumped out of bed.

She dashed straight for the bathroom, not believing she had overslept on her first day of work.

She dialed Ava's number before grabbing the toothbrush.

Ava picked up on the first ring.

“Ava, please promise you didn't leave without me.” Emily said in a panicked tone.

Ava chuckled. “Relax Cupcake, I couldn't bring myself to wake you up. You looked so peaceful in your sleep.”

Emily paused the hard scrubs against her teeth.

“Ava!! It's my first day at work. How can I be so late? I could get fired.”

She could already imagine Ava rolling her eyes.

“Ummh, did you wake up with partial amnesia? I'm your boss, who's gonna fire you?”

Ava didn't give her the chance to utter a word before adding,

“Just take your time and get to work when you can. I left you some cash for a cab-fare on the kitchen counter. Gotta go, Love you.”

Without giving Emily the time to protest, she hung up.

Emily took a deep sigh, wondering how she would ever repay her friend.

From taking her in—to giving her a job, shopping for her, helping her change her last name.

And despite paying her an advance of her salary, she still went out of her way to provide for Emily.

She would forever be grateful to her friend.

Half an hour later, she ran down their apartment complex and into the morning bustling street.

“Taxi” She yelled at one of the many yellow cabs.

It came to a stop before her at the sidewalk and she quickly bolted in.

“Hasting Publishing.” She rattled out, while inspecting her hair and face with a compact mirror.

After making sure everything was okay, she tossed it back into her bag.

Her hands trembled with nervousness.

Why wouldn't they? It was after all the first time and she was going to work in her life.

Emily tried not to dwell on the negative thoughts and decided to distract herself by staring out the window.

Suddenly, the cab began to make weird noises before coming to a halt.

“Damit!!” the driver cursed.

“What's wrong?” Emily asked in a confused and panicked tone.

Before the driver could respond, Emily saw the problem for herself.

Outside the cab and from the hood, white smoke began to sip out.

Emily let out a scream while the driver only yelled out more profanities before rushing out of the cab.

Emily didn't waste another second. She jumped out of the cab, tossed some bills inside before walking into the busy traffic.

She tried to halt other cabs but they were all occupied.

She took in her surroundings, the company was only five minutes away.

With no free cab in sight, the only option was to make use of her legs.

She sighed as she hurriedly navigated the busy traffic.

Emily cursed her luck for being so late on her first day.

Suddenly, there was a loud horn.

Emilly froze in shock, realizing she had just run in front of a moving vehicle but fortunately, it came to a stop right on time.

Alexander Hasting's frown deepened as his body jerked forward due to the car coming to a sudden halt.

He looked up from his tablet with a huge scowl on his face.

“What the hell was that?”

Chris swallowed hard beside his boss. Their morning was already bad since they were late for work without a good reason.

And now, it was about to get worse.

“I think someone ran in front of the car. The driver stopped in time.” he said, hoping the driver was not going to face Alex's wrath.

Alex's face only crumbled into a deeper frown after hearing his assistant's explanation.

Without warning, he opened the door and marched out in a fit to face the stupid being.

Emily, who was still frozen, had no idea of what was about to befall her.

After seeing someone step out of the car, she snapped out of it and began to prepare an apology.

Another wave of shock went through her as she saw his face.

Alex felt a wave of rage as he saw Emily's face.

“Her? Her again?This girl must have a thing with accidents or she's out to get me.” he thought with even more annoyance.

“Are you nuts?” he yelled, pouring all his morning frustrations on her.

Emily tried to apologize but was quickly shut down with more words from Alex.

“What hole did you crawl out from that you don't know how to navigate a basic thing as traffic?. Are you blind? Do you love death so much? If you want to die, you can order a dam hit man, jump from a br*dge or gulp down a bottle of p**son. Stop running into my car.”

Emily was stunned in front of the man.

She found it very hard to believe the words she was hearing could come out of someone who was supposedly her friend's brother.

There was nowhere they had the same blood flowing through them. How could Ava be related to such a vile and arrogant person.

Before she could recover, he yelled again.

“Now, get the fuck out of my way.” with his final words, he marched back into the car.

In her dazed state, she moved and watched his driver speed off.

More horns reminded her to get off the road and that she had a job to get to.

A job her company's boss had just zoomed off to.

Emily jogged the rest of the way to work. And thankfully, there was no more morning incident.

By the time she made it to the company and Ava's office, she was panting like an exhausted puppy.

So much so for the first day of work

Ava's eyes went over her friend in an amused and confused way.

“What the hell happened?” She asked with peak curiosity.

Emily took one deep breath.

“You have no idea.”