Replacement CEO のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

A few minutes before 7 pm, I lied to my mom that I wanted to see someone in our neighborhood. She asked who the person was and I told her Mrs. Coffer, thus she nodded and told me not to stay long. As happy as I was, I walked out and headed to Mrs. Coffer's house. The aged woman welcomed me in and asked, to what does she owe the pleasure. I smiled and lied to her that I just wanted to check on her and her grandson, Sam. It'd been a while since I last visited. She sighed and got me a coffee. "Sam's mother came and took him away not long ago," she said. "I am all alone now," she muttered. "Isn't he coming back soon?" I asked concerned. "Not as far as I know," she said. "So," she continued trying to hide her pain by wearing a lit smile on her face. "How is your mother?" She asked. "My mom is fine, though she's been on sick leave for some days now" I briefed her. "Fever?" she asked. "No, stress" I replied. "Oh, send my regards to her when you get back home please," she said. "Sure!

Nicholas introduced himself to us and gave us a short speech. In his speech, I expected him to talk more about his relationship with Mr. Rogers – his father – but he did not. Well, not bad. After the speech, he stared at me for some seconds before leaving together with his escorts. Lena followed him, making sure I acknowledged how upset she was with me. But why upset? As if I did something wrong. I heaved a sigh and watched as everyone else left the conference room. I didn't want to leave now because I needed some time to think, yes...to think about everything that had happened. If only I knew he was the new CEO yesterday, I would have been more polite to him and wouldn't have taken his umbrella away from him. Although he was the one that willingly offered the umbrella to me himself. Now what? It was obvious Lena was into him, though she denied it. Not concerned about that though, but why wasn't he acknowledging her except me? She was more beautiful, more sexy, I couldn't even comp

Nicholas tried all he could to make me sit in one of the swivel chairs facing him but I refused, I told him I was okay standing. "Are you a soldier or something?" he sarcastically asked."No sir" I gulped fidgeting my fingers."Okay, since you don't wanna sit I think I should stand up too" he said, pulling up to his feet."Huh?" I wrinkled my brows, dumbfounded."Yeah, we are even now" he adjusted his necktie. "So," he cleared his throat, "where are you from? You look like someone I knew""I grew up here, Vincity, but my mom came from Icetown" I said amicably."And your dad? Where is he from?" he asked. I'd wanted telling him the little I knew about my inhuman dad but decided to just keep quiet instead. "Is everything okay, Stella?" he asked, confused."Yes, nothing sir" I gulped."Okay, so tell me...where did your dad came from?" he rephrased."I... I am sorry sir but can we not talk about that please? At least not yet"

Nicholas and I talked about Raymond yesterday, after which I returned back to my workspace at our floor. I was so happy the fact that things were going to be fine for Raymond, Nicholas had promised to stop the director from transferring him back to Crudetown. When I returned back to our floor, Lena approached me aggressively and began asking series of questions. She wanted to know what took me to the CEOs office and why I went directly to him without her permission. Like seriously? Did I really need her permission to see our overall boss?  Anyways, I had nothing to hide so I told her what took me to his office. She became more furious, threatening to report me to the Director for defiling his judgement about reposting Raymond to Crudetown. I had to implore her to change her mind because I wasn't ready to be in trouble with anybody. When I returned back home, I saw a police patrol car packed in our compound with someone leaning on it. It wa

Lena drove me home and left without even saying goodbye, it was as if the lift she offered me wasn't out of kindness but something else. She was probably trying to prevent me from getting closer to Nicholas.Anyways, the following day I was able to meet Nicholas in the cafeteria. Perhaps someone told him I was there, he came and sat close to me. He placed an order for a steak sandwich and a non-alcoholic beer."How was Lena's drive yesterday, great?" he asked smiling."Yeah, great" I nodded, smiling back at him."Good, do you live around St. Paul's bridge?" he asked."No," I shook my head, "East Main Street""Oh, nice. Not that far from here" he said."Yeah" I nodded in affirmative.In less than a minute, one of the waiters brought his order to the table.We started talking about family and he told me he missed his stepsister, as well as stepmother. I asked about his stepfather and he told me he missed him too."D