"Look, I'm sorry, I know it might be coming all wrong to you, but the thing is, I am 30, and still single, most of my friends have been married for more than 2 years, and just me and my other friend were single, and now even he has found a woman for himself, only I'm left single and alone, I did ask my male secretary and male personal assistant for that, but sadly all their suggestions had made me nothing but embarrassed, so I thought hiring a woman might help and you were the only one capable of the job, so I kind of killed two birds with one stone, and yes your job is to search a wife for me, I don't care about her body and looks, I just want someone who is not only confident but also has a dashing personality."
I was still staring at him with shock, even after he had finished talking... I still couldn't get over the fact that I has hired, not only on the basis of my resume but also, my gender...and for what? To find my boss a good wife.
Just a fake smile...
"I...get your request sir, but do you happen to have any kind of expectations? Like if you want her to have any hobby or talents? Anything?"
The hell is this? This is not the kind of work secretarys do.
Even if I was talking to my boss normally, but inside I felt like strangling myself for such an awkward job.
Now I have to work as a matchmaker too, amazing!
As soon as he let me leave, I walked out of his office.
The heck was this?
And directly went in my cabin, that was right next to the CEO's assistant and other secretary's office, and I went to greet them.
I knocked on their door, that was already open and walked in, as soon as I heard a come in.
2 men, both more than the age of 40, sitting opposite to each others desks.
These were his male employees he took suggestions from? No wonder they did not go right.
Just when I thought things wouldn't be that weird here, they turn out to be worse than that!
"oh hello! You are the girl who was hired yesterday by Mr. Jason as his new secretary, Ms. Laurel, right?." The man sitting in the smaller desk stood up and said with a soft and respectful smile.
"Yes that's me!" I nodded.
"Oh, I am john, I am Mr. Vernon's secretary." Theman sitting in the smaller desk introduced.
"And I am Bruno, I am his Personal Assistant."
"How may we help you? Do you need any help?" Bruno asked, sitting up from his chair.
"No, actually I just came here to give my introduction, since now I would be working with you and you are my seniors, so it's best to pay my respect." I smiled and paid them the same respect back.
"No need daughter! Just go and relax, Mr. Vernon will himself inform you if there is a meeting or anything that needs to be arranged, other than that, you have no work." John said.
"Yeah, you can relax or do the work you want, and don't worry about us, we are not like young people nowadays, you can relax, we both have kids your age, we take you as our own daughter too, so just relax, and if you do need any help, our office is always open for you!" Bruno replied back to John's words.
Their words, were simple yet heart touching and I thanked them for it and walked back to my cabin, Event though it was a bit smaller than their office it was still spacious, plus two people work there, and here I am all alone with full privacy.
I don't even have any kind of work load, like completing any files, I just have to wait till there is a meeting that needs to be scheduled or any dinner, other than that I'm pretty much free.
I was studying files that were kept in that cabin, some related to the current projects this company was handling and some of them from the previous collaboration this company had done with others.
And 95 percent of them were a huge a success.
All the strategies, how to handle any kind of problems, and things most of them were written there.
And for me, remembering something wasn't that difficult, being a medical student, and then a doctor, trying to keep patients histology in mind, revising and remembering something was no longer hard.
I couldn't get the hold of time while studying those files, and when did it struck 6 p.m I didn't even knew.
Bidding good bye, to bruno and john, I packed my things and went downstairs, and there he was, standing with a smile on his face.
"Good evening, Ms. Laurel, how was your day?" His hands, both in his pockets, and a bright smile on his lips.
He asked as if pretending to be a chauffeur.
"Very well, Mr. Black, now please hurry up and drop me home, and on the way home, please buy me some dinner, I'm starving!"
I played along, as he opened the passenger seat door for me.
With a smile plastered on my face I sat on my seat and he did the same, hooking up his seat belt he looked at me.
"Did something happen at office? Like did someone bully you or anything?" The voice shift in him as he asked about someone bullying me was scray, but reassuring.
"No, no one bullied me but something even funnier happened!" I remembered and began chattering, and he started to drive the car.
"What happened?" He asked with curiosity.
"Do you know why my boss hired me for this position?" I asked with excitement.
"Why?" Luca asked frowning.
"Because he wanted a matchmaker, apparently everyone in his friend's group is married, other than him there was another friend who was also single, but he also found a girl, and now he is the only one who is still single and thirty...and now, the only thing I have to do is search for girls for him, or arrange his meetings, company dinners and flights, other than that I'm free."
Luca choked on his saliva, and I panicked as he didn't stopped coughing for a while.
"Hey calm down!" I patted his back gently as he hit the brakes of his car on the corner of the road
As his cough got better, he looked at me, sweat beads dripping down his face.
"Did he... tell you, who that friend is?" I shook my head at his question.
But it had began weirding me out, why was he acting like that? It wasn't something that weird that he had to be like that?
He seemed nervous, his bkdy language changed within a few minutes, but he still took me for dinner.
Even during the dinner, he remained quiet, as if he was lost in another world, whenever I asked him any question, he was either lost in his thoughts or he answered with a shook or nod with his head and now it was irritating me, a lot.
This time, instead of going with me to leave me at my apartment's door like he did before, he asked the complex's staff to go with me to my apartment and drove away as soon as I got off the car.
And that behaviour of his saddened me, why did he started reacting like that? I didn't say anything that would make him react like that, then why?
After entering the apartment, changing my clothes, noting the things that took place today in my journal, marking other things that might happen; while doing every single work, my mind was fully focused thinking about one thing and that was why did Luca react like that?
Tears filled my eyes, it's not like we were a couple, but still, it hurts...
He was okay, came to pick me up, asked about my day, was going to take me for dinner, but it all changed just after I told him about one thing.
On what premises I got hired for the job.
The answer to it was pretty simple, that I had told him that my boss had hired me as a match maker for him, for me to look for a wife for him, just that, it's not like I told him that my boss wants me, or anything like that.
I laid down on the bed figuring out what's wrong, my mind shifting from all the memories, flashing the moments I had spent with Luca.
I was lying down on the bed, fidgeting my fingers, staring at the ceiling as that certain memory flashed in front of my eyes.
"The owner of this company is my friend."
"My one other WAS alsosingle."