Chapter 10 - I Am Screwed!

After Bella had the talk with her subconscious, her body got relaxed a bit as a burden was relieved and besides tiredness took a toll on her as her eyes started dropping. She yawned and hugged pillow more tightly, cold breeze tickled her face and she stared at the roses intently until she fell asleep.

Both were in sleep with an enchanting smile on their faces due to overwhelming feelings. They were amused how they fell in love with each other despite their not so pleasant first encounter but this is what love is.

It was morning but Bella didn't seem to wake up until the alarm rang merciless, shutting it off she woke up with a pout feeling sleepy but still dragged herself to the washroom and had a shower.

Bella hastily came out of the washroom, the cold water awakening her completely. She had wrapped a towel around her dampened body. She plugged the hair dry and dried her hair and lastly got changed into a red tank top and black jeans. Before going out of her room her eyes involuntarily fell on the buckwheat flower.

Bella didn't want to but unknowingly and without her will, a smile occupied her lips. But she shook her head to kill the rising butterflies of her stomach and masked it with the hate she had for him. If she could say that, she didn't know what did she feel for him any longer anymore.

But she didn't had time to think about him neither she wanted to. She had her first official day on work and she was so damn excited for it, she couldn't wait to step out of the house, stuffing a toast in her mouth and bidding bye to Varonica. Bella rushed out, closing the door behind her and zoomed off on her scooty.

Bella reached the office building and her hands started to tremble in nervousness. She was excited to work at a new place but she was nervous at the same time. Taking few breathes she felt relived and entered inside the building. Sally whom Bella remembered from last time flashed her a smile and she told her the way to her cabin while giving her the ID.

Bella thanked her and went away to her cabin. It was attached to the CEO cabin and only a glass wall separated it. Her cabin was comparatively smaller than the one CEO had but it was still large and spacious. And might she add the cabin had a cozy vibe to it as well.

Setting her bag on the chair she went out of the cabin to bring coffee for CEO. Hurriedly she was filling the cup of coffee from the coffee machine when she heard the roaring of speakers. Every employee was immediately called in the main conference hall. She frowned at this announcement but went to the hall anyway.

Everyone was gathered there, all of them were curious to know the reason of this urgent and sudden meeting. Nobody knew what announcement was going to be about and everyone had their own different assumptions.

Bella lazily entered inside the hall while humming a song to herself in very low voice. But the moment her eyes raked up at the stage, the floor slipped beneath her. It was like hell broke on her.

Ashton came on the stage along Mr Johnson while Peter was in the canteen busy in doing what he was best at, eating. When Ashton stood on the stage he looked around reluctantly but then his eyes caught the sight of Bella. She seemed to be lost in her own world, the way her lips were so inviting in that red lipstick, damn he sounded like a pervert but could you blame the guy when he was already so whipped for her that everything about Bella was absolutely adorable to him. Control Ashton himself. Even the simplest and slightest actions were a turn on for him whenever it came to her. She always had this effect on him.

He cleared his throat. He stared back at her and when his eyes met her this time she was looking at him too. And literally her jaw dropped to the ground and he would have assumed that she was surprised which she was but the hateful look she gave him assured him that it was a dreadful surprise, not a nice one.

Ashton looked away, he didn't want to see that anger or hate for him she had in her eyes. The intensity of their eye contact was too much to bear and luckily Mr Johnson became my savoir as he distracted him.

" Good Morning everyone. You all must be thinking about the reason of this sudden gathering right. So here is the reason." and Mr Johnson pointed towards him.

" Meet Mr Ashton Blair. You all must be knowing him well I think you do as he is the son of Mr Blair and would be sole hire of Blair Industries which has a big name in business world. They are almost in every business and now they have merged our company Cupid with their which is a thing to be proud of. " Ashton was listening to Mr Johnson at least trying to.

" Mr Blair has decided to take some burden off his shoulders and give some responsibility to Mr Ashton because of his health issues. Mr Ashton is the NEW CEO of this company of Cupid from now on. Now I would love to hand over this mic to Mr Ashton to say a few words." When Mr Johnson ended his speech, the employees were left astonished and within in a blink they all were clapping and Ashton could see their happiness.

" Hello everyone. I am Ashton Blair, I am very excited to work with you all. There will be a welcome party tomorrow evening and all of you are invited." Ashton chided and everyone seemed to be thrilled by the idea of party.

Except one, Bella. Her face fell at the mention of party and it wasn't just that. She didn't like the whole situation she was stuck in. She walked out as the announcement got over while Ashton stared at her disappearing figure.

Bella angrily went to the washroom and she started to splash water on her face furiously. She looked at the mirror and the view she saw in it was utterly different from morning. In the morning she was happy and chirpy but now here she was all distorted and annoyed and looked like a mess.

It was a good news for other employees that the new CEO seemed friendly and even was throwing party tomorrow. But this all was nothing but hell of a nightmare for Bella from which she was trying to wake up but even the cold water wasn't of any help. Because it wasn't a mere nightmare but truly her fate had decided to ditched her and had thrown her off cliff. She was now an employee in a person's company from whom she was trying to run away all this time.

Was it a sick joke?

She didn't want to resign because after she had resigned from the pervious company to get into a better one and after a hard struggle now when she was selected then the disaster called Ashton happened to crash in the same company that too as a CEO if he would have been a employee then it would have been easier to ignore him but now it was next to impossible.

She calmed her nerves down. Her open hair was a mess by now as she had pulled at angrily so many times just now in frustration so she pulled out a rubber band from her jeans pocket and tied them into a bun to look a bit more human rather than a walking piece of shit.

She smoothened her dress and once more gave a look in the mirror to assure she was presentable. She stepped out of the washroom and thought, "I don't want to do this. But Ashton being here. I am left with no other choice."

" I am resigning today." and with determination Bella went to talk to the authorities.