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 offTruth 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 untouchableShe 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 hopeThe meeting ended an hour after midnight and Tristan and Angela were so exhausted. On their way back to the hotel, Tristan asked Angela if she would love to go grab a drink and she agreed. They went to their suite to get changed and Angela was surprised to see that there were some clothes for her on the bed with a note that read ‘hope you like it. Tristan’ She picked up the clothes and inspected them, there was a blue, glittery, strapless short dress with matching pair of boots and a gorgeous black jumpsuit. She wore the blue dress, applied some lipgloss and luckily for her, her hair still looked okay, she patted it and headed out. Tristan was waiting for her at the reception, when he looked up, his eyes sparkled and he gave a warm smile as he looked her over. It was the first time he smiled at her, he usually only smirks and he looked so handsome when he smiles.“Wow, you look stunning.”“Thanks. How did you know what size of clothes to get me?” she asked curiously and he smiled ag
She went downstairs and met Tristan in the lobby, he was on a call, he sounded very pissed and his face was red with anger“I need you to get rid of it NOW! What do you mean you can't do it now…? Do you love your job and do you want to KEEP your job…? Then I suggest you remove it right now! Don't tell me that shit!” Angela's phone began to ring again, she checked and saw it was Jane but just as she was about to answer it, Tristan spoke to her “Don't answer that!” She looked up at him confused “why?”“Trust me, you don't need to answer it” he screamed into his phone again “I don't have ten minutes to spare, I WANT IT DONE NOW!” Angela stared at her phone screen till it stopped ringing. She was about to put the phone back in her purse when it began to buzz consistently, notification after notification kept popping up and she was confused. She was about to unlock her phone to check it when Tristan spoke to her again “Don't check those” Now she was really confused, why would he tel
“Hello? I’m here…” she said and checked her phone again. The text said ‘I have information about what happened last night. Meet me by the docks’ Even though she had a bad feeling about the whole thing, she decided to go anyway. She suddenly heard the clicking of heels behind her and turned. She gasped and growled when she saw who it was “Ivy?” “Yep, it’s me,” Ivy said as she sashayed over to her “surprised to see me?” “After what you did? I’m surprised you still have the guts to show your face to me” Ivy smirked “so you figured out it’s me. You’re smart, but not smart enough”“What do you want?”“To make you suffer”“Why? What did I ever do to you?” Ivy scoffed “so you don’t know?”“Why does everybody keeps saying this? Of course, I don’t know. If I knew, I wouldn’t be asking”“Tristan likes you!”Her eyes widened at the statement and she burst into laughter “no he doesn't”“Yes, he does. Don’t think I don’t know about the way he looks at you, he has never looked at me like no ma
“Welcome to my house again Miss Cameron”“Thank you, sir,” she said with a smile “Eric will show you to your room. Eric?” he signalled for the butler she met the other day. He came to help me with her bags and led her upstairs “This way Miss” Eric said as he led her up the stairs and to the room. She gasped in awe as she stared at the room, it was so enormous with a queen-sized bed with lots of pillows and the softest looking silk bedsheet in the centre of the room, there was a study table with a laptop on it and a chair in a corner, three beautiful lamps, a silver chandelier, silver curtains to cover the two huge windows.“Thank you, Eric”“You’re welcome, miss. Dinner is in two hours”“Okay, I’ll keep that in mind”He left and Angela crashed on the soft bed, the bed sunk with her in it as she closed her eyes while allowing the previous day's event to play in her head.**********“Are you gonna be okay?” Jane asked with a concerned look on her face. She had grown worried for her fr
Tristan sat with her under the gazebo in his garden and they started talking. She wasn't facing him directly, she just wrapped her arms around herself and looked away from him.“So, tell me about yourself miss Cameron”“Don't you already know everything about me?” she answered sarcastically. Tristan chuckled lightly and replied“I'm willing to know more”Angela sighed before responding “I didn't go to college”“I know” “And you already know why I didn't go to college” she said ruefully“What I really wanna know is things you don't tell anyone. Private things”“So you can use it to blackmail me again?” she replied bitterly and in that moment, he regretted his previous actions. He really wanted her to work for him but there were other ways he could have gone about it. He wondered if she'll ever trust him after that “I was desperate” he started as he raked his fingers through his hair “To get revenge?” “No! Not to get revenge…”“That's what you said”He knew he'll have to tell her so
She took one more look at herself in the mirror, she didn’t feel like herself tonight. It’s been one hell of a week for her and it’s starting to take it’s toll on her. She glumly made her way to the dining table where Tristan was already sitting and she let her mind wander.__________Ivy has re-emerged and has been threatening her mercilessly lately. She first bumped into her one evening when she went to get something. It was raining lightly and Tristan offered to send his driver to take her but she refused.She was all too aware of a black Porsche parked opposite the office. It started moving slowly when she came out of the office. She held her umbrella tightly and hastened her steps and so did the Porsche. Just when she considered running, the back window rolled down and she saw Ivy's beautiful face. She had on a pair of very dark sunglasses as usual “Hello Angela!” she said with an unusually calm tone as she stepped out with an umbrella Angela slowly backed away as Ivy walked t
She woke up with a headache and her body was as cold as ice. She stood up slowly, realizing she was still on the cold hard ground, she began to sneeze and shiver.She walked slowly to the bedside table and picked up her phone. Horrified at how late she had woken up and realizing the time, she swore under her breath. “Tristan’s gonna be pissed” she mumbled. Then she grabbed a blanket, wrapped it around herself and waddled downstairs to the living room where she met Tristan sitting on the sofa with his face buried in his laptop “Hi” she said in a hoarse voice, her voice was barely louder than a whisper. He looked up at her and frowned in concern.“Hi. Are you okay? You don’t look too good”“Aren’t we already late for work? You’re not ready?”He studied her for a moment before replying “it’s Sunday.”She mouthed a silent ‘oh’ “I have a cold. I think I’ll just go back to bed.” She turned to leave “Do you need anything? Like a hot chocolate or something?” “Yeah, hot chocolate would be
“You know what day it is right?” Tristan asked on their way to work The day of my doom she thought then she gave him a sweet smile “of course I know. How could I forget?” “Can’t wait. I’ve got a surprise planned out”“What is it?”“If I told you, it wouldn’t be a surprise now would it?”“I guess that’s true” She scrolled through the iPad “There’s a staff meeting in less than an hour from now. And then there are a bunch of other cramped up stuff to do since I had to shift every appointment from four p.m to the time before. Are you sure we can’t just shift the date till another day?” She asked nervously “No, I want it to be today. Why do you want it shifted, do you have other plans?”“N—no, I don’t have other plans”“Good!” She began to chew her lower lip nervously, thinking of how she’ll get herself out of this situation.“Can I ask you a question?” She asked “Sure”“Okay” she paused, took a deep breath before asking “Ivy?”“What about her?”“Do you think you can, I don’t know,