The CEO's Assistant
Chapter 43.-1

Our First Meeting~~~~

I was heading to my cabin when I saw Maddie standing along with Scarlet.... My new Personal Assistant. "Sir, she is here." Mrs. Madeleine informed to me.

"Good morning Miss Reeves. Welcome to Pearce Industries. As a start you can get a coffee for me. All the rules and tasks will be informed to you by Maddie. Maddie, do show her office and introduce her to what she has to do. And after that you can come to me, i will give you, well your rest of the day tasks."

I said all these things without looking at her because I was checking an important update from one of my client but I got no response from her.

So I looked up at her and said,

"Miss Reeves I didn't receive an

answer from you."

"Yes Sir." She answered me obediently. But the instant I looked at her I was mesmerized with her eyes. Those electric blue eyes and her beauty were intriguing me. But I quickly averted my eyes off her and said, "Good. You both may go now."

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It was our first time to ride the elevator together. I asked her to accompany me to one of my hotel for official purpose. My private elevator was having some technical issue and hence it is under construction so we are using the other elevator for the time being.

We entered into another elevator and he pressed the ground floor button. But the elevator was stopping in between for other people to enter and the space inside were getting smaller and smaller as a lot of people got in. Now it's packed and we were unable to move. The people entering were all managers and clients not the employees as employees used a separate elevators on the other side of the wing.

Suddenly Scarlet got pushed by some idiot and landed onto me and we were in close proximity. She was facing me and I instantly held her in my arms to keep her steady. I don't wanted her to get hurt so gently I placed her head over my left shoulder and kind of hugged her in a protective stance. The moment I held her in my arms I felt a connection. I felt a jolt.

I wanted to protect her and hold her like this forever. I could feel her body stiff right now and she was trying to calm her nerves down. Her eyes were closed for a moment as she took several small deep breaths.

Finally the elevator stopped at the ground floor and people walked out of it. She too stepped out of my hold and tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. And then we both silently walked out of the elevator. But I could still feel that warmth of her body on mine.

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I was so mad seeing my ex-lover that all my anger was lashed out on Scarlet that day at office. I troubled her so much with shit load of extra work. She tolerated my bad behavior and had stressed her out.

Later on, it was Ashton who made me realize that I did wrong. It was unfair and she didn't deserve to be treated like that. She was my best employee.

As soon as I realized my fault, I mentally started preparing about how to apologize to her and called her inside my cabin.

But the problem was...I just...I didn't know how to say the "Sorry" word to her. That word was foreign to me and I felt too damn difficult. It was just one word. Yet I couldn't!

She was sitting in front of me with a pen and a notepad.

I looked up at her and I just.......noticed how beautiful she is.

She was saying something to me at that time but I was not listening instead I just looked at those pretty pair of electric blue eyes and the movement of her lips while she spoke. She looked like a gorgeous model. At that moment I felt something for her, some kind of unknown feelings started to develop inside of me which I couldn't understand or explain.

"Sir...is it okay to reschedule your today's meetings?"

"Yeah...." I was in a trance and then she interrupted it by asking something and I just replied to it without knowing what it is!

"I wanted to ask you regarding the meeting of a client which is on Sunday; could you please give me the details for it?"

I was such a dick by making her work on Sunday. I braced myself and started explaining to her...

"Scarlet, these past days it's been shit. I know. I...just, it's been rough for me so the thing is we will reschedule that meeting from Sunday to Thursday so that you have an off on Sunday. Okay?" "Scarlet, I'm sorry."

I saw from my peripheral vision that she whipped her head up and was staring at me in shock.

Yes because I said sorry to her and that was a first for me.

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"Are you going somewhere?" I asked her while eyeing Vince. From the day he had joined I didn't like him being around her.

"We both were just about to have lunch right now, Sir. It's already late." Vince replied to me politely.

Hell no!

"Scarlet. I need you to accompany me right now for a meeting with the manager of Hotel Bliss project. We will grab lunch for you on the way. Now come on." I ordered her and left first. Though she was not required for that meeting but I didn't want her to be with him. Hence I ordered her to come along with me.

He pulled her closer, held her in his arms and kissed her, that made me go all out like a hulk. I landed a punch on his right cheek and Vince fell on the ground.

She gasped and was afraid. But I couldn't contain my anger towards him.

He kissed her. How dare he do that? She is mine. At that moment I felt that jealous feeling so strongly and it confirmed that I got feelings for her. I like her.

It irked me when Vince was with her and I really care about her. She affects me in every way.

I was very much pissed off and raging with a shit load of anger.