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I am brushing my hair to get them done into a high ponytail, Monday came faster than expected and now I've to tolerate this nonsense all over again for a week before weekends.

What did I do wrong that this mess happened to me?

I was happily working in India.....actually you know what this is all my fault if I have done some research beforehand about him, then I would've avoided this tragedy.

Why aren't this hairs getting along! Ugh! Great, not one thing is under my control now....

Sighing I decided to let them fall free on my shoulders, applying light makeup, just some mascara and lipstick I checked my outfit in the mirror, it's a peach colored blouse and white pencil skirt, I just wanna look as much as professional I can look.

That bastard is not the reason for my outfit, it's just that all my clothes will be arriving today in evening so for now I've to use what is available.

I'm not going to lie like others and act all strong, it really affected me when he called me those names,

But you know what I felt.........I felt the raging anger that you feel when some stranger insults you and you just want to beat the crap out them, nothing like the hurt you feel when someone you love or are close to insults you.

And this is why I'm not feeling down, cause some stranger's opinion doesn't matter to me......

Smiling at my reflection, I grabbed my bag and looked through it to check if I have got everything, after double checking everything I went downstairs into the kitchen, to see Noah arranging plates on coffee table.

In these past two days we've managed to arrange everything in the house and now It is looking more habitual and homie, I helped him so that everything can be completed quickly.

And Here we are now all set.

"Oh you're here, I made pancakes." Noah said acknowledging my presence. I sat on my chair to finish my breakfast. I glanced at my watch and it was showing 8:20, I have to be there till 9:00 am, and I'm not in mood of having an argument with that dumbass of a boss. my thoughts got cut off,

"Did someone said pancakes?" Samantha came out of her room looking fresh and clean.

She came here last night to join the movie marathon cause she was all alone at her house as Ruby went to France, on some business trip along with her colleagues, they have an upcoming runway show there so Samantha was left out.

We really enjoyed last night, it was so much fun..

"Yeah I made pancakes, you want some?" Noah asked her.

"What type of question is that??" She asked grinning.

"Here." Noah placed her plate in front of her as she dug in without wasting her time. I chuckled at her before turning to Noah.

"When are the car and bike arriving??" I asked, it's really inconvenient to take cab everyday. And I am really missing driving a bike, it's something that soothes my senses.

"They must be here till evening. As for now, why don't you go with Samantha, I'm sure she will give you a ride." He said turning to Samantha.

"Yeah sure I'll be passing your company anyways." She said chewing her pancakes.

"Okay." I smiled and hurriedly finished my breakfast.

Samantha and I got into her car, as she started driving towards the company, it's really not that far but new York traffic is very iconic, it can turn a fifteen minute drive into an hour long.

Very soon we arrived at the company and she pulled in front of the entrance,

"We're here" she said smiling.

"Thanks Samantha. I'll see you later then." I said smiling back.

"Yeah I'm always around the corner, just call me anytime. " she said winking before driving off. I waited for her to get out of the view before entering the building.

I craned my neck to look at the skyscraper building in front of me. It's still amazes me,

I placed my hand on my forehead to prevent the sunlight from peeking into my eyes. Deciding I was done ogling at the building I went inside it,

Ann was as usual there behind the front desk, she smiled my way as I strided towards her to greet her,

"Good morning Ann! " I said cheerfully.

It is a lovely day, sun is neither too bright nor too dim, it's perfect and amazing wind was blowing outside, it was so refreshing.

"Good morning Shana." She said beaming back.

I like her from the first day onwards, she's really kind and humble and doesn't get irritated during her job which is very good on her behalf, it's not daily you see a soft-kind hearted receptionist on the front desk.

Giving her a smile I went to the elevators, getting into the elevator I pressed the button for the top floor, I glanced at my watch again and it was showing 8:40am which means I've twenty minutes before that nincompoop arrive, the elevator dinged showing that I've arrived, getting off I went into the break room to prepare his coffee.

"I want black coffee no milk. no sugar." I imitated him in a husky deep voice, scoffing at the end I grabbed the coffee before heading towards my office which happens to be beside his. Unfortunately.

Settling my things in my office, I went inside his, which was empty. I looked at my watch to see it showing 8:59am,

Anytime now.....

Just as I turned to the door it opened revealing the handsome nincompoop,

I gasped inwardly, I can't get habitual of his face it's just he's out of this world handsome..

Did someone said handsome?

Oh you're here.

Yeah, I was getting a spa so I got delayed,...anyways where's he?

Getting hold of my thoughts I went into full professionalism,

"Good morning Mr. King " I greeted without any expression. He stared back at me for sometime, before humming back slowly.

"Mr. King I've already placed your coffee and Williams Corp. Documents on your desk, you have a meeting in a hour with the board directors and you are meeting with Ms. Anastasia at 2PM."

I repeated his schedule till afternoon.

He's exceptionally calm today, what happened to I'm your boss, don't deny my orders.He went to his desk, taking a seat he said,

"You'll have to accompany me to the board director's meeting to take notes and meet time. As for after the meeting with Anastasia we're going to William Corp for the elimination process."

"Alright sir. Anything else?"

He stared intently at me like trying to find something. Trust me you won't find anything! I stared back into his eyes with full ferocity, during our staring contest..........I don't know but it felt like I saw a flicker of guilt pass through his eyes before his cool demeanor took over, averting his eyes he replied,

"No. You may leave now."

"Of course sir." I said and exited his office before getting into mine grinning, mission accomplished.

What's the mission?

To ignore his existence as a normal person. he's just a senior that I work under, nothing less, nothing more.

I carried on with my work for the next one hour, as usual arranging his schedule for tomorrow, replying the emails.........

Exactly at 9:50am my intercom buzzed, receiving it I answered it while still typing the reply for an email.

"Shana Rajput speaking, P.A. to Mr. King."

"Shana it's me Catherine, the board directors are here, I've arranged the conference room, please inform Mr. King and I'll guide the directors to the conference room." Catherine said.

"Okay we'll be there." I said before hanging up.

I grabbed my notepad, pen and contracts that'll be needed and sprinted in the direction of nincompoop's office.

I knocked at the door as a faint come in came back, opening the door I went inside to see him standing near the floor to ceiling window, his back facing me looking absolutely divine and muscular, I wonder what would it feel like to trace it....

Focus Shana!!

"Mr. King the board directors are here." I said.

Slowly turning he took in my presence before nodding icily. He passed me to the door to get out without replying anything.

Does he have to be this rude!

Frowning I followed him to the conference room, just as we entered, all the directors stood up acknowledging his presence, the room went dead silent, not bothering to greet them he went to his seat before sitting down while unbuttoning his jacket.

Everyone else sat down after him including me beside him, meeting stared shortly after.

Saying that I was inspired by him would be an understatement, I totally get why he was able to become the youngest billionaire and richest man on planet. Just his presence demands respect and attention, I was enchanted and mesmerized by his skills and tactics.

This is probably the first time I don't regret the idea of me working here, his answers are short but appropriate enough to make everyone understand his point.

His luscious lips are moving synchronized with his thoughts, not even once he daggered with his words. So as a good personal assistant I did my job, taking notes when needed and noting the meeting time.

He would glance at me occasionally with those dazzling brown-golden eyes making me all messed up, my heartbeat would go wild, palms become all sweaty, a whole zoo erupts in my stomach just from a mere glance from him. Unconsciously I smiled at him in return as he stared at me all confused...

Shana you're not supposed to smile at him!? I avert my eyes to my notepad before cursing inwardly.

I stole non-existent glances as his jaw clench and unclench while he speak, how he is all immersed in this meeting, everyone would give their opinions when needed...

He's so good at his work, I hope I can become like him when I'm 26....

"Ms. Rajput?"

He is looking at me straight in the eyes?! What do I do now?? It's like he has enchanted me with some spell, the more I want to avert the more I stare into those eyes. Suddenly he leaned back on his chair before smirking at me.

My eyes widened at his sudden action as I stared at him mesmerized, he traced his thumb over his lower lips smirking. My eyes automatically went to his luscious smooth lips.

"Ms. Rajput? Are you okay?"

His eyes contain a special glint of mischief in them as he smirk at me, I wonder how his lips touched me everywhere on that night....

"Ms. Rajput?" I heard a faint voice.

"Yes." I answered all breathless. Coughing to stabilize my voice I turned to one of the board directors who was calling me,

"Yes Mr. Marino " I replied again, Mr. Marino is indeed a very handsome Italian man with his own multi national company in new York and he's only 28.

"I was asking what do you think about the presentation and ideas?" He asked smiling, great now I have to embarrass myself in front of another handsome man!?

"I-it's great-I mean...." I looked at Xavier for his help but he's just trying to stop his laugh, this bitch!?!

I turned back to Mr. Marino and said smiling,

"Mr. Marino I agree with your all of your ideas, they were great, I learned so much from you sir."

"Just call me Stephano Ms. Rajput ." He said grinning back at my answer.

"Of course Stephano. Please call me Shana." I said smiling.

But what I didn't noticed was that there was someone beside me who was having a hell of mood swings, he stood up abruptly before dismissing everyone and storming out of the conference room.

I greeted everyone before sprinting out behind him, practically running to catch up with him,

"I'm going for lunch, then I'll go for the meeting with Anastasia, you don't need to follow me everywhere you can go back flirt with him." He said entering elevator, the doors closed before I can ask what he is talking about.

Frowning I turned back to go back into my office, only to be stopped by Mr. Marino,

"Hey Shana!" He said nervously scratching his nape of neck.

"Hey. Do you need something?" I asked humbly.

"Yeah.....I mean we have just met and all. But I think I feel a connection between us........so....are you free this Saturday? Maybe we can have dinner or something?" Not gonna lie, when you are raised in our society, you're automatically going to have a kink for Italians, well so do I. Why would I reject it?? Of course I'm up for it!?

"Yeah. Sure" I answered smiling.

"Great! But how will I contact you about your address??"

I chuckled "you could've just asked for my number" I feeded my number in his cell phone before giving it back.

"Perfect. Then I'll see you on Saturday. " he said winking.

"Uh..huh." I said humming shyly as he went into the elevator.

As the door closed I sighed dreamily before leaning on the wall beside the elevators, not long when a squealing Catherine came running to me,

"What was that??!" She asked grinning.

"Well Mr. Marino asked me for a date." I said squealing back.

"Aahhh...I'm going mad!?? He's so hot and sexy! Oh my God you're so lucky Shana!? I'm so happy for you!" She said squealing.

"Yeah. I'm happy for myself too now let's go back to work...shall we? Before that devil comes back." I said grinning.

"We shall. " she said before we went back to our offices with our arms linking.

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Me and Caterine decided to grab lunch from cafeteria, everyone glanced awkwardly at us because all of them know about the incident, but we decided that we did nothing wrong, so we aren't going to hide somewhere,

After sometime everyone started minding their own business and we ate our lunch silently but today Ana also joined us, we talked and laughed occasionally, I'm glad that I was able to make such good friends, maybe when Diya comes here we can all do a girls night out, sounds amazing.

After the lunch was over everyone started going back to work including us. I'm free till 3 pm and it's only 1:30pm, my head is killing me because I didn't got any sleep last night due to movie marathon, I asked Catherine if she would like me to grab coffee but she's busy so I decided to call Noah,

"Yes." He said.

"Hello to you too." I replied rolling my eyes.

"I'm not in the mood of arguing, can you tell me what you want so that I can hang up." He asked irritated. I can hear faint noises from his side.

"Where are you?"

"I'm getting your clothing packages from the company, cause they will take another two days to deliver them to our house. "He said as rummaging noise came through phone.

"Oh..Noah I'm free for now, can you come here, maybe we can grab a coffee or something?" I asked expectantly.

The line went silent for sometime before Noah voice came through,

"Are you paying?" Typical Noah.

"Yes."

"Alright. I'll be there in another half an hour." He said as he hunged up the call.

How rude!! A thank you must have been nice...

I went to Catherine's office to pass my time for the another half an hour, at 2:10pm, I got a call from Noah saying he was here so I went down, outside the entrance where I saw him waving at me grinning,

"Stop! you're embarrassing me." I hissed at him.

He only smirked at my reaction before dragging me to the nearest cafe, we went inside as the bell rang to show our arrival, suddenly I heard a squeal, looking around I saw two girls behind the main desk squealing while pointing toward Noah, he smirked at them as I rolled my eyes before going to sit at the table,

Settling down at our table I ordered a latte while Noah ordered a cappuccino..

"So did you checked the packages?" I asked sipping on my latte.

"Yeah I did. So what's up?" He asked.

"Nothing much, my boss was out so I had free time."

I didn't told anything to Noah about the incident, but that didn't stopped him from becoming a leech. he was consistent and persistent to know the reason as for why I was crying. But I don't want to make him worried about my problems, I can handle that asshole myself.

"Oh. Sis I was thinking maybe-" he got cut off by a Male husky voice,

My eyes widened in horror. That's the devil's voice!!

"I didn't know Ms. Rajput that you were interested in youngsters."he said from behind me.

I stood up abruptly as Noah also stood up confused...

Why the f*ck is he doing here!

"Mr. King?? What are you doing here?" I asked confusedly as to why is he here, he was supposed to meet Ms. Anastasia.

He ignored my question as he continued to glare at Noah who was looking lost just a moment back before I mentioned his name. Slowly his confused face showed signs of understanding.

Since he is more interested in Noah—

"This is Noah my—" I tried to introduce them but he cut me off,

"Ms. Rajput, do I pay you to waste your time flirting?? You're asking me what I am doing here? Why don't you ask yourself that question. " he asked his eyes showing pure anger, what did I do now!?! His voice was void of anythingbut his face showing otherwise.

"I had free time cause y-" Noah cut me off grinning, of course not catching the look on his face because of his tone.

"Mr. King. It's nice to meet you." Noah extended his hand towards Xavier for a handshake, but Xavier didn't even glanced at his hand completely ignoring him.....Noah awkwardly retrieved his hands before placing his arm over my shoulder as I looked at him weirdly, what the hell is he doing?! Why is he annoying me now!?

I glanced at Xavier to find him glaring at Noah's hand on my shoulder, what the f*ck is his problem now?! Does he know anything else rather than glaring?

"Don't worry Mr. King I will take care of her so that she won't ditch her work again, anyways it's actually my fault, I kept her awake till late last night." Noah said smiling.

I glared at him, Yes this is all his fault, I was feeling really sleepy all day and wanted to grab a coffee with him, all because this stupid decided to arrange a movie marathon last night..

I looked at him with an accusing look on my face and said,

"Yes it is."

"What!? You were literally screaming my name all night for more!?"

"No. you wanted it to go on all night!?"

We argued back and forth about whose fault it was,