Nice To Meet You

Elena's legs were shaking as she walked away from Lorenzo's office. What was wrong with her? Why did she have to interrupt him so rudely and then made him angry? Couldn't you have just kept your mouth shut? And why for Christ's sake was she expecting him to kiss her when he brought his head closer to hers? Elena, he is your boss, get a grip on yourself!

As she stepped out of Lorenzo's office, Jorge who was still talking to the guard at the elevator, raised his head to look at her. Elena slowly walked up to him, "he said....."

"To show you your office," Jorge finished for her. Elena slowly nodded.

Jorge finished his discussion with the guard and asked Elena to follow him. He led her into a spacious office that was next to Lorenzo's. It was tastefully furnished.

"This would be your office," Jorge said to her.

At first, Elena thought she didn't hear him properly, so she turned her head to look at him.

"I'm sorry, what?"

Pointing to the laptop that was on the desk, Jorge said, "you will be working with that, an email has been created for you. The details are in a folder titled 'information,' check the email and you will see the tasks that Lorenzo wants you to attend to."

"So this is really my office?" Elena asked in a surprised tone as she took in the view of the office. It wasn't as big as Lorenzo's but still, it was bigger than what she had expected. She was expecting a small cubicle and nothing this spacious.

"I will leave you to get to work," Jorge said and then turned around to leave. As he got to the door he paused and turned his head to look at Elena.

"He loathes lateness, he doesn't take it from anyone most especially his employees, "Jorge paused to see if she got the message.

Elena nodded, "I understand, it won't happen again."

"It had better not, if you want to avoid being in Lorenzo's trouble, then you've to learn to make it to work on time. And you don't interrupt him when he is talking."

"How did you..."

"He said to warn you," Jorge gave her a weak smile before he left the office.

Elena stood staring at the door, wondering if she should go back to Lorenzo's office and tell him she wanted to quit. She was yet to start working for him and she was already in his bad books. Probably it would be better if she just quit. You know that's not possible Elena, you either work for him or risk being handed over to Carlos. A notification sound from the laptop brought her out of her thoughts and she went to see what it was an email from Lorenzo. She opened it.

"Why are you yet to get on the task I assigned to you? I want them done as soon as possible!"

He wasn't there in the office, but she could picture his angry-looking face as she had read the email in his voice.

She pulled out the chair that was against the desk and sat down to start working. She opened another email and saw the several tasks that Lorenzo as assigned to her, the most important ones he tagged 'urgent' and the less urgent ones he tagged 'elective.'

Elena opened the urgent tasks and got to work, they were accounts that needed balancing. How did he know she was good with numbers? Elena wondered, she can't remember telling him that.

Lorenzo was in his office still angry about his encounter with his new assistant, it's been over fifteen minutes since she left his office, but he still couldn't seem to stop thinking about her insolence. None of his employees has ever dared to show up late to work, none. And no one has ever dared to interrupt him while he was talking. But in a space of ten minutes, this girl has done both. He so badly wanted to punish her for her insolence but the most annoying thing was that it wasn't the type of punishment that was fit for a work environment. Why would he be thinking such, about a girl he just met and doesn't even have nor feel a thing for?

You don't feel a thing for the women you fuck remember? A voice inside his head reminded him. But she was his fucking employee! And he doesn't fuck his employees, it was a rule he made himself and has been abiding by it. This girl just came into his life barely 72 hours ago and he had almost kissed her. It took all the strong will he possessed, not to have kissed those lush lips of hers which were begging for his attention. He should have known the night that she came to him for help that she was trouble. She was walking trouble.

Lorenzo leaned back on his chair in frustration, what has he gotten himself into?

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Elena was in the middle of doing one of the tasks that Lorenzo had given to her when the door to her office opened, and a tall dark guy almost the same height as Lorenzo, with dirty blonde hair, strolled in. He looked shocked to see Elena sitting behind the desk.

The guy looked surprised to see her in the office, "I'm sorry, I didn't expect anyone to be in here," the guy apologized.

"It's okay, I'm new here," Elena said with a smile.

"Oh is that so? Who are you?" The guy asked her with a charming smile that almost got Elena swooning. The guy oozed charm as he stepped closer to her desk.

"My name is Elena, I'm Lorenzo's new assistant."

"Lorenzo now has an assistant?" His smile widened. "And he got himself a pretty one at that," he said to Elena, still smiling.

Elena slightly blushed, "thank you."

"My name is Lucas," the handsome guy said presenting his right hand to Elena for a handshake.

"I'm Elena," when she placed hers on his palm, he brought it to his lips, and kissed the back of her palm.

"Nice to meet you, Elena," he said, his eyes not leaving hers.

"Same here," Elena responded.

"I will leave you to work, maybe we can hang out for lunch one of these days?"

"Yeah sure."

Lucas kissed the back of her palm one more time before he turned around and left the office.

There was something about his dark gray eyes, Elena couldn't quite make it out, and as the guy walked away from her office, she decided to get back to work before she got into another trouble with Lorenzo.