CHAPTER 24

"Shall we go, sir?" she said in a soft voice and friendly smile, perfectly in her role as the hot and seductive personal secretary of Gage Acheron.

Gage stilled for a moment but eventually nodded as if pleased. "That expression really looks good on you, Miss Lee."

"Thank you, Sir." She politely replied before moving to step out from the car first.

There were already lines of employees waiting outside the entrance, ready to welcome their new CEO to work.

As she stood there, waiting for her current boss, Gage, she did her best to keep her composure. There must not be the slightest mistake nor crack in her new persona. It should come to her as easily as breathing and blinking. She had already practiced this over and over in the last three days, so she was quite confident she would be able to pull this off till the end.

It should not be that hard since she had only needed to keep this façade while they were outside of his office. Once no one was looking, she no longer needed to fake a delicate and friendly smile for show.

Gage glanced over at her before he stepped forward first. She fell into step right behind him smoothly without missing a beat as they walked past the rows of lined up employees, Eva noticed how everyone seemed to be in shock – the kind of shock that was due to looking at a famous and never been seen before beautiful creature.

It was really not surprising at all. This man before her could probably turn the heads of even the straightest men to the point that they would want him dead for being too damned handsome for his own good!

Once the elevator they boarded closed, the entire floor burst out in furious murmurs as the employees immediately started whispering to each other.

"Oh god! Our new CEO is handsome as hell!"

"Yeah right, I nearly screamed like a fan girl!"

"You're not alone, girl. Our CEO is too handsome not to be a superstar!"

"And who's that woman? She's so god damned hot!"

"She's the CEO's personal secretary."

"What?! Darn. I can't even say anything to badmouth her and say she wasn't suited to be our CEO's secretary. Like… who wouldn't want to have a hot secretary like her working side by side with them the whole day? She looked like a goddess!"

"What a pair! Sigh… somehow, this feels like he's already taken."

…

Eva and Gage barely made it that they had met the chairman at the meeting room's entrance.

Mr. George Acheron halted and looked his grandson from head to toe. "I can't believe that my lazy grandson is finally coming out from his den." He commented, clicking his tongue in mock displeasure and shaking his head.

"I also can't believe it, grandfather." Gage replied. "Normally… I should still be having my beauty sleep right about now."

"Makes me wonder who managed to whoop your ass to get up and go to work."

"A certain tiger," Gage muttered softly in amusement. "She didn't whoop my ass though. She only punched my lips."

"That's one brazen tigress! She is certainly someone you deserve. So, it's her, huh…??" George looked a little closer at Eva and smiled.

Gage signalled at her and she stepped closer to the two Acheron males.

"This is Evelyn Lee. My personal secretary. Miss Lee, my grandfather."

"I am pleased to meet you, Mr. Acheron." Eva gave the old man her most beautiful smile as she accepted his handshake, reminding herself that she was now Evelyn Lee.

George leaned in a little closer to her. "You are the lady he's currently hiding in his house, right?" One of his bushy and greyed brows lifted as he scrutinised her.

The question flustered Eva for a moment and she could not respond to him immediately. "Uhm –"

"You and I must meet up and have tea sometime, Ms Lee." The old man leaned away and smiled at Eva before he turned and entered into the office room.

Gage threw her another glance before they too, finally entered the office room.

…

After the long meeting, Gage and Eva toured the building and did many more formalities for the take-over. Then just like that, the busy first day was finally over.

However, it wasn't nearly over yet for Eva. And thus, that was how they ended up still being stuck in the CEO's office at eleven o'clock at night.

The CEO's office was all quiet and still. Eva was the one busily sitting and typing away in the CEO's chair while Gage was lying lazily on the couch, looking at his tablet doing god knows what.

When he glanced at the wall clock and saw the hour clock hit eleven, he rose from the couch. With his hands stuffed inside his pockets, he approached the busy lady, who was still ever so focused on her work.

She looked like the world may crash and burn and she would still focus solely on her work. A smile was slowly formed on his lips as he sat at the edge of the mahogany desk, staring at her.

Still, Eva ignored him. She acted as though she did not see him at all.

His smile only widened at her completely ignoring him. He had been gloriously ignored since the moment she had sat her tushie down on that chair and no one was around but them. And he looked plenty amused by that rather than being annoyed or angered by it.

He silently walked to a door and when he came out, he was holding a wine and two wine glasses in his hands. Without breaking the silence, Gage, popped open the wine bottle and poured it into the glasses.

The smell of the full-bodied wine pulled Eva's attention from the laptop. She finally looked up at him, so Gage offered her a glass.

Eva accepted it graciously and smiled at him. "Cheers to you, sir. Congratulations for being inaugurated as the new CEO." She uttered her genuine salutations after pulling away from the table a little to avoid any accidental spilling of the wine over the important papers that were in various stacks on her desk.

Gage shrugged but said, "Thank you, Miss Lee. Cheers."

They both sipped on their glass and after that, Gage raised his glass again. "And cheers for you, too. This marks the beginning of your new journey."

Eva's eyes gleamed and her smile suddenly widened into a savage grin. "Thank you." The her gaze turned fierce as her smile turned dangerous. "Yes. This marks the beginning of my journey to vengeance."

And their glasses clinked together again.

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