CHAPTER NINE

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“With all due respect sir, I believe in what was stated in my acceptance file that working hours begin from 8: 00 am to 4:00 pm, and I even give an hour of myself more to tidy up things around the office. now you are asking me to stay behind without asking me if I do have plans for the evening?”’

“I do not care if you do have plans for the evening, Samantha, when I give an order I expect you to shut up and nod”

‘’Sir, I am not a dog, so I cannot just shut up and nod, secondly with due respect, I work for you and I believe even your workers are expected to be treated with respect, it is earned and not forced sir, and thirdly..my working hours ended an hour ago so if you need me to stay after hours for say something important you should ask me nicely…I do have and know my rights as an employee in this company, even though temporarily, and it is stated clearly that we should exercise it if we think we are being treated unfairly, and right now sir, you are. I have a life outside this office sir and that life begins at 6:00 am before 8:00 am, and then it ends..leaving me to be your supposed slave from 8:00 am – 4:00 pm, and because I am generous I give you an extra hour, and then my life gets back on track from 5:00 pm to before 8: 00 am the next day. So sir, if you need to encroach on my personal space, you would need to ask, nicely because, during that period of time, I am my own Boss, Mr Bass”

“You are not afraid that I could let you go right this minute”

“No sir, infact I am not. I did mention I know my right ..so you can either let me go, terminating my internship here, and which you have to state the reason why you did it, or..you can ask me nicely if I am free to help you attend to your thingie for tonight’’

What the hell was wrong with this man, he should learn how to talk and treat people, she wasn’t one of those girls …she was Samantha, and no one talks to her that way, she was her own person, and leaving here wouldn’t even cause her to blink.

Okay fine, it would make her jobless and maybe without money. But atleast she would walk out of here with her head help up high

“Fine Miss Samantha, I give it to you, you are not exactly stupid, but be careful, and tread lightly, it’s not every day you think you can step on the lion’s tail and don’t expect it to bite. That being said, if you don’t have plans for tonight, could you kindly stay back to help with my meeting for tomorrow”

Much Better Mr Bass, Much better

“Fine whatever. I can spare a few hours more, but I intend to get home in due time” she says sitting as they immediately get to work.

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They stay till midnight.

Samantha's body hurts, even her hands and all she needed was to sleep as they leave his office and make their way downstairs to where the cars are parked.

“Todd, take her home, and then come back for me” he says to the driver, then turns to Samantha

‘’We would be leaving by 10:00 am tomorrow morning, we would be taking the second flight out, and be back before evening, make sure you prepare the files, and bring it along with you’’

Samantha is confused “Wait, where are we going tomorrow, thought the meeting is in your company?”

“Out of state. Drive Todd” he shuts the door

Argghhh!!! He did it again, forcing his will.

How dare he!!

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“You sound pissed Samantha” Jamie’s voice came through the phone

“Pissed? I am beyond pissed. I am infuriated. I am angry, I want to slam my fist into his face”

“You can’t do that though”

“I know that’s why I am…ARGGHHHHHHH!!’’ Samantha exclaims biting her lips

Jamie laughs “Hey calm down, look at the bright side, you get to travel with Mr Bass, eat at a fancy restaurant, and maybe the storm will come and you guys get stuck and because you guys can’t return, he books you both into a hotel and because they have just one room left you both get to share and maybe it’s small and no chair so you share a bed and then…who knows, thunder may strike, then lightening, you may be scared, he holds you while you both look into each other’s eyes, then there is this moment that is so electrifying, then your lips would touch and even the heavens would quake and before long there is the erm…ohhhh uhhhh ahhhh ahh yes yes YES! Take me to hell..or 7th heaven you sexy beast!!!!’’

Samantha facepalms..’’ you are one shy away from being completely insane Jamieliah Sawyer”

“Oh what a nice complement Samantha Penolope Brooke”

“It wasn’t one Jamie and stop talking nonsense. Look, he thinks because he is rich and all that so whatever he says should go, it doesn’t work that way, I have a life outside the company and just to think he was listening to me in his office, he was being smart, so I can stay and do his work for him. By the way, like literally he was pressing his phone and replying to text messages from random girls while he tells me to do research, jot, analysis, and everything, and he had the audacity to claim he is tired when it had been my fingers and head at work..then out of the blue instead of mentioning in passing..’Oh Miss Samantha, about that meeting, it’s going to be out of state so…cancel your plans for the day. Nooooo, he throws it off his shoulders like..’Hey! I own you, you work for me so when i say jump, you should ask ‘how high??. The asshole!!!!’’ she snorts

“Breath Samantha breath, when do you leave?”

“Now! I am just…grabbing the files I worked on all night, didn’t have any sleep.” Samantha is holding the phone and putting things into her bag. She had been up all night working on the files he gave her to do, and she had wondered if he was trying to punish her for her forwardness. ‘Those files on Betty’s desk, it’s for the construction company which we would be attending to next week, take them and sort through them, and the Tsuki files as well, the company overview file, the one with the financial statements, pet projects, that should be separate, for my eyes only and that of the audit and accountant, and no one else, when you are done with the files for tomorrow’s meeting, make sure you don’t mix them up, do well to tidy the rest, I want all of them done with” he had told her before they left the office, causing her to pile up her hands high with them..right before he spewed the nonsense in the car, he was lucky she carrying files and he wasn’t close, she would have dumped it all on his feet, given him a scrowl and left him staring after her.

Annoying man!!!!