The Meeting

Finished spitting up her excessive stomach contents, Elena rejoined Christian and Kainer who were still waiting for her. With a little run Elena approached the boss who looked angry at her.

"In the twenty-six years I have lived in this world, this is the first time an employee has dared to make me wait." Christian's sarcasm stabs at Elena who has just rejoined him and Kainer.

Elena's hands immediately clenched into fists. "I'm sorry sir, I had to go to the toilet and toilet business was unbearable. For that I apologize profusely to you."

Christian doesn't immediately respond to Elena's words, what he does instead is smell the aroma of wine coming out of the glass he's spinning.

Feeling neglected, Elena intends to return to her room. Constantly wearing high heels is not the right choice.

"Sit down!"

Elena's mouth, which was already open and ready to ask Christian's permission to return to the room, was tightly shut again. "Pardon?"

"I said sit down, do you really want to stand like that? You're not trying to embarrass me, are you?"

Spicy words flowed smoothly from Christian's thin lips which were reddened by the red wine he just drank. And Elena, who had no other choice but was forced to follow Christian's orders, sat back in her chair even though her chest was currently filled with the desire to splash Christian with the wine he was drinking.

After downing the last wine in the glass, Christian slowly puts the bordeaux glass, a special glass for enjoying wine carefully on the table.

"Tomorrow morning we will go to the mayor's office to meet with the mayor, I hope you don't make the mistake again like today by arriving late," Christian said slowly starting the conversation.

"I won't be late if you start the meeting on time, sir." Elena answers quietly without any fear, passing the blame on Christian.

Christian's face darkens, full of anger. "You blame me?"

"No, I don't blame you. It's just that if you had started the meeting on schedule then I wouldn't have..."

"I'm not a person who likes to waste time on unimportant things, Elena. , you know not in one minute how much money I make?"

Arrogant!

Elena shook her head slowly, trying to hide her heart that had just cursed Christian. "Sorry sir, I don't know about that yet."

"Tsk, you really are incompetent, Elena. I think I'm overestimating you," Christian says coldly with contempt. "Clarke Enterprise is a multinational company that oversees many subsidiaries spread almost all over the world, apart from that Clarke Enterprise is also the largest shareholder of some of the largest e-commerce in Asia and Europe. From one of Clarke Enterprise's subsidiaries you should be able to know how much money i make in one minute, right?"

Elena lowered her head, feeling ashamed and guilty for being careless by not knowing such an important matter even though her position was the private secretary of the CEO of Clarke Enterprise. "Sorry sir, I will correct my mistake."

Christian's cynical smile widens. "No, there's nothing you need to fix."

Elena immediately looks up at Christian timidly, all intent to disobey him gone. Christian's pressure is too strong.

"Go."

"Pardon?"

Christian averts his gaze from the bordeaux glass that has returned to being filled with wine at Elena. "Go to your room, I'm in the mood for a drink with Kainer and having you here makes this wine taste a little different."

Elana really wanted to point one fist at Christian right now, how could it be that just because she was there, the taste of the wine Christian was enjoying had changed. A thing that doesn't make sense.

"Don't want to go?"

Christian's words, full of satire, managed to break Elena's daydream.

"Then just sit here, come have a drink with me. I want to see your ability to drink," Christian said slowly in response to the question he had previously said.

Elena shook her head quickly. "Sorry sir, I never drink and can't drink that's why I chose to carry out your previous orders to return to the room," replied Elena quickly without pause, her face looking panicked.

A mocking smile spreads across Christian's handsome face. "You really suck at everything, Elena. It's really disappointing considering that the diploma you attached when you applied for the job showed pretty good grades."

"One's drinking ability has nothing to do with academic grades, sir." Elena answered Christian's words curtly. "And excuse me, I don't want to make the wine you drink any less tasteful if I'm still sitting across from you."

After saying that, Elena got up from the chair and immediately left in front of Christian and Kainer towards the exit of the restaurant to return to her room. When she was almost at the exit, Elena suddenly remembered that the room key she had tucked into her cell phone case was left on the table. Reluctantly, Elena rushed back to the table where she had just left.

"Sorry, I left my cell phone and key room," said Elena curtly before Christian was about to open his mouth.

As soon as she managed to get her cell phone and room key, Elena quickly left the place again. Being in too much of a hurry, Elena accidentally bumped into someone who was just about to enter the restaurant with a bang. Due to the severity of the collision, Elena even massaged her aching forehead.

"Sorry sir, I'm sorry that..."

"Fuck, you damn woman. Do you know how much this shirt you just soiled, huh?!!"

Continued