Chapter 8

• Falak's POV
• Albert untied my hand and removed that piece of shit from my eyes before dropping me at the orphanage.
• "Thank you.", I said genuinely because a part of me was also scared because of the thought that what if that mysterious lover didn't take my rejection like a gentleman.
• "I wish even I could say the same.", He muttered in a tone that was loud enough so that I could hear it clearly. I wanted to ask why he said so, but then I didn't have the right to ask him this question, right?
• "Good night, Albert.", I said, on which he looked surprised.
• "Good night, Ma'am.", He responded before closing the door of the car. And soon, the car moved away from there. Once the car disappeared from my sight, I walked toward the orphanage.
• ***
• After changing my clothes, I lay down on the bed, thinking about everything that happened today, especially the proposal. It was not like that; no one had proposed to me until now, but I was not expecting HIS blunt proposal. But in the end, I rejected him, and he let me go.
• So, was this the end of this love story?
• After tossing from left to right, right to the left, I didn't realize when darkness consumed me.
• 'SLAPP!
• My mother pulled my hair so harshly that, for a while, I thought all my hair would come out in pain. She pushed me to the floor and started hitting me on my stomach with her legs.
• I cried and begged her to stop, but she didn't show any mercy.
• "Mom..please stop!" I cried because I was not able to handle the pain as she was hitting me at the same place where she had hit me before.'
• '"Please…stop!!" I cried out loud and looked around. I sighed in relief, realizing that I was in the orphanage's room. I wiped the sweat which was on my forehead and drank water to calm down my breathing. I checked the time and then left the bed to freshen up. I went directly to the church and then helped Sister Alima in the kitchen, and after having breakfast, I returned back to my room to get ready for the office. Unlike yesterday, I didn't want to have any unplanned holiday.
• Wearing black pants and a sheer white blouse, I looked at myself in the mirror.
• 'Perfect.'
• After that, I tied my shoulder-length black hair in a messy bun, gathered my bag, and left for the office. I worked as an assistant to the COO, and since I had to report to the new COO now was making me nervous. On the top, I was absent yesterday. The cab from my office came up as usual in time, and after an hour, I was standing in front of my office.
• "Good Morning Ma'am.", The Guards greeted me with a smile.
• "Good Morning."
• "You didn't come yesterday. Were you sick?", One of them asked on, which shook my head.
• "No. It's just something came up. Thank you for asking.", I responded and walked inside. If you guys were wondering how those guards knew that I was absent yesterday out of thousands of employees, then let me tell you that they greet almost every employee in the morning, but only half of them acknowledge them by nodding them, and a few of them acknowledge them by directly speaking to them. And I was one of them.
• I entered in the elevator and clicked on the nineteenth button. The door was about to close when someone kept his feet in between, making it a wide door.
• Jacob walked inside the elevator, following two other people. I was sure they all looked at me and then acted as I was not at all there.
• What was Jacob doing here? I thought but pressed my lips tightly to stop myself from asking this question. Because all three of them were wearing an Armani suit, so, they might be here for any business-related work.
• Who knows?
• I looked carefully at the faces of the rest of those people and gulped my saliva nervously, recalling they both were my classmates back in that school. Not to forget, one of them used to bully me along with Lance! While the person was standing in the corner was the topper of her class as well as the junior basketball team captain, Klaus Martinez.
• I took a deep breath to calm my nerves down, and immediately I smelt a familiar perfume. I couldn't recall where I had smelt that perfume, but it was too good.
• "I'm going to fire that assistant if she didn't show up today.", Jacob said, on which I secretly wished that he must not be talking about me. The elevator opened at a few more floors, but no one entered inside, seeing three Alpha men standing in the middle of the lift while I was standing at the corner of the lift.
• "Don't fire her if she's hot and sexy.", The middle one said, grinning. I remembered his name, Tyler.
• "Behave, Tyler.", Just two words from Klaus, and he stopped grinning like a fool.
• After a while, the lift stopped on the nineteenth floor. I was about to ask Jacob to give me some space so that I could walk out of the lift, but before I said something, Jacob walked out on the same floor, and I followed him.
• My mind was screaming it loud that he was the person who was my new boss, but at the same time, I was praying that don't let my assumption be true.
• "Excuse me, what's your name?" Jacob asked Ashley, who had just arrived at her seat.
• "Ashley Steel, sir."
• "Ms. Steel. I believe you are a close friend of my assistant. So, send her to my cabin once she is here, and if she doesn't come today, then she doesn't need to come office from tomorrow onwards.", Jacob said, on which Ashley looked between Jacob and me and nodded her head meekly.
• 'Oh, Lord! Please save your child today! I promise I would never take a single leave in my whole life.'
• ****
• Third Person's POV
• 'Everything happens for the first time in everyone's life.' I had read this quote when I was a kid.
• I accepted every first in my life happily, like a strong person, but I wasn't able to handle her rejection.
• Why did she do that?
• Did she realize that I would never reveal myself in front of her?
• Well, that was kind of true, and I had my own reason to do that!
• After all these years, I finally found her, not to take NO as an answer.
• I was not a jerk who would misbehave with her just because she rejected my love, but I was not a saint who would let her work peacefully in this office.
• I knew I couldn't give her a tough time that I had already asked my best friend to do a favor for me because everyone close to me was already angry with her, which included Albert as well.
• 'Senorita, if this was to end in fire, then we would all burn together.'
• #TBC