In the morning when Valerie woke up, she just laid there without moving, like her muscles have no life to even move a single inch, but soon the smell of tasty pancakes brought her life back. She immediately sprinted to the washroom and with lightning speed cleaned and brushed and ran out of the room.
Entering the kitchen, where the other two persons were already waiting for her. Macrons, pancakes, wantons,and fresh soup. Yes, this was life lying in bed till late and having tasty meals. This was her life which she lost because of that devil Leo.
She never thought working as her secretary would be so complicated and tiring. He intentionally turns his table into a mess every hour and asks her to arrange it. But it's not that, she has any other option. God knows how he would treat her on Monday after all the events of yesterday.
Victor and Cynthia looked at Valerie who was lost deep in her thoughts. Hesitatingly, Victor initiated the conversation "So how's job?"
The way she was tired he knew something was wrong. It's not that she hasn't worked in an office before.
Valerie looked above from her plate into her brother's eyes, and laughed but it was a cold and eerie laugh. "You want to know about my work! Alright I will tell you."
She was still laughing but anger could easily be seen with her blazing eyes.
"Leo Smith is a mentally retarded, narcissistic, fraud who is full of arrogance. Do you know what he did? From the first moment he keeps on ordering me this, ordering me that, since he has hired two secretaries together and the last one is yet to retire. He gave the desks to Ellie and Mrs. Delilah and asked me to adjust. Do you know where he adjusted me? He adjusted me in a cramped store area.
Where things need to be put on the floor because my small table doesn't have enough space. And for everything I have to bend. I have to bend at least a thousand times a day."
"But he is not satisfied with that, so he keeps on calling me every five minutes.
Valerie where is my file?
Valerie where is my folder?
Valerie where is my pen.. So on.
Can you believe it, he asked me to come crossing the whole corridor just to give her the pen which was already on his table, a hand away, that also dozens of times! Can't he just keep it in his hands for a while." she exclaimed, taking a bite of pancakes so ferociously like she was biting the neck of Leo, for a second they both felt afraid of her reaction.
"Not only that, he asked me to arrange his files so I did. I did it according to his hotel's name, and then subdivided it with the name of clients on the basis of dates, new ones above while old ones at the bottom.
But you know what he told me, he didn't say a word until I was done. Then he told me to arrange them according to the colour of the file. Can you believe it! he freaking wants his files on the basis of colour.
Not only that he kept me standing in his office all the time, never offering a chair to sit. While that Ellie just sits in her a/c office, doing nothing but nail filing or using mobile.
Her only work is to make his coffee and order lunch.
From taking phones, to arranging meetings, making his schedule to provide him things, all is done by me. And he is not even satisfied with it. He asks me to make a single report many times without even glancing enough. He just told me, it's not perfect enough, rewrite it. For once I printed ten copies of a report and gave it to him one by one. and on the 9th time, he said it's better now.
For God sake not a single word was different in all the nine reports."
"And while I was doing all this work, I kept feeling his gaze on me. But whenever I looked at him, he was looking down doing his work. it didn't look like he had just looked down, that gave me such an eerie feeling."
"Not only that, yesterday when I told him that I need to go on time because I have to go to a fair with my family. Not only he tagged along but also brought his friend and other secretary with me. And you know what lame excuse he gave me for that! That he funded the fair, so he needs to inspect it.
I mean come on, the Leonardo smith, who never went to inspect his seven star underwater hotel personally. He went to inspect a fair which is not even part of business but charity."
"I simply don't understand who is keeping an eye on who." She said, shaking her shoulders.
"So among all that, have you ever seen him using his powers?" Asked Victor, ignoring the frustration and anger in her voice.
Cynthia pinched his thigh to stop him from speaking further, but he ignored it. After all the pain he had faced while doing his work and training, her pinch was nothing more but just a feather touch to him.