TRIALS

ANA'S POV.

I don't know what I expected.

As I walk through the doors of the company everyone looked busy doing something. I always knew he had companies but I never came to see what went on here.

I pass by a group of ladies who seem to be gossiping about someone and I turn around to see what they were talking about only to see a smiling Vincenzo.

Maybe this was a bad idea. What if working at the same place as he was going to be torture?

Would I be able to manage other girls looking at him or maybe he was the one who was doing the looking?

I enter the elevator as I wait for him to catch up with me. After greeting thousands of people he finally enters the elevator.

The elevator ride is silent and I feel like am suffocating but after a couple of minutes it comes to a stop and we enter another floor.

The floor is noisy as people are moving around like they are rushing to go somewhere and I wonder what the fuss is all about.

"You'll be seated there", he says as he points to a desk that is directly across what is his office I think.

What had I thought I was going to do? Not be his secretary obviously but I wanted work so I would take what was available.

"Okay", I say as I make my way around the desk and I sneeze just by touching it as my body comes in contact with the dust.

"When was the last time you had a secretary?", I ask him as I take some wipes from the drawer and wipe the desk.

"She resigned two weeks ago", he says as he continues scrolling on his phone.

"Why did she resign?", I ask him.

"Will you do the job or are you going to ask endless questions?", he asks looking up.

"Okay and don't the workers here clean because even if this desk hasn't been in use it is still supposed to be clean", I say.

"I don't know why they don't do that I don't have the time to check on that you can do that", he says as he walks off to his office.

After cleaning the desk I turn around to see a group of ladies looking at me. They don't even flinch when I find them starting which makes it kind of weird.

They don't look so happy to see me so I just assume that maybe they liked the other secretary more.

I look at the files that are under the desk and they all look like they are old files and the door to Vincenzo's office opens.

He emerges with files in his hand which I assume to be coming to me. He drops them on my desk and I sigh wondering when I will be done with all of them.

"I assume you know how this works?", he says as he points to the computer.

"Yeah, I do", I say.

"Okay you need to enter all these files and you will receive calls too if it's not something important tell them am busy. If I have meetings you need to inform me", he says and I nod in approval.

I only had one week to prove myself which wasn't a lot of time for a beginner like me. I know he wanted me to fail so that he could rub it on my face that I didn't t need to work.

I on the other hand was determined to make sure that I did everything to perfection.

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It's been three hours and I was already halfway through the files. My fingers hurt from all the typing I have been doing and all I want to do is take a break.

The rumbling of my stomach reminds me that I need to have something to eat before I faint. I look around to see if there is a cafeteria around but there is nothing in sight.

The women who had been talking about me were still in there so only they were seated around talking. Didn't they work?

"Hey", says someone from my side and I turn to see who it is.

"Hey", I say to the 5'6 guy with blonde hair who was trying so hard to look flirtatious at me. The glasses he was wearing were not even making things easy for him just worse.

"You new here?", he asks and I nod. I thought it was clear. Didn't this people notice when there wasn't a secretary?

"If you need someone to show you around then I'll be right there", he says as he points to an office down the hall.

"Thanks but I know my way around", I say offering him a sweet smile.

"Okay", he says as he turns around to leave, and then my stomach decided to rumble again.

"Actually where do you guys go to buy food?", I ask him and he turns around with a smile on his face as if he had been waiting for me to tell him something.

"Come on ill show you", he says and I stand up from my desk and follow him as he leads me to the ace I can find food.

We pass the ladies and they all glared at me like I was something that they did not want to see.

"Don't mind them they just don't like you", the guy beside me says.

"Don't like me, they don't even know my name", I say chuckling.

"Oh yeah your name sorry I forgot my manners am Marcus", he says as he extends his hand to greet me.

"I'm Ana", I say as I shake his hand.

"It's not that they don't like you they just don't like any new female worker. They have all been eyeing being the secretary for a while and when the previous secretary left they thought it was finally their chance. So you being here doesn't do anything good for them", he says as he explains the situation.

"Who would even want to be the secretary to Vincenzo?", I ask out loud and someone answers me.

"Almost all the ladies here, hi am Alicia", a woman beside me says as she smiles brightly at me.