True self

Richard's POV

I sat down in my office to take a breather and my thoughts trailed to Stacy again and I smiled looking at the information of her on my table again.

I called Joseph to get me the details of the whereabouts of Stacy Williams today even down to the slightest details of what she ate and who she met…

While waiting for the response I imagined her face that was full of grief and annoyance when I told her that I won't be following her drafted contract agreement…

I find her to be very cute and feisty but I can't have someone going against me, all my life I only had to listen to my grandfather, even other people had been bowing to me, how could she be so different from them? I thought

Few minutes later I got an alarm that reminded me of the scheduled shareholders meeting for the day. I got up and went to listen to their nonsense….

Apparently someone was trying to oust me from my grandparents company, but I have my ways. Thirty minutes into the meeting I got a text from Joseph with full details of Stacy's day and the first line of her getting a job in our rival's company took the last bit of rationality out of me…

I sent a text to get her precise location and concluded the meeting to head down to meet her, I got to the address sent to me and it had to be a shabby restaurant that is on its verge of closing down….

I parked my car and went into the restaurant only to be met with the uncomfortable gaze of everyone present like I wasn't fitted Into the environment, I traced Stacy with my eyes and found her helping the owner with the servings at a table.

I sat at a random table and called for food, I noticed she shrank back immediately she saw me but I was enjoying this so I decided to act conceited and oblivious to her presence….

"I want the best set for today's special". I said and she responded with a nod.

All the while I didn't raise my head from my phone, seemingly pretending to be busy and not noticing her….

She brought the food back soon and when she was about to turn around, I grabbed her hand for her to sit and eat with me. Please leave me alone or I'd report you to the police for sexual harassment! She said in a sharp tone.

Oh ok… kindly go ahead I want to see the police that would try arresting the husband for touching his lawfully wedded wife. I replied while stroking her face.

Richard, you know it's me? She asked

What kind of a husband won't recognize his wife from a distance? I said queering her

I came here because we need to talk. I said

I heard you got a job with Pearson's group as a designer but you know they are Morris's arch enemy! Reject the offer and come work for Morrison Inc. that is all I have to say! You have no right to choose, it is an order which would bring repercussions when you go against them!…

Stacy's Pov 

This is way more than I can actually comprehend right now. I can't believe he came looking for me just because he doesn't want me to take their rival company's job. 

The more he tries to be dominant the more I get the strong will to go against him and see the display of what he can actually do with his parents name…

And I am definitely not following his stupid planned out agreement. And he threatened me with the fact that he has been blocking the news of the wedding to spread so much. But definitely it would go beyond that once the press release comes out. 

I hated attention and the spotlight, that was why I refused to be added to Margareta's family book as her daughter but rather her niece because I don't want to be scrutinized by her brainless fans. 

Anyways I would have to wait and see what Richard has to do about my work life…

To my surprise old man Morris called me some minutes later telling me to reject the job offer because the Pearson's found out my real identity as the Morris family young madam and they wanted to use it as an advantage to steal trade secret and pin it on me, and that Ted Owen is not who I thought he was but the youngest child of the Pearson's, he has a different last name because he took his mother's. 

I felt so overwhelmed by all the exposure of information and thought to myself that if this is the kind of life the aristocratic families live every time they are constantly being cautious, I don't want to be involved in any way possible…

Richard dragged me to the car and took me back home forcefully. I was about to get out of the car when I heard from him "resume in the Morrison's Inc design department on Monday". I screamed 

I was so happy because I never dreamt of a day like this in my life. I would be working at Forbes's working place but it's a great thing to do me.