✅What's wrong with CEO Kim??? - Taekook One shot

How it all started???

Office gossip confirmed no executive assistant lasted more than a handful of weeks under Mr Kim's employ before tearfully resigning or summarily being shown the door. The temps didn't make it even that long. Usually they just stopped showing up.

Jeongguk had held his position for the last fifteen months.

"How has he made it this long?" seemed to be the usual question left in his wake. Speculation had it he must have found something either highly incriminating or embarrassing on Mr Kim.

Others wondered if they were lovers before dismissing it.

Mr Kim and Jeongguk were the epitome of two professionals working in complete synchronization. While admirable, it was hardly the stuff passion was built on.

Jeongguk, if anyone had been brave enough to ask, would have dispelled the prevailing rumors by answering, "As long as you're completely focused on your job, he's not that bad of a boss."

Which wasn't to imply those first few days hadn't been harrowing to say the least.

Mr Kim had a fearsome reputation of never raising his voice. Which sounded preferable in comparison to working under the other hotheaded executives, but his crisp prestigious Seoul dialect had a way of making you wish he had.

One word punctuated by his black ice stare had the power to reduce the miserable recipient into a babbling mess.

After stumbling across the messy aftermaths on others in the restrooms, break room, and occasional stairwell, Jeongguk had always wondered what it must have been like to experience it firsthand before thanking God he would never know.

Time passed. Mr Kim' temporary assistants continued on their tearful rotations.

Two years, three months, and eleven days into his position as an executive assistant in the IT department, of 'KIMS & PARKS Co.', Jeongguk's orderly life came to an end when his manager called him into her office. Jeongguk assumed it was to be another typical meeting to align present tasks against future goals.

His first sign should've been Hyejin's pinched mouth. Jeongguk's manager huffed and sat forward. The stern line bisecting her slender brows could only mean one thing. "I'm afraid—"

Oh, no! I'm getting fired! What could I have done wrong?

Jeongguk's knuckles flexed and he sat there wondering what would happen if he could never find another job again. He and his doggo, Gureumie, would have to live in his Jeep Cherokee until that got repossessed.

Panhandling was illegal, prostitution out of the question, and he had no family to call upon. Jeongguk's grim vision ended with both of them crying inside a cardboard box as pelting rain destroyed their only home.