CHAPTER SIX

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"How can I help you?" Isabel asks the man sitting on the opposite side of her desk.

"I don't usually get personal guests up here. This is my sanctuary, so what brings you here?" Isabel asks again.

The dark skinned man sitting in front of her, stared at her through his one eye, the other covered by an eye patch. He said nothing and continued to stare at the younger Stark.

"Sir, I'm not sure you understand but I'm a busy woman believe it or not. I help this company stay in place and not burn to the ground, me sitting here with you staring at me doesn't help me in any way." Isabel says, slowly getting annoyed.

"You're not like your dad." Is all the man said.

"No, I'm not. Now is there something you need or do you need my assistant to escort you out?" Isabel says, trying to keep cool.

"I'm sure your assistant wouldn't be able to move me." The man dryly jokes.

The young Stark looks at him, not smiling at his little 'joke'. She was getting annoyed and she was sure the man was trying to annoy her on purpose.

Quickly she picks up the phone calling Lindsey at the front desk, "Can you tell Natalie Rushman to come to my office." Is all she says before hanging up and looking at the man again.

He lets out a small laugh.

"Is something funny?" She asks, her patience quickly getting thin.

A knock at the door stops the man from answering, "Miss Stark, you needed me?" The redhead asks from the door.

Isabel stands up from behind her desk, "yes, could you escort this man out. I don't even know who let him up here."

"I did." Natalie says.

"You did?" Izzy asks, making sure she heard the assistant right.

"Yes, he needs to talk to you." Natalie says, closing the door to keep the conversation between the three of them inside the room.

"Rushman, I'm not in the mood for a personal guest from you or anyone else. I've had to deal with so much already today, including a group of misogynistic men. I'm not in the mood for a guy in an eye patch looking like he came out of bladerunner." Isabel says, letting out her frustration at the redheaded assistant.

"Hammer. He wanted a suit?" The man asks her.

Isabel turns to the eye-patched man, "what do you know about Justin Hammer?" She asks.

"He wants war, I don't. That's all you need to know until I can trust you to keep quiet." The man says.

Isabel stands there for a second, shocked at what the man had said, "Who are you?"

"Fury, that's all you need to know right now." Fury tells the young woman.

"Well, Fury. You can leave." She says, sitting down and glaring at the man.

He lets out a quiet chuckle before heading to the door, "Don't worry, you'll need me again."

"Doubt that." The billionaire woman mumbles.

Fury shakes his head and walks out, closing the door again behind him so it was just Natalie and Isabel.

"Miss Stark-" Natalie starts to say.

"No! You don't just invite people up to my office without my permission," Isabel says walking up to Natalie.

"You work for me, you don't work for anyone else. When my dad or Pepper aren't here, I'm your boss, so you better start acting like it. If you do anything like that again, you'll be fired before you can blink. Now Rushman, you can leave." Isabel lets out all her frustration on the poor older woman.

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