Valerie's POV
"Valerie", Sally squeals into my office.
"Hey, you look bright. What happened?", I drop my cup of coffee as she drags me from my seat to the sofa by the corner.
She stretches her left hand to me and I look down to her hand, that's when I notice the large diamond ring on her finger.
I look back and hug her tight.
"Oh my goodness I'm so happy for you, Julius finally proposed", I lean out of the hug and smile.
"I know right, we were at a bar when he proposed, I can't believe I'm getting married",she smiles.
"Yeah, he's so lucky to have a woman like you, have you picked a date though?", I ask.
"Well, not yet but once we do you'll be the first person to know. But my engagement is tomorrow night, we wanna rush things, you're invited",she winks.
"Where is it holding? And do I like need a pass or and invitation or something?", I ask.
"C'mon silly, no",she says.
"It's by 6:00pm-8:00pm, don't miss it ",she pleads.
"Ofcourse I won't, you know me", I smile.
"And make sure you come with a date",she says which makes me blush.
She walks out of my office and I stare into space after that. Sally is a good friend I met here at work and even though she's 24 years old, we're pretty close and she's my most trusted here at work so there's no way I'm missing her engagement party and I'm gonna go with Nick definitely.
My office phone rings and I walk over to my desk to pick it up.
"Hello?",
"Valerie come to my office now", I know the grumpy voice of Mr. Jorge anywhere I hear it.
The line drops after that so I drop the phone and head straight to his office.
"Come in",he says after I knock.
"What do you need Mr. Jorge?", I ask less amusingly. I remember when I was really new here and he hadn't started his threats, I was very eager to walk into his office.
"Well I need you to shut the door first",he says.
I shut the door and walk to the side, he suddenly stands up and strolls over to me.
"Sally is having her engagement party tomorrow night and I want to go with you as my date",he states.
I huff and cross my arms over my chest, "You're pretty ridiculous Mr. Jorge", I say.
"I didn't ask you",he says.
"Or what?", I ask.
"What do you mean 'or what?'",he asks, quoting me.
"Normally there's meant to be like a condition after a ridiculous statement so I'm waiting for your condition because I'm NOT doing it!", I state, placing my hands on my hips.
He walks back to his desk and sits facing me, "Or your book won't even reach the invited critics",he says and I gasp.
"You can't do that! That's cheating, my book is one of the best and-",
"And it has to pass through me before it gets to the critics right? Maybe I could say your book isn't what the company needs and I had to discard it",he says.
"This is bullshit Mr. Jorge, you know how hard I work", I'm close to tears now because I can't believe him, I place my palm on my forehead and the other on my waist.
"I guess you have to work harder but all I'm actually saying is you should just go to the engagement as my date or you can start by pleasing me right now ",he walks closer to me again.
"You're married and I'm in a relationship ", I cry.
"Okay, let's do this. Forget about going to the engagement with me, let's just do a little something here and no one has to know, who knows you might even get promoted after what we do",he places his palm on my face and tries to go in for a kiss but I push him so hard that he falls flat on the floor.
"You're just a shitty bastard and I'm not doing anything with you", I cry and run out of the office.
"Maybe not now but eventually and certainly we will be together Valerie ", I hear him shout behind me.
I run into my office and shut the door behind me as I slide down to floor to cry, I didn't even notice someone was in my office.
"Vee? What's wrong? What happened? Who did this to you?",Nick says.
I wipe my face and support myself to stand up.
"Nick? What're you doing here?", I ask.
"Don't change the topic Vee! What the fuck happened to you? Who fucking hurt you??",he asks again.
I hug him tightly to stop the stream of tears flowing down my face.
"What's wrong Vee?",he asks again looking into my eyes.
"Nothing, it's nothing. I just...I...the work I need to complete is stressful and draining so I had to let it out in the rest room", I lie.
"You're lying to my face Vee, your office literally has a bathroom and even a closet and you literally ran back here",he insists.
"Uhmm... that's just because I didn't want anyone to see me or ask me what's wrong and I need the air so I decided to walk to the rest room there", I lie again.
"But-",
I kiss him to cut his questions off. And to be honest, I felt really good after that kiss.
I walk back to my desk and start tidying up so I can go home.
He walks to my side, "I'm taking you home",he says.
"To my place?",I ask.
"No, my place",he cups my face.
"No Nick, remember I can't leave Hailey and her baby alone", I say.
"But why? She can take care of herself though",he kisses me slowly.
"Mhmm...Nick, this... is an office", I say in between the kisses.
"I know...but you're coming back to my place Vee",he cuts the kiss.
"Seriously, no. It's already few weeks to her delivery day and she might have premature birth so I have to be with her at all times", I say.
"Vee, why are you making things hard for me? I just wanna be with my girlfriend and can't you see she's coming in between us?",he asks.
I feel a wave of guilt but there's nothing I can do, I reach out to his face, "She's not, at least not purposely, she's going to be a mother Nick and she doesn't have a man to call her own so she needs that emotional and mental support from me", I calmly say.
He removes my hand from his face and walks to the door.
"Okay, I guess I'll leave you to your maternal duties ",he stressed the word maternal for me to know that he was clearly pissed but there's really nothing to be done.
He walks out of my office and bangs the door a bit too loud. I just sigh and slouch slowly on my seat with my palm on my head.
I don't know how else I can cope with tension and demands from everyone. I don't know if I can do this anymore.
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