Early Bird (Erkenci Kus)(Part 3)

66. Signatures and things in the way

The office is pretty busy when they arrive, people are already setting up and working.

"Good morning," Leyla greets them back as they walk through, smiles and nods returning her way.

"Good morning," Sanem says a little later, smiling at Dilara and Yila waving at her, keeping the giftbag hidden under her coat. "See you later," she whispers to Leyla, splitting off to her desk and Leyla nods before heading to her office.

Sanem is just putting her things down when Can enters and holds up his arms, calling everyone's attention.

"Good morning," he announces.

"Good morning Mr Can," the group of workers chorus and smile at him.

Sanem stares at him. He looked a little like a crow today - all dressed in black with his shiny silver albatross necklace around his neck, nestled in the blackness, and fingerless black gloves on his hands. He looked so handsome, his face rested and his hair pulled back half up and half down.

She herself had decided on a white shirt, a checkered yellow, white and black jacket and a light blue jean skirt with white sneakers. Her ever present amber necklace around her neck.

Can comes right for her when she looks up from hiding the giftbag under her coat on the chair and opens his arms to hug her. "Good morning my love," he says in her hair.

"Good morning."

Smiling faces watch them embrace. Deren the only ones not finding it cute.

"Okay," Can lets Sanem go to face the room again, raising his voice, "guys, we're going to be focusing solely on Redmod and the presentation today. Are we clear?"

"Clear!" The office chorus, nodding.

"In spite of everything that's happened to us in the past few days, we will be productive! We will give no one any reasons to say that Fikri Harika is not up to the task! We're going to blow them away! Right?!"

"Yes Mr Can!" they chorus again.

"I didn't hear you! Are we going to blow them away?!"

"Yes Mr Can!" The group chorus louder and more energetically, Sanem being the loudest next to him with JJ a close second.

"That's what I like to hear!" Can claps his hands together. "I want everyone in the boardroom right now! Let's go!" He points towards it across the bridge and the group start grabbing their things, trickling out.

Sanem looks at her chair, making sure the giftbag was hidden well enough until Can spins to her and grabs her around the waist, pressing his nose against her neck and inhaling for the second time.

"Your smell drives me crazy," he growls into her ear and lets her go, winking as he starts to follow the rest.

She stares after him, her heart plummeting to the floor even more, guilt bubbling like an overheating pot to the surface. It left a sour taste in her mouth so much that she had to actually work to swallow the bile down before she too heads to the boardroom too.

Once everyone is sitting and all set up, Can holds up his hands to quiet them.

"Alright, Redmod is the biggest contract we've had in a while, therefore everyone of us has to work as hard as we can on this campaign. I believe you're all prepared for the presentation but we can't have it being too bulky. I had a look last night and I thought we could summarize it a bit. So we'll start by looking through the whole thing from start to finish and then we'll all decide what stays and what goes. Tell me what you all thought might be too much." Can looks at JJ. "JJ, you start."