I BELIEVE

broken??

*This is chapter 2, sorry for the inconvenience*

"well miss smith I'm still waiting for you" the new CEO said whiles cocking his eyebrow. I cleared my throat quite loudly and said "well sir....umm.... the thing is....well" "speak!" He said in a rather loud voice that had Claire straightening her stance. "In normal sense I am actually speaking but....." His facial expression shut me up before I could continue. "It was a family emergency" I might have high pitched the family emergency part but I quickly covered it up with a smile. "Elaborate" he said as he leaned into his chair. "Well...umm...my father...yes my father....he....umm....got into an accident it wasn't anything major but my caller seems to have exaggerated about the matter" I quickly covered up my fumbling with a nervous laugh and clearing of my throat. The new CEO stared at me for a few seconds and said "Claire..you can leave" "right, thank you sir" Claire gave a slight bow and dashed through the door before another question was thrown at her. The new CEO got up, quite slowly I even thought he had a leg problem and took steady steps towards me and with every step he took I felt my heart thrumming against my chest. The hell am I about to have a heart attack,he was mere inches away from me when he stopped and leaned against the table. "Miss smith I don't know if I should praise you for being a good liar or I should punish you for trying to fool me" he said rather calmly. "Well....sir I don't know what you're......". "The company has all your information, including the fact that your father is in new Zealand as we speak and if he had been to new York I can assure you we would know about that as well" he said a small smile displayed on his lips. He got off the table with a slight push and stood right in front of me till I felt like I was breathing on his oh so good looking face, the hell what was I thinking, to shift my mind from this insanely gorgeous man I bowed my head, but like I said my enemies indeed had pulled in the big guns because this man curled his finger and lifted up my chin to stare at his piercing green eyes, they were like a forest you could get lost in and never want to come back. Wait, I don't speak like this....this must be...f*ck china! I'm sure she must have said something like this and it got stuck in my head. As I stood there still lost in those green hues of his, waiting, just simply waiting for a single word to be uttered, nothing came, absolutely nothing but what I felt next was his slightly rough hand tracing the smooth lines of my cheeks and all of a sudden his beautiful green eyes were filled with immense sadness, sadness that I wish I could relieve him of, but how can I relieve him of something if I don't know what's causing it, for some unknown reason I lifted my hand and touched his face ever so slightly wondering as to what could have caused such a beautiful man to bury such immense sadness inside of him, he closed his eyes as if savoring the feel of my fingers touching his face and then he whispered my name so slightly that I'm not sure if I was a few steps away from him I would have heard. But that's not my concern right now, it's the way he mentioned my name, with such familiarity,such intense pain, such....love, it's like so many contrasting qualities all together and he and only he could make it sound so beautiful yet so broken and here I thought our bosses weren't supposed to use our first names, wait something is amiss...., Our bosses are not supposed to use our first names, wait....OUR BOSSES ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO USE OUR FIRST NAMES, when realization finally dawned on me I took a few steps back as if he had burned me.  "I'm sorry sir I'll make sure non of this happens again" I immediately gave a slight bow like Claire did and dashed out of the room before he could even utter a word. Our bosses are not supposed to mention our first names and not only did he do that, but he also touched my face AFFECTIONATELY, Christ I am dead, I am so f*cking dead, what if somebody saw us, no! no! No! I'm here to work, earn a good salary and live a happily ever after life not to get twisted with my CEO for goodness sake he just arrived, my head was in a frenzy as I walked to my own smaller office right beside the ceo's, I took my seat, took in a long deserved deep breath and a glass of water to calm down my nerves just as I was about to gulp the last drop down my throat Claire entered making me choke and coughing rather harshly. "I am so sorry, but girl other than the fact that you owe me one the new boss of ours is fineeee " Claire said with a playful smile. I recovered from my shock rather quickly and started cleaning the water that had dropped on my dress shirt. "Claire I appreciate whatever you just did for me but I have work to do" "And fortunately for you that work includes showing the new CEO around the rest of the company in....30 minutes" she said as she checked her wrist watch. " Oh and you might wanna change that dress shirt or better still keep it on that is if you want to keep our new CEO distracted" Claire said with a wink and walked out of my smaller office. At this moment I just wished the ground would open up and swallow me whole.