My Boss Is My Tormentor

6. BOSS

ROSE

Ryan Johnson took his time to look at me too. Down and up, his eyes roamed over me like a touch of feather. We stared at each other and it seemed like forever, but I knew it was only a few minutes then the moment was broken by my friend as she came by my side. "Oh my god. It's him." Natasha whispered in my ear but by the look on his face I knew he also heard her.

I straightened my back or I tried to with all the alcohol running through my system, ready to grab my friend and leave his vicinity. He was an arsehôle who had insulted me and then kissed me without my permission, and just right now he ordered me on the phone like I was his property.

"Hi, we met again." He said, extending his hand toward my best friend, his voice as smooth as silk. She quickly grabbed his hand and shook it, shook it, and shook it some more.

I didn't know why I did it but I grabbed her hand and pushed her backward then I stood between them, face to face with him. I asked, "What are you doing here?"

"I didn't know that I wasn't allowed in here." He shot back.

"Hey, I'm Nikhil, Rose's friend and you are?" Nikhil asked him as he came by my side.

Mr. Fancy pants looked at him then at me and in a nano second his expression changed. "I am Ryan. Actually, we've met before, in the morning,” He said, gesturing toward me.

Nikhil must have shown confusion on his words as Devil in blue started to speak again. Wow, I was full of new nick names. You go, drunk me!

"She came for the interview in the morning. I'm the founder and CEO of Ryan Arts&Commerce."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Ryan." Nikhil said, obviously pleased to meet him. "I've heard about you, you have an empire of business at such a young age."

But before Mr. Fancy pants could've said anything, Natasha said, "Oh my god, he is your boss." And this time I really wanted to strangle her as she pushed me aside and went straight to him. "Thank-you so much for your consideration, one would think that after the incident in the morning you would reject her without any interview."

"Excuse me," I interrupted, or tried to get her attention but it was obvious she'd other plans.

"She told me that she got the job but she didn't tell me that it was you. You are really very nice person." If she only knew how nice he was, I rolled my eyes at Natasha's choice of words.

"Yeah?" Ryan said with a raised eyebrow in my direction and when I looked up at him, he smiled his devilish smile and said to me, "I didn't know you were this eager to work for me."

I was not going to do this here, we can have this chat tomorrow in his office or in his hotel room or I would prefer not to have one at all. "I'm outta here." I turned toward the exit, and almost smacked face first into someone with my wobbly balance courtesy of all those vodkas.

I heard him saying in a bitter voice, "You should take care of your girl." There was some emotion behind his words. My drunk mind whispered it was jealousy but a sober part of it told me that I was a fool.

"Oh. She's not my girl. We are friends, best friends." Nikhil said and after a beat he added, "She's my girl. My fiancé actually. We are going to move in together that's why we were celebrating, Rose's new job and our engagement." I imagined, Nikhil was definitely holding Natasha to his side with starry eyed expression. They both were so in love.

"That's good, congratulations." I heard Mr Controlling say to my friends as I moved toward the exit, my steps were faltering but I kept going.

As much as I wanted to escape from his presence as he was making me feel strange things that I had never felt before, the floor dipped under my feet and I lost my balance, well, I was pretty good in maintaining my weight on one leg so I survived, but I only managed to take five more steps when everything started to blur in front of me and then so slowly everything blacked out.