His Prodigy - Undergoing Rewritting

Chapter 5 ✔️

Twirling the necklace I am wearing around nervously between my fingers I waited for the sign to turn red so that I can cross the street and get to my car. I bit my bottom lip.

The door behind me opened up but I made no move to turn around, there was no way in hell I was going to get dragged back into my brothers business. It happened a couple of years ago, it's not going to happen again.

"Elena! Elena, right?" Mr. Sterling ran towards me with his bodyguards not to far behind. I glanced at them before rolling my eyes "yeah, what?" I turned back to the street, god when are these cars going to stop? I groaned internally. New York is a hassle, I almost want to move to Portland Oregon or Maine but I didn't have the money for that.

"I know you don't want to help out your brother so how about you help me out, I've got no assistant just like Mr. Foster so managing my business is a little bit harder. All of the girls that come through my doors want sex and money which I am not willing to give them so they either quite or I fire them. I need you to help just this once and then you can be on your way or if you like the job you can stay, the pay is a hundred dollars every two hours from 6 a.m to 7 p.m" he paused to take a breath of air.

"You'll have your own office, free lunch and clothes for main events will be provided" I shook my head "no, I don't need nor want your money, I've got my own" He chuckled bitterly "is that why you have to work two to three shifts a day just to earn enough to pay off your rent, not even enough to get food or pay the rest of your bills" I lowered my eyes to the ground. "You did a background check on me!" I accused, he shrugged but didn't deny it.

"My security team did, I needed to know who I'd be working with whether the family has anything to do with the business or not." He sighed "Look I read that you helped built this company from the ground up along with Liam and his other four brothers, I'm not asking you to help me do that, all I'm asking if for you to give my company a chance. Check it out like your brother said and see if you like it, I need to be on Mr. Fosters good side just as much as he needs to be on mine" I groaned pushing the hair from my face.

A small ding rang through the air notifying me that I am able to cross.

"I'll be at your company around five thirty but this is only for my brother. It's not for you and I'm not becoming your assistant, ask my brother how to wire the money to my account. After tomorrow I want nothing to do with yours or his business and I mean nothing" Mr. Sterling smirked and held out his hand "deal" I shook it before crossing the street again.

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"Steve, do you know where the pasta is? Are we out already!" I sat up looking over the short isles to where Steve, our stock manager sat unloading new food.

"I think boss cut the pasta out of our budget, it was either that or steaks" I sighed walking over to the back room where all of our food laid either stacked up in boxes or in the freezers. I grabbed the box that read 'pasta' and opened it hoping to god it was actually pasta and that we didn't have to get rid of the one thing I ate. "We've got pasta!" I cheered, Steve chuckled coming into the room "that means he must have gotten rid of the steaks" he sighed.

I shrugged not caring. "I'm going to finish unloading this and then I'm clocking out, good night Steve"

"Goodnight Elena"

I walked back over to my section and began to unbox. I shouldn't have said goodnight to Steve seeing as it's four thirty in the morning but it was a habit when we worked long hours. We'd come in at eleven or twelve p.m, say good morning and when we leave which is around four to five a.m, we'd say goodnight knowing that we'd fall asleep as soon as we got home. I liked our little routine.

After finishing up with the stocking I grabbed my keys, purse and some breakfast to hold me off. I had five dollars and was able to get a small breakfast sandwich and heat it up in the back room. Steve fixed me hot chocolate before kissing me on the cheek and forcing me out the door saying I needed sleep because I looked like shit. I laughed him off but agreed.

My wavy hair turned frizzy throughout the night and is pulled up into a low messy bun, I wore a pair of black ripped skinny jeans and a two sizes too big white shirt. All in all I looked like a hot mess and would need to change quickly before heading over to Mr. Sterling building.

I pulled out of the parking lot and headed to Mr. Sterling corporation, the lot was barely full which gave me a good advantage. I climbed into the backseat after putting up a windshield car shade. Next was the back three windows before I grabbed my bag of clothes, lotion and accessories. I quickly stripped of my shirt and pulled on a seamless cami, long ruffled back blazer, slimming stretch jeggings and peep toe ankle strapped heels. When I was done I applied Cashmere lotion and matching perfume, climbing back to the front I pulled out a mirror and began to apply accessories and make up.

First were fake pearl earrings, next was crimson red lip stick with a thin layer of gloss, afterwards I put on mascara, silver bracelets, a long silver chain and took out my brush. Brushing my hair was the last step but it was also the hardest. With the brush it tends to make my hair even more frizzy but thankfully I had a comb laying around which could help tame my messy.

I brushed through the tangled knots, wincing and cringing as I went before my hair was finally not free. I checked the time; 5: 25.

Opening my car door I cleared my throat before heading into Sterling Inc.

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Author's Note:

End of chapter five!

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