My Boss

[10]

[ayanna]

I didn't expect Sicily to be such a pain in the neck until this very moment. I was stuck in this office trying to get information on my apartment I bought before coming to Sicily, that has been boughten by another person who is not me.

"Spiacente signora, ma un'altra casa è a vostro nome." (Sorry Madame, but another house is in your name.)

I looked at the petite woman behind the desk as if she went mad. She wrote down an address and handed me the tiny sticky note.

"Il sistema dice che questa casa è tua." (The system says this house is yours.)

I warily thanked her and looked at my watch. I had about an hour before I had to attend a meeting with the headmaster of Noah's new school, so I decided to check out this 'house' of mine the system claims I have. I waved a for a cab and soon I was in front of a house that looked nothing like the apartment I bought.

Stepping out of the cab I walked up to house very slowly, waiting for the camera crew to pop out and start yelling I was on some prank tv show. But no, I made it all they way to the door and right as I got to the front of the door, it swung open revealing a woman I recognized, Gina.

"Gina?"

"Welcome Ayanna! Come in!"

She gently took a hold of my arm pulling me inside of the house.

"So as a gift from the company, we ask for you to have this home."

She walked me around the house and I noticed some of the things I had shipped were in the house.

"So you're saying the company bought me a house?"

"Yes and we also have gotten your son enrolled into St. Helena."

My eyes nearly bulged out of my sockets, first this house and now my son. St. Helena was among the top five schools in world and my son is going to be attending that school!

"Really!?"

"Yes, he starts next week. As for you, you've got to get to work right away. Today you'll have a meeting with two of Mr. Rinaldi's partners at three o'clock and you'll need to report to the new branch office, Mr. Rinaldi requests your presence."

Hold up pause right quick, I've got my son and my mother in a hotel room I can't just go straight to work. I wanted to get the two of them settled in before going to work.

"Don't worry about Noah and your Mother, I've arranged for them to be brought here and then escorted around the area to explore."

"Mmmm is that right? So you've got that all planned what about me? I need a way to get to this meetings and not all my clothes are unpacked."

A smirk planted its self on Gina's face.

"Two things, garage and closet. Now get going."

I eyed her suspiciously before going up to the bedroom that was supposedly mine.
I stood in the middle of the room, looking around at it, a little more closely than I did before. In the corner of my eye I caught sight of a bouquet of flowers. Roses, my favorite, but in the middle of the bouquet a pale pink Rose stood out.

—Flashback—

I smiled inhaling the scent of the flourish shop. I decided that today I was going to buy myself flowers. I believe I deserved to pamper myself a little, after all I was in Sicily!
I walked around the shop looking at and smelling the beautiful flowers that surrounded me.

"I think the Roses will suite you."

A voice from behind me said. I turned coming to greet the face of an handsome Italian.

"Pardon?"

"The Roses. An elegant and beautiful flower mostly presented to a women on a day of love, but for a woman like you it should be presented to you at all times."

I smiled to myself at his comment.
He turned to the tiny man behind the counter and whispered a few words to him and shortly after disappearing the tiny man returned with a bouquet of white roses. The handsome man paid for the bouquet and thanked the man, then he turned his attention to me.

"I present to you this bouquet I like to call the heart."

He informed me as he handed me the bouquet. In the sea of white roses stood out a pale pink rose.

"The white roses are the people you see everyday and pass, but the pink rose is the person who holds your heart."

I couldn't speak, I was lost for words. I never had a man talk to me in such a way and this man was a dream come true.

"What is your name bellissimo?"

"Ayanna."

"Well hello Ayanna, my name is Leonardo."

–End of Flashback—

• Dedicated to queenvickie