Never By You

Chapter 6

As the days went on, Valora's headache changed to intense pain which would never leave her alone completely. Rather it was only distracted by business threats that got her working even more than usual. As the fog cleared the pain was still there, standing infront of her in dark blue suit and a bored look etched on his face.

Altair although a pain in the rear was impeccable at his job and would do anything to get what he wants, that Valora understood very well especially after she got a call from her father concerning, how ill mannered it was to leave him alone on his first day in office without introducing to anyone nor giving him proper details about the security and their systems in the office.

She was fuming at that damned secretary for getting her screwed like that by her father. Although She managed to backfire her father's abuse with her boon over him, that included him promising her on not interfering in her life or the way she works the company. Still she wasn't satisfied and felt the need to pay back the Greek god. His thought about her having no interest in him, made Valora look at herself proudly for the revenge was going to get only sweeter by it. The only way Valora knew of it was to push him to his limits and finally crack him under her pressure which leads him to her begging for mercy where she chooses whatever she wants to do with his brain and body.

Hence everyday she added more tasks to him with current ones. She thought he'd crack but he managed to complete them perfectly well. It was actually her fault for giving him the time to make his own decisions on how to implement a job but if she remembers corrects she never remembered stating as such.

Honestly he took it upon himself to the job his way, which according to the rest of staff was different from hers but worked efficiently for them. In a month the staff was in love with Altair and that just got the bastard to confidently speak as rudely and immodestly as he could muster.

In truth, Valora should be glad with the sincerity of Altair's towards work plus the interest he had in her was obviously noticeable even when he turned his gaze ,upon her catching him staring. But it all seems too good as if he was purposely talking about her no interest in him as if to create a new one if there's isn't any already.

Maybe she's just overthinking or maybe he was indeed plotting something against her. Thinking about it Altair did have her father's number and that only heightened her suspicion about him being the snoop dog. The only way to find out was by the file which she told her investigators to make a month ago. A month seriously,who takes so much of time to make a damn profile on someone as ordinary as her assistant, but as for her investigators, they were still finding stuff about him and his agreement with the company as the secretary. It's almost quizzical that the agreement went missing immediately after that fateful interview.

It was confusing and intriguing her at the same time about this mysterious man who claims to be her assistant with proficient skills at being the best at everything. Who was he really? Valora had no answer and for now she just termed it to be his luck. The luck, she will wear out completely when she gets a hand on his file that would contain every living and non living details about him.

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Finally the following Friday afternoon a surprise was waiting for Valora at her desk. A gift from the damned investigators who took their damned time to make the zipped file about Altair. What was there so much about this guy that they had to dig up valora wondered as she turned the pages. Date of birth, place and oh parents died in an accident ended up in social services. Looks like a sad childhood she thought and other schooling histories. Wow! Where did they even find small Altair picture, Valora had no idea but couldn't help herself from plucking the picture off the file and hiding it in her bag. She will admit to herself this one time that young Altair was rather cute and hence she took the picture from her file. Yes the file belonged to her and no way anyone would see........

"What is this ma'am?" A silent low murmur interrupted Valora's deep inception of the file. Startled Valora gaped at two baby blue eyes that glinted sinisterly towards her while tried to scream in fear. But to her astonishment her vocal cords gave up and not a sound came out and realising her stupid fish kind of expression to her opponent, Valora snapped her mouth shut with the file in flash that sound reverberated to the walls. " what are you doing here ? And how did you come in without knocking ? Have you lost you're manners ? I am still you're boss, remember " Valora babbled trying to knock off the shiver running down her spine.

" I did knock twice but no one answered it then I waited for a minute outside. But I got worried something happened to you hence came in but you seemed to be engrossed in that file with an amused look, so I asked what is it? Not that I have lost any manners but rather you seemed to lose you're response to stimuli reading" Altair spit back.
Valora's patience was wearing thin around this condemned secretary but she couldn't waste time screwing him now. She needs to send him out before he reads the name on the file. " Get me the plans of apartments, we are building in near the beach. I need to verify them" she hissed as fast as she could.

"But you just saw them yesterday and verified. Hence I gave it to the accounts department to calculate the costs etc" Altair replied accusingly.
She doesn't have time for this sly cat sneaking into her office and stating that he did knock " just get the damn file without questioning me, will ya? Get out of my office at once and go down to accounts department and get the file by the stairs and no questions asked anymore. Go now immediately" she screeched on him which sounded like dying penguin voice to Valora herself but she didn't care.

" yes ma'am!! Whatever you need!" Was the answer in a cold tone and loud thud of the door bringing Valora back to what just happened. That was close she thought while she locked her office door and went back to the file. Honestly she should have not bothered about him seeing the file but still out of instinct she did. Anyway she didn't want anymore disturbances as such until an hour, Valora spoke her mind clear and cold to the receptionist at her floor. Finally she settled back on the couch and read the file.

That evening Valora ordered everyone but her secretary an early leave. Never in their office lives did the staff thought they would get to leave the office by 4pm but surprising miss Valora had work only with her secretary and left all others happily to enjoy the weekend much sooner than others. Many people were planning of parties out of the joy they felt. That was exactly the opposite of what Valora's mind was whirling around.

"Please come to my chamber in few mins Mr secretary " Valora voiced sounded cynical and poisoned that would scare anyone at that moment but she knew all to well that the secretary would come. Oh! He would come to meet his nemesis, Valora made sure of it smiling evilly as the door opened................

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Ta ta taaaaaaaa!! Ok I Am not as awesome as belt in The Croods but anyway the big reveal is just one chapter away!!
Yay :) so keeping reading to find out what did Valora find in that file that made her sound so evil 😈. And just what does she intend to do with Altair now ;) ;)

*** thank you all for supporting my story and please excuse the errors.*******

Reinoka