Uncontrollable Tempration

I tried my best to make myself look presentable again before I walked back to the table.

“Where did you go?” Sean asked upon seeing me.

“To the ladies.” I answered looking down. I didn’t want him to see my puffy eyes.

“You spent quite a while. I was getting worried. Here, have this.” He passed me a beverage. “It’s lemon Ice Tea.”

“Thank you.” I said, taking it from him.

“Are you going to finish that?” He referred to my burger. I had only eaten half of it but now my appetite was completely lost.

“No, I’m full.”

“Really?” He laughed. “You’ve only had half of it. Are you sure you’re full?”

“Yes, I’m okay with the drink. You can have it if you want.” I offered it to him.

“With all pleasure.” He took the burger and chowed it down. He accompanied it with his drink which he finished in one swig. “It’s on me Sophia.”

“Thank you.”

We walked back to the office after he paid for the food. He kept going on about how Mr Wilson gave him a pile of work to do and how extremely busy he was. That gave me an amazing idea.

“Why don’t I help you with your work?” I asked him.

“Are you sure you want to? I mean, I just don’t want to bother you or anything.”

“No, it’s not a bother to me at all. I’m actually very bored at work these days because Mr Wilson doesn’t show up. I did accounting stuff in school, I could help you.”

“That sounds great. I could really use some extra help.” He smiled at me.

I was really happy to help. At least now I wouldn’t have to be extra bored at work anymore. We both went to his office. It was the second time of me ever being there.

“So what would you like me to do for you?” I asked.

“I want you to help me create a budget. For weeks now, Adam has been wanting to install solar panels at the office and you are aware of that. However, he kept on postponing the task but now he has finally decided to go through with it.” He passed me a document. “Here is the clients brief. Analyse it and construct the chosen budget. That should be simple enough right?”

“Of course! You’re speaking to a first class student.” I bragged and he smiled at me. I sat down on one of the chairs in front of his desk.

“Are you going to sit here and work Sophia?” He looked at me confusedly.

“Uh… yeah. Is that okay?”

“I just thought you were going to do it in your office.”

“Well, it’s really lonely up there so I’ll rather stay here… If you don’t mind.” I explained to him and he laughed.

“Okay then, you can stay here and we can enjoy each others company while working.”

And that’s exactly what we did. Sean was very fun to work with, once in a while we got a little distracted from work and just talked instead. For the first time this week, I was happy and I could say I enjoyed work. He gave me other stuff to do and I did them very well.

Although we worked a lot, we still had a pile of work remaining. It got really late so we decided to finish it the next day… if we could. Sean, being a gentleman, dropped me off at my apartment after we closed from work. Tomorrow, I am going to stay with him in his office again, this time with my own table and chair. Sean said he would have someone arrange it for me because I was really helping him and he enjoyed working with me.

I am so glad I can get to work again. I know it sounds weird but being idle at work is not fun at all.

Especially when you’re the only one your boss wouldn’t talk to.

***

-The next day-

“Hey!” I greeted Sean as I walked into his office. I didn’t even bother going up to mine because there was no point. I spotted a table and chair beside his, just like he promised.

“Hey, how’s it going? I hope you like your new workstation?” He joked.

“It’s perfect.” I smiled back.

“Good. Because there’s a pile of work to do on your desk.”

I instinctively wanted to complain but I remembered when I had no work to do and was bored out of my mind so I quickly shut myself up and did the work.

I instinctively wanted to complain but I remembered when I had no work to do and was bored out of my mind so I quickly shut myself up and did the work.

I looked at the first paper at the top of my desk. It contained a list of companies and their emails, about 15.

“Sean, what am I supposed to do with these emails?” I asked, confused.

“Right. Uh… You’re going to be chasing late payments today because our report says we have bad debts. I need you to find out how much each of those companies are owing and send them an email for them to follow up. We need to keep a careful eye on the cash flow.” He joked at the end.

I fake laughed meanwhile, I was hurting inside. Being a personal assistant is way more easier than an accountant… I think.

I finished the task in a few hours and then we both went for lunch. This time, he took us to an Italian restaurant. At first I objected but I went with it anyway. The last time I ate Italian was with Mr Wilson at the hotel in London, and Sean just had to order the same thing as him. A carbonara dish. He wanted me to get the same thing but I refused, ordering just a slice of pizza instead.

“Are you sure?” He insisted.

“Yeah, I’m fine with just one slice. I’m not really hungry.” I lied.

“Hmm… But when we get back to the office, theres a lot of work to be done. Since Adam is not around, I need you to assist me in preparing budgets and business planning, including projected revenue. I think you’ll need more than a slice of pizza.”

“Okay.”

The work was not that tedious but we worked very late. We retired around 7pm and to say I was glad was an understatement.

“There is a department meeting tomorrow. We need to review budgets we just prepared, as usual.” He said to me as we walked towards his car.

“Mmmmm.”

All I was thinking about was my bed right now, two days working with Sean already resulted in burnout. But him, he didn’t even feel a thing!

He must be very hardworking.

“What time is Adam coming back from his trip?”

“Huh? What trip?”

“His trip to Maui. You must have planned it for him didn’t you?”This belongs © NôvelDra/ma.Org.

So that’s where he has been all along! On a getaway to Maui! With many pretty ladies!

“I didn’t know he had travelled.” I said. He’s probably enjoying himself right now.

Something tells me that it wasn’t a business trip, that’s why he didn’t take me with him. He usually makes me go with him anytime he travels and Mr Wilson never takes a holiday. This was a first.

“So you didn’t plan the trip for him… and he didn’t tell you…?” I shook my head. “I’m sure he must have sent you an email. He just told me he was in Maui this afternoon but he didn’t tell me how long he was going to be there. That’s why I asked you, thinking you would know.”

“Ummm…” I didn’t know what to say. I couldn’t just tell him outrightly that Mr Wilson and I don’t communicate at all. He would definitely suspect something. “Okay, I’ll check.”

“Good. And please get back to me when you find out.” Sean said.

I nodded, not knowing how I was going to find out but hoping that I would.

We both entered his car and he took me home.