Besotted novel Chapter 23

"Have you got everything ready?" he asked as I organized my bag and looked up at him from my office desk.

"Yes Sir," I replied and walked up to him as he let me get through the door first as he held the glass door open for me.

"Today's meeting is very important. Have you ever been to an Annual meeting beforehand?" he asked as we took the elevator.

"Yes, I have been to an Annual meeting with my previous boss," I said as I checked my phone for any official notifications.

"He took you there?" he asked and I looked up at him "She," I corrected "My previous boss was a 'she'," I completed and smiled. His lips twitched up into a smile and he bent down probably wanting to kiss me but the elevator door pinged open. I took a step away from him and hastily got out of the elevator.

"Hey," I heard him call me from my back but I turned around and gestured him with my eyes not to attract any attention. It was decided between us that we wouldn't announce our relationship with anyone until we find the correct time. Now, that he is my boyfriend that doesn't mean I have forgotten about my career and the goal of my life. Basically, I know what will happen if anyone finds out about us. It will I who would suffer. The affair between a boss and secretary never really went well in the eyes normal public and I don't really want people to start calling me golddigger. Even if Caleb is the boss I want to stand in my own position and for that, I have decided to work hard and stand up on my feet so that people will start recognizing me. I don't want Caleb's help and for that after thinking so many times, I have finally come to the decision which he will not like. And the decision is ...y

"Sang!" I was stopped abruptly on my track by him holding onto my arm.

"Caleb we already had the discussion about this last night so why are you still trying to gain people's attention?" I asked as I turned and looked here and there before talking to him as my boyfriend but not my boss.

"But bab-," he reached out to touch my face but I took a step back when I saw the guards walking towards us in the parking lot.

It is little use to dig a well after the house has caught fire. So I tried my best not to lit any fire i.e rumor of us dating each other for his career and even for my career. "Sir, we will be late for our meeting," I said as I changed the topic and walked fast to get inside the car that his driver parked right before the gate. He entered inside after me and ordered the driver to take us to the event. As the driver pulled over, I looked out of the window to find the guards from behind stopping by the little cafe at the end of the parking lot for some tea.

It was already past eight in the evening when we returned back and as I looked back at Caleb he was busy typing something on his phone.

"Sir?"

"Sir?"

"Caleb!"

"What?" he glared at me as I gave him a toothy grin.

"Oh so now you get time to talk to your boyfriend?" he asked as he walked out the elevator with me following him to his penthouse.

"I am sorry. You know the meeting was important. How could I let you get distracted?" I asked as I kept my bag on his couch and got rid of my blazer.

"You didn't even let me hold your hand," he snapped and walked to his mini bar where himself a glass of wine.

"Caleb everyone was there. How could I?" I folded my arms across my chest with the blazer hanging on my arm.

"Well I tried to hold your hand from under the table and I was sure none of the people were having a seat under the table duh, who could have watched us?" he threw his fit on my direction and slammed the glass on the table angrily before untying his tie angrily he walked inside his room and slammed his door shut.

"Are you kidding me?" I muttered to myself but then smiled at his childishness.

Man! it feels as if I have known this man from ages when its been only some month when I walked into his life and saw him wrapped up with some other lady in his office room. I still can't believe it was our first meeting. From the daily soaps and novels, I have read that first meeting are always special. Fire ignites when you meet your life partner. None of the daily soaps or novels never really mentioned that you would meet your life partner wrapped up and kiss like a maniac with some other chic.

Bull shit!

I have decided to stop reading romantic novels and I will definitely stop watching daily soaps because they all show us absurd things which are not really true in real life. So, instead of wasting my time and hoping for a love story that they show us I would be concentrating on my own life. I will definitely stop watching the daily soaps because it has really made me keep high hopes on my own relationship.

"Yes, I will stop watching them," I muttered as I poured a glass of wine for myself.

"But let that 'Time to escape' series finish up first. Because if I stop it in the middle than I would live my whole life wondering why Kyle didn't return back to his Nancy," I muttered to myself and nodded agreeing with myself.

"Ah! I'm hopeless,"

"And why is that?"

"Oh my gosh!" I put my hands on my chest startled by him as he stood before with his hands shoved into his pants pockets. He had changed into a white sweater and black pants.

"You startled me," I said as I exhaled out a breath and rubbed my forehead.