Nothing Matters, except YOU & Me novel Chapter 450

Another busy day, and another mountain of documents were waiting for Myra to go through. She went to her desk and started working quickly. Nothing’s easy around here. Gotta work hard.

Heather was already immersed in work. She had been going to work early for the past few days. Most of the time, she would be the first to arrive. The office was always eerily quiet this early in the morning, but she had to come no matter what. Blake was assigning a lot of irrelevant work for her, but she couldn’t refuse, so she went on with it, though work had been giving her a headache.

It wasn’t until she was halfway done when the other employees started coming in, and Blake came the latest of them all. He was the CEO after all, so he could work whenever he wanted. On the other hand, Heather never abused her privileges, nor would she butt heads with Blake. However, Blake kept harassing her, much to her chagrin.

She wouldn’t mind working in the company if everything was smooth sailing, but nay. She had to work through all the office politics every day, and that took all the fun out of work. I thought Blake was a good guy, but no. He’s evil. Blake wasn’t as unscrupulous as he was before he took over the company, but after he became the CEO, he kept tripping up Heather. She thought it was childish of him.

The first thing Blake did when he came was to come to Heather’s office. She was too busy to notice him, so she thought it was just another employee. “Talk.” Heather didn’t even look up.

Blake arched an eyebrow at her. “It’s me, Heather. Your brother,” he said sarcastically. Heather quickly looked up and frowned.

Blake was nothing but trouble for Heather, and he knew Heather disliked him too. But he would trip her up again and again, because he thrived on her misery. “What’s the matter, Blake?” Heather forced a smile.

Blake whipped out a stack of files and put them on her desk. “There’s a few errors here, Heather,” he said solemnly.

Heather thought she had never seen those files before, so she skimmed through them quickly. There wasn’t anything wrong in the first few pages, so she kept skimming, then she noticed all the errors were marked in red.

What’s this? Elementary homework? The corner of her lips twitched. The documents were about the data on the European side of the business, so it wasn’t important. Blake wanted her to finish it in a day out of a sudden, so she had to work overtime to finish it. Small mistakes were inevitable in such a short frame of time, and it wasn’t a big deal anyway.

Heather wondered why Blake was blaming her for it as if she made a huge loss for the company. “I see. I’ll rectify them right away. They should be done by today.” Left with no choice, she took the loss. She didn’t pay too much attention to it, so any mistake was her fault.

Blake wouldn’t let her off the hook that easily though. He was just waiting for her to trip up. Even though it wasn’t a big mistake, he could make a mountain out of a molehill, since he was the boss anyway. Blake cleared his throat and put on an angry look. “I had high hopes for you, Heather. You’ve never made any mistakes since you were a child. Any imperfection is unforgivable.”

What the heck is this *sshole talking about? Heather looked at him in disbelief as he spouted nonsense. “You’re giving me too much credit, Blake. Everyone makes mistakes, especially me. I made a lot of unforgivable ones, and that’s why everyone hates me,” she insulted herself. Since Blake wanted to embarrass her, then she would play along with him.

Heather had a lot of stuff to handle, so she didn’t have the time to argue with him over every little matter. Whatever he says.

It was effective enough, since it shut Blake up. He couldn’t take it any further when Heather was already insulting herself. It took him a while before he answered, “Don’t say that, Heather. Everyone loves you. They won’t—” Blake didn’t finish his sentence. He noticed that Heather was giving him a blatantly sarcastic smile.