Sweet Love novel Chapter 20

Yusef realizes Macy has been standing aside until he finishes the documents. He closes the folder and asks, “Have you met Miss Sue?”

It must be Yolanda Sue.

“We just met in the pantry” Macy answers honestly.

“She is in charge of assigning daily tasks for you. You are directly at my disposal. You later go and ask her for my schedule and come to a meeting with me. I’m going to talk about the South Sea Project with the managerial board. You will be responsible of taking the meeting moments.”

“Alright.”

Macy answers. Yusef grabs his suit and covers himself upon standing up. He walks out of the office.

Macy follows. But Yusef stops at the doorway suddenly. Macy doesn’t react timely and bumps into Yusef’s back.

“Sorry! Mr. Penn!”

Macy apologizes before she can have the chance to rub her forehead.

Yusef stares at her for a few seconds and touches her chin.

Macy gets nervous but she has to look at Yusef’s deep bright eyes. She can’t see his emotions.

“Macy Downey, remember. A good secretary doesn’t only have one expression.”

“I got it.”

She certainly has no experience working as a secretary. To be more specific, she has worked at the Downey’s after graduation. She is not good at business area and doesn’t have other working experience.

“At least, you have to smile at me.” Yusef suddenly pinches her cheeks.

Macy doesn’t know what to do. That man loosens his fingers and turns over to open the door.

Walking behind him, Macy thinks about what he said and practices smiling.

In the conference room, people have sat by the oval meeting table to its full. Only the position in the front middle is left.

All the presented staffs today are the managerial staff. Eliot is among them. He skims through the proposal for the South Sea Project, feeling a bit depressed.

Ever since he has met Macy Downey this morning, she has been lingering in his mind. He feels angry every time he thinks Yusef let her work at the Penn’s.

The door to the conference room is opened; Yusef walks in with an aura of elite. All the people straighten their upper body and stop discussion upon his arrival.

Eliot has a glimpse at him. At the moment when he is about to withdraw his gaze, he accidentally finds a slender figure in his sight.

He turns his head and sees Yusef and Macy walking together inside. She is holding a note taking pad, and looks like a professional secretary.

He frowns and looks at the woman over and over again.

Is she working for Yusef as a secretary? He suddenly recalls the hickey on her neck at the villa.

However Macy can be tolerant to this situation, she blushes. She can’t say a word but biting her lips.

Yusef purses his lips and his face darkens. “Eliot Penn, I don’t have to get your permission to let someone work for me.”

He refers to Eliot by ‘Eliot Penn’, meaning Yusef is short in patience.

Eliot feels nothing but anger. He doesn’t see the emotion of Yusef. He goes on being sarcastic, “Mr. Penn, you are the one who understands the rule of the Penn’s better than others. Our company is strongly opposed to connecting business with personal relationships. If you do so, how will all the colleagues of the company do? If someone like her who with no degrees and experience in business can be a CEO secretary, what will our company like in the future?”

Eliot almost stamps Macy into nothing but it is not enough for him, he goes on, “If you hire such a person in the company, I mean the South Sea Project can be at risk!”

“Enough!”

Yusef raises his voice and glares at Eliot sharply.

Seeing the rage of Yusef, Eliot then shuts his mouth.

“It is my idea and it’s related to business, I don’t have to get your approval.”

Nobody dares to say a word after Yusef said so. After a while, Manager Chan from the project department says, “Mr. Penn, I think Mr. Eliot Penn has his point. If we hire people without examining their abilities, it will be difficult to persuade our colleagues into collaborating with them. If Miss Downey can show her abilities of making profits for the company, we will be happy to work with her.”

Manager Chan is known to all as a yes-man. His suggestion is not offending either side.

He looks at Macy and proposes, “Shall we give Miss Downey an opportunity to prove herself? I think we all will be happy to see how good she is.”