Chapter 50

He ignored my words and turned his face away from me. "I told you, right? That I don't want to hear any explanation from you."

I took a deep breath hearing the answer earlier. "I know that you might not want to listen to my explanation. But it was completely out of my plan, Dominik."

"Oh." he replied briefly, without even turning back at me. "I don't care what you plan to do with that man. And about your new job, you don't need to worry about it. Because I will still hire you as my personal assistant."

Somehow I felt disappointed when I heard the answer that came out of his mouth earlier. I tried hard to stop myself from crying at a time like this and walked over to pick up my clothes that were lying on the floor. I put on my clothes one by one and took the tote bags that were still on the table.

While looking at my bag which still contained the present I was planning to give him, I turned to him and turned my body towards him. "Then, from today, I will not consider you as more than my boss. Have a great day." I said, then walked towards the door of his room.

"Leah, wait." he called, hurrying into his clothes and walking toward me. He tried to hold my hand, which I immediately brushed off.

"Please open the door. I want to get out of here." I said, without turning back at him.

He didn't say anything and obeyed my request to open the door to his room which he had locked earlier. Then I walked out of the room while wearing a flat expression. "Thank you for your time, Dominik Lawrence." I said, then walked out of the room.

I tried my best to ignore the voice that still kept calling out to me from behind, and continued walking faster towards my new place. Several male employees who were passing me in the hallway looked surprised when they saw me walking past them. They tried to greet me, to which I only nodded back and walked away from those who were still standing in the same place.

"Leah Mitchell is still cool, as usual."

"Yes, that's right. Unfortunately she's already dating Mr. Dominik."

"Well, what else can we do? We have already lost to Mr. Dominik since the beginning."

Even though I haven't walked that far from them, they are already whispering behind me without knowing that I can still listen to their conversation, who are talking about me right now. I decided to just leave them alone and keep walking until I got to the front of my new room and entered it, then closed the door. I then walked to the sofa chair and lay down on the sofa chair. I put the tote bag that I was carrying next to me.

"It's true that all the worst that I imagined didn't happen. But why did it turn out like this? If it's like this, it looks like I can't do anything but do what I said earlier. If I would just think of him as his superior. Nothing more." I said with a soft sigh.

I then directed my eyes to my bag which I put next to me. "Though the plan I will give it today. But it looks like now is not the right time. Does that mean my relationship with him is over now?" I asked, looking at the ring he gave me at that time that was still on my ring finger.

I closed my eyes, remembering what we just did in his room. It seems it's too late for me to regret what I said earlier. Now it remains only to hope that I can keep my word for not considering him more than my boss. With my new job, it seems like it will be difficult for me to think of him no more than as my boss.

"Huh ... Why did I even say that?" I regret opening my eyes while looking at the ceiling of this new room. I raised my hand that still had the ring given on it up and examined it, then removed the ring from my ring finger before I put it back on.

"No. I can't take this thing off. It's just too heavy…"

I got up from the sofa earlier and walked towards my new desk. My eyes then accidentally found a memo stuck on the table and I immediately withdrew.

If you want to store your belongings, you can use the safe under the table. The password is Dominik's birthday. If there is anything you want to ask me about, you can contact me. The number is on the back of this memo.

-Valencia-

I read the contents of the message and turned the paper over. As she wrote earlier, on the back of the memo was written her phone number. I took my smartphone that was in my bag and immediately put it into my contact list. After that, I put my smartphone back into the bag and took out the gift I didn't give to Dominik earlier. I stared at the present for a few moments before I finally brought it under my desk, which did look like a black safe box with a size that was not that big.

Then I tried to remember Dominik's birthday and I immediately widened my eyes. I quickly looked for the calendar on the table and realized that Dominik’s birthday is next week. I tapped my fingers on the table, feeling upset to myself that I had almost forgotten his birthday. And the good news, our relationship has been strained thanks to what I did last week.

"Good, Leah. You've destroyed everything." I said, clenching my hands and smacking my hands onto the table.

#

A few days later, I was getting used to my new job. I also met Valencia the day before yesterday and she was more than happy to teach me about what things I should do as Dominik's personal assistant. Like taking care of the accommodation during an official trip. Manage his schedule of meetings with clients and investors. Visiting several branch companies to check company performance.

"And one more thing. Make sure you remember Dominik's preferences well, if you don't want to end up with his endless nagging. But maybe it's different if it's your case." said Valencia, when she invited me to meet her at a cafe near the office.

"Hm, okay. I'll remember it." I replied, putting the spaghetti bolognese into my mouth. There is nothing special about the spaghetti bolognese, which makes me a little disappointed because the spaghetti I'm enjoying right now is not as good as Harris made.

"Good. Then I'll go first, okay? David asked me to arrange his appointment tomorrow afternoon." she said, getting out of her chair immediately and paying our food bill. When I tried to turn her down and offered to pay for it, she refused it and said that she should pay it because she invited me to have lunch together.

Then I woke up from my daydream. My eyes returned to focus on the computer screen, staring at the meeting schedule which will be held tomorrow afternoon. That means, the two of us already have to leave on an early morning flight so as not to be late for the meeting. I checked the flight schedule and hotel that I had booked and called Dominik.

"Hello?"

I swallowed hard and tried to sound professional. "Mr. Lawrence. I have already prepared the flight and hotel schedule for tomorrow. Would you like me to take them to your office, or what?"

He was silent for a moment. "Take it to my room now."

"Fine. I'll be there now." I answered, then hung up the phone. I got up from my chair and walked out of my room to his room.