The Billionaire Affair by Parker Ali

Author:Parker, Ali
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BrixBaxter Publishing
Published: 2018-09-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 36

STEPHANIE

“Welcome back Friday, you beautiful thing you!” I said under my breath when I got to the office and pulled up my calendar, ready to put the last few things for this week to rest. “How I’ve missed you.”

Friday, of course, didn’t answer but that didn’t matter. My tasks for the day loomed in brightly color-coded blotches on the calendar on my computer screen, but that didn’t matter either.

Nothing was going to get me down today. It’d been a long, hard week, and I was looking forward to the weekend. Jeremiah’s father, Jance, had been in the office a lot over this last week. And it was safe to say he was the reason the week felt so long and awful.

He made me really uncomfortable. I didn’t know why. The man hardly spoke to me. He’d never said or done anything to warrant the feeling, but being around him made my skin feel like there were tiny bugs crawling around underneath it.

I couldn’t wait for two whole days without the possibility of seeing him. Why he’d been hanging around Jer’s office, I didn’t know. When I started working here, I only saw him for maybe a minute a week. Now he was around all the time.

The two of us just didn’t gel. I could tell Jance didn’t like me either, though I had no idea why. I didn’t speak to him much, so there was no real reason for him to dislike me any more than I had to dislike him. Yet I was quite sure we were both firmly rooted in our mutual, non-sensical dislike.

And I was fine with it. Really. I wasn’t one of those people who were in constant need of approval from everyone they met.

If Jeremiah was anything more to me than my boss, I might’ve been worried about his father’s dismissiveness of me. Since we were keeping things totally professional, I wasn’t too worried about it.

My job was to work for Jeremiah, and I did my job well. When Jance was around, I simply tried to keep my head down and to not ruffle any feathers. As much as I usually enjoyed ruffling, it didn’t seem worth the risk of attracting his wrath or attention.

I’d heard him on the phone a few times. The man could be brutal. Ruffling his feathers felt like a surefire way to get fired. Staying under his radar and keeping my mouth shut wasn’t always easy though, which was why I was glad the week was over.

Next week, I hoped Jance would stick to his own office again and leave Jeremiah’s alone. Even Jeremiah seemed out of sorts by his father’s continuous presence. He still drove me every morning and every night. We still spoke and joked around in the car, but he seemed more distant. Especially once we arrived at the office.

My new normal was still very new to me, with my new job, boss and commute situation, but I liked it. I wanted it back. Fingers crossed next week would bring with it the return of my new routine.

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