The storm in my life
Chapter 17
Katherine’s POV
I walked into the
conference room and everyone still had their eyes on me and the looks were
weird, I didn’t understand till I realized that my hands and Noah’s hands were
still entwined.
I took my hands out of his gently and walked behind him to
the front and I stood aside.
When we go there, Noah lifted his hands up and the whole
place was quiet.
“Good morning to you all”, he said in his husky voice.
“Good morning”, they all said in unison.
“I have a special announcement to make. Mr Hayford please
come forward”, he said and a man who looked a bit older than him stood up and
came forward.
“First of all, I’ll like to congratulate Mr Hayford on all efforts
he has put in the progress of this company, please give it up for him”, he said
and everyone clapped and he smiled.
“For quite some time now, the assistant manager slot has
been empty and Mr Hayford has really been stressed out as well as the head of
the various sectors, but from this day, we are not going to have that problem
anymore. I present to you, your new assistant manager, Miss Katherine Kerry”, he
said, ushering to come to where he was standing.
Everyone smiled and clapped. I was really shy; I’ve never
been put on the spot like this. I looked around and almost everyone in this
room were older than me, some even looked older than my parents.
I walked forward and I smiled at them.
“Say something”, Noah whispered in my ear.
I honestly didn’t know what to say. Noah didn’t say anything
about me giving a speech.
“Uhm, good morning to you all”, I said smiling.
“Good morning”, they all said in unison.
“I’m really honoured to be in your presence and to get this
job and I look forward to working with you all, and I promise to do my best and
make this company soar higher. Thank you”, I said and they all clapped.
“Alright, thank you Miss Kerry. Thank you all for your time, you may disperse
now”, he said to them and they all got up and left.
“My Hayford”, he called out to the manager.
“Yes sir”, My Hayford said to him.
“I’ll like you to take Miss Kerry around and give her more
information on her job, and then we’ll meet later in the afternoon and discuss
how things are going to work with you both”, he said to him.
“Alright”, he said.
“Katherine, go with him”, he said and then I followed Mr
Hayford.
Mr Hayford was really nice to me; he said he was excited
that he finally got an assistant. He took me around and introduced me to the
head of sectors once again and they were to report to us in everything they do,
and then he took me to his office, which was also as big as mine, but mine looked
more elegant than his.
“Have you seen your office?” he asked.
“Yeah”, I said to him.
“Where is it? Because it’s normally supposed to be opposite
mine, but the office opposite mine is still empty”, he said.
“It’s on the 13th floor”, I said.
“Close to the Mr Chappman’s office”, he asked.
“Yeah”.
“Mmmm, that’s new, but I’m sure he has his reasons”, he said
smiling.
I didn’t know what to say, so I just smiled.
“Can I ask you a personal question?” he asked.
“Yeah, as long as I have choice to reply or decline”, I said
smiling and he chuckled.
“Are you both together?” he asked me.
“No, not at all, we’re just uhmm”. I was stuck, I don’t even
know if we were friends, things has just moved too quick and now I don’t even
know what to call him.
“We are just people who know each other”, I said, smiling.
“Okay”, he said, looking at me suspiciously.
“What, I’m serious”, I said laughing and he laughed too.
“Well, this slot has been empty for a long while, a lot of
people applied for it, but he has never had the time to look through their
applications or even interview them. You’re really lucky to get him to look
through your application and interview, in fact you’re highly lucky to get this
job”.
“I’m blessed”, I said smiling.
“Mmm, a Christian huh?” he asked.
“Yeah”.
“That’s great. I’m a Christian too, or let me just say, I go
to church every day”, he said and I laughed.
We talked for a while and he gave me more information on the
job. I got to like him; working with him will be great. He was really open
minded and nice.
After a while, we got up and went to Noah’s office to discuss
other things.
Noah gave us more information on how we were going to work.
“Don’t I need a secretary?” I asked.
“Yeah, we’ll send in the job applications for the secretary
positions and then you can pick out some and interview them”, Noah said to me.
“Okay”.
We spoke more and then we got up to take our leave, but Noah
asked me to wait.
Mr Hayford left and I waited.
“So how’s everything going so far”? He asked.
“Great, I can’t wait to start the actual work”, I said.
“I’m happy you love it”, he said and I smiled.
“Can I take you out to lunch this afternoon?” he asked me.
“Yeah cool. What time?” I asked.
“In about an hour time”.
I looked at my watch. “Okay sure”.
“I’ll be going back to my office”, I said smiling.
“Alright”, he said, smiling back and I left.
I stepped out and walked into Caroline’s office.
“Hey”, I said to her.
“Hey, hail to our new assistant manager”, she said, smiling.
“Come around during lunch time and we’ll catch up”, she said
to me.
“Uhmm, I already have plans for lunch. Let’s make it
tomorrow”, I said.
“Mmm, with Mr Chappman?” she asked.
“Yeah”, I said.
“So, is that how you got the job? By dating him or what
exactly did you do?” she asked.
“Excuse me? What are you talking about?” and she just winked
at me.
“You’re sick”, I said to her and I left.
My day was going on well and she just had to spoil it. But
what I didn’t know was that a greater storm was coming.
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