Chapter 48 - Boy Toy Needed?

"Good morning mam. Here is your schedule as asked."

Engrossed in studying a financial proposal, Alice ordered her temporary assistant to read out the plan for today! She hated this man's grating voice though and frowned at the report in front of her. Ximin needed to come back soon! Next year she was going to make sure that Ximin took a shorter vacation of no more than seven days! And then shook her head. As if Ximin would listen to her! Suppressing the urge to tell him to speak in a different tone of voice, Alice heard absent mindedly at the upcoming meetings when her phone dinged with a notification. Why would a grown man's voice tremble so much? Of course Alice failed to realize that not only was the man's voice trembling but also his legs were shaking. That was the effect of her aura on her subordinates who had only heard of how the CEO never forgave mistakes. For a temp, this would be too much stimulation be it male or female.

Showing a hand for the man to stop, she casually picked up her glass of water with one hand and picked up her phone with the other. 

"Whoosh!!! Cough! cough!"

Hurrying around the CEO's big desk, the temp tried to get over his nervousness and pat her on the back as she choked on water. By the time the man had gathered his courage though, Alice had patted herself on the chest and was now deeply panting! The man was crazy! Never again would she look at his messages when she was eating or drinking. 

Crazy man! What did he take her for? A couple of hours ago, his friend was trying to 'seduce' her and now he was asking her if she needed a boy toy?

As Alice was trying to get over this shock, another message dinged," Hey ! You are not refusing? Then does that mean you are interested? Should I come over and sleep with you.? was followed by a wink.

While Alice was still in shock a certain temp who had mistakenly read the messages was even more stunned and excused himself away from the Dragon CEO with great haste. If the CEO knew that he was peeping over her phone, he would be probably murdered! Just then the phone in the outer office started to ring and he answered with a panted, "Hello?"

Listening, he then ordered, "Please bring them to the top floor conference room. I will inform the CEO now."

Placing the phone back on the receiver, he then gulped before walking back to the door and knocking. after hearing the come in, he opened the slightly and said, "Madam, Adam is here to sleep with you."

Eyes widening, Alice stared up at the assistant and asked angrily, "What did you say?"

Confused, the temp could only repeat, "Madam, I said that Mr. Adam is here to see you. Actually the entire band 'Sky' is here for their meeting regarding the marketing deal that you approved a few months ago." Standing up, Alice straightened her own already straight suit. "Give me an update."

So that is why he never called back and then gave her a fright with that message. Then.. her company had chosen his band to represent them? Interesting. Though she understood that he was part of a famous band but the fact the her own company had chosen them meant that they were indeed world class.

As she walked towards the conference room on the other end of the floor, the assistant droned," initially today's meeting was supposed to be an official meet and greet after they had signed the contract. But as of now, the marketing team has suspended their selection an wavered wondering if they should go with their second choice because of your no scandal rule.. however since the meeting was already fixed, their manager has been asserting that they would like a chance to convince you to give them a chance."

Halfway to the door, Alice felt her heart starting to flutter even as she wondered that it had only been a few hours since she had last seen him but what did it feel that it had been too long?Just as she was about to reach the door, however Alcie felt her heel of her show snap.

On the other side of the elevator doors, Phillippe was giving last minute instructions tho his charges and warnignthem repeatedly.to not offend the Chairwoman even by mistake.

Bored with the lecture, Apollo nodded and snapped back,"Gey. are you trying to scare us. Why are you making a woman sound like Cruella from that dogs movie? Just how scary can a woman be in front of our charming faces? I mean at least one of us must be her type, right? Felix is the silent sad musician like a tsundere whiel Gyeom here is the sporty one. I.M is cute and I am sexy while K here is the ugly duckling. so that accounts on all types of men that woman like."

Phillippe hushed the man up and once again warned,"Please don't utter all this nonsense. do you really think that you will go and stand in front of her and she will fall into your arms?"

Smirking, K turned his head towards Phillippe and boasted, "With my luck, she just may, Phillippe."

In the next moment, the doors to the elevator had opened and a lithe body could be seen falling towards the ground. reacting in instinct, K jumped forward and caught her in his arms while the assistant behind screamed,"Chairwoman Faye.."

The rest of the people could only stare in horror as the icy CEO really did fall into K's arms... literally. What sorcery was this?

K looked at down at Alice who was in his arms with her eyes tightly closed and slowly straightened her up. Realizing that she had in fact not fallen face down, she opened her eyes slowly. And the her eyes widened even more as she looked into K's eyes. Winking at her mischievously, K slowly stepped back and greeting her politely asked,"Chairwoman Faye? Are you alright? Are you hurt?"

Recalling their initial agreement to not disclose their acquaintance under normal circumstances, her warm eyes turned frosty and her slightly innocent face now turned into a frozen mask.

In an indifferent voice she answered, "I am well. Thank you for your concern."

With a slight nod, she then walked into the conference room. K felt his heart ache at the sight of the mask that she usually wore. Phillippe shivered at this and nodded his head indicating to them to follow her.

Soon the group of people was seated with Alice sitting on the head table with the marketing team on the one side and Sky and their manager with the two sides starting rather strangely and challengingly at each other..Alice raised her brows at this situation wondering if she would have to play referee.

Finally when neither side came forward to say anything, Alice stood up from her seat and started to walk away,"I don't know about my marketing team but I am a busy person. I have not come to this meeting to look at your extremely ugly faces."

The slightly unpleasant attitude turned more despondent and the marketing director immediately stood up,"Chairwoman. we are really sorry for wasting your time today. We tried to get SKY to cancel today's meeting but they insisted on meeting you. We have already told them clearly that we will it be proceeding with the contract."

Having pushed the blame to the other party, the marketing director looked expectantly at his boss hoping that the boss would now blast the other party with a scolding. But, to his shock, Alice Faye's gaze turned even more frigid and her voice turned lower," So my people think that wasting my time is not enough but wasting the time of a world famous band is also not much important, hmm? Director?Theybhave just returned from a holiday and you are trying to humiliate them? Do you think that SKY is just another band that can be replaced by someone else.? if you were so unsure of the brand ambassadors, you should have been more cautious instead of trying to put the blame in others. I don't like being used by my staff to get rid of problems that they have created.."

The director had already started shaking when Alice had lowered her tones because it was a known fact the the lower the decibels of the boss the angrier she was and just know she was speaking so so softly. And when the director realized that their CEO knew of the band, he felt even more scared. 

Stuttering, the director stated,"Ma'm. You misunderstand. I am not trying to waste time or humiliate them but the company police is that we must not involve and scandalous artistes to represent us and SKY is in the middle of a scandal at present.. and even though SKY has a big international presence, locally their music is on par with other bands."