As Maya was leaving the room, she gave a side glance to Lucas. He was sitting there as if he had just lost the biggest battle of his life; so defeated. "Well it is true, he indeed was defeated by me, huh!" Maya thought as she said, "Ashely, meet me in my office and bring that report."
When she walked out Maya could still feel the stares of people, it felt a bit uncomfortable, she still did not know that was wrong... But one stern stare from her and no one could look at her.
...
"So I think it was because of that call in the morning that now everyone is talking about you being unfaithful and Lucas being the poor little guy." Ashely explained to her.
"What a joke! Only if they paid this much of attention in their work. But no one can blame them, everybody loves gossip. Leave it, it's nothing important."
"Do you want me to deal with it? You know PR, I am an expert in that!" Ashely said with excitement.
"Good old days.... but there is no need. I don't think it's something so serious. Rumors will always be there." Maya said she turned serious, "And have you brought the analysis?"
"Yes, here it is." Ashely said as she gave Maya a folder which was containing today's voting information.
Although it was termed as 'anonymous voting' Maya naturally had her ways, she had to check who was actually on her side and who was sold out. It was high time to remove some 'unwanted weeds' from the company or at least keep them in check.
"It seems as if Mr. Colins is the person in charge to take the members on Lucas's side. Today morning before the meeting had started, he was trying to get you voted out. I think Lucas had sent them some message yesterday, I will get back to you after I confirm my facts." Ashely said.
"I want to know about that till tomorrow morning." Maya responded and continued, "Do I have any shows that I need to personally go? Any important clients?"
"No not for now, and how many times do I have to tell you? Now you do not need to do any work, you are a business woman now! Does it look good that the CEO of a company goes around for appointments and does make-up for people?" Ashely just couldn't understand why her friend had to do this even after having this post. Even when Maya gave out her name cards, she introduced herself as a makeup artist.
"You won't understand Ashely. This company... I had started this not for me, but for us, mainly Lucas. I wanted to prove it to my father that I did not make a wrong choice by rejecting the marriage he had told me to do, I wanted to prove that even the man I had chosen, was an excellent choice.
So you can say that I have become this powerful person for someone else. But being a makeup artist, it is the identity that I made for me myself. That is why I love it more than anything else." Maya said as she was sitting in daze. "Anyways! Now go and get me the information of all the important executives and find what Lucas is up to, as soon as possible. Today's meeting was a proof that he has not being sitting idle and has planned this for a long time."
"Yes." Saying that Ashely left the room.
.......
It was already around 7 p.m. in the evening, most of the employees were leaving now.
*tic tic tic tic*
The sound of Maya typing on her phone could be heard. She had a cute smile on her face as her fingers danced beautifully and skillfully on the keyboard of her phone. Even she didn't realized this, she looked like a school girl taking to her crush. She was talking with Aiden. They had been chatting for a while now, when suddenly Aiden asked if he could come to her company and give her clothes which had been drycleaned already.
[Aiden: So can I come to your company? I have the clothes with me.
Maya: Hmmk. Call me once you are here, I will send someone to pick you up.
Aiden: K. I'll be there in around 20 minutes.]
Maya was about to call Ashely to ask her to pick Aiden up when he comes, it was now that she realized that it was already time to get off work.
She walked out of her office and looked as there were only a few workers who were cleaning while some female employees were in the pantry, they were having some girl talks.
Maya thought that maybe she can ask them to go down. So she walked in the pantry.... suddenly the chattery stopped and everyone looked at her.
"Good evening Ma'am." One of the girls named Amy came forward and said. Maya had a feeling that she was in a school!
"Hey Amy, can I ask you for a favor? I have a guest coming over. He will be coming soon, can you go and pick him up?"
"Yes sure. Should I go down now?"
"You can go in ten minutes, he will be here by then. Thanks." After saying that Maya went back to her office, she still had so work to complete.
She had to figure out a way to deal with the people who were siding with Lucas.
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As soon as Maya left, the girls with shocked expressions started their heated discussion.
"Did you just see that! She talked to Amy with a smile! Are you kidding me!?"
"I think the rumors about her cheating are true."
"I know right! I think VP Lucas couldn't satisfy her and that is the reason they broke up."
"See, she is even calling a man so late in her office. And that is why she was so happy and polite."
"Yes... even I think so. If it was some important client, then Assistant Ashely should also be present, this is so shameful and that is why is she coming to us."
"Hmm... maybe. Anyways I am going down anyone interested in coming with me?" Amy said in a disinterested voice.
Amy was not interested in their gossip talks, she was only happy to be noticed by Maya. "These girls seriously don't have anything to do. If CEO Maya is too strict, they would back bitch about her. If she is polite, they would still insult her." Amy thought as she didn't have any interest in this.
When she said it like that, all the other girls stopped talking and the girl who had started this discussion said, "Yes I want to come with you. Let's see who is this toyboy that she is calling."
"Let's go Hanna, or else we will be late. It is not good to make CEO Maya's guest wait."
As both Amy and Hanna left, all the other girls made a dirty face as one of them said, "Such a spoilsport!"
....
Both Amy and Hanna were waiting down as Hanna continued with her monologue.
"You know, first I used to think that maybe Maya is actually one talented lady, but now I think she is just an eye candy. Like duh! How can she become a powerful lady with successful business in just around four years?..."
Amy couldn't handle it any more and was about to stop Hanna when a voice from behind did that. "I do not think that you have the right to say that. She has worked very hard to be where she is now." It was Aiden. He had arrived.
Both of the girls looked at the man standing behind them. Maya had not told Amy who was coming, so she was a bit confused.
Amy was about to ask Aiden, if he was the guest but before that Hanna spoke out, "Who the hell in world do you think you are? I am judging on my own and I don't think that you have any say in that!"
"Hanna stop it! He maybe the guest we are waiting for!" Amy said in a low voice.
"Look at this man, he is coming out of a limited edition Lamborghini Centenario! Do you think that this kind of man will work as someone so disrespectful like that! I think that our CEO can't even afford to meet with such peo-"
"Aiden you are here. I am so sorry you had to witness something so embarrassing. I haven't trained my employees enough." Suddenly Maya's crisp and clear voice was heard. It could be easily seen that she was very angry right now.
Earlier she had a thought that maybe Amy would not be able to recognize Aiden, so she had come down herself. Who knew she would witness something so humiliating.
Hanna who had been caught in action, felt that she had been wrongly accused when Maya said that she had not been trained enough and so, she spoke out loud, "I think that you are feeling so embarrassed because what I was talking about is true. If I am not wrong, this man here must be providing you some backup. After all how can a girl like you be a powerful CEO?"
Maya could not control her anger anymore as she shouted, "Miss Hanna, you are fired! Please take your belongings and get out of my sight. You can come back tomorrow morning and head to the human resources department for the rest of the procedures."
Maya had just turned to leave with Aiden when Hanna said again, "What wrong have I done? You are just guilty, right Becaus I had said that you are just another eye candy?"
Maya planned to ignore that lady as she moved forward, but Aiden felt as if he needed to tell this lady something, "You here madam, I think that you are just jealous of your CEO because she is more younger and even more successful than you. She is definitely not an eye candy. As for what you have done wrong, let me tell you, first when your boss had told you that she is waiting for a guest, you should not make any assumptions and just abide with what she has told you.
Second, this young lady next to you had just said that I might be the guest you were waiting for, but you did not pay attention to that, it shows that you do not have any self awareness and would say whatever you want to, without looking situation. And finally, you should not talk back to your boss; even though you are older than her, she is still your senior right now, isn't she?" After talking for so long without breaks, Aiden finally turned to Maya and said, "Now that I am done, let's go!"
Hanna had never felt so humiliated before, this man in front of her had just called her an old lady in different sentences. She was about storm away when she heard Aiden say to Maya, "How can you have such degrading employees? If it were my company, I would have removed them long back!"
I really felt weird while writing the part of those nasty girls ⊙_⊙ & Eye-candy is a person who is superficially attractive and entertaining but often with the implication that they are lacking in intelligence or depth.
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