The Devil's Assistant (Watty Awards Finalist 2011)

Devil's Assistant [8]

I stood there gaping for a moment before remembering why I was there and quickly I scurried over to the window and grabbed the box of files that were on the floor with my name in large print on the side. Trying to be a silent as possible, I started to tiptoe back to the door feeling quite embarrassed at seeing my boss with some blonde woman. Now that she had stood up and sorted herself out by pulling her dress down and wiping off imaginary dust, I noticed that she looked less like a hussy and more like a runway model. I managed to get to the door before my foot caught on something and I careened backwards, falling onto the floor so that pain flared where it smacked onto the ground. The box flew up in the air before coming down fast and hard, spilling its contents all over me and the fanning out across the floor as the lid came flying off during mid-flight.

I could hear the two of them coming towards me whilst I lay there on the floor staring at a sheet of paper that had fallen on my face. There was no chance of salvaging any dignity so there was no point trying to get up and look presentable. I already felt bad enough catching my boss and his woman doing the nasty. I just wish he had said he was dating someone so I wouldn't have acted so family like with him yesterday. Not that I didn't already think that that had been inappropriate.

"Savannah, what are you doing here?" My boss asked from behind the sheet of white. I looked at the words that were blurred before my eyes before sighing and pulling the sheets from my face.

"I came to get the box remember, I just didn't want to disturb you guys but I tripped on my way out." The blonde was leant against the doorway looking incredibly smug about something. Rolling my eyes I started picking up the papers and stacking them in the box. I would have to reorganise them later.

"Who is she Lucius?" The blonde asked, her tone not giving a hint of emotions but the nose crinkling up in disgust was the dead giveaway. I scowled at her before roughly dumping the last few papers into the box and firmly placing the lid back on.

"She's my assistant." His voice was cold and had a hint of something else in his tone, it was strange because I had never heard him talk that way before, but nonetheless, it sent shivers down my spine and I felt the weird impulse to lower myself before him or cower away in fear. Did I do something to piss him off or something?

I nodded as if to confirm his words before pushing myself off of the ground and then picking up the box which felt as if it had grown ten times heavier in the last minute or so.

"Can I play with her?" I heard the blonde croon as I started to walk away. My back stiffened as I kept my pace steady and even and pretended not to listen to her words. Play with me? Who does the crazy cow think she is? I could almost picture her pouting whilst her finger trailed up and down Lucius' arm.

"No, she's a protected one, so you can't play." Lucius' deep voice reached my ears even though I was halfway down the corridor and I couldn't help but feel that he had raised his voice on purpose. I heard the woman gasp before begging for an apology. No matter his words or the fact that I didn't understand what protected meant, I felt somehow safer like by uttering them he had just saved my butt from getting into some serious trouble and would, in no doubt, offer me a shield against some unknown foes. I laughed whilst shaking my head. My nightmares were obviously screwing with my head, unknown foes? The only unknown foe was the blonde goddess.

"But you can play with me if you like." His deep voice obviously pleased the woman as she giggled and when I looked up, she had wrapped her arms around his neck and had started kissing his jaw.  What struck me most and made me grateful that the doors to the lift slid open at that point, was the fact that Lucius' bright was gaze was directly upon me whilst his lips were pulled up into a smirk. He smirked wider when he saw me watching and did a fake groan whilst his eyes were smiling at me. "Oh yeah, just like that."

His voice was deep and low and the blonde obviously took the husky quality as desire as she tittered excitedly whilst moving her hands downwards so that she could run them over his well-defined chest. Shaking my head in disgust, I stepped into the lift before the doors slid shut again and I pressed the button for the lobby. It wasn't until my back was pressed against the metal wall of the lift that I remembered what I saw.

"Oh my god, she glowed." Lifting my eyes from the floor where they had been trained for the last few seconds, I saw myself in the reflective surface of the door looking completely shell shocked. It was only for a moment but she had glowed. The box slipped from my grasp but luckily the box just thumped onto the carpeted floor at my feet.  Wiping a hand over my face, I looked around the lift nervously trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with me. Maybe I need to see a doctor? First the dreams and now I'm seeing a glowing girl? This was getting beyond a joke.

The annoying tinny voice reached my ears again as she cheerfully but rather annoyingly announced that the doors were opening. Bending down, I scooped up the box and hurried into the lobby. As I passed the security guard I gave him another nod before carrying on out of the door.

It was hard to believe that less than ten minutes had passed since I entered the building but it felt like I had been in there much longer. I was either going stark raving mad or there was something abnormal going on in Satani Media. I was inclined to say the first because what I've been seeing could not possibly be real but in the back of my mind, there was a small voice telling me that I wasn't imagining it. Either way, I would be keeping my eyes open from now on, and I may even have to do a little digging and find out what makes my new boss tick.

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