I'm Admired But He Is Feared

Chapter Twenty-Two

"Shut the fuck up everyone!" A loud voice booms into the room making us jump in our seats.

Sandra and her girls quickly disappear as I see Mr Peace make his way around to stand at the front of the room. He didn't have his button down up on his blazer revealing his black button down shirt as well as his muscles.

Am I checking him out? I shouldn't be checking him out, I have a fiancé now! No more checking out your boss Sofie!

"I wonder why we're here" Michael whispers from besides me as Mr Peace is busy shouting at some guy from across me for laughing at his anger.

"You are all to stay behind till nine pm today as there is a lot of work to carry out" He informs us all. He looks across the room at everybody's face except mine. I had the urge to roll my eyes but I managed to contain myself. He'll see anything I do from miles away. "You may all leave and get onto your work straight away" Everybody starts to stand up including me as Mr Peace makes his way around us.

I expected him to walk past quickly but he stopped behind me as I tucked the chair in.

"Get in my office Koenraad" He says without looking at me.

I take a quick glance at Michael who shrugs his shoulders. I quickly jog behind him so I don't be left behind as usual. Mr Peace opens the door to his office without leaving it open for me which I'm not surprised about.

Entering his room it's surprisingly smells of him. Normally it doesn't but today it does. Mr Peace is standing behind his desk and looking through some papers.

"Yes Mr Peace?"

"Unfortunately you're in charge today. I want you pick up all of my calls which will be directed to you straight away from the receptionist as well as talk to my clients and business partners. Do you understand?" He asks in a bitter tone.

I immediately nod my head like a puppet and leave when he dismisses me. I felt like asking him why he wants me to do all of this but that's probably not the best idea. I might as well start working.

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Oh my God I don't know how Mr Peace manages to do all of this. I mean he has to go through all of his e-mails and then do this shit. I know that I cover the other half of his work but his half is freaking stressful as hell.

The phone calls are none stop. I feel sorry for Samantha and Mr Peace. Forget that, I wonder what Sandra goes through from all of the phone calls from customer service. Blimey hell, I never knew working in an office would be this stressful.

Two people came in to see me so Samantha stopped the calls during the meeting. Mr Peace had sent me an e-mail of who was coming and what to say to them. The first man talked work but also complimented me on my paintings.

The second man took twenty minutes looking at all of the paintings on the wall saying how they're a masterpiece. When I told him that I was the one who painted them he couldn't believe it and here I am still trying to convince him.

"Are you sure?" He asks.

"One hundred percent positive" I assure him.

He leans back in the chair and starts to laugh.

"You are really talented". He puts a hand in the inside of his blazer and digs out a small card. "This card i-"

The door barges open and in comes in Mr Peace. The man quickly puts the card back and faces towards Mr Peace with a smile.

"Rogers...if you can make your way to my office" He says to him with a straight face.

"Let's go" The man replies back.

Mr Peace looks over at me and off he goes again. The man gives me a small smile before leaving and closing the door behind him. I wonder what the whole card thing was about but I need to call Gerry and tell him not to wait up for me today.

He never went work last night because of his drunken state so he called them up saying he wasn't feeling well. They immediately brought it because Gerry has only taken a couple of days of work considering the other people.

"Hey" He says.

"Hey" I reply back.

"Are you feeling lonely?" He asks in a low voice.

"I don't know, are you feeling lonely?"

"Very" He says with a laugh.

"Gerry...I'm coming back late today" I inform him.

"Why?" He asks confused.

"Mr Peace said there's a lot of work to do today and I'm doing his work as well so I just decided to call and let you know"

"What time you going to be home then?"

"Um...I'll be back around half nine" I say.

He lets out a deep sigh from the other end letting out a groan after.

"I was planning on meeting our parents so we can tell them about our engagement"

"I know I'm so sorry Gerry. Can we please move it to tomorrow?" I plead with him.

Please say yes, please say yes.

"Well we don't really have a choice. I'll drop off something for you to eat" He tells me.

"Just text me when you're going to come down. I love you"

"I love you too" I cut the phone of and put it back down on the desk.

Right, it's time to type up these notes now.