"Good afternoon to all of you!" Ashley greeted with a friendly smile on the secretaries and the head secretary. She bowed her head and paid her respect. "h.e.l.lo! I am Ashley Gusman recommended by Mrs. Hanada."
The secretaries and the head secretary were looking up to see Ashley. They will never forget it even though she looks different now. They all gasped in amazement and said nothing.
The head secretary knows all about Ashley"s relations.h.i.+p with Tanaga. He also knew that the two of them has a fake marriage. However, he couldn"t understand why Tanaga didn"t accept Ashley?
"Miss Gusman! h.e.l.lo there!" The head secretary also approached Ashley.
"h.e.l.lo! How are you guys?" Ashley replied that she could not understand why Tanaga"s secretary"s eyes were sad. Especially its head secretary knows what their relations.h.i.+p is.
"Miss Gusman, I"m so sorry! You see ... You see ... How do I say this ... You see..." The head secretary said again and again without being able to complete his sentences.
Ashley is aware of the head secretary"s reluctance to speak. So she stopped talking and asked a question straight away. "He doesn"t want to accept me? Is that what you were trying to say? Don"t worry. It"s alright, just say it. I understand! I"ll go ahead and go back to HR and tell them, and it"s not a big deal." Ashley said sadly as she quickly turned around and went straight to the elevator.
Is just so happen that the elevator door opened, and she quickly entered so they could not see the tears that about to fall from her eyes.
As soon as Ashley went inside the elevator, the door closed. And Tanaga stepped out of his office and said. "When that person arrives, the one that HR sent me to be my a.s.sistant, send that person back where he/she came from. Do you understand?" He snarled at the head secretary and all of his secretaries simultaneously, then close the door of his office with a bang.
Sato didn"t know if he was going to tell him who came or not. He stepped forward to Tanaga"s door. "Oh, my G.o.d! What am I going to do? If I don"t tell him and he finds out that I had just let his wife leave just like that, I would be dead for sure!" Sato whispered to himself as he pondered.
"Mr. Sato! If you have something to say, why don"t you come in, I can hear your footstep!" Tanaga shouted from the inside of his office.
All of Tanaga"s secretaries looked at each other before simultaneously made a sign of the cross. One dared to speak. "Sir Sato, sir Jones is calling you!"
"Whatever! I"m not deaf, and I know the demon is calling me! How about you? If you know that the grim-reaper is calling you. Are you going to go? I don"t think so! Now, go to work!" Said"s Sato before he turned around and went inside Tanaga"s office.
"Sir, you called for me?" The head secretary was visibly nervous as he stood right at the threshold of Tanaga"s office.
"Has the person HR sent arrived?" Tanaga asked, without looking up at the head secretary, but instead at the papers in front of him.
"Yes, sir! As you said, I sent the person back to HR and said you don"t need an a.s.sistant. The person just left, do you want me to chase the person back?" The head secretary asked.
If you still want your job, you better shut up and go back to your work. You did an excellent job of sending her away." Said Tanaga, who didn"t even bother looking at his head secretary. If he did, he would have seen that he was sweating bullets when he realized that it was his boss"s wife"s that he sent away. He"s about to pee on his pants...
"Sir, I want to remind you that this is what you want, right?! You are the one who said not to go after her. No matter what happened, It"s not my fault. I"m going to go ahead and go back to my desk." He then quickly turned around and went back to his office so he could hide from him when he finds out later on.
The head secretary was almost at his office door and about to walk in, when... "Wait!" Tanaga exclaims while shooting daggers from the way he was looking at him.
"s.h.i.+t! I"m dead for sure!" He was thinking in his head before he faced Tanaga while the sweat began dripping on his forehead.
"What is a woman or a man that the H.R. sent?" Tanaga asked while he was looking at him thoughtfully. He waited for the head secretary to reply while standing still.
"It"s a woman, sir!" He replies quickly and almost a whisper the way he said it.
"Hmmm, that"s fine then. If it was a man, I might change my mind, however, since it"s a woman. It means whoever recommends this person has a motive behind the recommendation. Anyway, do you know who had recommended this person? Do you know?" He asked curiously with a straight face.
"To tell you the truth, sir, I"m not sure. All I know is that the H.R. Manager said to me... It"s someone from the higher up who had recommended this person. A person that you could never say no."
When Tanaga heard what his head secretary said, he began thinking who it could be? There"s only one person that he could never say no. And that person is non-other than his grandmother Hanada. But, who could it be that person that his grandmother would recommend?
His face suddenly turned dark when he realized who could be the person that his grandmother would recommend. "What is the name of the person that was recommended by the person recommending." He asked sternly this time.
The head secretary figured out that Tanaga got into thinking and now have an idea who that person was. He decided to come clean and tell him the truth. "Sir Jones! Kindly accept my apology for being to forward. The person that made the recommendation was your grandmother, and the person that she had recommended was non-other than Miss Ashley Gusman. Do you still remember who that person is?" He sarcastically asked his boss.
Tanaga has suddenly gone deaf after hearing the name of his wife. "WHAT?!" He went towards the head secretary and glared at him. "Repeat what you just said! Who was the person that my grandmother recommended to become my a.s.sistant? Did you say it"s Ashley?"
The head secretary couldn"t look Tanaga straight in his eyes as he replies. "Yes, sir! You heard it correctly. It"s Ashley Gusman."
"Holy s.h.i.+t! Why did you tell her to leave, and why did you send her back? Why didn"t you tell her to go inside my office? Why?!!!" He then quickly run out of his office after Ashley whose already on the way to the H.R. department to report.
He went straight to the employee elevator, trying to catch Ashley. However, when he pushed the open b.u.t.ton, the door did not open right away, and he couldn"t wait. He quickly looked around where the staircase and went that direction.
However, as he was rus.h.i.+ng out of his office, he shouted back to his head secretary...
"YOU ALL BETTER THINK OF A WAY FOR HER TO FORGIVE ME! IF SHE DOESN"T FORGIVE ME, YOU ALL BETTER DIG A HOLE TO HIDE FOR ALL OF YOU WOULD BE DEAD! IF NOT, I WILL KILL EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU WHEN I COME BACK!" He was shouting as he runs off as if the grim-reaper was after himself...