Daddy’s Hot Sauce

When Emily was about to grab his phone, Anders tightened his fist on the steering wheel and pressed hard on the breaks. Emily widened her eyes as she almost hit her head and felt the dizziness caused by the sudden stop of the car.

He looked at Emily with his furrowed brows and said, “You know what? When I met you I thought you were a smart girl, but it turns out that you are not aware of the contract that you signed with me.”

Anders lightly shook his head and faced Emily. He grabbed his phone and answered the call.

“Mr. Winston, my apology for interrupting you but the board members were already here and were asking if they will see you here?”

“I’m on my way, anything else?”

“One more thing, your mother is waiting for you in your office.” then, he put down his phone and clenched his jaws.

Anders tapped his forehead and let his back lean on the backrest of his car. He did not bother looking at Emily and was bothered by his mother. He looked at his watch and whispered,

“Fifteen minutes,”

Then, after a while of staring at his steering wheel Anders finally decided to go straight to his office.

Emily was tightening her fist and wanted to punch Anders on his face. She did not want to utter any word as it might result in her bounce back to her.

After a while of waiting and fortunate for them that traffic jam was not visible on their way to the office of Mr. Winston. Ander quickly stopped his car in front of the main entrance of the building.

“Let’s go,” he said to Emily.

One of his men caught the keys that were being thrown by Anders and then, he grabbed her hand and they walked straight to the elevator.

“Wait, what are we doing here?” she curiously asked.

“I have a meeting and I am f*cking late.” he annoyingly said.

Emily just shrugged her shoulders and mumbled, “Whatever!”

Anders was trying to recover all the things that she read about the meeting today with the board members, the agenda must be clear had to specify to the board members about the new venture of his company.

When the elevator rings, Anders stepped out and Emily was just following him without any opposition to him.

“Mr. Winston?”

Emily was trying to ask a question, but Anders did not stop from walking in the hallway. Employees were now looking at them, some of them were whispering to one another while staring at Emily.

Anders did not mind them and just continued walking in the hallway.

Emily was looking at the place wherein she was quite amazed by the interior of the office and the entire building to be exact. It was obvious that it was designed by someone who has knowledge about architecture and others.

“Hi. I am Nick. Are you a newbie here? I can give you a tour here,” the man smiled at Emily and handed his hand in front of her.

Emily smiled at the man in front of him and was about to introduce herself when someone tapped away the hands of Nick.

“Do you think this place was a tourist spot?” Anders said while crossing his arms together and looked at Nick from head to toe.

“Sorry, Mr. Winston,” Nick apologized and was about to turn when he heard something from behind.

Anders felt disrespectful as Nick turned his back without explanation or even pleading for forgiveness.

“You’re fired!” Anders shouted to Nick.

Nick turned around and said, “Thank you, Mr. Winston, I am finally free from this hell of your company!”

Emily lightly shook her head and stopped Anders from running toward Nick. She saw how pissed off he was and as she could see it right now, the attention was drawn to them and she did not like it that way.

“Stop it, Mr. Winston!”

Anders clenched his fist and announced to the employees, “Whoever dares to talk or even touch her will be fired! Now get back to your work before I could fire you all!”

Emily widened her eyes about what he said and felt the embarrassment from her surroundings, she wanted to talk to Anders but not this time. She hates having a conversation with another person who was mad, ’cause’ for her nothing can be resolved if you talk with an angry person.

Anders washed himself with his palms and quickly grabbed Emily’s hand. He went straight to one of his offices and let Emily stay there and said, ‘Wait ’till I come back, George will assist you here, just don’t touch anything, understood?’

Emily did not utter words and just sat on the long couch and looked around the entire office.

“Goodness this is so huge!” she could not believe her eyes as the place was huge and it was just his office but even though it was huge, the surroundings looked empty.

An empty wall and just a carpeted floor and his desk and some small pieces were on his table.

“Why does he love empty rooms? I felt something weird here,” she said.

Hours had passed and Emily was still in his office, she felt bored and was about to stand up when someone entered the room. Since she was attentive, Emily saw the person that she did not expect to be there at this moment.

She quickly stood up and greeted the woman, “Good evening, Madame,” then, she smiled at her

“It’s you again! Don’t you feel any embarrassment in yourself? You look so desperate,” she emphatically said.

Emily did not utter a word as she had respect for her as she was older than her, she remembered her parents who taught her to respect others even though they were doing bad things to you.

Then, the woman grabbed her and pulled her out from the office and shouted at her.

“Get lost and never come back here! You’re a filthy woman who wants money from my son,” the woman pointed out on the other side.

They caught the attention of the employees and that was not good enough as the woman created the drama of her own wherein Emily was gathering herself from the floor.

Employees were staring at them and whispering from one to another. Later on Anders saw the crowd in front of the office and he knew exactly what happened so he walked quickly with George and saw her mother was pointing her finger at Emily.

He walked toward his mother with his furrowed brows and saw Emily was gathering herself from the floor. His fist were clenching while staring at his mother.

“Go back to work! c’mon,” George shouted to the employees.

Anders went straight to his office with Emily in his hand. His mother was in surprise to see that her son was holding the hands of that woman. So, she followed inside and shut the door loudly.

Anders on the other hand quickly turned the blinds and the sound proof of the entire room, and he saw her mother was coming straight to his table.

“Sit down, Miss Emily,” he said while staring at some of his papers on the table.

Emily did not utter words and just looked down and played with her fingers.

“What is happening here, Anders?!” his mother asked.

“She is my girlfriend and a business partner, now if you had nothing else to say, you may leave the room,” he seriously said and did not even bother to look at his mother.

‘Wow! You want me to get out of this room, and let that bitch stay?!” the woman was mad at the moment and threw a sharp look at Emily.

Anders lightly shook his head and said, “Stop this nonsense mother, just leave,”

His mother put both of her hands on each side and looked at her son and said, “Don’t you even forget who put you in this position my son,” then she pointed her finger to herself and said, “I am!”

Then, the woman sobbed like a drama queen in the theater, so Anders let out a heavy sigh and shouted, “George!”

“Yes, Mr. Winston?”

Then, Anders just made a gesture to him to get his mother out of the office. Afterwards Anders just sat on the chair and saw Emily was about to leave the room.Content from NôvelDr(a)ma.Org.

“Where are you going?” a husky voice came from his throat.

“I’ll just buy something at the convenience store,” Emily answered and stared at him.

“Sorry about my mom,” he said in a low tone of his voice. Then, he massaged his temples and did not bother to look at her. He expected this thing to happen and he even knew that this would get worse with his mother.

Anders was closing his eyes and let out a heavy sigh. All the stress that he had today was much more than the previous days, but he had to deal with it as no one else could do it the way he did it.