126 Party Invitation
“Sorry, I’ve invaded your private napping space...” I admitted jokingly.
“You shall be thoroughly punished...” Ace teased darkly.
Ace laughed teasingly and I began smiling like a fool.
“Are you in your office?” I asked.
“Co,” Ace replied in short before the line disconnected.
...
After spending hours bracing myself for the bad news that was to co, I found myself extrely surprised by the news that Ace brought to .
“Where did you go off to all morning? You missed out on quite a few etings...” I inquired.
“Nowhere...” Ace replied.
.....
In other words, it was none of my business. I pressed my lips into a thin line, but Ace didn’t go on explain anything to . Instead, he changed the topic completely.
“There’s a party coming up that I want you to attend with ,” Ace inford
casually.
“A party?” I repeated curiously.
“There’s a boring red-carpet event coming up at one of our client’s product launch event. That being said, it’s not a standard product launch event...” Ace explained a little.
“And...you want
to co along?” I asked to make sure that I understood this properly.
Did my job as his secretary include this in the package as well?
“Of course. Why else would I bother inviting you if I didn’t want you there with ?” Ace replied sarcastically.
“I don’t think that it’s a good idea...” I murmured.
“Why not?” Ace asked with an amuse smile on his lips.
“I don’t know...it might be strange for your secretary to turn up...” I voiced my concern softly.
“It’s completely fine,” Ace replied dismissively.
“People might get the wrong idea about us,” I continued protesting.
He’s got to see how strange this was, right?
People don’t really appear at public events escorted by their secretary, right?
“Or the right one,” Ace replied before flashing
a charming smile.
“Can I not go?” I asked while still daring to harbor so hope.
“No. You’re coming along. This is the invitation,” Ace said as he handed over an elaborate lavender-colored envelop to .
I opened the enveloped and pulled out the even more elaborately designed invitation card. After scanning the card with my eyes, I figured that it was the launch of a luxury jewelry line. I recognized the brand, and it was true that our company made the launch comrcial for them as well as nurous other campaigns for other brands in their conglorate in the past. My eyes zood in at the detail of the party set up and schedule before my eyes widened.
“We need to dance? Like ballroom dancing?” I asked in disbelief.
“Of course. It’s even stated in the invitation...” Ace replied like he already knew.
Did he invite
so that I would be his dance partner?
Suddenly the task at hand beca even more complicated. On top of that...
“Don’t tell
that you don’t know how to dance...” Ace guessed as he arched a brow at .
Of course, I didn’t know how to dance.
“Is it supposed to be a common skill in our line of work?” I retorted.
Of course, I had no idea how to dance. Not surprisingly, with the way that we were struggling financially, I never had a chance to take any of those extra classes to learn fancy things like ballroom dancing. It also never crossed my mind that I would need to dance like that in my life.
“Maybe I shouldn’t go after all,” I told him.
“Ti to learn,” Ace interjected abruptly.
“Huh?” I gasped in disbelief.
“I’ll get you a teacher so don’t worry. I’m sure that you’ll get it down in no ti at all,” Ace said encouragingly as he smiled a little mischievously at .
“No, please. That is absolutely not necessary,” I stated firmly.
With everything that was going on, I had to learn how to dance now of all tis?
“So, you would prefer that I taught you myself?” Ace asked with an innocent smile on his lips.
That is not what I ant. At all.
...
A few days passed by as if I was living in a vacuum. Everything felt quite empty and pretty much nothing happened in my life. I didn’t hear anything from Ace or the disciplinary board about the progress of the investigation related to the information leak. Since Ace didn’t say anything, I decided not to ask. I was sure that the disciplinary board would call for
soon. Right now, all I could do was wait patiently for my judgent.
The only thing that seed to be making progress was my enrollnt at a prestigious dancing school. I stared up at the dance studio in front of
while I wondered just how far Ace was going to take this. Ace stood at my side before he took my hand and turned to offer
a gleeful smile. At that mont, I felt like a kid being dragged to ballet school against her will. It wasn’t like my mother could afford sothing like that for , so I didn’t truly know what it felt like to go to ballet school but that was my best guess.
“Are you serious...?” I mumbled.
“Well, there’s not much for you to do at work now so you might as well concentrate on this and count it as part of your work,” Ace replied smoothly.
“Aha...” I muttered without knowing what else to say in response to that.
“It’s just a short course but the instructor is supposed to be very gifted at what she does. Good luck, Rina. I’m sure that you’ll do great!” Ace said encouragingly.
“Yeah...” I muttered.
Ace dragged
after him into the dance studio without hesitation. I found out quickly from the dance instructor that Ace had enrolled
in a one-week intensive course that would ensure that I could dance presentably by the end of it. I had to say that I didn’t have much talent when it ca to dancing; however, this was sohow part of my job now.
“We’ll start off with the basics today. Please relax and just follow my lead,” the instructor said with a smile.
–To be continued...
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