259 Temporary Truce
“No, but you should be because if he does turn up, you’re going to be the only one left here to greet him,” Ace replied before he grinned at .
I bet he planned this. Sothing in the back of my mind just told
that he planned this. He was just going to abandon
here so that I would be the one to handle his father if and when he gets here.
“No…I am never doing that!” I exclaid as I jumped off the bed and raced into the bathroom to get ready.
“It’s still very early in the morning. You don’t have to rush, and you’ll still make it to work on ti…” Ace said lazily.
I turned to see him leaning against the doorfra of the bathroom and I just wanted to roll my eyes at him. It was his fault that I was panicking like this. Of course, I had no idea if the chairman would really turn up here, but I didn’t want to take the risk of running into him here when I was all alone. I bet my life that he must still be in a horrible mood right now because of Ace’s sudden announcent last night.
“This is all your fault…” I muttered darkly as my good mood quickly clouded over.
“We don’t have to leave at the sa ti so there’s no need for you to rush…” he said casually.
“I’m not trying to leave early to catch a ride with you. I just don’t want to run into your dad in case he decides to turn up here for a surprise visit,” I said while trying my best not to snap at him.
“Then you better hurry. I’ll be busy so let Jeremy know that I want you two to help out with the marketing side of things for Project Alpha too, ok?” he instructed.
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I wanted to roll my eyes at him and how he seed to be giving
so much trouble.
“The workday has not yet started, Mr. CEO…” I pointed out.
“You can keep on calling
that because soon you won’t have the chance to do so anymore,” he replied before turning on his heels and walking away.
“Oh…please…” I muttered as I rolled my eyes now that he wasn’t looking.
…
I made it!
I made it to work on ti and the best part was that I made it out of Ace’s place before his father turned up. While I took the elevator up along with the other employees, I realized that Ace would have to talk to his father sooner or later about what he had in mind. Since I didn’t know what he had planned for growing the company, all I could do was silently pray that things would progress smoothly between the two of them.
“Good morning, Karina…” Jeremy greeted
the mont that I entered the office.
“Oh…perfect…” I murmured as my eyes landed on his face.
“What’s perfect?” he asked with a confused look on his face.
“I have sothing to tell you so it’s perfect that I didn’t have to go looking for you…” I replied with a small smile.
“Ok. So, what is it that you have to tell ?” he asked with so interest.
“Ace is busy, but he told
to tell you that he wants us to help support the marketing team on the launch of the comrcial for Project Alpha,” I said with a firm nod of my head.
“That’s quite unexpected…” Jeremy murmured.
“I agree. He told
that he thinks that it will be better for us to learn sothing on the marketing side because we both don’t have any experience with it,” I repeated Ace’s reasoning to Jeremy.
“Oh…I see…” he muttered as he nodded along.
“I have no idea where and how we’re supposed to start, though,” I admitted.
Ace did not give
any details and I didn’t have a lot of ideas on how the marketing team worked. I guess Ace was right about my complete lack of experience and also in-depth knowledge about marketing.
“That’s not hard. We just need to ask Julianna about it,” Jeremy replied with a great idea.
“Right…” I readily agreed.
Julianna was in charge of the marketing side of the project and I had to say that she truly lived up to her reputation. I didn’t think that she would need our help to do her work well at all; however, that also ant that it was a great opportunity for us to learn a thing or two about marketing from her.
“Ace sent you two to help ?” she asked with clear disbelief.
I wasn’t surprised at her reaction and the fact that she didn’t bother to hide her surprise. She stared at Jeremy and
as if she was appraising our worth and how useful we would be to her and her team. The answer that she arrived to was probably: Not much.
“Well, I’m not sure how much we’ll be of help given that we clearly lack experience in marketing. Maybe we should say that he sent us here to learn sothing from you and your team?” Jeremy replied, completely unfazed.
I felt thankful to Ace for sending Jeremy here with
instead of making
navigate this new field alone and I also appreciated Jeremy’s ability to handle everything so courageously.
“Well, I guess they’ll be sothings that you can help us out with. You two are supposed to be creative so that might at least be useful…” she said after a mont of thought.
I breathed a silent sigh of relief. Although she didn’t seem super pleased to have us join her team as temporary mbers, at least she wasn’t chasing us out.
“Thank you. We’ll really try our best,” I said enthusiastically before I smiled at her.
“You better…” she muttered.
We joined the marketing team eting imdiate and that was when we found out that the team was suffering from dealing with Ace and his ultra-high expectations. It was clearly a story that I was used to and had many personal experiences with. Ace was clearly demanding with every team that he worked with, and I wasn’t surprised.
–To be continued…
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