chapter 74
The next morning, while Olivia was still trying to sleep since she hadn’t slept very early, she felt two heavy weights fall on her. She screamed as she got up and saw Betty with a bucket of water and Maggie with a pan of flour and eggs. She realized what they were about to do and it was going to be the worst wake-up call of her life. She blew out a sulky breath when the two girls started laughing, but she didn’t find it funny at all.
-Can I ask what’s amusing you now?
-Are you serious about sulking, Olivia? We’re the ones who should be sulking. We make an appointment for a girls’ night out and all you do is leave us a note saying girls, last-minute changes, we’ll see you another time, no, but are you serious? You’re in your evening dress, which means a man asked you out. Can I ask who it was and what you did?
She flushed as she thought back to the wonderful evening with her boss, which may have ended badly, but she’d loved those little moments of out-of-control.
-And now you’re blushing. Who was Oli?
-It wasn’t a date, girls, but an outing to talk business. My boss showed up here yesterday having just returned from his trip.
-You mean Damon Dixon was here at the apartment. Oh shit, I could have seen him if I’d gotten here sooner,” Maggie shouted.
Betty squinted at Olivia given what Maggie had just said. She didn’t understand what Damon Dixon had to do with this conversation if Olivia had been talking about her boss, unless the two girls had been making fun of her by looking her straight in the eye. Realizing her mistake when Olivia had mentioned that she didn’t want Betty to know the truth, Maggie looked at Olivia apologetically.
-You really did this to me, didn’t you girls? You do work at Dixon. Aviation, right, Olivia?Belonging © NôvelDram/a.Org.
-Yes, but the difference is that Damon Dixon isn’t my boss. He’s the CEO of the company, but each floor has its own boss, and mine’s Martin Dubois, so I’ve never really laid eyes on Damon. I don’t see why you’re getting so angry.
-I told you I wanted to have this man in my pocket to gain notoriety and respect. You could have told me you worked for his company. Now that I know that, you’re going to help me get him.
Olivia winced as she remembered Stephanie’s warnings. She didn’t want to do anything other than her job, and she hadn’t been hired to play matchmaker, so she thought her friend would soon forget her bizarre idea and move on.
-I’ve just told you that I’ve never seen him since I joined the company, so I can’t do what you’re asking me to do, Betty.
-Do you want me to succeed in my career or not, Olivia?
-I want you to succeed, but you have talent and I don’t think you need to be on the arm of a rich man to do that, let alone one who won’t even look at you from what you told us last time.
-He’ll look at me later. You’re going to help me, and from now on you’re going to start watching his every move to keep me informed. I’ve got to be in every place he goes, and that way he won’t be able to do without my face, he’ll come to me and I’ll have won. You’re my friend, Olivia, and you’re the only one I can count on.
Still thinking this was a very bad iodine, she got up and went into the kitchen. She didn’t want to hear any more about this mission from Betty, and she was beginning to like her boss, so it was going to be difficult. She wondered how this man was able to turn women’s hearts around like that in no time at all.
-It was Damon, not Martin,” asked Maggie as she entered the kitchen.
She nodded sadly. She didn’t want to lose her friendship with Betty, but she knew this story would end up creating problems between them.
-Don’t worry, Oli, you’ll find a solution in the end. But I still don’t understand why he came so late to ask you out, maybe he likes you.
She wanted to laugh out loud because Damon couldn’t like her since he already had this Stephanie who was the kind of woman he could look at.