The CEO’s Substitute Lover

Tredan Davi came in and scanned the room, saw Octavia Gills sitting behind Eddison, and stood frozen. Octavia Gills had been looking at the floor, thinking of what happened in disbelief, and hadn’t noticed Tredan Davi staring at her. He was staring at her.

“President Davi, you are blocking the doorway. Don’t just stand there, take a seat!” As Floyd entered, Tredan Davi stood there without moving his feet. Fortunately, since his back was turned, Floyd was unaware that Tredan Davi was standing there staring at Octavia Gills.

Floyd’s shout not only brought Tredan Davi back to reality but also managed to make Octavia Gills look up at the doorway momentarily upon hearing the name, ‘President Davi’. Octavia Gills was further dismayed to see the cold look in Tredan Davi’s eyes, which she assumed was caused by Lilian Drye, who was also present today. Octavia Gills was even more upset when Tredan Davi saw the grief on her face upon seeing him.

“I’d like to introduce my youngest son, Eddison, to all of you. He will be taking over the role of Vice President of Group Davi’s head office, and I hope that everyone here will be able to guide him.” That was the subject of this emergency meeting called by Floyd.

Floyd outlined in detail what Eddison would be doing, the scope of his responsibilities, and the projects he would be involved in. Floyd also involved Eddison in several important projects together with Tredan Davi.

“Very good! The chairman is exceptionally English.” Tredan Davi led the applause for what Floyd had just said. Tredan Davi was taunting himself for being too self-righteous in the past, which was just as well! He was worried about where he will find the time for his mother, hoping for her to recover soon and see him married to Octavia Gills.

“I have a very important dinner today, Selwin, sit here and record this meeting for me and email it to me tonight.” Tredan Davi walked out of the meeting room with aplomb, and Assistant Selwin sat down with trepidation and pretended to be calm, recording the meeting for Tredan Davi as if nothing had happened, as well as outlining each of the important points mentioned by the chairman.

Octavia Gills saw Tredan Davi leave the conference room like that, a side that she had never seen before, to Octavia Gills’ shock!

Octavia Gills was worried about Tredan Davi such that she was not listening carefully to the meeting. Her phone vibrated and it was Tredan Davi who sent a Facebook message: You have five minutes to come to my office.

Tredan Davi, who always gives her a hard time, is the president of the company and the son of the chairman, so he can walk out of such an important and serious meeting with aplomb. But Octavia Gills? I’m just a little clerk! I’ve neither the means nor the sense to refuse Tredan Davi. In the end, Octavia Gills went out on the pretext of going to the toilet.

Octavia Gills walked sheepishly towards Tredan Davi’s office, is it so important that Tredan called her out so urgently?

Octavia Gills knocked cautiously on Tredan Davi’s door, and when he answered, she ducked in like a thief, not forgetting to lock the door tight!

Tredan Davi was only slightly relieved to see Octavia Gills rushing over as she was told!

“Tell me, how did you get into the head office as Eddison’s secretary! Do you have any idea what you’re doing to yourself?” Tredan Davi didn’t give Eddison a second thought, what pissed him off the most was the idea that his woman following Eddison into his office to be his dedicated secretary! No man would allow such a thing to happen, and to add to it, Eddison was the one who sent Octavia home last night. Tredan became even more furious about this.

The way Tredan Davi had grabbed her by the shoulders and yelled at her with such a scowl on his face scared Octavia Gills, who had never seen Tredan Davi so angry at her before. The aggression came out at that moment, Octavia Gills thought of the scene between Tredan Davi and Lilian Drye this morning and she was even angrier than Tredan Davi, why, why did she have to answer whatever he asked. “The company arranged it, I’m just an employee and my boss wants me to do him this one favor, but my position is only temporary until he finds the right person, then I’ll leave…” Octavia Gills was afraid she had said too much and tried to break free from Tredan Davi’s dominating hands.

This small gesture completely angered Tredan Davi, who had already lost his mind.

“Do you want to have two feet in one, do you think I can’t satisfy you?” Tredan Davi was now a frenzied beast, kissing Octavia Gills on the lips, but Lilian Drye’s words suddenly rang in her ears: ‘She’s just a stand-in for you to get off on’!

Octavia Gills pushed the irrational Tredan Davi away with all her strength and slapped him so hard, and without saying anything, Octavia Gills just walked out. Her hand that had slapped Tredan Davi’s face was hurting along with Tredan Davi!

Octavia Gills came to work this morning with a lot of very good expectations. The wind was blowing at the rooftop of the building, as Octavia Gills stood there hoping to clear her head a little. From the moment she left Tredan Davi’s office until now, she had held on to her phone, looking at it, and kind of fooled herself by waiting and waiting.

“I’ve been looking for you for a long time, no wonder I couldn’t find you, only to find you’re hiding here! You made me look so hard!”

It was Eddison, not Tredan, and Octavia looked particularly dismayed that she had just slapped him so hard.Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

“What the hell does it mean when you see me and turn your head to show such a disappointed expression? Was my presence unwelcome?”

Eddison knew that Octavia was in this state because of Tredan, so it was all the more reason for him to take this opportunity to show his good side in front of Octavia so that he would soon have her heart. Eddison was convinced!

“No, no, just a bit tired!” Octavia Gills wanted to have a good quiet moment, she just wouldn’t say no to Qian He or one thing. “By the way, I haven’t properly congratulated you on becoming Vice President of Group Davi.” Octavia held out her hand to shake Eddison’s and congratulated him!

“You don’t look too good; I’ll take you out for a walk and relax after work.” Eddison didn’t want to miss any opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

“No, I don’t know why, I’m particularly tired today. I just want to go home and rest early!” Octavia Gills was not in the mood at all right now!

“Then I’ll give you a lift home! You don’t have to turn me down on this one, after all, I’m coming home from there too, so I’ll give you a lift on the way.”

Faced with Eddison’s enthusiasm, it would have been awkward for Octavia Gills to refuse again. So, there was nothing much to say and she nodded to Eddison.

S Downtown Bar

Woodrow was about to go to the movies with Domino when Tredan dragged him to the bar for a drink.

“Stop drinking, at your age, you still don’t know how to look the other way, laugh with the wind, do you understand?” Not saying anything, just drinking and drinking, Woodrow wanted to knock Tredan out with a hammer and just send him home! Poor Woodrow, he wanted to go and see a film with his goddess Domino! He didn’t think he had offended Tredan so he couldn’t understand why Tredan Davi was treating him this way.

“Woodrow, tell me what’s wrong with this woman?” Woodrow had been listening to Tredan Davi say this all night, and he sat there speechless, rolling his eyes.

“Tredan, these are all just small things. You can feel whether two people have real feelings whether they are together or not, you have to trust your instincts, you know? You know what? A grown man, you should go to the person concerned to solve the problem when things go wrong in a relationship, not hang out in a bar and drink like a loser! Don’t you think so! Boss!” This is the day that Tredan Davi, who is known as the Black Panther of the business world, has a day like this, and Woodrow didn’t forget to capture this on his phone. A woman has a way of destroying a man in love, and she is not to be underestimated!

“You don’t understand! How can you possibly understand?” Tredan Davi has gone into stand-up comedy mode, ranting on and on! Woodrow exclaims that a superhero has fallen in the hands of Octavia Gills!

“Tredan, I beg you to leave me alone! You’ve been dragging me to drink with you since seven o’clock, I’ve got an eleven o’clock movie date with Domino, please have mercy on me!” It was 10:30, and Woodrow had been listening to Tredan Davi for over three hours, which was particularly sadistic! And Woodrow would rather offend Tredan Davi than miss his appointment with Domino, otherwise, it wouldn’t be Tredan sitting here drinking at this time tomorrow night, it would be Woodrow himself!

“How can you be such a bigot? You… are out of line, Woodrow!” said an already drunk Tredan Davi, who was determined to keep Woodrow from leaving.

“Okay, okay, good boy, I’m not leaving, why don’t you come with me to the movies, I’ll ask Domino to ask your Octavia too, how about that?” Since walking away wasn’t going to work, it was worth a try to coax him differently!

Octavia? Yes, he had to find Octavia and ask her what she wanted? Only then was Tredan willing to get up and walk out of the bar with Woodrow!

Woodrow took Tredan to the cinema with him while Domino was so confused when he saw them. Three people watching a movie, not to mention, that one of them was drunk. Domino was about to glare at Woodrow and was so angry that she almost wanted to slam the tickets into Woodrow’s face.

Back in her flat, Octavia Gills sat quietly in a space on the balcony and picked up her drawing board and brushes. Only the world of comics could calm Octavia Gills’ mind now, she picked up the brushes she had put down for a long time and rustled them on the board. Octavia Gills is struggling with what is best for her in this relationship with Tredan Davi, she doesn’t know what to do, she is like an uninspired painter in this relationship, her thoughts are like a dull blade, she can’t paint a beautiful picture, and if she is forced to finish the task, it will be an imperfect comic book!

Tonight, Octavia Gills is drawing a little about her relationship with Tredan Davi and she doesn’t know what to call her work, Octavia Gills just goes along with her heart and capriciously caricatures every image she has in her head of Tredan Davi.

Octavia Gills forgot her worries painting one picture after another, and since she got home, she had not taken a single break and had been painting, her only way of venting. It would be a lie to say that she was not jealous of Lilian Drye, and it would also be a lie to say that she did not care that Lilian Drye had been saying that she, Octavia Gills, was only her stand-in.