Chapter 165- One Day!
Waiters removed the soup bowls and started serving the dinner. Rafael preferred to sit across her and kept the conversation on work and usual life stuff like they had been buddies for a long time.
"I used to think that being the head of a small team was the most amazing thing that happened to me," Marissa pulled his plate to her and started cutting the beef steak he ordered, into small pieces, "but man! I was so wrong."
She didn’t notice what she was doing and cut the whole steak into bite-sized pieces before passing the plate back to him.
He felt his heart skip a beat when realized that was what she used to do when he was blind, but he didn’t remark on the weird gesture. Instead, he tried to focus on her words.
"Are they giving you a tough time?" he asked her while eating his steak pieces and saw her shoveling the spoonful of rice into her mouth, "as a head you have the authority to be strict with them, Marissa. Tell them the consequences for not following your orders."
Marissa stopped chewing her food when found his tone a little harsh.
She couldn’t tell him how Kate and now Delinda were giving her a tough time. If he was trusting her by assigning a designation, then she didn’t want to disappoint him with petty complaints.
She took a deep breath swallowing her worries along with rice.
"Being a head of the small team is so... overwhelming... I don’t know how you manage to be the president of this multinational company," she said shaking her head.
"Trust me. It’s harder than you can imagine," he said taking the sip pf his wine.
"Yeah. I was so delusional about it..." she curved down her lips, "like I always thought being a CEO only meant traveling, having s*ex, drinking, and enjoying life to the fullest."