Chapter 15: SOFIA
"Damn that elevator and damn Richard Wellington" I said again, as I felt a bulge rising from where my head had connected with the elevator.
"Out of the way" a man called as he ran past me. He wore a tailored vert shirt with dark pants, and even in motion, it looked really great on him. And I can always excuse someone if he knows his way around a wardrobe.
"Sir! Sir! Could you halt for a moment, I need to run something by you. Please Sir, I have been waiting all morning." I heard the man echo still running down the hall trying to get to where Richard Wellington was.
"Just keep everything for the board meeting, I don’t have time for any of it now" Richard called back, halting the man dead in his tracks.
"all morning" I pondered, and yet he didn’t stop to even look at the file the man had opened as he ran. How cruel.
Lord knows, what he was doing all morning, that he’s coming to work at such an hour and yes, I know I’m not really the best judge for that, but at least I had justifiable reasons for being late. Could the same be said of him?
I watched as the man turned, slapped the file shut and turned in fear to see if his Boss had heard. Exhaling a breath, he began retracing his steps. His face, lined with disappointment and anger.
I looked away, unable to stand looking at Richard even from such a distance. But not before I saw a girl, or a lady rather, in red approach him. She was struggling to walk alongside him and talk to him at the same time, but the brute hardly seemed to care. It was pitiful watching the lady burst into a run just to match his stride.
"Lord knows what she goes through on a daily basis working for him" I thought.
I still stood in the hallway looking around, completely at loss on what to do.
"Didn’t Em say that I would join the others, so where the fuck are they?" I asked myself, still looking around.
The hallway stretched on both sides. To the left, from whence the man had begun running from, the walls were a startling white lined with paintings. All the paintings were framed in gold giving the white walls a look of ambience.