Sleeping With The CEO

Somehow, Emily had made it through the first week of being unemployed without incident. Her mother had still not caught on yet, and by some miracle, she had not missed any calls from Haven Group, or had them go old school on her and send a letter with regards to her resignation. A letter that could have very well ended up in her mother’s hands since the older woman was the one who regularly checked the mail. In fact, there was absolutely nothing from Haven Group’s end regarding her resignation. It was suspicious. Were they trying to rob her of her benefits?

She’d heard of other big companies doing that. But under Derek’s rule she had never seen, nor heard of it. What if he was the one standing in the way, withholding her benefits as a way of punishing her for daring to leave?

Even just thinking that Emily knew it was impossible. Derek Haven was many things, but he was not petty. Besides, who was she to him anyway. All that she had been was just a personal assistant. She probably did not even register in his personal radar, just a blip off in the distance. In fact he had probably already forgotten her name.

If they ever happened to walk past each other in the street, he would probably just walk on by, not even looking at her like he vaguely remembered her from somewhere. Which was highly unlikely, they barely breathed the same air, rich folk were on a whole other level, there was no way that they would ever bump into each other. They would never bump into each other, so he would have no reason to make sure that she did not get what was due to her. Which meant that it was just regular company stuff, slowing down the processing of her information.

She would give them a bit of time. And then she would reach out. First by mail, and then if they still did not respond she would go there in person. But before she went there in person, Emily wanted to make sure that she looked and felt her best.

She had quit her job at one of the top companies in the world. Having them think that she had gone on to bigger, better things, was a whole lot more preferable than them thinking that she had quit just to suffer.

What those, bigger, better things would be, Emily had no idea, but she certainly hoped that they were somewhere in the near future. It she had not achieved them by the time she went to see Haven Group’s HR then she would do her best to fake it until it looked like she had.

But in her current state, Emily was barely able to pull of a mask good enough to fool her mother. She did not like her chances of being able to keep up the act of someone happy and successful in front of a large group of people.

Without work, without Derek, Emily was really struggling.