Chapter 9: Sketchy New Job
"Good morning, I am Amelia Kentwood. I'm here as Mr. Montgomery's new secretary. Can you give me a keycard?" Amelia asked the receptionist, trying to sound like a collected professional and not a walking bundle of nerves.
She had only five minutes left before Matteo expected her in his office, and she didn't want to start her first day by making a poor impression.
"Let me check." The receptionist named Cindy cast her a suspicious look, and Amelia could hardly blame her.
She knew she must have looked like a fright, with her dark eye circles and swollen eyes. Amelia had spent the previous night tossing and turning, barely able to catch a wink of sleep in her childhood bedroom.
After the joy of Matteo's offer faded away, skepticism began to sink in. Matteo's offer was almost too good to be true, and recent events had given Amelia a healthy distrust of men.
Even if Matteo had money to burn, two hundred thousand a month was too high a pay for an ordinary secretary, let alone one just starting out in his company. A quick internet search proved that Amelia's hunches were correct; not even secretaries who had years of experience commanded that high a salary.
This meant that Matteo must have had ulterior reasons for offering such a salary.
What kind of depraved things did he want to do to Amelia in return?
She doubted that Matteo was capable of the same amount of cruelty Caleb was, but that was a low bar to clear.