Henry's POV

I am not in a good mood today. First my coffee machine broke. So, I did not get my morning coffee. Then I go to Starbucks to get one and bumped into this arrogant girl who had the guts to speak up to me. I think she is new to this place because everyone around here knows me and respect me. She almost poured her coffee on me and didn't even apologize.

Instead she behaved as if she is right and I am wrong. I hate her but when she challenged me saying that I shouldn't waste my time on her, I liked the challenge. I decided to enquire who she was because I want to show her who is the boss around here.

Lucky for me, she came into my office and I saw her waiting in the line. She was deep in thought and so I decided to skip a few other applicants and called her in. She doesn't know that it is me that is going to employ her. Of course, only if she gets through the interview but I am going to give her the job just to prove her wrong. No girl can say that to me, ever. I get anything and anyone I want.

I turn my back to her when she came in.

"Excuse me sir" she said in a small voice. I know she is nervous.

"Sit" I say in a stiff voice.

"Yes sir" she says and sat in a chair facing my desk.

"What is your name?" I ask her.

"Emma Lawrence sir." she replies.

"I don't like it" I say in an irritated tone.

I actually liked her name but I wanted to a raise out of her and I succeeded.

She got angry and said "I am sorry sir, but it is my name and I like it" with a little sass.

"Feisty, I like it" I say hoping that she will recognize my voice.

I slowly turn around and she opened her eyes wide and she said

"You?"

"We meet again Ms. Lawrence" I smirked.

Emma's POV

"We meet again Ms. Lawrence", he said smirking. I hate him so much. He is just full of himself.

"You....are the CEO?" I asked still in shock.

"Sir", he says with that same smirk.

"What?" I said confused as to what he is saying.

"You are the CEO sir" he repeated.

"You should give me respect Ms. Lawrence. After all I am your boss." He says in a serious tone.

"Sorry", I say in a small voice.

"Sorry sir", he corrects me again.

He is trying to push me to the limits. He knows I hate him and he is trying to make me even angrier and it is working.

I take a deep breath and calm myself before answering.

"Sorry sir", I say in a calm voice.

"Better", he says.

"So, Ms. Lawrence, I see that you have applied for the position of an intern at my company?"....he looks up to see me.

"yes, sir", I say with a smile.

He looks at my resume and shook his head a few times.

"so, you don't even have a degree" he states looking straight into my eyes.

His eyes were brown and beautiful. Stop it, Emma, you hate him, I remind myself.

"y....Yes, sir" I stutter.

"You were enrolled at Harvard. Why did you drop out?" he enquired.

" i......" I start but he raises his hand signaling me to stop.

"Don't waste my time with your good for nothing excuses Ms. Lawrence. I can see that you are probably not competent enough to finish your course." He says in a casual manner.

I reached my boiling point. How can he say that about me? Does he even know who I am? What my life is like? Who is he to just sit here and assume that I am incompetent? who is he to judge me? I got into freaking Harvard for crying out loud.

"You don't know anything about me" I yell at him.

He looks at me surprised by my sudden burst of rage. He puts my file down on the table and looks at me with a serious face.

"Okay then, answer me one question Ms. Lawrence, why makes you think that I would hire you leaving behind all the other candidates out there, who are way more qualified and modest than you?"

I open my mouth to give an answer but I couldn't say anything. So, I closed my mouth and put my head down.

"Thought so", he said smirking.

"You may go Ms. Lawrence" he says in a dismissive tone.

"Thank you for your time", I say and turn back to leave.

"Thank you for your time sir" he corrects me once again.

I take a deep breath.

"sorry sir", I say and walked out the door.

I hate him but I know people like him do such things to satisfy their ego. They are all like that. They just need others to be submissive to them no matter what. I have seen people like that but HE is on another level. He doesn't just want submission but he also wants them to accept his dominance. I am not that person and I won't ever be that person. I am sure he won't give me the job after the way I spoke to him.

*huff* now I need to look for a job to pay off our debts. I slowly walk to the nearby bus station and take a bus home. After reaching home, I see a note on the dining table saying the food is in the fridge. I sigh and walk to the fridge. I take out the food, heat it in the oven and start eating it. I switched on the TV and continued eating my food.

Ding Ding...

I receive a text message from my dad saying that my mom needs the surgery in the next month and he requested me to pool up some money. I start to tear up because I am not able to help my parents who fed me, clothed me and provided for me all these years. They took me in and cared for me like their own daughter but I am not even able to take care of them when they needed the most. Tears start to come out like a waterfall. I wipe them with my hands and continued to eat when my phone rang.

Ring.....ring.....

"Hello", I say.

"Is this Ms. Lawrence?" a lady says.

"Yes, it is she", I say still figuring out who it could be.

I think it is probably one of the debt collectors calling to remind me about the due date for the next installment.

"I am calling form Hart Creations." She says and my heart skips a beat.

"You are requested to come in tomorrow morning at 7 am sharp." She continues.

"What?? Wait, so I got the job" I exclaim.

"Yes Ms. Lawrence, Mr. Hart specifically requested you to put on a pencil skirt and blouse for work tomorrow." She says.

"Pencil skirt?"

"Yes"

"But I don't have a pencil skirt", I say panicking and wondering. What kind of a boss asks his employee to put on a specific type of dress, that too one that is just his intern.

"don't worry about that Ms. Lawrence, Mr. Hart has already sent the package to your address, it will be there any minute now." She says and hangs up.

"wait, I..." I say but she has already hung up the call.

Ding dong....

I hear the bell and I think I know who or should I say what it is. I put my plate aside and get up. I open the door and see a guy standing there with a box in his hand.

"I am here for a Ms. Lawrence?" he says reading his card.

"Yes, that is me" I reply.

"Okay then, please take this package ma'am." He says handing me the box.

"thank you", I say taking the box from him.

He nods his head and walks away.

I shut the door and take the box in. I put it on my bed and opened the seal. Inside there were four pairs of Pencil skirts and matching blouses.

I sigh angrily. Why do I have to wear these to work? Why did he even give me the job? He hated me with every bone in his body. I hated him equally as much and he knows that very well. Tomorrow I will ask him myself why he is doing this. Thinking like this, I fell asleep.

I was woken up by Jenna shaking me trying to wake me up.

"Wake up Em", she says shaking me.

"Yeah yeah I am up", I say getting up with a start.

"When did you get home and what are these clothes?" she asks pointing to the box beside me.

"Oh uhhh those are the clothes I am supposed to wear for work tomorrow", I say in an uninterested tone.

"work? So, you got the job?" she exclaims jumping up and down.

"yes Jen, I got the job but I don't think I am gonna take it", I tell her.

She looks at me with "are you kidding me?" look.

"What?" I ask her annoyed.

"You are crazy Em. Do you even know how many people are dying to work for such a big company?" she yells at me.

"Why are you yelling at me?" I say defensively.

"Because you are planning on making the biggest mistake of your life and I want to stop you." She says in an obvious tone.

"Listen, Jen, you don't understand..." I try to explain what really happened but she cut me off.

"no, you listen to me Em. Your parents need you and the money. If you didn't get the job, that's a different issue but you did GET the job and you shouldn't let it go." She reasons with me.

I know she is right but I don't know how I will be able to survive with that, that....agggghhhh. I can't even find words to describe him. I huffed.

"You are right", I say defeated. I don't have another choice and my mom needs that operation to survive.

"Hey cheer up Em. Come on, let's celebrate." She says pulling me out of my bed.

I reluctantly go with her. We go the nearest burger king and order one whopper each along with fries and coke. After our dinner celebration, we went home because I have to get up early for work tomorrow.

I text "good night" to my dad and went to sleep.

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