Married At First Glance: I Am Not Ugly

Alexander Shim sat in the comfort of his car, plugging in his ear pod. He tuned in to listen to his favorite musician. Taking the iPad which lay lazily beside him and turned it on to check his work schedule for the day.

The driver drives down into the company’s parking lot while the securities men rushed to opened the door for, getting down from the car he walked hastily to the elevator ignoring all greetings he gets from his employees.

Alexander walked towards his office gracefully with a frown on his face, immediately his secretary sighted him, she hurriedly left her table and rushed towards him.

“Should I brew your coffee right now?” She asked while breathing heavily.

“Not now, what are my schedules for the day?” He asked and turned the door knob to his office.

“You’ve a meeting with the Green’s empire at noon and….”

He cutted her speech.

“Just go straight to the important ones and stop being a dummy.” He growled, loosening his tie a little bit while sinking down into his chair.

“You will be having a meeting with the board members in the next forty five minutes sir.”

“And you are just telling me that now huh?” hitting his hand on the table shattering some files that were neatly arranged on it making them fly away towards the west region.

“Uhmmm sir I.. t… n… o……..” she said stuttering while crushing the files in her hands tightly to her chest.

“Prepare all the files that needed my attention within twenty minutes and send in my coffee immediately.” He said sounding so dangerous as ever sending cold chills down her spine as she hurriedly left the office in fear.

Alexander turned his system on checking some emails Jace sent to him last night concerning the contracts they were working on presently while cross checking some of the files on his table before sending them to the various office that needed to take actions on them, picking up the telecom phone on the table he called the auditing team.

“Send in the new accounts you verified through emails immediately.” Without waiting for their response he hanged up immediately.

* AUDITING TEAM *

Everybody bumped into each other while trying to process and coupled what their boss required of them, they knew better not to delay him else they’re all gone. The audit manager could be seen running helter skelter while drips of sweats lined on his forehead he looks so worn out and equally stressed but who he is to complain when he’s not ready to lose his only livelihood.

“Have the accounting department sent those previous accounts we asked for?” Mr Lewis the auditing manager asked the secretary while going through some files on his table, despite the fact that the room is well ventilated and the air conditioner was on, his whole body was covered in sweats, fingers is at war presently with the keyboards as everyone is busy correcting one errors or the other.

“Yes they’ve sent it but the account isn’t corresponding with our total estimations.”

“And whose fault is that Annie?” The man who seemed to be worn out and provoked spoke out of anger, his veins almost poking out while his eyes were bulging out of their sockets.

The lady seemed not shaken as she stood her ground and spoke calmly as ever.

“Both parties are faulty because we worked on the previous accounts we have with us not knowing they haven’t done their overall calculations sir.”

“Just go and rectify the faults and send it to my table for reviews within thirty minutes.”

With a wave of hand the lady walked out of the office.

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Walking out the meeting hall exhausted, Alexander moved into his office to continue the day’s work. He checked his emails to see if the auditing team had sent what he asked to him but he couldn’t find any message from them, folding his fist together in anger he called the team manager once again.

“What the hell is delaying the mail?” Alexander thundered.

“It will be sent to you immediately sir.”

“If I drop this call and I didn’t receive the mail from your team, consider yourself and your team fired immediately.” with that he dropped the call immediately.

A soft knock came on his door jolting him out of his thoughts.

“Come in.” he muttered dryly.

“I just received a message concerning the contracts we were pursuing and that you aren’t qualified to win the contract.” His manager said while bowing his head a little.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

“And what makes me disqualified? Did I not provide all the qualifications needed huh?” Anger could be seen written vividly on Alexander’s face, he looks so displeased with the news he heard just now dampening his mood which also aggravated his anger.

“According to the information sent to me you aren’t qualified because you aren’t married, the only way for you to be qualified is if you’re married.”

If a tester is to be brought to room now to check the temperature it’s might actually blow off, Alexander gnashed his teeth together folding the piece of paper in his hand imagining it to be James neck cause he knows the only person behinds this new rule is no other person than James, his rival.

“That motherfucker.” he cursed beneath his breath. “Is there any way around this new rule?”

“Not at all I guessed it’s a new challenge, James has dared you.”

“Fuck you bastard.” Alexander yelled, throwing the frame on his table across the room, making it hit the wall, greatly shattering the glass that was used as picture cover all over the floor.

The secretary hurriedly entered the office to check what’s going on that would make her boss look as furious as ever.

Both workers looked at each other then their boss but a single glare from their boss made them scammed out of the office.

Alexander picked up his phone to call his girlfriend and have one or two words with her.

“Hello baby.” came in the sweetest and angelic voice which made Alexander fall deeply for her all over again.

“Hiiiiiiiiiii.” he replied dryly, not sure of her response to what he’s gonna ask her.

“What’s wrong babe, why do you sound so off like this?” she asked with worries written all over her voice.

“Do you remember the contract I told you I was pursuing recently?”

“Yes I do and what about it?” she asked, urging him to go further.

“The new rules of the contract implies that I can only be qualified for the contract if I’m married and you know what this contract really means to me.”

“So what are you implying now?”

“You know what I am talking about Jessie.”

“Alexander you and I know this can’t work out now, it will ruin my career and you fucking know that….. see all I have to say is find your way out of that situation cause I aren’t getting married now cause of one godforsaking contract.” she replied harshly, almost screaming her lungs out on the phone.

“But Jessie-”

“If you’ve nothing else to say to me, have a wonderful day then.” with that she hung up the phone.