Chapter 10: Chapter 10

Chloe did not expect that having started with the vicious businessman was going to be so challenging, she had had a lot of jobs in the past few months that had passed her by and many of them had drained her emotionally dry. She had been force to scrape up poop, dig through trash and rotten food and many other things that she wanted to remove from her mind forever but Mr Ryan seemed to have a fresh way pulling her strings.

She recalled when she lived in luxury, her heart really wasn't ready because she was about to retire from this scamming job but her sister's health mattered alot.

"Daddy left me with a lot of assets. It might not be wealth but the wisdom to scam these stupid rich men is something I will use judiciously."

Her boss really knew how to drag people to their limits because he knew they would eventually snap.

On the second day of work she had delivered his coffee which she was to do every time she was called upon to do it especially in the morning.

He had barely tasted it when he placed the cup back into its saucer with a slight look of disgust on his face. He had earlier planned in his mind to push her to her limit today using the cup of coffee she was going to give him today

"This coffee is far too sweet. Are you trying to give me diabetes?"

She responded by shaking her head, showing she didn't mean to give him whatever he just said,

"Was it diabetes, ahh yes, she exclaimed in her mind once she thought about it."

" Diabetes," she muttered while stammering,

"I'm so sorry sir, that must have been a mistake on my part."

She was fully aware that ever since yesterday, he had been doing everything possible to ruffle up her feathers and push the buttons but she was not going to give him that pleasure not in a million years and that seems to even frustrate him all the more.

"Please Miss Daley, I run a very big Enterprise and I will need my special cup of coffee to begin my day properly or would you rather let me pile up my work, because I will make you do my work for me.so if you don't mind can you at least make my cup of coffee for me the way I like it, can you do that for me?"

He said to her, pointing to the cup of coffee which he signaled her to carry. She picked up the saucer and the cup, her face still in a mask as it was like the first day that they had met.

However, she did not argue anymore with him and just went ahead to prepare another cup of coffee and that was how the next 30 minutes of her life was dedicated to her bringing him a cup of coffee to which he found one error or another. She heaved a sigh of depression whenever he would complain of the new coffee she had just made. When she had finally had more than enough, she decided to voice a bit of her complaint.

"But Sir this is very strange, do you have a problem with the coffee or with me. I'm very sure that I prepared the coffee the exact same way that you had it the day that I came here…" her soft voice was speaking and doing things to him he didn't understand.

He looked at her as if a horn was about to sprout right out of her head. That moment, he distracted himself by letting his fingers continue dancing away on his laptop with his eyes glued to the screen of his laptop, not caring about the rubbish she had seen to utter.

"So what are you implying If I may ask, that I'm intentionally sending you back and forth in order to just frustrate you or that I don't know what a good cup of coffee tastes like, please do give me your opinion." At the end of this statement, he rested his back on his seat and his eyes were now focused on her.

This time, she was dressed like the kick ass bad girl in a typical movie. Her black pencil leather trouser, her black singlet tucked in with her leather pants and a mini black leather jacket. She wore a pair of black ankle boots to complement the look.

"Are you going to assassinate someone? Why are you dressed this way?" He asked sternly even if he loved the way she was dressed,

"This is an office miss Daley, I won't want you coming in the way you want, It's so unprofessional. This is a business environment not a runway or a bad girl scene, do you get that?

"Yes sir, I will adapt to the corporate way of dressing I promise."

Chloe had to remind herself exactly why she was doing, she thought about spilling the hot coffee on him but she knew that her job would be on the line.

"Why is he so hardcore. I know you have fallen for me it shows in your eyes, why then won't you just admit it. I know how hard you struggle to keep your cool when I'm around, just call me close," she spoke in thought gazing at him with pure eye contact one would think she was in a staring contest.

She could see exactly what he was doing; he was testing her, checking just how far he would bend her before she would finally break and snap.But he wasn't getting her point of view concerning the matter.

"Hmmm she seems unfazed. I will push you so hard, you won't be able to resist the emotions you're gathering up Miss Daley. This is a battle of two elements and I would make sure I win," Nate spoke with a grin on his face.

"If I may ask you sir, what's so funny," Daley's voice brought his lost mind back to reality.

"You've been grinning ever since, could it be because of the coffee?" She asked

"Or… you've been thinking of the things you want to do to me," she whispered but not to his hearing.