It was the last day of the semester.
A 20 year old Selina, stared out of her dimly lit bedroom's window. Her face pretty and defined, with big eyes and a cute little upturned nose.
She sat there on her soft bed, her long shapely legs making an 'A' as she leant backwards on her palms, her long chestnut hair hanging, just touching the surface of the sheets behind her arched back.
Her mind was going over the bright new day, that would be tomorrow...
Selina had just been informed that Sutherland Inc is interested in taking her on as an intern for a period of 3 weeks. She was to begin tomorrow.
Selina gets up off of her bed and slowly dawdles to her closet. She opens it and stares intently at her collection. She needed her first day to be perfect. She goes through it all, back and forth, sideways and in and around, until finally she has settled on a perfect one.
Much content after trying it on, she goes through the pre-briefing email on her computer for tomorrow and settles down for a good night's sleep before the eventful days that are to follow...
MONDAY
9:55 AM
MAIN RECEPTION AREA
Selina, walks toward the front desk and asks her to show her the way to HR.
The lady, points her in the right direction and smiles. Selina thanks her, smiles back and makes her way to the office.
Knock Knock
"Yes, come in..."
"My name is Selina Fernandez, we spoke on the phone..."
"Ah, yes, you're interning here for the next couple of weeks, so uh let me see, ah, you have put down HR as your preferred field of experience... hmm... Unfortunately, we are a bit tied up with our restructuring process and so cannot currently accommodate you... However, if you were to ask dear Mrs. Irene at the front desk, she will show you to Mr. Rhodes' office. He's the guy heading up our overseas marketing and brand development sections, so until we can sort out restructuring, you will be working under his department.
Is that clear?"
"Oh, of course, it's just that I don't have much experience or familiarity with marketing, I specifically put down HR because I did in that."
"Well, that's alright, I'm sure Mr. Rhodes would be happy to help you out, seeing as you are the only person who seems to have passed our screening process, you won't be disappointed with the experience. And besides, you will be integrated back into HR once we are done restructuring... Now, if you would you show yourself out, Mrs. Irene will give you the details. Thank you."
What a rude little man, thought Selina.
Not only had he stuck her in a department that she didn't want to be at, he didn't even have the common courtesy of telling her that HR wasn't available. She would be wasting both her time and energy if she were to stay on. She decided to walk off.
"Hi there, Mr.Walter told me that there was no opening at HR, so I was wondering..."
"Mrs. Irene, could you please send a copy of the media contacts in Beijing to my office as soon as possible? I have a call due any minute now. Thank you."
She saw him now, walking as he breathed those words in a cool grainy voice.
He was tall, bronzed and ruggedly handsome with shoulders as wide as a barn door.
With a chiseled jawline, masked by his well-kept stubble; and long jet black hair, that was pushed up and back and tucked away behind his ears.
His stride was suave and posture upright, he wore a dark grey suit that fit him like it was stitched around his magnificent tapered body.
Selina's interest was piqued.
"In a minute Mr.Rhodes, I'll send them over right now..."
"Thank you Irene, you're the man."
He said, as he gave her a remote fist bump.
As she typed and shuffled around on her desktop, she asked
"So you were saying, Ms..uh?"
"Selina. I was wondering where I might find the Marketing department"
She said whilst grinning behind her face.
MONDAY
10:10 AM
Mr.Rhodes' Office
Selina was now face to face with him, Mr.Rhodes'. He was polite and smiled as he helped ease her tension.
On the other hand, Selina was tense, and not because of the fact that she had virtually no experience in marketing, but because she would be working for 'him', a self declaratory alpha male god...
"So let's get you started on creating different possible variants of our current brand portfolio. Think outside the box, but not too wild now...
I want to see at least 7 different on my desk by the end of the week, understood?"
Selina nodded, partially because she was staring at Mr.Rhodes too long and partly because the task sounded quite challenging.
"Right." He said as he rose out of his chair. "And, uh, use your voice, it's much cuter than seeing you shake your head up and down..." he said as he winked.
Selina was shocked, what a perve! She was offended instantly but discretely imagined other compromising scenarios and situations with Mr.Rhodes. She giggled, again, without a sound.
THURSDAY
11:30 PM
SELINA'S CUBICLE
Selina had just finished typing up the portfolios. Most of her final editing was complete, and she was heavily tired and running out of time.
She was to have them on his desk by 7 this evening, but she wasn't able to finish them on time. So she had bribed the security guy to open the place for her, so that her boss doesn't fire her.
He was reluctant, but agreed.
It was a huge security concern to keep the building open after 7, but also highly illegal to work after hours.
Company Policy.
Does Mr.Rhodes' find out about her stretching her allotted time frame a little, he would be mad, in a lot of trouble and might even lend her a brutal insight on her deficiencies...
Last week at Sutherland was a roller coaster ride of seminars, work hour strain and inappropriate workplace humour.
Mr.Rhodes was not the person she expected at all. He was offensive, often rude, very inappropriate humor and language and very strict about punctuality and work ethic.
His glimmering eyes could either make your day, or make you want to cry. He had an air of earnestness about him, he would put down flaws like facts and suggest corrections, he was never out of line but would often demand results and would be assertive as and when it was required.
As far Selina considered, she had respect for him and as strange as that was, she thought; a part of her mind refused to admit it, and a crumb of fear hid in there...
She now had to go out onto the DTP place next door, cause their own copier machines broke down... It was pouring outside by then and she wasn't, to sake of her life, able to find her umbrella upstairs, but since they were due already, she ran out anyway.
An hour later, Selina was back at the office. It was empty, silent and desolate... It was quite unlike her past 4 days.
Her body shivered as the cold air from the air vents bounced off her wet white blouse. Her whole body trembled and electric sensations went through her hard body, right into her tips.
She kept a pair of spare clothes in her bag, and knew that there was a bathroom in Mr.Rhodes' office, so she placed the copies in the cubicle and rushed there.
Inside was dark, and the lights wouldn't come on, probably a tripped breaker. She just had to go to the bathroom and change.
Selina didn't know if there were security systems in this room, and so quietly, tip toed across the room's carpet...
As she did, she found that Mr.Rhodes' computer was on, and all the documents on his desk had been disheveled.
She slowly moved toward the computer, but suddenly...
"Stop!"
She did, and slowly turned around...
A man in a hoodie, stood in the shadows. He had a gun drawn on her. Selina was about to shriek...
"Don't scream, this is a silenced pistol, I will, blow your brains out."
Selina froze, she didn't know what to say or do , but she decided to go ahead and try...
"Look, Mr, I don't know why you were here or who you are, frankly don't care, but please leave me alone, I just intern here... Do not shoot..."
At this moment, he turned the projector on her, plain white light, illuminating her drenched wet body...
She was aware about her pointy pointy outbits well in his display, but was now, also self conscious about her knee high hemmed skirt, clinging to her well endowed body...
"Drop everything."
Selina put her tablet and spare clothes on the ground. She tried and hid her phone from him, behind her back.
