3 months later
"Ben Morrison's office, how may I help you?" Liz cheerily greeted the first caller of the day.
It was a Monday and like most Mondays she was expecting the day to get crazy. There was always some fire to put out here or there, but luckily there was a new intern starting today. She loved when interns came because she knew, from previous experience, that they were great for handling most of her work. Looking at the clock, she noticed it was almost 8 am.
"Humph. Mr. Morrison is not going to like that the new intern isn't early for their first day," she thought with an inner smile. Nothing like earning some brownie points by making someone else look bad.
However, much to her dismay, in walked the new intern laughing and chatting just a little too friendly with her husband to be.
"O Nadia, this is Liz. She is my secretary here and she will be more than happy to assist you with anything you may need," Ben casually said as if Liz were merely the coffee girl of the office.
"Nice to meet you Liz," Nadia said with a grin that showed off her perfectly straight white teeth.
"Nice to meet you too. I'm looking forward to working with you," Liz replied happily with her best fake smile while inwardly seething. How could he just dismiss her like that? And in front of the intern of all people!
Nadia and Ben proceeded to his office unaware of the darts being mentally thrown at their backs. Once inside, Nadia took a seat across from Ben's mahogany hardwood desk and reached for her leather portfolio so that she could take notes on her work plan.
"What are you doing?" Ben asked with genuine confusion.
"I am preparing for our meeting. We are going to discuss my work plan right now, aren't we?" Nadia replied.
Ben almost burst out laughing. This college student thought she had REAL work to do in his office. One thing he knew about young college girls is that they didn't have the focus to accomplish any real business building activities. No, he hired interns to look cute in his office, warm up his clients before meetings, and occasionally do some physical tasks.
"Nadia I don't think you understand the nature of your position. I can better explain with a tour. Follow me," Ben stated.
Although utterly confused, Nadia gathered her briefcase and began following her new boss/ lover.
"Notice anything different about my office?" Ben asked smugly.
She wasn't exactly sure what reply he was looking for, but she had done extensive research on BGM and was well aware of the statistics that set this company apart from its counterparts.
"Well I know that the company is always ranked highly for the best work environment, which is evident in the plush lounge area, and that it's always ranked highly for the number of female employees, which I have seen plenty of." Nadia replied matter of factly yet still unsure about where he was going with this.
"Exactly. A lot of women workers. Beautiful women workers. Not to say that they aren't also great at their jobs, but lets face it more people want to buy whatever a bunch of beautiful women are selling. Now with that being said every one of those women holds a masters degree in their field so I trust them to run things pretty efficiently. You however are a college student intern. That means that while you are a beautiful girl I trust you with nothing. Your job will be simply to chat with some of my clients, and come to work looking stunning. Understood?" Ben stated as if he had not just deeply insulted her intelligence.
Nadia stood staring at him stunned. She was absolutely speechless. Never in her mind could she have fathomed that a man could be such a complete and utter ass. She was just about to open her mouth to speak her mind when Ben interrupted.
"O but I will write a great job description for your resume and whatever references you may need, if you do well this summer," he said knowing this would make her reevaluate whatever she was about to say.
Ben knew women all too well. She would accept whatever he wanted her to do because he knew his company's prestige was worth it to her.
"Could you excuse me for a moment," Nadia stated more than asked.
She power walked down the hallway to the bathroom trying to make a decision. Damnit! He was right. She did need this for her resume, and it was too late to just go to another company for an internship. But she couldn't just be some dumb office tramp! She had worked too hard to achieve the great grades and respect she had at school to end up doing meaningless work all summer. Normally in a situation like this she would call Alyssa for help, but as she had not informed her best friend of the true nature of her relationship with Ben she figured this wouldn't be the best time to get a lecture. She and Ben had been sleeping together pretty regularly since their first encounter during the school year. That was months ago, and now here she was stuck in a predicament she had started. What to do? What to do? She raked her brain.
After debating with herself mentally for at least ten minutes, she marched out of the bathroom and into Ben's office.
She cleared her throat to give her speech, "Mr. Morrison, I accept the work you have outlined for me, but I want you to know that you will be severely underutilizing my productivity. I am smart and highly capable of any tasks this company or any other has for me. You have seen my resume so I know that you are more than aware of what I am capable of. However, if it is still your decision to keep me in the role which you stated I am prepared to do that as long as my resume and reference letter reflect more real world marketing experience," Nadia said without a pause for air.
"Great. Now here is your corporate credit card. I expect you to go buy some work clothes that are more tailored to your body's curves, and I will see you tonight at 8pm sharp at Houston's restaurant for a dinner with a potential client. O and you might also want to have something done to your nails."
Ben never even looked up from his papers as he pushed the card across his desk to her. He already knew she would accept working there. After all who wouldn't?
"Is there anything else you will be needing from me today sir?" Nadia said with plenty of attitude and an eye roll for emphasis.
"Just for you to lose the attitude. You're excused now," Ben said while making a shooing motion.
She wanted so badly to reach across that desk and break his arm, but instead she contained her rage and headed for her car. O she was excessively angry, but his corporate bank account is what she intended to take it out on. The rest of her day would be spent inside of Barney's, Neiman Marcus, and Mitchell's spa and salon, on him of course.
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"O my God! Girl did you rob a bank, hit the lotto, or do I need to make a call to Mr. VanZandt and tell him you went wild with his credit card?" Alyssa immediately exclaimed when her roommate continued bringing in more and more bags with expensive store names on them.
Laughing, Nadia answered her nosy roommate, "Naw girl, I told you this job paid well. They gave me a salary advance today so I figured I'd treat myself."
"Uh huh well as long as you didn't "treat yourself" out of the rent money I guess we are good. Now show me your stuff!" Alyssa replied still suspicious but too happy to rifle through her roommates new purchases.
As they looked through the $6000 worth of low cut and tight fitting suits, pants, skirts, blouses, and dresses, all Alyssa said was "Ooh girl you know that's too little for you, you should let me have that" or "now when that goes missing don't come looking for it".
They spent the better part of 2 hours looking through everything, and hanging it all in her closet. Glancing at her watch, Nadia noticed it was 7:45pm.
"O shit! I forgot about my business meeting tonight. Ben is going to kill me!" Nadia screamed while panicking.
"What kind of business meeting starts at night? And since when are you and the CEO of BGM on a first name basis?" Alyssa suspiciously asked with an upturned eyebrow.
It was official something was up with her roommate and this new job. She wanted the scoop and she wanted it now.
"No time to explain. Got to shower, dress, and get there. I'm never going to make it. Shit! First day and I'm already messing up an easy job," Nadia stated more to herself than anyone else.
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Looking at his watch, Ben was now livid. Where the hell was Nadia? This is why he never trusted interns with anything truly important. He was glad he had called Liz to come to the meeting as well or he would have had no women available to entertain his client at all.
When Liz walked into the restaurant all eyes were on her. She wore a form fitting black dress that dipped dangerously low around her huge cleavage. She always wore dresses that highlighted her cleavage since she was lacking in the ass and curves departments. Her long blonde hair hung in loose curls and combined with the high heel stilettos she wore, she cold have easily been mistaken for a porn star or high class hooker. She found Ben sitting with an older Asian man who couldn't seem to peel his eyes off her breasts.
He looked absolutely delicious. His blonde hair was slicked back giving him a very suave yet professional look, and it was clear that he had also had his mustache trimmed. The black suit he wore with a white under shirt made him look as sexy as 007 himself, but with a much better body. It was taking all her will power not to drug his whiskey and drag him to her car.
"Mr. Lee, this is Liz Montgomery. She is my personal assistant. I'm sure you have met via phone on multiple occasions," Ben said while standing to greet Liz with a handshake.
"Nice to meet you Mr. Lee," Liz said while smiling and shaking his hand.
"Ben, you didn't tell me your personal assistant was so beautiful," Mr. Lee replied while shaking Liz's hand and staring directly at her breasts.
The meeting proceeded with Mr. Lee unable to take his eyes off of Liz. She giggled more than necessary to make her breasts jiggle during the conversation, and was hoping he wasn't the only one watching.
Ben could have cared less about Liz's bouncy cleavage, he was just glad he had Mr. Lee distracted as he negotiated the contract for BGM to be the sole marketing contractor of Lee's company.