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Chapter 3

"Women" smirked a cold deep voice, the speaker's cruel amusement was obvious "I'm afraid I only find women good for only one reason" he scoffed lightly "and I don't mean house work he added lightly, bless them".

Relena stepped back with a gasp. What arrogance! What nerve and what a jerk. The meaning behind his statement was obvious and she was frozen in place by the shock of it while his companion spoke. She knew she should really knock on the door and aware them of her presence before they made matters worse, but she was held mesmerized by the sheer arrogance of the words that had just passed through the door.

"Come on now Heero" said the other man, this voice sounded younger. He had called the first speaker Heero confirming Relena that Heero Yuy had made that insulting remark on her fare sex, on her and worst of all he was her future new boss.

"You like women as much as I do, and from what I know possibly even more" he continued.

"I enjoy them" Heero Yuy had corrected. "I don't think that I ever actually liked them, but I have desired them, true. But I find them preferable as bed companions than anything else".

"If one of them could here you speaking the way you do right now……….."

But one can, Relena wanted to scream. She had never felt this disgusted and disregarded by anyone. How a man as successful, rich and good looking as Heero Yuy judge all women by the type he has been associated, she didn't understand, the guy had to be pretty thick to actually think that, but then again it was entirely his fault he went after the wrong kind of women in the first place.

In television for all she knew about him he appeared more guarded and he seemed to have good manners bred into him, the type of manners and….. sex appeal which left women weak kneed, but right now most of what she thought about him had been turned upside down. So this is what a real play boy is like, in flesh, his looks and charm had obviously done him no good whatsoever, making him cynical about women.

"Why should they care?" he replied carelessly.

"They are obviously well compensated for their… um.. charms shall we say" he added with a sneer, "jewellery and clothing. No woman will ever trap me into marriage while there are women like that about, but they can never accuse me of being cruel" he concluded.

"Oh I am sure" laughed his companion.

Relena just about had enough, she didn't think she could listen further to any more of this disgusting conversation, besides one never heard any good about one's self when eavesdropping, in this case it was her entire species that was humiliated and slaughtered.

With a grim expression she knocked firmly on the door and entered when bade to do so.

"Yes" Heero raised one dark eyebrow his Prussian blue eyes cynical yet handsome.

Relena assessed Heero with a rather haughty disapproving look before she spoke "Mr. Yuy I am supposed to be the new added member into your staff and you had requested a meeting, however.." she paused and looked at the other occupant in the room, a blond haired man with crystal blue eyes, who smiled at her in acknowledgement "I see you have company, so I will come back later, I do apologize if I interrupted anything….important" she said all this on a casual tone as if she had heard nothing of their previous conversation but her eyes were chips of ice.

"Ah right, Thank you for reminding" he smiled at her, a lazy smile; she knew this was part of his charm and snorted inwardly to herself, bastard.

"Um would it be alright if we could meet up later, say about in another 15 minutes, I was just rapping things up with Mr. Rebarba here" said Heero looking at his watch.

Relena gave a stiff nod and exited the room without a backward glance but she did catch the last comments of the two members as she hesitated a while behind the now closed door.

"And that Quatra was an ice queen, my least favorite"

"What?" asked the other man who was obviously puzzled, the younger man she knew as Quatra Rebarba another multi billionaire who was plentiful in any tabloid.

"come on please tell me you didn't realize the chill that passed, she was the feminist type who secretly wished for more sex than anyone, hypocrites, bet you anything if I played my cards right she'd be playing a different tune in my bed" he added laughing. Relena gritted her teeth, oh we'll have to see about that don't we, she thought furiously.

Two hours ago……

Everything she passed was a grey blur, and all she managed to notice were muffled sounds. She was late and she knew it, it wasn't like her to be late, but after Duo had left last night, she and Hilde had done the cleaning and talked late into the night without even realizing it, so naturally Relena had over slept which would have her fired on the very first day of her new job. She wanted this job, it was good money and god knows she needed the financial boost.

She was running towards the tall building with a Starbucks held in one hand. She needed the caffeine if she at least hoped to look like she was not going through a hangover. Because Hilde had said it like it was this morning when she saw Relena at breakfast and that was 'shit', she looked like shit.

She skidded at the automatic double doors which opened to admit her inside, a blurry looking security person gave her a stern look, while she tilted half the contents of her hand bag to pull out her office ID card. He looked at it and gave her another look and nodded as if she qualified for not being an imposter.

She gave a hasty thanks to the guy and ran towards the elevator, and squeezed in the very last nanosecond with a bunch of Gucci clad women who looked at her as if she was a slug in her cotton trousers and jumper. Relena really didn't give a damn; she was always a practical thinker and to be sad over some pair of trousers which could be worth her entire loan was just sad in itself.

The chrome control panel lighted Floor 13, and the doors slid open, Relena walked out and headed towards the front desk which had a blond secretary who was on her head set talking away, the woman gave Relena one assessing glance and then completely ignored her while she went on with her call. Relena had patience and she was glad of that, so she waited for the bimbo with the fake boob transplants to deflate her air filled head a little.

Once the call was over the women said "you might be in the wrong floor?" ok correction, she is a fake boobed, air headed, bimbo bitch.

"I am here as part of the team for Mr. Yuy, I was supposed to start work today" she said calmly. The blond looked like she was struck by lightning but she recovered soon, she pointed towards a passage way to her right "Mr. Yuy is in the last office of the passage on the left, you will know from the door" she said and went back to typing on her computer.

That was when the door stood ajar and she heard voices from inside…

Present time….

Relena was slamming away into the keyboard at her new work station, she didn't even realize she had an amazing view from there, she just wanted throttle her boss, scratch that boil him in acid more like, a slow painful way she thought and laughed at herself.

"Care to share the joke" said a male voice.

She turned around knowing full well who it was; Heero Yuy was leaning against the door way to her work station and was looking at her with amusement. That jerk she thought mentally wanting to slap that smirk from his face.

"Mr. Yuy, I didn't hear you come in" she said ignoring his comment.

He looked at her a little longer and walked forwards and pulled a chair and sat down, he stretched his long legs and put one elbow over side of his chair, he looked as if he was at home, relaxed, which according to Relena was very inappropriate way for a boss to behave.

He grabbed her file form her desk and flopped it open and looked into it then he finally lifted his head after a few minutes and looked at her again this time he looked curious.

"So Miss Peacecraft, why do I get the feeling I have heard your name somewhere before" he said slowly.

Relena knew why, but she didn't want to drag her family in to this converstaion so she just shrugged "I don't know, it could be a pretty common last name" she said lightly hoping he won't realize she wanted to be evasive.

He looked back at the file and then at her and smiled "Of course, how can I not see the resemblance, silver blond hair, tall, blue eyes, fare… you are related to Zechs?" he asked, shocking her by using her brothers nickname which meant Heero Yuy knew Milliardo on a more personal level.

Relena sat still, this was not going at all the way she wanted it to go, she should have realized it from the moment she overheard her boss through the door to his office.

"Well?" he asked still waiting for her to confirm his suspicions.

"I don't see the relevance of my private life in here Mr. Yuy" she said stiffly.

His eyes twinkled "oh it is important considering Zechs is one of my business associates and I also know him outside of business as well, you are a cousin I suppose because I didn't know he had any sisters?" he asked looking at her once again as if he was comparing her to Milliardo again mentally.

"we are related, but not close" she said shortly, she didn't want any more to come out of it, and specially didn't want him to know that she was in fact her brothers only sister.

He nodded and didn't seem to drag any further on the subject which made Relena feel better, her tension going away.

"I see you study at Wing University, another coincidence" he said looking at her again, his expression was blank but she realized he was studying her every move and she was definitely going to be on guard with this guy and her wall was going to be even greater that the great wall of China against this man.

"Yes" she simply replied hinting she didn't care for whatever coincidence it was.

He smiled and seemed to think that it was again better left alone. "Well, welcome to the Gundam family, if you need anything please talk to our HR manager, who is Katie Smith and she will be able to sort you out" he stood up and walked towards the door. Relena visibly relaxed, but he turned one last time.

"There is plenty of coffee at our breakout area, you look like you need it" he smiled and walked off.

Relena stared at the spot where he stood, and huffed out like a bull, that man just brings the worst out of her, she didn't think all her patience and skill that she had mastered over the years could help her with him.

Relena was back at home and she was tired as hell, but she wanted to tell Hilde about what happened at work, because Hilden was a big fan of Heero Yuy, as most women were and Relena wanted to tell her how her oh so awesome hunk was a punk with a pole up his…

Hilde walked in few minutes later looking as tired as Relena, she smiled and said "coffee drive are we?"

Relena nodded drinking her umpteenth cup of black coffee.

"How's work?" asked Hilde stifling a yawn.

Relena smiled and started her tale of the prince charming that is not so charming, like in Shrek.

Hilde looked horrified her reaction was as if they announced that the Nobel peace prize was given to a terrorist. She kept shaking her head in disappointment but Relena was enjoying the melodrama, it was way better quality than the crappy acting they have in the soaps.

Hilde finally got herself together and said through a teary voice, to which Relena rolled her eyes "I will make him pay Rel, that man drained me of faith, how nasty can a good looking stud be".

"Oh for Pete's sake Hil, get yourself a life and living breathing boyfriend, your scaring the life out of me" said Relena irritated at her friends over do.

Hilde quickly recovering smiled "Guess who asked me out?" she asked all hyper.

"Duo" said Relena looking bored.

"Yes! And I said ok" she said smiling "I thought about what you said and I am taking a step, he seems real nice and I know him for like oh whenever and he really likes me".

"I know Hil and I am very happy for you and I couldn't approve a more appropriate guy other than Duo" said Relena genuinely.

Hilde looked at Relena mischievously and said "we have to get you fixed as well Rel"

Relena raised a delicate eyebrow and laughed "Sweet heart love sickness is not for everyone"

"Oh well let's just say I plan to kill two birds with one stone" said Hilde walking off to the bathroom for a shower.

"What do you mean?" asked Relena suddenly going stiff, if Relena knew better, which she did, Hilde and her plans always ended her in a mess.

"Hilde?" she asked raising her voice when she got no answer but the shower was already on.

Monday, the most damnable day of the week, it reminds people that they are doomed and that they have to work to live, seriously stone age did have its appeals, thought Relena as she stared at the stack of files on her desk, she had to go through the entire lot by today and she had an assignment to finish off for Uni.

Muttering under her breadth she started on the first file when her phone rang "Relena Peacecraft speaking" she said.

"You get in my office now" said a cold voice and hung up. She looked at her phone for several seconds unsure what that was all about.

She stacked the papers back into her file, annoyed that she couldn't get any work done and the time she was wasting listening a looser of a boss she had.

Heero's personal secretary Sarah Martin who was absent on the first day she walked into his office was present. She gave Relena a cool look. "Yes?"

"Mr. Yuy is expecting me. My name is Relena Peacecraft". Sarah gave her a disbelieving look but buzzed through to the inner office anyway. "Miss Peacecraft to see you, Mr. Yuy."

"Send her straight in"' he snapped, letting Relena know that his temper hadn't cooled at all since his telephone call to her, and god knew why.

The cool beautiful girl stood up with a slight raising of her eyebrows, as if she were mentally trying to work out the reason for her boss to see a mere nobody, but Relena had to agree with her that she was herself wondering the same thing.

"I know the way" Relena said shortly and walked towards the door.

Relena knocked on his door for the second time; he bade her curtly to enter. This time there was no charming smile for her, only a furious look on his face and an angry glitter to his eyes.

He stood up coming round his desk to walk slowly around her as she stood in front of his desk. He came back to rest on the front of his desk, his arms folded in front of his powerful chest.

Even in Relena's curious state of affairs she couldn't help but appreciate how attractive he looked, the expensive black three piece work suit fitting him as if it were tailored on him, his linen immaculate.

"care to explain?" he asked softly. Relena simply blinked, she had no idea what the hell he was talking about, she cleared her throat realizing that he was not going to say anything until he had an answer from her.

"Care to explain What Mr. Yuy?" she asked.

He smiled, this smile was cold and cruel, it had the opposite effect of what usually a smile had, maybe it should be called the anti smile, like anti matter.

"How you became the girl I am engaged to" he said softly.

This must be what they mean when time stops, Relena's breadth was caught, everything seemed to suspended for a brief period, the shock taking over her and she looked at him not really seeing him then she laughed, which was an odd reaction and surprised both herself and her boss.

She couldn't help herself, the longer she laughed she knew the reason why she laughed, the idea was ludicrous and she didn't even know Heero Yuy was a practical joker and such a dry joke at that.

"Seriously Mr. Yuy you are a funny man than I expected, what on the world are you saying" she continued to laugh.

His muscles became tense and he snarled "it's not a joke Peacecraft" he gave her a look from head to toe then thrust a newspaper to her, she caught it and read it and as she read she realized her blood was leaving her body.

She looked up at him, to see he was carefully watching her reaction "I…" she was dumbstruck she looked back at the paper which had the headlines stating her engagement to Heero Yuy and she spotted it on her second scan of the article, Hilde….no……………. a small piece at the end stating the informant was her.

"I didn't know" she said looking at him, her hands were shaking from shock and anger at her friend. So that's what she meant the other day thought Relena furiously.

Heero looked at her once again and nodded "I can see that you didn't, however I was not sure before but seeing that you look like a ghost, pale enough to be transparent.. but I did some investigation and I realized that the informant to the tabloid was your friend" he said shortly, which drained further colour form her.

"And then again women are such good actresses I can understand if you crave for some spot light, after all your Peacecraft relative does, you thought you can rub in a bit did you, or was it some money sham?" he asked testily. That was enough to bring Relena back to the mainland. She looked at him hard.

"Mr. Yuy I can honestly say that none of the above have anything to do with this, my friend is a romantic and thinks you're a great man, but I opened her eyes after my first day of work for the real you" she paused, Heero raised his eyebrows at this comment.

"I overheard you speaking that day about women as being mere objects and me being a ice queen" she continued "and well Hilde took the blow bad being a rather pathetic diehard fan of yours and I think this is a way of getting revenge, getting you married, as you so proudly said you couldn't get tangled with a woman to ever marry and the worst part being it was an ice queen you so detested" she said slowly.

Heero looked at her for a long time and said "So its revenge", she nodded "but bear in mind I had no play in it, I wouldn't stoop so low to teach a lesson for a less worthy person, I don't believe in wasting time, a loss cause is always a losing battle" she concluded.

She saw his eyes turn to slits at her comment and wondered if she pushed too far this time.

"You can just mention in the next issue that it was a mistake" she added hopefully.

He stood up again, his height making her feel very tiny and a feeling she didn't like. "You think it's easy as that do you? What a ridiculous child you are! I have had many calls from friends and family, and you remember Quatra don't you, he has invited us to a party which I have accepted" She frowned at him at his comment "you could have refused"

"How could I? They all wanted to look at you, and I didn't have time to think of a good excuse" he said flatly.

"But you- you can't mean this engagement to stand?" her voice was becoming thin now.

"Oh but I do. I'm in business I can't be seen to be engaged one day and renounce it the next day. That wouldn't do much for my reputation as a reliable businessman. Oh no Relena you started this by listening to what I had to say to a friend and spreading it, so you might as well see it through to the bitter end."

"Bitter end" she echoed hollowly.

Heero Yuy Just shrugged "just a figure of speech". Relena wasn't sure; there was an inflexibility about him that pointed to him not liking to be thwarted.

"But I don't want to be engaged to you" she said crossly. "I feel exactly the same but the fats in the fire now" he said smoothly.

She felt guilty, if she just kept her big mouth shut Hilde wouldn't have done this.

"Mm" he said thoughtfully "well that now it seems to be public knowledge you can start acting the part, we'll meet for lunch at 12.30 pm."

"I can't go out to lunch with you" she said hysterically "What would everyone think"

"They can think whatever damn they want to" he muttered grimly.

"I think you have taken this far enough, I admit that what I did was wrong and that I shouldn't have eavesdropped and said anything about it to anyone, and I'll leave your company straight away if it pleases you." Although how she was going to support herself until she got a new job god only knew.

"Relena" he said

"Don't call me that" she snapped.

"What would you have me call you- dearest, darling, my love?" He taunted.

She looked away "of course not!" Heero shrugged "Then I'll call you Relena. It is your name- and you are my fiancé," he added mockingly.

"I am not!"

"Oh yes, you are-until I say otherwise"

Her blue eyes widened "And how long do you think that will be?"

"Oh for, maybe 5 months" he told her carelessly.

"What!" she walked forward to rest her knuckles on the front desk. "now I know your joking!"

"I rarely joke about anything this serious."

"if you disagree Relena I can advise you now that your friend who leaked the news will be in trouble, I will take legal action"

Relena froze and knew by the hard look on his face he meant it. She slowly nodded.

"Now I need to speak to your family for consent, I can't just engage you like that" he added seeing her objection.

"I have no family, my parents are dead" she said quickly, he nodded at this.

"Fine then I shall see you at lunch" he opened the door for her and walked with her and said in a clear voice so his secretary could hear "see you darling, don't forget we meet at lunch" and gave a quick kiss on her lips, however brief the kiss was it sent sparks through Relena while she walked to her work station with the female secretary looking rather shocked at the new information of her boss and Relena.

Heero locked his door and advised Sarah not to pass any calls; he let out a sigh which he had been holding for some time. He looked at his work table and ran a hand through his hair, he needed to know as much as possible about his new fiancé he thought grimly.

He dialed a number and it rang for couple of seconds before a voice said "Hello?"

"Hello Zechs, Yuy here"

There was a pause "what do you want?" asked the Zechs Marquise as known by only few but he was known as Milliardo Peacecraft the Typhoon on the business world.

"I need some information on someone you may know in your long family tree" said Heero shortly.

"Who is it?" asked Zechs shortly.

"I think she might be one of your far related cousins, names Relena Peacecraft, heard of her, I need some scoop" said Heero feeling very tired all of a sudden, he had a bad day from the start today.

There was more silence from the other side and this time it was an uneasy one.

"Zechs?"

"What's she done now?" he asked coldly, Heero was relieved to know that Zechs knew this woman, or else he had to hire an investigator which was more trouble.

"Well nothing much except that she and I are engaged and she advised me she has no family, her parents are both dead so I thought I do a little background check."

"WHAT!" boomed the other side, Heero held the receiver out so he wouldn't go deaf.

"Well it's a bit of a misunderstanding by some tabloid which we will get sorted but I just still need to know who she is, but from the sound of it she seems to be bad news" Heero added drily.

"You bet she is, she is my bloody sister" bellowed Zechs.

Heero froze, his sister, what the fuck, "I thought you didn't have any siblings and she said nothing of a brother"

"well we have a rocky relationship, she moved out of the family and refused to go by nobility so she's off the family chart technically, but she is still my baby sister and I have tags on her without her knowledge, she doesn't know this, if she did she will have a fit" he added hastily.

"Oh" said Heero thinking he had himself in a right mess.

"So what you going to do Yuy?" asked Zechs.

"Well knowing who she is, I think we made the biggest business deal ever" said Heero thinking numbers.

Zechs was silent again, Heero can hear his brain working "it will be the best deal, yes, we wouldn't have any problems and our profits would benefit, however can you get her to marry you?" asked Zechs.

"Leave that to me" said Heero smirking.

"One last thing though, she can't know or we are toast" said Zechs lowly.

"Roger that" said Heero.

Then he kept the phone feeling a little better about the whole mess.

Bwhahaha!!!!! How do you like that for a twisted piece?? Too twisted?? I hope not, I love melodrama, not the crappy kind you find in soaps where you have the mum sleeping with the son in law and then the granddad, no way, what I mean is the real stuff that keeps the adrenaline level high in our bodies….

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