CPOV

"Darling, shall we go into the office and discuss everything there?", Elena asks me.

"Of course. After all I need to be up to date if I want to go back to the Grey House tomorrow," I reply. Such a stupid question.

We go into my office and take our seats at the table. Elena marches straight up to my armchair and is about to sit down on it as I clear my throat quite noisily. She flinches, takes a look at me and a small, excusing smile appears on her face before she places herself on one of the leather chairs standing in front of my desk.

"So, Elena, what did I miss?", I ask her slightly on the edge. She's acting like the company belongs to her. I believe I'll have to show her who's in charge. Just acting like the boss as she does in her beauty shops isn't enough; as a real leader you have to keep track of everything going on and you also need a deep knowledge about every aspect to be able to spot and correct mistakes made by your employees in time. Elena gets up and fetches a pile of papers and folders.

"This covers everything that has been done while you were gone. I hope everything's according to your wishes. Of course Ros helped me with some of it," she says while placing the pile in front of me on the table.

'She 'helped' with 'some of it'? It's rather that she did everything by herself and you try to adorn yourself with borrowed plumes!' I think to myself as I begin to take a look at the documents. I am quite content despite the fact that not everything is perfect but it seems like all the time and work I spent to make Ros acquainted with the processes within the company was worth it. As soon as I complete my examination of the documents I lean back relieved.

"That's not bad looking!" I say appreciatively. I should raise Ros' salary.

"Thank you! I've told everyone at GEH that you prolonged your business trip as I didn't want to cause a scandal before anything was certain. If your disappearance had leaked to the media our stock prices might have fallen, and I didn't want to risk that. I had to lie to your family too since I didn't want to break their hearts without any proof in hand, but that part wasn't too complicated as you only show up at their place about once a month. I once again had to promise your mother to change this as soon as we are married. But if you hadn't reappeared soon I would have had to tell them the truth.

"That was really considerate of you," I acknowledge her effort. If you can prevent that anybody has to worry about their own child, then you should do so as there is nothing worse than unnecessary suffering.

"See, Christian, I told you that the two of us are and always have been an invincible team. And as soon as we will be married nothing's gonna stop us!" she replies to me.

"Yes, you are probably right," I murmur.

"Since this is sorted out for now let's change over to the pleasing part of our discussion," she says and gets up to hand me three folders. "Here are three hand-picked subs for you, whose hard limits are nearly matching yours. You had none for two months now and I believe that you need a new one as soon as possible to become your old self again," she says and winks at me.

I take the folders but I can't bring myself to open them. During the last two months I have had someone and she has been simply perfect. Sadly all of it was just a game to her.

I put her off with a, "Maybe later," and push the folders aside.

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