You Can Run But You Can't Hide My Contractual Wife novel Chapter 73

Arabella went back to her room gritting and clenching her fists. ‘That bastard!’ She had cursed him over and over again. She heaved a heavy breath and tried to forget what had happened earlier inside his room. How foolish she was, to think that Bill would treat her better. He’s still as arrogant as he was. How could she let him be her daughter’s father? He could have Trishia and all other women for all he cares, but she won’t allow herself to be included as one of his women not even a father to her child.

After calming herself, she walked out the office and went to the HR department. Just maybe the HR manager of Sky Corporation wasn’t that arrogant as their big boss, but when she got to the big HR department, someone had led her to the HR Vice President’s office.

“Good morning, Arabella Jones from NZ Cosmetics.” She smiled at the well-made and refined, old woman probably in her 60s.

“Nice to finally meet you Ms. Jones. Please have a seat. I’m Claire Perry.” Claire gave her hand to Arabella to welcome her. After, Arabella sat on the chair in front of her table appreciating Claire’s down to earth personality.

“What can I help you about?” Claire asked her directly.

“I want to know who was the CEO’s secretary? I haven’t met her yet. I wonder if she was on leave or perhaps, having a business trip abroad. As of now, I am staying at her office.” Arabella blurted everything out. All she wanted was to settle her working station so she could focus on her work or maybe she could transfer to another floor. Anywhere just not to see the arrogant every day.

“Ms. Jones, Mr. Sky didn’t have a secretary.” Claire just simply replied.

“What?” Arabella was shocked. A CEO with no secretary? It was quite unusual. Other CEOs had so many people around while Bill, the biggest and the richest, had none. Arabella had almost dropped her jaw in front of Claire.

“Ms. Jones, I don’t really share this, because this is a confidential matter.” Quite hesitant, Claire uttered. “But, okay. Since you are too eager, I will tell you, but you promise me that, it’s only for the two of us. Can you?” Before seeing Arabella in person, Claire was already familiar with her. She remembered Arabella’s face in the newspaper that was linked with their young CEO. Now that she was working in their company with the direct order of their big boss, one could easily conclude their relationship to each other.

“I promise.” Arabella’s face shown her full eagerness on the matter after all, it was also concerning her.

“After Mr. Sky fired Sharon with no exact reason, he didn’t want to have a secretary anymore. Only the Vice President could go up and report everything to him. In my analyzation, he fired Sharon because of trust issues and that made our CEO sensitive on trusting others.” Claire had no one to talk about this matter so she heaved a sigh of relief that finally she found someone willing to listen on her with confidentiality of course.

Arabella remembered everything that day when Sharon kidnapped her and pointed her with a gun. It suddenly gave her a chill down her spine remembering that traumatizing scene of her life. Arabella also remembered that Sharon had claimed Bill Sky to be their mastermind. Remembering Bill’s evil intent, it added up to her incensed towards him.

“If I am not mistaken, There’s that name Debbie? What about her.” Arabella asked, remembering Sharon’s assistant.

“Mr. Sky also fired her.” Claire answered, raising up her shoulders, feeling sorry for the young girl, Debbie.

Such a merciless man! Arabella couldn’t withstand her annoyance with Bill.

“Do you have any news about Sharon?” She was curious what had happened to her after the incident.

“Hmmm… I’m not sure, but allegedly, she was in prison, but it’s not because of Mr. Sky. It had something to do with her personal debts. But I don’t know where her location is.” Claire explained without any hint why Arabella was asking too much about the issue.

Caught in her thought, if only she knew where’s Sharon, she could just have persuaded her to tell the truth about her father’s case. Until now, her father’s case wasn’t moving due to lack of evidence. And that Bill Sky was the hindrance of everything. Adding everything up, she had hated him to death.

“Are you okay Ms. Jones?” Claire snapped Arabella back to her senses.

“Yeah. Sorry about that.” Arabella composed herself back to her normal self.

“By the way,” Claire then took a paper inside her drawer. “Maybe you are interested on this.” Then she gave the documents to Arabella. “Since Mr. Sky only allows you to step on his floor, maybe you might consider the position as his secretary. The CEO’s secretary had the highest compensation among all secretaries here. It’s comparable to the Assistant Vice President’s salary here, plus the allowances and freebies.” Claire explained in a way to get her approval.

This was her main reason why she wanted to speak with Arabella for she knew their CEO would not go against her decision. For 20 years of working in Sky Corporation, the CEO’s secretary had always had the highest salary among all managers and other upper positions. This because, Mr. Sky had a high standard for choosing his secretary. Assisting billions of dollar worth of man, like their CEO, was a great responsibility so, it was just right for his secretary to have the biggest salary.

“Wait. What?” Arabella was astonished by what she had heard. First, she was shocked from Claire’s offer to her. Secondly, she almost dropped her jaw when she heard the salary of Bill’s secretary.

“Here. If you are interested, signed it here. I feel this contract was printed over a decade, but I don’t just give this to someone.” Claire said jokingly, but with a manner that one could easily agree to her offer. She’s been handling so many people and dealing with them was just a piece of cake for her. She wouldn’t be hired in Sky Corporation if she wasn’t the best HR VP.

The salary and her status as Bill’s secretary made Arabella quite lost in her thought. If she would go for money, then maybe she could save more enough for some more months before her tummy would be obvious. But agreeing to be Bill’s secretary was like putting herself into a dungeon. It was a suicidal option.

Who cares? They had already done that thing anyway. What could be the worst other than that? The important thing now, was how she could survive with her baby without Bill in their life? Actually, her mind wasn’t made up yet about letting Bill know about the baby, but one thing she was sure of, she needed to get ready for her and her baby’s future.