At least this morning she remembered what Stefano had told her not to go to Costa and to use the company cafeteria which was located on the fifth floor.
At least it would still be hot when she arrived. She pushed the door open with the foot of the coffee in both hands. ‘Argh good morning Miss. Blackwood nice to see you’re early.’
She turned to look at him smiling. ‘Good morning to you Mr Tanner. I took your advice and went to the cafeteria to get our coffees.’ She replied walking over to his desk.
‘Glad to hear it, Miss. Blackwood. I hope you remembered how I took it?’
‘I did sir.’
‘Please sit we have a lot to get through today.’
She nodded sitting in the chair by his desk and placing her coffee on the mat provided on his desk. ‘Firstly we have to go through these proposals for this afternoon's meeting, then I have to continue your training so you are up to date with our systems.’ It's going to be a long day Miss. Blackwood, I hope you're up to it?’
‘Yes sir.’
‘Please call me Stefano or Mr Tanner, no sir. I’m not your high school teacher.’
‘Okay, Mr Tanner.’
He smiled. ‘Better. But you can call me Stefano whilst we’re alone.’
‘And you can call me Ryleigh.’
He smirked. ‘Shall we begin Ryleigh?’
‘Sure.’
They drank their coffees going over the paperwork for the afternoon's meeting. They slumped back and sighed. ‘Thank f**k that’s sorted. I hate paperwork.’ He smiled.
She returned his smile. ‘So Ryleigh are you in a relationship ?’
‘Hugh?’ She asked confused, wasn't that a little personal?
‘I’m just asking, seeing as we will be spending a lot of time together and I don’t want any jealous boyfriend turning up to pound my face in.’
‘No there’s not, we drifted apart a while ago. Just say my dad wasn’t keen on my choice of boyfriend.’
He nodded. ‘Good cause we will be going overseas in a month to Italy to my father’s company to make sure all is running smoothly and to merge with Crystal enterprises.’
‘Isn’t that a big name in Italy?’
‘Wow have you done your homework Ryleigh.’
She smiled.
‘Yes, it is. They’re one of our main competitors and with a merge, it could bring a lot of business our way as we plan to expand abroad.’
‘Are you only based down here and in Italy?’
‘And France we’re hoping to expand once the contracts are signed.’
She nodded.
‘Shall we eat Ryleigh? We have a busy afternoon. It's a long-ass meeting so make sure you take plenty of notes which you can type up in the morning when I show you where we store all of our meeting minutes.’
She nodded.
They pulled themselves up heading for the cafeteria. ‘What would you like to eat Miss. Blackwood.’
‘I’ll get my thanks for the offer.’
‘Nonsense let me treat you.’
‘I can’t.’
‘You can think of it as a welcome lunch.’
‘Fine.’ She sighed.
‘Your turn tomorrow.’ He grinned.
‘I knew there was something in your gesture.’
‘So you're not just a pretty face you’re clever too?’
She flushed, was he flirting with her? God, he’d be in so much s**t with their fathers if he were.
‘Choose whatever you like Miss. Blackwood.’
She nodded.
They picked their lunch which was similar. Chicken and salad wrap a juice cookie the same in his part from the slice of chocolate cake. ‘Are you sure that’s all you want Miss? Blackwood? Cake?’
‘No, I’m fine thanks.’
He nodded and paid for their food and drinks sitting down to eat. ‘They’re all staring.’
‘Ignore them, Miss. Blackwood.’
‘Why are they staring?’
‘Because you’re with me.’
‘Oh.’
‘They’re just surprised, well shocked they think I’m a hard ass.’
‘And are you?’
‘I like to think I am when need be.’
They ate their lunch and had their juices, they both headed for the men’s and ladies' restrooms before grabbing what they needed for the meeting. ‘Good afternoon this is my new P.A. Miss. Blackwood. She’ll be sitting in on our meeting today to take notes to email you personally. Shall we begin?’
They sat down beginning. The meeting. After the meeting was finally finished they all shook hands and left the board room. ‘Shall we Miss. Blackwood?’
‘Absolutely Mr Tanner.’
He smiled and they walked to the elevator getting in from the long-ass ride to their floor. ‘I think that went extremely well. I think you’re going to need a new notepad Miss. Blackwood.’ He chuckled.
She tried not to laugh; she'd written a lot of notes this afternoon through the three-and-a-half-hour meeting.
They stepped out of the elevator heading for his office. ‘Take a seat Ryleigh so we can begin your training.’
She sat at his desk and he sat beside her waiting for the laptop to boot up. ‘I’ll give you the passwords tomorrow. They are for this office use only, so no telling anyone or there will be consequences do you understand Miss. Blackwood?’
‘I do Mr Tanner.’
‘Excellent, let’s get the show on the road shall we?’
She nodded and they began her training.
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