Chapter 86 - 86: Two Sides Of Satan
Inside the huge conference room, a suffocating atmosphere was surrounding the entire room.
The people sitting around the rectangular table were now sweating heavily. They looked like they had been tormented for ages. Some of them were the Department Heads while the rest were the staffs under them.
A group of five people were sitting on the sides waiting for their time to present.
At the center end of the table, the man who was causing all this terrifying atmosphere was sitting on his executive seat like a king that he should be.
Opposite him was the presenter of the Marketing Team that the Director of the Marketing Department had chosen for the project.
The poor lady was gulping her saliva hard and her legs were about to give way as she could no longer bear the torment that she was experiencing.
"How many times do I have to tell you to revise your presentation before you could point out what went wrong with the previous ones?" The King finally spoke.
The disappointment was heavily evident in every word that he uttered.
"I hired all of you to do the job and not the other way around! Goodness! Do you want me to point out your mistakes every time?!"
"No sir!" The female intern firmly said.
"I may not be a holder of a Master\'s Degree or a PhD in business...and yes, I only have a Master\'s Degree in Computer Technology in my academic record but how... how can I easily pinpoint what\'s wrong with your group presentations when all of you can\'t!"
Everyone was silent. They found no words to refute what he had said or even if they had one, nobody dared to say so.
"We have been doing this since...since when? Yesterday afternoon?" He paused as he heaved a deep sigh and continued, "I don\'t see myself continuing to work with you guys. Settle your respective last payments to the Accounting Department."
He had given them the chance as he could see himself in a few of them back in the days when he was still starting.
This was his fourth meeting with the department and he still had two more departments left for this meeting schedule. So, he had no time for this.
He planned to finish the meeting early as he wanted to go home and be with his wife. Being away from her every minute was like killing him.
"Chairman please!" Everyone immediately dropped on their knees to beg for another chance.
However the person was unbothered by it as he had already set his mind. He had given them a second chance but he had disappointed him this time.
The room was in a mess as everyone was pleading for another chance to prove their worth in the company.
But everything came to a halt when all of a sudden, the door swung open revealing a woman wearing white shoes, clean black denim jeans, and a creamy chiffon top over her knitted maroon blazer. Her neck was also covered with a mocha colored scarf.
Her face was hidden behind her black face mask and big round sunglasses. Her hair was also tied in a ponytail and was covered by a baseball cap.
Despite dressing simple outfits, her aura was very strong. Not in a sense that they were intimidated but they were calmed by her presence.
The woman was holding something like a bento wrapped in a golden silk cloth.
Behind her, a woman wearing a lady guard outfit was bringing plastic bags which contained something that looked like food packs.
They inwardly cursed as they thought the sudden intrusion would even worsen their boss\'s mood.
One of his personal assistant was also about to drag her out of the room but as he saw Tiger and Marco behind her, he immediately came to a stop, bowed for respect and moved on the sides as he waited for his upcoming punishment.
Witnessing the proud PA\'s (Tang Hao) reaction and attitude towards the new arrival, they could not help but be curious of the woman\'s identity.
They then turned their attention to their boss and was dumbfounded when they saw a smile on his face and the air suddenly lighten as soon as the woman entered.
"Am I seeing it right? Or am I just hallucinating? The Satan\'s smiling?" One of the employees asked in disbelief.
"No, you aren\'t as I\'m seeing it, too." The sudden change of his mood freaked everyone out.
"Is the world about to end?" One bravely asked since he would be leaving the company.
"No, it\'s not. I\'m just here to deliver that man\'s bento and not to end the world." The woman joked as she looked at the people around the room.
The man immediately stood up from his seat and he slowly walked towards her.
Actually no! She only felt like he was slowly walking towards her when in fact the man had immediately dashed to her side the moment he saw her.
As soon as he closed the distance between them, he immediately wrapped her around his strong embrace making the cap to fall off her head showing off her silky black hair and fringe.
"Hubby, I can\'t breathe." She said in a muffled voice which was enough for him to hear.
"I\'m sorry. You surprised me!" He immediately apologized as soon as he released her from the hug. He was so happy and touched at the same time that he could not control his emotions.
"It\'s okay...but...why don\'t you let them have a five minute break to at least eat something before you would resume this meeting?" She softly spoke as her gaze scanned the entire room.
"I bet all of you had not eaten lunch yet. A five minute break won\'t cause too much, right?" She said as she asked for everyone\'s approval.
Though they could not see her face clearly because of everything that\'s in her face, with her voice alone, they could already tell that she was an angel sent from above to save them from the Satan\'s wrath.
Since everyone was silent, Kim Eunji took it as a yes and instructed Marco and Tiger to distribute the food packs to them.
Looking at the relieved faces of his employees, Kim Eunji immediately dragged Nathan into his seat.
"And you Mr. Bai should eat yours too." However Nathan had taken what she said into a different meaning and naughtily whispered, "Then, let\'s go to my office so I could eat you out."
"--__--" Kim Eunji.
"You shameless man!" She yelled and smacked the top of his head playfully making his employees even more flabbergasted by the scene.
"Did she just smack Chairman\'s head? Did she just laid her hands on the Satan and he was letting her?" They asked to each other.
"She did."
"Calm down kitten, I\'m just teasing you." He smilingly said.
Kim Eunji unwrapped the bento and opened it. When she did, the tasty and fragrant smell came out from the box.
It was only one dish since she had no time to prepare another one. She arrived back at the mansion around 2:30 PM. Good thing she had already instructed Aunt Lucy to prepare the ingredients beforehand.
The food packs on the other hand were bought from a nearby restaurant a few blocks away. She had called Marco to ask how many employees were inside the conference room earlier that\'s why she knew the exact number. Including those that were still waiting for their time to present in front of the directors.
There were a total of 25 people inside the conference room. Quite crowded.
It was already four in the afternoon and she could not help but feel pity for his employees for being with such a tyrant boss.
Also she wanted to smack the man for skipping his meals. He kept on reminding her to be careful. Reminding her to not skip any meal, but when it comes to him, he was taking his health for granted.
Feeling that his wife was disappointed with him, Nathan grabbed her waist abruptly making her to sit on his lap.
He buried his nose at the back of her neck and inhaled her intoxicating scent making the latter to shiver as she could feel his warm breath fanning her sensitive neck and the tip of his nose poking her skin.
Nathan was not contented and he poked his tongue out and licked her sensitive spot making the latter to bite her lower lip in order to stop a moan from escaping her lips.
He slightly turned her body around for the latter to face him. He knew she was shy because of what he did and he could tell that she was glaring at him underneath that eye glasses.
He slowly removed her eyeglasses which the latter protested at first but Nathan coaxed her and eventually she gave in.
"It\'s okay Wifey, it\'s safe here. See?" He whispered on her ears.
Nathan let her to look around the room and there she saw that none of them were looking.
This made Kim Eunji to be at ease.
Nathan then removed her mask as he really wanted to kiss her. Just a peck would do.
He was about to kiss her when Kim Eunji suddenly covered her lips with her palm.
"Your employees are watching us." She reminded him.
"They won\'t mind. So don\'t mind them."
"Nathan!" Kim Eunji slightly raised her voice to let him know her objection.
"Love, please? This meeting\'s draining me. I need some energy." He said in a cute voice making his employees to be struck dumbfounded.
"Then eat this food." Kim Eunji shoved the bento in his hand however Nathan\'s playful side acted up again.
"Don\'t want to. I need an appetizer. I need a kiss."
"--__--" Everyone.
Though they were speechless, they still secretly threw a glance towards their direction and suddenly became in daze with Kim Eunji\'s beauty.
Some immediately recognized who she was as they had seen her as Nathan\'s date during the Bai Enterprise, now Bai Corp.\'s dinner party.
"It\'s the pretty lady Chairman brought at the party." One employee recognized her.
"Really? Gosh! She\'s so pretty even without make up. I thought she was only beautiful because of make up that night." The other one expressed her envy.
"Stop praising her. Who knows she\'s just like those models and actresses that were linked to Chairman. Vixen." One bitter staff uttered.
A lot had the same opinion with her but even so, they still praised her peerless beauty.
Kim Eunji heard her but she didn\'t mind about it.
Afraid that their Satan Boss would caught them looking at the woman, they immediately bowed down their heads as if nothing happened.
"--__--" Kim Eunji was both speechless and amused at the same time. She was speechless by how Nathan had shamelessly uttered his request and at the same time she was amused to see the employees\' reaction.
"Please? Pretty please?" Nathan playfully pleaded.
"A kiss on the cheek?" Kim Eunji tried to negotiate. There\'s no way she would let him kiss her in front of many people.
"No!" Nathan protested.
"What are you? A five year old?! Five minutes is about to end Mr. Bai. You better eat now." Kim Eunji decided to stay in her role.
She\'s here to deliver his food. She\'ll leave when he finished eating. That\'s the plan.
"Okay. Just on the cheek but you\'ll kiss me instead...twice." Nathan finally agreed.
"--__--"
Nathan\'s playful attitude had reached to another level making his people to be struck dumbfounded to the nth time.
"Geez!"
"Don\'t want to? Then... I won\'t eat this food!" Nathan suddenly turned into a grumpy kid. She placed the bento back to the table.
This time, Kim Eunji was in a total loss for words to say.
Now\'s the time to tell on who\'s more whipped between them.
"Just a kiss. Don\'t you love me anymore?" Nathan repeated.
"Mr. Bai, can you be more shameless than this? Aren\'t you afraid that your employee\'s view towards you would change?"
"I don\'t care." He replied nonchalantly as he shrugged his shoulder.
"And why do you keep calling me by that formal name? Are you ashamed of me?" Nathan added. Well, he knew that his wife was afraid to reveal their relationship to them. But he had to let them know who she is in his life.
"Of course not. But--"
"Wifey, they can\'t do anything about it even if we revealed in front of them that we\'re already married. They had signed a confidentiality agreement the moment I took over the company and became the Chairman of the Board. What they knew here must stay here or else they\'d be facing five years of imprisonment." Nathan truthfully stated.
How did their playful talk escalates into something like this?
To make things not become worse, Kim Eunji decided to kiss him on the cheek.
Nathan grinned like an idiot when he felt Kim Eunji surrendering to his request.
"That won\'t count. I\'m not ready. Two more!" He whined like a child.
Kim Eunji kissed his other cheek this time making Nathan to be happy forgetting that he\'d been hungry.
Kim Eunji was about to kiss Nathan\'s other cheek when the naughty Nathan turned his head making Kim Eunji to kiss on his lips instead.
It was a peck.
Being caught off-guard by the sudden kiss, Kim Eunji\'s ears immediately blushed and hide her face with his hand making Nathan to chuckle.
She could use her own hand but she chose his.
Deep down, he was scolding Nathan for being naughty.
Afraid that his wife would explode due to his too much teasing, Nathan decided to plant a soft kiss on her forehead and hugged her.
"Okay. Now that five minute\'s up, let\'s proceed to the next presenter." Nathan seriously announced.
Kim Eunji sighed when she watched them keeping away the almost finished food in the food packs.
"How about you? You haven\'t eaten anything yet." She reminded him.
"Feed me." He simply said.
"--__--"