The Odd Billionaire

Traizle

He started talking on his phone a while ago. Who is he talking to?

I entered his office a while ago in the morning. He was talking with someone. Afterwards, I went back again to his office to hand him some documents, and he was still on his phone. I picked up my phone and started to message him.

'Oddball, did you check the documents I put on your table a while ago?'

That's what I texted him.

After 5 minutes, I received a message back from him.

'Later, Traizle. I am still talking with someone.'

That was his reply. So, I bolted my hands to answer back. 'Who are you just talking to?'

I asked, trying not to be angry early in the morning.

I was about to keep my phone when it vibrated again.

'She's one of the candidates I was talking about before.' Candidates?

Still, with his wife as a candidate. They have been talking for a while now. They can talk after their work.

He is wearing his ear buds so he can talk to her while he is checking the documents. He is delaying my work.

Candidate. Candidate.

Wait, what the hell am I thinking? It's okay to not check it already, so that I can rest for a while and he won't mess me for a while.

Break came and I am now with Claire and others and Tyler in the cafeteria. Zarsuelo told me to have my lunch already. He is still talking with her.

Maybe they missed each other too much for them to talk that long and even postpone his lunch for her.

"Just don't dare to meddle with my work later, or else I am going to stab him with this knife I am holding." I muttered.

Someone tapped my shoulder. I looked at whoever had tapped me and saw that they were all looking at me.

"You are saying it out loud." Tyler warned me.

"Oh? I was saying it out loud?" I asked back.

"Is it Mr. Zarsuelo?" He asked back. "What is it now?" He added.

"I am just worried that he will bother me later," I shared. "He is talking to his so-called wife candidate. He postponed eating his lunch. I hope he won't bother me later." I added. "There he is." Alex butted in and pointed to where Zarsuelo was.

He is smiling, the rare smile he will show every now and then.

Wow! The damn oddball pissed me off today.

"Calm down, you are too obvious." Tyler whispered at me.

I turned my head at him. Tyler is grinning at me widely.

"Obvious about what?" I whispered back.

He shakes his head and smiles more widely. He is pissing me off too. I don't get what he is talking about.

He approached me again, whispering. "Seems like you are now interested in him." Tyler said.

Interested in Zarsuelo?

Is that what he is implying?

"You are thinking if you are really interested in him, do you?" He added.

I nodded back-hey! Why did I nod back at him?

I just saw Tyler laughing like a mad man beside me.

"You are secretly whispering to each other, huh?" Claire said, teasing us.

I hit Tyler's arm, now they are all teasing us. I was teased by him a while ago, and being teased with him now.

Everything is pissing me off today!

After our break, I went back to my place immediately. Started to review his schedule and the other appointments we have.

Lately, he is invited mostly to TV programs. Yesterday, he was interviewed for a magazine and he is on the front cover. My phone vibrated.

"Now he is calling me?" I sarcastically said when I saw the caller name.

"What do you need, Zarsuelo?" I asked.

"Wife"

"I am not your wife, a*shole." I replied, interrupting him.

"Why are you mad?" Zarsuelo complained on the other line. "I didn't do anything wrong today." he added.

Right.

He didn't do anything wrong, aside from calling me his wife today.

So why am I angry?

"What do you need?" I asked, changing the topic.

"Ahh, I just wanted to tell you that I need to go out today early." he answered back.

"Why?" I asked back.

"We decided to meet today. She is waiting for me at the restaurant right now." he replied.

Is he talking about the woman he has been talking to since this morning?

"Then go, why bother telling me that?" I asked back.

He is the boss. He can go out early as much as he likes. Who am I to stop him, right?

I am just his merely secretary.

"I won't be able to bid my goodbye properly because I am already in the lobby." he answered. He is in the lobby already?

"I won't be able to say bye personally, so I decided to call you now. We will be having our lunch-"

"Okay, I got it. Don't worry about us here. You can go now." I interrupted again.

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"I am hurt, you are totally mad at me. You can just tell me to not go. I will stay, you know." he replied, mocking me.

"In your dreams!" I hissed and ended the call.

Zarsuelo, going out with one of his wife's candidates has continued for a week now.

We barely talk because he is always talking with her all day. I don't ask anymore when he will read the documents I put on his table, because he will read them after.

I am free the whole week. No Zarsuelo bothering me, no annoying Zarsuelo, and lastly no babysitting oddball Zarsuelo.

"What's with that expression of yours? Been like that for a week already, huh?" Tyler said with his grinning face again.

It's been a week since he started teasing me with Zarsuelo, and it's been a week since he started receiving power hits and punches from me.

"I have been dying to kill you for a week too." I told him.

"Care to tell me the reason why you are so grumpy?" He asked.

Can I tell him?

Will he find it funny and tease me more?

"I will be serious too, rest assured." he added.

If this man does the opposite, I will surely leave a bruise on his face.

"I don't know the reason, but I feel like I am happy, but somehow I am not." I started sharing.

"And why do you feel like that?" He asked back.

"I don't know, I should be happy because he is not bothering the hell out of me for a week. But it feels like I am empty." I replied.

I have been thinking about this too.

That maybe...

"Am I really getting interested in him?" I asked him.

The moment I looked at him, his smile was too big.

"Why such a straightforward kind of woman, huh Traizle?" Tyler asked me.

Straightforward? I am more forthright.

"I am just being honest. You told me you would be serious." I replied.

"So, you are just interested as of now?" He asked back. "Is it in the phase of like or love?" He added.

Where does my interest belong?

"Or is it because I am just not used to it? Him being with other girls, especially his wife candidates." I asked.

"But you can feel like you are empty without him." Tyler retorted.

"Ahh, so I like him? Is that it?" I asked him.

"You are too straightforward. I thought you were in the phase of denying it at first. Looking at you right now tells me the opposite." He answered.

I find it difficult if I do not tell him directly.

"But I don't think I am ready. My past relationship did not end well. The one I am liking right now is too much for me." I told him my concerns. "He likes you though." he retorted.

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"Still, he was unreachable." I told him.

"How will you tell him that you are starting to like him back?" He asked. "Being jealous of his other wife candidates is the first reason that you like him too." he added. How should I tell him?

Should I say it right away or tell him in a slow manner?

Should I go with...

"I like you." I told him.

"That was too straightforward." Tyler replied.

Is it too straightforward?

So I should say it in a slow manner? Okay, I got it.

"Hey wait, he is here already. Go and talk to him." Tyler said and pushed me.

"Asshole, why did you push me!" I hissed.

"Tell me what happened later." he added.

I am still not sure of my feelings. I want to make sure if this heart of mine is really ready.

How did I even fall in love with him when all he did was to bother me?

I just realized today that I think I am really interested in him.

Even before I can enter our office room, I receive a call from Zarsuelo.

My heart beats fast, although they were always like this. I just didn't notice it before.

I went to his office nervously. I even knock to tell him that I am here already.

"Come in." I heard him say before I finally entered his office.

"What do you need?" I asked him.

"Nothing, I just want to see you when I get home." he replied.

Why are his eyes so sad?

"Where were you a while ago? Were you talking to someone?" He asked.

If I tell him that I talked to Tyler, he might ask what we talked about. I should lie.

"Comfort room." I replied.

He nodded, tapped his desk. Looking sideways.

"Why?" I asked him.

"None, you may go back to your office." he answered.

Did something happen before he came here?

I guess it is not the right time to tell him.