Morning Annoyance.

The Next Morning. Alysa had a puffy eyes has she trying to soothe it with an ice cube. Claire who was busy making a toast turned to Alysa "It looks like you didn't sleep well. what happened?? is that room not comfortable for you?"

Alysa shook her head as she sat on the chair near the dining table, ''Everything is fine. I just couldn't sleep."

Claire looked at Alysa for a second and asked instead "So, then did you know when Ashley came last night?"

Of course Claire has noticed Alysa's sullen face yesterday evening but now looking at her sleepless face made her little concerned if she was getting homesick already. Yet she didn't want to pressure her to talk when she was not ready, thus she changed the topic asking about Ashley.

"yea, it looked like she came around one in the morning." Alysa said as she stood up and walked to her room, "okay, i will get ready now."

"Don't forget to have your Breakfast. I will leave now."

"okay. thanks for the breakfast." Alysa cried out from the room.

"Keep it in your Thanks bank. idiot." Claire said making Alysa chuckle.

By the time Alysa was ready, Ashley also woke up and they both chatted for a while before Alysa reluctantly left for office.

If it was possible, she really wanted to call in sick. but since it was just her second day, it wouldn't be nice to do that. And the fact that he will be taking charge only from next Monday and he won't be at office this week made her relax and she dragged herself to the Cadel corporation.

As soon as she entered the office campus. A black Mercedes also pulled over. Grabbing passerby's attention. Reagan got down from the car and went straight towards the person who just entered the office building.

Alysa's little thread of relief vanished the moment she noticed the person coming towards her, she subconsciously increased her pace.

'Wasn't he supposed to come from next Monday?' ' Why can't this man follow the protocol' she thought as she rushed towards the lift.

She definitely knew it was impossible to avoid him every time but at least she wanted to see him as less as possible. He was no-one to her outside this building, so she didn't have any obligations to follow. she reasoned as she pressed for the lift and prayed it could come before Reagan or at least it should have many people so that they wouldn't have to face each other.

To her luck, the lift came sooner than the long strides coming towards her and also some people got to the lift with her, making her smile victoriously. but one of the man who entered last, pressed the open button the moment lift started closing, "Vice-president, here." he waved at Reagan as he called for him, making Alysa frown.

Reagan also took the lift and thanked the employee while Alysa cursed under her breath,"this bitch, who told him to call Vice-president."

She took a deep breath convincing herself that there were people so he couldn't be able to talk to her. Reagan noticed her standing in the corner, looking down at her phone.

As the time passed, the people also got down in each floor. by the time they reached fifth floor the only people inside the lift was Alysa and Reagan. Their floor was at the top, so it would at least take another few minutes to reach. Reagan stood there with his hands in the trouser pockets, observing Alysa closely.

Even though she can clearly feel the man's gaze on her, she made sure not to lift her head even for once as she blindly scrolled her phone opening every app possible to keep her occupied but she was anything but occupied at the moment.

Reagan stared at her for a while before breaking the silence, "Shouldn't you at least greet your colleague?"

She stopped whatever she was doing with her phone but neither try to lift her head nor answer him.

"I'm happy to meet you again. I didn't expect to see you here, How have you been?" he couldn't able to conceal the excitement in his voice.

"...."

Again there was no response, he sighed and turned towards her for once, "why are you not giving a response."

"....."

"I'm talking to you, Alysa." This time he couldn't hide the upset and slight irritation in his voice that her silence brought to him.

Alysa who was trying hard to control her annoyance finally lifted her head with an innocent look and asked pointing at herself. "Sir, are you talking to me?"

"..."

Now, he was speechless.

"Sorry sir, I Thought you were on the call." she smiled apologetically.

The lift made a ding noise before opening, She bowed and left, leaving a puzzled Reagan behind.

He was dumbfounded by her innocent act just now.

Wow, she really thought he was stupid enough to take whatever crap she just spouted.

what?? she thought he was on phone?? how? he didn't even have phone in his hand!

'Seriously!! you wanna act like you don't know me?'

'Fine. lets see for how long you can do this.' he thought to himself with a smirk as he also entered the department closely after her. and went straight to his cabin not without glancing at a particular person who just tried to annoy him.

"Alysa, good morning" Tom came as soon as he saw Alysa and greeted her followed by came Riya.

"Good morning Alysa, don't you think our VP is more handsome today." Riya said with a broad smile as both Tom and Alysa turned behind to look.

Now that she looked at him properly, He wore a gray suit which made him look serious unlike yesterday's casual attire that made him look more approachable.

The three bowed at him when he glanced at their direction as he went straight to his office.

"wow.... did you just see how sharp his gaze was...." Riya said typically like a fan girl.

"More like he looked at us with annoyance for chatting instead of working" Tom said as he flicked her forehead and went to work.

"hey, Tommy. you better stop with flicking my head."