05: The Head of Security

As Sabrina went inside the hotel room, ICE cleared up their table in the balcony area before letting the room service take their dirty tray away from their room. She even started preparing what Sabrina will be changing into.

"Sab, your clothes were all prepared in your bedroom and I'll be going to do my rounds around the hotel. Is there anything you like to bring with me when I come back before lunch?" ICE asked politely her lady boss who was in her zone doing her job as the CEO of her own family hotel.

"Just you and your report. Oh, I also need your silence by eleven sharp." Sabrina coldly answered making ICE sigh.

"Sharp?" she wondered why all of a sudden she was needed around that time.

"Yeah, you heard me. Go on now, I need the report by then." Sabrina was reading the files before her and not even glancing at the person who she was talking to. ICE already understood that gesture even though there was no warning at all.

"Noted, milady." ICE respectfully responded with the same coldness in her tone that caught Sabrina's attention. She heard it clearly.

"Caine." Sabrina looked softened to ICE.

"What?" ICE was indeed a piece of ice when she wondered what her lady boss wanted from her.

"Sab will do if just the two of us." Sabrina reminded ICE about their usual call toward each other and ICE didn't forget that.

"Well, you're being cold that's why I have to address you politely." ICE nodded and explained her side which Sabrina sighed in defeat.

"Fine, do what you must but be sure to be here before or exactly eleven." ICE nodded to what her lady boss told her again.

"Excuse me then." She excused herself with a respectful bow and leave Sabrina alone inside her room.

"She remembers." Sabrina smirked after she sighed in defeat before going back on working again.

While Sabrina was being busy on her paper works, ICE covered herself with a face mask as a sign that she was in her duty as the personal bodyguard of their lady boss. Everyone who she came passed through, and she was given a respectful nod until a customer in the VIP room suddenly bumped into her.

"Watch it will you." an irritating man complained when he was the one who was not looking her way.

"My apologies." ICE sighed mentally and apologized politely as she handed the tablet that she picked up for him.

"You have to pay for that tablet. It's already broken." the man was not even trying to get the tablet from her when he said those words to her.

"But sir…" ICE was about to reason out yet she was being cut off.

"No more buts or I will call the security here." he insisted and ICE sighed once again.

"But sir the security works…" she tried to reason out with him again but it was the same, she was being cut off.

"I know they were busy at their work but surely they won't neglect a VIP customer's issues around here." he interjected and pressed on letting the security get involved in a minor incident that a customer should handle by themselves.

"Oh, patience help me not strangled this man." ICE thought to herself as she was trying to calm herself down from attempting on killing the man before her.

"Then can you tell me your name so we could discuss this further with the security personnel then?" ICE went into her cold and firm voice that made the man jolt from the sudden change in ICE's aura.

"I-I'm Roderick Pascal from Pacific Builders and Incorporation or PBI which I hope you heard about them already since we're building condos and resorts already." he stuttered a little as he answered ICE's question.

"I see, now I meet you in flesh…" ICE grinned sinisterly into her thought when she met one of the reasons why Sabrina was busy already as soon as she arrived back in her hometown.

"Yes, I've heard, so, shall we head to the security department for the issue we're talking about here?" ICE coldly responded and invited the man toward the security office in the hotel.

"Indeed, since you need to pay for the cause of breaking my tablet." he smirked but he doesn't have the slightest idea that she was talking to the head of the security of the hotels of the Marques family.

As they were heading to the security office, the man was slightly surprised that he was being greeted politely by everyone in the hotel. He started grinning since he likes the attention of being a boss.

"Happy about something?" ICE coldly asked as they make a few turns before they reached the floor of the security department.

"Well, it seems the employees here finally acknowledge me as their boss. They were bowing at me." Roderick Pascal said overly confident that only made ICE nod while walking.

"What made you think that way?" she wondered as she didn't actually care about what he was thinking but she was more interested in what made him make a bold move on stealing that hotel.

"Well, their boss hasn't shown up for ten fucking years and the hotel had been dealing with a crisis so, we have to step up and buy the hotel." He smirked as he confidently informed ICE what he did to the hotel.

"Crisis? There's no crisis around here…they were just stirring it up with the use of the employees here." ICE sighed when she already understood what they were doing around the Hotel La Vista.

"So you already brought the Hotel La Vista?" she wondered curiously. She might be sounding cold but innocent which made Mr. Pascal to grinned more. Totally overly confident in himself.

"Yes, their signatures only left as well as their boss's." ICE nodded when she heard that from his mouth.

"I see…here we are…" ICE only said and opened the security office door.

But as soon as she opened the door after a knock, they were greeted by one huge and a few multiple screens beneath the huge one in the room which indicated that they were indeed in a security room. And their attention have been caught when ICE was the one who was being greeted and not the man beside her.

"Morning, Lady ICE." they all greeted her politely as they ignored the presence of the man beside her.

"How we can help you?" one of them asked as they went closer to them.

"Ahm, nothing much but minor issue on the VIP floor. Mr. Pascal here accusing me of breaking his tablet without checking it or taking it from my hand after he dropped it on the floor." ICE reported briefly and one of the security immediately showed the incident on the VIP floor.

"Oh, it was indeed minor. But let us check the tablet." the same security personnel answered.

"Here. base on my knowledge about high maintenance or branded gadgets were not easy to break after dropping it on the flooring especially when it had protection for it." ICE said her thoughts regarding the brand of the tablet while one of the securities IT checked it for her.

"True and it was still good." the security IT checked the tablet and returned to the man beside ICE. Mr. Pascal was totally speechless since he could not follow what turned of events happening before him.

"Also, I heard that he brought the hotel due to the crisis that you were facing, so kindly clear that out for me." Then ICE changed the subject which caught their attention. They were all looking confused at each other before one of them reacted.

"Crisis? What crisis you're talking about Lady ICE?" one of them reacted confusedly since they knew that nothing bad was going around the hotel since they were all watching everything as the security of the hotel.

"What a minute here, you know this person?" with that conversation, Mr. Pascal suddenly snapped from being puzzled and asked the security about ICE.

"Of course, everyone respects her." one of them answered while smiling proudly to be working with ICE.

"And why is that?" Mr. Pascal's voice was sounding annoyed and ICE sensed them.

"She's our boss. She's the head of security here. How come you didn't know about it when you've been staying on the VIP floor for ten years?" another one from the security personnel cleared that part to the man who was totally speechless by now.

"Y-you the ICE of the Hotel La Vista's security…" Mr. Pascal could not believe that before his eyes, he finally meet the person who was responsible for the hotel's security.

"I am and now that you know me, and the minor issue here was done, let me take you back to your room." ICE said and guided Mr. Pascal out of the security.

The man was still in his surprised reaction until they reached back on the VIP floor. ICE was waving her hand to the mand but still got no reaction at all.

"Mr. Pascal, we're here already, and here's an invitation from my boss. The CEO will expect you to attend the exclusive dinner and you can bring your family tonight." ICE snapped the man from his daze when she started mentioning the family dinner that he was invited to.

"W-what family?" he wondered. ICE smirked to her mind since she knew that he was with his mistress and not with his wife.

"Well according to your reservation you're with your family that's why my boss invited your family for an exclusive dinner later." ICE calmly but coldly cleared that out to him.

"Oh…" he only nodded and ICE just take that response since he already received the letter.

"Excuse me then." ICE excused herself as soon as the man opened the door of his hotel room and left him.