Ellison And Joycelyn: A Love Beyond The Rules

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At half past nine, Joycelyn pulled into the parking lot in the office building and hurried out of the car. This time, she didn’t wait for Ellison behind her and headed straight to the elevator by herself.

Ellison sat in his Rolls–Royce, looking at the back of Joycelyn’s figure. He seemed to be reminiscing about their lovemaking session in the bathroom earlier before they’d left the house.

It hadn’t been enough.

Although Joycelyn had tried to speed things up, she was still half an hour late. Thankfully, all the departments on her floor had to attend a sudden general meeting in the conference room so she didn’t bump into anyone on her way up, and she snuck into the meeting room through the back door.

Selene happened to be there, though, and she remarked, “Why are you late again? Did something happen?”

“Eh, kind of. Were you late too?” Joycelyn said, her face a little flushed. She had hurried the whole way here and she was also embarrassed by the question.

“Yeah. Luckily, attendance isn’t being taken today so I can hold on to my perfect attendance record,” Selene replied with a sly grin.

“Yeah, we got lucky,” Joycelyn replied.

“It seems like Mr. Grant decided to conduct a surprise inspection Fortunately, it’s targeted at the directors and not small fry like us. Linda was called out because her report wasn’t as satisfactory as it should’ve been,” Selene explained the situation with a hint of mockery in her voice.

Joycelyn, on her part, only bit her lip sheepishly when she heard the mention of Ellison. No wonder he had told her earlier that he’d fix the problem of her being late.

Luckily, she’d only been half an hour late. If it were any longer, the company policy was that you’d be considered absent for a day, and you wouldn’t even need to show up then.

She’d only been asked to tie a tie and didn’t expect that things would quickly spiral out of control and end up that way. Thinking of it now, Joycelyn felt a new wave of embarrassment.

Selene hadn’t noticed the change in Joycelyn’s demeanor. She subtly took out a picture and showed it to Joycelyn. “You left in such a hurry yesterday that I didn’t get a chance to talk to you Look here, this is my senior. He’s a very eligible bachelor. What do you think?”

young man dressed in hiking gear. With the backdrop of steep mountain ranges, it was obvious that

seems nice,”

you want me to set you up with him? He’s good–looking, he’s studied and traveled abroad,

comfortable with that,” Joycelyn laughed

of Ellison’s caliber. She felt she wouldn’t be awed again even if

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dates you go on. Just go on one date. Think of it as making a new friend,” Selene encouraged her.

like,” Joycelyn stammered

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it I knew you must have your eye on someone, but still, you know, you shouldn’t give up the

over,” Joycelyn said hurriedly as she gathered

behind the crowd when Aurelia held them back. “The two of you, try to keep a low profile today.

Selene felt their breath hitch at that and immediately put

ahead of time,” Aurelia explained. At that

mouth shut and signaled to the other two to be

desks, there was an eerie quiet hanging over the department. Everyone seemed to be bracing themselves for the shitstorm

storming out of her office with some documents in her hand and a stern look on her face. Her eyes searched the employees, and she snapped, “Joycelyn! You’ve already worked here for two years. How could you still be making such low–level mistakes?”

Joycelyn’s desk. Joycelyn picked them up calmly and looked through

the schedule and funding to the follow–up investments, had been perused by

her voice even louder. “Your proposal requires more than five times the allocated budget. The other departments have

the company’s cash like toy money? With the way things are, I wouldn’t be surprised if I found out that you actually

accused of being incompetent. Are you trying to get all of

from Linda, but she looked up calmly and stared back at her. “I arranged these joint ventures based on your suggestions and instructions. looked for investors that required the

who signed off in the end, but now you’re trying to

was quiet except for Linda’s vicious scoldings and

that her accusations didn’t hold any water and

the logic and evidence to back herself up, so she

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