Love's New Bloom by Simone Hastings

Chapter 17 The President Is So Handsome

Erin’s heart skipped a beat upon hearing that she was in trouble with the director again. She could already guess that this was about the image retouchings.

In the director’s office, Caleb was sitting in front of his monitor replying to emails. He raised his head to look at Erin and asked in a cool voice, “Do you know why you’re here?”

Erin nodded. “Yes.”

“What do you know then?”

“I know that if I’m ever sick, I need to take a leave in advance and settle my work before that,” she said sincerely.

Caleb stopped typing. He leaned back into his chair and said coldly, “I don’t think you understand. Your irresponsibility has hindered the progress of the other designers! This has nothing to do with whether you were sick. You must always finish your work because the clients don’t care about your personal problems. They only want to see results! Unless you’ve died or you’ve quit working at Frost Corporations, any other explanation is just an excuse! Do you understand?”

Erin was pale; she could never imagine that such a renowned company could be so ruthless.

However, this was the way things were at the company, so she answered, “I understand.”

“Get out and do your work. I don’t care how long it takes you or if it means you have to work overtime. The tasks assigned to you must be completed on the same day!” Caleb looked away and continued with his work.

Erin left the office after promising one last time that she understood him. She was still feeling light-headed and should’ve been recovering at home, but she had no choice now. She had just returned to her seat when Mr. Jones announced in the open concept office, “Just a reminder to be punctual for the afternoon meeting later.”

The designers all started working on another busy day.

Erin turned on her Apple monitor. Frost Corporation provided their designers with technological facilities of the highest quality. Rumor had it that Frost Corporation had the employees of their computer manufacturers personally come over to set up the computers. Even Erin, who was currently only responsible for retouching images and running errands, was using top-of-the-line equipment. The reasoning behind this was to standardize the quality and color of all the designers’ work, reflecting their professionalism.

very fast at retouching images; it was a skill that she’d honed when she was

her work. Finally, she finished all ten of the images that were assigned

The ten images have been

designer replied, “Just

relief after she saw the message. She knew that the designer had already seen the images that she’d retouched,

that the other designers would assign her more work, but surprisingly, no one gave

bought some cold medicine, which made her drowsy. She was only still functioning

6 pm, she started to pack

Dana walked over, wearing a striking blue chiffon dress. Smiling, she said, “Erin,

her head. “No thanks. I think I’m going to go home to rest.

Why did you even come

unfinished

“Oh my, you

and walked

the elevator, and Erin stood expressionless in

do and asked me to help make the president coffee. My goodness, I’ve worked in

was it? Was he

fucking hot! The president was even better looking than the actors on screen. Not even the younger actors can compare! He’s the

you serious? Is he really that

is just too low-key and never accepts any interviews. Otherwise, he

able to meet the president. I’m so jealous; we’ve

…

now, all she wanted was to lie down and sleep. She was

on the first floor, Erin’s phone

her drowsy state. It was just like a traffic light—once the light turned green, she had to

off work. She walked to the entrance of the staircase and checked her phone. The message read, “Come to the president’s office and buy two sets of beef risotto from

work, but she still had to

just the thought of those images made her dial down her