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.

images; it was a skill that she’d honed when she was

sandwich, she continued with her work. Finally, she finished all ten of the images that were assigned to her perfectly before 6

a message. “Good evening. The ten images have been retouched. I’m so sorry about yesterday;

about half an hour, the designer replied, “Just watch out next

the message. She knew that the designer had already seen the images that she’d retouched, and since the

other designers would assign her more

she’d bought her sandwich earlier in the afternoon, she’d also bought some cold medicine, which made her drowsy. She was only

the clock hit 6 pm, she started to pack up her things and

Smiling, she said, “Erin, do you have anything to do after work? Let’s go shopping

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

sick? Why did you even come to

I had unfinished work here.” Erin wore

was only then that Dana noticed her complexion. “Oh my, you

goodbyes and walked into

elevator, and Erin stood expressionless

goodness, I’ve worked in the

was it? Was

even better looking than the actors on screen. Not

serious? Is he really

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

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

…

voices after a while. Right now, all she wanted was to lie down and sleep. She was completely uninterested in the

first floor, Erin’s phone rang in

traffic

and avoided the crowd of workers getting off work. She walked to the entrance of the staircase and checked her phone. The message

it, she’d already gotten off work, but she

of those images made her dial down her anger and buy the