In love with the recluse CEO

She plunged her head forward in front of the partially smashed mirror and effortlessly combed her fingers through her long, blond hair, pulling the elastic band from between her teeth and winding it around the locks, fastening them into a ponytail before elevating her head again.

She grinned as she saw her flawless reflection in the mirror and said "what will be my reflection in my wedding gown". When she optically examined the wall clock, which linguistically expresses 7:30am, she sprang out of her fantastical imagination.

The cab was passing through the expansive coffee shop when she realized she had forgotten to eat the toasted bread she prepared and had instead consumed only the coffee on the table.

Louisa might have enjoyed the freedom that comes with owing a vehicle, but she is content to ride public transportation. Cars cost a lot to run and she doesn't have much to spare.

She would have taken bus but time was not on her side she opted for cab, stretching her hands to the road often in a bid to get a cab, a cab soon pulled over and she went for the door but halted on feeling another hand on her hand.

She turned to see a young sophisticated woman, well dressed, her Louis Vuitton hand bag dangle beside her, her earring were crafted from diamond and her shoe were Italian made, her hair was covered with a linen scarf and a dark shade on her eyes, she obviously was a walking sculpture of wealth.

"ma'am I got the door first" she said

"im sorry I urgently need to be some where it is important dear, my son has a big day today , I need to be there soon.

"but I have to be at work soon too" she whispred

She wasn't that strong with insisting, she took few steps backwards and let the young lady in.

"you can go maam, you can have it" she said

She checked her wristwatch and bit her lip hard, it was past eight already and her cold, creased faced boss was always ready to chastise her I an extremely embarrassing way.

She clutched her bad tight beside and she desperately jumped before a cab throwing both her hands into the air to stop it.

At 8:20am, she arrives at the office before "wizard". she approaches the studio room and noticed a large number of disks scattered on the floor. She sighed and whispered;

"what a way to start the day"

The last person to enter the office was her authoritative boss. An old, fair-skinned and wrinkled face man with a bald hair entered the office with his normal unsmiling countenance.

" Good morning sir" Luisa said without optically canvassing him twice.

"What time is it Luisa?" he questioned.

She turned her wristwatch forward fidgeting.

"hum the time is 8;20 sir." She replied.

He paced around he office clapping his hands

"good! very good, you are a whole 20 mins late, at this rate I fear you will never become a true musician, you will forever remain a shadow to broken and greedy famous artist and never you put that on me" he said.

"but sir..." she paused for a moment and changed her sentence " I am deeply sorry sir" she said weakly

He dived both his hands into the pocket and ambulated down to his office without a word.

A young beautiful brown skinned lady who happened to his secretary approached Louisa smiling.

"hey Louisa, I cannot believe ominiknowest just let you off the hook, she said you should head straight to the studio for your recording, hope you have practiced you lyrics?" Chloe said

Louisa's eyes bulged at the news, she jumped around the office hopping and signing till she started coughing seriously.

"Easy girl, easy" Chloe said offering her a glass of water.

"Louisa you should really take a break, you need to take care of your voice and reduce your pitch girl, your throat need proper attention" Chloe advised

"Girl you know my fiancé is studying, I need to work for us , remember my little sis needs surgery too, I have got some huge bills to pay, I am extremely glad our alpha and omega boss didn't fire me. I better get going now" she said and plunged through the door.

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Louisa evans biggest dream was to become a famous musician, she had been cultivating this dream since she was wise enough to understand the insult in singing in a bar, her mother was a popular bar singer in the neighborhood ever since then she had vowed to be popular singer and sing on larger stage,

At age 8 Louisa and family were happily going for mum's big show when they got involved in a car accident that claimed the life of both her parents and her elder brother Kyle. She survived the accident alongside her little sister who ever since then had become paralyzed.

They stayed with their aunt who never for a reason stop accusing her for the death of her parent and often time calls Danna, her little sister a cripple.

After years of tolerating, young Louisa left home , she was just twelve ,lonely and had nowhere to go, she stumbled upon few young one like her and she immediately joined them begging for alms, little did she know they had a boss to whom they give their income to and he in turns gives them their share. She joined the beggers club, earns a lot but only gets her 3% share of the income but she was surprising stock with kitto her boss.

When she was 17, Louisa searched for greener pasture with the hope

of going back to get her sister. Luck was on her side and she got as a delivery girl in a famous restaurant in Ontario.

Her beauty, sonorous voice and sense of humour earned her fame in her little way. She was loved by almost all the customers and some will specifically ask that she delivers their food.

After one of her delivery at night, she walked down the hill heading down to the restaurant after she had chained down her delivery bicycle, she walked down the quiet and lone road counting the the money she got tipped by her customers and smiled happily.

She was stopped by some gang of boys who snatched her money from her.

"So you're the delivery girl they call beauty?" One of the boys said.

" Let's see if she is truly a beauty inside her" another boy responded

They dragged her into a corner where it even got darker, they tore her shirt into shred exposing her worn out bra with several patches on it.

"I guess it is not so beautiful after all" another boy said laughing hysterically and pointing at her bra"

" What is inside might be" the gang leader said.

Louisa folded her arm across her chest begging and weeping profusely.

"You can have the money please,just let me go" she pleaded.

The gang leader went closer to her,and tore away her bra with just his fingers exposing her just maturity boobs.

Louisa shut her eyes tight, expecting the worse to happen,her life was already a mess any way. She opened her eyes on hearing screams and grunts to see a tall tanned skinned boy with a big rod in his hand, fighting and chasing away the rogue boys.

"Hope you're good,take this, you can wear it" he said offering her his sweat shirt.

" Where are you going,oh I'm sorry my name is Alexis, what is yours?"

" Louisa " she said still crying.

Alexis walked Louisa down to the restaurant and since then often time pays her a visit.

Their bond waxed stronger ,on Louisa 18th birthday Alexis professed his love for and they started dating working and saving till Louisa was fit enough to go get her sister and three of them relocated to Texas for greener pastures. She was not rich but she could feed herself ,her sister and her boyfriend, they all lived together for 6 years until Alexis gained admission to further his education

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After spending several hours in the recording room , Louisa stormed out sweating profusely, holding her throat.

She went straight to the secretary asking for a bottle of water but was called into the office by her powerdrunken boss.

"Are you done with the recording?" He inquired

"Yes I am" she responded.

He did a 360 turn on his swivel chair with his fingers clasped and interlocked in between each other.

" You see,the past few days,your performance has dropped ,you come late to work,you can't pitch perfectly, that your cough too is annoying,damn! Anyway the artist you sing for no longer needs your help, she has regained her voice I I guess" he announced

Her face lit up and she smiled broadly.

"Wow that's great news,I'm so glad" she said.

" In that case you will have to quit for sometime"said her boss.

" What? Quit? You promised me a face after working with Alicia, you said I could do my own song and be the face of it instead of being in the shadows singing while another takes the glory! This is the fourth person I sang for, sometimes I use a year with some ,while I use six months with some, you said I should push through for my sake,you said the end of the tunnel is bright, I am fully ready sir,I want to be heard and known" she lamented.

He stood up and pushed his chair backwards,he clapped his hands and laughed sarcastically.

"You must be really thinking you're something, do you think you have what it means to compete with other singers out there? First you need to work on your star, I think it is faulty" he said.

He pulled out his drawer and dropped a brown envelope on the table, that's for compensation, take it and leave my office now".he ordered and turned his chair to the back facing the wall.