Mr. Blackwood slowly raised his head to look at her. He appeared more frightening than she could have imagined, and she couldn’t control the shudder that shook her body when those silver eyes were fixed on her. There wasn’t anything familiar about his stare. She sucked in her breath.
She didn’t understand why his presence made her feel this way. She was generally quirky, and all but something about him made her run away from him and run towards him.
His gaze roamed over her, and almost lazy action. Their eyes stayed locked for one long, nerve-shattering moment. A hundred feelings went through her in that instant. It was as if everything else in the world stood still.

This man…he was frightening. And she feared she might have accidentally sold her soul to him.
‘Yes? Can I help you?’ he barked.
She stared at him, unable to understand what he meant by that? Was she not to come into his office?
Before she could say something, he fired more questions at her. ‘How did you get here? Who let you in?’ He pressed an intercom and spoke into it. ‘Who let this woman in? Do I pay you to let any stranger come into my office?!—You’re asking me what woman? You’re fired!’ He was raising his voice at the poor man that was receiving it. It was a voice that represented sudden death to her.

‘Please, Mr. Blackwood, you hired me to be your assistant. Jeraldine Andrews, remember?’ she asked in a choked, pleading voice. Her heart was pounding loudly, and she couldn’t seem to move. Her deepest instinct warned her not to anger this man any further.
He was like an unforgiving storm, a force not to be reckoned with.
Nathan raised his eyebrows as he seized her up, pointing his pen at her in realization. He let out a long sigh and relaxed, ‘My apologies. I have had a rough morning, and it slipped my mind that today would be your first day.’
‘Take this.’ She quickly moved to take the paper from him; their fingers almost touched in the process if he hadn’t let go of it immediately before it happened. ‘That’s my email and the password. Answer all my emails. Ignore ones that aren’t relevant. Don’t schedule a meeting without consulting me first. Do not, under any circumstances, Ms. Andrews, make any of my emails go public.