Take Me Away novel Chapter 53

At this moment, the sound of someone knocking on the door was heard. Then, the door was pushed open. A slightly-built but well-dressed man entered.

"Pardon my sudden intrusion, but I was told that there are two interns here. I am in need of an assistant," he said. Stopping in front of Fiona and Sophia, he took some time looking at them as if he were checking goods. He then nodded with satisfaction and pointed at Fiona. "I want this girl, Celine!" he declared.

'Yeah, right! As if I would let you choose me!' Sophia groaned inwardly as she rolled her eyes.

"Jason, I am so sorry about this." Celine raised her eyebrows as she looked at Fiona with a lopsided grin. "I already have my eyes on this one. I guess you have no choice but to go with the other girl!"

The look on Fiona's face was completely unreadable, as if she didn't hear any word of what they just said. However, after she finally processed that neither Jason nor Celine wanted her, Sophia was furious and angrily shouted, "Excuse me? So I'm not good enough for either of you? I may not look it now but mark my words: I'm going to be a very famous designer in the future. So don't you dare look down on me."

"You're ill-tempered and rude. I wouldn't chance it," Jason said.

"If you don't want her, then you can only leave," Celine said.

Upon hearing that, Jason sighed and waved his hand in surrender. He then pointed at Sophia and said, "All right! You there! You're coming with me. We have much to discuss and a lot of work ahead!"

"Humph!" was all that Sophia could muster. Seeing this, Fiona had no choice but to pull her fiend's sleeve saying, "Come on, Sophia! No need to be upset. We are here for internship after all."

Casting a worried look at Fiona, Sophia said, "I'm leaving with him. Let's have lunch together."

"Okay," Fiona replied. "Work hard."

"No need to worry!" Balling her fists, Sophia nodded. "I'll try my best!"

"For goodness sake! What took you so long?" Seeing that Sophia still wasn't following him, Jason turned around and pointed at the watch on his wrist. "I've wasted three whole minutes waiting for you! Get over here, now!"

"I have a name! It's Sophia!" With an irritated look on her face, Sophia turned her as she got up to follow Jason out of the room.

"I don't give a damn about your name!"

"Fine! Then I don't care what your name is either!"

Fiona was surprised as she heard the quarrel between Sophia and Jason, even as the door closed. She gathered herself and asked Celine, "What's my role as your intern?"

Celine didn't answer the question, but looked at Fiona carefully. 'She's very beautiful. And young! She is ten years younger than me. Age is a very big deal for women. Besides, Spencer has already married her.'

There was a quick flash of pain on Celine's face as she winced at the thought, but it disappeared instantly. Regaining her composure, she steeled herself as she raised her eyebrows and said arrogantly, "From this point on, I will be your superior. You must meet all my requirements and do as I say. You are not allowed to refute me, nor break any rules of the company. You are also not allowed to make your own decisions. As is standard for interns, you are expected do the chores. If I deem it necessary, I'll require you to participate in the design of the products."

Lowering her eyes so as not to meet Celine's gaze, Fiona simply nodded, "Okay."

Noticing that Fiona didn't get angry at her words, Celine was annoyed. No matter how much she said to her, all she got from Fiona was the same short response of "Okay." Celine frowned and asked angrily, "Are you looking down on me?"

Fiona was surprised at this and thought, 'What's wrong with her? She's exactly like Spencer.'

"I don't know what you mean." Fiona tried to speak as gently as possible. "I never look down upon anyone. If my attitude caused any misunderstanding, I'm sorry."

"Humph! I'm an outstanding jewelry designer and I've won many awards. Seeing as you're just a student now, I believe I deserve some respect at least," Celine said arrogantly. "What's more, I didn't expect to see that both of us are in the same field. I hope you can work hard and surpass me one day."

"Thank you. I will try my very best," Fiona replied.

"One more thing," Celine added. "Spencer is mine. You may have married him, but he doesn't love you."

"I think we have discussed a lot already." It was hard for Fiona to continue this conversation with Celine about Spencer. "Is there anything else I can do for you?"

Shrugging, Celine replied, "I think we still have a lot of things to talk about, but you're right. Let's call it a day." She then turned around and walked to the desk to pick up a couple of documents. Turning to Fiona, she said, "Make a copy of these documents and make sure that they are in the correct order."

"Okay," Fiona replied. She walked towards Celine, took the documents, and ran out of the office quickly.

As she looked on at the disappearing figure of Fiona, Celine was unwilling to give up. She had made great efforts to get something that couldn't be attained easily, such as being appreciated by Wayne, marrying Spencer, and so on. However, Fiona obtained all these easily. It was all so unfair! But so what if things were unfair? She would win over them one by one!

It was now lunch time, as employees of the ZR Company entered the canteen. Sophia and Fiona were among them.

"We sit here!" Plate in her hand, Sophia managed to drag Fiona to a table and started to eat her lunch greedily.

"Hey! Slow down! No one's gonna take your food away." Fiona wanted to laugh. "Did you have a busy morning? You look tired. And hungry, too."

"Goodness! You bet I am! I'm so tired!" Sophia replied. "Jason always makes me run a lot of errands! How can he vent his anger on me when he can't even design a thing? He is so irritating!"

"Now, now, no need be angry," Fiona coaxed her, picking up a piece of meat with her fork and putting it onto Sophia's plate. "Here, have some more. Just take it easy."

"Aww. Thanks! You're so sweet, Fiona!" Sophia smiled. "What did you do this morning anyway?"

"I just pack up some files, have them printed and run other errands." "Oh. So we're pretty much the same," Sophia commented. As Fiona was looking up, an imposing man walked into the canteen. "Our boss is here," she said.

"Who?" Turning around towards the man Fiona mentioned, Sophia saw that a well-dressed Charles was walking into the canteen, with a faint smile on his face.