Elara
Fifteen years Later...
All these years, every step, every hint, every clue, every search it all boils down to here, Voss Industries.
I smooth down my black skirt as I walk into the huge 12 story skyscraper, surveying my surroundings I move to the front desk in the lobby.
"Hello, My name's Elara... Elara Quin. I'm here.. "
The lady in a blue gown smacking her gum annoyingly cut me short and she said
"yeah your name is in the system I can see that. Welcome to Voss industries. Here's your IDcard. Your office is on the fifth floor, cubicle 13. In about thirty minutes you'll be asked by your department manager to see Mr Voss for your assessment interview."
She said handing me the ID card without glancing a look at me like I wasn't worth her time but something was weird, why was I meeting Mr Voss and what kind of assessment interview is he doing?
" uhmm.. Why do I need to meet Mr Voss? " I said nicely and she paused and her royal highness finally graced me with her look, rolling her eyes and smacking her gum even harder she said,
" Like I said since you weren't smart enough to get it, you have an accessment interview"
"I know but like what is he access...." she cut me short slamming her hand on her table scattered with a lot of documents, folders and stamps
"look Newbie, I really don't have time for this so go!" Rude! I thought shocked at her outburst..
"sorry" I mumbled and left her there going to the elevator I got in and reached the 5th floor. damn! It was busy.
The entire floor was huge, no one even noticed I came in as I saw people were heading in my direction I immediately left there and shifted one side. The floor was filled with rows and rows of cubicles, clicking from the mouse, chatter from the workers,the clicking of keyboards, the soft whirring from the printers that were at the far end of the hall where people were lined up I think to get their work printed, I got a job as a publishing specialist and as much as I was here to find out who was responsible for the murder of my parents it's always been my dream to work in a big company and here I am it's like hitting two birds with one stone besides their pay was good now, who didn't like money? I started moving, looking at the cubicles counting their number.. Surprisingly it wasn't hard to find cause we were on the second roll from the elevator. As I was trying to settle in placing my bag on the table and turning on the computer to log in a very cheery looking lady asked me " hey, I'm Stella! Everyone calls me stells" she said smiling and I could swear the smile reached her eyes.
"Ehhmm.. Hello I'm Elara Just Elara no nickname" I said awkwardly trying to grin. I have never been a friendly type of person the only people I talk to our my maternal grandparents, my brother and my cousin only because she gets me and doesn't get on my nerves,so having someone being overly friendly felt weird besides I have trained myself in such a way that my facial expression and body language gave *Not interested, thank you very much! *
"well, that's boring I'd call you El"
"no thank you, I very much like my name as it is"
I said turning my face to look at the computer that was finally done booting
"naahh.. El's way better" I wasn't even interested in arguing with her. Not saying anything has always been my character I prefer being silent than talking. I hated talking... Talking was dangerous.
Before I could take a breather madam sunshine and rainbows started yapping again
"well, I am an editor and I have been walking here for 3 years now.." I zoned her out until she said something that caught my attention
"... Can you believe that because of the number of staffs that were hired over the holidays, Mr Voss will be staying at our company for a while because he personally vets his employees.. "
"yeah why does he do that?"
"Hmm.. No idea but I mean that how devoted and professional he is personally assessing who works for him, I mean how could he have built such a very huge empire with trashy workers so I don't blame him if he wants to confirm by himself"
'unless.. He is preventing some people from working for him' I said quietly well almost considering the fact that madam sparkles heard me
"uh.. Hello!! He is Damon fuckin' Voss. Heck! He can stay in my house if he pleases I love that man to the moon and back he can kidnap me and I won't complain. have you seen those abs? Ouuuu it's like he goes to gym with the Gods or something.. Heaven on earth" she said fantasising and saying alot with her hands eww! I was already disgusted by her cheeriness now she is a fangirl of him. Gosh! I felt sick. I zoned her out as I began to log in until she asked "by the way have you done your assessment how was it? Well I am assuming it was good considering your here, right? "
"why? Am I supposed to not be here?"
"well, I mean if you can survive it, it can be the worst 7 minutes of your life or the luckiest 7 minutes of your life"
"How? I don't get it" I say turning my swivel chair to face her
"oh! so now you want to listen to me? Am I now worth talking to? " I felt bad when she said that so I said "I'm sorry I am just not used to having people talk to me other than my family"
"Because of your BEWARE! expression? "
"oh so you saw it!?"
"Yeah! I just ignored it" she said chuckling I smiled she wasn't that bad I guess "well, thank God, I thought I lost my touch" she chuckles and says "Anyways back to the assessment interview. When I did mine threes years ago I was terrified, it's OK if you are cause as much as Mr Damon is hot as hell, he is scary. He treats you like your not even worth his time any wrong mistake or answers you leave the company immediately, any wrong behaviour that hints at disrespect or flirting you leave immediately. But don't worry Mrs Irene will give you all the orientation you will be fine though"
"who is Mrs Irene?"
"oh our Department manager and she doesn't mess around..." Stella was cut short by a lady in her late 40's
"well Newbies hope you've gotten all the info you need I don't have strength to explain anything else alright let's go! May the strongest make it our of there on their feet.." I turned to look at Stella "oh I forgot that any wrong mistake you will be dragged out.. hehe" she said grinning akwardly.
I stood up and joined the queue and gradually batch by batch we all got to the 10th floor where apparently we will be waiting before we are called to the 11th floor for the interview and I wondered if Mr Voss' office was in the 11th floor or the 12th floor? I had to find out what was on the 12th floor that we had no access to maybe it would finally give me a clue of why Cassie's boyfriend said that my parents murder had to do with the Voss industries because he found out my father worked for them in their Tech company in Chicago for a whole 7 years and suddenly he quit something wasn't adding up and I will find it out.
I was there for like about 45 minutes before I heard my name "Elara Quin, Mr Voss is ready to see you".