Trial Marriage Husband : I Am CEO's Plaything

Chapter 10 - Insolent Woman Karina

The next morning, a slender woman was seen walking through the corridor of a famous office building in the capital. Her high heels made a distinctive clattering sound every time she took a step. Today, the woman wore a black blazer and tight skirt, combined with a white floral lace shirt. Her olive skin was smooth, clean without a scar, and looked shiny in the morning sun. Her hair was jet black like soot, loosely straggling against her shoulders.

After a day of absence from the office, Lisa finally returned to work. She did not want her image as a finance manager at this well-known telecommunications company to be tarnished due to frequent absences. Lisa had been working for four years at Petersson Communication, a Swedish telecommunications company that had branches all over the world. Her works in building her career world could not be ignored. At the age of 23, Lisa was appointed a manager in the finance department. Now that the woman was 25 years old, her achievements as a financial manager were still soaring!

The woman rushed into the finance department room and looked for her desk. Last week's unfinished financial statements were just piling up. Lisa had thought she was going to work overtime today. Really bad luck, she thought. This was all the result of yesterday's hangover!

"Lisa! Lisa! Oh for God's sake you're finally back at the office!" Shouted a woman of plump size not too high from the doorway of the finance department room.

"Andien? Why?" Lisa asked, her face looking confused.

Andien had been Lisa's best friend since high school. They'd walked their separate ways after they went to different universities. But Andien and her best friend were reunited in the same office and department. Moreover, her friend was now her boss, making her even more proud of her friend's persistence and hard work.

Andien was not as beautiful and as tall as Lisa even if she had whiter and brighter skin. However, Andien was a kind-hearted woman and had always been the favorite of her colleagues. She was very reliable in matters of keeping secrets. Lisa always made Andien a place to talk and to ask for advice when things got complicated and difficult.

Andien approached Lisa's table and embraced her best friend saying, "Have you heard from today?"

"How are you, Ndien?" Asked Lisa again, curious.

"Hmm, it's actually a bit bad. . Your name is already heard by the whole department!"

"They know I was absent because I was drunk!?" Lisa's eyes widened as she jumped up from her chair. Her voice echoed throughout the room. Luckily, there weren't many employees who came to the room!

"Please keep it a secret if yesterday I was absent due to a hangover, sshhh!" Lisa whispered in a firm tone.

"That's not it, Lis! It's about Aditya! They heard it from Karina! She's been gossiping about it!"

A slender and tall woman suddenly came from the second floor to the finance department room. The sound of clattering high heels filled the lonely corridor. There was a hint of unpleasant aura when she entered the room. The woman was slightly taller than Lisa. Their body shape was similar, it's just that the woman was bright white and her sense in fashion was colorful and bold.

Karina walked over to Lisa's table and kicked her off, "Hey, single! How does it feel to be cheated by your boyfriend? It must feel good, haha!" She scooted over and sat on Lisa's desk. Her low collar decorated her chest, showing her cleavage.

Lisa frowned in irritation as she looked at the figure on her desk. She grumbled as she gave a mean look, 'You basic bitch! You've never been deterred from getting into other people's household matters, have you!'

Lisa had known Karina since her college days. Her distinguishing attitude had never changed. It annoyed her more when she found out Karina was her co-worker at the office. They were both managers but from different departments. Karina was one of the many young managers besides Lisa in the office. Her relationship with Lisa hadn't been good since they were in college. The two were like water and oil— they could never be united. Lisa was not the type of woman who liked to meddle with other people's private matters and didn't think of her co-workers as rivals, but Karina did. For her, all of her colleagues were her rivals, especially Lisa!

Up until now, Lisa still didn't understand why Karina was so ambitious to compete with her. Wasn't Karina held the same position as Lisa in this office? After all, Karina had been very competitive since college, too competitive in fact. Once upon a time, Karina deliberately stole Lisa's thesis' title so that she could graduate faster. But good luck sided with Lisa, as she was assisted by Aditya to finish her studies on time. This made Karina hate her very much. It could be that Karina still held a grudge toward Lisa since their college days and felt like she had to beat her in everything.

"What do you want, Kar? Still not tired of meddling with other people's business?"

"Meddle? Don't kid yourself, Lis! You are a manager but you set a bad example to your underlings!"

"Where did you get the bird news, Karina?!"

"Helloooo, it's obviously from Aditya! You don't seem to understand your ex, do you!" Karina had her hands on her hips and brushed her thick black hair proudly, "Aditya has many faces! One day he is good with you, tomorrow he will leave you haha!"

'Damn! So it is Aditya, huh? a two-faced cunning man! It suits them both together.' Lisa thought, still with her mouth curved down in annoyance.

"You are so stupid to the core! You still want to go out with a crook like Aditya, after all! Look at you now Lis, you're single. How pathetic! Hahaha!"

"Kar, instead of sticking your nose to other people's business, take care of your subordinates in the marketing department!" Lisa started to get more and more irritated.

Annoyed at losing the debate with Lisa, Karina then left the finance department office at a brisk pace. The woman snorted and cursed at Lisa in her mind.

"Oh by the way, before I return to my department, my dad sends you his greetings. He says how is your mother? Is she dying right now?" Karina sneered as she walked out of the finance department room.

Lisa started to get angry when Karina mentioned her father and threw a pen at her. Unfortunately, she missed.

"Shit!" Lisa shouted in disgust.

Besides being her biggest enemy in the office, Karina was also her half sister. After leaving her mother when she was still in high school, her father remarried a wealthy widow when she'd graduated from college. To make matters worse, Lisa was always caught in a fight with Karina. She was deeply annoyed that she'd a half-sister who was just as rotten as her father!

"Come on, Lisa, it's better if we start working on this mounting report." Andien invited her.

Lisa took a deep breath looking at the pile of papers on her desk. It was also true what Dimas said yesterday. This was a debt that must be paid for being absent due to a hangover!

While waiting for another employee to arrive, Andien asked Lisa softly, "Lis, about that hangover... Do you want to tell me?"

"Later, after work. I will tell you the whole thing, okay? But the point is that two days ago I was intentionally drunk because I was annoyed by Aditya's trick!" Lisa whispered.

"Gosh, is it so bad that you accidentally got drunk?" Andien replied.

"My savings from when I entered this company until now have been taken away by Aditya! That scum really ran away with my money!" She explained, still whispering.

"Fortunately, you only missed one day, Lis. Look, in just one day the unfinished report looks like the great pyramid! It's mounting!" Andien said.

"Actually, I still want to tell you something. Dimas said that I was carried by a foreigner when I passed out yesterday."

"Foreigner? Handsome or not?"

"Now that's Ndien, I was so drunk that I didn't even remember his face and shape!" Lisa continued, still whispering, "I'm so stupid I didn't ask Dimas what his physical characteristics were like!"

"Ah, you should ask Dimas then! Who knows if you will meet the Caucasian man again? Isn't that good enough to replace Aditya's position in your heart? Hehe." Andien teased, cleaning up the pile of reports.

"There you go again! Back to work, Ndien! You don't want to accompany me overtime tonight, right?" Lisa quipped in a joking tone.

"Ah you! Relax a little, won't you? Don't be too tense!" Andien said as she nudged her boss' shoulder.