Chapter 17

Ethan POV
 
"Hello everyone," the day was as bright as the light set on the mountaintop.
 
It was a day to introduce my wife and new worker to everyone who was available in the conference room.
 
"She's Mia, and she's my new secretary." I smiled as Mia waved her hands to the other workers, giving them a smile.
 
"Mia, can you step forward and introduce yourself?" I said as she stepped forward.
 
"Do I actually need that?" Mia asked with a whisper.
 
"Yes," I whispered back to her, giving a smile to the whole crowd.
 
"I promise to kill you if I disgrace myself here," she hissed with a whisper as I looked at her, making the crowd know what was going on.
 
 
 
 
Mia rolled her eyes and cleared her throat, giving me her always usual evil look, which made me look to the other side with a smirk.
 
"Hello everyone, I'm Mia, the new secretary. Nice to meet you all."
 
The room erupted in a chorus of welcomes and greetings, including claps, and Mia smiled graciously, her eyes scanning the room.
 
Just then, a tall, dark-haired man strode into the room, his eyes fixed on Mia with a scowl. 
 
"Well, well, well. Look what we have here. The new secretary, I presume?" The man said to another worker who stood close to me.
 
Mia's eyes narrowed as she recognized the man from the company's website that she had already gone through.
 
"Darsh, I presume?"
 
Darsh smirked with evil within him.
 
"The one and only. And you are...?"
 
Mia's smile faltered for a moment before she regained her composure and steeze. 
 
"Mia, the new secretary. And you are... being rude and interrupting my introduction." She said with both rudeness and honesty.
 
The room fell silent, and my eyes darted between Mia and Darsh, with my smile frozen on my face.
 
Darsh snorted and also scoffed.
 
"Oh, I'm shaking in my boots. The new secretary thinks she can take on me?" She laughed like a bully.
 
Mia's eyes flashed with anger.
 
"I don't think, I know. And I'm not afraid of you, Darsh."
 
The tension in the room escalated, and I stepped forward, his hands raised in a placating gesture.
 
"Hey, hey, let's not start off on the wrong foot here. Darsh, why don't you come on in and join us?"
 
Darsh smirked.
 
"I don't think so, Ethan. I have better things to do than babysit your new secretary."
 
Mia's face reddened with anger with the word, and she took a step forward, her eyes blazing. "
 
How dare you! I'm not some fragile little thing that needs babysitting. I can handle myself; thank you very much." She said.
 
. "Oh, I'm sure you can. That's why you're working as a secretary and not in a real position of power." Mia grinned her teeth.
 
The room gasped, and my eyes widened in shock.
 
. "Darsh, that's enough!"
 
But Mia was beyond reason. She launched herself at Darsh, her fists flying, and the two of them crashed to the floor in a flurry of punches and kicks.
 
I rushed forward, trying to separate them, but they were too caught up in their fight. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, they were pulled apart, panting and furious.
 
The room was silent, the only sound was the heavy breathing of the combatants.
 
My face was white with shock, my eyes fixed on Mia and Darsh as if I couldn't believe what had just happened.
 
Mia's eyes still blazed with anger, her chest heaving with exertion and anger. 
 
"I hate you," she spat at Darsh.
 
Darsh smirked, his eyes glinting with triumph.
 
"The feeling is mutual, sweetheart."
 
"And I would love us to have such fun next time."
 
And with that, the two of them stormed out of the room, leaving me to pick up the pieces.
 
After doing some things in the already scattered conference room, I walked out to see Mia sitting down on one of the benches there while panting like a dog already.
 
"Mia, what you did there was wrong?" She stood up, looking as if I was the one she had a fight with.
 
"I couldn't just stay there and let that idiot intimidate me, as if I were nobody," she groaned.
 
"But... " 
 
"But... What? Ehh?"" 
 
"In fact, you are nothing less than a coward," I glanced at her.
 
" What!"
 
"You call me your wife, and you stood there doing absolutely nothing," she accused me, giving me fewer words to say.
 
" But..." 
 
"But... What?" 
 
"Can you give me a chance to talk at least?" I said filled with anger already.
 
"What's your problem, Mia?" I asked her.
 
"Do you think you could just attack everyone like you usually do to me?" I poured out my heart to her.
 
"Excuse you." 
 
"Excuse yourself," 
 
"Mia, I know you hate me, but at least have some respect for others and note this is an enterprise and not a ring for boxers," I said to her while she just gave me a carefree look.
 
I looked at her with no words from neither of us at that point.
 
 
"Do you expect me to say I'm sorry?" She asked calmly.
 
"Not to me, but tell yourself," my words sounded so emotional.
 
"You just disgraced yourself plus me," I hissed.
 
"Please go home and wear a better dress," I exclaimed, walking away from her with pain within me.
 
She just made me laugh, stuck in the office. I know no one can tell me in front of me, but I know at my back I am the main topic for gossip.
 
"Sir, I'm sorry?" The young man approached me.
 
"After disgracing her," I stood looking at him.
 
"I don't know she's your wife." 
 
"Now you know," I walked away.