"It's a sliding door," someone says in a low voice from behind me. I take a deep breath, trying to calm myself down while the woman demonstrated the working, sliding door. She's dressed in a mini black bandage dress that's just a few inches below her hips, it has two parallel cut-outs of fabric on her belly that are no more than two inches thick, and a pair of laced heels. She has shoulder-length hair that's in mini twists and lightly decorated with tiny golden butterfly clips while her nails are a faded shade of pink. Calling her a goddess is an understatement as she is the most gorgeous woman I'd ever laid my eyes on.

"Are you coming in?" she asks while gesturing to enter the office with a smile on her face that makes her even more godly If that's even possible.

"Ah! Yes, thank you," I reply as I walk in and close the door behind me. The office has a small window directly opposite the door and to my right, there is a loveseat that faces a wall and to my left, there is a huge desk with one chair on one side and two on the opposite. I take a seat on one of the chairs.

"Sorry to make you wait, I was held up somewhere and apologies from my partner as she won't be able to make it tonight," she says as she walks around the desk, with a file in her hand. "Your name is Ayah, right?" she asks as she searches the file.

"Yes, that's my name," I replied, plastering a smile on my face. Ugh! How is that the only thing I could've said? I need to make a good first impression and also for her to forget the whole doorknob thing which, by the way, makes no sense. Why is there a doorknob on a sliding door?

"I trust that you were given the contract before this meeting and were briefed on everything regarding the nature of it or is there anything you would like for me to explain or change?"

"Nope, everything was crystal clear and perfect" I reply as there was no chance in hell I'm gonna say anything other than that plus Jaden said he'd brief me later about it and I did trust him with this whole deal.

"That makes this a lot easier, so just sign here and here." She hands me the papers and a pen, indicating where to sign. After doing so, she takes them back and signs her part as well.

"Well congrats Ayah, You're now the new face of ~Zalya~" she says as she closes the document and stashes it in a drawer under her desk. She then walks over to a cabinet on the other side of the office and takes out two champagne flutes and a bottle of champagne, walking back over, she places them on the desk and sits back down she opens the bottle, pours its contents into the glasses and hands one over.

"Cheers, to this contract and a new chapter of our careers," She says, holding up her glass. Copying her I raise mine and bring our glasses together with a clanking sound as they meet "Cheers"

 I drink it all in one gulp then place the glass on the desk, Slowly realizing that that might've come off as unprofessional, looking at her, she's staring at me with a shocked expression on her face as she slowly places her glass back on the desk. 

Well, that's it, mere seconds after signing the contract I'm gonna lose it. sigh It was fun while it lasted.

"You're bleeding!" as quickly as she says it, she stands up, walks to a cabinet behind her, and turns back with a first aid kit in her hands. "looks like you hit your head pretty hard, it's swollen and bleeding"

"I did? I didn't feel a thing," 

"Yeah? well, you did, hahaha," She chuckles as she cleans my wound and holds out two band-aids one of a Disney princess and one of a butterfly. " Which one would you like?" 

After thinking for a while I chose the butterfly simply because it matched the ones on her head and also a small part of me liked the idea of matching with her for the rest of the night. Smiling she carefully places it on my forehead, closes the first-aid kit, and sits down on the seat opposite mine. Depriving me of her warm vanilla scent.

"Since you hit your head pretty hard how about we call it a night? We can have the announcement at a later date... Do you have a headache?" She asks as she shoots me another of those life-threatening smiles.

I reply with a nod, mimicking her smile. There is just something about her that made me want more, more time with her tonight, more time to hear her voice, more time to see her smile, I want more of everything.

"Look, if you're not feeling well you can just take a nap on the sofa" Yess!, and there it is, more time was what I wanted, and more time I was getting.

"Yeah, I have a raging hea-"

knock! knock! " I'd hate to interrupt but is everything okay?, it's been a while" Jaden said, interrupting me. He slowly slid the door open but didn't come in, he just stood on the door frame.

"Oh! perfect timing we were just wrapping things up. As you can see, she bumped her head pretty hard so we decided to call it a night. a copy of the signed contract will be sent over tomorrow latest."

"Okay, Thank you so much for this opportunity, Hopefully, we'll keep in touch," Jaden says, approaching me. 

I stand up and move towards him "Thank you so much, madam...." I let that hang there, realizing she never told me her name. 

"Oh! right, I never introduced myself. Sorry. Well, I go by the name Zuri Matthews but you can just call me Zuri." She extends her hand to mine and I shake it in response. They're silky smooth and fit perfectly with mine. 

"we've had quite the long night, Madam, so if you'll excuse us," Jaden says as he towards the door. I soon follow suit, thanking her once more before leaving and closing the door behind me.

"How's your head?" Jaden asks, gathering his tablet and leading us to the exit.

"It's fine, just a little bump"

 "Okay, well it looks like you get to go home early, just like you wanted."

" Yes, Yes, I do" I was barely holding back my excitement as we passed through the exit door and felt the cool breeze, heading towards the black SUV in the parking lot. Jaden opens the door for me and hands my bag over "I expect you up early tomorrow and well-informed about the contract" he says with a warning look on his face " And also, I can't even believe I'm saying this right now but I expect you to behave professionally with madam Zuri, don't think I didn't catch whatever that was back at the office" With that he waves goodbye and closes the door.