Page 23 of Vows In Corruption

“I still don’t want to go, but instead of work, can we go to the museum.”

My schedule pops up in my head and I run through everything that I have to do today and see if there is any wiggle room.

There’s a few meetings that I can skip, but today is my first day with my new assistant, one I know nothing about. I need to get a feel of her and make sure she’s not some plant sent out to get information on me. Sure, I told Linda to hire her, but given that my last assistant was a damn mole, I’m not taking any chances.

“How about this? You skip school and spend the morning annoying Henry and then after lunch you two head to the office and we will go to the museum from there and I’ll teach you all about the penguins. How does that sound?”

“It sounds awesome! I’m going to go video call Grayson and Sam and tell them you are letting me skip school!” He runs off, abandoning his bowl of milk flavored cereal and runs off to call his brother and sister.

There is no doubt in my mind that by the end of the week, I’m going to have two teenagers in my kitchen, eating everything that they can think of all the while skipping school because I let Drake stay home today.

Better have Henry send out for some groceries to stock up.

The man in question apparently read my mind, because he walks into the kitchen looking at me like he has some questions.

“Mr. Drake just ran past me, yelling something about not going to school and going to a museum. Something about penguins.” The way he raises his eyebrows at me, like he wants to reprimand me for my decision.

When it comes to parenting, Henry is definitely the strict grandpa that fold whenever one of the kids throws puppy dog eyes at him. He is a military man after all, so he wants things to go a certain way. He was like that when he raised me and he is like that with my brother’s kids.

Me on the other hand, I can be strict, but I also let the kids get away with a lot more than I should.

I get up from my seat, grabbing both mine and drakes plates and walking them over to the sink, before answering Henry.

“Did you know that today is parents day at Drake’s school today?” I ask, placing both of my hands on the counter.

Henry looks as surprised as I felt earlier.

“No, idiot did not.” He pulls out his phone out of his pocket and starts doing something on it. Pretty sure he is looking to see if the school sent and email about it. “Who the hell sends a notification of something like the day of? Doesn’t that costly school know that people have live and they have to plan?”

I can’t help but to laugh a little at the outburst, but the laughter quickly fades when I get a death glare.

“When they notified us, isn’t important. What is important is that Drake doesn’t want to go, because he doesn’t know what to tell the other kids when they ask about his mom, or why his dad is there and she isn’t. He actually wanted to go to work with me instead, but I suggested that he just stay here and after lunch, you two can come by the office and we will go to the museum.”

Henry stands there mulling over it. I start to wonder if he is going to go on this whole spiel about structure and education.

“Right. Well I’m sure that Mr. Drake will learn more from a museum then from a classroom today. I will make sure to get tickets for this afternoon.”

“Thank you, Henry.”

He gives me a nod and is one his way to do whatever the hell Henry does.

Noting the time, I start to gather my things to head to the office.

Can’t keep my new assistant waiting, now can we?

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Ella

I never thought that I would see this day.

The one where I’m looking in the mirror, while wearing business professional attire with a full face of expired make-up and my hair actually looking nice, ready to for my first day at a corporate company.

When I decided to go back to school to get a master’s degree, I thought about this day. I thought about some day in the future when I would wake up and have a job at a company that would help me make a name for myself in the business world. I thought that if the day did ever come, it would be far, far in the future, yet it’s here.

It’s fucking mind blowing.

Not only was I able to get a second degree but I got a job at Lane Enterprises.

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