Chapter 11: Chapter 11 Get a boyfriend
Alana smiled awkwardly at Dane.
"Manager Dane. I have to focus on my work now."
She said that in an effort to make him
go away.
And surprisingly, he yielded.
He was usually very stubborn and annoyingly persistent.
"Alright, we’ll talk later. Keep up the good work, dear. You’re just a remarkable employee."
Dane gave her shoulder another pat before finally taking his leave.
Alana couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Her colleague, Gina, seeing Dane had left, couldn’t resist launching into a rant
about him.
"That old cargo! He’s got a beautiful wife and daughter at home, yet he still harasses young, pretty female staff all over the company! He’s despicable."
"Every single attractive female employee can’t escape his filthy hands. It’s utterly disgusting!"
"Alana, he’s clearly targeting you because you’re young and pretty with no connections. Keep your distance from him in future, don’t let him get to you."
Alana shot Gina a grateful glance. "Yeah, I will."
At the same time, a wave of revulsion washed over her.
How could such a respectable cosmetics company have such a despicable leader?!
It was as if he kept insinuating that the only way for her to become a permanent staff was to sleep with him.
The thought of being targeted by such a man made Alana feel nauseous enough to vomit. But the thought of having to work under him in future meant she’d have to endure it.
Such is the way of the world.
She needed this job. She just had to do a good job and get fully employed on her on merits.
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Several days passed without incident.
A week passed, and the injury below her waist had mostly healed.
Throughout that time, she lived in constant dread, fearing that man might call again, demanding she take responsibility.
Fortunately, he never did.
Alana assumed he had forgotten the whole affair, forgotten her entirely.
She chose to regard it as a minor interlude in her life, a passing episode that would not repeat itself, nor be relived.
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At the end of the working day.
Most colleagues had already left.
Alana finished her last bits of tidying up, gathered her things from her desk, and prepared to head home.
Dane appeared suddenly, like a ghostly apparition. "Lana dear, are you free this evening? Should we go see a movie or have dinner together?"
Startled, Alana whipped her head around to find Dane grinning broadly, his eyes
narrowed to slits.
"Manager Dane, I’m afraid I’m unavailable this evening."
"When would you be available then? If tonight isn’t free for you, tomorrow evening should be possible."
Dane’s lecherous, puffy eyes fixed on her.
Alana possessed striking features, the quintessential beauty, exquisitely delicate yet innocent.
Her figure was curvaceous, slender where it should be and voluptuous where it needed to be. She was quite simply a vision of beauty.
Fresh out of university, she radiated youthful vitality, her skin milky white and supple, almost glowing.
The more he looked, the more Dane’s throat itched, yearning to pin Alana beneath him and ravish her thoroughly.
He was sure she would taste as sweet as she looked.
He just couldn’t wait to have her.
As these thoughts swirled, he couldn’t resist reaching out a lecherous hand towards her.
Alana deftly dodged him, taking a few steps back to create distance between them, her tone cool and distant.
"Mr Dane, I know you have a wife and daughter. Is it really appropriate to be out on a date with a female colleague at this hour?"
Dane shrugged it off. After all, what married man didn’t indulge in a bit of philandering? Most of the men around him were like that, cheating after marriage, unashamed, but rather proud of it.
"Well, what’s the harm in that? As long as we keep this between us, no one will ever know, right? Just go on one date with me, and I’ll ensure you’re permanently hired after your three-month probation period."
Alana’s smile was forced, her inner revulsion reaching its peak.
What she detested most were married men who couldn’t keep their hands to themselves.
But no matter how much she despised him, she couldn’t do anything or speak harshly to him. After all, he was her immediate superior, and could fire her at the slightest provocation.
"Manager Dane, I’m truly unavailable. I’ve made other plans. I need to go now."
With that, she hurriedly grabbed her handbag and left the office without looking back.
Dane watched her leave, his gaze lingering on her graceful figure. A burning desire consumed him, he’d lusted this young woman for far too long.
Others didn’t take this long.
He just had to threaten and they’d fall at his feet.
He had wanted to take his time winning Alana over but if she wanted force, then he’d give it to her.
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Alana genuinely had plans that evening.
Her best friend, Eve, had invited her out for dinner and a gossip session about the latest office rumours.
They arranged to meet at a restaurant.
Over dinner, Alana vented to her best friend about the harassment she’d endured from her boss at work.
Eve flew into a rage the moment she heard, nearly overturning the table. "Bloody hell! That balding old goat is over forty and trying to take advantage of a young girl in her early twenties? Does he have any shame?"
Recalling her colleague’s words, Alana added, "Not only could he be my father, but he’s married with a daughter. I hear she’s about my age."
Eve was utterly disgusted. "That’s even more revolting! Didn’t he think about his daughter when he was harassing you? Shouldn’t he be building up some karma for her? How would he feel if someone was harassing his child like that?"
Alana shook her head. Who could say?
"I just don’t understand, men who are
married, with wives and children, living perfectly content lives... why can’t they just behave themselves?"
Hearing Dane say that all the married men around him were like that made her feel even more disgusted.
"Most men are bloody dogs like that. No matter their age or marital status, they won’t behave unless they’re nailed to the wall!" Eve paused, then had an idea. "Lana, next time that disgusting old goat harasses you, record it. Send the recording to his wife and let her deal with him!"
Alana gave a wry smile. "How am I supposed to get hold of his wife’s contact details?"
Eve insisted, "But you can’t just let this scum keep harassing you! Do you think you can continue putting up with this every single day?"
Alana swallowed
It certainly wasn’t pleasant.
Eve had another idea. "Oh, why not find yourself a boyfriend? Forget Cole and get another boyfriend, and that old goat won’t dare bother you anymore."
Alana froze. "Get a boyfriend? Will that help?"
"Yes, find a boyfriend!"
"If I have a boyfriend, will I really stop being harassed?"
Eve nodded. "Of course. I was harassed by my boss before, more than once, actually. Then I had my boyfriend pick me up and drop me off every day. Once that boss saw him, he stopped bothering me."
"You should find yourself a boyfriend too, then. Have him pick you up and drop you off every day, escorting you to and from work. That way, no other men will dare bother you!"
Single girls were the easiest targets for unsavoury men, especially pretty ones. If those perverts saw that they had a man by their side, ready to protect her, they’d back off.
Maybe not all, but some would.
Alana was just an ordinary girl from an ordinary family, and single at that. What means did she have to protect herself?
Unless she could actually find a capable boyfriend.
Alana sighed helplessly, "That’s all well and good, but boyfriends aren’t exactly easy to come by. Plus, I can’t just date anyone."
Cole had definitely scared her off men.
Eve blinked. "With your looks and figure, you must have plenty of admirers. Surely finding a boyfriend would be a breeze? Or is it that you still have feelings for that one person?"
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