Midnight Bites episode 1 – 2
🩸MIDNIGHT BITES
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{ Quest For Her Blood…} 🩸
By; Holland Cisca
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Chapter 1&2: THE INTERVIEW.
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~ SOMEWHERE IN TEXAS ~
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Brrrriiiinnnngggg!!!!
Arya woke up by the sound of the alarm. It’s 6am, and she’s got an interview to attend at the hottest company in town… The Raines Corporation Company.
Lucy, her roommate had made breakfast for her. Arya stared at herself for long, checking on herself just to be sure there was nothing missing and that she was perfect for the interview.
She picked up her glasses from the drawer, adjusting it just above her nose. Arya was a beautiful lady with a brownish long hair which rested below her shoulder.
She doesn’t need a make-up to tell how extremely beautiful and good looking she was. Her brown eyes shun from her glass lense, her tall lashes would flap each time she blinks.
Her sculpted pointed nose stood perfect underneath the two layers of her spectaculars. She is just too gorgeous for compliments.
She took a deep breath before she leaving to the dinning room to have her brekfast.
“ You ready for today?” asked Lucy as she sat on one of the dinning chairs.
Arya took a deep breath, nodding her head.
“ You just have to be bold and confident, I believe you can do more than that out there.” She encouraged her.
“ Thank you.”
“ Now eat up and don’t be late for your interview.”
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~ THE RAINES CORPORATION ~
Arya sat on a couch waiting for the interview to begin. She watches as elegant men and women on expensive suits walk to and fro the company.
A pair of door slide open and a stunning woman with an icy demeanor approaches her direction.
“ Arya Stark, right?” Ask the young lady.
“ Yes, I am.”
“I’m Nicole Anderson, VP of Operation at Raines Corp. I’m ready to interview you now.”
“ Oh! Uh, sure… absolutely.” She stammered.
“ You sound surprised.” She said.
“ I just wasn’t expecting to be interviewed by someone so high up in the company.” She said.
“ You are applying to be the executive assistant of our CEO, Adrain Raines himself, one of the most powerful and influential men in the world. We take our hiring process very serious.”
“ Of course! I totally understand.” She agreed.
Arya tried to keep up a confident look, she follows Nicole into a sterile conference room.
“ Now then, please have a seat.” She ushered Arya to sit on the seat opposite hers. “ The Raines Corporation is a global leader in technology and innovation.
Why exactly are you interested in being the executive assistant to our CEO?” she asked.
“ Well, I’d love to help make the world a better place.” She answered. “ What I admire most about the Raines Corporation is your dedication to global innovation and improvement.
The clean water initiative, the vaccine for the conora virus and the green energy project. You guys aren’t getting rich, your’e trying to help people, to make technology that will save the world. I can’t think of anything better than being a part of that.”
“ Hmm.” She hummed. “ A good answer. A bit cloying, perhaps, Mr Raines might actually like that.”
Just then the door at the back of the room swung open, and a handsome man in a perfectly-tailored suit strolls in. His eyes sparkles with a cold intelligence as he assesses Arya.
“ Mr Raines, I wasn’t expecting you…”
He cuts in, “ I had a free minute. Is this the candidate?” he asked.
“ Yes… but I’ve just started the interview and…”
He cuts her in again. “ I’ll take it from here.”
“ Of course, sir. Go right ahead.” She stands, shifting aside.
Adrain pulls up a seat opposite her. His eyes burning right through her. “ Arya Stark, is it?” he started.
“ That’s right.”
“ Tell me, Arya Stark, what do you desire?” He asked.
“ You mean… why do I want this job? Because I…”
He didn’t let her finish her statement, he said. “ I didn’t ask why you want this job. I asked what you desire?”
“ Oh! I desire passion.” She asnswered.
“ Oh, really?”
“ Sorry if it’s too personal, I’m just being honest.” She said sincerely. “ I want to feel deeply, I want to experience life. I want to live every moment like it is the last. That’s what I desire.”
“ I can relate.” He said. He looks down at her resume, “ Let’s see here. Graduated college a year ago, Ba chelor’s in Communication at Marquis Financial… Volunteered in San Frances abroad for two years.”
“ Yeah. That’s right.”
“ And how was that?” he asked. “ Tell me in two words.”
“Englightening. Rewarding.”
“ Good. This job can be challenging and unpredictable. Are you comfortable running unusual errands?”
“ Absolutely.” She said with a small smile.
“ Handling confidential informaton?”
“ I can keep a secret.”
“ Working nights?”
“ Always been a night owl.”
“ Good. Anything else I should know about you?”
“ I’ve got world-class people skills.” She said.
“ Oh?” he looks at her with a confused face.
“ I was voted ‘Most Likeable’ in my college class. Also ‘Most Popular’ and ‘Best Smile.’” She explained. “ Actually, your’e not supposed to win a multiple time, but I persuaded them.”
“ Thus, proving your point.” He added.
“ Exactly!” she smiled.
“ One last question, Miss Stark.” He leans forward, hand folded together on the table. His expression is intense, impenetrable.
“ A long time ago, there lived a man in a distant village. He had a good life, a wife and two kids, a village of friends and brothers, a plot of land to call his own.
But one day, while plowing on his field, he found a buried lamp. And when he rubbied it, a genie appeared and gave him three wishes.
For the first wish, he asked for great wealth. A pile of gold surrounded him. But the rest of the village suffered instantly. Their farms withered, wells got dried.”
“ Mmhmmm…”
“ Next, he wishes for immortality.” He frowns. “ The genie granted it… but when he ran into his house, his family were all dead.”
“ Okay.”
He pauses, staring into her eyes, searching, intense…
“ Tell me, Miss Stark, what should the man ask for, for his third and final wish?”
Arya thought for a while, recollecting the first and second wish and what exactly the third wish should actually be.
“ Well, I think he should undo the last two wishes.” She aanswered confidentally.
“ Because…?”
“ Because it’s a story of greed and temptation. I believe that no matter how hærd we work for something or desire to have them… we will one day have them. It’s only if we have the patience.” She added.
“ There’s no way for the man to win, because he should never have played the game.”
Adrian nods thoughtfully, momentarily far away. He pauses, still deep in thought, fingers steepled… he grins.
“ Your’e hired.”
Arya gasped, surprised. Just like that?
“ Wh… what? Seriously?”
He extends his hand and she took it, returning the handshake. She still couldn’t believe she was able to pass the interview so easily.
“ Welcome to the Raines Corporation.”
“ But… we still have more candidates! We haven’t even…” Nicole tried to say but he ignored having any further interview.
“ This is the one.”
“ …Of course. Understood.”
“ Mr Raines, sir, I…” Arya stammered.
“ Please call me Adrian.”
“ Mr… I mean, Adrian, I’m just… so honoured for this opportunity! I promise I won’t let you down.” She promised.
“ Good. Because I take promises very seriously.”
“ When do I start?” she asked.
“ Right now.”
Nicole left to process the paperwork, while he esc-rts her out towards a glistening shiny elevator. They stepped into the elevator, he presses his keycard to a scanner to make a display with buttons appear.
He presses one lebeled ‘Executive office’.
“ So, is this your own private elevator?” she asked as the elevator moves towards the first floor.
“ Yes.”
“ Wow…” she said in a whisper.
“ Sometimes, it’s necessary for me to get around the building quickly.”
“ I understand your’e a busy person.” Arya takes her eyes off his, eyes focused to the elevator door.
She was trying hærd not to let her hærd breathing loud. She needed the job so desperate, but never expected her duty would start so soon.
And… he looked nice to talk to unlike any other CEO’s she has ever seen but, she wasn’t the talking type. She would only talk when necessary or else he’d have her recorded as a talkactive on the first day of her job.
He turns his steely eyes to hers, studying her almost clinically, without a word.
He had this eyes that shun like stars in the night sky, one which can make you forget your’e in a critical condition or something.
The elevator door stops at the top floor and the doors opened to reveal the lobby outside his office.
“ This will be your desk.” He said to her.
“ Wow.” She gasped amazed.
“ One of your job is to help me be more efficient so I can get more done. My previous assistant… she didn’t understand that.” He said bitterly.
“ Is that why she is no longer… with the company?” she asked.
He looks at her, guilt in his eyes. “ Among other reasons.”
“ I’ll absolutely do my best, sir… I mean, Adrian.” She promised.
He smiles. “ I have no doubt you will. That’s why I hired you.”
“ If you don’t mind me asking, what’s the agenda for today?” she asked.
“ My schedule for the rest of the day is packed. Right now, I need to prepare for a meeting with some very important partners.” He said.
“ You mean CEOs like you?” she guessed.
“ I like your initiative.” He praised. “ However, there is something else…”
“ Whatever you need.”
“ My guests are formidable people, at the height of power in their fields. And I’m conducting some negotiations. So I wanted to welcome them with some memorial gifts.”
“ So, what should I do?”
“ I’ve actually selected a few… unique things. All you need to do is pick them up for me.”
“ Okay.”
“ You will be going back down. All the way down… to the basement archives.”
“ Is that where the gifts are?” she asked, curious.
“ Yes. They should have everything ready for you. Afterwards, meet me on the 76th floor conference center. Just be prepared, the archive clerk can be a bit… unusual.” He plays a smile on his face.
He reaches for the elevator and pushes ‘B’ for basement…
“ Unusual? Wait, is this some kind of test?” she asked, a bit terried.
He didn’t answer, he steps back out and smiles faintly as the doors close.
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