Elena’s POV.
Marie had slept over in my place and I woke up to her cursing aggressively as she looked at her phone.
“What the hell is this? Why are we all being called to work this early? ” She sobbed playfully and I could see the annoyance that was building up as well.
I picked up my phone to also see the SMS on my lock screen.
“Mummy is aunty. Marie alright?” Kanu mumbled as he sat upright, rubbing his eyes as he yawned.
“Yeah, she is.” I chuckled softly as I pulled him in before pecking his cheeks. “Hope you slept well?”
“How can aunty be alright when she just got an SMS from work?” She got up as she murmured.
“Okay, wake up your sister.” I told Kanu who quickly poked Kiana thrice before she got up.
Marie went to her house to get ready as I got Kanu and Kiana set for school too. I quickly prepared tea and we had bread, sauce and tea as breakfast because that was the only thing I could arrange because there was already an hour left to get to work.
“But what was so important that the manager had sent out the SMS himself and the urgency the text came with was also more frustrating.”
“I swear, girl. Hope they are not about to fire us?” She said in a mocking tone. “I won’t let them sack me so easily without a fight!!”
“Must you always be this dramatic and violent, Marie?” I rolled my eyes as we walked down to the bus stop and luckily for us, we got a free taxi that dropped Kanu and Kiana off before taking us down to The Eleven.
“Wait!!” She paused, this time, clenching my right arm. “Why is the place this crowded? Did the bosses come around today? Why are all the workers present?” She exhaled sharply as she smiled.
“I thought we were about to get sacked for not being around for our shift yesterday.” She mumbled as she used her left hand to rub her chest in a downward motion.
I shook my head as to how dramatic she was being right now.
“There, that’s the manager and the supervisor over there.” She said as she used her eyes to give me direction.
I rolled my eyes as my eyes met with the Manager and Gusto, the one of a hell supervisor. In as much as he was a man of so much strictness, he was weak when money was involved.
Anyone could get through him as far as money was involved.
“Why does he look worried?” I turned to Marie who was now looking elsewhere.
I looked further to the garage as I saw a Toyota Land Cruiser convoy.
“Who could it be? Is it really the boss that came around?” I queried as I looked at Marie whose eyes were fixed to the front and I looked to my amazement as I felt my heart drop down to my stomach.
“What was Clark doing here and who are those men?” I whined.
From the way he was dressed, I could tell this was something serious. He had his holster on. He looked confiscated like he was about to go on an assassin mission.
I knew for him to be here, then Rex was also here. “But then, where is he?”
“Can you see that handsome dude over there?” Marie turned to me as she looked at me. “Just look how perfect he is. Is he our boss? Oh my!!” She said in an excited manner as she grabbed my arm.
I couldn’t say a word to her as I was still confused. And just before I could gather the courage to say a word, I overheard the manager and Gusto talking as they walked towards the convoy.
And the moment they got there, a huge looking man got down from the middle jeep as the Manager and Gusto bowed down in respect as he tapped their back, wearing a broad smile.
He wasn’t muscular , kinda huge but was the chubby one. And then, my eyes strolled down to the back of the car as someone stepped out.
My heart stopped instantly as I looked at him. “Who was the huge man and what was Rex doing with him?”
And what next? I saw the man introducing Rex to them and Gusto’s face still didn’t look good at all.
They approached where we stood in our numbers and I felt this weakness throbbing. I felt this numbness as I watched how Rex walked with the two identical chubby men and Clark and the Manager with Gusto walked behind them.
And finally, they got to where we stood and our eyes met with each other and he exhaled gently as he raised his right eyebrow and lowered his left eyebrow.
I know that, I remember that clearly. That was a way of letting me know how nervous he was, not directly but that was one thing he did whenever he was nervous.
I blushed seeing that he still had that part of him but then, I rolled my eyes as I followed the other workers as they rushed inside the hall room.
“Good morning, everyone. I’m sorry for the impromptu message.” The manager apologized as he smiled broadly.
I heard a few of the workers behind me make mockery of how he was acting all nice and caring now.
“So, here are the men behind the success of this multimillion hotel and resort you see here in the heart of the West in New Kingston.” He said as he clapped his hands, gingering us as well to celebrate them by clapping our hands.
“Why is Rex there? Don’t tell me he has a big share in this hotel?” Marie winced as she looked at me but seeing how confused I was, she looked away as she paid attention to the Manager’s speech.
“So, last night considering my old friendship with the King’s Real Estate Company in Cleveland, The Eleven was sold out to Mr. Rex King in the early hours of today and from today, he is your new boss.” One of the chubby huge looking brothers said with a broad smile on his face.
“New boss?” I gasped as my heart ached badly.