His little treasure

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Reedah's POV•

I've been dreading going to work for a while now, and slowly the days are turning to months. My boss is an egotistical chauvinistic dickhead, and a fucking racist. I know he will say other wise if you ask him, but I know he is. My old boss got transferred to another branch and ever since he became in charge, he's made sure to make life at the office hell for me.

As if the stink eye I get from my colleagues isn't enough, his own seems to be the cherry on top. It's like the man has a personal vendetta against me, or maybe I killed him in his past life because he's done nothing but oppose me and find faults in every little thing I do.

The workload which was meant to be shared between me and Cali- a colleague, became mine alone, and whenever we're having a meeting he doesn't fail to chip in a word or two about how people with colour aren't meant to be in the same level of food chain like he is, I tell you, that man is a fucking racist.

The thing he does which pisses me off the most is when he sends me to get coffee for him because according to him, people with colour are supposed to be at the beck and call of white men like himself. Like bloody hell, I didn't spend four years studying accounting in the Uni just to end up as a coffee girl, that shit is so annoying!!

I had no idea people were now judged based on their skin color, I mean this is the twenty first century. I'm a black woman, a proud one at that, and no chauvinistic racist can make me think otherwise or deny my roots. My parents are both Africans which explains my colour, but unlike most Africans, I'm not dark skinned, I'm more of a brown skin girl seeing as my colour is so light that it could pass as African-American.

Work is honestly getting to me, I'm already dealing with enough animosity from Cali and her minions that I don't need my boss to add his to it.

Cali is a colleague of mine, we both worked in the same section but she's never liked me, she made it known the first time I entered the office and mistakenly gave me ledger records which were missing some values and told me to review it. Note the sarcasm. That literally took me hours and my lunch break to figure out and even though I kept telling her the files didn't look complete, she insisted they were. It wasn't until Sarah came that she finally decided to put me out of my misery and came to me saying she didn't know some records were left on her desk, and that was literally just my first day!

Cali has always been a bitch, everyone at the office knows that which makes me wonder how she hasn't in fact been fired. Her dislike towards me is probably because her office crush-Ryan has apparently had eyes just for me from the moment I stepped into the office. He took it upon himself to lead me personally to my office at my first day, and also got me a coffee even though I didn't ask him to. The guy is sweet, and looks cute, but I honestly just don't see him that way.

To me, our relationship is purely platonic and I make sure to tell him that every single time he asks me out. He literally does that at the end of every week, at first it was cute but now, it's just creeping me the hell out. Like guy, can't you just take a hint and leave me the fuck alone! If only he could direct all these affection to Cali, probably she would get off my back but I doubt that would ever happen because the one time I tried telling Ryan that Cali liked him, he totally laughed and snorted, saying there's nothing that could make him and her ever come together. Don't ask me why, I also don't know.

The only person that I talked to in the office was Sarah. Sarah is in her early thirties but you wouldn't know that if she doesn't tell you, she looks so much younger than she actually is. She has a four year old boy named Cole and he's a real ball of energy. I've met him and his dad few times when I went to her place during the weekends.