As time started to pass by, the box office of [Sherlock Holmes] started slowing down. The main reason was that all the potential audience had already watched the movie. Still, it succeeded in earning $2-$3 million every day for which many movies would struggle.

After almost a month of the recruitment process, Amanda had succeeded in gathering most of the required staff and most of them were promising candidates that she had handpicked amongst the ones that passed the interviews.

As the site posted that the recruitments are closed, many people started asking for internship opportunities. Due to [Sherlock Holmes] recent popularity, many film school graduates wanted to be an intern at Dream Vision.

Amanda had taken in a few promising candidates as interns and they had been promised an employee re-assessment as long as they prove themselves useful in the following year. All the interns happily agreed to that condition.

DTA’s first round of auditions started with a total of more than 5000 resumes and audio clips from all around the world. Not to mention this only increased the workload of the team and came as an opportunity to test the candidates that have been newly recruited.

Amanda told them to pick the promising ones while disqualifying the ones that weren’t good or ones that just sent for trolling. Although most of them were serious applications. And then Amanda told the existing team to reassess the decisions of the new recruits.

As they were still on the trial period, Amanda had full rights to kick them out if they didn’t work properly or just laze around. As this news was made public to all employees, everyone worked extra hard to get on the browny board of Amanda.

Amanda was continuously busy with all the work, and as the workload increased with the increase of business size, she had to get a secretary for herself. Will agreed to this decision and even asked Amanda to recommend someone to be his secretary. After all, he had been relying on Amanda for everything that a secretary should be doing and he was already bitter about it.

Amanda agreed to send the resume of the best candidates that she could come up with, after all, Will was a hot commodity right now and not just anyone could qualify to be his secretary. After all, a secretary was someone who had access to many of the secrets of the person or organisation they are working for.

Even though they had to sign a non-disclosure contract, some still breached it and it could cause irreparable harm to the employer. That’s why Amanda went through her whole life’s memory lane to pick out the best people she could think of for the job. After all, there weren’t many people who were trustable and had a deep understanding of the Hollywood industry.

After a day, Amanda did come up with someone. It was someone whom she had worked with before. She was an independent woman and was someone who would work hard for something they wanted to achieve. Amanda had a deep impression of her because of how she behaved around her previous employer.

She was the secretary of a famous actress and had worked with her for years. She left working with that actress because she was falsely accused of leaking information. Even though she won the court case, it came out that the actress had leaked the information herself to an outsider when she was drunk.

She was kicked out of the job because of the actress’s ego, which affected her career. Even though she was proven innocent, she had gotten an unwanted scar in her career and hence, had been acting as an agent in the market.

Amanda had told all this to Will and Will immediately agreed to meet her. After all, people who had suffered without doing any crime were the ones that either became vengeful to the whole society or grateful to the one that lends a helping hand on time.

Will wanted to become the latter for her. Although it was like taking advantage of someone and made him somewhat guilty, he couldn’t think of a better way to get a more loyal subordinate.

***

*Knock* *Knock*

“Come in.”

Someone knocked at Will’s office door and Will told them to come in without moving his head, as he continued to type furiously at his laptop.

“Excuse me.”

A mellifluous voice entered Will’s ears as he subconsciously looked up, only to lose his soul for a second.

A girl so beautiful that only in fantasy stories would she appear, that’s how Will would describe the girl in front of him.

With an imp-thin body. She had mercury red hair that tumbled over her shoulders and saccharine sweet lips. They were soft. Her posture and getup screamed elegance. She looked to be in her early twenties and donned a businesswoman-like attire.

After a moment, Will regained his spirits as he said.

“Have a seat.”

“Thank you. I’m Alexia Eagleheart.”

Alexia sat down as she introduced herself. Will looked at her curiously, as if asking why she was here, and she replied, as if enlightened.

“Amanda told me to meet with you. I thought you were informed.”

Although Will didn’t show it, he was internally surprised. When Amanda had told him about Alexia, Will had gotten the impression that she was someone at least middle-aged.

Alexia handed her resume and Will opened it to take a look. What surprised him was her age. She had been working in the industry since she was 21 years old and was already 26 years old with 5 years of experience backing her up. To Will, or to anyone who saw her for the first time, she would look like she’s 22-23 years old.

After some basic formal introductions, Will started the interview by directly hitting her sore spot.

“You are here to give an interview for my secretary’s position. But you were kicked out by your previous employer with the accusation of leaking her personal information. Is that true?”

Will looked at her from behind the file he was holding, to which she replied confidently.

“I was proven innocent with a massive victory from my side. Although I won’t mention who was actually guilty, my previous employer had leaked that information herself to a third party. I was hired as a secretary and performed my job to the best of my capabilities.”

Will already knew it. Amanda had already testified that she was a good choice and that she was the best Amanda could come up with. Winning the lawsuit didn’t matter as her career was ruined one way or the other. Amanda could empathise with her as a fellow woman in the industry and wanted to help her.

“What’s your best selling point? If you had to pick one of your qualities.”

Will moved on to the next question without elaborating on the previous issue.

“I’ve got good lips.”

Alexia said and Will subconsciously looked at those flower petal-like lips and smiled. What she meant was that she was pretty good at keeping secrets and keeping her lips sealed. It was funny coming from someone who was accused of leaking secrets but that just spoke of her confidence.

After some more questions, Will asked another question.

“You yourself should be aware of how good looking you are. Doesn’t that cause you problems?”

Will asked another question. This wasn’t one of the questions he had prepared, but it was something that he asked out of genuine curiosity. Saying that Alexia was beautiful would be an understatement, she could outclass many Hollywood actresses. But sometimes having something in access caused more problems than praise.

“Why do you think I only have the record of working with just 1 person, that too an actress? Even after the lawsuit, there were many men who wanted to recruit me, but those were just after my body. And I am more interested in being a successful woman than a successful sex toy.”

Alexia replied with a smirk. To which, Will immediately questioned her again.

“What makes you think I won’t go after your body?”

“You can try if you want. But I already know you are not the type of person who would do that. And you already have a girlfriend too. A certain someone had bet their credibility on the fact that you won’t even touch me.”

Will just chuckled hearing that. Amanda had bet her credibility on the line due, that just went on to show how much she trusted Will. As Will had already gone through all the questions and Alexia had replied to all of them with confidence and assertiveness. There was no doubt left in Will’s mind regarding Alexia’s capabilities. How would she actually work? That only time could tell.

After some formalities, Will sent her out and called Amanda to his office. He told her that she can hire Alixia as his PA and she could start working as soon as she was ready. Somehow, Amanda was really happy, looking like a kid who had helped out a friend in need and now was feeling proud.

Amanda also informed Will that Jennifer had joined DTA as a senior agent and was now directly under Jeffrey, the temporary head of DTA.

“Talking about Jeffrey, that guy is really something. He had managed to coax a lot of agents from the free market and even some other agencies to join DTA. Most of their resumes are currently under the supervision department and we could recruit them as soon as they are done with their interviews.”

Amanda informed Will during the talk and Will was surprised that his Doraemon was still at full throttle even though he wasn’t much experienced in the Talent Agency’s market.