“Sis.. What??” I was shocked to my guts. How can this be…? She was his… Sister. That was why she was so close to him and he don’t even said anything to her. I feel so ashamed of myself for being jealous of her.
“Did you think otherwise?” Liam raised his brow towards me.
“I..” I took her as his lover. I said inside my head but outside, I looked away with a small muffle “Nothing”
“Ok” he uttered. He then inserted the car key. The car engine roared once and the car sped up out of the villa.
I looked away all the way to the office. Liam was also silent all the time. It was difficult to say if he don’t want to disturb my peace or want to enjoy his one company.
When we reached the office, we directly went to the top floor. To our expectation, Mr. Gold hadn’t arrived yet. There was no much work for me as usual. I sat on his chair lazily since Liam went out to do some of his regular check on the works going on the different departments.
I looked around and check if there was any of the work that I need to finish. I only did the financial works. But there was no any works in the office for me. The documents there were something that I don’t know how to dealt with.
I was tired of sitting in the chair. So I got up and start wondering around the room alone. Just then, Mr. Gold entered the room. He was cold as he entered the room but his facial expression got softer as he was coming in from the door.
“What are you doing? ” he asked me.
“Nothing, I don’t think there is anything I need to do here” I said looking at the piles of files on his table.
“Come with me. You can help me with something ” he went to his chair.
I need to ask for my leave. But I was confused how to ask for it. I haven’t taken a leave till now and I can’t even say I was taking this to go on a shopping for someone. What will I say when he asks for reason. I felt the top floor going blank with the question.
“Are you going to stand there? ” his sudden question brought me back to reality. I looked at him and begin to walk towards him step by step.
“What is it?” I asked him.
“Print out the file. Make some 100 copies of the file” he pointed at the document that was opened on his computer screen.
“Sure sir” I nodded as I begin to go with the process.
He sat on his chair and begin to work on some other documents while I was doing my work.
It took me five minutes to finish the task he had given me. After finishing the file I handed it to him. I was thinking of a way to ask for a leave when he asked from front “What is it? ”
“Huh? No.. Nothing ” I shook my head.
“Then why are you standing there? What do you want to say? ” he asked again.
“I.. I was wondering if I can do half day today ” I said in a trembling voice. I was praying that he would say yes because I don’t want to turn Rick down.
“What for? ” he asked without looking at me.. He looked on the file even when he was talking to me.
“I… I have some important work to do” I said as I lowered my head.
“Work? What kind of work? ” he asked Mr again.
“I’m going shopping” I spoke up the truth since it was hard to lie to him. And if he found out I was lying then it woube a problem again.
“With whom? ” he glared at me this time.
I looked at his deep black eyes and got smitten by his eyes. I heart started beating faster and the surrounding was slower than usual.
“I.. I’m going shopping alone….” I couldn’t tell him I was going shopping with Rick. He might take it otherwise and not even let me go. I looked away from his eyes. Phew if I was to look in his eyes, I might keep looking for a whole day.
He keep staring at me for a while as if he can see through my mind. As if he knew I was lying, as if he caught something on me.
“Will you? ” I asked softly as I slowly look at his beautiful eyes. To my complete surprise, his head moved up and down, nodding to my answer.
“Thank you so much sir” I was so happy. I was literally over the cloud.
“What time are you going? ” he asked.
“After the lunch break ” I smiled at him. He don’t asked anything anymore and nodded. And then he went back to his paperwork. I was really happy.
I texted Rick to pick me up in the lunch time. He answered he was going to wait for me outside the office.
Liam came in a while, he had checked the progress of the departments and also the finished works.
He had some of the works for me too. I went to him and collected those. He not only gibe me files of work but he gave me piled of work. I sigh looking at the files in my hand. I have to go out fast so I don’t waste my time and begin to work. I wanted to finish as much as I can. All of them were so important. They were already checked by the senior assistant outside. So it was much easy to do mine part.
I did it without any break. Thankfully Mr. Gold didn’t asked for coffee or something. As I finished more than fifty files, it was already lunch time. By them I was alone in the room.
Liam and Mr. Gold were gone for a meeting with a client. They might take a long while so I took my bag asked get out off the office as soon as Rick messaged me he was outside the company gate.
I ran to the elevator and went down. There were lots of employees moving here and there, since it was the lunch break. I had to ran past them to reach the Cosby gate.
I spotted Rick’s car as soon as I reach the company gate. I waved at him and he saw me in a few seconds of waving hands at him. He smiled at me and drove his Audi towards me.
“Hey Rick ” I smiled at him.
“Riley, I’m so nervous and excited at the same time” he said unable to contain his happiness within himself.
“Is everything planned? ” I asked him.
He nodded at me and opened the car door for me. I sat inside and put on the seatbelt.
“So what is your plan? “I asked him.
“I know the flowers she like, so I have ordered r a bookey already. I have gotten some of her favorite candies now I want a ring that she love.” he said as he started the car.
“Are you going to propose her for marriage? ” I was confused. Wasn’t ring for marriage proposals?
“I don’t know, I want to propose her to be mine. Let her take it as marriage proposal or my girlfriend for the mean time” he smiled as he looked at me. I can see the love in his eyes as he was saying those words.
“Are you two going to marry if she accept your proposal? ” I asked him again.
“If she wants, why not? “he chucked for a while but soon he stopped and seemed nervous “But… What if she don’t? ” he said as he frowned.
“She’ll accept you for sure, don’t worry ” I tried to comfort him.
“You could say so, it’s her choice either she choose to be with me or not ” he looked a bit serious and upset.
“I could say so because I’ve known her from closer” I was really confident that she was going to accept his proposal. Some of the previous incidents were enough to prove what she feels for Rick.
“Where is she now? ”
“She’s at office, I told her I’m having a fever and can’t made it to office today.”
“Oh, then she might come to check on you today ”
“No, I’m going to pick her up at the company. So that she won’t have any excuses or work to fail the plan”
“You are taking precautions beforehand” I chuckled.
He nooded at my words and then he stopped the car. I looked front and we were in front of a big mall.
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