Henry with a smile told her that the pleasure is all he’s as he was doing it out of good faith.
Eva too was caught in Henrys’ gaze and she was not saying anything but just listening to hun speak out.
Turning to Eva, he asked how she was doing and how her day had begun.
She responded in a modest voice smiling from molar to molar.
The secretary was back with a skate bad two cups of coffee, placing each mug in front of the person drinking it.
“Your office is fine, Mr. Henry”, Bethany spoke in a soft voice looking all around.
Henry smiled and thanked her for the compliment.
” Now, her is the job that you both will be doing here in my company”, Henry said, picking up a file that was on his table handing each copy to the girls.
Henry went on to explain briefly each detail that was found in those files that they were having.
Eva taking hers opened it and her eyes read through it like a screenshot as fast as she could.
Bethany too did the same with her file and when the girls were done, Henry asked them if they had understood what was written in there.
Bethany, who was amazed, asked Henry why she was seeing the post of a Manager with such a huge salary when she does not even have any work experience in the domain.
Henry responded by asking her if she did not work before as a social worker, she responded with a yes, so he told her that she has managerial skills and can coordinate people meaning working in a team.
Bethany’s joy was overflowed when she heard these words from his mouth and also she had the opportunity to pay the loan that she could ask from her monthly salary.
Henry asked her if she liked the proposal she was seeing, and she answered happily saying that she loves it as that was the best proposal that anyone has ever offered to her since she began her career as a full-time worker.
Eva who had been quiet all through looking at her file, became speechless with tears in her eyes as she could not believe what she was seeing there.
Henry became emotional after seeing her tears so he woke up from his seat and walked to her,
“You do not need to cry, all you need to do is to prove to me and the entire board of directors that I did not do the wrong thing recruiting such beautiful and talented young ladies as you both”, Henry says smiling as he walked back to his seat.
Eva turning to her friend with so much joy, told her that she had finally had something to pay off her mother’s bill with and Bethany also told her that she will not need to stress to pay her sibling’s tuition fees.
As Eva turned to face Henry, their eyes met like lightning, and with a smile on her face, she whispered a thank you from the other side of the table, and the thank you was as silent that only Henry could hear it as he was looking at her straight in the eyes.
Duke had been thinking about Bethany all day but did not know whether he should go to Henry’s office to see her before she leaves but another voice was opposing his decision.
” Duke Chase, stop behaving like a teenager who just saw a lady for the first time, learn to control yourself”, a voice said pressing hard on his brain but then another voice rejecting the idea of the first voice said,
“You need to follow your heart as it is no crime to finally find someone who makes your whole being vibrate whenever you think or see her”.
Duke was in a complete dilemma as he thought back and forth about what to do without finding the necessary solution.
Seating on his chair, he took out his phone from his pocket to call Henry to find out whether Bethany had already left, but his hand weighed like he was lifting a brick wall with it, so he put it down and held his head.
Duke was so lost in his uncertainty that, his P. A knocked and entered his office but he was not aware of her presence.
“Sir are you okay?”, she asked looking at his posture on his table and bringing him back from his dreamland where he seemed to be lost in thought.
Duke relaxing in his seat, announced that he was doing fine and asked her what she needed from his office.
She told him that there was a document he had not signed yet, and she needed his signature on it as it was an urgent issue.
Duke asked her to give him the file so that he could rush over the information in it again before signing it, took the file from her hand as extended it to him.
After a brief run down, he took out his pen from his pen holder and placed his signature on it, asking her to sort out any other thing that needed his attention as he was not feeling too good.
She nodded in acceptance to what he had instructed and left his office to her desk.
Picking up his phone again to dial Henry’s phone number, he was interrupted when he was about to make the call.
His office phone rang and he picked up the call in a mad mood almost shooting at his secretary, but he was called down by her news telling him that someone was at the reception to meet with him.
Duke wondered who it was and he told his secretary to say that he was in a meeting but she insisted that the lady in question was demanding to meet with him urgently as she will like to show appreciation to him.
On bearing this, Duke was happy reasoning that it was Bethany who had come to see him from Henry’s office as she had gotten a satisfactory announcement from his friend.
Duke said in a speedy voice,
” Let her in, I am waiting for her in my office”, he mumbled without even asking the name of the person downstairs.
The secretary told the Lady to please follow the corridor and when she’s at the end of the hallway, she should turn left and she will see Mr. Duke’s office.
The lady walked through as instructed and when she was in front of Duke’s office, she took a deep breath as she knew that it was not going to be easy on her the moment she will be faced with him.
Knocking on the door and pushing it open, she entered his office wearing a beautiful smile as though to turn him on.
Duke who was sitting on his seat facing the bookshelves in his office, heard the voice of a lady saying,
“Good morning Mr. Duke Chase”.
He turned to have a look at the person who had entered his office and who is standing in front of him, and to his greatest dismay, it was Sylvia.
Duke squeezing his eyes to become smaller as though he was going to have a proper view after doing that, minced his teeth in his mouth with confusion as she was certain that she had seen that face somewhere.
” I think I have seen this face somewhere but I cannot make it out”, he said scrolling through his head just to think back to where he had seen Sylvia.
Sylvia laughing out loud as she moved properly into his office, asked him to identify the person he met last night with his mom at his house when he came back home.
Duke who could not believe his eyes rapidly remembered her just from that declaration that she had made.
“You are the lady I saw with my mother last night right?”, he asked wondering how she got to know where he works.
He was just about to ask Sylvia how she came about where he works, but he suddenly thought back of the kind of mother that he had and the possibility that she may be the person who has given Sylvia his company’s address.
“Won’t you offer me a seat?”, Sylvia said as she waited for Duke to be the gentleman that he ought to be while looking at his handsomeness.
Sylvia was thinking in her head how she will devour Duke if she could finally be given the chance to be with him just for a single day, and she was so deep in her fixation that she did not hear him tell her to sit down the first time.
“Miss, are you okay?”, he asked as he had noticed that she seems lost in thought and had to bring her back to his office from wherever she was lost to.
” I am okay Duke”, she spoke out asking him if she could be like his friends thereby calling him by his name.
Duke accepted as he had no problem with it and he sat down, waiting to hear what had brought her to his office.
Mrs. Marvin had reached her destination with the driver that Duke had sent.
The driver stopped the engine of the car and opening the door, he went out of the car, reaching for the back door where Mrs. Marvin was seating.
“Here we are Mrs”, he said as he led her out of the car, letting her gain her stability on the ground.
Bethany’s mother, fascinated with what she was seeing, asked the driver what they were doing in a medical facility but he answers that he did not know much as he was just solely instructed to bring her there to meet a doctor who will take care of her.
Mrs. Bethany who got taken by panic said to the driver that she wanted to go to her home but he insisted that his boss had asked him to bring her there and an appointment has already been booked.
Mrs. Marvin asked him to call his boss now that he wanted to talk with him, but the driver who was just simply following orders, flinched and that act of his made her very irate that she yelled out for him to call Duke instantly.
He took out his cell phone and dialed his boss’s, number and waited for some seconds for him to pick up the call.
Duke who was still with Sylvia, saw the incoming call from Matt the driver he sent him to drive Mrs. Bethany to the hospital, so he picked up and answered,
” Hello”…
Matt responded from the other side of the phone telling his boss that they were at the health care center and also reported the situation to him.
Duke was wondering what the problem was and before he could better call into question about what was happening, Mrs. Marvin had already taken the phone from Matt and held it to her ear.
“Hi Duke, it’s Bethany’s mother”, she said, in a satisfactory voice as she could bit understand what she was doing in a hospital.
Duke expressing happiness talking runner, told her not to worry and that she had an appointment with a certain Doctor Ramos Costa and he was going to orientate her on the necessary things to do.
Mrs. Marvin did not know what was going on, but she had a complete trust in Duke that was difficult for her to explain.
Duke assured her that there were not going to be any problems and also that Matt was with her to protect her but in case of any worries, she should not hesitate to contact him as fast as possible.
She accepted and wished him to have a splendid day and he did the same as well. Looking at Matt, she apologized to him for being unfair but he told her not to worry as he was only doing his job.
Matt walked her to the interior, reaching the reception desk and asking for information from the receptionist on how to get to Dr. Ramos’s panel as his patient has an appointment with him bringing out the appointment letter.
She took the letter and scrolling through the desktop standing in front of her, she used her eyes to check the name that was on the letter to that of those in the machine making sure not to commit any mistakes.
When she finally saw Mrs. Marvin’s name, she confirmed the appointment and gave her a register to sign up while she handed over their letter directing them on how to reach Dr. Costas’s cabinet as his name was written on his panel’s door.
They showed appreciation to the nurse at the reception and left for the direction that was given to them.
Bethany and her friend were already done from Henry’s office and they were about to leave when Eva asked Henry about his mother’s condition and how she was recovering.
Henry responded to her with an assurance that she was going to be okay, as the stay-home nurse that they took from the hospital was doing a good job.
The girls were pleased with their day and let out that they had to go as Bethany had to go take care of her mother and eventually make something for her to eat.
Henry understood the circumstance and told them to be at the office tomorrow as they were to start as soon as possible.
Raising his, he pointed out to the Human Resource Management office, where they had to get the last pieces of information from.
” Thank you Mr. Henry”, Bethany spoke as she walked out of the office
Eva on the other hand was love-struck and did not want to leave the office as her legs were as heavy as though a bag of cement had been placed on her legs.
Faced with that awkward situation as Henry too did not want her to leave, she went for the door and he rushed to ask her if she could be free to have dinner with him that evening, but Eva having at the back of her mind that she did bit have to be too obvious, declined his offer and told him to try again some other day.
Henry fastened his suction in chagrin as she had refused his request but he was not going to back down so easily.
Eva and Bethany, had gone into the HR department and we’re done with the signing of their contracts and they were headed to the reception to return the badges that were given to them, to leave for their homes.
“I cannot believe that we had this job Betty”, Eva screamed at the good and decent life that was smiling to her face and she was super excited about it.
Bethany stopped a can and told her friend to get in so that they could leave from there and she had to head home straight.
Henry was smiling in his office all day as he was happy to have seen Eva again. The joy of seeing someone you love and making them happy was something.
As Bethany and Eva were in the taxi, the phone began to ring and she searched it in her bag wondering what whining was.
As she found the phone, she saw that it was Bryan calling and she immediately got nervous seeing his call thinking that something bad has happened to her mother.
She picked up the call answering to him,
” Hello, Bryan”.
He was breathing over the phone and his sister could hear the tension in his breath as she held the phone rightly to her ear.
“What is going on Bryan talk to me what is wrong?”, she asked him looking at Eva and at the same time, Eva was gaping in her mind what was happening back home.
Bryan began explaining what had happened that morning as a certain man came to get their mother saying that he was sent by Mr. Duke to come to take her somewhere, but the problem now was that they had been gone for more than an hour and their mom’s phone was not reachable.
On hearing that, Bethany’s phone fell off her ear as she was already thinking about the worst things that might have happened to her mother.
She remembered her fathers words which he always said to her when he was alive,
” Never you trust a rich person because they will never love ordinary people like us”.
Eva licked up her phone and continued the call asking Bryan what had happened to their mother.
He said the same thing but Eva told him to calm down as nothing was going to happen to her.
Bethany yelled out at her firmed after hearing this asking what she meant by that.
“My mother has been missing for an hour now and all you can say is that nothing will happen to her?”, she inquired trembling in fear as tears rolled down her cheeks.
Eva understood very well what her friend was going through so she did not want to add to her worries but rather help her to lessen the pain she was feeling inside.
” Friend calms down”, she said softly taking her into her arms.
Bethany could not seem to understand why he had to do that, and what he could be doing to his mother as they were speaking.
“I need to go to his office for him to tell me where he is keeping my mother”, she said as she told the cab driver to drop her there for her to get another cab.
“You can not go there like this friend you might say or do something that you might later regret please listen to me”, Eva pleaded with her friend but as always Bethany was hellbent on going there alone.