Nancy mindlessly endured until it was time to leave. She immediately took her bag and slipped out of the office. It was close to impossible to take the lift at this time so she decided to walk down all 21 floors, just to avoid Zack.
Mandy was unable to stop her as she dashed into the stairwell. Mandy took out her cell phone and with a text, “Nancy has taken the stairs.”
Hale looked towards Zack’s empty seat and realized that he had already left to get her…
As Nancy rushed into the stairwell, partly because she was anxious and partly due to the height of the building, she started to feel light-headed and her feet started to weigh down. She began to see stars and felt dizzy.
Zack who was waiting patiently for Nancy at the lift saw Hale’s text and dashed to the stairwell. This moment Nancy heard the hurried footsteps coming towards her.
Nancy in her daze barely made out an image ahead blocking her, “Excuse me …” The person ahead didn’t step aside and turned to face her.
As soon as he turned, Nancy saw immediately he was Zack!
Before her brain could process, she stumbled directly into Zack. She could clearly hear a moan on impact.
It must surely hurt, after all, she is no featherweight.
Zack endured the pain and firmly embraced the startled girl. Nancy didn’t think to resist and Zack didn’t intend to let go.
Both of them were in an awkward posture in the stairwell until someone passed by. Only then did Nancy push him away but her hand was held firmly by Zack.
“I, I want to go home.” Nancy didn’t dare to look into his eyes.
“I thought that I told you to meet me at the basement car park.” Zack looked directly into her eyes and didn’t give her a chance to look away.
“Ah, the staircase was too dark, I was going to the basement car park but I came to the wrong way. Haha,” Nancy knew that this was a weak lie and even she wouldn’t believe it. But what can she do? It was so awkward!
Zack lifted his hand to her forehead and gave her a gentle flick. Nancy held her forehead in pain. Staring at Zack, protested, “Ouch! Why did you hit me?!”
“Why didn’t you take the reserved lift?” Zack lectured.
“I’m not a senior executive, how can I take that lift?” Nancy was still rubbing her forehead and acted as if she had never taken that lift.
He only gave her a gentle flick on the forehead but she seems to be in pain. So he pulled aside her hand and examined her forehead, asking, “Is it painful? Let me have a look.”
Nancy was now pouting and milking the situation, “Of course it hurts, if I were to hit you the same way, you’ll know whether it is painful or not! My delicate and intelligent brain can’t take a hit like that!”
Zack realizing she was joking, started to laugh. As he laughed, the dimples on his cheeks began to show. Nancy was smitten by those cute dimples.
That manly and mesmerizing Zack leaned forward towards Nancy and stared intently into her eyes, “Okay, go ahead, take your best shot.”
Nancy was already dizzy and her heart pounded relentlessly as she heard him challenge her flirtatiously. Furthermore, they were already in such an awkward situation and he had the mood to tease her? Has he forgotten about the “Flower Babe” incident?
Noticing that Nancy’s attention started to wander off, he knew that she was imagining nonsense again. Thus, he didn’t say anymore, grabbed her hand, and walked. Nancy asked, “Why are you dragging me?”
Without looking back, Zack answered, “Let’s elope!”