“You need to see this” Diana said to Ophelia.
Opelia had requested an assistant to help her out, she was going to resume work soon anyway so it was not difficult to assign her one. Carter had it all planned out, after her wedding and maybe honeymoon he would introduce her to the company as a subsidiary CEO while she planned to take over maybe after a year or two depending on how well she was able to get people on her side.
“See what?” Ophelia stretched out to take out the tablet from her hand. Staring back at her from the screen was a picture of a woman hugging Cade.
She stared at the picture intently, she told herself that she did not care about the image. “So what should I do?” she asked trying to sound nonchalant about it.
“Erm” Diana started but stopped because she did not know how to say what she wanted to say to her in a way she would be okay with.
“Speak” Ophelia commanded.
“So, Mr Frost has filled me in on the situation with Mr Vale and I know you are getting married to him because of the business but you are already building an image of the perfect couple online, if this circulates without you doing anything about it, the buzz you have managed to generate in the last four days would die down and maybe we might never be able to recover it” Diana explained.
Ophelia nodded her head understanding what she was saying. “You are right about everything except one thing”
“What?” Diana asked wondering what she had mispredicted.
“I am Ophelia Frost, I can make dead man trend” she clicked her tongue.
“Of course, that is true” Ophelia narrowed her eyes. She wondered if the girl was being honest or if it was just to help her feed her ego and feel better about herself.
“Okay, so we have this strange girl in awful clothes hugging my husband to be so boldly and out in the open what do we do?”
“First things first we need to know who she is and why Cade stepped out of his car for her”
“What do you mean?”
“I forgot that you have not been around so you do not know this about Mr Frost, he is pretty popular with the ladies”
“That is super obvious,” Ophelia said. The two times they had been out together in the past four days she had experienced first-hand how girls were all over him. He was handsome but she did not understand the fuzz about him at all.
“So some girls go wait outside his office to see him before he goes to work”
“So why is this picture trending and why is it a big issue if it happens all the time?” Ophelia was confused.
“Yes girls stand outside his office to see him but this was the first time that he came down from his car so that is why we need to know who this girl is. Maybe she has a kind of connection with him somehow. Maybe when he was studying abroad”
Ophelia gulped when she heard the words Studying abroad. She did not want to remember how hard she had embarrassed herself that night and even been the one to initiate sex with him. She was glad to be playing dumb about the situation anyway and she was going to keep it that way.
“So we need to first know who she is and then know why Mr Vale came down and then from there we can know what kind of damage control to do” she explained.
“You are no ordinary assistant” Ophelia said causing Diana to stop typing on the tablet in her hand and raise her head.
“What do you mean?”
“Oh please you and my dad are not fooling anyone, how much did you offer you?”
“I am not following,” Diana said confused again.
“A marketing specialist like you is now working as an assistant for me, is this just a ploy to make me retain a good image?”
“It’s nothing like that” Diana began but was cut off by Ophelia’s hands in the air.
“Oh come on I am not a child, I can see clearly what is going on, I would not resist so you can come clean so we can work together to give myself s good working image. It was too obvious to Ophelia that Diana was not an ordinary assistant. She had the solution to her current problem without thinking too much about it and asking around for a solution.
“The rumors are true, you really are smart” Diana said tilting her head.
“Of course, first-class honours” Ophelia retorted crossing her hands across her chest.
“Yes your dad sent me here to ensure you have a good working image and he promised me five times my current yearly salary, it is an opportunity one does not just pass up so I took it and I would work as your assistant while we try to keep your image up” Diana explained.
“Whatever” Ophelia dismissed. It was no longer fun for her now that she had guessed it correctly. “So do I call him up?”
“No, let me make a few calls and then you can call him from the outcome I get”
Diana made a few calls and then got back. “So the lady in the picture is Harper Davis, she studied in the same university as Mr Vale, they used to go out and even came back to the city a while back to get engaged but it fell through and since then they had not been in contact”
“And you got this from just one phone call?”
“You just have to call the right people,” Diana said.
“So what do I do now?”
“Let’s call him up and ask him and maybe you visit him like you were planning to”
Ophelia had alerted her of his visit to his office and had even asked her to order the books she had taken all Sunday to personally select to have delivered to him at his office. She could not believe she had spent her Sunday organizing a reading list for him instead of having fun by herself,