“I am calling him up now,” Ophelia said putting the dialling tone phone on her ears. She had to call repeatedly because he was not picking up his calls.
“I am at work and I can not tolerate you continuously calling me while I am at work” Cade said as he finally picked up putting the phone to his ears.
“But surely you would have time to explain the pictures circulating?” Ophelia asked annoyed he was okay with the pictures.
“What pictures?” he asked switching his phone from his ears to loudspeaker and typing furiously on his computer in front of him. Soon enough the picture was staring at him.
“Mr Vale there is an emergency” Sue said bursting forth into the room. Cade looked up from his system to her.
“I have seen it” he dismissed her and she left sheepishly.
“Care to explain yourself?” Ophelia asked.
Cade did not know if it was a wise idea to explain himself over the phone or if he had to keep to himself. “You better speak up and not leave anything out. I can not be working so hard to keep a good image and you go ahead to ruin it once” Ophelia said as though she was reading his mind.
“Let’s meet up then”
“What do you think?” Ophelia asked Diana who nodded at her and then she replied Cade. “I get to choose the place, see you later” she said cutting off the call.
She sent a text to him on where they were to meet before she headed up to get ready to go out. Diana had advised her that they paint the girl as his friend who he had not seen in a long time. They were also supposed to meet with the girl to know her intentions.
If she dated Cade before and she was in the city, it was obvious that she was trying to cause some kind of chaos or maybe she was hoping to get back together with Cade. Ophelia did a double take in the mirror. She had on a mini skirt and a shirt that she had tucked into the skirt.
Her hair was done into a tight bun to stop her fraying curls from being all over the place. She had light makeup on her face that did not look like she had anything done. She looked at herself to ensure that she had done a good job before leaving the house.
She could feel the gaze and hear the whispers of people as she sat down waiting for Cade to show up. She hated that she had to be the one to wait, so she sent him a text expressing her displeasure about him being late.
“I am so sorry I am late” he said pushing himself into the seat opposite her.
“This is not a good image for us” she leaned in and whispered harshly to him.
“I know but my meeting ran late and I had to attend to some things”
“Those things are not running away, this is more urgent than any of that”
“I don’t agree with you,” Cade said resting in his chair. He had apologized so why was she nagging so much about it still? He had important things to do.
“Trust me if you manage to mess things up, you would not be inheriting the company and I would not inherit mine either, so if you care to get your act together that would be nice”
Cade knew she was telling the truth, if their marriage fell through in any kind of way then he would be at a disadvantage, Charles was already speaking so well of him, he did not need to ruin his chances after giving up so much for it.
“That is true and I am sorry”
“Explain”
“Do I need to?”
“Yes you have to explain so I can know what it is I am working with, you have to explain so I know what story to make up for the pictures” she explained wondering how he was considered a genius if simple things like this were difficult for him to comprehend.
“I used to go out with her back when I was still studying abroad but that ended a long time ago and I have not seen her in the last two years, I do not even know why she is here and how she got here”
“Okay, I knew that already”
“How?”
“I have my ways” Ophelia felt good being on top of her game at that time, she was grateful that Diana had come into her life at that time to help her out.
“So why did you ask me to explain?”Cade was confused, if she knew then why was she asking for an explanation?
“I meant you should explain why you came down from your car to speak with her”
“I saw her and it had been such a long time since I had seen her last so I decided to say hello, I had no idea she would go in for a hug and I am even more clueless as to why and who took the picture” he explained.
“Do not act like you do not know that girls always flock around your office hoping to see you, the girl who took this picture was probably pissed that you were hugging this woman”
“I only stopped because..”
“You have a history?” Ophelia cut him off before he could say anything more.
“Well yes” Cade agreed.
“Do you still have feelings for her?” Ophelia asked leaning in.
“Feelings? Don’t be ridiculous, I already told you I do not believe in things like that, they are non-existent” Cade said.
“It’s not that you don’t believe in it, it is that you want to force yourself not to believe in it and I respect that, at least I know you would not fall in love with me” Ophelia said before adding. “So what are you going to do about her?”
“First of nothing before there is nothing between us and secondly, you have nothing to worry about this is simply a contract marriage and that it shall be”
“I hope so”
Cade managed to convince her that there was nothing to do and that she was very harmless to them. Ophelia was sceptical but she had no choice but to accept the terms, she was going to by all means have a standby plan there was no way she would allow a random girl to ruin her plans after she had managed to give it her all.