“Mom, did you see this?” Cael asked entering his mom’s room again. He had only left a few hours ago but he was back there to show his mother how helpful the entire universe was to them.
“See what?” Abigail asked taking the phone he was stretching to her and reading the contents of the article there.
“Wonderful isn’t it?” Cael asked giddy about the situation.
“What do we know about her?” Abigail asked. Girls always flocked around Cade so seeing him with a woman was not useful unless the woman was in some sort of way useful to them. Cael had a confused expression on his face as he watched his mother.
“Don’t tell me you came in here without having any information regarding her and you are expecting me to applaud you? For what? For finding an article that was posted in a public space?” she was going to be harder on her son. That would be the only way he would get wiser and do better.
“I do not know anything about her yet but we can invite her to our house and find something out from her” Cael suggested.
“So when are we meeting this wonderful young lady?” Abigail asked hoping her son had somehow grown some wit and invited this lady. She was definitely going to be a good help to them.
“I have not determined that yet, I wanted to check with you if it is a good idea in the first place” Cael said.
Abigail squared her jaw and threw the phone at him. “If you want to be a chairman, you have to act as one. You need to think and make decisions as one, if you are expecting anyone around here to accord you with respect due to a chairman” Abigail said.
“I will get in contact with her and then invite her for dinner tomorrow” Cael said holding his phone. He had never had to do such kind of work before now. His mother always did it for him, and finding out that she wanted him to do the work by himself was quite disappointing to him.
“Make it tonight, we have to strike while the iron is hot or else we miss our chance. If you can not handle it yourself pay someone to do it” Abigail advised him.
Cael understood and left the room, he got in contact with his assistant and asked him to get in contact with the mysterious woman who hugged Cade in front of his office causing a buzz. Cael could not remember the last time he caused a sensation in the media, even the media was craze about Cade as his grandfather was. His assistant did not have any difficulty finding out all about her. It was as though she put out the information there ready to be found.
“Mr Vale, I have forwarded the details of the woman Harper Davis to you and you can contact her,” the assistant said over the phone.
Cael cut off the phone and called Harper as soon as he was able to fish out the number.
“Who is this?” her voice rang in the air as soon as she picked up the call. Luckily for her, she was yet to be spammed with calls by the media houses and that was the reason she picked up the call without thinking about it.
“Ms Harper Davis?” Cael said hoping he got the right number.
“This is she” Harper said wondering who she was speaking with. “And you are?”
“Cael Vale. Cade’s younger brother”
“Oh,” she let out. Cade had turned his back brutally and coldly at her in the morning so she was not expecting any connection to him to be reaching out to her first. “How can I help you?” she asked picking on all the words one after the other.
“You are the woman in the picture from this morning aren’t you?” Cael asked and she gulped.
“What picture?” she asked confused.
“You haven’t seen it yet?” Cael asked taking the phone off his ears and tapping rapidly before putting it back in his ears. “Check your messages and let me know”
Harper took the phone from her ears and checked her messages, she saw a picture of herself and Cade hugging and staring back at her. “When was this taken?”
“I don’t know but I am here to help you out”
“Help me out?” Harper asked confused.
If things like these happened in movies usually the rich family would find a way to get rid of the pauper, she thought of the possibility they wanted to buy her love from him but the tone of his voice did not sound angry at all. It was almost like he was pleased.
“Yeah, we can not go over the entire details over the phone, why don’t we meet in person and discuss it?”
“Meet in person?” Harper asked now feeling like she was sinking so quickly in quicksand.
“Yes, do you want to come over for dinner?”
“Dinner?”
Cael felt at that time that she was now just repeating everything he was saying to piss him off. If the contents of the details sent to him were correct then she should be psyched bout coming to Cade’s house for dinner.
“It’s nothing much, my mom wants to invite you and I think it would be lovely if you could come as well” Cael said trying to make the offer sound enticing. “Do you not want to come?” he asked when she seemed silent for a long time.
“I do want to come but how do I know this is not a sort of scam?” she asked getting her defence high.
“I will send a car to pick you up”
“Don’t you need my address?”
“I do not” he said cutting off the call before she could respond. She stared at her phone and thanked her stars for the opportunity to be so lucky to see Cade so much as soon as she arrived. She had been prepared to stay months without seeing him before she worked out a good plan to finally approach him.
Cael was happy that he found a way to invite her over without any hiccups. He hurriedly went to tell his mom with such joy. She could not lie, she was proud he somehow found a way to do something without raising some sort of panic for them both.
“That is good, I would have a catering service come to to serve us at home. For such a happy day, we must have a happy meal too”