“You barely even touched your breakfast,” Cade said, following behind her as she rushed out the door.
“I am late and would be even later if I spared a second to eat.” She said with a full mouth as she tried to chew down the bite of the sandwich she had taken. She had taken as many bites as her mouth could take because she felt bad for not eating the meal he had taken his time to prepare for her.
“You are the boss; I am sure the company can run without you for a few seconds,” he said.
“You know what you are right but still wrong,” she said, stopping in her tracks. She turned to him and planted a quick kiss on his lips, and then she was out of the door before he could say a word.
He just realized that maybe she would have gotten to eat the breakfast if he had packed it fully, so he rushed back to the kitchen to get the sandwiches left out on the table into a clear disposable bag for her, but by the time he got out of the floor, she was already long gone. “What am I going to do all by myself?” he whispered, looking down at the bag in hand.
As he walked back into the house, his phone vibrated in his pocket, and the name that flashed across the screen hurt him a bit. Maybe it was time for him to face his fears; seeing he was about to come clean with Ophelia, maybe it was time to get to the bottom of his mother’s issues.
“Hello!”
MEANWHILE
“You are glowing,” Diana said as they walked into the office floor.
“Glowing?” Ophelia asked, trying to catch the reflection of herself in any of the glass walls around her. “Really?” she added. She liked the sound of that.
“Very much so,” Diana said as she pushed the door to the office open. Ophelia walked through it feeling some kind of happiness to hear that she was glowing and to hear it coming from Diana, who had always acted closed off from everyone. Both of them had grown closer than they thought they would, even though they still tried to keep a professional relationship with each other.
“How is it different from yesterday? You saw me yesterday; was I not glowing yesterday?”
“You were not,” Dian said, being as brutal as she could be.
“What?”
“Yesterday, you looked like someone who had been left to fate in the wilderness; however, today you look like someone who had been given an opportunity at life,” Dian said. Ophelia shrugged. She knew that she would still have to come clean to her in the end; she was the one who constantly helped her out with ideas on what to do so that both her business and relationship would suffer. She was definitely glad to have her.
“Wait, does this mean that you are no longer at loggerheads with Mr Vale?” she asked.
Ophelia gasped and let out slowly “How did you know?”
“It was so obvious that I would have been a fool not to know,” Diana said, pacing in front of her. “I would have said that it seems like you have made up and returned to your original relationship from the beginning, but seeing the way the smile cannot leave your face, I would have to say that you must have taken it up a bit.”
“You know too much,” Ophelia gasped in amusement. She wondered if she was really such an open book or if Diana was just very good at reading people.
“I try my best,” Diana said, faking a bow. “So are you two together now? I mean together.” She was curious to see if her prediction was right. She knew that they both had a thing for each other, but they could find a way to confess it and just be together. They made her wonder if love had to be so complicated that they kept turning in circles over and over again.
“Yes,” Ophelia said in a singsong voice as she swirled her chair around happily.
“Oh my god, this is a n colour on you, and it looks fantastic,” Diana had to compliment her.
“Oh my, thank you so much,” Ophelia said, raising her shoulders and the smile not leaving her face. “Let us get to work though.” Ophelia was not sure, but she had a feeling that her dad had a mule who was spying on her and reporting all of the events to him; she had to get to work so she was not seen as lazy.
“Yes, ma’am,” Diana said, clearing her throat, and the schoolgirl who had been intrigued by the love story was suddenly lost, and now all Ophelia was left with was the hardworking, no-nonsense Diana who loved to work.
“So what do I have to do today?”
“First of all, you need to accompany Lola to her meeting with directors for a new movie that she would star in,” Diana began talking as she listed out the events of the day. Ophelia was distracted by the constant beeping of her phone as messages kept on dropping. Her eyes would linger on the phone screen until it went off, then she turned her attention back to Diana, who stood there still listing out the tons of things she would have to achieve before the end of the day.
“Are you listening?” Diana asked.
“Of course yes, you were saying that I had to meet the chairman of the broadcasting firm.”
“What broadcasting firm?”
“You haven’t said yet?” Ophelia asked in a question form because she was not sure if she had mentioned it already.
“Are you going to be distracted like this all day? You can barely hold your concentration for ten minutes.”
“Of course I can,” Ophelia said, swallowing down her curiosity as she turned over the face of the phone and pushed her chair forward so she could let Diana speak. Turning over the phone did not stop the continuous message coming into the phone.
“Just get it.”
“Can I?” Ophelia asked her hand already on the phone. She swiped and then saw a ton of messages from Cade. He was asking her if they should go out for dinner together and had been bombarded with a ton of messages when she did not reply immediately. She told him that she might not be able to make it out to dinner but that she would sprint home as soon as she was done with work so they could be together.
“Done,” she said, dripping the phone to the table.
“Let’s get to work!”