Everyone was at the office when the door opened revealing Miss Cynthia. Amelia and everyone gasps before running to hug her.
“Oh my goodness, you are finally back”Amelia squeaks, giving her a big hug.
“I’m so happy to see you”Laila admits giving a hug, Everyone took in hugging Miss Cynthia.
“I’m happy to see you guys,”Miss Cynthia tells them.
“We are happy to see you too”Mike chirped from behind Laila as she flinched a little from his voice. She hit him lightly, making him Yelp in pain as everyone’s laughter filled the room.
“So how has the office been?”Miss Cynthia asked while paving the office as her eyes scanned the room a bit stunned by the look of everything. She was a bit stunned because she hasn’t been in the office for months now and things were looking a bit strange and new to her.
“The office has been fine”They all replied in unison following her from behind like lost puppies. Miss Cynthia gaze landed on Claudia’s desk and saw no trace of Claudia which made her turn to look at them.
“Where is Claudia?”She curiously asked, staring at Laila for an answer.
“Why is everyone looking at me?”Laila shifted under their gaze, Miss Cynthia raised her eyebrows at her knowing full well that they were all aware she always knew everyone’s whereabouts in the office.
“Fine she when you get coffee”Laila announced as they all made the aww sound while giggling, Laila playfully rolled her eyes while crossing her arms together.
“You see everyone already knows that you must always know about everything that goes on in the office”Mike admits earning a punch from Laila which made them all laugh as Mike groaned in pain.
“So how have everything been for you?”Nina innocently asked, Miss Cynthia was a bit uncomfortable by these questions.
“Well everything has been fine,”Miss Cynthia replied, feeling uncomfortable.
Laila was about to ask Miss Cynthia a question when Amelia covers her mouth, stopping her from speaking when she notices Miss Cynthia in an uncomfortable state.
Laila tries to talk but her words are being muffled by Amelia’s palm preventing her from speaking.
“Okay I think that is enough questions now, let’s all get back to work”Amelia said, still covering Laila’s mouth.
Everyone murmurs as they go back to their various desks, Miss Cynthia mutters a thank you to Amelia. Amelia flashes her a smile before dragging Laila with her as she struggles to break free from her.
Miss Cynthia was about to go to her desk when the door opened revealing Claudia.
Claudia’s eyes widened seeing Miss Cynthia standing from afar.
“Hey Claudia!”Miss Cynthia greets walking towards her direction, Claudia immediately panicked and turned backwards.
Miss Cynthia wondered why she turned her back at her but ignored it and kept walking towards her. Claudia panics seeing as Miss Cynthia was almost getting close to her from the transparent window.
“Hey Claudia, I wanna ask you something,”Miss Cynthia announced from behind her.
“I have something to do”Claudia immediately uttered leaving the office not waiting to hear her response.
“Wait, but…I”Miss Cynthia’s words were cut off by the door slamming shut as Claudia had already left.
“Miss Cynthia!”Laila yells while running towards her as Amelia chases after her from behind.
“I need your help with something”Laila announced as Amelia tried dragging her along with her. Miss Cynthia watches as Laila struggles to free herself from Amelia’s grip.
“Okay let’s go, it’s cool Amelia you can let her go”Miss Cynthia signals Amelia it was fine, Amelia releases her grip from Laila.
She immediately grabs Miss Cynthia and takes her with her, leaving Amelia standing there confused.
“Gosh I’m so tired, I need a drink”Amelia sighs before leaving the office.
“Gosh why did she all of a sudden”Claudia panics knowing Miss Cynthia was inside the office and wanted to talk to her. She ruffled her hair in frustration.
Claudia pov
Gosh why did she have to come back all of a sudden? I can’t let anyone find out that I’m the cause of Miss Cynthia’s husband’s death or else I will be in deep trouble.
Claudia groans , she sees Amelia approaching her direction and frowns, seeing her all happy and smiling.
“This bitch is the reason why my life is a hell”Claudia curses at Amelia from afar.
Amelia was about to pass Claudia when she pulled her foot for her making Amelia stumble as she tried to hold her balance firm. Claudia smirks, turning over expecting to see Amelia on the floor, Her eyes widened when she saw Liam holding onto Amelia and glaring at her.
“Oh my Amelia you need to watch your footsteps”Claudia immediately pretended like she was worried about her.
“Thanks I will be next time”Amelia smirks at her leaning unto Liam’s chest making Claudia frown.
“Okay see ya later”Claudia left cursing at Amelia mentally.
“Okay let’s go with me”Amelia pushes Liam away making him shocked , she walks away leaving him confused.
“Where are you going to teddy?!” Liam yelled from behind hoping she would stop at her tracks.
“To get a drink!”Amelia yelled back.
“I will come with you” Liam announced, making Amelia run as he chased after her.
Claudia came out from the door she was hiding behind, She frowns seeing Liam chasing after Amelia while laughing.
“I think it’s time I get rid of this obstacle called Amelia ”Claudia smirks.
Laila groans while hitting her head on the table, ruffling her hair in frustration making everyone look at her wondering if she was okay.
“Are you okay?”Miss Cynthia asked, not diverting her eyes from the computer in front of her that she was working on.
“No”Laila groans.
“Why?”Nina asked from behind, Laila turned to look at her.
“Well is this authoress signed under me Sodhaevil”Laila started, Miss Cynthia look over at her signalling her to go on that she was listening.
“So she was asking me to promote her work, I told her that I already put her on the promotion list but she doesn’t wanna under and keeps saying that I don’t care about her work and don’t wanna promote it”Laila explains relaxing her head on her desk.
“Well why give her a contract if you don’t wanna work with her?”Xavier asked, Laila lifted her head up and looked over at Xavier blowing on the loose strand of her hair away from her face.
“Well her book was well written and her storyline is interesting”Laila groans.
“Well what’s her book about?”Mike curiously asked.
“It’s about an arrogant billionaire that detest women but later fell in love with an orphan”Laila explains as they all nodded their heads in approval of the storyline.
“Well why does he hate women?”Mike asked as he and Xavier chuckled slightly.
“Well his mother left him and his father to die of abstract poverty when he was young, and the shock made his father have a heart attack and passed away”Laila explains feeling a bit sad.
“Well some mothers are just evil, how can you leave your child all alone”Nina scoffs feeling disgusted, Miss Cynthia gazes down feeling a bit attacked by what Nina had just said.
“I’m I right Miss Cynthia?”Nina called for Miss Cynthia’s attention since she happens to be a mother but Miss Cynthia ignored her.
“Miss Cynthia!”Mike yells, bringing her back to reality.
“What, what?!”She snaps feeling irritated by them, but she calms down when she sees everyone’s gaze at her.
“Yes,”She said calmly.
“I was saying that I don’t think it is right for a mother to leave her children all alone”Nina innocently mutters.
“Well I don’t know what to say, cause no one knows what the mother is going through”Miss Cynthia pointed out making Nina frown a bit.
“So you are saying it is okay for a mother to leave her child?”Nina scoffs I’m disbelief.
“That is not what I’m saying”Miss Cynthia started.
“Then what are you saying?”Nina hastily asked, not waiting for her to even finish her statement.
“Well the mother might be going through hard times , which may have led her to make that decision”Miss Cynthia explains but no one understood her point especially Nina.
“No matter what the mother might be going through, she has no right to leave her children all alone okay!”Nina snaps.
“Hey calm down”Laila hits her hand a little.
“The mother might be going through pains too which no one may know about”Miss Cynthia defended as she now felt it was about her.
“I don’t care whatever pain the mother is going through, but she as no right I repeat no right to make those young kids go through the pain of not having a mother!”Nina yells before standing up, She ran out of the room as everyone watches her leave as they were stunned by what had just happened.
“What’s wrong with Nina?”Laila scoffs looking at the door before glancing at them, They shrugged except from Miss Cynthia who just sighs feeling a bit sad.
“Don’t you know what’s wrong with Nina?”Mike asked Laila and she shrugged.
“Well I know, She is just angry because her mother left her when she was small and kinda feels angry anytime she hears a mother leave her child”Xavier explained.
“Well she never told me”Laila frowns feeling a bit remorseful for how she acted towards her.
“Well not everything you ought to know”Xavier grins.
“Well I’m her friend”Laila scoffs, crossing her arms.
Xavier and Laila kept on bickering about who was Nina’s friend as Mike watched them silently. Miss Cynthia felt bad on hearing what Nina said and felt like she needed to apologise to her. She stood up and was about to go when Laila noticed her.
“Where are you going too Miss Cynthia?”Laila questions her.
“I have something to do,”Miss Cynthia replied before leaving the office, not waiting for her response.
“Well that was interesting”Elliot who had his head on his desk the whole time finally spoke, making them flinch.
“Dude you were awake the whole time”Mike flinched a little.
“Well it’s really hard to sleep with so much noise around,”Elliot tells him before leaving.
“What’s wrong with everyone in this office?”Laila groans looking at Xavier and Mike as they both shrug.
Laila looked at her computer as the story everyone was arguing about was being displayed on it because she was reading it.
“Well Sodhaevil let’s hope the story ends well so everyone can be happy”Laila sighs resting her head on the desk.
“Can I send you a writer’s books for you to review”Mike grins, Laila responded by stretching her right hand up in the air.
“I guess that’s a no”Mike rolled his eyes before continuing working on his computer.
Miss Cynthia was walking along the hallway when she saw Nina crying and immediately went to meet her. Nina noticed her presence and immediately cleaned her eyes.
“Look Nina I’m sorry for what happened in there okay”Miss Cynthia apologised.
“Nah it’s not your fault, you don’t need to apologise and besides I shouldn’t have spoken to you that way I’m so sorry”Nina mutters feeling remorseful by her actions.
“It’s cool, but why didn’t you tell us about what happened to you when you were little?”Miss Cynthia suddenly asked.
“Well I don’t like to talk about the past”Nina tells her, giving her a little smile.
“Okay let’s get back in there”Miss Cynthia and Nina went back into the office.
Everyone was in the office except for Liam and Amelia when the door opened, making them turn to look at who it was. Elliot rolled his eyes on seeing the person standing at the door.
“Who are you?”Laila asked.
“Andrew jones”Andrew smirks as his eyes scans the room for Amelia.
The door opened and Amelia and Liam came bursting through the door, Andrew turned around and saw them as a big smirk appeared on his face.
“What are you doing here?” Liam frowns seeing Andrew, Amelia wonders why he was frowning and looks up to see Andrew gaze on her. Her jaw dropped making him chuckle.
“What are you doing here?”Liam asked again, noticing as he was staring at Amelia which made him frown.
“Well I came to invite you all to a party”Andrew announced as everyone murmured, he walked towards Amelia and stretched out an invitation card towards her. She quickly collected it irritated by his presence.
Liam watches their reaction towards each other suspiciously, Andrew chuckles before going to hand others the card.
“Here”He hands over a card to Laila, She immediately collects it including the rest of the card from him and goes out to hand it herself making Andrew chuckle.
“Hey are you okay?” Liam questions Amelia as she keeps staring at Andrew angrily.
“Yea I’m fine”She mutters.
Amelia pov
I’m not fine, it’s obvious this fool sudden visit must have an ulterior motive to it. I know he won’t rest until he exposes my secret to Liam, oh goodness I can’t afford to lose Liam please God help me.
Liam noticed Andrew looking at Amelia, he quickly looked away when he saw Liam glaring at him. Liam wondered why everyone was acting weird which was making him suspicious.
Liam pov
What’s going on between Amelia and Andrew, why does this fool keep on looking at her like that.
Elliot pov
Wondered what this jerk is doing here, oh if a lot of people weren’t here I could have punched the hell outta him and dragged him out of this office by myself.
Andrew pov
I know they must be all nervous by my sudden invitation, but no one has an idea on what is going to happen at the party tonight. Amelia my darling don’t you think it’s time everyone especially Liam finds out the secret you have been hiding from him, your time is up Amelia.