Chapter 20
Harper.
Next day, 8:00am
I gently took out my phone from my bag and stepped out of my apartment locking the door behind me, I was already late and
I still haven’t ordered an Uber, I headed towards the elevator as I tried to order an Uber, it was rush hour so getting one wasn’t
so easy.
Immediately the elevator got downstairs, I stepped out and began to make my way out of the compound, I stopped in shock
at the sight in front of me.
“Good Morning!” Damon beamed waving his hand at me from where he stood next to his car, I rolled my eyes to the back of my head with a deep exhale and made my way over to him.
“What are you doing here!” I asked, he just stared at me with a small smile, giving me time to look over his face like it was my first time seeing him, he really did look different today I guess it was because he was on a clean shave and it suited him perfectly, I snapped out of the thought immediately I realized the direction my mind was headed.
“Why are you smiling, what’s funny?” I asked my voice above a whisper.
“Your car is at the mechanic right, I’ll drive you to work till your car is ready,” he replied, his smile not leaving his face.
“Actually you don’t have to bother, I can take care of myself!” I objected, he simply shook his head and his smile at me widened.
“You don’t have to while I’m around, come on we’re both late already,” he said as he pushed himself off the car and opened the door for me, I slowly looked up at him and then at his car, he was right, I was running late already and I needed to meet an important meeting this morning, maybe I could just let this slide today, with a resigned sigh, I stepped forward and got into his car and he slammed the door shut after me.
“Ready?” He asked turning to me, I inturned grabbed my seat belt and placed it across my body, and the next few seconds saw us out of the compound and on our way to the office.
“Had anything to eat yet?” He asked, slightly turning to look at me as we drove on, I turned to him ready to reprimand him to forget about me and focus on the road but my very insensitive and undisciplined stomach had to grumble right about that moment, he chuckled lightly and with one hand on the steering he reached for a Macdonald’s paper bag in the back seat.
“I thought as much” he muttered and handed over the paper bag to me, I shamelessly took the bag from him, there was no need denying my hunger when it was quite obvious.
I gently opened up the paper bag and took out the plate of food inside, it was chicken and waffles and canned Pepsi.
I muttered a thank you and without wasting time I opened up the plate, the aroma for the food hit my nose and it made me even hungrier.
I took the first bite, my eyes widened in ecstasy and I slowly turned to look at him, the expression on his face looked like he was waiting for me to comment.
“I don’t remember Macdonald tasting this good,” I muttered taking another bite, he chuckled lightly and slowly turned back to look on the road.
“I cooked,” he muttered with an air of pride, I almost choked on what I was eating and abruptly turned to look at him.
“Y–you c–cooked?” I asked still in shock that he actually cooked, he slowly turned to look at me, his smile growing wide and he nodded slowly.
“Why? you don’t think guys can cook good?” He asked, I shook my head slowly and gently took another bite off the waffles,
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“Well I can’t tell, I’ve not had a guy cook for me before,” I replied, he nodded thoughtfully, turning back onto the road,
“Well that won’t be an issue now, I’ll always cook for you,” he said, I momentarily stopped chewing and slowly turned to face him at loss of what to say, I simply muttered incoherent words and slowly turned away as I picked up a chicken nugget and
began to chew slowly on it.
Few minutes later we got to our company, he slowly turned into the compound, parked correctly and turned off the ignition, he gently reached out to me and took the left over food from me even after all my protest that was going to eat it later,
“It will be unfresh then, if you’re craving more, call me I’ll bring fresh food,” he said, I swallowed hard at his words as I let him
have the food, was he flirting with me right now?, I watched him as he took out a tissue paper from the box of tissue on the dashboard and wiped the corner of my lips with it,
“You look beautiful,” he whispered up close to my face, my heart did an unintentional backflip as I stared at his face so up
close, he was actually one very fine man.
“Thank you,” I whispered, his lips stretched into a small smile and he slowly pulled away from me, he stepped out of the car,
rounded the car and pulled the door open for me to step out, muttering a thank you, I gently stepped out of the car and he
slammed the door shut behind me.
“Have a nice day, see you in the evening,” he said to me with a sweet smile, I held my bag with both my hands in front of me
as the corner of my eyes dimmed.
“Why would you be seeing me in the evening, won’t my car be ready?” I asked and he slowly shook his head raising his hands
up in a shrug.
“Well, we can’t say can we?” He replied, I shook my head slightly with a deep sigh.
“Alright then, we’ll see, thank you for the ride and for the food, have a nice day too!” I replied almost rushing my words and with that I turned and began to walk into the office.
“Ouuu, outside the radar rendezvous I see,” Collin teased immediately I walked inside the office as he walked with me side by
side towards the elevator.
“My car is faulty and he offered to drive me to work this morning,” I said to him not looking up at the face, he murmured dramatically as we got to the elevator, he pushed the button, the door went open and we stepped in,
“I saw the way you guys were staring at each other though,” he added subtly, I slowly looked up at him and held his gaze,
“I already told you how I feel about love,” I said to him, he chuckled lightly and nodded slowly.
“Well there’s that one person to change everything,” he replied, I raised my brows at him and titled my head to the side, he cleared his throat immediately and looked away from me.
“When does the meeting start,” I muttered looking away to stare at the door also,
“9:30am, you have only few minutes to prepare” he replied, I nodded firmly, the elevator doors ringed open and we both stepped out and headed towards my office.
“I’ll get you coffee,” he said to me, I stopped him immediately and he slowly turned to me.
“Set an interview to get an assistant for yourself, let her be the one to do those small tasks and other minute paper works,” I said to him, his lips slowly stretched into a grateful smile, and he nodded slowly.
“Will do that,” he replied and with that he turned around and walked out of my office, the next few seconds he walked back in with a cup of coffee for me, I muttered a thank you and began to get ready for today’s meeting.
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“You’re late!” Mom grunted as I walked into the conference room, I slowly turned to her and bowed apologetically.
“I’m sorry,” I whispered as I walked up to my assigned seat, pulled out my chair and took my seat beside Michelle. I slowly turned and looked up at Mom to realize that her gaze was still on me, I could tell she had some other things to say but for
reasons best known to her she decided to let it slide.
“We got a contract from DSD’s brewery, they would want us to be in charge of their company renovation,” her assistant said
bringing up the first discussion for the day.
“We won’t be taking it,” she replied abruptly, my eyes dimmed as I slowly turned to look at her.
“Why?” I said cutting her assistant short as she wanted to move to other matters, everyone slowly turned to look at me, I
could see Michelle’s face wrinkle up in disgust as she stared at me.
“As members of the board I think we deserve to know your reason for making that kind of decision,” I replied looking at each
and everyone, one after the other and they all nodded in agreement, I slowly turned to mom with pursed lips expecting her to
go on and give her reason.
“With your five percent shares” I heard Michelle murmur under her breath, ignoring her I raised my brows at mom as other
people waited for her to speak up.
“We have BM on board, it’s best everyone should focus on that and let all hands be on deck for the perfection of that project,”
she finally said,
“Is this what our company has reduced to?” I asked with a deep exhale as I slowly reclined in my chair, folded my hands across my chest and slowly turned to lock gazes with her.
“Since when has our company not been able to handle more than one project simultaneously, if this accidentally gets out
what would that speak of us?”
“Are we really that incompetent now? When dad was still here we ran multiple project simultaneously this company is that big!” I said turning to look at the rest of the executives to get supports and sure enough more than half of them nodded in
reply.
“We have a very large staff, I don’t see how running two projects simultaneously can be a problem,” My Henry said and I turned to look at him gratefully, after mother he was the largest shareholder and merely just having him on my side is a great
win for me.
“D&D’s brewery, I happen to know the CEO, I think we should go for it,” he said, mother gritted her teeth angrily as she folded her fist into a thight ball,
“Set up a meeting with them as soon as possible and let’s discuss terms of contract,” she muttered to her assistant who
replied with a small respectful nod.
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