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“You never did tell me how far you went with the old man,”

Kat said as she dressed her hair and did her makeup, they were both getting ready for the party, she turned to face him when he didn’t respond and caught him looking at her again, she has tried not to overthink his looking at her, during their walk that afternoon she had caught him looking at her more than once and it was giving her all the ideas that might leave her in a mess.

“Lucas?” She called.

“Yeah? What did you say?”

“Didn’t you hear me? I asked how your meeting went with Reuben?”

“Oh, that, it went better than I expected, since the old man ain’t making any final decisions yet and there is only one major rival and that’s Pascal,”

“Wow! Do you mean Pascal Joh?”

She hasn’t seen him around and didn’t expect him here, the guy was a major rival of Lucas even though they deal in different sectors but like Lucas, he also likes buying properties.

“Yes, he is the one,”

“I didn’t know he was around, I haven’t seen him, neither did I see his wife,”

“Yeah, his wife is heavily preggy and can’t travel for now so he came alone,”

Now, I am scared, we lost to him before,”

“That doesn’t mean he will win this,”

“Yeah, I know but I also know he is loaded compound with the fact that he is married which give him a major advantage, and with the way, the women here have been asking me when we are getting married I really don’t know,”

“They are still asking you that?”

“Yes, even yesterday, Reuben’s wife asked, and the other women were all looking at me expectantly like they were waiting for me to say something wrong or I don’t know, I had to tell them that we are planning on starting our preparations right after your sister’s wedding, and I went ahead and told them that we are already engaged and are just keeping it low for now,”

She disclosed wondering why the hell she had told the women that, but their nosy questions had been getting too much, and she had just wanted to shut them up, and thinking of the ring they bought before they came here, she had come up with the perfect lie.

“Wow, you did all that? I don’t even know what to say,”

“Don’t say a word, I am kind of not sure if I should have said those, since we didn’t talk about it but I was tired of their questions, after that the only thing they asked again was about my ring and I told them, it is in the room, that’s said can I have one of the rings we bought?”

“I know I have been apologizing a lot, but I have to say again, I am sorry Katrina,”

“For what again?”

“For putting you through this, I know how uncomfortable it must have been for you”

“I thought we already established that this is what I am here to do? I understood the assignment before I came here, there is no reason to be sorry,”

“Yes, ma’am,”

He said with a dramatic bow.

“Now the ring”

“On it way,”

He said and went over to his box to get it, she stood there watching him. when he brought out the ring he knelt down in front of her and her heart skipped a bit before it sank back in sadness knowing that all these were a front. Damn the man for doing this to her, she wished she could hit him at least once.

“Katrina, I know you may think that I bought this ring so that I can do this even though it’s not part of our plan, but I promise this wasn’t what I had in mind when I bought this,”

“Dude! Why are you kneeling? Get up please.”

She said trying to pull him up.

“Lady, don’t spoil the fun, let me finish,” he replied scoldingly.

“Fine,” she answered folding her hands in front of her and listening to him while trying not to picture this as real.

“Katrina Jones, will you do me the honor of making the happiest man in this resort by accepting my ring,”

“Really? That’s all you can do? I expected more,”

She replied sarcastically, collecting the ring and slipping it on her finger, it fitted perfectly and looked so real and pretty that for a moment she had pictured what it will be like if this whole scene were real.

“Wow, I am supposed to put it on you, you are such a kill joy,”

He responded getting off his kneel and grudgingly eyeing her, she still wasn’t used to this side of her boss, the playful and easy-going side, she was so used to her strict boss, that seeing him joke around with her, go for a walk with her and even kissing her, even though it was all a play.

Sometimes it feel so real that she forget what they were doing and just how long more it would last, the thought of that made her realize they just have a few days left and they would be on their way to Arizona, she wished she could do as Jord had advised but she knew she couldn’t, he never brought up the topic of the kiss and she had not asked him either, she felt she was reading too much meaning into it and didn’t want to be a fool if it indeed turns out that even the second kiss had been a play too.

“Kat? Kat? Where did you go off to leaving me here?”

“Oh, sorry, I…”

Her phone signaled an incoming message and she sent a little thank you to whoever it was for sparing her and saving her from explaining why she zoomed out, but when she checked her phone that small thanks washed off completely, she frown at the message starring at her.

“Hey, what’s up you look…”

She showed him her phone cutting his words off.

“You got another message?”

“Yes, one yesterday too, I forgot to tell you,”

He collected the phone from her and went through it, and gave it back to her with a rather worried look.

“I think you might have a stalker,”

He disclosed.

“What? Why?”

“Well, that I don’t know but I think that’s it, since you don’t know the person sending the message and the person is not giving a name either, does anyone comes to mind?”

She thought hard about it but no one came to her mind, she didn’t have that many people around her that she was closed to, never had an obsessive ex, in fact, her last relationship was years ago, she didn’t think her ex who would probably be married by now would do such a thing.

“No one comes to mind,”

“Are you sure? Maybe an ex-boyfriend,”

“The last time I was in a relationship was five years ago,” she disclosed.

“Wow, that’s so long, may I ask why?”

“No, don’t ask,”

“Okay, then what about that guy?”

“Who? Jordan? I already told you we are…”

“No, not Jordan, I mean the other guy that showed up at our trip and was all over you, I thought you guys were in a relationship.

“Oh my God, no we weren’t, Jordan introduced us a month to that and we had one date after that I didn’t meet him again until we met again in Mexico, and since then I haven’t spoken to him or seen him, I really don’t know him much,”

“Are you sure? Because from what I saw you guys were pretty close,”

“I am sure, Mac and I aren’t close, I only said we were so that you would stop being angry, you were so pissed off that day”

She said wondering why he thought they were close, he had been angry at her for the whole of the trip, he had looked like he wanted to kill both her and Mac, she tried to explain to him that their meeting wasn’t planned but was a coincidence but he hadn’t listened, he had told her to get lost, it hurt her so badly and she had avoided him as much as she could throughout the rest of the trip, but later when she thought about it again, she had understood why he had been angry, it was a very important business trip and Mac had come to them when they were in an outdoor meeting.

“I am sorry about how I reacted that day, I was a little on the edge because the meeting was going longer than expected and the guy wasn’t responding the way I wanted, that doesn’t excuse how I reacted though.”

“No, it’s okay, I understand why you were pissed, and I didn’t hate you for long because of it,”

She said smiling at him, he smiled back.

“If you say so, so no one else comes to mind? Well, I will see what I can do, meanwhile keep me posted if you get more messages.”This belongs to NôvelDrama.Org - ©.

“I will,”

“Will you look at the time, we should get going, the party is starting soon,”

“Yeah, let’s go,”

“By the way, you look so pretty in that dress, no you look pretty in anything you wear,”

He said checking her out again.

“Thanks,” she said feeling suddenly self-conscious and shy, this was the first time he would compliment her look.

“You don’t look bad yourself,” she added as they exited the room. Another party with the group of nosy women, yeah she was ready… Not.