CHAPTER FIFTY**BRIANNA**"Brianna, report to my office right now." Mr. Adrian's voice rang out from the intercom and then it got silent, no greetings, just an order. What was I expecting? I stood up and left my office begrudgingly. I didn't feel like doing anything today. I just want to sit and do nothing but that's not possible since I had to work. I got to Mr. Adrian's office and went inside without bothering to knock."Good morning sir." I greeted grumpily."Good morning, Brianna," he responded coolly, "take a seat." He gestured towards the chairs that are in front of his desk and I sat down on one of them. I hope I am safe this morning with the way he offered me a seat. If he tries to kill me, I'll scream so loud everybody in the building will hear my screams, even though it means losing my voice."Is there something wrong, Sir?" I spoke up when the silence in the room was becoming uncomfortable."I have something to ask from you but let's start with this first." He said before
CHAPTER FIFTY ONE**BRIANNA** After more than a hour of driving on the road, the car finally pulled over in the parking lot of the mall. It was by far the biggest mall I have ever seen, people were trooping in and out of the mall and it made me wonder who the owner was, the person will be so freaking rich."Are you going to get down or you're just going to keep staring at the mall like you haven't seen one in your life?" Mr. Adrian's voice came up and snapped me out of my reverie and I rolled my eyes at his ridiculous statement. He never ceases to get me angry and that makes me want to punch his handsome face or give him a brain-reseting slap."Oh please, like seeing a big mall is a sort of achievement." I said coolly."Seeing one is not an achievement but owning one is." He said with a smug smirk on his face and got down from the car. It clicked in my head at that moment that he was the owner of the mall. Just how many industries are under his name? He has a tech company, automobi
CHAPTER FIFTY TWO**BRIANNA** Apparently, it turned out that Isabella dragged me to a secluded room that was different from the main mall. The room was filled with lots of racks and different varieties of clothes were hung on the racks, ranging from fancy to formal and to casual clothes. And let me add that they were all designer clothes. I was awestricken by the different types of clothes in the room. The amount of clothes here could start up a boutique meant for females only on its own. That's how much the clothes are."So this is where we are going to get you a perfect dress for the gala." Isabella stood in the middle of the room and gestured around with her arms spread wide."I feel like I'm in dress heaven." I said gushingly and she bursted into laughter."You're funny." She giggled and a grin broke out on my face."I'm flattered, you're one of the few people that have ever told me that. Thank you." I uttered with a small smile."Don't sweat it. Now let's start looking for your
CHAPTER FIFTY-THREE**BRIANNA**After trying on more than one thousand dresses (I'm just exaggerating, I've only tried on like fifteen dresses) and showing them to Mr. Adrian with him rejecting them because they were either too revealing, too concealing, too long, too short or whatever, I finally came out of the dressing room for the umpteenth time with a scowl on my face. I was even sweating as a result of putting on a dress and stripping right back out of it because he was not satisfied with it, it felt like I was doing a sort of exercise against my wish.The dress that I'm putting on now is a red velvet fishtail dress with thin straps. The upper part is black with sweetheart neckline, pearls adorned the upper part. The dress showed a little bit of cleavage but I was okay with it. The dress came along with lush forearm length black satin gloves that felt good on the skin and a snow-white arctic fur boa shawl scarf.Isabella raked her eyes over my body and nodded with a smile playing
CHAPTER FIFTY-FOUR**BRIANNA**I explained everything to my mom and Marianna and they were surprised, they were especially shocked at the part where I told them that he asked me to be his date to a gala. I told them that I’ll be his date but excluded the part where he’ll pay me for my services.“Wow, I like your boss. He’s so nice.” Marianna gushed and I rolled my eyes.“He’s not nice, he’s crazy.” I said simply.“Shush, you don’t talk about somebody that did you a favor that way.” Mum scolded and I grumbled underneath my breath. If only they knew how he acts.“He’s the one that dropped you off, right? I heard the sound of a car.” Mom quizzed with curiosity evident in her voice.“Yeah, he’s the one.” I nodded.“I knew it. And you’re telling me that he’s not nice, he’s the perfect definition of a gentleman.” Mom grinned.“Oh mom, if only you know how he really is. I’m the one that has to deal with him every day so I know how he truly behaves.” I uttered, already tired of them praising
CHAPTER FIFTY-FIVE(NEXT DAY); 3 P.M.**BRIANNA**It is afternoon now; mom and I came back from shopping some minutes ago and we also bought her drugs. Now, we are resting while I was also anticipating the arrival of the makeup artists. I was feeling all jittery as the time Mr. Adrian was going to pick me up drew closer and I couldn’t help but wonder how the gala would be like.I went upstairs to take a shower before coming back downstairs to await the arrival of the artists. I didn’t realize when I slept off on the couch and ventured into a dreamless nap. I woke up to my mum calling me.“Brianna, Brianna!” She called and I opened my eyes, allowing it to slowly adjust to the afternoon sunlight seeping in from the open curtains before proceeding to close my eyes again.“Hmm?” I hummed in askance, rubbing my eyes with hands.“The makeup artists are here.” She said but I couldn’t quite clearly make out what she said because of sleepy haze I was in.“What?” I murmured sleepily.“The makeu
CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX**ADRIAN**I stared at Brianna as she walked down the steps of her not-so-pleasant house. She looked so damn beautiful in that dress, it hugged her killer figure and brought out her curves in the right places. The makeup artists did a good job, the makeup they did for her enhancing her facial features. To cut the long talk short, she looked like a goddess. I would have complimented her but she ruined the small moment of admiration with her obnoxious attitude. I was kind of wrong for just telling the driver to honk so that she could know that I was here already but I’m not going to admit it neither will I apologize for it.“Took you long enough. I was going to come up there to drag your ass out.” I said when I saw her coming.“Oh please, you didn’t have enough manners to come up to my doorsteps and knock on the door.” She snapped at me.“Are you calling me mannerless?”“Of course not, you just said that by yourself.” She uttered.“Whatever, just get into the limo and
CHAPTER FIFTY SEVEN**BRIANNA**Immediately we got down from the limousine and onto the red carpet, we were greeted by camera flashes from different angles, the flashes partially blinding me that I had to shield my face with my hands for a few minutes. I even froze because of the sudden nervousness that gripped me, I thought I had stopped being nervous but apparently, it hasn't left. This is the first time I'll be the focus of so many people so it's quite understandable. My hands were held up until Mr. Adrian placed his hand on my shoulder and whispered into my ear."Lower your hands, the reporters are taking pictures and you don't want them to take a bad picture of you, do you?" He asked but I could tell that he was also teasing me. "I don't care about the picture, the flashes are blinding me." I whispered back."Just lower your hands, it won't affect you anymore." He uttered."Really?"I quizzed."Yeah, trust me." He said softly and I slowly lowered my eyes. The reporters were stil