CHAPTER 64"Don't you think you two should get married?" Grandma Nadia asked and darted her eyes from Lia to Nick."Huh?" Nick gasped."Isn't too early to talk about marriage? We just got back together." Nick shrugged. ""Yes grandma, Nick is right." Lia smiled. But she wasn't happy. She thought Nick would have been happy to talk about marriage and agree that he would propose soon but instead, he said what she didn't want."Alright, I'll respect your decision. You can take your time. Come on now, let's go to the dinning room," Grandma Nadia said and started towards the dinning room.Lia and Nick looked at each other and trailed behind grandma Nadia.*************"Why didn't you run away mom? You know, Louis was abusing you too much but you still stayed in the marriage, why mom?" Shan asked softly.They were sitting in the balcony enjoying the cool evening breeze. Joan sighed and closed her eyes then, opened it and stared at Shantelle."Well, I was always guarded. The whole house was
CHAPTER 1"Good morning boss." Amelia greeted with a smile and dropped the hot coffee she was holding on the desk.Her boss, Nick took his gaze from his file to stare at her, his hot secretary.He smirked and took the coffee from the desk and sipped gently from it.His gaze on her was starting to make her face heat up.Her face had suddenly gone all red from blushing."Good morning miss Miller." He drawled seductively at last."If there's nothing else, I'll take my leave now." Amelia said with a professional smile and bowed lightly."Don't!" He ordered sternly. She turned around and stood facing him so closely. "You're looking gorgeous Lia." He drawled with his smirk in check."Huh? Thank you...sir..." She stuttered not expecting to hear his sudden compliment. What was the compliment about? She wondered with a sigh.Her reply was more like a croaky whisper.Nick walked closer to her and turned her swiftly to hit his de
CHAPTER 2"Shantelle Miller?" Shantelle heard her name but it sounded distinct but she could recognized the person's voice to be her teacher.She felt a light tap on her shoulder and that was when she got back to her senses. Shantelle had zoned out from the classroom as the math teacher taught them. Her mind had wandered off that she didn't hear her teacher calling out to her."Yes ma'am." She answered immediately and got up from her seat, the whole class bursted into a roaring laughter. The way she had stood up was quite funny. Shantelle felt really embarrassed that she had to lower her head to the floor and bit on her lower lip – she does that when she's embarrassed or nervous."You just zoned out Shantelle? What happened? What are you thinking of?" The math teacher asked softly. She didn't yell at her or scold her because she knew Shantelle – she wasn't the type to loose concentration in class except she's in deep thoughts."Nothing ma
CHAPTER 3"Ma'am?" Shantelle knocked lightly on the door of her math teacher's door. "Yeah? come in." Miss Danielle, her math teacher replied. She opened the door and walked in. Her office was not very big but it wasn't tight either. It was very warm and the air was fresh and relaxing. There was a huge tree just beside her window outside and that brought in cool breeze inside the office.There were some books on her desk and two swivel chairs in them. "Come over here Shantelle, come and seat." She beckoned on her to seat. Shantelle nodded her head and sat on one of the chairs."So ma'am, you said I should see you after class." Shantelle said with a light smile. "What's happening to you lately Shan? You weren't like this – I've taken notice and you started zoning out just a week ago. Is everything alright?" Miss Danielle asked soothingly. She looked really disturbed and wanted to know what was wrong with her and maybe, proffer some help to her.
CHAPTER 4Shantelle washed the dishes and cleaned the house after she had gotten back from school. School had been boring because she wasn't always paying attention. She didn't quite even understand why she's been feeling really strange these past few days.She cooked dinner and set her sister's dinner. She took hers to her room and ate.When she was done, she did her project works and watch a soap opera in her laptop.Soon later, she was bored and tired of waiting for her sister to return, she finally fell asleep on the couch in the sitting room.*****"What the hell!" Lia yelled crazily while Nick laughed. "Why would you say such a thing?" She added, clearly shocked.She didn't even know how she's gonna react. She was expecting him to say such words. How will her best friend even take that shocking confession."What? Why are you reacting as if I told the biggest lie in history. I just helped you out okay?" Nick didn't see anything
CHAPTER 5"What!" Nick yelled. "That is absolutely not happening grandma." He added."Really? Are you going to disobey me because of your secretary? Are you really gonna take sides with your secretary and not your fiancee that you're gonna spend the rest of your life with someday? And go against I, your mother? Huh Nick!" Grandma Nadia was suddenly feeling so vexed.She didn't expect Nick to argue with her or go against her. Whatever she was doing, it was for his sake – for his own advantage.Alice could not help but smile where she sat, she was loving everything that was happening. She had known that grandma Nadia would work in her favour and that is the reason she loved the old woman so much. "Calm down grandma, I don't mean it that way. I would never disobey you grandma and you know it." Nick sighed despondently."Then, you have to fire your secretary and replace her with another person that wouldn't give Alice problems in yo
CHAPTER 6"Your best wasn't enough miss Miller. You know what? I'm fed up with your incompetency, you're fired!" Nick spat out the words at her. Lia placed her hands akimbo and laughed. "What are you talking about Nick? I've worked for you as long as I can remember and now you want to fire me? What do exactly sir Nick?" Amelia was asked.She found it really unbelievable to have heard what her boss had just said."You don't question whatever my decisions are and I'm the boss here and I make decisions." Nick yelled at her.It hurt inside of him because he didn't mean to yell at her or make her feel bad. This was all Alice's fault and he it made him really vexed."Really boss? After working my ass every single day?" Lia felt like she was going to break down in tears any moment. "You should take every of your stuffs and leave this company as soon as possible. I will send you this month's salary. Have a ni
CHAPTER 7Suddenly, she couldn't feel the rain on her body anymore. She looked up and found an umbrella over her head and when she turned around, she was surprised by whom she saw that actually protected her from getting drenched by the rain. A cute and handsome man was holding an umbrella over Lia's head.Lia was surprised because she doesn't know the man and she didn't understand why he was helping her when she was sure he didn't know her too."Hi, I'm Tyrian. I was just coming out from the shopping mall just by the road side when I saw you standing under the rain all by yourself. So, I decided to come help you, hope you don't mind?" The guy told her, clearing the questions she had in her mind."Oh! That is so kind of you Tyrian. I don't mind at all," Lia smiled at Tyrian."Why are you standing under the rain?" Tyrian asked with a worried look. "Well,