Jake knew Jason wasn't trying to flirt with Victoria, he just didn't want someone else kissing her hands, not even his trusted friend."Please Ron, don't make her think ill of me. What he means is that I like to appreciate beautiful women when I see them." Jason smiled at her. "I brought you something." He said looking towards the chair, Victoria too looked, there was nothing there."Shit. It's in the car. I left it in the car I came in.""Ask someone to get it." Ron said and very soon Jason was giving orders to a helper. Victoria hadn't seen one since she came, just the cooks but she knew they cleaned her room whenever she left, it was like they weren't permitted to be around when she was."It's the first time, I'm seeing one of the workers, are they always not allowed to show themselves?" Victoria whispered to Jake."No, they just don't go around till you need them." Jake told her."I didn't forget my gift." Ron said, bringing up a wine with a ribbon tied to the neck of the bottle.
Victoria went down the stairs hurriedly, she was all dressed up for leaving to work. She went towards the mansion's avenue ready to leave then she remembered how long it was from there to the main gate. She hadn't thought about that while preparing to leave.She wondered if Jake had left, she didn't know where to look for Felix or how to call on one of the workers so Jake was the go-to, she was going to go back up and knock on his room's door, hopefully he would be there. She was about to do as she planned when she heard Felix."Do you need a driver, Mrs Topher?" He asked smiling like he always did since she came here."Yes, you have no idea how glad I am that you are here.""Will you be riding with Mr Topher or do you need a separate car?""He is still around?""Yes.""I want to go alone, I can right?" "Yes, you can but..." Almost as soon as he said that, a car pulled up front at the entrance. She was happy she did not have to ride with Jake, she didn't want to always be around him o
"Tori!" Amber rushed to her and hugged her. "God, I missed you.""Me too." Victoria hugged her back."Me three." They both heard Kim."Amber said you weren't feeling too well yesterday, how are you now?""Obviously better." Amber said smiling and Victoria understood what was going on."I wanted to come see you at the hotel but Amber said there wasn't need for that." Kim still said."Oh really? Then you wouldn't have met her then." Brie came from nowhere."What?" Kim asked."Kim?! Can you come over here for a bit?!" Someone called making Kim excuse herself to leave. Amber was glad she didn't have to listen to Brie."You think I don't know?" Brie asked looking at them suspiciously."Don't know what?" Amber retorted knowing that most times when Brie used that ' you think I don't know' phrase, she really didn't know and was waiting for the person to tell her about what she wanted to know."Victoria wasn't at the hotel yesterday and the night before, she didn't return with you, I know.""Com
"You seem to know so much about the Tophers." Victoria told her."Of course I know much about them, anyone who has lived in city A more than a year should know as much as I do about them, they basically own city A, I mean financially and economically speaking, they own a large share in many of the companies here. The Tn group doesn't focus much on their entertainment enterprise but look at how big it is, didn't you see how wild the news of Jake Topher's secret marriage spread through yesterday?"The designers finally came and after the meeting with the models, they could go home."He is going to come pick me up himself, apparently all the drivers are on break." Victoria told Amber as they left the Tn studio, they stood in front of the bus, it wasn't leaving yet, some of the girls from Plaintwood were not there yet."Jake?" Amber whispered, they frequently had to talk like that, especially now that they knew Brie was snooping."Yeah, he told me to call him if I was done here.""Did yo
"Mr Topher, I can't have you here, I'm very sure my master would not be pleased that you are here in his absence." Victoria was confused when she heard Felix talking to someone downstairs. Was Jake back? Who was the master that wouldn't be pleased to have Jake be here, wasn't it his?She went and stood by the top of the stairs to know who it was and she saw that it wasn't Jake but it was someone who looked like him, height-wise and facially too. She could tell it wasn't Jake from far because this person had longer hair which was styled all the way back and held with a hairband. The person also looked slimmer."Do I look like I care?" She heard the man say. She quickly remembered how Kim was saying earlier that Jake had a brother. Was it him?"Mr Topher, please understand me here...." The man raised his hands and Felix stopped talking. He didn't have his usual smile."You didn't tell me she was here at Jake's mansion." She heard him say and hid behind the wall before the stairs. She di
Late afternoon.She called Jake later that day, after she walked Amber to the bus and after they had left, she wanted them gone before Jake came to pick her up but she had to wait longer now because of that. She went back inside after standing there for a while.When Jake came he didn't see her where she was when he came to pick her up yesterday. He went into the studio knowing she would be there.Almost all the models had left, it was just the non modelling staffs and workers like the receptionist around. Victoria stood in front of the spread out mirror, across one part the wall and opposite the modelling ramp, which was there so the models could watch their own walk while they practiced.The door wasn't shut, it was open as always till everyone in the building had left. Jake walked in but she didn't notice, he didn't make a noise when he walked in. He didn't know she would be there, he planned on going to Brown's office to ask of her whereabouts.He was walking by and almost passed
"Was your day shitty too?" "Yes, but I think I'm used to it, unlike you, it's obviously affecting your mood so maybe you could tell me, maybe I can help?" He started on the road."No, you can't help." She shook her head."What are you going to do, I mean she already said it, others are also going to say what they want to say, you can't stop people from saying what they want.""Who said what?""Never mind." She said not finding the need to tell him about the things Brie said."Tell me, if you do so, I'm sure you'll not think much about it anymore." She didn't say anything more concerning how her day was till after a while she asked him something she just thought about."Must we stay together?" He paused the car at the red light and turned his attention to her when she asked that, she was staring outside the window, something she did often while in the car with him. "Must we? It's a fake marriage isn't it? I don't have to stay at the mansion, I could stay at the hotel till you want me t
Evan walked into the mansion and after a whispered chat with Felix, he went outside and stood waiting while Felix came up to let her know that Evan was going to be the one driving her."Mr Topher wants him to drive you." Felix said approaching the table after Victoria was done eating.Cora immediately stood up when she heard him, thinking she was in trouble for sitting with Victoria and so did Emily but Felix knew Victoria must have asked them to."Oh okay." She said getting up and waving at both helpers while she left but only Emily waved back.Sitting in the back of the car, she watched Evan drive, he caught her staring when he looked at the rear view mirror. "Any problem ma'am?" He thought he should asked because of how she was staring."No." She lied at first not really wanting to tell him that she thought he took a wrong turn but after some seconds she said her mind. "This is not the road to the studio." She told him because even if she didn't know her way around, she knew what