It was dark, and the night looked beautiful with the stars scattered around the sky, but it wasn't all that pretty for Leonardo, he took a glimpse at his wristwatch and waited some more, he was getting impatient. Using his time he scrolled through his phone and read his emails, he then heard the familiar footsteps of his assistant, Nathan. A blond guy with a timid personality. Noticing Leonardo stare, he hurried up his steps. Leonardo stood up from the leather seat in the lounge and walked away from the office, Nathan following behind trying to catch up with him. He strolled to the black car waiting just before the entrance and hurriedly entered avoiding the shots of the hungry press. Nathan got into the seat next to the driver, Leonardo relaxed more into his seat, opening the pages of the files in his hands. He frowned further, his forehead throbbing with the promise of a headache. He hardly had any rest today, his father placed another surprise on him. Now he had to deal with it,
Leonardo, once again looked towards the direction Alison excused herself to, what was taking her long?His legs itched to walk towards the corner she hid herself pretending to answer a call.He tried to concentrate in the environment he found himself in. Currently, he is at his restaurant, all empty not one person to be seen. When he talked about office, most people often mistook him talked about a native office with a brown desk and different coloured files packed to the side, with a computer at the middle of the desk, different colours of pen strewn on the desk in an air-conditioned office.He would often try to change such a mentality when it comes to his case to him an office was a place, where he had different recipes from his mother cookbook, to the left was a huge cabinet housing his spices. His office probably took twice the space of a normal office, a stove, a kitchen grill beside it and on the walls were little pots and pans hanging. Just one little clatter can send echoes o
Leonardo, once again looked towards the direction Alison excused herself to, what was taking her long?His legs itched to walk towards the corner she hid herself pretending to answer a call.He tried to concentrate in the environment he found himself in. Currently, he is at his restaurant, all empty not one person to be seen. When he talked about office, most people often mistook him talked about a native office with a brown desk and different coloured files packed to the side, with a computer at the middle of the desk, different colours of pen strewn on the desk in an air-conditioned office.He would often try to change such a mentality when it comes to his case to him an office was a place, where he had different recipes from his mother cookbook, to the left was a huge cabinet housing his spices. His office probably took twice the space of a normal office, a stove, a kitchen grill beside it and on the walls were little pots and pans hanging. Just one little clatter can send echoes o
Sitting on the counter was Alison, she sat on the kitchen's counter her legs dangling above the ground. In front of her was Leonardo, he stirred the items heating in the pan on the stove.The heat from the stove affected the humidity of the kitchen, it was very warm in there with different spices adding to the air, just above the stove was a cloud formed from the heat of the cooking pan. It looked similar to a hazy smoke, it hovered around them carrying the strong scents of the spices and cooked herbs.What stood out was the salivating smell of the grilled meat sizzling on the grill. She paid more attention to that, he showed her how the heat should be set, how hot it should be but she was barely listening to him. either she was trapped under the trance of the sizzling beauty of the glistening seasoned meat or was fawning over the delicate precision of his cooking, she was mesmerized by the way his body followed his every command as he worked in the kitchen.Her mouth went dry as his
He kissed her.Leonardo freaking kissed her, she tried settling on one of the stairs, as her legs were buckling against each other, still reeling from the effect of the kiss. She closed her eyes trying to steady her breathing. Her heart thumped hard against her chest, her breathing a bit shallow.Why did he do that? He kissed her, she recalled his question.Was he suggesting she was to be his life companion?He sounded so sure about it.How? Why? Why did he freaking kiss her? He complicated everything. He complicated their friendship, he complicated her thoughts.His kiss rekindled a spark in her heart though, it gave her hope. She wasn't that unattractive as Richard told her, at least you wouldn't kiss someone you find unattractive.Leonardo proved to her, there is hope to love again, but not him. With him, everything just screams wrong.So wrong, he was her client, he was different from her, he was from another world different from her simple world. She wasn't ready to include someo
Alison walked outside the reception floor with Paige, which housed a lounge and a minibar. She and Paige waited for a woman and her child to use the entrance revolving door, moving to the side for them to pass, the woman looked at her gratefully appreciating her kindness, she only smiled at her and waved at the little boy who smiled back at her. Her heart tore into shreds, she missed Samantha so much, calling her and checking up on both her grandmother and Lily every day could not suffice the emotional hole digging in her heart.She missed Samantha's naughtiness, her mischievous smile and her endearing laughter. She wished she was the woman who just passed with her son, holding Samantha in her hands, with Samantha beside her she would have seen each nook and cranny of the hotel. Sam was adventurous unlike her, who stays locked up in her suite only working, eating, sleeping and working again.Calling Samantha every day, and checking up on Grand Karen at equal intervals, she was happy L
Settling in the office was a good thing. It rid her of thoughts about Leonardo and his gestures, her new appointed driver, Garret. It distracted her thoughts for a while, at least for now she could pour her attention on the files in front of her.She is currently reviewing the application by Johnson's Construction company, she flipped the leaf of the file over reviewing their request.It covered the initial agreement for the cooperation of the Adriano project, but the company proposed some recent developments due to their work.They were offering to introduce another allied company to aid the faster development of the Adriano project, to her she doesn't see any reason why it should not be approved.Punching the telephone buttons, she rings Paige and waits, shifting the folder away from her work focus.Scanning her desk she sighted another file, waiting for her approval, looking at it for a minute she decided it needs to be reviewed first by the financial team under her before getting
Alison had half of her face smeared on the glass window of Leonardo's car.Her mind recalled the last time she was in here with him, he almost had an accident but that accident that seemed so terrifying at that time looks less distraught and terrifying now.What terrified her was her growing proximity with him?The only thing that kept replaying in her thoughts was his smooth lips smashed on hers last night.Her resolution seems to be at its weakest point now and there is nothing she can do.Her eye skimmed over to Leonardo's side, taking him in for a moment. He wore a grey shirt that matches his dark trousers, a golden wristwatch decorated his wrist, she has never seen him wearing accessories before.It was then he noticed how tight his hold was on the steering wheel he gripped it so tight his knuckle were almost snow-white, the pressure he exerted on his arms caused wry veins to rope around his thick arms.She slightly drooled at such sight of masculinity, he seemed to notice her ga