Alison took a look at her new office and gleamed at Paige, who smiled in return. With her role in the Adriano project, she was given an office at the Branch HQ. She was to resume today, Alison was happy with that development given that working directly from the site wasn't effective and on her part, she had a lot of regrets working there. One that could compromise her position with the company, she still had her mind reeling over what happened yesterday night. For some reason, she could not erase it from her thoughts. The way he touched her, reminded her that wasn't the first time Leonardo would do such. His touch had a different feel to it and his gaze made her weak knees.She has resolved to stay clear from his path. And their friendship was over. With their supposed friendship, it could compromise her work ethic by making it look like they were involved in a romantic relationship.That was one, secondly, she can't simply want to love again. There was too much risk on her side.It
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