Luke took one last glance at his appearance in the mirror before heading out of his closet. Gabriel had been having a conversation with one of the maids while also waiting for Luke to get ready. The buddies were supposed to attend a party which was being hosted by the Simon’s. The Simon’s were one of the families that belong to the elite families of the country. They were old money and have been continuing to make tons of money for generations. The current owner of the Simon’s corporation, William Simon and his wife are celebrating their 35th wedding anniversary. And Luke and Gabriel were expected to attend the party because for one, they were business partners and two, their parents also happen to be close friends. So, it was kind of inevitable.
“Come on, Gabe, let us go. We are already late,” Luke said while climbing down the stairs. His voice was loud enough to reach Gabriel, who was busy in the kitchen, talking to one of the maids.
“See you again,” Gabriel told the maid while giving her a bright smile. He followed Luke outside the house. The boys were driving themselves since they had plans of meeting their other friends later in the night, after they left the party. Luke and Gabriel were never the kind of people who freely partied around the elders of the family or any of their families’ acquaintances. They had their own gang of friends whose company they enjoyed.
“When is Ruby moving in?” Gabriel asked Luke, while staring outside the window. “Tomorrow is packing because she had to settle her workplaces today and she needs help to pack everything which I assume her friend, Mia is going to help. So, I think she will be at home by tomorrow evening.”
Gabriel nodded his head in understanding, “Those two girls seem very close.” Luke agreed, “Yes, it is easy to sense by seeing how Mia has been sticking with Ruby despite her background and her current situation.”
Gabriel hummed, “Yes. And I am happy that at least she has friend for life. Or else it would have been difficult.” Luke could only agree again. Because he knew how valuable a friendship is. And he was grateful that he had Gabriel and vice versa.
The boys reached the party venue soon and entered the place. It was just like any other rich people’s parties with only a little extravagance. It was like a competition for the rich people to see who hosts the most expensive party.
“Richness is a never ending privilege for the Simon’s,” Gabriel commented while they saw the interior of the party hall. As expected, the party hall was filled with people from elite backgrounds and those people did not miss their chances to show off their own richness by wearing costly clothes and jewelleries and what not.
“Let’s cover the hall from different directions and get out soon,” Luke said and got a nod in return from gabriel. The buddies walked in opposite directions as if they were entering the battlefield. The only weapon in this battlefield is money.
Gabriel walked around a bit and talked to a few people. And he did entertain himself with a few light drinks. And of course, he flirted with a few ladies without considering their ages.
Luke moved around a lot. Since his father was close friends with the Simon’s he was almost treated as family here. He talked to almost everyone present in the party. When he was tired from all the talking, he went to the bar to grab a drink.
“One whiskey on the rocks,” Luke told the bartender and turned around. To his surprise, he found his father Davis Sawyer standing behind him.
Luke raised his brows, in an attempt to ask his father what he wanted. “Order me a drink too,” David said and took a seat. Luke ordered the drink and turned to his father, “I thought you had quit drinking,” Luke said, remembering that one time, when his father’s sugar level had increased because of too much alcohol. And David had almost quit drinking from then on.
David smiled a little and replied, “I need it sometimes. Just one or two pegs.” Luke nodded his head and received the drinks from the bartender and passed it to his father. They sipped their drinks silently.
Suddenly, like an uproar, a woman came towards them. “Honey, here you are. I was looking for you on that side.” Luke did not have to turn his head to recognise the woman. Her annoying voice was enough to guess it was his stepmother, Anna.
“Oh, yeah. I was tired and just wanted a seat,” David said to his wife. Anna was a beautiful woman but she mostly used it to lure people and make them fall in her trap. And she did it with zero guilt.
Anna was reeking of expensive things from top to bottom. She was known to spend her husband David's money like water. She was least concerned about other things.
Anna’s eyes traced Luke’s appearance and then it traveled to David. She noticed the glass in his hand, she gasped dramatically, “Luke, what the hell are you doing? You have let your father have alcohol?” she almost screamed.
Luke was not at all bothered by her overacting nor was David. “He is not going to die from one glass of whiskey,” Luke said casually and ordered another drink for himself.
Anna continued her overacting. She pulled the glass away from David’s hand and said, “Don’t drink anymore. Your health is more important.” David sighed, knowing why his health was important to Anna, “It is fine. One glass of whisky would not kill me.”
He knew that his wife’s concern about his health was for only one reason. The Sawyer Corporation. Anna was concerned about the wealth of David. Luke was already the CEO of the company while her son, Leo Sawyer was just a simple apprentice in the company. She had insisted on placing Leo in a better position. But David had said that he has to learn from the grounds if he wants to learn about the company. Just like Luke. David had made Luke also to work from the grounds.
David wanted to get away from the alcohol talk, so he paid his attention to Luke, “Oh, by the way, I thought you would be bringing Ruby to the party with you”
Luke was surprised that his father was paying attention to his life for the first time. Yesterday, when they had bumped into each other, Luke had introduced Ruby to him. And Luke did not miss the light in his father’s eyes meeting his girlfriend. Luke had brushed off the topic assuming his father’s excitement was only because it was the first time that Luke had openly introduced someone as girlfriend.
Luke finished his drinks and said, “She had something else to do. So, maybe some other time.” David nodded his head in understanding.
Anna could not contain her curiosity, “Who is Ruby?”
David smiled at her and replied, “Ruby is Luke’s girlfriend.” Anna’s eyes went wide and Luke did not miss to see the expression on her face. If anything, it brought him great pleasure to see her plan crumbling down.
After hearing David mention Luke's girlfriend, Anna could not keep still. She immediately excused herself saying she had to use the ladies' restroom. Luke smirked at her action. He did not miss how nervous she felt when she heard that he has a girlfriend.Anna walked outside the party hall and searched her purse for her phone. She quickly dialed the number.The phone rang for a few seconds before it was picked, "Hello?" A man's voice said."What took you so long to receive the phone call?" Anna asked restlessly.The man sighed and said, "Sister, I am a busy man and I have tons of work to do. I am not the chairman like your husband."Anna was irritated by it, "Whatever, Robert. Just listen to me now. You have to immediately ge
Ruby sighed, sitting on her bed. She had been packing her luggages since morning and it seemed like it was never ending. She never knew she had so much stuff. Yesterday after signing the contract with Luke, Gabriel had entertained them a little before they had bid bye. Ruby had been to her part time work places and resigned right away. It was kind of difficult to resign from her job at the departmental store that she used to work at. It was not a problem with the owner but the memories of breaking up with her then boyfriend, Adam in that place made it difficult for her. She had left the place with tears in her eyes. Within a span of a month, her life was turned upside down. One moment, she had a boyfriend whom she thought it was a serious relationship and the next moment she had broken up with him and signed up to become a surrogate and then she was carrying someone's child and now she was even moving in with him and had signed to become his pretend g
12Luke and Ruby had settled down quite well. Ruby felt like she was living in a whole different world. Luke had been a sweetheart and made her feel at home. He had a separate room arranged for her. It was like a princess room. And the attached bathroom in her room was not lacking any amenities. Ruby had to not worry about anything else.In fact, Ruby found herself having a lot of free time and she had no idea how to spend it. She spent her time at Luke’s penthouse, mostly exploring the place. And she found it hard to exquisite. She compared Gabriel’s independent house to Luke’s huge penthouse. The view from the penthouse was picturesque. And Ruby loved to see the sunrise and sunset from the huge window in the living room.Luke was getting ready for work. H
“What? Dinner? At your parents’ place?” Ruby almost screamed as she plopped down on the couch. Luke came home after a long day of work and told her about his father's dinner invitation. Ruby felt like she was not yet ready to meet the other members of Luke's family. She surely had met David. He seemed like a nice man but that was a very brief meeting.“Yes, dinner. At my father's house,” Luke said and took a seat next to her.Ruby pouted at him and Luke could not help but notice how cute she looked at this moment. But he did not dare voice out his thoughts.“You will have to meet them at some point. The sooner the better,” Luke said, trying to convince her.Ruby continued to pout. That wa
“Hey, make that baby shut its mouth,” screamed the young girl from her first class seat on the plane. The flight attendants came running towards her seat. “We are sorry for the inconvenience ma’am. But the baby is getting fussy.”“What can I do if the baby is feeling fussy? I can't sleep with such noise,” said the young girl.The flight attendant tried her best to calm down the young girl, “I will talk to the parent once again. Once again sorry for the inconvenience.” the young girl huffed and leaned back in her seat.“Get me some red wine,” the young girl said to the other flight attendant while the previous one went on to talk to the guardian of the baby. They tried their best to soothe the crying baby. Afte
Seeing everyone ignore her and leave her alone, Gia's anger only doubled and tripped in a matter of time. She immediately stormed out of the penthouse. And she grabbed her phone from her purse and dialed her Aunt Anna's phone number.“Hey, sweetie,” Anna greeted from the other side of the phone. Gia cringed at her aunt's greetings. Normally she would have greeted back with the same enthusiasm but today she did not feel like reciprocating it.“I wish I could greet you with the same sweetness, auntie,” Gia said as she got off the elevator. She walked out with such anger fuming away from her body. The guard from earlier did not even spare a look at her side. That pissed her off even more. Because when ruby had entered the building, he had given her a polite bow.
The early morning light beamed through the windows of Luke's bedroom. He groaned not wanting to wake up yet. While he stayed in the bed, convincing his body to get up, he heard some sound from the next door. In the next room, ruby lived. He wanted to make sure that ruby is doing well so he kept her close to his room.Luke stopped moving on the bed and listened carefully to the sound. But still he could not get the sound properly. So he immediately jumped out of the bed and went to her room.There, he found ruby in her bathroom. Crouched, emptying her stomach. Although he was hesitant at first Luke was now used to being the helper. He went towards ruby and held her hair behind her head. And he rubbed her back trying to soothe her pain. When she was done with the job, ruby went to the sink and rinsed her mouth, all the while Luke held
Gabriel hummed a song as he walked through the corridors of Luke's company. He had no plans of joining the company and taking things seriously. So here he was, to bug his best friend.Gabriel saw that Luke's secretary was holding a cup of coffee as she came out of the pantry. He walked directly towards her, “Is that for me darling Madeleine?” He asked her.Madeleine was a twenty something girl and she had been working as Luke's secretary as recently as four months. She was good enough for the job and Luke was in dire need of a secretary as he had fired the previous one because of a certain reason.Madeleine looked up at Gabriel. She gave him a million dollar smile and said, “I am sorry to say this. But this is for the boss. If you want coffee then I will ma