Chapter Five

NAYA'S POV

I may be doing this just to satisfy my love for vengeance, but honestly, he deserves this.

William Carter is an asshole, he wants to apologize but why is he acting like he was forced to, he wants us to meet, but his secretary was the one who emailed me the venue, and when he would arrive and how many hours the date should take as he was a busy man and he has other businesses to attend to. What a snob

This pissed me off, why do I need to fit into his schedule, if he was so busy why ask us to meet even.

I may have decided to take my sweet time in dressing up, well that was because I didn't know what to wear, and there was no stylist to help me, but I had Penny and Merry helped me, They were Lita's daughters and were my friends since there were the only two closer to my age, after rummaging through my wardrobe we finally came up with something, a black sanquine Balenciaga's off the shoulder body con dress that fit tightly, and an Alexander McQueen knee high boot, Merry was good with make up, so I made her do a heavy make-up with smoky eyeshadows and red lipsticks, I may had lied to them that I was going clubbing. She wanted to straighten my hair but I refused, I let down my curls, this made it look bouncy and full, my look was the 1980's party girl, way to make an impression right.

I decided to go to an arcade and had fun playing games, winning over fifty plush toys, this will be given to the children in the orphanage.

I arrived at the fancy sea food restaurant one hour after, yeah I did, if he can make me wait for over two hours and still not show up, I get to do the same.

I handed the bags filled with plush toys to the handsome valet outside to keep well for me, I don't want anything to happen to those babies, then I told a waiter who I was here to meet, but he was so wide eyed looking at me, I gave a smirk, yeah this was the look I wanted everyone to give me, the 'are you sure she's in the right place look', yeah I'm in the right place, the waiter came out of reverie and took me to the VIP room were he was, I stood at the door and watched him, the pictures of him online does no justice as to how he really looked, his curly dark hair sparkling in the light making it look silky, my hand itches as I want to run my hands through it, and his jawline, many people may had done surgery to get that, he looked like one of those perfect image of a Greek, in all I could say William Carter is one good looking man, his eyes were dark and angry, he was talking to someone on the phone, I guess it was his secretary because he was asking where the fuck I was, I smirked, ha! have a taste of your own medicine, I sashayed towards him

"I'm here, I'm here" I said smiling at him, I caught him eyeing me up, was there a glint in his eyes?, Plopping down to the seat opposite his.

"I'm so sorry, I got caught up with something so important" I said overdramatically, using my hands to emphasize the important, but his jaw tightened up and he balled his fist, but I still continued.

"Hi, I'm Naya Carrington, and you must be William Carter" I said bringing out my hands for a handshake, but he just glared at me.

Feigning ignorance

"Oh my! forgive me, like I said something came up" I said while crossing my legs.

"Miss Carrington are you aware of the time"

I looked at my wristwatch, looked at him with questioning eyes

"The time, it's just a few minutes after seven, why?" I replied dumbly'knowing what he was actually saying

"I don't know about you, but time is of essence to me, if you knew, you wouldn't be here earlier, you would have rejected the date"

And miss having my revenge, no way.

"I apologized already, and I'm here now"

"You're here now, I waited for an hour,"

"Oh, but I did tell your secretary to tell you I'd be late, like you said it's only for an hour, I sat and waited for you for three hours yesterday, so let's just call it even" I said with a shrug, but what ever I said seem to piss him of, his fist balled and his jaw clenched and when he finally spoke, it sounded edgy.

"Let's call it even, Naya-" but I cut him off

"We are not on first names basis yet"

He swallowed and continued

"Miss Carrington, I missed an important meeting with a Japanese contractor because whatever important thing you were doing, and you have the guts to say 'lets call it even'"

I may have gone too far, if he really did miss meeting, Naya what have you done? If my father hears of this, I'm dead, gone, my eyes dropped as I played with the knob of my purse

"Like I said, I'm sorry"

"No you're not"

I looked at him straight into his eyes

"Of course I am" I defended, my voice a little bit higher

His eyes still on mine, shook his head as he said vehemently

"No you're not, you know why?" 

Before I could respond he continued anyway

"Because this is a game to you, he made me sit out waiting for him, I should do the same, right, but it made you less, lesser than a child even" 

I could only gape at him as his words struck deep into my soul,

"Don't you dare say that"

"Oh I dare, I'm so sorry for myself, my grandfather outdone himself, rather than be with a woman who I love, I'd be with an immature brat like you, what a great sacrifice William" he said sarcastically.

I balled my fist and felt all the hair on my neck rise, boy has he done it, how dare he talk about sacrifice like he knows anything.

"You're sorry for yourself, we I am too, you have to be with a brat, hmm, you have to be with one who likes to play petty games" I replied, sarcasm lacing every word as I shook my head, my hair bouncing along to it, I continued.

"but I'm more sorry for myself, I have to be tied with a grumpy old man, a freaking time capsule because of some business deal, you talk about sacrifice,well, you don't know half of it you old man!!" I shouted, thank God this was a private room, people are sure to have heard this. 

His eyes flickered with anger, I guess I've gone too far, but I don't care, I'm way too angry, my face flushed, I took deep breaths and continued.

"I think neither of us wants to be here" then said to myself, with a weak smile 

"this date is a disaster" grabbing my purse I stood up 

"I'd be taking my leave, thanks for dinner" 

I left the private room, I collected my bag of plush toys and ordered a ride to take me home, tomorrow I'll visit the orphanage, maybe that will get my mind of this arranged marriage mess, whatever was my father and his grandfather plans, I hope I don't end up killing him in the course of this faux marriage.

WILLIAM'S POV

" She called you old, oh I like her already, she's a feisty one" Sebastian chirped 

After the disastrous dinner, it wasn't really a dinner since no one ate, I came to club M, which was only visited by rich businessmen , which was owned by Markovia Vanne, who was also one of my good friends since college, also here was Daniel Lee, an American Chinese professional racecar driver, and we were all at the VVIP section of the club, the four of us were very close since our Harvard days 

I closed my eyes, reminiscing the events of tonight, my grandfather was so mad at me for standing Miss Carrington up, in my defense they were the one who fixed the date and it wasn't even on my schedule, but then I was forced to apologize, so I asked Claudia to send Miss Carrington some flowers and a note asking if she was available today for us to meet, which she agreed, the mistake was I made her contact Claudia instead, because when I arrived I expected to see her, but she wasn't, I waited for ten minutes before calling Claudia to know where she was, which after a minute Claudia called back to tell me, Miss Carrington took a detour but will arrive soon, after waiting for an hour , she finally showed up, but then I've lost my patience.

 Naya Carrington was one beautiful girl I knew from the photo the PI got for me, but seeing her dressed like she missed her bus to the 1980 club was something else, the dress hung and accentuates her curves, the boots made her legs longer and her red hair was fuller, she looked hot. But acting like she didn't make me wait for an hour before she came and saying that an important matter came up was another, I'm sure the important thing she went for was shopping, she looked the part.

When I told her I missed an important meeting, I saw the guilt in her eyes, then I knew she did made me wait for her as a revenge for standing her up, but then I may had lied about the meeting, but when we got into an argument because I called her an immature child, I saw several emotions displayed in her eyes a contrast between hurt and betrayal, and then she had an outburst and called me old and a time capsule, but I was just ten years older than she is, how dare she call me old!

I gripped the glass in my hand

"Careful old man, the cup may break you" Daniel commented, eyeing the cup in my hand, causing the rest of them to burst out laughing

"Thank you good sir, I may throw it to your face to see how strong it is" I retort, raising the glass as to make my point, but he raised his hands in surrender.

"I searched online about her, like there was nothing, her father is the CEO of Carrington Winery, but there's nothing about her" Sebastian chimed

"Yeah I wonder why?" I said, it may had taken a short while for the Private investigator to get the information he did, but there wasn't any other news rather than surface information, and my instincts tells me there's more to Naya Carrington.