EMBER"Thank you.. so much. Ah, I'm relieved. This just took off a great deal of pressure from my mind," Charles sighed with a grin planted on his face. They all really had to hate them to react like that."Yes, now we can finally rest without hearing their disruptive existences literally every where. All up in our personal spaces. Can you believe we'd have to share rooms?" Samantha places herself in the chair of the break room. She looked just as relieved."That's true but the real question is.. how did you even manage to do that? You know we sent you because we were scared to even speak about it to him, right? I can't believe he really agreed," Jameson asked, immediately making Ember's lips seal shut. She looked at them with guilty eyes but they didn't see it."I just tried.. to use logical reasoning. It seems like he listens better when he's out of his cabin," Ember said, lying blatantly. They stared at her with doubt for a few seconds and then only did they break eye contact."Make
EMBERA week later.The list was out for the core team who will be the representatives of Sarte and work with the Iris core team on the project. Florence's 50th year anniversary was supposed to be grand and Sarte, being one of the largest event management company in the country, had no reason to not prove themselves the best.Ember skimmed through the list to see the known names. Jameson, Charles, Samantha, Will Thompson and Bianca from management, Ashley and Becca from logistics, Mary, Gilbert and Candice from analytics. Bill and Prett. She had already seen it coming that she really didn't have any real job to do there because she was a personal assistant. But when she looked further down, she saw Zaire Langston Hughes name and right below her was, Ember Campbell. She realised she just had to tag along because she was bound with Zaire for her position.But as she focused on it, she noticed two things. One, that the last was missing one person to round it up to fifteen. Which was quit
EMBERHe stepped in first and then only did Ember step towards it. She felt too out of place because she had never even gone remotely close to something like that. The private jet had a few comfortable seats facing each other with a table in between in a few. There was a couch and a TV on opposite sides and it was also spacious. Ember spent minutes looking around in absolute awe. She would literally fly in this thing, she almost couldn't believe it. So much that she even forget for a moment who she was flying with.Ember waited for him to say something but he only spoke to the staff as he placed himself on one of the seats, picking up a magazine and burying his nose into it. Awkwardly, she walked to the seat opposite to him and placed herself, adjusting to it. And with that, she picked up her phone to make sure Ruby was alright."Hey, you okay?" Ember asked."Yes, they're all so nice. I don't miss you at all," Ruby said, making a few more people around her giggle. Ember smiled gently
EMBERShe could feel how hard it was to resist him. She could feel her heightened senses around him. But it was also making her realise that that's all she could feel for him.It was different with Will Thompson because when she fell in love with him, she did because of how he was. She knew little details about him, things he enjoyed, his love for his parents and his passion for books and rollerskates. She liked him for the person she knew him as watching from afar.Even though he treated her terribly, Ember could at least justify why she liked him.But when it came to Zaire, she was clueless why she felt that way. She didn't know almost anything about him, only what she heard from people. She couldn't even read him, or predict his next move. And he makes the same mistakes with her as if he was playing a game. A game to get Ember trapped and locked in forever.And that was bad for her. Just because she was that physically attracted to him, didn't mean that she should just let him do wh
EMBERShe felt herself quieten down and think about what was it that she was missing out on. When she had researched a little or just heard it from Mary, she had got to know that Zelda Langston Hughes was indeed Zaire's mother. There were no mentions of her being a step mother and she was still very much alive. He had grown up in a wealthy household swarming with servants and staff. Then why did Zaire have to be the one to look after his mother's seizures all alone. Something was clearly not adding up but Ember didn't have it in her to ask."You handled it well too," he said, catching her slightly off guard as she looked up to see him watching her. "You were panicking a little but it was handled smoother because you were there. I haven't experienced that for a long time now so I felt a little lost.""I don't know if it's relevant but I had to look after myself almost all my childhood. I felt not as useful today but I tried," Ember muttered, her mind still somewhere else, trying to dec
EMBERThe text made her rethink all her sorted headspace. She had thought she would just go back to normal without letting anything make her overthink. But just one text, just one hope of her having any form of interaction with him, made her heart beat faster and faster. She was suddenly letting go of her racked up brain only to make it turn into a spiral of thoughts, all about him. And as she walked out of her hotel room and towards his room, she could feel the goosebumps and the pangs of jealousy when she had seen Zaire enter the car with Selene. Even after trying to get deflected from everything, she was still craving for the last bit of her attention. With that, she reached his door.With a deep breath, her hand struck out to ring the bell on his door. No answer. So she rang it again and only then did she hear some shuffling noises and some talking coming from inside. Before she could try listening in on it, the door opened and he peeked out to look directly at her.He was in a r
ZAIRE"Don't act like you did me a favour by playing this dating game with me!" Selene said, heated. That made Zaire scoff at the irony."It was me who revived your entire career. Only with my help and consultation you got that contract with Iris Fashion house. I saved you from begging in the streets even after you did so many things that almost ruined my life. I rescued you and you owed me this," Zaire shot back, knowing he didn't want to think of the past let alone talk about it. "You're still holding that against me! I didn't do it, it was my dad who-""You manipulated him. He threatened me to marry you because you wanted to and I didn't. I don't owe you anything so either you keep up this fake dating with me or you tell me you don't want to and I'll let you go. You should leave now," Zaire said, finally bringing his voice back to normal, regretting getting a little heated up as well. "You'll pay for this. You're wrong and you know you love me. You're just doing this because of yo
EMBERThe atmosphere got rapidly more tense as the showdown between the two of them started. They both kept staring at each other like they'd eat each other alive. Ember watched like the rest of them."Mr Prescott, I know it might be hard for you to keep your personal life separate from your job but you should work on it. You know, to have some professionalism? Ever heard of that?" Zaire said with the most crude expression she had seen and it did catch Travis off guard. "Ah, relax. Both of you. We'll definitely look for an occasion where you two can solve this personally. Now.. shall we meet the teams?" Megan said, trying to control the situation. And her talking made it easier for everyone to double back and focus back on work. "Welcome to each one of you. We are the founders of Florence cosmetics and we are very happy you could join us. This is Megan Davis and..""This is Brad Davis. Here, all of you, surely, are divided into teams but the sole motive is to work together and make ou