All Chapters of Stay With Me: Chapter 11 - Chapter 20

“Perfect”, Melanie whispered as she glanced lovingly at the delicious breakfast she had prepared and finished setting on the dining table.This was a couple of days since the sleepover and she had continued working at the small restaurant as a waitress waiting for a call or an email from the company.Grinning, she knelt on the floor and poured milk into Penny’s bowl and emptied a small can of cat food into the other bowl beside it. Her phone rang as she got up and dusted the lint from her oversized argyle angora sweater and baby blue denim trousers.“Hey, baby”, She said with a smile.“Good morning to you too, babe”, Erin said over the phone.“Shouldn’t you be at work by now?”, Melanie asked, glancing at the grandfather clock that stood in a corner of the living room. “It’s almost 9am”.“I’m there already. Just getting ready fro another day of being stressed out while being ignored by my boss for no reason. After he confronted me the day before about being a 'spy' for his pare

Melanie laughed along with her friends who sat around the counter of the little kitchen in her home. “Mel, dear. I think I just saw the mail man drop off some letters in the box. Could you please bring them in?”, Her grandmother's voice came from her bedroom right next to where they were.“Sure, Nana” , Melanie answered and excused herself to go check out what letters had been stuffed violently into their tiny mailbox.As she gathered up the letters, a particular logo on one of the envelopes caught her eye and her breath caught in her throat. It was the logo of the company she had interviewed for over a week ago and was still awaiting a response and though she hadn’t felt much hope, her heart was now viciously pounding against her chest threatening to burst through her body. They had sent her a letter. Did that mean that they wanted to hire her? That had to be why. Companies didn’t send envelopes to applicants to reject them. They could just as easily done it over the phone or i

Maxwell had been in the industry for a long time, a little below two decades and the highlight of his career was when he managed to get Linda Thorne, the daughter and only heir of the Thorne Empire, one of the biggest companies in the country, under him. That had finally gained him his well deserved respect from his superiors in the agency and even in the industry. And it was even better that she was incredible at her job and very quickly climbed up the ranks becoming one of the most sought after models internationally and he had been her agent for over a half of a decade. She had become a renowned name in the industry, and everyone clamored to work with her but only he knew how childish and sometimes self-absorbed she could be.Maxwell’s job was to make sure her schedule was always tight and that she never missed any shoots or events and was always ready and prepared to stun everyone present with her flawless presentation and professionalism. But for the past few days, after she had

Melanie had just gotten to work and settled on her chair to start checking through urgent emails when the elevator doors opened and a glamorously dressed young woman stepped out into the small hallway. She was tall and slender, with long, wavy blonde hair and piercing blue eyes that seemed to look right through her and Melanie can’t help but feel intimidated by her presence. She rose from her seat as the lady walked towards her and she was stunned when she saw closely how beautiful she was and was even more stunned at the resemblance they shared. The lady seemed taken aback upon seeing her too but she quickly schooled her features and curled her lips into a small smirk as she gave Melanie an obvious once-over and Melanie couldn’t help feeling self-conscious in her navy blue chiffon shirt and black suit pants.“Vinnie must have missed me quite a lot of he felt he had to hire a low budget lookalike to stay at his side everyday”.Melanie couldn’t help the scowl that crept up her face

Melanie sat at her desk, she had been staring blankly at her computer screen for hours, trying to get some work done, but her mind kept drifting to Calvin. It had been a week since their kiss, and she couldn’t stop thinking about him. They hadn’t gone out again due to their busy schedules, but she couldn’t wait to see him again.She had been in a daze ever since her boss, Calvin, had kissed her after their date last week. She couldn’t shake the feeling that something had changed between them, but she couldn’t quite put her finger on what it was. She had always had a bit of a crush on Calvin, but she never thought he would be interested in her. He was rich, successful, and engaged to a supermodel, after all. But the kiss had changed everything. It had been soft and gentle, but it had ignited a fire inside of her that she couldn’t ignore.As she sat there lost in thought, her phone rang. She looked at the caller ID and saw Calvin’s name. Her heart skipped a beat as she answered the ph