“I don’t think it’s about being a story writer this time. We have to come up with a believable love story together. You have to be fully involved as this isn’t one of your movies where you only have to read a script.”
“So, where would you say you met me?” Sonia asked Bryan who narrowed his eyes thoughtfully as he tried to think of places he could easily have run into a person like her.
“A hotel?” Bryan asked tentatively since that was the place where he had had the misfortune of meeting her.
“That is too basic,” Sonia said with a shake of her head.
“Yet that was where I met you… Maybe we should mix the truth with just a little lie? I don’t want everything to be a lie,” Bryan said, and Sonia pursed her lips thoughtfully.
“Hm… That could work. But which hotel? You know the way journalists are. They could go to the hotels to check for security footage just so that they have a story to tell. We can’t be too careful,” Sonia pointed out, and Bryan gave her a nod since he knew she was right.
“What if we say we met on a dating app? And the night you proposed to me happened to be the first time we met, and now we are getting to know each other while living under the same roof?” Sonia suggested.
“You don’t think they’re going to try to find the name of the dating app?” Bryan asked with a scoff.
“We don’t have to mention any. Let’s send them on a wild goose chase,” Sonia said with a wink.
“Let’s just sleep over it, and come up with something by morning,” Bryan suggested, and after that, they focused on their food before calling it a night.
Sitting on his bed now, he wondered what Sonia had to lose if everything went south. Was he probably being too trusting of her? What if she had ulterior motives?
He reached for his laptop which was on top of his bedside drawer when he remembered that it had been a while since he last checked his emails, and he needed to check if Sonia’s editor had responded to his email yet.
Once he opened it, a frown creased his brows when he noticed that his email to Sonia’s editor had been saved to his drafts. How come it wasn’t sent? But he remembered tapping on the enter button, he mused with a scowl and deleted the text since he no longer had any reason to speak with Sonia’s editor.
He glanced at his cell phone when it started ringing and picked it up when he saw that it was a call from Benne, “Good morning!” He greeted with a grin when he remembered that he had news for Benne.
“You sound excited, I guess that’s what happens when you are engaged to a woman you love,” Benne said with a teasing smile as he walked into his bedroom. He had just seen Celsie to the door, before deciding to give Bryan a call to inform him of the latest development in his relationship with Celsie.
Engaged to a woman I love? Very funny, Bryan mused, “I guess so. It’s a good thing you called since I have news for you,” Bryan said, making Benne’s ears perk up.
“I have news for you too. But let’s hear yours first,” Benne said excitedly.
“Last night, my darling fiancee told me about her best friend being my brother’s personal assistant.”
“She did? Why?” Benne asked, sounding very surprised since he hadn’t expected that. If he remembered what he heard in the car correctly, Celsie had told Sonia that she didn’t want Bryan to know that she worked for his brother. So why did Sonia suddenly choose to tell Bryan the truth?
“I’ve been wondering the same thing. Perhaps Celsie asked her to tell me about it?” Bryan asked thoughtfully.
“I’m not sure Celsie did that. Unless she asked her to tell you about it but not let me know,” Benne said with a thoughtful frown.
“I don’t think so. I asked Sonia if I could tell you about it, and Sonia said agreed on the condition that it doesn’t affect Celsie’s job,” Bryan said, making the crease on Benne’s brow deepen.
There had to be a reason for this.
“What do you think about this?” Benne asked Bryan.
“I don’t know what to think. What would you do if you weren’t interested in Celsie and you found out your personal assistant was my fiancee’s best friend?” Bryan asked curiously.
“If I wasn’t interested in her, she wouldn’t be my personal assistant, to begin with,” Benne pointed out.
“That’s true. Still, what would you have done?” Bryan asked again.
“I don’t know. Maybe invite her to my office for a little chitchat?” Benne asked in confusion.
“Knowing Celsie the way you do, what do you think could be her reason for wanting you to know about her relationship with my fiancee?” Bryan asked, making Benne narrow his eyes thoughtfully.
They’ve been getting along pretty well lately, so there was no way she could be planning to find favor with the CEO just to stop him from being her driver, right?
“I guess I should find out. I will have Harry set up a lunch date with her,” Benne said, making Bryan grin in anticipation.
“I was hoping you would say that. Should I inform my fiancee about the date so that Celsie can be prepared?” Bryan asked curiously.
“No. I’d love it to be an impromptu arrangement. That way she wouldn’t have enough time to think about anything,” Benne said, and Bryan nodded in agreement.
“Okay then. Now that we have gotten that out of the way, what news do you have for me?” Bryan asked curiously.
“I asked Celsie to be my temporary girlfriend last night, and she agreed,” Benne said, making Bryan’s mouth drop open in surprise.
“You did what?” Sonia who was in the next room down the hall, asked in a slightly raised voice as she sat up on her bed.
New Book: Back Home to Marry Off Myself
Loredana’s father left the family for his mistress, leaving them to fend for themselves abroad. When life was at its toughest, her father showed up with “good news” after 8 years of absence: To marry off Loredana to a paralyzed son of the wealthy Mendelsohn family.
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