Chapter 106 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

Celsie moved the cellphone away from her ear, “I said I agreed to be his temporary girlfriend. Weren’t you the same person that asked me to get involved with a guy?” Celsie asked as she paced around her bedroom.

After breakfast with Benne, she had left with the excuse that she needed to clean up her apartment, and they had both agreed to leave for the cinema by noon. Now that she was alone, and was rethinking everything that had happened the previous evening, she wanted to hear Sonia’s opinion.

“Yes, I know I did, but I just didn’t expect that it would be with Benne. You know, considering the fact that you are trying to help him get the lady he likes,” Sonia said thoughtfully.

“Yes. I’m still trying to help him get Anita, but he suggested we do this so that we can find out why his past relationships didn’t work…” Celsie said and went on to give her the details of their conversation, “So I figured I give it a try just to get the experience,” Celsie concluded.

A sigh escaped from Sonia’s lips before she pursed her lips, how does that even make sense? “So you are dating Benne now? What about your boss? I thought you wanted to get rid of Benne using your boss? I already told Bryan about you and I don’t know if he has talked to your boss already,” Sonia said, reminding Celsie of her ultimate plans.

“Oh no! I completely forgot about that. What am I going to do about that now?” Celsie asked in confusion. How come she hadn’t thought of that before agreeing to Benne’s suggestion?

“Well, let’s wait to hear what your boss has to say. I suppose we will know the next step after that,” Sonia said before a smile curved her lips, “Your life is so exciting now,” Sonia said in amusement.

“I wish it wasn’t so exciting,” Celsie hissed, making Sonia giggle.

“Are you sure you’ll be okay by yourself?” Sonia asked Bryan with a concerned frown as she turned to look at him after checking the mirror one more time to be sure she looked okay.

“I didn’t know you cared about me this much,” Bryan said dryly as he watched her from the doorway.

He couldn’t believe that despite the fact that she had moved to the other room, she had still come to his room to use his shower and also dress up. Sometimes he couldn’t just understand what was going on in her head… Did he just say some times? Nah, he never could understand what she was thinking.

“Come on, baby. I’m sure you don’t mean that,” Sonia said with a small smile as she walked up to where he was seated on his wheelchair and patted a speck of invisible dirt from the front of his shirt.

“How do I look?” She asked as she twirled around in front of him.

This time she was dressed in white ripped high waist shorts, with one of his red t-shirts and a pair of white high-heeled sandals. If it was someone else he would probably have said the outfit was too simple and ordinary, but there was nothing ordinary or simple about Sonia, especially not when her endlessly long legs were on display like that.

Regardless of what she was wearing, Bryan was certain that she would always draw the attention of any man in a room merely by being there, the same way she had gotten his attention at the hotel lobby that night… If only he had known how crazy she was, he would have resisted the evil pull that drew him to her, Bryan thought with a sigh.

“You look good,” he managed to answer when he noticed how she kept looking at him as if she was waiting for his response.

“Do me a favor by working on your vocabulary. There are over a thousand and one flattering words you can use in complimenting your fiancee than merely saying good,” Sonia said with a pout of displeasure, making Bryan’s gaze move to her lips.

“How about I say, on a scale of one to ten, you’re an eleven?” Bryan asked, making Sonia’s lips curve on a humorous smile.

“Aha! I knew you could do better. That’s more like it,” Sonia said with a satisfied nod before raising her hand to check the time on her wristwatch, “Mia should be here any moment from now,” she said glancing in the direction of the living room as though she was expecting Mia to walk through the door since Mia had called a moment ago to say she was less than five minutes away from Bryan’s penthouse, and from Sonia’s calculation it was over six minutes already since she dropped Mia’s call.

“Use this for your shopping,” Bryan said as he extended his black card to her.

“Aren’t you a little too trusting of me? I could easily disappear with the card, you know?” Sonia asked, eyeing the card without taking it from him.

“Then disappear with it if that is all you want from me,” Bryan said, still holding the card out to her.

You will like that, won’t you? Sonia thought as she looked at him, “Don’t worry, I have enough money to get myself a couple of decent clothes,” Sonia assured him with a small smile.

“It’s not just for you. I also want you to get Mia some nice clothes,” Bryan said, making Sonia raise a brow.

He was getting her clothes as well? It wasn’t possible that he was in a relationship with his personal assistant and they were trying to keep it a secret by allowing her to make a fool of herself publicly, right? “Do you have a crush on your personal assistant?” Sonia asked, eyeing him with interest.

“What? Of course not! Why would you even think of something like that?” Bryan asked, glaring at her indignantly.

“I just noticed you care about her a lot, so I guess I’m just curious,” Sonia said with a shrug trying to make light of it.

“I already told you why I like her. And I’m only getting her clothes because I ruined her date the last time, thanks to you. So I just want to make it up to her and make sure she has something nice to wear to her next date, that’s all,” Bryan said, and scowled when he realized that he was explaining himself to Sonia.

“Wow! You seem to have the knack to blame me every time something goes wrong. What have I got to do with Mia’s date, huh?” Sonia huffed irritably, but before he could respond they heard the sound of the doorbell followed by Mia’s voice over the intercom announcing her entry.

“Well, your girlfriend is here,” Sonia hissed at him before walking past him to the living room.

“Don’t call her that,” Bryan called out with a scowl as he reversed his wheelchair to follow her.

“You are ready,” Mia said with an easy smile once she walked into the house and saw Sonia. The smile on her face wavered as she looked from Sonia’s face which held a welcoming smile to Bryan’s scowling face in confusion, “Did I interrupt something?” She asked with a confused smile.

“No, you didn’t. Bryan was just telling me about how he ruined your date because of me. I guess I should apologize for that. Right, honey?” Sonia asked Bryan with a sweet smile, while he glared at her.

Mia looked from Sonia to Bryan in confusion. If that was what the conversation was about, how come Sonia was the one smiling and Bryan was the one scowling? She cleared her throat, “We should leave now if we want to be back in time for the meeting with the production team,” Mia suggested awkwardly as she did not want to be in the middle of whatever argument was going on between Bryan and Sonia.

“Yes, we shou…”

“She will meet you in the car,” Bryan told Mia, cutting off Sonia’s response while making it clear that he wanted to speak with Sonia alone.

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