Chapter 135 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

Although Anita was very pissed off by this, she managed to give him a polite smile as she walked over to sit down where Celsie had vacated.

“So, let’s hear what you prepared,” Benne said to Anita.

Anita tried her best to tell him everything about the company in detail and state statistical facts where necessary. She told him about the company’s areas of strength and weakness, as well as the ideas she had to move the airline to the next level.

By the time she was done, Benne had to agree to the saying that no one was bad all around. Although she was a golddigger and had a shitty attitude, she was good at what she did in the company.

Setting aside his personal grievance against her, he gave her a nod of approval as he clapped his hands, “Impressive! That was a brilliant presentation,” he said, surprising everyone else in the hall, apart from Harry who knew that Benne wasn’t going to let his personal grievance against Anita blind him from seeing her potential in the company.

Anita was slightly taken aback by the compliment. Her lips pulled up in a wide smile as the hall erupted in applause. Of course, he had been won over by her intelligence. She knew that successful men like him were often drawn to intelligent women like her. All she had needed was an opportunity to show him how intelligent she was, and thankfully he had given her the opportunity despite his initial coldness. She was happy to see that he was impressed.

After they were done with the meeting, Anita and the other directors took both Benne and Harry around the company premises to show them the various departments and the staff that functioned in them.

Once they all got to the front of the company where the valet was already waiting for them beside the car, Benne turned to look at Celsie, “It’s not too late for us to have lunch, is it?” He asked as he glanced at his wristwatch.

Anita’s brows creased with a frown when she heard this since she was standing very close to both of them.. He was having lunch with Celsie? Why? She was going to have to do something about Celsie before things get out of hand and the CEO ends up falling for a snake like Celsie.

“So, how would you describe Bryan Delgado in one word?” The female interviewer who was in her early thirties, and had been put in charge of their interview asked Sonia who was seated across from her on a couch with Bryan. Sonia’s left leg was crossed over the right while brushing Bryan’s leg intimately.

“Bryan…” Sonia let her words trail off as she looked at Bryan with a small smile on her lips as if she was thinking of the right word to describe him. She didn’t need to lie or make up anything.

“Well, he is impulsive… Take for instance the marriage proposal. That was completely unexpected,” Sonia said as she reached out to touch Bryan’s face lovingly.

Bryan met her gaze with a little smile of his own. He could tell that she was trying to answer as honestly as she could while keeping the truth from them.

“Interesting. I actually thought you would use words like romantic, sweet, charming, or something related to describe him. I wasn’t expecting you to say impulsive,” the lady said with an amused smile.

Sonia grinned at her, “Well, if I told you what you expected to hear, then I wouldn’t be Sonia Smith, would I?” Sonia asked as she turned to look at Bryan who chuckled lightly.

“If I were you I wouldn’t expect anything or try to predict her answers. She is quite an enigma,” Bryan advised the interviewer with a grin as he took Sonia’s hand and raised her knuckle to his lips, sending tingling sensations down Sonia’s spine.

“I will keep that in mind,” the interviewer said with a small smile.

“So can you tell us what it feels like to be engaged to someone like Bryan Delgado?”

Sonia smiled as she shifted her gaze from Bryan to the interviewer, “Uhm… Being engaged to him feels like I’m on an exciting adventure. I’m always looking forward to seeing what happens next between us,” Sonia said with a thoughtful smile before looking at Bryan who was also staring at her with a smile.

The interviewer watched them both with a smile on her face. She loved the chemistry between Bryan and Sonia as they were fun to watch, especially how they kept staring at each other and touching each other at the slightest opportunity “Everyone is curious to know how you managed to win his heart. Although we know that every playboy eventually meets their match who tames them, we want to know how you were able to accomplish such a feat.”

“I think that question should be directed at him, not me. I’m also curious to know how I managed to win that stubborn heart of his,” Sonia said with a teasing smile as she turned to look at Bryan.

“Can you answer the question since your fiancee is also curious to know about it?” The interviewer asked as she turned to Bryan.

“What was the question?”

“How did she capture your heart? What did she do to make you decide that you were done with other ladies, and wanted to stick to just her?” The interviewer asked, and Bryan shifted his gaze from the interviewer to Sonia.

“Well, what can I say? Other ladies pale in comparison with her. She is more beautiful, more intelligent, and way sexier than every other lady I have met combined… No offense to them. When I’m with Sonia, I can’t think of anything or anyone else, because she captures all of my attention. And when I’m away from her, all I can think about is being with her. She intrigues me in every way possible,” Bryan said as he looked into Sonia’s eyes.

Hearing the words coming from some distant part of him, Bryan knew beyond reasonable doubt that he was done for.

His words might seem like mere words to Sonia, but he knew deep down that that was exactly the way he had started to feel about her.

It was strange that he hadn’t thought about being with any other lady since Sonia came into his life. It was even more strange that the thought hadn’t crossed his mind, not just because he no longer had the liberty to do so because he was engaged in the eyes of the public, but because he had not desired or lusted after anyone else.

Sonia on the other hand felt her heart flutter at his words as she gazed into his intelligent blue eyes. She tried to remind herself that Bryan was merely acting and he didn’t exactly mean what he was saying. A part of her wanted those words to be true. She wanted to mean that much to someone. She wanted to mean everything to Bryan Delgado.

“Are you sure nothing is going on between those two?” Jeff asked Mia in a whisper as they both watched from one end of the room.

Mia who had an amused smile on her face turned to look at Jeff with an innocent expression on her face, “What are you talking about?”

“Well, they don’t look like they are acting to me. Even though I know that Bryan is an excellent actor and he can pull off anything when given a script, I don’t think the Bryan in front of the camera right now is merely acting,” Jeff said thoughtfully. He knew that look on Bryan’s face. That was the way a man looked at a woman he was in love with. It wasn’t something a person could fake so easily no matter talented they were in acting.

“So what are you thinking? That Bryan is in love with his fake fiancee?” Mia asked under her breath so that no one else would overhear them, since they were the only ones who were aware of the fake engagement.

“He is either in love with her or very well on his way there. I don’t know much about Sonia, I can only hope that the feeling is mutual,” Jeff said as he kept looking at the couple.

“I hope so too,” Mia said, giving away nothing.

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