Chapter 141 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“Wow!” Benne exclaimed with an appreciative grin. He made no move to step into the house or retreat as he stood there staring at her. Even though he had spent the whole day with her at work, and in the restaurant, he realized that he had missed her. He missed this version of her with her hair packed up and her glasses on. He missed this unguarded part of her.

“Hi!” Celsie said with a shy smile.

“I missed you,” Benne murmured as he took a step forward, and to his surprise, Celsie looked away from him shyly.

“I kind of missed you too,” she said, surprising him even more.

“You want to come in?” She asked, stepping away from the door so that he could get in.

“You missed me?” Benne asked in disbelief as he walked through the door. He definitely had not been expecting her to admit that she missed him even if she did.

“Yeah. Give me a moment to dress up and I’ll join you,” Celsie said as she turned to leave, expecting Benne to stop her as he usually did, but he just remained where he was staring at her as she left.

Although he was very tempted to stop her as he suspected she wanted him to, he was still too stunned by the fact that she had just admitted that she missed him. To think she had missed him even when she was with ‘another’ man was something significant for him. They were certainly making progress.

Once Celsie got to her bedroom she sighed in disappointment. It seemed like he really wasn’t interested in touching her yet. Not that she wanted sex or anything, but she had thought answering the door covered with just her towel was going to be provocative.

‘I guess I don’t know much about men and their desires,’ she muttered with a sigh as she picked out a pair of jeans bum short and a gray-colored tee-shirt from her closet. Once she was dressed she looked at her reflection in the mirror and adjusted the glasses on the bridge of her nose as she contemplated how she was going to offer him a massage. That wasn’t supposed to be a big deal, was it?

As she walked out of the bedroom she paused hesitated by the door and returned to add a touch of lipgloss to her lips, and then adjusted her tee-shirt before walking out of the bedroom, “I hope I didn’t keep you waiting?” She asked as she joined him in the living room, and Benne raised his head from his phone to look at her.

He smiled when he noticed the lipgloss on her lips, and held out his hand to her, “No, you didn’t. Although I don’t mind waiting for you,” he said, making Celsie smile shyly as she took his hand and Benne brought her to sit on the couch next to him.

“How was your day?” They both asked in unison and then smiled at each other.

“You go first,” they said in unison again, and this time they laughed.

“Have you had something to eat?” Celsie asked instead.

“Yes, I ate something earlier, what about you?” Benne asked, even though he knew they had had lunch together earlier.

“Oh!” Celsie said with a sigh. Now that preparing him a meal was out of it, all that was left was listening to him, and offering to give him a foot rub or a massage. Sex was certainly not part of it.

“I had lunch with the CEO earlier,” Celsie explained.

“Oh! That reminds me, how did it go with the CEO today?” Benne asked, turning to look at Celsie curiously since he really wanted to know what she thought about him.

“Not bad. He’s not as bad as I thought he was. I think I enjoyed conversing with him,” Celsie said with a shrug, and then her eyes lit up when she suddenly remembered Anita.

“Guess what?” She asked excitedly, making Benne wonder what was making her so excited.

“The CEO said he likes you?” Benne asked, making her roll her eyes.

“Why would he like me? Anyway, I think I finally figured out why Anita has been coming so close to me. She is interested in the CEO,” Celsie said in a conspiratorial whisper, making Benne raise a brow.

“She told you that?” Benne asked in surprise even though he had suspected that.

“Not exactly. But I realized that she has been asking me a lot of questions concerning my job and the CEO. And the dress she wore to the meeting today was exactly the same dress she made me go shopping with her for.

She said it was for a special occasion. I guess the CEO is the special occasion,” Celsie said with a small giggle when she remembered how the CEO had made her go get them drinks in her special dress.

“I guess she must have swept the CEO off his feet then?” Benne asked disinterestedly.

“You wish. You won’t believe how he treated her today,” Celsie said with a wicked glint in her eyes as she told Benne all that had happened at Ocean Airlines.

“Wow! The CEO must be a very mean person,” Benne said with a slight frown.

“I thought so at first, but after speaking with the CEO, I don’t think so anymore. I think he saw through her and treated her that way to put her in her place. Don’t feel sorry for her, she deserved it,” Celsie assured Benne when she noticed the frown on his face. He was too soft and kindhearted for his own good, Celsie thought.

“Seeing how you speak so highly of the CEO, I guess he must have made quite an impression on you,” Benne observed, feeling slightly relieved that she didn’t think he was mean.

“Yes, he did,” Celsie said, nodding her head in agreement.

“Enough about them, tell me more about how much you missed me,” Benne said as he moved closer to her.

“Hmm. Now I know why,” Celsie said thoughtfully as she looked at Benne with narrowed eyes.

“Why what?” Benne asked in confusion as he looked at her.

“Why I kept thinking there was something familiar about the CEO.. He kept reminding me of you,” Celsie said, making Benne’s heart skip a beat.

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