“Well, for starters you don’t have to call him. You could just walk over to VVIP room 5, and grant him an audience. He is waiting for you,” Brandy said with a wink and grinned when Candace’s eyes widened slightly.
“He is here?” She asked, glancing at the door in alarm.
“Yep. So don’t keep him waiting for too long. You can keep your relationship a secret all you want, but just don’t push him away. You deserve to be happy,” Brandy said, taking Candy’s hand in her own and squeezing it softly.
Candy felt butterflies flutter in her stomach as she stood up, “Why didn’t you just say he was here from the start?” She asked Brandy with a scowl.
“Because I was trying to get you mentally ready to meet him. I’m more like a forerunner,” Brandy said with a wink as she picked up Candy’s makeup bag and got busy with powdering up her face.
“See you later,” Candy said as she glanced at her appearance in the mirror once again before walking out of the room nervously while her heart kept beating very fast.
Once she got to the door of the room where Matt was waiting for her, she adjusted the strap of the black lace teddy she was wearing, and then took in a deep breath before pushing the door open.
As it was the last time, the room was dark save for the spotlight which was on both the right and left sides of the room. She shut the door behind her and remained standing there while thinking about whether or not to follow Brandy’s advice. If she was going to get involved with Matt as she wanted to, then she had to let him know who she was and what he was getting himself involved in.
“Hi!” Matt greeted from where he was seated nursing a glass of wine. He had thought he was going to be able to stay away from her for a long period, but he had been in a foul mood for the past couple of days since he last saw her, and somehow he had found himself here once again waiting for her. He just wanted to see her.
“I was told you asked for me,” Candy asked cautiously as she didn’t want to be ahead of herself.
“Yes, I did.”
“Why? Are you here for my dance performance or do you want us to talk?” Candy asked in a less guarded tone this time.
“It depends on what you want. I’m fine with whichever you choose as long as I can see you,” Matt said, and Candy gave him a nod as she walked over to where the music was and turned on the player.
Matt sat up, expecting her to dance, but instead, she walked directly to where he was and straddled his thighs, “Let’s talk.”
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Celsie lay on her bed thinking about Benne and everything both he and Sonia had said. She suddenly burst into a peal of uncontrollable laughter when she recalled that just earlier that morning she had lied to her parents that she was dating her boss. She laughed so hard that tears started falling from her eyes.
Who would have thought that she was actually saying the truth? Her subconscious had probably picked up on the resemblance between them while she was being too slow to make the connection. She should have known that something was up when she started feeling so comfortable in her boss’s presence.
Now she didn’t know how she was supposed to feel. On one hand, she was thankful that he had opened up to her about the truth, while on the other hand, she felt sad that he had broken her trust. The most annoying and painful thing about her anger was the fact that she missed his presence despite her anger.
Another thing she found annoying was that although she was angry, she understood him and why he had done what he did. It was annoying too because she knew that if he hadn’t done it that way, they truly wouldn’t have been as close as they were at the moment, yet she couldn’t stop feeling mad that he had fooled her.
Celsie sighed. Did it make sense that she was mad that he had broken her trust yet she also understood why he had done it and knew that she would probably have done the same in his shoes?
Slowly her brain replayed every moment she had spent with Benne from the moment she met him and she tried to remember all they had talked about. She cringed when she remembered how she had asked that they change her driver, and how Benne had spoken to her over the phone and how she had stuttered like a fool.
She raised both hands to her face in embarrassment when she remembered all the time she had sat in the backseat of the car like the boss, and how she had confessed to Benne that she had asked the management to change her driver.
As annoying as the whole situation was, she had to admit to herself that it was also funny. Benne must have had a good laugh at her expense whether or not it was meant to be fun for him, Celsie thought with a sigh as she lay on her bed.
Maybe it was best she focused on the brightest side of the situation… It was better for her that he was a rich person pretending to be poor rather than a poor person pretending to be rich, right? That would definitely have been worse.
She wasn’t sure she was willing to let him off the hook so easily after he made her feel like an idiot. She was still mad at him, even though she also wanted to be seeing him while mad at him… That is if it even made any sense.
She was just going to have to come up with a suitable punishment for him… But that would be after she wakes up from sleep. She was too tired right now to think about anything else.. All she wanted for now was to sleep.
While Celsie slept peacefully through the night, Benne was unable to sleep as he kept wondering what he could do to make Celsie see reasons with him. He really wanted to be with her, and he hated to think that he possibly might have ruined his chances of being with the one person he thought might be right for him simply because he had been trying to be careful not to end up with the wrong person.
These thoughts bothered Benne so much that he tossed and turned in his bed for most of the night and only managed to doze off when it was almost dawn. He was jolted from his short sleep by the sound of his phone’s ringtone and he sat up and quickly reached for his phone hoping it was a call from Celsie.
He sighed when he realized that the call was Harry and not Celsie, “What do you want?” Benne asked irritably immediately after he received the call.
“I had the best night of my life making love to your sister all through the night. It was soooo hot!” Harry announced, and Benne yawned in boredom.
“Good for you both. I’m sure you both needed to let out some steam. Now what do you want?” Benne asked dryly as he lay down once again, wanting to go back to sleep.
“You’re not bothered that I banged your sister? I mean we had sex. Like SEX,” Harry spelt it out.
“I don’t care about what you both do. Jade is an adult and she is capable of making her own decisions. If she decides she wants to have sex with a boring workaholic like you, then that’s her business,” Benne said, making Harry scowl.
“For your information, I’m not boring. Besides, I was just kidding. I didn’t have sex with her,” Harry quickly corrected, and Benne shut his eyes wearily.
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.