Chapter 8 I've Never Noticed How Handsome He Is

In Jorge's car, Louise remained silent. The man was incredibly worried. After all, he was the one who had invited her to the event in which she was insulted by his own friend.

"I'm sorry, Louise. I shouldn't have left you there alone."

"Don't worry. I'm fine. The worst is over."

Even so, he acted irrationally. "I'll talk to him as soon as I get back."

"It's better to let it go. I don't want you to get into any more trouble."

"It's no trouble. It's time he learns how to respect other people. No one is to blame for his sufferings. Before my aunt died, he was a great boy; but after everything happened with my aunt, my uncle left him alone, and moved to another country. I understand his anger, but taking it out on everyone only hurts him more. I've tried everything, but it's been fruitless so far."

"It must have been horrible. When I lost my parents, I also suffered a lot. But my grandmother was always by my side, and that comforted me."

Jorge dropped her off at home, and gave his farewells to the girl. When he returned to the party, in a room near the main hall with only a few people, he met Leoni again. He watched Jorge enter from a distance, and as soon as he approached with an ironic tone, he said, "Jorge, are you back a little bit too early? I thought I wouldn't see you back here anytime soon. I thought you would be at some cheap motel with that maid... Oh yeah, I almost forgot, she clearly told me that she was a virgin and that she would only let her husband touch her, so you will have to marry her, right?"

Jorge kept silent as he walked forward. When he was in front of Leoni, he punched him in the face. Leoni lost his balance and almost fell on the floor.

"That's enough! You've already crossed the line, Leoni. You deserve to be alone, for you have no respect for anyone!" screamed Jorge.

Leoni didn't move. He was surprised by his cousin's reaction, as it was the first time he had seen him so furious with him.

After some time...

The two cousins became more distant after the fuss. The cruel man did not fire Louise after the incident at the party. It was quite strange to be honest and that constant fear kept her worried.

Leoni on the other hand, was very confused after that day. He never expected a woman to have such boldness. All women obeyed him in everything without questioning, but this girl for some reason was different.

He sighed and remained silent, because he wanted to think of something to get rid of that woman once and for all. He suddenly remembered that photo of her trying that wedding dress, which he had taken a while back, and when he looked at her in that picture, her beautiful face made his heart race again for some unknown reason. He was annoyed, because he couldn't control that feeling, and he had never felt like that before. He just looked for the delete button on his smartphone, but when he was going to confirm the deletion, he thought he should keep the picture a little longer as it could be useful.

Louise wasn't as cheerful lately, as she couldn't get the mysterious Natasha out of her mind. She was lost in her thoughts when she decided to call her friend Brenda to have some girl talk, but when she was in the middle of the call, Williams showed up.

"Very nice Louise, making personal calls on work time? Are you really that desperate to get fired?"

he asked.

The young woman tried to explain, but he interrupted her once again.

"That's enough! That's why you have to work harder to make up for these mistakes. By the way, today you have to work overtime, understand?"

"Again? Sorry, but I've already done so many double shifts here. I don't think it's fair. I didn't see any other janitors staying after work hours either. Why is it just me?"

"You should have thought of that before doing what you did to Mr. Leoni."

"So that's it, is it Mr. Leoni who ordered you to make me work on all these double shifts?"

"Yes, I just follow orders, and you'd better obey, if you don't want to lose your job for real."

As soon as Williams left, Louise started to cursed in anger, "It's that guy again!"

The afternoon passed and the girl just followed those orders. When everyone left, she was still there cleaning. She went to the 20th floor, because she had to mop the floor there. The floor was empty. From afar, she watched the lights in the general manager's office on, apparently someone was also still there. She just continued with her duties until she heard a noise coming from the office's direction. It seemed as if something fell to the floor. She looked that way but saw no one. That started to worry her. She slowly approached the office to see what had happened there. And when she looked inside the office, what she saw startled her.

Leoni was on the ground, his face almost blue form not being able to breathe. The young woman was startled, for she didn't know what to do, as there was no one else around.

So she yelled for help!

But no one heard her. She knelt next to the man who was losing consciousness, began to do CPR, but it didn't help him.

"Mr. Leoni, can you hear me?"

She noticed that he had trouble breathing just like her grandmother. It reminded her of a small air pump that was inside her bag. Luckily the young woman had brought this bag to the 20th floor, so she ran and found the air pump and approached him to put it in his mouth. After about 15 minutes, the man started to regain consciousness. She held him in her arms the whole time, watching closely, so she could see all of his features. 'I've never noticed how handsome he was, ' she thought to herself.

In that instant the man opened his eyes weakly.

The young woman released him and backed away a little bit.

He got up and looked at her after he realized what had just happened.

He got angry and yelled at her, "Get out of here, now!"

She ran out at that moment, gathered up her cleaning supplies and went home.

She had no idea that the biggest reason for Leoni's anger was that someone had discovered his secret.