LOVE'S JOURNEY
img img LOVE'S JOURNEY img Chapter 4 Four
4
Chapter 6 Six img
Chapter 7 Seven img
Chapter 8 Eight img
Chapter 9 Nine img
Chapter 10 Ten img
Chapter 11 Eleven img
Chapter 12 Twelve img
Chapter 13 Thirteen img
Chapter 14 Fourteen img
Chapter 15 Fifteen img
Chapter 16 Sixteen img
Chapter 17 Seventeen img
Chapter 18 Eighteen img
Chapter 19 Nineteen img
Chapter 20 Twenty img
Chapter 21 Twenty-one img
Chapter 22 Twenty-two img
Chapter 23 Twenty-three img
Chapter 24 Twenty-four img
Chapter 25 Twenty-five img
Chapter 26 Twenty-six img
Chapter 27 Twenty-seven img
Chapter 28 Twenty-eight img
Chapter 29 Twenty-nine img
Chapter 30 Thirty img
Chapter 31 Thirty-one img
Chapter 32 Thirty-Two img
Chapter 33 Thirty-three img
Chapter 34 Thirty-four img
Chapter 35 Thirty-five img
Chapter 36 Thirty-six img
Chapter 37 Thirty-seven img
Chapter 38 Thirty-eight img
Chapter 39 Thirty-nine img
Chapter 40 Forty img
Chapter 41 Forty-One img
Chapter 42 Forty-Two img
Chapter 43 Forty-three img
Chapter 44 Forty-four img
Chapter 45 Forty-five img
Chapter 46 Forty-six img
Chapter 47 Forty-seven img
Chapter 48 Forty-eight img
Chapter 49 Forty-nine img
Chapter 50 Fifty img
Chapter 51 Fifty-one img
Chapter 52 Fifty-two img
Chapter 53 Fifty-three img
Chapter 54 Fifty-four img
Chapter 55 Fifty-five img
Chapter 56 Fifty-six img
Chapter 57 Fifty-seven img
Chapter 58 Fifty-eight img
Chapter 59 Fifty-nine img
Chapter 60 Sixty img
Chapter 61 Sixty-One img
Chapter 62 Sixty -Two img
Chapter 63 Sixty-Three img
Chapter 64 Sixty-Four img
Chapter 65 Sixty-Five img
Chapter 66 Sixty-Six img
Chapter 67 Sixty-Seven img
Chapter 68 Sixty-Eight img
Chapter 69 Sixty-Nine img
Chapter 70 Seventy img
Chapter 71 Seventy-One img
Chapter 72 Seventy-Two img
Chapter 73 Seventy-Three img
Chapter 74 Seventy-Four img
Chapter 75 Seventy-Five img
Chapter 76 Seventy-Six img
Chapter 77 Seventy-Seven img
Chapter 78 Seventy-Eight img
Chapter 79 Seventy-Nine img
Chapter 80 Eighty img
Chapter 81 Eighty-One img
Chapter 82 Eighty-Two img
Chapter 83 Eighy-Three img
Chapter 84 Eighty-Four img
Chapter 85 Eighty-Five img
Chapter 86 Eighty-Six img
Chapter 87 Eighty-Seven img
Chapter 88 Eighty-Eight img
Chapter 89 Eighty-Nine img
Chapter 90 Ninety img
Chapter 91 Ninety-One img
Chapter 92 Ninety-Two img
Chapter 93 Ninety-Three img
Chapter 94 Ninety-Four img
Chapter 95 Ninety-Five img
Chapter 96 Ninty-Six img
Chapter 97 Ninty-Seven img
Chapter 98 Ninty-Eight img
Chapter 99 Ninty-Nine img
Chapter 100 Hundred img
img
  /  2
img

Chapter 4 Four

There was a companionable silence before he started saying, "can we..."

But Becky cut him short by saying, "a minute please, someone is knocking at my door."

"Oh. Okay," he responded.

"Come in," Becky called out and Rita, their maid, walked in.

"Mummy said you should come with me," the girl said.

"I should come with you?" She asked her. "What's happened?"

"Mrs. Edwin, the interior decorator is around."

"Okay," Becky said.

They wanted to do some makeovers in the house. "Go. Tell her I'm coming."

"Sorry about that," she started talking to Colin again after Rita left the room.

"No problem," he chuckled. "You still live at home with your parents?"

"Yes," Becky said.

"Wow, we are two of a kind, then." He laughed slowly.

"Oh, you live at home too?"

"Yes," he replied. "Anyway, let me leave you to answer your mom," he said. "Can we chat later on?"

"Okay, no problem," Becky replied to him and stood up from the sofa. She disconnected the line and left for the sitting room.

When she returned to her room later, she was trying to decide if she wouldn't look too eager if she called him to say she was through with her mom when her phone started ringing in her hand.

She felt so happy and quickly swiped across the phone screen. They talked for about one hour more. Colin had to release her so that she could sleep. She was already yawing.

Because she was tired, it didn't take her too long to fall asleep.

After the phone call, Colin moved to his home office space to check his emails. He hadn't checked them at all for the day. He scrolled through the new forty-one emails, trying to decide which ones to respond to immediately.

He opened five briefs from senior managers and one from an executive director. Reading through them, he copied his father and also the MD. He, too, went to bed for the night after that.

From the following day, he began to call her twice every day; on her way to work in the morning and later at night; talking with her was so easy and enjoyable.

After a week of calling her daily, on Tuesday of the second week, he called her at around 10:30 am when she was already at work.

He asked if they could meet during her lunch break.

"I don't know," she smiled at the wall in front of her, she was reluctant again "I have a lot of work on my desk right now, Colin."

"You need to rest your brain too," he retorted with a chuckle.

In the end, she agreed to meet him at a Chinese restaurant near her office. She insisted she would drive to the place, that he didn't need to come and pick her up.

Becky reached for her handbag at noon and brought out her makeup purse to refresh her face. She arrived thirty minutes behind schedule at the restaurant and it was worth it.

She saw him the moment she pushed open the entrance door. He was sitting facing the entrance.

When he made eye contact with her and smiled slowly, her breath hitched. She smiled back and walked up to him.

Colin watched in awe as she strode towards him. She was so beautiful; so breathtaking. Even though she was only wearing a two-piece business suit, with minimal make-up.

He stood up and put his arm around her in a half embrace as soon as she got to where he was.

"You look so elegant," Colin smiled and stared into her face. His heartbeat speeding up by the second.

"You are not looking bad yourself," she smiled happily, pleased with his reaction.

He looked so handsome in his navy blue suit, paired with a light pink shirt and a gray tie. Looking every inch the top executive that he was.

"I'm sorry I came late," she apologized.

"Oh, it's nothing." he waved a hand briefly and pulled a chair out for her to sit on before he sat down.

"What would you like first?" Colin asked. "Wine, cocktail, or fruit juice?" He picked the menu." they serve fresh juice here.

"Fruit juice it is," Becky smiled.

He beckoned for a waiter to make their orders for the drink.

They hit it off immediately. It was just as if old friends were meeting for lunch.

He was so warm and hilarious. He had her shrieking with laughter most of the time.

They found out that they shared the same interests and the same views on most issues.

She couldn't believe they had spent one hour and fifty-seven minutes until her phone rang. Looking at the screen, she saw it was Caroline, her assistant, calling.

"Are we still having the staff meeting today?" The younger woman asked from the other end.

"Oh dear," Becky muttered. "Yes, of course. I will be in the office soon."

Being the program manager of the foundation, she was the one in charge of the day-to-day running of the organization.

When Becky disconnected the line, she checked for the time and realized that they had spent almost two hours.

"I have to go now, Colin," she looked into his eyes.

"I know," he squeezed her hands over the table. "Duty calls, right?"

"Yeah," she blushed. "Thank you for lunch."

"It's nothing," he grinned at her and called for the check. He paid, and they left.

"I will call you later at night," he told her when they walked to her car.

"Alright." She got into her car. "I will be expecting your call."

They both waved at each other and she drove away.

He felt somehow lonely as soon as she drove away. He wished they could just continue talking all day long.

When Colin got back to the office, MD told him that the two of them and a senior manager had to travel on Thursday night to China to sign the new deal which had come through.

Though he was happy about the recent development, he was sad he would be away for days and won't be able to see his Becky for days.

            
            

COPYRIGHT(©) 2022