Chapter 2 The Encounter

I did not look back I kept on running..

After some time, I looked back and I saw that he was not running after me, I slowly started walking and kept rubbing my chest to try to calm down, and I was saying to myself

It's fine

I know that everything would be fine, it was a mistake that I made, it was all in the act of drinking and I did a night stand... it will never happen again, in fact am not going to be drinking again, I know I couldn't handle alcohol and went ahead to drink see it landed me.

See where it landed, I am very confident that I am not going to see or meet him anywhere again, I need to go and freshen up, make breakfast, and head to the office.

Opening my door my mom was calling, I slowly picked it up with a smile on my face.

"Hello Mom"

"My dear, how are you doing, I hope you haven't forgotten about your father's 70th birthday, We are hosting a small birthday party at home to celebrate, I hope you are coming?"

Yes Mom I will be there

If I told my mom I was not coming, she would begin to ask me all the questions on earth and when I am there, she will start finding me a suitor to get married to, saying that I am no longer a child and that I should be married by now.

My mom only cares about my stepsister, in her eyes she is the purest person and I am the evil daughter, Ever since I was a teenager my mom has never cared about me, it was only about Bam my stepsister. And I have to learn to stay on my own

But Bam will always find a way to find me and cause trouble and turn around that I am the one, If I tell them that it wasn't me, I will receive insults.

I exhaled

Please do try not to upset your dad, your sister and we know that you are a slut, you like to follow all the men in our house so be very mindful of what you wear.

Okay ma.

Years ago, I remember when Bam slept with Nic, she planned with her friends to drug me after drugging me they laid me next to Nic on his bed and called my mom and my dad to see and I was beaten and locked up in a dark room knowing fully well that I'm scared of the dark.

I knelt and begged that I never did what I was accused of but Bam kept pretending to be the good daughter.

After that, I began to be conscious of everything I do, where I stay because I don't want to cause any problems.

I have always been trying to be a good child to my parents but they never see the good in me.

I walked into the company and I sat down in my chair, then my colleague, Lucy Austin walked up to me.

"You're very different today, What did you do yesterday, Leah?.

What do you mean by that, I said it with a frown on my face.

You have been sulking ever since Aaron broke up with you but today you look different, you don't look like you just left a relationship.

You won't believe what about to tell you, I had a rough night yesterday.

What happened?

Hmmmm.....

Tell me....

I had a one-night stand with a stranger.

Lucy is laughing at me.

Lucy is my best friend

You don't mean it, what?.

You think that I am joking.

We both know that Aaron is the only man who took your virginity and you don't have experience when it comes to the sexual life aspect, wow you surprise me.

You are just talking as if we are not on the same shoe, we both know we don't have experience in that aspect, we only ones to think we are experienced in it to save face.

We both laugh.

I was so angry and disappointed in myself when Lucy said that.

I heard that our new boss will be resuming today.

Oh really.

I heard that he is one of the richest men and he is the heir to the Marcus Group. His father is the CEO of the Marcus group while his mother is a renowned fashion designer the one and only Celestina Varo who owned the house of Varo. I know for sure he is a very handsome man because I am dying to meet him and so as all the female colleagues

Don't tell me you don't know her Leah.

I don't know him but I hope he is not the type of boss who is very proud and orders people around because he is the heir.

I won't tolerate anybody bossing me around and being an asshole to me as well.

I know that type of person, look our superior is coming, what does he want now?

"We have a meeting in the conference room now!"As he announced and he walked away, I quickly picked up my notebook and my pen running to the meeting reaching there everybody was already sitting down, I found I space and sat down but my mind was taken back to the morning.

He was a handsome man, I have never seen someone as handsome as him before and I remember how he threw me to the bed and his expression on his face made me laugh.

Maybe I had to drink yesterday.

But if I did not say that, he would have sent me away like I was a prostitute, and the way he was looking at me was as if I were disgusting.

As I was in my thoughts, I heard

A round of applause started and I snapped out of it and I saw a man with a black and red tie into the conference hall. My eyes gazed at him

OH MY GOD

What is he doing here?

Why why... why is he here?

Is something wrong with my eyes.... Something is wrong with my eyes

I closed my eyes and opened my eyes it again and I saw him, My jaw dropped and I was so afraid.

What is he doing here?

Does God want to punish me for my mistakes?

I have learnt from it.

Why now....

Why must it be he of all people?

It has not been 24hours yet, since I slept with him, and now he showed up at my company.

Oh my God.

Where will I go, Who will I run to, This is the beginning of torment for me.

Why am I so unlucky?

I can't believe my new boss is the man I had sex with last night God why do you want to punish me like this for my sin?

Oh God.

What am I going to do now?

I was nice to him and what I said wasn't bad.

Ahh..

Am finished.

What will he do when he knows that I work here?

He wouldn't think of firing me.

No, he can't do that, what happened has nothing to do with work am a good worker everybody can testify about that.

If he fires me, how will I be sending myself home, how would I be able to pay off my parents' loan and if I lose this job, my wicked parents will marry me off to that old ass man.

Leah you have to calm down, I silently look at his side and see his lips as he was sitting in the forefront...he introduced himself as Adrian Marcus.

When I saw he was not looking at my side I used my hair to cover my face because I didn't want him to see me, I have to tell Lucy and I pray he never notices me.

After the meeting, I ran out of the hall and went straight to Lucy.

You wouldn't believe me if I told you, he was the man I had a nightstand with

Are you kidding me right now, Don't joke like that.

You think I'm joking with you, I am fucking serious, he is the man I slept with last night, I am just shocked and am afraid that he might fire me because of the way I spoke to him

Oh wow..., you slept with the one and only Adrain Marcus, I'm so jealous of you right now.

Come off it why will he fire you, You are very diligent in your work, I don't think he is that type of person, he wouldn't do such, Just calm down you are overthinking it.

He is not that type of person.

Colleagues say that he is a very nice man.

I shouldn't have gone to that bar, I'm so scared that he might look at me somehow, you know I still need to pay off my parents' loan if not they will marry me off to that old man. I don't want to be jobless.

Oh my God.

I am finished.