The entire place looked empty. Not only that it was decorated with thousands of flowers.Shrugging, she turned to Cannon, "Which table?"Cannon lead the way and stopping at a table, he pulled out a chair for her. Elaine thought of settling on the other chair but at last listened to him. Cannon sat across her chair. He was about to say something when Elaine interrupted. "Why isn’t anyone else here?""I booked the entire restaurant." Cannon spoke up with a smiling face.Elaine spoke up getting irritated, "Who is your client that you went this far to book the entire restaurant when just a table would have been enough?""I never said about meeting any client.""But you said you have a lunch engagement and..""Yeah and by that I meant you." words were barely out of Cannon's mouth before Elaine shot back, "Then I am done here."She was about to get up but stopped hearing Cannon."I love you, Elaine. Give me a chance to show you my heart." Cannon pleaded interrupting her thought of leaving.
After Cannon finalized the project plan, work load became too much and a week passed as if in the blink of an eye. Elaine could feel Cannon was supporting her with the project work as much as he could but remaining in his professional boundaries. And Elaine couldn't help appreciating his effort this time. Cannon would look up at her in between with hopeful eyes that she would open up and talk to him but Elaine didn't. That day just after lunch time, Stephanie called Elaine, Zarah and Mack to his cabin. Elaine thought it was just to know about the progress of their work but Stephanie had other things to discuss as well. When their talk about work was done, Stephanie spoke up, "It's my marriage anniversary tomorrow and there will be a party at my place." "Congratulations, Sir." Elaine and Zarah greeted at the same time with a smile but hearing his next words got Elaine taken aback. "Thank you. Well, you guys are obviously coming and Elaine, I want for Mr. Henderson to attend the p
As Cannon said, he didn’t leave. Flower bouquets were always at her desk waiting for her before she reached there too much for Elaine's irritation. Though there were no initials left with that, Elaine knew it was from Cannon.He tried to talk to her as well but every time, Elaine ignored him.Elaine was fazed and bewildered. In just a few days, Cannon managed to shake her whole existence.If anything, his cheesy and sugary nature got her even angrier on him. His past behaviour wasn’t something that could be erased from her mind with all this. The hurt she observed on Cannon’s face, every time she taunted him or rejected him, started an inner turmoil in her, especially when he did not react to her any action and deal with her patiently. It wasn’t something, she anticipated. Elaine could feel Cannon was always trying to hide the hurt that was caused due to her tantrums with a forced, sad smile. She tried to ignore that, but damn her stupid heart.Though she couldn't fully believe him
Whatever help, Sam was expecting of getting from Elaine didn't work. At first, Elaine wasn't believing him and then she didn't seem to be caring about Cannon.Sam tried to let her know about Hunter and Haiden Kings but either Elaine was totally clueless about the mafia or she really didn't want to be bothered.Sam didn't expect Elaine to be this unaffected not at least when he mentioned there was a possibility of Cannon's life would be in danger.He got back to the penthouse, determined to accompany Cannon in the meeting no matter what.Sam didn't let Cannon get out of his sight as he accompanied him to the office and other meetings. Cannon didn't mind him but after lunchtime, he tried to leave Sam behind and went alone but Sam wordlessly stared at him.His silent refusal to obey Cannon worked at last and Cannon forwarded for the meeting with Sam and his security team.Somewhere in his guts he knew nothing good would happen. But then it had been this way for a long time.After Elaine
It was late in the afternoon. Elaine was discussing something with her team members. And when the discussion came to an end, the team members walked to their respective works, Zarah and Mack were still with Elaine when Mack poked Zarah and spoke up in a teasing tone, "Hey, what happened? You seemed to be dumped by someone." Though Zarah knew Mack didn't mean to hurt her but she was hurt because it was the truth by her heart. She wasn’t dumped but she felt that way and she was jealous of her. Mack stood up as well when his phone rang but turned to Zarah before leaving, "Hey, listen. I didn’t want to hurt you, okay? I was just joking. I am sorry." Zarah forced a smile and nodded at him. When Mack was out of their sight, Elaine turned to her, "Zarah, what happened? You indeed seem to be lost in deep thought." Zarah got closer to Elaine, "You know I was thinking about Mr. Henderson." Elaine stared at Zarah not getting what to say. This wasn’t something she expected to hear from her a
The sound of Cannon's heavy breathing faded away and Sam's screaming voice filled the air as he called Cannon's name and it paused Elaine in her place, her phone slipping out of her hold.That time the conversation with Sam from last night buzzed in her mind. He wasn't lying or wrong about the mafia people. Cannon was really in danger. She knew it there and then.We happened to have moments in our life. Some of them are cross-road moments. That moment changes everything through the convergence of destiny and choice.When we must need to decide whether to go in the same direction or change the course.Elaine could feel that moment had appeared in front of her last night and she chose to remain persistent in her direction. She had the chance to stop Cannon. But she didn't. She jolted out of her thoughts after a few minutes and picked up her phone from the ground. The call was cut off by then.She called Cannon again and held it on her ear with a shaky hand. She just wanted Cannon to p
Sam sat on the bench beside Elaine and held her gently as he spoke up, "Elaine."Elaine spoke up before Sam could say anything, "No, it can’t be the truth."Sam shook Elaine gently, "Listen to me. The operation was a success. The doctors have made some progress with him. They made it to stop bleeding."Pausing for a moment, Sam added, "He is heavily sedated and they are moving him to the ICU now. So, they can monitor him closely over the next one or two days."Elaine seemed to be visibly somewhat relaxed hearing him. The thought that scared her to death was gone. Sam continued, "The doctor said one person can meet him at one time. You want to go first?"Elaine shook her head. Confused why Sam wasn't getting angry with her. But whatever be the reason for his still cool behavior, she wasn't ready to face Cannon now, not at least when she was drowning deep with her guilt.Sam left her there as he walked to the cabin. Pushing the door open, he entered and walked to Cannon. Hurt and angry
Elaine was scared to death when Cassandra shared the truth of Ryan getting missing. Hina and she were out with Ryan but then suddenly, they were nowhere.She got even more panicked when Sam's words got ringing in her ears. He had said about assigning some people to follow her and Ryan. Then what about them? She was immediately out of her apartment to talk to Derek who had taken her here from Cannon's place.Though she found him there but the other car that was around her place since Cannon was shot, didn't get into her sight.Derek was also confused about that. Just when he was about to call Jace, one of the people who was supposed to be here, Elaine reached him, "Derek, Ryan isn't at home. Where is he?"The words made Derek worried and the only thing that was crossing his mind, he didn't utter that to Elaine.He called Jace instead of imagining scary things. But seeing him taking eternity to answer his call, Elaine rummaged through her bag and took out her phone with shaky hands."Do