The next morning.Tn headquarters."I want her arrested," Jake said to Evan, typing swiftly on the laptop in front of him. He had driven to Grande Hotel alone as soon as Brown had finished talking to see Victoria, but he didn't meet her.He just parked at a corner and watched her friends gather around her asking questions. He was irritated at what they were doing, she looked cold standing there in their midst. He thought the least they could have done was to let her go and have a hot bath.Drew said nothing, he was trying as much as possible to be quiet around Jake since last night. When he came in this morning with Jake, Evan was waiting."We know she paid someone to impersonate an officer, yes, but her father would bail her out in a matter of hours," Evan replied Jake waiting for his next words."Then find a way, I want her to pay for what she did. She did all this intentionally." Jake stopped what he was doing on the laptop."At age nineteen, she once accused her English lecturer o
"I'm doing the advertisement shoot with this other guy, so I'm in love with him, but he doesn't notice me till I get this perfume and it somehow makes him attracted to him," Victoria explained as they walked down the hallway together.Amber had asked her what the announcers had discussed with her."So when are they shooting it," Kim asked."Two days from now said they'll send a script for me."They went downstairs and got on the bus that usually transported them since they came to city A now. They were heading back to the hotel. Kim had taken a cab, she couldn't visit their hotel with them today."I'm hungry. What are you gonna order when we get back to the hotel." Amber asked her best friend while sitting lazily though she didn't do anything much today."You're always hungry," Brie said before looking back at her phone."I don't eat with your mouth, do I?" Amber said and Victoria had the urge to laugh but didn't want to stir up anything between them so she muffled it.***************
Amber walked back to where her friend was when she noticed her uneasiness."Are you okay?" She bent beside Victoria to ask."Yeah, she's asking me to marry her son, can you believe that?" Victoria replied in a hushed tone. She wasn't generally angry, but she found the whole thing unusual."Yes, I can." She heard Amber reply to her rhetorical question."No Amber, you don't get, she..." Victoria wanted to explain to Amber that she got it all wrong, but Amber pulled her up from the chair."Ssshh." Amber hushed Victoria's words. "Excuse us for a minute?" Amber smiled dragging her friend away from Gemma."We should call Brown right? Why didn't I think of that." Victoria said once they were out of Gemma's earreach."No. Why would we involve Brown in this?""I don't know. In case things go wrong.""We are at a hotel, what could go wrong? There's camera everywhere, except for the rooms." Amber folded her arms across her chest."Things could still go wrong, you know.""You worry too much Tori,
In Amber's hotel room."What are you going to ask her for?" Amber said falling to the bed as soon as they returned."What?" Victoria asked absentmindedly, taking off her flats."She said she was willing to do anything, what do you want her to do before you accept her proposal.""Gosh Amber, I already told you I'll decline it," Victoria said going into the bathroom."You also told her you'd think about it," Amber said in a louder tone so Victoria could hear her in the bathroom."That was due to your influence, I will call tomorrow and say no to her." Victoria wiped her hand with a towel, coming out of the bathroom."Come look at this." "What is it?" Victoria joined Amber in bed to see what she was looking at.It was pictures of a teenager who looked 19 or so. "When she said his picture was not on the internet, I knew it was impossible," Amber said."Is that her son?" Victoria took the phone from her."His old photos, I think.""No recent ones?" Victoria asked again scrolling through
MorningJake closed his eyes, his head thrown back as he sat in his home office. This wasn't the first time Drew was seeing him do what he just did. He knew his boss was often tired and didn't get just enough sleep to complement the times he stayed up working.Sitting back up, Jake rubbed his eyes with his thumb and index finger. He clicked through the emails on the laptop in front of him, where he didn't receive work-related emails. Drew was busy sorting out the files from last night on the table.Jake stopped scrolling and he noticed. He also noticed Jake contract his left fingers into a fist and then release them repeatedly. "Is the president here?" He heard Jake ask if Gemma was at the mansion."Yes, I think so." Jake closed the laptop and left the office. Drew followed immediately but not because he needed to, he just wanted to see what Jake was angry about, to know what he saw in the email."What did you do?!" Jake walked up to the opposite end of the table where his mother wa
Later, early evening.Jake had Drew cancel their plans and appointment for the rest of the day, because of Victoria's call.He knew a driver had gone to get Victoria and he was unusually nervous. He didn't know how he was going to face her again after their first time meeting. He did something he would never do that day and that was why he had left before she woke up, he couldn't face her, but he had to now, he needed to.He would apologize for that night and hope she didn't hate him for it.Gemma looked at her son who sat at the other end of the car, thinking while he stared at nothing in particular. He normally would not ride in the same car with her but he didn't mind today, it made her happy. Victoria was the one, she finally found someone her son didn't want to push away. Many times, she had arranged a date with one of her colleague's daughter but he only got angry about it and never went. She had even set him up with someone on one of his business trips, but it was all void.Wh
Tn mansion.Gemma walked up the stairs, Drew behind her. She needed to talk to Jake. He was probably angry with her, probably? She was sure he was more saddened than angry, not about Victoria slapping him, but the fact that she thought he was a pervert.She had talked with Victoria after he left and she explained what had happened the first time she met her son. It made her more sure that she had done the right thing by asking her to marry Jake. He almost had sex with her, for all she knew, Jake had never been that close to any woman. Drew stopped when they got to Jake's office, he was going to wait outside. Gemma knocked inaudibly before entering inside."Jake?" She called but he didn't look up from what he was reading even though he heard her.She walked to his desk, where he sat, and closed the laptop. He looked away, he didn't want to look at her."Look at me, Jake." She started. "You should learn to trust me more son." She walked to the other side of the table, where she could f
Victoria put down the box on the bed and sat by it, sighing disappointedly. Amber hopped on the bed wearing her night clothes."Who's it from?" She asked but then noticed Victoria's long face." What's the matter baby?" "I've been replaced as the lead for the advertisement." "What?!" Amber was surprised. "Why will be they do that?! How can they do that even?"Victoria didn't say anything more, she just sat there trying not to cry. ' they shouldn't have chosen me if they were gonna do this.' She thought."Come here." Amber hugged her."This people are mean." Victoria started."From the judges to the directors, they just...." Victoria sniffed, leaving her words hanging. Amber rubber her back, sighing.Time had passed with them both just laying in bed, watching TV. They weren't actually watching, the TV was just turned on, so it wasn't quiet. Victoria still being cuddled by Amber, was in her own thoughts while just staring at the TV, she wondered if the universe was giving her a sign or