CHAPTER 10 An Emergency

　　"I am still not sure about not making it public." She said.

　　"It's easy, and it's the better way for both of us so that we can keep living our normal lives like we don't know each other," he said and shrugged.

　　She had a rethink immediately and she agreed with him. "Yeah, I'm cool with it too, making it public might affect my work too, and I don't want that."

　　"Good. I guess we're done here then."

　　"Yeah," Autumn picked up her bag on his table and stood up. "I'll be taking my leave now."

　　"On your first day of work? You're already ditching your work?" Perry mockingly looked at her. "Weren't you so bothered about your work some seconds ago?"

　　Autumn rolled her eyes. "I'd like to take the rest of the day off because of the startling news, besides, I have to inform my family about it too."

　　"Then you have to take permission from your boss, and guess who that is? Me." A smirk appeared on his face as he raised his arms in a way of feeling himself, which made Autumn scoff.

　　"I just asked you for permission a couple of seconds ago."

　　"Whatever. You can take your leave," he said, dropping his arms.

　　She turned to leave and headed towards the door, while he picked up the tablet he was working on before she had walked in. On getting to the door, she turned back as she remembered something.

　　"One more condition," she called out to him from where she stood.

　　Perry raised his head slowly to look at her. "What is it this time, uh?"

　　"As long as we're married and this contract still holds, you have no right to have any relationship outside this." She declared with a serious look on her face.

　　This condition made Perry chuckle. "We aren't even truly married and you're telling me not to cheat on you? That's not even a reasonable condition."

　　"Oh, good then. Because the moment you do and you're caught, the deal is automatically canceled and we'll go our separate ways."

　　"And your job?"

　　"This has nothing to do with my job. My job remains no matter what!" She snapped at him.

　　"I can do as I wish. But if that's what you want, then so be it. I wouldn't want to cheat on my wife, would I?" He said and massaged his chin with his free hand. "I'm not even that kind of guy."

　　"You had better not be," she muttered before turning back to open the door, and she walked out of his office.

　　Autumn rubbed her forehead with her palm and yawned, she felt a slight headache and she was a little tired.

　　It had been a long day for her, and it was only her first day. She let out a sigh as she dropped her bag on the table in front of her and had her seat.

　　She was about to bring out her phone from her bag when a waiter walked up to her.

　　"Good day, Miss" The female waiter who had an apron on said to her with a smile on her face. "What would you like to order?" She asked.

　　"Uhm, nothing for now. I'll let you know if I need anything," Autumn replied to her. The waiter nodded and walked away.

　　She picked up her phone in her bag and cleared her throat before she dialed a number. The person picked up the call on the second ring.

　　"Autumn!" Ella squealed from the other side of the phone. "How is your first day of work going? Do you love the place already? How are the workers? Anything new or sweet you'd like to tell me? Tell me every detail!" Excitement was evident in her voice as she spoke.

　　Autumn smiled at how excited her friend was for her. One would think Ella was the one that got the job instead of her with the way she has been happy since the day she shared the news of her employment with her.

　　"Hello? Are you there?" Ella asked when she didn't get any reply from Autumn.

　　"Autumn, are you okay? Why aren't you answering?" This time, her voice was calmer.

　　"Can you guys meet me right now? I have something very urgent to tell you!" Autumn faked a disturbed voice.

　　"Uh, what's going on? Are you okay?" One could tell from Ella's voice that she was bothered about Autumn at that moment.

　　"Just come over already."

　　"Where are you right now?"

　　"At the cafeteria, we met!"

　　"Alright. I'll be there soon. I'll call Raya with me," she said and hung up immediately. Autumn chuckled loudly as soon as Ella hung up.

　　"She must be bothered," she said and smiled to herself that she did well in tricking her to come and see her immediately. If she hadn't faked it like that, Ella would have postponed their meeting till whenever she wished.

　　Autumn dropped her phone on the table and awaited the arrival of her friends. While she waited, she stared outside the cafeteria through the glass walls.

　　She took in the sight as she does every other time she visited that café since she moved to LV.

　　The sight always was a marvel. LV is and always was the land of heady dreams and intoxicating reality, and most who moved to LV moved there to chase the heady dreams that they have grasped within their palm since the beginning, just like her.

　　Drivers slowed down to pick up potential passengers who flagged them down, their fingers pointed into the road like a stop sign.

　　The coffee shop opposite the café was also open, with people hurrying along wearing clothes of different kinds and makes. A group of teenage boys walked past laughing loudly at what one of them had to say.

　　While waiting for her friends, she ordered a coffee and a plate of cake. She was devouring them when her friends entered the café.

　　She noticed theim when a loud bang on her table made her raise her eyes from her food to the cause of the bang.

　　Ella banged the table to show that she was there, but she wasn't alone. She was with Raya and Ross.