Ariana looked at the city from the view her window displayed right in her office. Los Angelos h very busy place it was just half past nine and everywhere was so filled with people going on with their daily businesses. And here she was again in her office like usual, every day with the same routine. She sighed, what a boring life this was. She had the money to do whatever she wanted and so she used to think it was more that enough for her but as years went by, she realized money couldn’t give her what she wanted in life.
Although she had been to more than forty different countries, over a hundred 5 star hostels and restaurants in the world, and she bought the most expensive designers clothes, shoes, bag and jewelries but it wasn’t still enough. She never had a true friend until two years ago when she met April, they have been very close back then and they still were but April had gotten married some months ago and moved to a new country with her husband. At the end of the day everyone had their life to live. That was the sad reality that Ariana had come to see. Her big doors swung open as her personal assistant walked into the office. “Ma’am, the new driver is here. He’s waiting downstairs” Lora announced looking at the back figure of her boss. “Send him in,” Ariana said without turning to look at her personal assistant “Okay ma’am” With that Lora walked out of the office closing the door gently behind her. With a loud sigh, she turned around to look at the mirror by her side, she had a pair of blue long pants and a white long sleeves t shirt. Her black hair in a high pony tail, and just a light makeup on her face. She looked good, she said to herself and walked over to her chair and sat down waiting for her new driver to arrive. It was already ten minutes later, she raised her hand to look at her watch. She didn’t like waiting for people especially if it was her employees. Picking up her phone she was about to call her PA when the door suddenly opened and Lora walked in with someone walking behind her. “What kept you so long? You know I don’t have the patience to wait for anyone? Ariana scolded her personal assistant but her eyes didn’t miss the smirk that appeared on the man’s face and almost immediately it was gone. Her eyes moved to the man, and she was almost speechless. He was dressed in black pants and shirt with a black leather jacket, his brown hair was styled neatly and he had a pair of black shades on. He looked too good to be a driver “I am sorry ma’am, there was something I had to attend to” Lora said adjusting her glasses. “Alright, so who is he?” Ariana asked as she looked at the man from head to toe, he was really huge and tall, compared to Lora who was standing in front of him, he was really huge. “He is the new driver,” Lora said almost immediately placing a file on the Ariana’s table. “Hmm,..” Her eyes trailed to the file on the table and she picked up to file and flipped through the pages her eyes scanning every word. “You can leave Lora” she said “Okay ma’am”, Lora turned around and walked towards the door, closing it behind her. The room went silent after Lora left, her eyes were on the file while the man’s eyes were on Ariana. “Sit Mr...Aiden” Ariana finally said looking at the man. He moved towards the chair in front of her and sat down resting his arms on the arm rest. For someone who was here for an interview was way too relaxed, Ariana said to herself. “So tell me about yourself Mr Aiden” she asked. “What do you want to know about me miss? Everything is boldly written in the file” His voice calm and deep. “You....” and again she was utterly speechless, how dared this man talk to her like that. She frowned. “Mr Aiden, I am not here to play, you better get serious. And do away with the shades, I want to see your face” She commanded. A smirk appeared on the man’s lips, “Are you sure miss?” He asked as if he was making sure if she knew what she was saying. “Yes, take it off now” She said, her voice a little louder than usual. “Okay” He said, and slowly, he reached to the shades and pulled off steadily, his eyes were closed as the shades left his eyes, and he opened his eyes, immediately holding her eyes in his. The room went silent once again, Ariana had been uttered speechless for the third time in not less than an hour, he had the most beautiful eyes she had ever seen. Light grey eyes, and they shone as he moved him eyes around, and she felt herself swimming in those gorgeous eyes of him, forcing her eyes to leave his eyes. Her eyes moved to his pointed nose and elegant thin lips, his high cheekbones stood out in the face. He was truly perfectly sculpted by the creator Himself. “Staring is rude miss” His smirk now widely appearing on his lips, his voice distracted her from her embarrassing stare. She immediately looked away to hide her embarrassed face. From the side of her eyes she saw wear his shades back and she was thankful for that, she had already made a fool of herself. She cleared her throat and look back at him. “Why do you think I should employ you Mr Aiden” she asked trying to calm her nerves. “You have no other candidate and just like in the file, you saw I have experience in driving, safely and I know the town pretty well” He said confidently. “And how much would you like to be paid?” She asked him. “$10,000” He answered and Ariana’s eyes almost bulged out at the statement he made.“$10,000” Ariana’s eyes almost bulged out of its socket as she heard the figure he called. “What the hell?” She said “I am joking, calm down. I will take any amount you pay me” He said watching her with amusement. “Oh, you must sure be a joker, what if I decide to pay you $100?” Ariana asked “We both know, you won’t what to do that, and I know you worth more than that” He answered. “Yes I am worth more than that, so how about we start from $4,000” She asked, wanting to read the man’s expression but he kept a blank expression. “We can work with that for now miss” Aiden said, his arms now crossed on his chest. “Okay, do we have a deal?” She asked, extending her hand forward for a handshake. He felt his eyes move from her face to her slender hand and then back to her face, “Deal” He said taking her hand into a handshake. His grip was strong but not strong enough to crush her hand, he was gentle in a way. She pulled away a
Her car was parked waiting for her at the front of the building, she walked elegantly and climbed into her car, her eyes met Aiden’s eyes from the side mirror. “Did you receive the location from Lora?” Ariana asked her new driver. “Yes ma’am” He answered, and the car zoomed off, in an hour time they got to their destination the drive was smooth, Ariana was impressed, he was indeed an experienced driver. Who was careful with traffic lights and speeding. A three story restaurant came in view as the car parked, it was one of her mother’s many restaurants. This particular restaurant was the most expensive because it dealt with international dishes, Italian, Chinese, Indian, Spanish. A 5 star restaurant with 5 star food. “Do you want me to wait for you here?” Aiden asked without looking at her. “Yes, I don’t have strength for father’s questions” She answered and climbed down the car. The security opened the door of the restaurant as sh
Ariana had got to her house and had freshened up, wearing a pair of her favorite blue pajamas. She sat down on her sofa facing the large window in her house. This was a very normal routine for her because she had nothing else to do, than drink her exotic red wine and look at the busy streets of LA. Her long black hair was in packed in a messy bun, she grabbed her glass again to take her drink when she heard her phone ring. She groaned and lazily turned around to grab her house. It was a private number, a frown appeared across her brows, who called her with a private number she asked herself. Hesitating for a moment she finally decided to pick the call. “Hello” She said with the phone on her ear, but she received no reply which was strange, “Hello, who is on the line” she repeated but the result was the same. No reply from the other end. And suddenly the call was ended from the other end. “That was strange”. She said to herself but anyways she wasn’t gonna think ab
She had arrived to the office, climbing down the car she moved towards the building. Her workers greeted as she walked past them. She replied them normally as she headed to her office. Entering her office she slumped on her onto her chair, running her hand through her hair. Her meeting was about to start in twenty minutes with the CEO of another importing company. She looked at herself in the mirror and adjusted her shirt, even though she had no makeup on she looked quite the same, many people had once told her she even looked better without makeup. Her phone vibrated in her table, walking over the table she connected her AirPods to her ears and picked the call, it was her mother. “Hey mum”. Annabelle said, flipping through the files in front of her. “Sweetheart, how are you doing?”. Her mother voice came from the receiver. “Yes mum, I am doing fine, although I had a weird dream yesterday but it felt so real. I don’t understand anything anymore”. She explained to her m
Aiden fumed in anger, his eyes were on the corpse which laid on the floor, the man had dared to place a tracking chip inside him car. Aiden opened the door of the car, he had easily seen the tracker, pulled it out he dropped in on the floor and crushed it with his shoes. Running his hand through his thick black hair he cursed silently, he pulled his phone from his pocket and dialed a number. “Hey boss”, The person said from the receiver in a calm voice. “Carlos, send the boys to come clean up this mess. It seems Rodrigo have decided to play dirty. He sent one of his men to place a fucking chip in my car”. Aiden said between his teeth. “That bloody idiot, we will look into the it. And I’m sending the boys now”. Carlos said, as sounds of keyboard was heard from his background “Good”. Aiden pulled the phone away from his ear and ended the call. With a sigh, he pulled the door open to enter his car. He started the engine and zoomed off. It was 1:45pm, and Alexander ha
She was done from work, after an exhausted day all she wanted to do is to soak herself in a hot tub. She had just gotten into a hotel in the city, she had chosen a random hotel because she didn’t want to handle any formalities for now. All she need was space and fresh air to breath. Opening the door with her key card, she steeped into the room closing the door behind her, the room was painted all white. It wasn’t her usual expensive looking room but it was moderate enough for her, she began to pull off her clothes one by one, she walked into the bathroom and filled the tub with warm water, pouring the vanilla soap into the water. She watched it as it filled to the top, turning it off she stepped into the tub fully naked dipping herself in the water, a sigh of relaxation escaped her lips as the body touched the warm water. She rested her head as she enjoyed the feel of the water on her skin. The soap also smelt so good. Closing her eyes, she gently tapped her feet in the tub
Ariana stilled looking at the man in front of her, he was so close to her, his hands placed on the table locking her between in arms. Even with the dark glasses, Ariana could still feel his strong gaze on her, his face not holding any emotions. It was difficult to know what he was thinking or even feeling at this moment. There was something about the way this man smelt and looked that got her mesmerized, as much as she wanted to look away and yell at this man for getting in her personal space her brain didn’t just cooperate with her. Aiden just stared at her, not making any movement. Dingg!!! Ariana’s phone rang breaking the trance between them, Ariana cleared her throat as she looked away to where her phone was lying. Aiden too looked away taking steps backwards to let her move to her phone. She walked to the table and grabbed her phone placing it in her ears. “Oh, Alright. Thank you Lora have a wonderful night”. Ariana said calm even though her heart was still racing. Placi
“Hmm, I can only guess he must be filthy rich,”. April said “And what makes you think the buyer is a he? I thought you knew nothing about it”. Ariana asked. “Of course it would be a he, which normal woman buys a freaking casino. Only men make such stupid and risky decision”. April explained,” Anyways Ari, I had to go make coffee before my husband wakes up”. April added. “Look who’s doing wifey duties, oh my gosh I am so jealous”. Ariana said teasing her friend. “Whatever weirdo, have a nice day. Bye.”, “Bye”. Ariana answered before hanging up the call. Looking at the clock it was now thirty minutes past six. She heard to prepare for her visit, picking her cup and empty pack of cookies she walked to the kitchen, throwing the empty pack into the trash can, she gave her cup a little rinse and placed it back on the table. She headed to her restroom for a bath after taking all her clothes off and changing into her robe. Turning on the shower, she placed the robe on the