Just when Amber thought Xavier wouldn't ask her anymore questions, he continued,"Do you have a boyfriend?". Amber almost choked,"What sir?" Xavier thought she didn't hear him the first time,"Do YOU have a boyfriend?" He repeated emphasizing on the YOU part. Amber shook her head repeatedly,"No sir I don't". Xavier nodded satisfied with her answer.
"What about you sir?" Amber asked back. She didn't even know what made her ask that. Xavier stared at her,"No I don't" he said. Amber raised a brow. He doesn't? "I actually thought you and Miss Charlotte were together" Amber didn't know why but she wanted him to say No.
"No, we are not, she's just a friend that's all" This was not the first time he was hearing this, so many people speculated he was dating Charlotte.
If Charlotte wasn't even dating him, why would she have to act the way she did in the morning. Amber thought Charlotte must have a crush on Xavier, either Xavi
Xavier clicked a few things on his computer and immediately, Mr herewith voice sounded and his face displayed on the screen. Xavier wasn't stupid, he knew just his voice alone wouldn't prove him guilty so he went as far as inserting a tiny video recorder in his glasses to capture everything Mr herewith has to say. Their conversations soon filled the whole room as everyone went silent. "You even went as far as asking me to show a video of the losses knowing fully well that I will lose, what did I ever do to you?"Xavier's voice rang out. Everyone waited to hear what Mr herewith would respond to that."So what if I did huh? What if I stole the million dollars huh? You think it's still enough, I have always wanted to take everything from you and your ingrate father, I gave him a portion of the start up capital to build the company and he didn't divide the company's shares between us, I won't just stop there, I will make sure your company comes crumbling down until you and your father go
Preferably black, and milk and so sugar" Xavier explained and Amber did it according to his instructions. She handed the coffee over to him. He took it and sipped from it."Not bad" he said. "It is not bad at all" Amber said confidently and Xavier smiled. "You never actually told me how today went for you? You succeeded right because if you didn't, you will probably be breathing fire by now" Amber teased. Xavier nodded,"Yes I succeeded, apparently Mr herewith had other plans to bring me down but just one strike at him and he was down already?" Amber was glad the plan worked out fine,"So what would be the outcome of him now?""Well he should probably be in jail by now because the proof was envident but given how rich he is, I'm sure he will be put on house arrest instead" Xavier didn't care as long as he pays for the crime. He is meant to pay double the amount he stole anyway so Mr herewith is probably the one going bankrupt now. What a
Before she could say anything more, Xavier was already approaching her. She couldn't even think straight, does he have any idea that he was shirtless at this particular moment? Xavier stopped before her and leaned in close, Amber could feel her breath cut short as his face drew closer to hers, she could also feel his body heat radiating off him, just as she thought he was leaning in for a kiss and getting ready to refuse him. He stood up fully, she raised her brow in confusion. "Found it," Xavier said, holding his phone. Oh. Amber then realized his phone was right behind her. He was only reaching out for his phone and not for a kiss, she mentally facepalmed herself. Good thing she didn't close her eyes, that would have been awkward.Amber noticed Xavier still didn't move an inch away from her, she looked up to find him staring at her as if memorizing every detail on her face. He trailed his eyes from her brows to her slender nos
Nicole glanced at Xavier getting ready to tell him off if he disagreed to what she said to Amber but to her surprise, he didn't say a thing, no he felt relaxed and watched them. She turned towards Amber quickly to find her smirking. She didn't actually help the company, did she? What does some lowlife know about the company anyway? Amber felt like being cocky, just once. She can't wait to see the shock on Nicole's face when she tells her who saved the company. Amber started," Well I was the one who saved this company from hitting rock bottom, with my amazing ideas I helped Mr Xavier pull through from his problems, if not for my help, this company would have probably gone bankrupt and maybe Xavier would have ended up in jail and you in the streets, would you still say I'm incompetent?"Nicole was mortified! She couldn't have done that! She turned towards Xavier in shock,"Is what she's saying true?" Xavier nodded,"Yes mum, she helped me
The silence only lasted for about 5 minutes before Breanna began talking again,"You know? I'm actually just seeing this Charlotte girl around here since she came back, she's not even as fine as how I thought she would be" Breanna said, shaking her head from side to side. Amber stifled a smile. True, Charlotte wasn't gorgeous and her character also was a NO. She wondered how Xavier would end up falling for that kind of girl. Just by thinking about it, she joined Breanna in shaking her head side to side. When Breanna didn't get any response from Amber, she decided to change the topic,"So Amber right? Tell me about yourself, We are colleagues anyway so we can get to know each other also". Amber thought for a while, then facing Breanna, she nodded saying,"Yeah that's true, well there's really not much about me, I am just a plain girl working for her money". It's not like she was going to tell Breanna she was a single mother of triplets whose father might not
Dante clapped his hand once drawing everyone's attention to him as he said,"Without further ado, let's go straight to the reason we are all here" Silence enveloped them as they waited for Dante to continue his words. Xavier watched as fixed his gaze on he and Charlotte, surely he didn't want to say what he's thinking right? "We are very much aware that our children are already successful in their spheres of life and so that should not be in their priorities right now, and they are both single and not getting younger so I suggest that we fix a date for the both of them to get engaged and married, after all they are both childhood friends so it's not like they would be getting married to a stranger right? Or what do you think?" He turned to face Charlotte's parents who nodded their heads in agreement to what he suggested. "I personally think it's a good idea, Charlotte has always liked Xavier anyway so this is a nice plan" Melissa said, making Charlotte blu
Xavier ran his hands across his face in frustration, he said those words out of impulse now he doesn't know what to do. He knew long ago the woman he was attracted to, Amber but the thought of her rejecting him was something he can't face. He still had a two month deadline anyway, he will try as much as possible to make her fall for him in the coming days. He was attractive, literally any woman will fall to her feet at the thought of him, so why not her? Why not the one he likes?He left the mansion and headed to his company, it's better he just engrossed himself in his work instead of thinking of the arrangements his parents made. He pulled up and parked his car properly in the garage. He then came out and headed to his office. He could hear some laughter as he approached the office. He opened the door to find Amber laughing out loud to a movie she was watching, she was so engrossed she didn't even hear him come in. Amber sudde
Amber knew the reason Charlotte was here was to warn her to stay clean from Xavier. She pretended like she understood what Charlotte said and nodded her head,"Okay I will, I also hope you are making the right decision and are not forcing yourself on someone who doesn't like you.." She decided to end her sentence there and moved around Charlotte.Charlotte grabbed her arm immediately digging her long manicured nails into Amber skin. Amber shrieked immediately and tried to remove her hand,"Let me go". But Charlotte didn't let go,"I'll warn you one last time Amber, do not try to do anything that would cause my marriage with Xavier to end, or I swear to you I will kill you" She let Amber hands go pushing her away in the process as she turned to leave.Amber concluded Charlotte was indeed crazy about Xavier, too bad she won't be the reason for their marriage to fall apart, the guy didn't even like her! Amber looked at her arm to see some red bruises on her white skin, it really hurt. She t
The next stop was Blessed Orphanage. Xavier knew the children must have missed him,he missed them too. He didn't really understand why he had fallen in love with kids so much. Maybe it was because he ended up being the only child after his younger sister died at four. He became sad immediately he remembered and Amber who was also sitting at the back seat noticed when his countenance changed. Amber wondered what Xavier would be thinking that got him looking really sad.She wasn't really comfortable whenever he looked this way and decided to ask. "Is something wrong Xavier?", Amber asked softly as she touched his arm.When he looked at her Amber was shocked to see tears in his house. She didn't even realize what she was doing until she did it. Guess it was an impulse because she hugged him. "It's okay",She cooed softly. Xavier rested more in the embrace. His tears spilled
Xavier got to work really early and few minutes later Amber came in."Good morning sir",Amber said smiling sweetly at Xavier who couldn't help himself but smiled back.'`Good morning Amber,truat you had a goodnight rest?''Xavier said and asked."Yes sir,I did", Amber replied. Amber had seriously been wondering when she woke up this morning preparing her children for school how today was going to be like in the office with Xavier because of that dinner night.She ended up early in the office and that happened because Mrs Jones helped to take the children to school. She really was a lifesaver. "What's our schedule going to be like today sir?",Amber asked as she carried her notepad to jot down all he wanted to say. "Okay firstly we are going to your kids school -",He was about to continue when he got stopped by Amber's wide eyed que
"Mum!"Elena screamed as she swung higher up in the sky. They were all at a children's park. Amber felt the kids had been held up at home far too long and decided to let them have fun. She was smiling at them as they were playing and interacting so well with other children. She decided to get some ice cream for her children. While she was buying if from a nearby stand a tinted black car drove in and some men in black came down. Immediately Amber turned to go give her children the ice creams, she turned white when she saw that the men had entered the park and were moving around.She got so scared she didn't even realize that she had dropped the ice cream cones and was running down to her children. "Jaden!Jenna!Elena!,come here quick!"She was practically screaming and the children were even shocked and ran to their mum immediately wondering what was wrong. She hugged them very close immediately they got to choking them. She was indeed behaving like a mother hen prote
"How could you Charlotte?!",Mrs O'Neill was practically shouting her brains out. The video had gone viral by now and her parents had even gotten to know about it. Charlotte was almost in tears now.she had practically rushed back home so she could do something about the video or call one editor she knew and hacker only to meet her mum mad as hell. "Mum I just got mad because I saw that stupid girl with Xavier", Charlotte said practically sobbing now."Is that why you had to act inappropriately now of all times?"Mrs O'Neill asked, giving her daughter an absurd look. She didn't understand this girl most of the time. She acted like a child throwing tantrums and it got her wondering if she pampered her way too much and had gotten the parental guide all wrong. "Mum, I am sorry", Charlotte said and another part of her was just plotting out a possible revenge on Amber
Charlotte had been so excited about prom and was even more excited because of who her date was. It was no other person than Xavier, in fact,she thought she was going to be dateless because no one had dared to ask her out. She was really beautiful and being beautiful wasn't the reason why no one had asked her out,the boys were all just too scared of her. That's all.She really didn't know the reason why though but she believed it had been because of Xavier. Everyone knew they were best friends and their parents were really close so she believed she boys just assumed that maybe they were dating. Charlotte sighed, because she on the other hand never tried to correct them off that mindset because she had always had a crush on Xavier and had thought or should she say believed that Xavier also would have the same feelings also towards her. This was the very reason she got overly excited when Xavier had asked her out and he also had come to take her from her house to the prom. T
Xavier woke up feeling very happy and he knew that today was going to be a great day. He could already feel it. He had been in his parents house and he was happy that he hadn't been hearing anything about marriage or Charlotte from there lately. It was as though they are just trying their best to keep the end of their bargain. He sighed and told himself to let not to let such thoughts leave so they don't end up spoiling his good day. Xavier went downstairs and was surprised that everywhere was bustling with activities, it got him wondering what the occasion was for because no one had told him about any event happening in their house. He knew it had to be his mum's preparations ; he just had to look for her to get updated on what was happening. He started going around searching for her and when he was sure that she wasn't in the house he stepped outside to look for her. He saw her in the garden instructing people how to gather some roses into the vases laid out on
Charlotte was burning with so much rage and jealousy in fact the main reason she agreed to this outing is so as to remove Xavier especially Amber out of her head.What did the universe now had to do? Being the two people out of the same restaurant she was trying to find Solace."Aaargh!"Charlotte screamed as she threw a glass out of nowhere. Thank God no one had been passing the area because the glass shattered and it's pieces flew everywhere. Her friends gasped. They didn't know what to say infact it was best to leave Charlotte alone when she's in such foul mood. A cleaner came in almost immediately to clean the pieces of glasses everywhere and in few minutes there were some guards escorting her and friends out of Gemstone. Such attitude were not permitted no matter who you were. It was a strict policy and was followed strictly also in the establishment. "I will make her pay for this embarrassment", Charlotte said,her friend's shuddered they could literally feel the hate waves
Amber looked at him and for a while she just enjoyed the view he gave when laughing. Xavier was indeed a God creation.She thought to herself. They began to eat and they both started with rice,Coleslaw and Chicken. After that they both entered the large croaker that was part of the special menu. The juice was also used to wash the food down. There were some slices of different fruits in a bowl. Xavier started putting some fruits in his mouth and Amber followed suit. They were really enjoying themselves. When Amber checked the time and saw it was a few minutes to 9pm she was really surprised that both of them had almost cleaned the plates that were placed before them initially."We really ate everything",Amber said with a look of disbelief as she looked at the table that had been packed with food a few minutes ago. Xavier just continued sipping from his glass of wine quietly as he watched Amber. They both were filled. Amber felt she wouldn't be able to move. Although ther
Amber looked at her daughter in awe of her wisdom. She knew she had to give her children answers and had to also carefully choose her words. "Well, yes mummy is going out with Uncle Xavier and as for your question Jenna I am not so sure about that yet", She said hoping to convince them. "Hmmm, I would love it if uncle Xavier is our daddy", Elena said and Amber was shocked when she saw Jenna actually nodded in affirmation although if you hadn't really looked at her well, you would have missed the fact that she nodded in agreement to her sister's words. Amber looked at Jaden. He had been quiet all through the conversation,as though he was just observing and cooking things up in his head. "What do you have to say Jaden?"Amber asked, already tired of her son's silence. "Well I don't know, I think I do like Mr Xavier but I don't want anyone taking you away from us",Jaden said finally. Amber just looked at her children and tears filled up her eyes.She was indeed blessed