Chapter 4

They reached the company after ten minutes. They walked towards lift and reached their floor.

Ring….. Ring…. Landlines on her desk started to ring when they were exiting the lift. . She swiftly walked towards the desk and answered the call,

 “Hello”

“Hello Miss. JONAS Mr. Green is here to meet Mr. Hudson.” Receptionist informed her.

“Oh yeah, he has an appointment with Mr. Hudson, let him come”

“ But Miss. JONAS he doesn’t have a lift card. Could you please receive him?”

“ Yeah sure I will be there”

She hang up the call and rushed to inform Zane about Mr. Green’s arrival. “Sir Mr. Green is here, I am going to receive him from downstairs” he nodded and made his way to sit on his swivel chair. He was still thinking about Ariana’s panic attack and what could have triggered her.

Ariana reached the lift area but she is an monophonic so she chose to walk down by the stairs but door to stairs is locked up for some security reasons. She went back to Zane’s office and found him in a deep thought . Zane’s chain of thoughts disturbed by Ariana’s angelic voice “Sir , have you got the key to the staircase door?”

“Huh ….. Sorry Ariana what did you say?.”

“Uhm… that sir, I asked the key to the staircase door” he frowned and said “Why don’t you use the lift?” she hesitated for few seconds “I am not comfortable to use the lift alone so can you…I mean the key..” she doesn’t want to show him her fear, already she was embarrassed at the restaurant.

“Ms. Ariana… you can use the lift card to unlock the door” she nodded with a smile and left the cabin. Again he started to think about the cause of Ariana’s panic attack.

She reached the ground floor through the stairs and made her way to front desk “Hi, where is Mr. Green?”,

“Hello Ms.Jonas, he is in the lounge, waiting for you.” She thanked the receptionist and made her way to the lounge.

A man in his late 30s sitting in a barrel chair. She approached him with a smile, “Mr. Green, nice to meet you, I am Mr. Hudson’s new PA” Mr. Green was stunned by her irresistible beauty, he cannot take his eyes off her. He stretched his hand for a handshake, “Nice to meet you Ms….” After a few seconds of hesitant she accepted his hand “I am Ariana Jonas”.

“Ariana nice name by the way” she gave a small smile.

“Mr. Hudson is waiting for us at his office , please follow me sir” she led the way to the lift area followed by Mr. Green and his assistant.

She felt irresistibly uncomfortable under his gaze. She felt like he was undressing her with his eyes. Soon they reached the 40th floor. She led the way to Zane’s office and opened the door.

His thoughts again disturbed by the door sound. He saw his little assistant followed by Mr. Green. He stood up and shook his hand with Mr. Green. They discussed about business for around 30 minutes, time to time he checked on his little assistant who is standing on his left side. After 30 minutes both business men shook their hands, Mr. Green gave a smirk to Ariana and left.

“Are you okay Ms. Ariana”

“Yes sir, I am fine”

“OK go to your cabin and go on with your work, I will call you if needed” she nodded and left his cabin.

He started to check some files that required his attention. Around 5 p.m he heard his phone ringing. He looked at the phone screen to check the number and answered the call

“What you want?”

“Let’s meet tonight at our place, it’s been two months since we met, I really miss you”

“Don’t act like a mistress, I will be there for dinner”

“OK done love you”

He hung up without responding to the last sentence. He turned his head to the glass partition to look at his little assistant. ‘It’s only been few hours I met her, why my mind is drifting to this girl.’

He heard a knock on the door “Come in” he saw her walking towards him.

 “Sir , these files need your signature and this is the proposal by Mr. Green” she kept some files on his desk.

“So what do you think about his proposal?” he leaned back on his chair comfortably and looked at her.

“Sir it’s really a good one, we can take this with few changes.”

His raised his one eyebrow and asked “What should be changed Ms. Ariana, can you elaborate?”

“Sir, it’s related to the partition of profits. We can’t agree with it. Though they were investing lot of money but not more than us. Moreover most of the resources also provide by our company . So 65/35 would be more profitable Instead of 55/45, of course the 65% for our company.” He just nodded. ‘I am impressed’ he thought but didn’t voice out.

“Can I have a cup of coffee please?” he loved the taste of the coffee she made earlier.

“Sure sir” she went to the pantry and made him a coffee along a cup of Indian tea for her.

 On the way to his office she went inside her cabin to keep the tea cup on the desk. She walked to his room and entered with a knock.

“Sir your coffee”

 “Thank you” he had a sip and thought,

‘Woah this little one knows how to make perfect coffee’

“It’s almost time to take off from work, if you are done with your works you can go home.”

“OK sir thank you.”

She left his office and packed her stuffs while drinking her favorite Indian tea. She could have left but she didn’t. She was waiting for him to leave. After nearly around 30 minutes she saw him walking towards the door through Glass wall. Instantly she picked her bag and headed out of her cabin. He walked to the lift area followed by her. When they heard the lift sound both went in.

“I thought you left” she smiled but didn’t say anything. “Are you waiting for me?” she replied him with just a nod. He smiled with her reply.

“I can’t take off till you are working sir, so I was waiting for you to go home” she said. Soon his smile vanished.

 ‘So she was completing her duty as my assistant’. Lift door opened on the first floor. Soon they both exited the lift and walk towards the main door. They both parted their ways to their home.

He drove the car to his penthouse. All the way he was thinking about her. He was trying to divert his thoughts from Ariana to something else but he couldn’t. After reaching his place he went inside his walk in closet and changed into his navy blue sportswear. Next two hours he busied himself in intense workout. After two hours of workout he went to the kitchen and made a glass of orange juice for himself.

He doesn’t like maids or any other person in his penthouse. He has lot of maids under him in his mansion but this place is prohibited to every single soul in the world, it's like his most private space in this whole world where he spend most of the time when he is too happy or too sad.

  25 minutes later he went to take shower after making sure he stopped sweating. Zane is a workout freak he love to keep his body fit and he is obsessed with his eight packs.

It’s a large modern primary bathroom. It has an amazing skyline overlooking view of the city below. It serves the eyes with the nice background for those who are relaxing on the white freestanding bathtub at the corner by the glass walls. Adjacent to that there is a black floating two-sink vanity with large black marble countertops.

 After a long cold shower he came out from his bathroom and went inside his walk in closet. His walk-in closet is furnished with a red dresser and a large purple tufted seat over the hardwood flooring. It is illuminated by a fabulous ornate chandelier and recessed ceiling lights. Ambient light from the stripped lights concealed in the wooden cabinets brings a warm ambiance in walk-in closet.

He took out his dress and wore it. He dressed in a maroon colour long sleeve t shirt which fits perfectly in his muscular body, paired with black cargo pants designed with slide pockets and roomy bellow pockets strategically placed on the side seams. Along with he paired a high-top sneakers embossed with typography at the sides for a unique look.

He opened his dressing table drawer to take his infinity symbol woven bracelet and a long chain with infinity Dragon pendant on it, already he have wore a small chain with a diamond ring hanging on it. He looked into the mirror before heading out of his house, he is satisfied with the look in the mirror.

He drove his Pagani Imola to the most expensive club of the City. He stopped his car before the entrance of a building with the logo 'THE BLEND' encrusted in golden colour on the top. That building had 7 floors. Ground floor is a club for normal people, the first floor is like private rooms any can book and enjoy with their friends, third one is a restaurant, forth one is a spa fifth one is a place for VIP customers and the last two floors sixth and seventh floors are only accessible for the club owners and their friends. On the sixth floor It has more than 10 large suite rooms with a private spa, restaurant and bar only for owners. On the seventh floor there is a large dunk pool. 

He gave his car key to the valet and entered the building not before giving a warning to the valet not to scratch or damage the car. He entered the lift and pressed the button for the sixth floor. He reached the sixth floor within 10 seconds. He walked into a suite where there was a person waiting for him. 

"Huhh … finally I got to see you, how are you man?" The man walked towards him and took him into a hug. 

"I am fine, when did you come back from your business trip?"

"Yesterday midnight I reached here"

"So why did you want to meet me suddenly?"

"Are you serious man I missed you so much for past two months so I wanted to see you but it looks like you didn't miss me as I did"

"Cut the crap Blake, I am famished order something to eat"

"what you want to eat Chinese, Italian or…"

"I am ok with anything which I can have it as soon as possible"

He ordered through the intercom to their private restaurant and asked the chef to make it fast. Blake walked out of the suite to their private bar to pick a wine bottle. He came inside the suite with a bottle of 'Sine Qua Non 2006' along with two glasses. 

When Blake came in he found Zane in a deep thought. He didn't even respond to him when he asked, 

"You want wine now or with food or after dinner? ", 

he didn't disturb his thoughts he gave some time to him. His thoughts are distracted by the door bell sound. A waiter came in with a trolley with dishes which they ordered 30 minutes ago. 

"We can serve ourselves, you can go," he told the waiter in a cold tone.

He glanced at Zane for some time and said "Spill it out"

"How do you know that I want to tell you something?" Zane asked with a raised eyebrow. 

"I know you Mr. Zane Hudson so spill the beans."