His secretary

Chapter 15

Emma's POV

"He asked where you were! I had no choice but to tell him," David whined.

If it wasn't for him, my boss wouldn't have figured out my whereabouts. Speaking of boss, I wanted to apologise but it was as if he was trying to avoid me. I get it, having somebody's vomit on your face wasn't quite ' forgivable'.

"No more hotdogs for you!" I snapped angrily at him before running to my little work space.

"But...but..," David's voice became distant as I hurriedly sat behind my desk.

Today, I was supposed to be writing the minutes during the board meeting as my boss brought forth the ideas and the designs to be approved before construction began. The shareholders were a bunch of old stinking rich probably with high IQ men. One, they were hard to please. Two, they were intimidating I mean one glare from them and that was enough to make your legs wobbly. And three, they were serious and entertained no nonsense, one miscalculated move during the presentation and they would rule out your ideas.

I had witnessed all this in that same board room, but they were actually friendly once the meeting was over an example was Mr Sharman who made sure to greet me everytime he came by for a meeting.

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"This is isn't what we agreed upon, Cain," Mr Marshall yelled.

The shareholders began whispering among themselves, some meanful remarks, some saying that Cain was losing his mojo in business. After long hours of confronts, grunts, suggestions and ideas being tossed around, the meeting finally concluded.

Cain didn't seem quite pleased about anything, I could tell that he was stressed and somehow a part of me felt sorry for him. After reorganizing all the files in the board room, I went behind my little desk.

"Lunch break you and me, Millers. No questions asked!"

I was surprised just as you might have

guessed but I decided not to speak out. At times like these it was better to just roll with it.

"So let's go?!"

"Umm...in a minute sir,"I said putting away the files.

Minutes later I was seated on the passengers seat in Cain's car as he drove off to some fancy restaurant I presumed. It was so weird being alone in his car, I looked outside the window watching the other cars that moved by at the same speed we did. He suddenly cleared his throat and said," Nice weather we are having"

"I guess," I replied. The silence continued as he kept his eyes on the road.

"Where are we going, sir?" I asked meekly.

"Consider this as a sorry token for what I did yesterday. It wasn't quite right of me forcing you to eat all those cakes. So pick any place you want and I'll pay..for our lunch that is"

"Have you heard of Luigi's stall?"I asked as he raised one of his eyebrows not really sure of what I asked.

Minutes later***

I reached for his collar unbuttoning the top button and ruffling his hair a bit. He was surprised by what i did but I urged him to trust me and park his car far off from where we were going.

After moving away from his car, we walked down the tarmacked road. He tucked his hands in his pockets and I couldn't help but think how different he looked from the civil Cain I knew. I finally broke the silence by asking him a couple of questions about his love for hotdogs, his allergies and we went on and on until we finally reached my favorite place ' Luigi's stall'

Luigi's stall, home to the best hotdogs on the streets. I always asked him to give me the recipe to the sauce that made the complete taste of his hotdogs but he refused saying that it was a 'secret family recipe'. I came here on weekends to enjoy the beautiful view of the park and at the same time enjoying Luigi's hotdogs.

Being there reminded me of Pres, to be precise Preston Collins, my best friend who was now serving his time in the slammer for my past mistakes. Pushing those thoughts away from my mind, I pulled Cain's hand towards the little cart parked across the street.

Luigi as usual mattered some spanish words as a sign of how happy he was to see me again. Then his face changed when he saw Cain, he was so shocked that he stopped fanning the little Gemini sausages on the grill. He wiped his hands with a rag before greeting Cain.

"I'm such a huge fan, can I get your autograph?" He asked.

"Sure, sure. How about later?! Umm..so this little miss has been telling me about your hotdogs. Can I have some?" He asked as Luigi's eyes lit up with excitement. Luigi delicately placed a gemini sausage between the buns making sure to rub some of his mysterious sauce on. He handed one to Cain.

I held in my breath as I watched Cain take one bite.

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