Chapter 7 - It's her?!
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"Seriously?! Do you know how worried uncle is? He's trying to reach you on your mobile but he couldn't, so he called me to ask about your whereabouts. I have to cancel my ongoing meeting with foreign delegates and rush over here to find you!" Dan says in frustration
"!!!" Clara takes out her phone and sees it's out of power "Damn, I forgot to charge it!"
"Give me your phone, quickly!" Clara says while grabbing Dan's phone and quickly makes a call to her father
"Hey! Let me finish! I told him we are in the middle of meeting and you couldn't about answer the call because of it" Dan says
Clara nods and waits for her dad to pick up the phone, after a couple of rings the phone is picked and a rough voice can be heard from the other end "Clara! Where are you? Why is your phone off? How can you be so careless?!" Mr. Miller bombards Clara with questions
"Sorry, Pa. I forgot to charge my phone and was in the middle of a meeting so couldn't realize it. Please forgive me this time, will make sure not to repeat it again" Clara pleads
While Clara was on call, Dan sneakily eats her remaining dumplings 'this should be her punishment for making us worried'
After speaking with her father; telling him that she'll be careful next time and will be home in an hour or so, she disconnects the call and turns around to eat her remaining dumplings but gets shocked to see only one dumpling has been left and the remaining were eaten by Dan. She glares at Dan and beats his fingers with her chopsticks while he's trying to eat her last remaining dumpling "Hey! Who told you, you can eat my food?" She says angrily
Dan shrugs "Don't blame me, you kept your food open and anyone can come and eat it"
Clara eats her remaining last dumpling, gets up to beat Dan "You! Do you know how hungry I was?! How can you eat someone's food without their permission!"
Dan who is getting beaten laughs and says "You're already a gulton, don't you think if you eat more you'll probably become a pig?" Dan grins
Corner of Clara's mouth twitch 'This guy' "Mr. Andreson, Can you repeat what you said once again?" Clara asks while giving a sweet smile
Dan give a innocent look "As I said you'll become a pig if you continue to eat like this"
"Mr. Dan Anderson, Why don't you just die in my hands today?" Clara says while cracking her knuckles
Mark is still in the restaurant watching their every move, the only question in his mind was 'What is the relationship between them? By the looks of it they are close'
Sensing the danger, Dan puts his hands up in surrender "Alright, I understand and I'm sorry and as an apology why don't I treat you with another plate of dumplings?" He says honestly
"Who wants your dumplings? Hmph! I can buy myself if I want more" Clara replies "I'm going home now and I'm taking a day off tomorrow, don't you even dare to disturb me on my day off" Clara picks up her bag and turns to leave
Dan was shocked to hear this sentence and chased after her "Hey! Who gave you the permission to take a day off tomorrow? Clara!"
"No one!" Clara says and sticks her tongue out at him before leaving
'This girl' Dan shook his head before leaving. After they left Mark also leaves the place.
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After reaching home, Mark picks the envelope and goes inside. After entering his room, he placed the envelope on the table and went to take a bath. After getting a bath he comes out wearing his pajamas while drying his hair with a towel and notices that the envelope has fallen on the floor. He bends down and picks it up while staring at it.
'Let's see how you actually look Ms. Miller' actually he doesn't have any wild imagination that she'll be good-looking or any filter list for his future wife however she looked he's okay with it, he slowly opens the envelope and pulls the photo out, since the photo is upside down first he can only see her brown hair which were reaching till her waist, he slowly takes out the photo and his eyes widened to see the face of the person he least expected to see.
"It's her?!"
In the photo Clara has a warm smile on her lips and her light green eyes were shining like diamonds, she was wearing a strapless floral frock which reaches to her knee
He reconfirms who she is by looking at the piece of information on the paper
Name : Clara Miller
Age : 27
Education : Fashion designing from Howard University
'It's really her..' he lets out a rare smile "hmm.. this offer, it's not as bad as expected it to be" his eyes darkened after remembering what happened at the restaurant 'She addressed him as Mr. Anderson it's as in Dan Anderson. The President of Z Fashions. What is the relationship between those two? Is this the reason why that old man asked me to do this? But, still I'm not going to back down without giving a try. Let's see how it's going to end up' he smiles again while looking at the photo in hand
"We'll meet again, Ms. Clara Miller" Mark whispers and puts the contents back inside the envelope and goes to sleep
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