Zara's Attraction

Chapter 1

Zara Montgomery's life takes an unexpected turn on a wet evening in Manhattan.

She runs across a stranger on the busy streets.

She had no idea that this random meeting would lead her down a path she had never dreamed about.

With her coat drawn tight against the persistent rain

Zara Montgomery rushed through the busy streets of Manhattan.

It was a rainy evening, the kind that caused the traffic lights and neon signs to shimmer.

Pavements to gleam with their reflections.

She had no idea that this one night would forever alter the path of her life.

Zara was about to run into an unexpected stranger as she approached the corner.

She staggered back, startled, and gazed up into warm hazel eyes that seemed to glitter even in the twilight of the evening.

With a hard yet kind touch, the man extended his hand to steady her.

"I sincerely apologize, " said Raymond.

Standing tall in front of her with his Glamouring looks and adequate Statue.

Handsome looks that would sweep any woman and female entity off her feet.

It's totally my fault I wasn't looking, With her fierce anger combined with the day's weather but calm look.

Zara was ready to pounce on whoever was in her way and wasn't adding value to her day and her life at the moment.

She was not aware that the sound of a new dawn had just begun.

Looking up to him and gazing at the Glamouring looks of Raymond Black in his Blue cotton suit and sweet smell.

She quickly switches her mood and it's her and the Billionaire Raymond Black.

Now she's not yet aware of his Personality and Status.

With a close range between both, it seemed like the world had spun around in a circle.

And every other person's and individuals didn't matter.

“You are alright mister”, Zara Montgomery replied, in a calm yet Sharp Tone with her eyes still locked in refusing to let go.

After all, taking off her eyes would seem as if she was weak.

But she was enjoying the view right in front of her and she was ready to give up anything to keep that warm feeling she had cultivated just in a split of seconds.

Shaking his hand feeling his warm hands she was ready to speak further.

She was so overwhelmed and had too much going on in her head she could only come up with nothing.

She only found herself staring at the great amazing sight of Raymond, who is gazing deep into her eyes as he speaks to her.

With a smile on his face and a calm tone from his voice he says “Let me buy you dinner to make up for my indecency”.

Rolling her eyes around with shock and expectations of what's to come.

With her mind bursting out in imaginations.

Also in that heavy smile making her eyes tiny and in the aura of Raymond Salvatore who is making his way in her mind and heart.

“Is this what you say to every lady you bump into on the street”?

Now there's tension in the air, for Raymond hasn't had any lady twist his words and throw it back at him.

“No, but you are exceptional and I would love to see you again” Raymond said.

With his gentle poker face and soft smile.

She stretches over her hands towards him, opening her palm.

And with surprise Raymond looked around himself for his cell phone.

Finally he handed it over to her without hesitation.

With the buttons sounding bold and firm.

She looks him in the eyes and says, “There you go”.

With a winning smile he stretches out his hand and gets back his cell phone.

And they both wave goodbye to each other.

Leaving the scene and feeling a sense of importance from each other.

They both look back at the same time and exchange smiles, as they walk away back into their life's.

Destinies have met in that split second.

Stomping into her office she finds a note on her desk.

Looking confused Zara looked back at her secretary, who followed immediately as she got into the premises.

Who for some reason was laid back and wasn't shocked as she was.

“What's these”? Zara Montgomery asked.

“These are bills from the IRS”....

And the other large envelope is from Simmons Bank.

They are notifying us that we are almost due for our loan and in no time they will confiscate our property.

Amelia the secretary is the daughter of her father's elder brother.

And she has been working in the Montgomery company for quite a while.

After tremendously graduating with a first class from a reputable college in Ohio, Columbus.

With lots of words like a goldfish stuck in her throat.

Zara pushes the letters away and opens up her computer to start the work that made her leave her sick father home that evening.

Surfing the internet and scanning waves in her brain trying to get an investor who will believe in the company's ideas and invest.

Willingly into the Company and save the company from bankruptcy, she gets a call.

Her cell phone vibrated towards the left side of her desk, inside her purse as she had forgotten to take it out.

She takes her hands off the keyboard and bends with the left side of her upper body to pick up her purse she had left unconsciously.

She picks up and beholds it's Stefan.

A suitor who has been on her trail for the past months.

And hasn't taken a hint, after being turned down on several occasions.

“Hello My sunshine, I hope you are alive and well”? Stefan asked, from the other side of the phone.

Zara had been stressed from the cloudy weather to the bustling of struggles to work late that evening.

Also getting reminded of her inability to get an investor to Revive her father's company from going bankrupt.

Goes “Hi Stefan!!..

I'm busy right now”, please can we talk later? I'm at work, as the phone hangs up.

Sighing to the air with an unpleasant look on her face.

Trying to get back her focus on what she was initially doing before being interrupted by someone she has no interest in nor talk to.

Tossing her cell phone at the right corner of her desk to reply to very important emails.

Working late and trying to add all dots, surfing for hope and a potential investor.

Her cell phone rang again, and this time it sounded much louder.

Because she had taken it out of her purse, now vibrating at the right corner of her desk.

With anger of thinking that Stefan, her unwanted suitor who has refused to take a hint.

She quickly picks up her cell phone without looking at the caller and yells at the phone.

And with his Smooth but yet firm and uncertain voice calls out her name “Zara”.

And then she realizes that this isn't Stefan, her unwanted suitor whom she didn't want to speak to.

But her father Mr Montgomery the second surviving son of his father.

And who has built Montgomery Investment Limited from blossom to where it's at right now.

Now at a verge of losing all his possessions, life and nothing to be left for his generations to come.

“Hey daddy”, With her soft warm voice and uncertainty, trying to calm herself down.

“What's the matter my love”?, you sounded troubled my dear, Speaking in worry as he awaits a reply from his daughter.

“I'm alright”, Zara says speaking in a much calmer tone now after realizing it's her father Mr Montgomery and not her unwanted suitor

Stefan.

“Is this a bad time”? Mr Montgomery asks seemingly randomly.

As he has it in mind that she is stressed from the debt the company has incurred and the pressure and responsibility that comes with it.

Zara, with her mind so full of uncertainty replies, “No Dad”.

I thought you were someone else, with a deep breath she asked “How are you fairing”?.

There was silence for a split second and a female voice occurs and it's the caregiver who is in charge of the welfare of Mr Montgomery.

“Good day Ma”, she replied.

“I'm sorry Mr Montgomery is too weak to speak anymore”.

“He has been troubled these few hours about your well-being”.

“Since you left the house this evening, with the tough weather conditions”.

I had to give him the audience to speak with you so as to calm his urges.

With little pounds Zara's heart beat breaks.

Till it settles in, down to a normal rate.

Zara was surprised to hear her father's voice who she left lying on his sick bed.

Incurably ill to hear him call her directly.

She replies, “Thank you so much Katherine”, I will be home as soon as I'm done here.

“That is Okay ma”, With a calm tone Katherine the caregiver to Mr Montgomery replied.

As she hangs up the phone to an absolute silence in Zara's office.

Notwithstanding the waves and sounds of cars moving outside the windows.

For it's a busy evening with engines and business blasting strongly in the air.

Heading out the door and seeing Amelia, her secretary, surfing the internet and checking files for companies and investors.

Sending out proposals to great prospects.

Who has been contacted, trying to reach out to them still.

Reminding them that they are open for business.

With compassion and confidence in her eye she says, “Amelia, You are to leave the office in the next hour.

Don't work late, you can take the workload home and continue from your comfort place”, says Zara Montgomery.

With her discomfort but yet Calm composure, Amelia nods her head.

With a straight look into Zara's eyes.

While Zara walks out the front door opened for her by the security guard at the entrance.

Dashing out to the calm and breezy evening after a hard day's work, without any results.

Zara thinks of a way to get home faster, being worried sick.

Because her father, “Mr Montgomery”, called her out of the blue earlier that evening.

In denial of calling a cab or using the state bus.

She finds herself looking down her cell phone to make that decision.

When a loud honk of a car's horn but not annoying, honks her way.

With the sounds of a power horse AMP engine roaring towards her.

She looks up to the air and finds a dashingly Gold sport car.

With a shining rim as such she could see her full body

shape as a reflection of a mirror.

Tinted glasses she could barely see who was inside, or figure out why this sort of car had stopped or honked towards her.

As the tinted glass winds down, her reflection disappears slowly.

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Who do you think is in the sports car? Is this Stefan her unwanted suitor who does not want to take a hint?.