Thousand Years

CHAPTER 3 - Adrian Cleary

Adrian

"Mr. Adrian Cleary?" the woman at the front desk asked him with with eyes full of interest, while assessing him from head to toe. He was here for the meeting of the board of directors at IC corporation. IC was a large multinational company where he had a significant amount of money invested in. Nevertheless, he had never bothered to show up at any of the meetings here. Everyone knew the name, but no one had ever seen who Mr. Adrian Cleary.

He was 6ft 2inches tall, with a pair of piercing blue eyes that anyone would notice at once but would not dare keep looking. He had jet black hair that fell into his face. Today, he was wearing a midnight blue suit and the white shirt he wore with it enhanced his eyes even more. He was not too bulky, yet he had well toned muscles and a dangerously powerful aura, that no one dared to mess with him. If you ever tried to do a background check on him on internet you would never find anything.

Overall, anyone would say he was strikingly handsome since he had facial features that one would even call angelic. Which was exactly what he was , an angel. A fallen angel to be precise.

Adrian stood in front of the desk till the woman got up and showed him to the conference room. 'Why had he bothered at all to come to this place!?' ,he was wondering while he waited for the meeting to start. He had a stone cold expression and a look that said he was completely uninterested in everything.

He realized, he came to the meeting just because he was bored at home. And seeing some human interactions would be fun. The last time he was in a directors' meeting was some ten years back, in another part of the country and that was definitely fun because it was to send their CEO home.

The meeting went on for two long hours and nothing of interest happened. The ladies at the meeting just couldn't help giving him occasional glances throughout the meeting, and couldn't help themselves from wondering who this gorgeous man was. And of course Adrian knew this, after all , this has now been happening to him for centuries. After the meeting, the CEO came to him and introduced herself as Ms. Serena Black.

Ms Serena was a beautiful woman with a heart shaped face, full lips and short dark brown hair. She was in a black suit that accented her curves. She had just wanted to come and greet Mr. Adrian the moment she saw him, but had waited for the meeting to end, being the woman she was.

Adrian wouldn't usually give much attention to any woman, this woman however demanded that everyone gives her attention when she entered a room. She was a CEO at just 34 years and no one could guess the age.

Adrian left the room after promising Ms. Black that they would meet again. He had drove himself here, in his newest Mercedes. He usually went everywhere with his driver, but today he had felt like driving.

Today he felt like having a drink, not that he ever got drunk. He wasn't able to get drunk. Adrian usually went to the pub that he owned, which was very popular among young people. But today he thought of going somewhere different.

He was driving slowly, for a difference, while keeping in mind to look for a decent place to have a drink. It was just 7pm and the roads were a bit crowded. That's when he saw one of the directors from the meeting today, getting out of his car near a pub called 'Exotic'. The man was about forty with already greying hair.

Adrian knew at a glace that this must be an escort bar. It was too early for this. But he parked his car and got out anyway and followed the man into the pub.

The interior had a nice ambience , kind of dark yet warm. He liked the place at once. He went for a corner table and sat down when a nicely dressed middle aged woman approached him with a big smile plastered on a her face.

" Hello, Good evening sir! Welcome to Exotic! I am the owner, Madame Lou. How may I help you?" chimed Madame. She personally went to the customers only when she felt like it. And Adrian definitely made her want to go and talk to him. They usually get very good looking customers but even Madam would agree that Adrian would not compare.

He ordered a whiskey on rocks and looked around while he waited for the order.

And that's when he saw her.