Chapter3-TheProposalAndTheRefusal
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Elena Blake had gone back to her life, acting like what happened two nights before never happened. She tried to erase every memory from that night. But most times she still gets flashbacks and the mysterious man’s face keeps appearing in her mind. That morning she woke up, did her normal morning routines and went downstairs to her shop to open up. The scent of cinnamon rolls filled the air, Elena had just overcome the morning rush, she moved from the counter to the oven and her apron and floor on it. She finally had a moment to take a breath when the bell above the door rang and she turned thinking it was another customer. Instead she saw a tall man in all black. He looked very calm and collected.
“Elena Blake” Lucas asked with a firm voice
“Who’s asking” she blinked while staring at Lucas
“ My boss wants to see” he replied
“I don’t know you talk more of your boss, so no I will not be going anywhere with you” Elena said
“My name is Lucas and you may not me or my boss but my boss sure knows you and he is not someone that takes no for an answer, so you really have to come with me” Lucas said
“Well I guess I have to be the first person to tell your almighty boss no and tell him I said that if he so badly wants to see him, he can come find me”
Lucas was surprised, no one has even said no to Giovanni Morrano.
“Are you sure about your answer” he asked her
“Crystal” she said and went back to continue baking.
Lucas walked out of the shop without saying a word.
Back at Morrano Enterprises, Giovanni was sitting behind his desk listening to his workers who were giving him a report. Lucas knocked and came in.
“Where is she?” Giovanni asked with a sharp voice. Lucas hesitated
“I asked you a question, don’t just stand there and look at me” he said
“She……. refused”. Lucas respond
“She what?” He said standing up from his chair with force and anger in his voice
“She said she does not know you and she isn’t interested in seeing you. If you want to see her so badly you know where to find her” Lucas was shaking at this point. Everywhere went totally silent, they could smell the anger emanating from Giovanni.
“Everybody out” he commanded
“But sir…..”
“I said out”
His floor became quiet and everyone immediately gave him space. All his meetings were cancelled. No one dared go close to his floor. In the hallway, the employees started whispering.
“What’s going on with the boss” one of the secretaries said
“He hasn’t snapped like this in a long time” another said
“Who’s the girl that dare refuse to see our boss”
“She must be a pretender and a fake wannabe trying to play hard to get the boss' attention” the top secretary, Emily, who has had a crush on their boss jealously said. Lucas walked in on them
“You all better mind your business, the boss isn’t paying you to stand here all day and gossip” he warned and they immediately dispersed to go perform their various duties because they could not afford to offend Lucas knowing that offending him was like offending their boss.
Giovanni couldn’t focus on anything throughout that day. He called Lucas to his office and asked him to take him to Elena’s bakery. Elena was already packing preparing to close her shop when the door to her shop was pushed open, she turned to see Lucas again
“I already told you that I won’t follow you to go see your boss, whoever he is”
Lucas didn’t reply, he just opened the door and Giovanni walked in. Elena was shocked and she froze.
It was him. The man from the day before, the one she had a one night stand with. He was at her shop.
Tall, cold, handsome, he was dressed in an expensive suit and his aura was very powerful.
“It’s you ” she whispered
“You ran,” Giovanni said.
Elena swallowed “ everything that happened that night was a mistake okay, I was drunk, drugged and suffering from heartbreak, I wasn’t myself ”
“ A mistake you say. You know,anyone that has come that close to me never lived to tell the tale, but here you are very much alive. So no it wasn’t a mistake to me. You stormed into my life, messed with my thoughts. So you don’t get to vanish after that night and label it all as a mistake”. he replied walking slowly towards her.
“So what do you want to do now, what do you want from me” Elena asked him
“That’s very easy. I want you to marry me” he said. Elena burst out laughing thinking he was just joking but she looked and saw how serious he was, she stopped laughing
“You can’t be serious” she said to him
“Do I look like someone who would be jobless enough to walk into any cafe in Milan and propose marriage to the owner.” Giovanni said
“Then why me, is it because we had a one night stand. Do you propose marriage to everyone you’ve slept with?” she asked.
“Well my darling you are the first and you definitely will be the last because I plan on only being with you” he replied in a rather cocky manner
“Sorry I can’t marry you, I don’t even know you”. Elena said
“My name is Giovanni Morrano, I’m 30 years old, I don’t have any kids, I’m also very rich and in perfect health and last but definitely not the least I’m very handsome as you can already see. Are you going to get married to me now” he replied with a smug face.
“My answer is still no, I’m not going to marry you” she replied.
He looked at her, the he smiled- slowly and darkly
“Very well” he said “I will give you time to reconsider but don’t take too much time. I am patient but not too patient” he said and turned to leave. When he got to the door he suddenly stopped and turned “ just know that I always get what I want” then he left.
Elena sank into a stool, her knees were weak. She did not know why she had a bad feeling about everything.
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