Chapter 11: The first Trap
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The phone rang again this time causing Emma to jolt from her sleep, she was still half asleep but reluctantly answered the call.
“Emma, where are you?” Nathan was genuinely concerned for Emma, this was a first, she was always early.
Emma's eyes widened and she scanned her room taking in her surroundings.
“Emma…” Nathan had a strange feeling at this moment, because Emma wasn't responding.
“s**t, I'm late,” Emma scurried across her room as she tried to get ready quickly.
Nathan's laugh reverberated through the call.
“Not funny Nathan,” Emma was miserable enough, staring at her reflection in the mirror. Her hair was all over the place and she looked hideous, memories from last night started flooding in one by one.
Her falling asleep, her nightmare, her hands on his waist, Lucas carried her in his arms, and his kiss on her forehead…just what had happened last night.
“Well whatever you need to do to get here, do it fast, seems like your boss is on the look for you,” Nathan was passing by Emma’s desk when he saw Lucas coming in that direction. He soon disconnected the call when he noticed that Lucas was watching him and he scurried away to his office.
Her spoon instantly dropped to the ground as she heard Nathan, gurgling the bowl of cereal, she quickly reached for her shoes and stormed out of the house.
She quickly rushed head straight in when she arrived at the company, and was on her way to Lucas’s office when she overheard Peggy in a chit-chat with the blonde receptionist who she later found out her name was Karen.
“What do you think Mr Anderson’s going to do to her,” Karen plopped her arms on her desk so she could talk to Peggy without disturbance.
“Fire her maybe,” Peggy snickered.
Her steps faltered as soon as she heard what Peggy said.
Would he really let her go, she hadn't even collected her first salary yet.
Emma felt a thud and looked up to find Lucas staring directly at her.
“I've been waiting for you, Mrs. Anderson,” Lucas immediately felt the heat all over him when he looked into Emma's brown doe eyes that had surprise written over them. He liked her reaction anytime she was surprised and made a mental note to continue surprising her.
He turned around and continued to his office without sparing Emma a second glance.
Emma followed quietly behind but that didn't help the inner turmoil that she was going through, she hadn’t realize that Lucas was going to start calling her that, Wasn’t he worried that people were going to find out?
They arrived at Lucas's office and he closed the door behind them. It all seemed normal till Lucas suddenly leaned closer to Emma closing the distance between them.
“Why are you late? Didn’t you check your messages” Lucas had Emma in a chokehold, she was no closer to the door than he was to placing his lips on hers if she decided to move.
Emma could feel Lucas's hot breath slowly envelope her senses, whatever it was that he was up to, she wasn't going to let him win.
Emma held Lucas's two arms and released herself from his chokehold.
She had to protect herself and her child this time. She was never going to fall for him ever.
Emma hadn't realized that her contract with Lucas was going to involve them having close interactions… this was the third time that Lucas had tried to kiss her. Her mind she could control but her body seemed to betray her every time.
“We’ll be on our way to Paris in hour, we have to complete the peele deal somehow and Adrian Peele was going to be in Paris so we are gong to hunt him down to sign the deal,” Lucas smirked and walked towards her direction, when he was close to her, he passed her by and went to his desk.
Lucas had not shifted his gaze from her, his eyes taking in her entire appearance, He tilted his head and his eyebrows raised. He was going to ask her questions about her nightmare yesterday but changed his mind when he heard the screeching noise which signalled that the private jet had already landed on the rooftop helipad.
“We’ll be leaving in ten minutes, get all the documents regarding the Peele deal and meet me at the rooftop,” Lucas packed up the documents he was reviewing and packed them into his briefcase.
Emma had her hands on the door knob about to open the door when Lucas decided to drop the cold bombshell.
“Oh and Emma, don’t you dare mess this up, or there will be consequences,” Lucas deadpanned, his voice sending chills down Emma’s spine.
Emma quickly got the documents and hurried to the rooftop but she unknowingly bumped into Maria on her way.
Maria already had a plan formulated, she was going to exchange Emma’s documents as Darcy had instructed her,and destroy Lucas’s chance of ever signing the peele deal, killing two birds with one stone.
Maria bumped into Emma, causing her to drop all her documents to the ground. She immediately started apologizing and bent down to pickup the documents and immediately switched them out when she noticed that Emma wasn’t cconcentrating, before she excused herself.
Emma was at the rooftop in no time and she got into the Jet not knowing that she had been put in the worst kind of trap. A trap where she was going to be alone with angry Lucas
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“Get ready to hear the goodnews Madam, They are both done for,” Maria knew that Madam Darcy wanted results and she was just going to deliver that.
“Good, the first half of your payment would be sent to you, and the rest after the job is done,” Darcy could already imagine the scene where her grandson ridicules Emma Smith. If there was one thing that she was sure of, it was that Lucas was an Anderson and they wouldn’t take down everything to get what they wanted.
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