The affair

CHAPTER 2

WALTER POV

What was wrong with her, how could she come for an interview and not concentrate? That's so ridiculous, I wonder what she was thinking about.

Right then while I was still trying to figure out Emilia's behavior I heard a knock on my door. It was Helen, my secretary.

"Yes Helen?".

"You're up for your next meeting in 5 minutes, the board members are already seated".

"Okay Helen I will be there.".

"Helen?", I called her back as she turned to leave. "What is the name of the lady that came for the interview?".

"Emilia", she replied.

"I want every little detail about her".

"Okay, Mr Walter". Helen replied and left.

Emilia is beautiful, with her gray eyes and blonde hair well packed behind her, she wore a black pencil skirt and a jacket adding a black tip toe heel to compliment her outfit but she was shy and naive. I saw the disappointment on her face when I drew her attention and told her our interview session was over, maybe it meant alot to her but I'm pretty sure her mind was very occupied during the interview. I was curious to get to know her. She could be useful for my next plan, I thought to myself. It was two minutes to the meeting, I left my office for the board room, where everyone was seated.

Before the end of the day Helen had gathered all the details I needed about Emilia. She worked an extra shift at Meg Superstore. "I need to go shopping", I said to myself . After I finished my work for the day, I called Helen and said "I won't be at the office tomorrow, I will be working from home, schedule an appointment for tomorrow to the next day.

"Okay Mr. Walter, " Helen replied.

I grabbed my car keys from my desk, left the office and headed home.

I like her stature and looks. I will look for her and propose the contract to her, that she becomes my Marriage partner, if she agrees we settle on the amount she should be paid when the contract was over then we sign an agreement, so at last I could get the inheritance my Father left for me before he passed away but insisted I get married before getting them according to his lawyer. My step mother was already pressuring me with marriage issues, saying I wasn't getting any younger, that I needed an heir to take over the company when I was old. She had set me up on countless dates which I only honored a few and told her I would find a wife myself.

I'm sure Emilia couldn't reject me. All these ladies are all about money and she wouldn't be different from them. She needed the money too, if not she wouldn't be running shifts with her jobs.

I picked up my phone and dialed Tom's number, the one friend I had, I could hear it ringing from my end.

"Hey you, where are you?", I asked Tom as he picked the call.

"On my way to yours" he answered.

"I was about to ask you to come over," I said.

"Hmmm, is there a problem?, Cause you wouldn't just invite me to your house personally", Tom asked, "There's no problem, I will be waiting" I told him and hung up. Silly boy, he's just on my case, I haven't even told him what I had in mind and he's already trying to see through me.

Some minutes later I heard the door opening and it was Tom, he had the spare key to my house.

"Silly, you couldn't just use the bell so I can open for you"

He smiled and said, " I have the keys so I don't need to waste my time. So what was the reason you personally called to invite me over to your house because that's not like you" he said.

"We'll talk about that over a drink". So I went upstairs to my room and put on a Jean with a long sleeved shirt, hands rolled up, grabbed my keys and we left in my car.

We got to Brooks Bar and ordered a couple of drinks.

"So what was that you wanted to tell me?" Tom asked. I raised my eyes to look at him but didn't say anything. "Have you finally fallen in love?" he smiled.

I raised my eyes so fast, almost spitting out the drink in my mouth. "You're not serious, I don't think I will ever fall in love".

"You can't be really so sure cause you can't control your heart when it comes to love" he said and gulped his drink.

"That's not me bro" I said to Tom. "I actually wanted to tell you that I met a girl today, that I wanted to make her my partner".

" I don't get it, what type of partnership? Is it business or what?" Tom asked.

"Contract marriage partner, dummy," I replied.

"Ohh, I forgot, that's because of your inheritance your Father left for you", Tom said.

"I don't know why my Father would attach marriage to my inheritance".

"That's because he knows you won't get married," Tom said with a grin on his face.

"The contract would be for 3 months, so I could convince my Father's lawyer that I have found a wife and after that we go our separate ways. I have made all necessary inquiries about Emilia".

"Is that girl's name?" Tom asked.

"Yes, the person I have In mind, but I haven't talked to her about it yet".

"So whose daughter is she? Is she a member of one of the top business tycoon families?, Tom inquired.

"No!, from my research, she's just a simple girl and if she accepts the contract I will pay her so well, I know she wouldn't disagree".

"I pray you find love Walter", Tom sighed.

"Love is not for me Tom", I grind at him.

The next day, I visited Meg Superstore pretending to go for shopping but I went to confirm if Helen's investigations about Emilia where right and it actually was, I saw Emilia dressed in her uniform, I looked through my side eye and saw her walking towards me but pretended I haven't seen her, I could see the surprise look on her face when she saw me and I acted like I wasn't expecting to see her.

"You're from the interview yesterday?", she

nodded with her face bowed, "You performed poorly, I wasn't expecting that", I told her. She apologized for her performance during the interview yesterday. I decided to give her another chance before letting her in on the contract. "Are you prepared for another interview"? I asked her

"I will give you another chance for the interview but if you fail, there's no way I can allow you into my office again, come to Green group of companies by 8:00 am tomorrow". She agreed to come for the interview by 8:00am the next morning as I had scheduled for her to. I got to the counter, paid for the items and drove off in my black tinted BMW.