I am Alexia, 25, I am so boring to have my 20th blind date,.especially with the guy sitting on my opposite.....who is very hard to be depicted.
Plain face, lower than me, but surprisingly obsessed with confidence.
Even though we only met for five minutes, he proposes a marriage fervently.
For my good look, of course, nothing to be surprised about.
"Sir, I am sorry to say, I have not the slightest of affection towards you , BTW, the dinner is on me, and never see you again."
I am proud with myself for the perfect ending dialogue for the annoying appointment , turn around and dart towards the entrance, when the weird man suddenly grabs my arm ferociously and throw me into his arm, .....
"Ouch", I close my eyes tightly and await the unwilling embrace of the man with a painful look.
"Miss, are you alright."A masculine magnetic voice penetrates into my ear.
Instead of falling the man's arm, I unexpectedly drop into the bosom of a strikingly dignified guy,whose face is planted with a dimple grin.
My body is releasing the bonding hormone that creates the physical addiction I have to this man.
"Thank you." I am so amazed by him that I blush like a chill pepper.
"You're welcome."The man replies in a polite manner.
His alluring smile makes me hurry off this restaurant, scaring blush would quickly resume again.
I could feel the man's surprising air from behind.
"Shit!"
When I run out of the bar and stand on the street alone, a damn chill wind rushed towards me, my fingers were almost frozen off.
I am even more pissed off when I notice that my dress was torn, thanks to the bullshit appointment, my whole legs exposing bare in the roaring wind, shivering.
20 minutes has passed since I called the taxi and I can't see any vehicle passing by.
A bitter wind is blowing over.
I stomp my feet in desperation.
A car finally suddenly pulls off in front of me and I step into it without even thinking.
"You can get in any man's car? I suppose." A familiar masculine voice refreshes my mind.
It isn't the taxi I called. I look up at the man in an astonishing expression, isn't he the handsome guy who hugged me in the restaurant!
"Oh, I'm sorry, I'm really sorry; I didn't notice that I am getting into the wrong car. Just let me get off!"
I really want to dig a hole and bury myself.
"It's fine. Since it's late, let me drive you home."
"No, thanks, I'm Alexia, thank you."
"I'm Calvin Smith. Nice to meet you"
I stare at his alluring full and symmetrical lips under the dim light.
A bright red blush alerts on my face again, throbbing with accelerated heartbeat.
I cannot utter a word.
"I will take you home. "
"Tell me your address."
"A....Avenue Berlinton, No.3 Downstreet. "I murmur.
The car moves on and finally pulls up at a crossing that is still some blocks from my house.
Out of nervousness, I told him the wrong address.
"Put the jacket on." Calvin passes me a jacket and I hurriedly put it on , the jacket is long enough to cover my snowy white milky bare legs and really warms me up from inside.
He stares at me from top to bottom.
"We'll see each other again!" Calvin smirks and drives off.
"What do you mean? What? We'll see each other again! God, he's interested in me, is he!" I wrap the jacket tightly, where still left the scent of the man and then fall into deep pondering.
Arrived at home, I complain to my mother how evil her best friend is because she set me up on the blind date with the ugly and weird man...
But I still have a slightness of happiness when I recall the guy and his warm jacket....
My thought is interrupted by a crisping call.
"Alexia, guess what,I've met Abby Williams", It is from my best friend Anni Jones and I am stunned...
Abby Williams, my former best girl friend, and one day she told me she was pregnant with the child of my high school sweetheart, Johnny Evans.
Abby was so painful because she couldn't let the child born without a father and asked my favor to let the bitch couple be together..
But it didn't hurt as much as what Johnny Evans got down on his knees in front of me and told me in person about that.....
"Hey, are you listening? Is everything okay?"As I didn't utter a word, Anni Jones is a little worried about me..
"I'm here, I'm here, I'm fine" I forced myself to pull together,
"Anything else?"
"Alexia, I really hate to mention it, but I have to tell you, that Johnny Evans is coming back next month ...."
I feel I am losing my last straw, I can't remember what I talked with Anni afterwards, I don't know when I hung up the phone, and I stare at the ceiling in a trance for a long, long time.
The next day, a shiny day.
Anni Jones barges into my room, "Tell me, was it a successful blind date yesterday, the suit jacket you put outside the room is from the blind date guy, right? I guess you have found your Mr. Right."
Before I struggle opening my lids, I am confused and annoyed by Anni's blabbing.
"No, yesterday's appointment was a super failure and the jacket wasn't from the weird blind date guy, he said he wanted to marry me at once, psycho pervert!" I just can't stop gossiping about blind dates.
"Your mom's really... too anxious for your marriage." Anni smacks her lips.
"That would all contribute to Abby Williams' great mom ........" I am left with no choice but to obey my mother and be a good daughter.
Anni comprehends everything as soon as she hears the name Abby Williams.
Abby Williams' mom had an affair with my father, and my boyfriend was grabbed by Abby, that is why Abby's mom is so caring about my marriage.
"Don't you work today?" I quickly change the subject.
"Yeah, I'm taking today off and my mom and my brother are coming over" Anni laughs.
"Okay, say hi to them for me, the hard working workers are working to work hard!"
I quickly get up and rush to my office.
Sikkim group, where I work, is a real estate company when it is founded, but in the past few years the real estate market is frustrated.
Then the company explore business on other industries, such as culture, clothing.
However, thanks to the top leaders' blind strategy, the company suffers heavy losses for many years.
Plus the pandemic viruses,many employees were laid off last year, and it is only the beginning. More will be laid off next month; panic spreads at every corner in the company.
This is my first job since graduation.
I honestly have deep affections for this company just like my first lover Johnny Evans .
I don't want to be laid off, so I work as diligently as I can.
Today, I'm working extra hard, because the company is welcoming a new CEO today, he is hope of the whole company to make up the current losses, and today is his first day on duty.
The guy who is said to be super capable, had saved several companies from the verge of bankruptcy. What is more legendary, he is young, only just in his early 30s I guess, especially addictive to me, he is said to be super handsome,.
My female colleagues today all rig out in their best..
"Did you hear that, the General board has given most part of his company shares to the CEO to keep him manage the company?"
"No way! Then our lives are at this stranger guy's hands.
While I am listening my colleagues chattering I feel more freaked out, I don't want to lose the job, so I have to work even harder.
The whole morning, I couldn't stop for drinking water. I bury myself into work .
And half an hour before lunch break, the office's gossipy gadfly Andy Taylor get a call and then the whole office blasts,
"Oh my God, he's here, he's here, sis, Calvin Smith is here!"she hangs up the phone, cries out of her lungs fervently..
"Calvin Smith?" I am having a bad feeling .
"No way, is it the jacket guy I met yesterday!"
"Everyone, keep your spirits up, Mr. Smith is on his way!"
My department manager, Tom Jackson is very nervous and excited and can't wait to show herself off her capability before the CEO.
"Hiss, it seems she had relations with the CEO and is getting promoted very soon. I hate to see that bitch's ugly face!" Tom Jackson blabbers.
Andy Taylor reveals a disdainful expression.
She joined the company at the same time as me, and she hates Tom Jackson very much.
I smirk, I know that Andy Taylor and Tom Jackson would never be happy together.
No one would know that the two were former lovers. But finally ended with Tom Jackson's unfaithful affair.
That's why Andy Taylor is so devoted to spreading the rumors about Tom Jackson in the company.
"Here he comes! God he is so handsome!"
"Really handsome!"
My attention is soon drawn back by their exciting cry.
I look up curiously.
"God! It's that guy I met yesterday!" I'm wailing inside, wondering what would happen when my future boss see me ...
Calvin Smith takes his steps towards me, eyes fixing on my face, totally ignoring Tom Jackson's greeting.
