Chapter 13 Popular with Women

Caroline entered the specious office and found Liam concentrated

on his work, so she took a sit in one of the couches in silence. Liam finished typing

an email and went up to Caroline. “Hi Liam,” Caroline greeted with smile. Liam

reached into his left pocket and took out the key to the penthouse. “Here’s your

key to the penthouse.” Caroline grabbed the key and placed it inside her bag. “Have

you eaten?” Liam asked. Caroline nodded. “I haven’t eaten yet. Accompany me to

have lunch,” Liam invited as he extended out his hand.

Caroline placed her hand on his and

stood up from the couch. They walked towards the door together. Caroline tried

to get free from his grip, but Liam did not let her free. As soon as they walked

out of the office, Marcus stood up from his desk which is right in front of

Liam’s office. “Let’s go Marcus,” said Liam in a cold tone. They walked past

the secretary division. The secretaries looked down while they passed by. The

secretaries started to gossip after they got on the elevator.

They went to the parking lot,

Marcus opened the back door of the black Rolls Royce for Caroline, she went in

and scooched over for Liam. After Liam got inside the car, Marcus closed the

door went to the driver’s seat and drove to Liam’s penthouse.

            When they

arrived at the penthouse, they went to the dining room. Mrs. Spence had just

finished serving Liam’s food. Caroline sat next to Liam in the table waiting

for him to finish his food. She was still full of the lunch she at her cousin’s

restaurant.

            When Liam

finished his food, Caroline went to her room to grab her phone, she had no new

messages and no missed calls. Caroline made her way to the elevator when Liam

said, “going to your office? I’ll drop you off.” Caroline agreed. They walked

to the car together. Liam opened the door for Caroline then after she got in

and scooched over, he got in the car and Marcus drove to Caroline’s company.

             Caroline went to her office and resumed her

work. She looked over some files, typed some emails, got in touch with the

manager of the hotel in Cancun, then she contacted Mr. Li Fonti. She scheduled

a meeting with him the next day. Caroline continued looking over some files on

her computer. She took a break from the looking at the computer screen and sat on

the couch.

            Siting on

the couch, Caroline planned a way to ruin Sofia. She leaned back on the couch

when she got a text from Persephone. “Hey Care, have you seen the news that

have been spreading on social media?” Caroline replied, “no, you know I don’t

like social media.” Persephone answered, “well, you should get the app. There

have been many things going on recently.” Caroline opened the Appstore and

downloaded the application Persephone told her. She made an account and right

when she finished creating her account, Persephone sent her a link. The post

read, “Liam Sabbatini, the CEO of Sabbatini Group has acquired Miller Inc.”

            “He what?” Caroline

sat up on the couch.

After Caroline finished reading the

post she went back to her desk. She called Joseph into her office and asked him

for a cup of tea. Caroline does not drink coffee, she does not like taste nor the

fact that people become addicted to it. Joseph went inside her office and

placed the cup of freshly brewed green tea in her desk and left. Caroline

continued looking over some files as she drank her tea.

At eight p.m. she finished her work

and went to Liam’s place. She was famished. She went to the kitchen and to her

surprise, Mrs. Spence was still there. “Good evening Mrs. Spence,” said

Caroline with a bright smile. “Good evening, Miss King,” Mrs. Spence replied.

“I though you would be home by now,” Caroline spoke.

“I was about to leave, I will

server you your food.” Caroline nodded. Mrs. Spence placed the bowl of soup in

the kitchen island as Caroline directed. “Mr. Sabbatini also told me to stay

until you got here. He said he is coming late tonight.” Caroline nodded and

said, “thank you Mrs. Spence you can go home now, I can clean up after.”

 “Thank you, Miss King. Have a good night.”

            Caroline

finished her cream of mushroom soup and then placed the bowl and the spoon in

the dishwasher. She put some water to boil and looked on each cabinet for tea.

She opened a big cabinet which opened the fridge. “Not what I was looking for

but now I know where the fridge is.” Caroline continued to look until she

finally found where the tea was stored. She grabbed a pomegranate and raspberry

tea bag. Right when the water was ready, she grabbed a mug and placed the tea

bag on the mug and then served the water.

Caroline went to her room and then

went inside her bathroom. She filled the bathtub with water and put some

bubbles and went in. She enjoyed her tea as she took a nice relaxing bath. She was

so tired from sitting in front of a computer for a long time. All she wanted to

do was to go to sleep.

Forty minutes later, Caroline got

out of the bathtub, dried herself, wrapped a towel around her body and dried

her hair with the hair dryer. She went to her closet and put on a wine color

lace silk camisole nightgown dress. She put on her black fur slippers. Then, she

grabbed the mug and went to the kitchen. She washed the mug and let it out to

dry. She took a glass of water and went back to her room.

            On her way

to her room, the elevator door opened, and Liam walked in. He took off his

blazer and placed it on the nearby table. He undid his tie as he walked towards

Caroline. When he got close enough, Caroline felt the aroma of liquor. “Were

you drinking?” Caroline asked. “Just a few glasses of wine while celebrating

with a few friends,” Liam replied. “You seem to be very popular with women,” Caroline

uttered with a little hint of jealousy on her tone.

There was a scarlet lipstick mark placed

on the collar of Liam’s white shirt. Liam glanced at the mark and thought, “the

manager of the P.R department is dead tomorrow.” Liam tried to avoid the

subject, “how was work today?” Caroline continued, “so which of your friends is

the too friendly one?” Liam tried to change the subject again, “are you tired?

Mrs. Spence told me that you arrived late.” Caroline rolled her eyes. “Yes, I’m

tired. I’m going to sleep now.” Caroline grew tired of him avoiding the

subject.

Caroline went to her room and locked

the door. This time, she was not going to let him just enter her room in the

middle of the night. She took a sip of the water and placed it on the

nightstand. She tucked herself in and turned off the lamp. From the fatigue of

the long day of work, she fell fast asleep.

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