Chapter 28
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With a smile she let increased the volume of the cars radio and drove to work humming to the tune once in a while. As soon as she arrived at her destination, she swerved her car parking it in front of the massive sky scraper. Alighting from her car she walked towards the building entrance and was immediately greeted by the door man who opened the door for her with a smile on his face. "Good morning Miss Bernard" he said.
She threw her key to him with a slight smile on her face and replied "good morning to you, do help me park the car." "Okay Miss Bernard" he said as he quickly walked away. As she walked into the building, she was met with throws of envious eyes and delighted smiles as everyone bowed their head slightly in respect to her and door opened for her on their own accord. She certainly loved today as it was a good day for her and she was just on time for her next meeting. Walking towards her office with her red suit accompanied with redheels and her perfectly manicured hands and flowing silk hair she never felt better in a long time. It was time for her to feel less guilty about what happened and try to leave her life happily. As she walked the sounds of her hill echoed ever so loudly through the massive hall ways as she entered into the elevator. Arriving at the administrative floor the elevator opened revealing her as her secretary quickly walked towards her having a polite smile on her face as she said "good morning Miss Bernard. The gentle man for the meeting has been waiting for you in the meeting room." Mary knew she was late but being late and having them to wait for her brought delight to her. She could arrive at any time she pleased and they are to follow suit, that how it should be. Who would have thought that she would ever have the opportunity to be this arrogant, but she was definitely going to cherish it.
Opening the door, she was met with two gentlemen seated waiting patiently for her with a look of annoyance on their faces. One with his phone looking through some certain statistics and the other a middle-aged man which looked to be the lawyer looking through some documents set before him with his eye brows squeezed in concentration. Looking at the gentleman who looked somewhat familiar to her, with his tie worn loosely and his suit perfectly fitting his body as he let his hand drop on the table with the other slide through his phone he looked up as their eyes met.
"Nice to see you again. Life is funny right? Such a small world" he said with a smirk on his face. The lawyer looked between the two with a look of confusion. Mary rolled her eyes inwardly seems she was destined to meet him again. But she did not care, to her while in the office business remained business and besides, she had no relation with him.
"You can say so Mr." she said extending a hand to him.
"The name is Mark Walters" he said with a smile
"It's nice to meet you, and I see you have been insisting to have a personal meeting with me." The two gentlemen stood up to their feet as they replied to her
"yes, Miss Bernard," they said
"we would really like to talk somethings over with you. I will like to get a personal closure with you." She smiled as she said "well Mr. Walters do have a sit and Mr.? What might his name be?"
"Mr. Samuel my lawyer" said Walters.
"Well do have a sit Mr. Samuel" said Mary "I saw your proposal it's pretty attractive I must say. That the one reason I invited you."
Having a smile on his face Mr. Walters replied "of course, Miss Bernard nothing but the best for you."
"Alright then, let's get started gentlemen," she said as she sat down. As soon as she sat down the door opened revealing her secretary who walked in with a laptop and a few documents as she zoomed her attention in on the work at hand. One thing Mary never did was joke with her work. Beside her, the certain young man looked at her with admiration and determination seems he had a lady to conquer.
It was a new day as Martha began to wonder why she accompanied Philip. As she walked around the house, she was careful not to get lost as she searched for Philip wanting to ask him what was next. 48 hours had passed since they settled in and she had not set her eyes on him. She had whiled away the time sleeping eating and taking in the site but it was high time she knew what her work here was. Just then she sighted one of the maids indicating to her to come over. She was having an inner battle on whether to use her voice or continue to pretend that she couldn't speak but she really needed to know where Philip was. As she struggled to make a decision, she was interrupted by a voice saving her from her inner battle. "I see you have decided to look around the house Mary." Philip said as he indicated to the maid to leave. She bowed her head slightly as she left leaving both of them in the hall way. Turning to look at him she walked out knowing he would follow. She kept walked until she was out of ears reach.
Turning to look at him once again, she said "why are we here Philip?" Philip smiled. He knew she wouldn't want anyone to know that she could talk now but it was fine as it made him feel special to see that he was the one person he spoke too.
"Honestly, Mary, yes am here on a business deal, but I decided to bring you along because I felt like I might need help because you understand what I want, so I felt you could let the others know how things should go" he said with a smile reaching his eyes. Mary looked at him with a questioning look on her face. These people have been with him for years then why should he need her. Something about this felt awfully suspicious as she wondered what he could be up to.
