Chapter 117 THE CELEBRATION
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She pushes further to the bed and taking the invite I sit beside her.
"Miss Celine told me, you have a cold." I didn't know how to start the conversation as I start with her health.
She keeps looking at me in a daze and then her strap falls from her shoulder, why is she wearing such a thin nightdress?
I pull up her strap and she seems to get back her senses, "If you stay like this, the cold won't get better." I say with concern and she nods her head.
"W… why are you here?" She asks, glad that you asked Tessa.
"Uhm… The designs that you provided were fabulous, seems like those designs are definitely going to put the buyer's interest in the jewel. So congratulations to you and celebrating your first achievement, I would like to take you out for the dinner tonight."
"Really?" She asks overjoyed.
"Yeah, why would I be sitting here then?" I tell her and she grins. "Ok, then I will be ready tonight."
"And your cold?" I ask, teasingly.
"That just vanish right now, See." She stands on the bed and makes a spin that makes me chuckle and then offering my hand I help her to get down from the bed, safely.
I don't want her to injure herself this particular day.
"So, I'll text the time, later." I inform her and then stops at the door to add, "And today I am not leaving any menu list, so no need to tire yourself."
With a calm heart and a happy mood, I leave the mansion.
One invitation down, now it's time for the second.
I call Mona on my way to the office, I know it's early but still. I can't wait.
She picks up and her slumbering voice fills my ear, "Hmm…"
"Wake up, sleepyhead." I taunt her and she groans irritated.
"I have booked an appointment for you and I am going to receive you from there around 9 OK?"
I inform her and she groans back in response, "Darling, sleep as much as you can because tonight I am not letting you sleep."
She gasps and I start to laugh, "Andrew." She says in a threatening way and I end the call.
Later, she keeps calling me but I didn't receive her call at all. Tonight I will show my love to her and propose to her to be my wife and then we are going to meet Ann and reveal the good news to her.
I text Tessa to be ready at 6 and then I ask Ron to bring me my white Lamborghini, tonight I will be driving that.
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At sharp 6, I am outside the mansion waiting for Tessa to come over and when she arrives, my jaw drops as I look at her up and down and feel my member twitch in appreciation.
What the f**k
I think she has taken this dinner invitation as something else.
"How do I look?" She asks and I am supposed to compliment her as SEXY when at the last moment I change it into SPECTACULAR.
I open the car door for her and bending she sits inside, my gaze falls on her cleavage and I gulp nervously. Shaking away all the indecent thoughts from my mind for Tessa I walk over to sit inside the car.
"Oh… You will get used to sitting inside it after some time, it feels weird for the first time, I know." I tell her with a smile as I could look at her being uncomfortable.
Tessa is tall, she needs space, I should have chosen another car for her.
I stop the car as we reach La Barisserie, it's a restaurant owned by my father and Ann loves the cod they make here. I open Tessa's door and then offer her my hand to stand, again her cleavage on the show making me slightly aroused.
I take her to the first floor and pause as I see the decoration instructed by Ann.
There is one round table set with the Champagne bottle in the bucket of ice and the scented candles lit up around it making the atmosphere romantic.
As a gentleman, I pull Tessa's chair and she sits in her place and then I take mine.
"What would you like to eat?" I ask and she looks for the menu.
"Order anything, we own this restaurant," I tell her calmly.
"I'll have anything except fish, please," She replies, I think she dislikes fish.
I gesture for the waiter to come over and then order food for both of us.
Tessa starts to remind me about our marriage but I shut her down with a dark face, no not today, this is the first and last time we are having dinner outside the mansion together. After this day, you will be going your way and I will be mine.
I pour the Champagne for her, I don't know if she will like it and be able to control it at all.
"Do you like it?" I ask and she nods her head and surprisingly gulps down her whole drink.
I quietly fill her glass again, tonight is the night of celebration so I don't want to scold her at all or stop her from anything. It's her last day with me as Tessa Andrew, hopefully, after a few days, I will file for a divorce and then send her back to her parent's house.
The waiter starts to bring the dishes one by one.
"You look very happy today, any special reason?" Tessa asks and I don't have the heart to tell her the whole truth.
"Uhmm Nothing special, I am just happy… It's been a long time since I felt that way."
Yeah, knowing about becoming a father is a different kind of feeling.
"So that means you had been unhappy all these days," Tessa prompts.
"Uhmm… Not unhappy, a bit angry and disoriented you can say." I correct her.
"Were you angry because of me?" She asks and that makes me laugh.
"Haha.."
"You think too much, Tessy. Enjoy the dinner and stop worrying." I tell her because I don't want anything to spoil our celebration, I want her to leave everything on a good and happy note. I have never made her happy nor satisfied her.
But today I will try my best to keep her happy and satisfied.
We start discussing the designs and then Tessa tells me about her passion for the jewels designing, I could tell she is a passionate person, I noticed that in her from the very first day.
After our dessert, a man appears and starts playing violin making the atmosphere more romantic. I know that Ann has ordered them to do everything. Ann has too taken this dinner as my first date with Tessa.
Not her fault, after all, I am being so secretive these days.
I check my phone, no call from Mona and also I need to leave before 9 to pick her up. When I look up I find Tessa dancing happily and I smirk remembering our wedding dance and she suddenly pulls me with her, "Dance with me."
She looks drunk and then leans on me, I softly start to caress her hair and then her back, our last dance together.
We sway to the sound for a while and then Tessa looks up at me, her blue eyes are mesmerizing, and then wrapping her hand around my neck, she pulls me towards her and then kisses me. I stiffen and she continues nibbling my lips demanding me to open them.
I don't want to but she manipulates my senses and I open my mouth willfully and she starts devouring me and then she grips my hair tightly and I completely lose my senses as I circled her waist and then pull her closer to me.
F**k, this feels good.
After a long kiss, we pull away, panting heavily.
I look down at her in seriousness and she smirks, surely drunk, "My husband is soo tasty.."
"We… we are… spinning…" She says slowly swaying and then falling.
BOOM
I pick her up and she starts to struggle, I tighten my grip on her so that she won't fall from my arms and then I put her inside the car.
Realizing that it's past 9 I hurriedly call Mona but her calls go straight to voicemail.
"Pick up the call, Mona…" I sigh, frustrated as I drive towards the mansion, I pick Tessa up in my arms. She keeps saying nonsensical things and I don't bother to focus on her.
I place her on the bed and Miss Celine comes over anxiously, "Don't wake her up," I instruct her and then walk out of the room.
Distressed, I drive away towards the salon where I had booked her appointment for today.
"What? She didn't come here?" I ask the receptionist in complete shock.
If Mona hasn't come here so then where did she go?
I keep dialing her number but it goes unresponsive after a while.
Sighing in frustration, I rush to her apartment. It was locked and with a key, I open the door lock and enter just to find the whole apartment empty.
What the F**k?
I run into her room and it's neat and clean no trace of a person existing and living in this place.
"Mona??" I shout her name, terrified.
No... No... No...
She can't leave me, no. She is pranking me because I teased her in the morning.
I try to calm my restless heart that is pounding heavily in my chest.
"Please, let this be a prank." I press my chest and keep repeating the same thing as I look around her apartment and then finally find a note that is placed neatly at the coffee table in her living room.
A Note?
