Fourteen

I was concentrating on watching Damnon dance with Leslie that I didn't notice Tania walk towards me. I only now show her covering my view with an expression I could fathom.



"Liv , we are leaving " she ordered.



"Wait! what ? no we just get here. Plus Damnon is here"I tried to reason with her. I thought using Damnon would help.



"C'mon, let's go, Sabastian is already waiting for us" she said completely ignoring my initial statement.



"Tania what's the matter with you?, am having fun today , couldn't you just let me have it "



"Liv, I can handle one reminder of my losses but not two okay , So let's go" she yelled . I guess she was still pounding about the whole issue . Tania started walking to the railing where we were to get off the yacht from . I had no option but to follow.



A small boat was already set waiting for us. Both Tania and I left the party just like that.



Damnon .



By the time I was done dancing with Leslie , Liv was gone . She just vanished into thin air . I tried looking for her but I didn't see her anywhere. I found Yvonne by the snack table getting another glass of alcohol for herself in a plastic cup .



"Hey , Yvonne " I called her and felt awkward when she looked at me . she and I had history too . As Tania's friend she knew alot . and maybe too much.



"Dam , you came back" she said to me . she usually shorten my name to Dam when she called me.



" Yah I did , have you seen Tania and Liv anywhere, I can't find them?". I asked her, going straight to the point.



"That's all you came to ask me" she sighed irritated "Really ? "



" Yvonne we talked about this, Tania and I aren't meant to be together and so we ended things ." I said to her thinking that's what she meant.



" That's not what am talking about" she pointed out and gave me a look I didn't quite understand.



" No!" I exclaimed finally after understanding what she was talking about " we are not talking about that ,we promised each other we won't talk about it " I told her .



"Damnon, she is here , in manhattan. living with Tania and is the wife to Isaac and you think we shouldn't talk about it?" she asked and clearly showed her disappointed to my reaction to the situation.



" I know that but not here. not now." I assured her, there were so many people here around and to many ears that were not supposed to hear what we were to talk about. " now just tell me where they are?"



" They left already, Tania saw you and she couldn't handle it." Yvonne said to me and took the content in her cup.



" so she dragged Liv with her." I stated imagining how it went. Liv and I were finally connecting and Tania had to just come and disorganize everything.



" listen to me Damnon" Yvonne turned serious " she might not remember but she will eventually, especially now. I mean is literally Isaac's wife" Yvonne went back to the topic I had dismissed.



" Don't you think I know that? she was already acting strange around me. am trying to figure out if she recalls anything so that I can erase it again."

I said to her.



" Damnon even if you do so, Isaac will come back eventually, imagine her reaction to that. alot of things will surface." Yvonne was worried.



" goodnight Yvonne, just keep your mouth shut and leave the rest to me." I said to her and walked away from her.

I was alittle disappointed that I didn't get to meet Liv before she left but I had the whole day tomorrow with her, and the next and the next and the next....

I had enough time to make her get alot closer to me to trust me.

The next day, I was up early and excited to reach the office, why? not sure myself but I was really anxious to get to work and to make this day even alot better is I did not receive that usual annoying nightmare again. I had had a wonderful, peaceful night.

I drove my small car to the company and arrived at about 9 am, I was received by the receptionist who showed so much love to me. I already knew where my office was so I entered the elevator and went straight there. But when I got there.....

I found Sabastian, Isaac's assistant waiting for me in the office. His appearance also dimmed the light in the room because it was always business and nothing more. I wonder if Liv had arrived too though.

" Damnon! am glad to see you've finally arrived" he welcomed me warmly in his business voice.

" Did something change?" I asked him as I moved to my chair. I fell on in and felt almost relaxed immediately. The chairs were so comfortable.

" No, actually I came here for something else, I am going to be your new personal assistant until Mr Williams is back. Besides, I have all you need up here." He informed me as he pointed to his temple.

" Sabastian, I don't mean to be harsh on you but is it necessary?, I mean I can handle this place. It's not my first time running a company." I said careful not to offend the man but his determined look showed no hope to dismiss him gently.

" Damnon, this is not a bar" he reminded me " Mr Williams put alot of effort to give this company it's pride and am just here to make sure you don't destroy it."

" seems you are certain for sure that I will destroy this place. Well then suit yourself, now I need a full heads-up on where the old man left the company, I want to know where we are standing at the moment, where we were the past few years and where we are heading, right now." I leaned back on the leather chair as I swirl side ways on the chair. I wanted this guy gone. Giving him some work to do could keep him away from me for some time.

" The data was sent to your email immediately after the meeting." Sabastian told. This man!!

" Well you should have atleast told me something." I complained. I didn't hide my disappointment.

Sabastian completely ignoring my attitude to his presence started giving me today's schedule.

" Well that is not the problem that should be addressed right now, in an hour we have a client coming, she wants a full set of clothes, make-up, shoes and alot more that she will be needing for her upcoming wedding." Sabastian informed. " And after that, we have a proposal from the suitor's agency that will be presented in the afternoon." He continued. Suitor's was a modeling agency and I was sure they wanted to buy some products for the models.

" Sabastian it's my first day, I can't handle the serious things already." I pleaded with the man. All I wanted today was to meet Liv and make her trust me.

" Look, Damnon we are three days behind schedule, if we keep wasting time. Beauty might collapse." He tried to reason with me. I saw his point but it was just 9 in the morning.

" Well it's not like I ha-" I was still saying when I was rudely interrupted.

" We have a problem. A VERY serious problem." Sheila budged in without knocking and he looked dead serious and mad. He had a magazine in his hands as he walked in. If he were a cartoon, smoke would be basting out from his ears. He slammed the magazine on the table. " Someone robbed us." He said as he pointed at the section of bags that were on display in the magazine. I didn't understand his point...

" What do mean we have been robbed?" I asked as I looked at the magazine critically.

" Those were my designs Damnon, I designed them and some new company posted their exhibition of my designs on their platform." This did not sound good.

Asif my meetings today wasn't done I had to deal with this theft too

" How was that possible, can't we sue them or something.?" I asked sabastian directly as he always knew what to do

" No we can't because we had not yet officially informed that the designs were ours, we had just started production and then I get this. I just have drawings showing they were mine but with this, we lost this." Sheila whined alot disappointed

" What did Tania say about this?" I asked him

" She didn't come in today" sabastian informed me. I see a busy future infront of me today. Gush!!

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