Rose took a lot of time to cross check her rooms in case she was missing anything. A violent ring of her phone made her jump of her thoughts of having dinner as she put the call on the ear.
"Mr. Liam will accompany you for dinner."
"Okay. Where?"
"To your house within half an hour Miss."
"What? but....."
The phone. The call was disconnected already? Rose was quite surprised that Liam was coming to have dinner at her third class apartment which was barely stuffed with clothes and space?
"I feel like a complete loser. What will I wear?" Rose bit her lip in regret as her eyes were feeling numb on the face.
Ding dong! The terrific sound was almost echoing in the apartment when Rose in simple night pants and tops came out of the kitchen and opened the door to see Liam dressed in a complete poor boy.
Who nearly looked pale and with the shabby eyes which were tired and frightened to look at something in the face of Rose.
Soon the smile spreaded and his eyes became small.
"Did you drive here?" Rose asked Liam and waited for his reply.
"No, ran and came"
"Why would you? Come in"
"Why wouldn't I? I was dying to meet you and see your place." Liam stepped in with folded hands and hide them into the pockets of the grey pants.
"No. I mean why did you run to come here?"
"Oh, didn't you see the news yet?"
"What's in there?"
"The jubeline of honour was caught doing drugs and were demanding a lawyer with an A class qualification investigator. Wow, did you make this?"
"Why didn't you go then?" Rose pulled her sleeves to cook the eggs which were cracked by Liam beside her.
"I am tired. My stomach is empty."
"Then drink wine and meat. It will be done within two mins."
"No. My stomach is not drinking wine quite happily." Liam took a big piece of meat and coated it with soy sauce and sugar and stuffed his mouth with it.
The dinner was finally done and his sourness was ended by enjoying spicy pickle as he took off his jacket and sat on the chair admiring the looks of Rose.
"What?" Rose asked when her and Liam's eyes were fixed on eachothers eyes.
"I have something to tell you." Liam says as he folds his legs and sits straight.
Rose obediently nods and sits at a comfortable position and says "go on...."
"Look, it's simple. I want to marry you for my future. But you have to know that I went on a blind date for my mother's sake but I turned it down." Liam just said the truth without looking at Rose's red face.
Rose poured cold water into a glass and gave it to Liam while his eyes met with the water and said "are you angry?"
"No. Why would I? In Fact you should have accepted her."
"Why?" Liam took the initiative to look into her face which was almost red and the hands were out of blood. The warm sensation between her legs and simultaneously her ears and nose were cold.
"Hey are you cold?"
"No, I just don't feel right….."
"Did you take any wrong medicine?"
"I didn't."
The red spots began to appear on her chin and feet when Liam noticed her lips were white and nose were too. He hurriedly closed the window and switched on the room heater as he took Rose by his arm and sweetly lifted her up and laid her on her bed with the futon mattress on.
Later, it was quite dark at night. Liam cleaned the place and boiled the egg soup for Rose. He did some of his private work and as a caring person he checked on Rose several times as the outside looked pretty bad.
Liam took a good look on her face when he noticed that the red spots were still there and she was covered with sweat as Rose opened her eyes and said "sorry I feel weak"
"No need to be. Drink this egg soup and don't worry about your weakness. I have searched for something on this kind of sickness. It will go away if you eat and sleep well. Liam said while handing the soup to Rose.
"This is the same soup that other convenience stores sell. How can you make it exactly the same?" Rose asked as her eyes were full with satisfaction.
"I learned their secret recipes long back so it is no big deal. Eat" Liam leaves her alone and calls Michel.
"Yes sir?"
"I want to have breakfast and lunch in the main house. Please prepare high protein meals and dinner. We will hold up a fancy restaurant." Liam orders as he sits on the sofa.
"Got it. And the appointment with Hardy? And Smiths?" Michel asks while brushing his hair.
"I will take care of it. There are still some good employees who can keep up with them. I will hire someone for the time being" Liam said as he closed his eyes.
The call gets disconnected. On the other hand, Rose changed into a pair of warm clothes as she sat on the chair and turned on the laptop to send the email she was writing to her father.
The morning mist was quite thick. Liam
took a warm shower and left to pick some vegetables from the market as Rose woke up and found herself covered with a nice and new futon.
Her hair was sticky and her nose was runny when she got out of the bed Liam came in and saw that he was wobbling around the room almost out of her pace.
Liam grabbed her hand and said "stop. If you want anything she will help you with it for the week."
"You know I can't shake this feeling of being spoiled by you" Rose says with a weakness in her eyes.
"Okay." Liam stroked her head with a bright smile on his face.