Chapter 8: Mixed Feelings
She opened the door and saw the man who had been at her service again,
“yes?”
She asked still feeling sleepy,
“ma'am, we leave for work by eight, I came to make sure that you were already getting ready you don't want to keep Mr Lucas waiting”
She hurriedly started preparing, and at exactly 4 minutes after eight, she was already downstairs, Lucas handed her his briefcase,
“What are my schedules for today?”
“you will be receiving appointments today and at exactly noon, you will be open for the normal daily activities”
Grace said,
“Good”
He said.
Two cars conveyed him to the office, one with his men and Emily and the other one carried him, Grace rode with him as he ordered.
Mr. Ethan was already at the office even before Lucas arrived, he had sent him a message to meet him at the office. Mr Ethan sat in the waiting room of Lucas's office waiting patiently.
Lucas walked in with Grace walking behind him, he asked Mr. Ethan to come into the office and sent Grace to collect appointment files.
Mr. Ethan sat down, like a servant answering to his master, Lucas sat down and stared at him,
“Mr. Ethan, did you not tell Grace about the deal we made?”
He asked staring into his eyes, Mr Ethan came closer to the table,
“I did sir, is she giving you trouble?”
“Trouble?, no one can give me trouble Mr. Ethan, my question is, did you not tell her that once she gets the job she will be my spouse?”
“of course, I did sir we discussed it and I made sure she got the info-
“Mr Ethan I was able to save your business don't think for one minute that I cannot pulverize it-
“I know sir-
Grace entered and dropped the files on her hands on the table,
“I want you to tell her here-
“princess-
“If this is about me being his wife, then please I don't want to hear it”
Mr. Ethan scared and angry raised his voice,
“We discussed this Grace-
“No, we didn't, we didn't discuss any of this, you made this decision on your own!”
“to save a business that I used to train you in school, that brought food to our table, what is your problem, this is for our future!-
“Future? my future or yours?”
“Princess it's for our future, i promise you, you won't regret any of this-
“Father I am already regretting all this, what about Jason, how do I even tell him all of this?-
“Enough both of you, we made a deal, now is either you keep the deal fair or Mr Ethan we cancel it-
“cancel? No sir, there will be no cancellation”
Mr.Ethan stood up and turned to Grace,
“you ingrate, after all I have done for you, you want to choose your boyfriend over your own father's success-
“Boyfriend? What about my happiness?”
“You will be his spouse this is not your decision to make”
Lucas grinned from chin to chin, literally enjoying the drama going on in his office, he opened a drawer and brought out a printed paper,
“Please sign here Mr Ethan, Grace sign here”
“I am not signing a deal with a monster!”
Grace stood her ground,
“fine then I will sign them both”
“No Mr Ethan, Grace has to sign hers by herself but that is not an issue, just sign in here and leave the rest for me”
Lucas smirked, Mr. Ethan signed and arranged his suit,
“ingrate”
He said to Grace and left the office, Grace turned and saw Lucas smiling at her, her blood was boiling and she was filled with mixed feelings, but the one she felt the most was hate and detest, she turned and excused herself.
Lucas picked up his phone and called one of his men, Paul,
“find Grace’s boyfriend Jason and bring him to me”.
Grace rushed to the convenience room and broke down in tears. After crying her eyes out, she wiped her eyes with the back of her palm, looked at herself in the mirror and gave a weak smile, she adjusted her pants and left the convenience room.
As Grace entered the elevator back to Lucas's office, she met a man at the elevator, he looked cold and stood at the side of the elevator, Grace stole glances at the man every passing second, finally the elevator stopped, and she came out and the man followed suite, she started walking towards Lucas's office and the man also headed for the same direction, Grace stopped and pretended to arrange her shoes, the man walked past her, she looked up and saw him enter Lucas's office.
Immediately the man entered, Grace heard Lucas raise his voice, she immediately hurried to the office and kept her ears on the door, she couldn't hear them but she could tell that they were arguing, and it was an intense argument, she wanted to be inside there, so she opened the door and entered,
“oh am sorry sir, I didn't know you had a visitor, i will just-
“stay, he will come back later, right Micheal?”
The man chuckled, tapped on the desk and left the office smiling and leaving the door open, Grace closed the door and turned to look at Lucas, she could see the terror on his face, the way he slumped in his chair, rubbed his forehead, she knew something was up,
“So are you meeting too many people today for appointments?”
“just five”
Grace said in a low tone,
“call in two, and tell the other three to come back tomorrow it's not like am going to give them the job”
He said typing on his phone,
“Okay-
As she turned the doorknob to open the door, he added,
“and get your signature ready for deal”
She opened the door and slammed it behind her.
Lucas sat leaned back on his chair, Paul's call came in,
“sir I found him-
“bring him to the office pls-