Chapter 69: Saving the day

Liam walked strode past his workers leaving them in surprise, smiles, and gossip, it was a new habit, and not all of them were getting used to it.

" Seriously, our boss is really changing",

" And that even makes him more charming", a lady admired as she kept staring at him while he proceeded towards the elevator. Her reaction makes the man beside her jealous,

" We better start going before we get fired, old behaviors don't die too soon", he said and she quickly reasoned with him, heading back on their way.

Emma met him on the way while he was walking through the office,

" Good morning sir",

" Morning Emma", he replied and she got taken aback a little bit.

' Boss is really changing ', she said in her mind smiling and he waved back at the workers who greeted him on the way to his office,

" Any update about the chemicals?", he asked Emma jolting her out of her trance.

It's been a week since the day Amelia's identity was recognized by him, at the moment everyone missed her as she is now busy modeling, Ryan didn't fail to always check up on her, visiting her at her shoots with packages of lunch boxes for both her and her assistant, she seems to be doing fine even though she was still new to everything.

On her first shoot, she had some women dress her up and do her makeup, she kept giving them weird looks asking if it was all necessary as she was feeling strange with them touching her face, and her body and doing things to her face. The worst of the whole setup was when she had to wear her heels. She was laughed at by some other women who found her strange.

" As beautiful as you are, you can't even wear heels?", a jealous woman said mocking her,

" I'm sorry but I'm not used to it", she said trying to walk with it,

" That's not an excuse for a lady", the lady eyed her and others watched while she struggled, laughing and pointing hands at her shaking legs, " you should be ashamed",

" She's not the only one who doesn't know how to wear heels", a woman said and they all kept quiet, including those who were laughing, " What of a woman who prefers sneakers and boots all the time, even if she's a mother, should she be ashamed just because she couldn't lift the heels properly?", she said glaring at all of them in the room. She looks like she's more influential cause of the way she was respected even though the woman mocking her before is also glaring back at the lady who interfered.

" It's fine, you don't have to fight, I'm going to learn how to walk with it properly", Amelia said with a smiles,

" do you need my help", the lady in a blue suit asked,

" I won't mind please", she replied nodding her head and she gave him a hand,

" I'm Alice by the way", she introduced herself,

" I'm Amelia",

" Amelia", she called the name with her and Lia looked at her, surprised.

" You don't have to be surprised, you're quite popular so everyone has the idea of who you are",

" ho, but why",

" Your picture is trending on the internet currently as the most beautiful woman so what did you expect",

" ho.." She realized nodding her head but not totally understanding her as she did understand what she meant by internet while Alice felt like she was probably feigning ignorance or being humble. She didn't understand her but they became friends quickly.

Seeing videos of people getting crowded around her anytime she wants to a public place and how she comes home every day talking about her suitors and proposal makes Liam jealous and he knew he had to do something to keep her. He decided to visit her studio one afternoon, unnoticed, and arrived while she was shooting but what he saw didn't sit well with him at all.

Amelia didn't have a problem facing the light but it felt so weird for her in front of the camera, the photographer was always telling her to turn one way and the other way, sometimes confusing her, telling her to do styles she doesn't know and if she couldn't do it he'll get frustrated while some ladies would laugh at her. She was so uncomfortable and sad and he noticed that, also the way the photographer was yelling at her made him furious. The mockery was so much that she bowed her head and didn't notice the man walking towards her.

She comes home all with smiles, telling him how wonderful her day was, how much fun she had especially meeting with new people and her suitors, she never for once made mention of the challenges she was facing nor the fact that she was getting bullied.

Amelia felt a strong familiar arm around her shoulder, his strong pleasant, and yet familiar cologne filled her nose and sent a feeling of protection through her veins. She felt relaxed immediately and looked up at him, bringing a smile to her face.

" Liam?",

" hi, princess".

She blushed and wanted to embrace him but people were watching, dumbstruck at the handsome man who showed up from nowhere and caught them off guard with his handsomeness that's too dangerous and a pleasant scent that trap them in a trance, except the men.

" Who are you please?", the photographer asked.

He wrapped his hand around her waist pulling her closer,

" her boyfriend", he said and left everyone in total shock including Amelia. The hearts that were filled with admiration and lust a few seconds ago were broken with just two words and were soon replaced with anger and jealousy.

" You cannot be here",

" I know, but I'm forced to when you ain't doing your job right",

" What did you mean? you are not the one to teach me my job",

" you don't yell at your colleagues, you are working for her, you are taking her pictures, you coax her to do the styles you want not yelling at my woman".

The man scoffed angrily, " And do you think that works for someone like her, she has just been wasting my time for days".

Liam smirked and he let go of Amelia's waist, he put his hands into his pocket and looked straight into his eyes.

" What if I do your job better than you".

The man laughed, " photographer isn't about taking selfies, it requires expertise",

" you talk too much, here, give it", he said extending his hand for the camera and the man underestimating him gave it to him.

" You've lost your job dude", Noah who was standing at the back said immediately after the man handed over his camera.

Liam turned to Amelia who was not sure what he was up to,

" The light isn't too bright right?", he asked with a cool gentle voice and smile,

" yes, it's fine",

" Good. Now relax yourself, I'm here now. You don't need to do whatever styles he's asking of you, I just need one thing from you",

" What's it?".

He lowered his voice only for her to hear, " Imagine you're in a beautiful garden as beautiful as home, feel the breeze, the scent, and the warmth, and act like you are getting lost in the beauty of nature, can you do that for me?".

Amelia smiled and nodded.

" That's my girl", he said and rolled up his sleeves before maintaining his picture.

" Are you ready?",

" yes", she said after taking a deep breath,

" yes relax, let's give it a go", he said giving her the go-ahead as he positioned to take a good shot.

Amelia imagined exactly what he wanted her to, she went into the imaginative world and got lost in it, by the time she opened her eyes, she was met with the satisfactory smile of Liam who kept encouraging her and complimenting her. She got free and began to freestyle getting more excited as he kept on complimenting her causing her to blush, and cracked jokes that made her laugh and loosen up.

Soon they were done.

" Give me five!", he said with a grin and they did high five when they were done, " you did great",

" let's see the result", the photographer said impatiently. Mr Sebastine walked in at the moment, he heard the news about the commotion going on in the studio and came in a hurry along with his P. A and Alice, they arrived at the scene where they were about to check the pictures out.

" Hi Mr. Liam",

" Good afternoon, Mr. Seb",

" what has brought you down here without notice, I would have come to welcome you",

" I'm grateful Mr. Seb",

" would you like to come with me for a drink?",

" I'm sorry Mr. Seb, this is quite not the mood, you have some incompetent employees you need to deal with for the way they maltreat their clients, especially her", Liam said, and Mr. Seb who already heard about it got informed again.

After everything it was concluded that the photographer would lose his job if the photos ended up looking good and when they checked, it was beyond good.

It was a fantastic job and the word ' looking great ' or ' amazing ' is an understatement for the result. The picture of her laughing was so captivating that it got their eyes glued to the screen, everyone's mouth was hung open and a man was even forced to say it.

" This is an angel".

She looks too perfect to be called a human and another picture of her when she was lost in her imagination looks like she was truly an angel, the face tells she was in a Dreamland dreaming of something beautiful, while the other one portrays her enjoying some scent. The producer immediately concluded that they were going to use all the pictures, the last picture would be for a perfume brand.

Amelia couldn't stop smiling and blushing as she kept getting compliments and thumbs up but she didn't want the photographer who was already regretting what he did and was feeling so bad about getting fired so when Mr. Seb instructed him to be dismissed she pleaded on his behalf and takes the blame for it.

Luckily for him, her pleas were accepted and he was reinstated, he was so happy and grateful to her.

While everyone was still talking about the beautiful pictures, Liam was using the opportunity to download every single picture taken of her onto his phone.