“Mercury,” Joe Cole breathed, his voice filled with awe as he continued in his lost stare on Mercury. “You look absolutely breathtaking.” Mercury's cheeks flushed with a rosy hue as she met his gaze, a shy smile tugging at her lips. “Thank you,” she murmured softly, her eyes sparkling with gratitude. She reached towards him for a hug and as they did, she whispered in his ear, “You never cease to sweep me off my feet.” Joe Cole chuckled, this time his heart was pounding hard and she could feel it. “You are worth more than I could ever do.”Andrea and his gang had their attention glued on the two, still lost in Mercury's beauty until they had enough. Seeing Joe Cole hug Mercury the way he did made Andrea angrier and he couldn't contain it any longer.“How dare you?” Andrea exclaimed and separated Joe Cole from Mercury.“Andrea, what the hell is that?” Mercury jumped to quickly attack him with her words, she had had enough of his stupid return to disrupt her life. “What is your proble

The waiter hesitated, he didn't want to divulge whatever it was that troubled him. “Don't worry, sir. Allow me to quickly resolve the situation with management and I'll be back.”Joe Cole allowed him to carry on as he proposed. The young man hurried off to contact the manager and inquired what the situation was that he saw on the tablet.Joe Cole and Mercury waited for him for almost twenty minutes, the scene was becoming awkward and they couldn't bear it anymore. “Where is your colleague?” They asked the next waitress that walked past them. The waitress stopped to attend to their situation and they explained it to her. “I have an exclusive custom full treat-reservation here and I don't understand what is going on with you lots.”“Forgive us, sir. I'll quickly check it out for you.” The lady replied with a sense of remorse for their situation.“Please do, this is becoming awkward for us,” Mercury replied. She knew the restaurant was at fault and not Joe Cole. He had spent so much alr

Alex looked sternly at Andrea like his friend didn't know what he was doing, his expression looked disappointing as he continued to stare down at Andrea. Finally, he spoke up to answer his question. “Dude, this isn't just about you, it's about all of us and everyone in our class who the likes of that boy may embarrass tomorrow. It's about Jake and Robert and their friends that he humiliated at their own party. We must fight for them and help them win.Alex's words pierced Andrea's barriers, he now had an even bigger reason to deal with Joe Cole. Imagine embarrassing him on behalf of Jake and his friends who are heirs to billions of fortune, they would be loyal to him and hence, he could scale his career even more. “True man, you got it right.” He responded to Alex and they shook their hands loud to it with cheers.He moved to where Tonia sat behind her desk, her smile brightening as he approached her. She already knew what his response would be and she was finally getting what she wan

“Hey Tonia, what are you doing here? Where is Andrea?” Alex quickly got distracted by Tonia's interruption and jumped her with questions.Everyone except Joe Cole retained their attention on Tonia from the first glance, she too scanned them all with her eyes before dropping them finally on Joe Cole. “And why is he not looking at me?” She asked Joe Cole who remained fixed on his phone.His silence only aggravated her the more, she snatched his phone from his hand. “Give me that phone,” and without looking at the make, she smashed it on the floor and stomped on it over and over again. “Now, you look at me when I'm talking to you,” she returned back to him with her fierce look.Mercury and the others were left in bewilderment, she looked stunned by Tonia's reaction while the others cheered her up. “Go, girl!”Joe Cole turned his attention to her now that she finally called for it. Looking at him, her expressions swelled with disgust and irritation. “I have so much to say to your sorry li

Tonia hid behind Andrea and whispered in his ear, “I think he is the president of Cole Enterprise, and I was insulting him all day.” She whispered, banging her hand against her head to show her regret and frustration.“Come on, T, He is not anybody of such. Look at him and how pathetic he is, he is a good-for-nothing nobody.” Andrea encouraged her to help her shake off the idea that Joe Cole was someone special. Tonia continued to panic, she couldn't even come out from behind Andrea to face Joe Cole. Everyone observed what was going on and they began to calm themselves to learn of what Tonia had just learnt.“What is it, Tonia? Why are you shaking like that?” Alex asked her as he too contemplated the change of energy with Tonia.Tonia remained mute and unable to speak to them, her heart was pounding fast, she could only wish it was all a dream she was in or whatever she was thinking about Joe Cole was all a lie. Andrea scoffed at Tonia's concerns as he replied to his friend, “She th