Chapter Fifty Eight; A New Motivation.“I don’t know the name of the place yet.” Lucas heard himself saying. “Huh?” Xaiven was confused at his words. What could it even mean?“Oh did I say that out loud, forget about it.” “No, You now have me seriously wanting to hear where the place without a name exist.”“If I tell you that it also doesn’t have a place, then would you say am mad?” Lucas asked her and he envisioned how his pub would look like in one of the places he had looked at earlier that day.“No, contrary to what you think, I will actually say that you have something to do with such a place, why don’t you tell me, who knows, I might patronize you.” Xaiven encouraged him to tell her.Lucas hesitated a bit and when she saw that, she brought out an iPad from a drawer upstairs and showed him some more designs.“Why are you showing me this?” Lucas asked a little puzzled.“These are the new designs that will be released during fall next year..” Then why did you show me now? Lucas
Chapter Fifty Seven; The Making Process.It was a sound of something falling and breaking on the floor and it drew the attention of everyone that have gathered in front of Lucas.They all turned around in unison, only to see Mr. Bima standing at the entrance, and he does not look happy.“What are you king here?” Mr. Bima asked with fury, the customers were even scared, with the voice he used.Lucas immediately bowed down and wanted to answer him, but he didn’t even listen to him, he crouched down and picked up what looked like a porcelain that has broken into.“Arh! You again? First it was my bar, now it’s my important and priceless antique that you made me break by the sudden appearance of your presence? For how long will you do this? How long will you try destroying things for me?”Everyone, including Lucas was shocked at his words. They looked from Mr. Bima to Lucas and it made him uncomfortable.“Sir please…” Lucas didn’t even know why he was pleading, but he felt like he did some
Chapter Fifty Seven; Hectic WeekLucas turned to see the woman he didn’t expect to see today.“Miss Brook’s, your here?” Lucas stopped taking greeted her.“Yes, I came to tell you that the theme color should be purple and blue, not just blue.” Xaiven said, looking very innocent.“Luckily we just started and have nit gone far, I’ll talk to the people working on it to effect the necessary changes, is there anything else that you would like to be changed?” Lucas politely asked, he didn’t want to go so far and then have to change something as minor as the pigmentation.“No, that’s all. Were you able to solve the family emergency last night?” Xaiven blurted out, unable to contain her concern for him.The way he had stormed out of the place last night made her think the worst and she decided to personally come over and check on him.But that was of cause because she didn’t have his number to just call him and ask.“Yes Miss Brooks, I was able to solve it, thank you for your concern, is tha
Chapter Fifty Nine; The D DayLucas really didn’t finish it on his on, but not because he didn’t entirely finish the task in front mt of him.But it was because he had some help from the people on night duty that day.Apart from his team members, they all helped him finish the task they could do, and even directed him on how to do the once they couldn’t do and only have an idea of.When morning and all the others that spent the night in the company were already going home and being replaced by others that came in the morning, Lucas couldn’t do that because there was no one to take over from him.He just quietly sat in the front of Mr. Galileo’s office and waited for him to come to work so that he would submit and turn in all the works that he had done over night.But it was already eight o’clock in the morning, and Mr. Elio still hasn’t arrived to the office.Now since he is the boss and he had other establishments and branches even in the country, it was then not a thing of surprise
Chapter Sixty; For His Father.“The winner is Maxwell Warner, from the Warmer Plantation, his wine was one of the best, with a sour and a traditional field to it, his family grape plantation would definitely be used to enhance the production of wine and…”Lucas tried to listen to whatever the man in funky suit standing on the stage was saying, as it was projected on the loud speaker, but he justcouldn’t bring himself to continue listening.His mind blanked out and his ears became deaf for those minutes.The only thing he understand was that it was not his name that was being called on that stage and It only meant one thing, that he wasn’t the winner.He was almost sure that he could have easily won this thing, from the first stage to the very last.Even before the event started today, he had been looking at the beautiful scenery in the hotel and meditating on himself when he had come across one of the judges called Fredrick Plank from Gregory wines and more.The man created him w
Chapter Sixty One; Giving It A Go.“The runner up for this year’s event is nobody else by Lucas Jonas, his business proposal for one in a million Pub really stood out to us and had us hooked by the neck, we hope that this platform would enable him…” Even after the funny looking host had finished calling Lucas’s name and giving the little introduction he usually gives, Lucas did nit move, he was still standing rooting in one place, he couldn’t believe that he actually made it to second position, to think that he was already giving up.“Isn’t that you Mr. Baron? Congratulation! Why don’t you go up first and accept your price, then we shall finish our discussion later.”“Yes yes Mr. Baron, why don’t you go ahead first?”The people he was standing with urged him to go to thestage at once with smiles on their face as if they were beyond happy for his win.He couldn’t help but feel like they were a little more happy than him about it which was kind of strange.Anyway, Lucas came back to hi
Chapter Sixty Two; Busy During The Day“Is this why you didn’t come to work today? Because you had souvenirs for me?”Lucas was speechless. “Tell me, why were you absent?” Mr. Galileo asked with a quiet, yet authoritative voice.“Sir, the competition ended very late last night and …” Lucas started explaining how it all happened, but that was not what Mr. Galileo was asking him.“I don’t think you were given the day off fir Monday, have you forgotten the contract you signed? For this month, I am still your boss and you don’t get to act anyhow you ant just because you are my direct student, you could have easily taken an excuse if you were not going to come right?”Lucas didn’t really understand what was happening, but he knew that Mr. Galileo was right, he didn’t report that he wouldn’t be coming to work today, but it was not as if he had intentionally done it anyways. He as beginning to think of his hard it was working under somebody, it would be better for one to just be his or her
Chapter Sixty Three; Focus On Two Things.“Do you know Vienna?” “What? Who’s Vienna?” The lady asked giving him her attention.“I meant Geraldine.” Lucas corrected, remembering the name that she had first told him when they met.”“You know what? I think I have heard that name somewhere but don’t know for sure, I am new here but I can ask around for you.”With that, the waitress turned around and kept shouting with a loud voice. “Does anyone know a Geraldine? There’s someone looking for her.”“In the busy atmosphere with loud noise, she began to loudly asking just about everyone she met about Geraldine, she couldn’t be discreet at all.”“Hey see that handsome guy, he’s looking for Geraldine.” the waitress pointed at Lucas, when he saw this, he was embarrassed and even regretted going there.He immediately stood up and left the place without even turning back, until he entered his car, and after one final look, he zoomed off into the dark.From then on, Lucas had absolutely nothing on