“How did what I asked you to do go?” Abraham asked curiously with a brow raised at her.Sheila smirked with pride, “It went very well, thank you. I was able to convince the three companies you sent me to.”Abraham raised a brow at her, “Are you sure they truly agreed and they didn't just tell you yes to get you off their backs?” Sheila pouted feigning hurt, “You really should have more faith in me, Abraham. Of course, I wouldn't just leave without being so sure that I have their support, and it was pretty easy to convince the first two groups,” she said with her head raised high and her eyes shimmering with pride, but before she could continue speaking “You seem so certain, maybe I should give you some pride in that,” Abraham said nonchalantly, his eyes moving back to the pile of paper arranged before him.“As I was saying_,” she said ignoring what he had said, “All I needed to do was play on their anger from the auction day. It turns out that many other businessmen held Keith to he
Mrs. Hockings sat on the queen size bed, her gaze on the wall and her mouth curved downwards into a pout, the glow in her eyes almost completely gone as she stared unmoving. Mr. Hockings stepped into the room with his face holding its usual frown and his brows shot up when he noticed his wife's position and sad pout. He took in her surroundings, from the packed boxes beside her to her phone placed on her lap between her hands.“And what is with the long face, woman?” Mr. Hockings asked with his face scrunched up into a frown but one could see the concern deep in his eyes.Mrs. Hockings flinched with surprise at the sound of her husband's voice, she took her gaze to him and eyed him cautiously. She had not even noticed when her husband had come in that was how engrossed she had been with her thoughts. “Honey, I thought you were planning to meet with the lawyer,” she said, eyeing him as he approached the bed to sit beside her, the bed dipped with his weight, and scooted a bit to move cl
Keith adjusted himself properly so that Camila was placed very well on his lap and so that he was also comfortable. Camila snuggled closer to him but her attention did not shift from the phone between her hands, as she tapped swiftly against the screen. “Are you comfortable?” Keith questioned when Camila repositioned herself once again.Camila nodded, finally glancing up at her phone. “Yes, but could you not hug me too tight,” she pouted trying to shove his arm away, “I understand that you miss me but if you squeeze the life out of me now then you would have no one to hug.”Keith rolled his eyes, loosening up his hold around her a bit, “I'd just cuddle your lifeless form out of your then.”Camila frowned, peeping up at him. “That's a twisted thing to say, Keith, eew.”Keith scoffed, “Other women would blush if I gave them a response like that instead of saying I would find someone else to cuddle with.”“Well those are the other women and this is me, you should be thankful that I am n
Sheila sat behind the desk, clicking on the keyboard of her laptop, her eyes scanned the screen of her laptop, her entire focus on what she was scrolling through. On the screen of the laptop one could identify the logos of big companies that were involved with the real estate business, she tapped on the mouse scanning the screen with all her attention. The sound of the door opening snapped her attention away from the screen, and hastily she canceled her current search, taking her gaze to whoever had just walked into the office, her shoulders hunched up in a tense way but it immediately loosened up a little when she saw that it was not Abraham that had walked in, it would have been disastrous, especially with the fact that Abraham would be quick to notice her nervousness and sneaky movements and wouldn't stop until he got the information he wanted out of her.She glanced up with a forced smile as she watched Abraham's assistant approach her with an unreadable expression. If there was s
“Sheila,” he called.“Your lackey said you needed to see me,” she blurted out.Abraham turned to face her, studying her up and down, “Go out with me.”Sheila tilted her head back to get a better view of Abraham's face, expecting to see him struggling to hold back his laughter or for him to tell her that he was joking just to get a reaction out of her, but it was quite the contrary Abraham's face was set without any emotion as he studied her face awaiting her response. She raised a brow at him in question, what is with the sudden asking out? It was completely out of context in her opinion and completely unnecessary, or was this a trap to finally lure her in?“What is with the strange look?” Abraham quizzed, eyeing her face with a deep scowl. She snapped out of her thoughts at the sound of his voice and forced a smile onto her face, “Nothing really, just wondering what I had done to deserve such an honor to have the mighty Abraham Connor asking me to go out with him,” she teased moving
Sheila sat in the back seat of Abraham's fancy car with Abraham sitting close to her, and although not too close she could smell his sweet cologne from here. He smelt like something sweet mixed with his natural musky smell which was contrasting his personality in her opinion. A man like Abraham should have nothing to do with smelling sweet, at least that was what Sheila thought. She took her attention off sweet smelling Abraham, looked out the front and heaved a tiny sigh of relief as she studied the man behind the wheel who was not Abraham's assistant. Up until now Sheila still couldn't think of a valid reason why Abraham's assistant had offered to drive them to their destination, even Abraham had been surprised by his assistant's offer while she had just stood watching the interaction with a frown. Meanwhile, her heart had been beating way too fast at that particular moment. She tried to imagine Abraham's assistant in the car too actually being the one driving_ the asshole would mak
“Do not read into it, Abraham, it's nothing. You startled me, and that is the end of the story. Whatever you are thinking, scrap it out because you are only just overthinking things.”Abraham regarded her with a funny look and suddenly the corner of his lips rose a little, “So that is you telling me that I am also overthinking the stares you and my assistant kept giving each other? Because that did not seem like nothing in my opinion.”Sheila sat up and readjusted so she was facing Abraham fully, she tilted her head to the left to get a good view of his face, taking in his rugged yet graceful features. His jaw was clenched tightly together his deep brown eyes regarding her filled with an unreadable glint that she could not exactly place what it could entirely mean. Her eyes dragged from his eyes up to the rest of his hard facial features, from his well trimmed hair, slicked back into a neat style and his lips pursed together into a firm line as he watched her, she noted that it was lo
Sheila was snapped out of her thoughts as she felt a tap on her hand, she grumbled at first choosing to ignore the persistent tap but when it did not stop she had no other choice but to force her eyes open. Her eyes dilated and she squirted her eyes to adjust to the surrounding light, she blinked a few times to regain focus and looked around to study her surroundings and pinpoint where she was exactly. It was not long for her to realize that she was still in the car but then it also quickly registered that the car was no longer moving.“Are you done playing dumb?” A firm voice startled her out of sleep fully, she gasped and raised her head. But to her surprise, she only got more startled from then as she saw that she had not been leaning against the car window like she thought but instead, her head had been resting on Abraham's shoulder all this time. How long has she been asleep? Had Abraham put her head on his shoulder? And if he hadn't been the one to place her head then had she g