Scarlett is pretty much the description of 'beauty with brains' and 'everyone has a scared past' together. Now what matters is her present. And this present need MONEY to fund someone's life.
Who? Someone close to her. But will she sign herself off...
"Life does not always throw lemons your way, Sometimes it surprises"
To say that what she felt was immense shock would be a complete understatment.
It was him. The guy from last night. He was Mr. Knight.
Last night she was so scared and shook that she didn't even glance at the face of the man who saved her properly.
She took three steps back while he stayed in place.
"Mr.Knight, I'm sorry for being late. I just saw the e-mail at 10 and came as fast as I could for th-", she was cut off.
"You're an hour late Miss. Not just a few minutes.", he said, his tone rough and had an edge to it almost as if trying to intemidate her - rather scare her and make her run for the hills - but she remained unfazed, for she had witnessed men worse than what he was disaying.
" I'm sorry sir. I live quite far from here. You'd know, you dropped me a few blocks away from my house. And before I forget", she looked up into his eyes and continued, "thanks a lot for yesterday. I'll return your blazer soon.", she ended.
She was hoping that he'd atleast for the sake of it give her a chance to be interviewed. He did.
They sat down and he questioned her.
"You are in your last year in college at the age of 20 how so?", he asked.
" I started my schooling a year earlier, meaning I was 18 in second year of college. And hence, I'm a year ahead of my peers you can say.", she replied confidently.
"Alright. How do you think that you will be an asset to the company rather than a liability?", he said next. He was calm and collected on the outside but inside of him, unaware to the world was a storm threatening to break free.
A storm of millions of questions that he wanted to ask. Questions he didn't know why he had.
Like how was she so composed even after him using his stage one 'I'll scare the living daylights out of you' tone.
Maybe she is like you. Calm outside, screaming inside, a part of his brain responded.
But it's just that she wasn't. He knew tha the completely unfazed. 'Cause if she were not, her eyes would show a hint a fear.
In the time when he'd helped her out he'd come to know that her eyes told everything her heart felt. Like last night, they held fear and then the satisfaction of being found, being saved, being rescued from a possible nightmare.
The way she thanked him before leaving, her eyes held gratitude and right now they held confidence and shock at the same time.
"I believe that i try my best to help fix things that I can. I believe that I will help my colleagues and seek help. It will u hope boost everyone's confidence and give them a boost to work. Other than that, marketing has been my dream. To tell a story, impart a message withing a few words and one image has always fascinated me so I promise to do the best I can and improve as much as I can if I have any flaws sir. ", she said the polite smile never leaving her face.
Alexander nodded and continued to ask her questions and she continued to answer them with confidence.
" Alright miss, you will get a call from our end if you are hired. You may leave. ", he said clearly indicating the end of their meeting.
Though short lived, but his presence seemed to have put her on alert and given her a simple boost of confidence with his smirk.
She nodded and said," Thank you so much for giving me a chance Mr. Knight. I will take your leave now.", she said getting up and giving him a smile and waking out.
As soon as she stepped out she released a breath and picked up her phone excited to tell Grayson about her interview and then remembered the situation with his mom.
" Oh dear god! What have I done. I need to rush.", she said, not believing that she forgot one of the most important people of her life when they were in such a condition.
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Alexander had never in the span of those days imagined that he would come, face-to-face with the girl whoose eyes and smile had him captivated.
After the interviews, in an hour he had only hired one of two people that he required on spot and kept the rest waiting.
But when he got a call from the receptionist that the fourth candidate was there for the interview an hour late, he was intrigued as to why anyone would show up after being so late.
So he called the person up and made them wait purposely.
When he entered, he saw a girl a little shorter than his 6'2 frame-a lot shorter without the extra high heels - in front of her on a phone call.
"Yeah. I will. Ask her to take care. I love you. Bye", the girl said and turned around and bumped into his chest.
It was the girl from last night.
Throughout the entire day that proceeded, Alexander was still lost in the thoughts of his upcoming deals and the girl.
~°°~
Both of them, were unaware of what destiny had in hold for them. Unaware of the new business and crisis that would force each of them to strike a deal.
A deal, promising life. A deal putting their existence on stake. A deal, that would make them relive things they left behind. A deal that guaranteed re-visting the past.
A deal between the pretend devil and the real angel.
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