Trip Reunited

Chapter 11

Chapter 11

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Marisa

It was the day.

Today was the official launch of our product in the market before the production began and pre-sale names were entered. It was also the day when the King Inc. Company was to be known as one of the competitors for automobile products. A major part of this goes to our partnership with the Wilson. With their help and support, we were able to reach this milestone. Because of them, I was given an opportunity to see my dream project come true.

The past few weeks I received a lot of help from Nate. I was surprised to see him working by my side instead of making things more hectic and heavy for me. Maybe his hatred for me did not overpower his love for business. Whatever was the reason, I was very grateful.

Though, I noticed his strange behaviour from time to time. One second he is sweet and nice to me by bringing me coffee and completing my pending work while I rested, while on certain other occasions, he would totally ignore my presence and walk past me as if I don't exist. He gave me whiplash throughout, leaving me confused and slightly annoyed. I tried not to think too much into it with other important matters at hand.

I was all set to get ready for this big evening. My dress was layed out neatly on the bed with my make-up table set with the products I would need and a high stiletto place at the bottom of the bed near the dress.

Since I only had few hours to get ready and look perfect, without wasting any more time, I rushed to the bathroom to take a much needed shower to calm my nervous. After cleaning my body and washing my hair thoroughly, I moved to next step of drying myself, including my hair. I decided to style it later and let it down for the time being.

It took me good about of time to do my makeup and then proceeded to my hair. Instead of pulling it up in a bun, I decided to let it down in beach curles at the very last minute. Once I was satisfied with my hair, I moved onto my dress. It was long net sleeve gown with a sweetheart neckline that showed an appropriate amount of clevage. The gown fit me perfectly and had a straight fall down my feet. The best part of the gown was the back and the reason why I loved it. It had a backless U cut that stopped just above my butt with strings crossed over it.

Once into the dress, I turned to face the mirror and smiled nervously as I was proud of myself as well as anxious in facing a large crowd. I had doubts in my head if what I was wearing was appropriate for this event or should I have gone for something subtle. Ignoring everything right now - as I did not have time or a new dress to change into - I moved to put my heels on. It was a simple silver stiletto to compliment my height.

Giving myself a once over in the mirror, I grabbed my clutch and moved to leave the house as I barely had any minutes left before the event starts. As my company was the host, I knew I had to reach on time. Leaving all my doubts behind at my house, I took a step to my coming future and hoped it would go just as I wish.

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The evening preceded as it had been planned. Nothing was going out of proportion or our control or plans. As soon as I entered the hall, I was bouncing from one person to other with Mr. King by my side as he was the one to introduce me to a bunch of people whose name I knew not. I made a lot of conversation that consist of men and women asking questions about the product launch to complimenting me on my looks and intelligence. Those were some scenario I was highly uncomfortable with but all I did was give them a closed lip smile with a 'thank you'.

The Wilson's were yet to make their appearance and I wasn't surprised with their fashionably late entry. All the big star come at a certain time.

Speaking of making an entrance, I was in a middle of a conversation with a fine young man who was too keen on having a chat with me, when the hair at the back of my neck rose. Goosebumps erupted all over my body as I felt a stare on my back. My skin felt hot as if the temperature had suddenly increased.