One More Chance (COMPLETED)

Part 13

Nadine was riding her bicycle to her home, the rooftop house that they rented because couldn't afford to buy their own house. She didn't notice someone was approaching her as she parked the bicycle in front of the building she lived. The middle-aged man stood beside her with a smile on his face and slightly startled her when that man reproved her politely. Nadine threw him dumb look as she had no idea who was him.

"Hello, Miss Nadine," she took few steps backward when he called her name. How did he know her? Nadine afraid if that old man might have bad intention toward her.

"Who are you?" she stuttered anxiously, and he chuckled after noticed that she seemed afraid with him.

"Don't worry, Miss Nadine. I'm here because someone wants to meet with you," he said as his finger pointed at the luxurious black Mercedes that stopped not far from them.

"Someone?" her eyes followed his direction. Nadine gasped in surprise when the car window slid down slowly and revealed the person inside it. Because she was someone that her lover respected the most, Nadine greeted that person by slightly bowed her head toward her. She was Mrs.Bea, the grandmother of James, and she pursed her lips in annoyance when her eyes landed on Nadine's faking innocent face.

"Let's get inside the car. Mrs.Bea has something important to discuss with you," Nadine had no choice other than agreed with that man. Clenching her lips to calm the nervousness, she made the way to car. This wasn't the first time she met Mrs.Bea, for she had visited James's house several times, but she still couldn't help from not feel nervous when met this serious old woman. Mr.Cruz opened the door for her next to Mrs.Bea, and Nadine greeted her once again before she got into it. As usual, she wouldn't get any good response from Mrs.Bea.

"Excuse me, where are we going?" Nadine asked Mr.Cruz politely soon the car left the house's building.

"Don't worry Miss. We will go to the nice place," Nadine nodded her head and she sneakily glanced at Mrs.Bea who was sitting silently beside her. Although she was old, but she knew how to dress up and showed the appearance of sophisticated gentry and the successful career woman. Nadine awkwardly sat in her place and spoke nothing along the way to their unknown destination.

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HER eyes widened as the waiter continued placing many expensive Japanese dishes on table. They were now in Japanese dining room for private talk, and Nadine didn't know how much money they spent just to eat the foods in front her right now. James had brought her to this kind of place once, but honestly she disliked to have any date in expensive places. So they usually had simple date and the most memorable date was 'street date'. That was the first time James tried many foods that he hadn't tasted before. The atmosphere became awkward again when only two of them left inside the room.

"Er, Lola.."

"Call me Mrs.Bea," Nadine was taken aback by her words, but she immediately maintained her calm face. She wasn't expected any good treatment from her as she could sense that Mrs.Bea never liked her since the beginning.