'Til I Found You (COMPLETED)

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Amendments and new implementations are made within his first week including salary increase - a long time request of them all that finally occured - that would take effect the following month. It plastered smile to everybody upon hearing the good news apart from Lea. She remains quiet about his condition. Nobody knows about it to shun herself from rumors and that makes her irascible. He is austere and focus on his work that makes women, excluding her, to drool over him adding to his undeniable aesthetics. Her everyday life would not end without hearing about him as he is the darling of everyone at the faculty. The first week of his reign becomes busy for everybody in the academy. Aside from welcoming the handsome new school director and owner, finals are on the list as well. Their school compilations are near its deadline so that explain an exhausting week. Monday night arrives, she wishes to stop the Earth from revolving or be devoured alive to disappear from his sight. She heaved a sigh while overseeing herself through mirror. It's her nth time tonight but she feels uncomfy still. A car honks outside - a cue of him waiting outside to pick her up - she trails down the stairs. Get a grip upon twisting her knob and found him leaning against his matte black car with arms crossed like a beau ideal. His eyes scan her entirety - stunning, seductive and hot - as she walks towards him. The rest seems to stop that all he sees is her. She is wearing a light blue fitted casual dress on her high heels matched with red plump lips - simple and chic. He recurs to that first night she crossed his eyes.

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The cold breeze hugs his skin as he idly walks out the establishment. It was a long day as he scheduled this afternoon to step up the menu from all of his four branches. He wants to keep up with the trending Korean foods circulating all over the region and be ahead of his known competitors nearby. A month of planning and weighing things in was spent to make it possible. It was a success and he should be celebrating. If only Luisa is here with him, his life is complete. She is his first in everything. The first love he could never had again. He was full of dreams, driven by passion in life, during his younger years. So when opportunity knocks, without any hesitations, he grabbed it even if it meant leaving her. Luisa begged for him to stay but he was optimistic to study abroad in a known university and take culinary course. Everything was fine at first - communication was there, her moral support never ebbed and thousand miles in distance was not a problem - but good things do come to an end. It all happened too fast, she got tired of waiting. The next thing he knew, she was already with someone else. That was devastating for him. He didn't give up so easily and took actions to win her back but it's too late. Love was no longer present in her heart. She married someone else. It has been five years and he never heard anything from her since then. Things were alright now but he never looked for other woman after her. He wants her to be his last love.

The bar nearby is his usual hangout when days are exhausting. Old couples are dancing along the music played at the background and having fun but he's flying solo tonight. His parents are coming in the country to visit him. They are both residing in Alaska while leaving their family business under his care. He was able to grow their small restaurant into an empire. Though he's happy on his own, his parents won't live him down. They want to see him with new woman and Luisa's name never been an exemption to them including his friends. His parents' flight back the country is near to date and so the pressure of looking for a woman gets worse each day.

"One martini", he ordered upon reaching the bar counter.

"Coming right up, Sir", the waiter responsed.

The unique ambiance in this place relaxes his mood. It's not a typical bar where young people would enjoy. Old music at the background soothe his mind as he enjoys his drink served. He finds solitude in that position when his eyes shift to the other side and there he found a mesmerizing woman sitting alone as well few feet away from him. The light brightens her lovely face as she scrolls up and down her phone. Her uniform sends a hint to his wandering thought, a bank teller or office staff. It ain't familiar but he couldn't care less. Something pushes him to approach this beautiful woman who captured his eyes but a bunch of people filled in their gap. The next thing he saw is her leaving and so his feet lead him to exit. It's cold and dim outside, he roams his eyes around but she's gone. A spark of dismay sets in but he decides to just go home instead. She might be in a hurry, he thinks. His car clicks to unlock, he pulls open its door but a woman spoke from behind.