novelzi Chapter 50
Chapter 50
She checked the door several times if he was available but looks like he rented the complete floor of the five star restaurant only for her. The door besides was always locked except for the night he settled her in the luxurious presidential suite.
Ana paced around her living room contemplating if she should call him. She had bought the necessary furniture, the raw material and transported all the materials to the warehouse where he had mentioned with the help of his driver who has now become more of her assistant and helper than a chauffeur. She had conducted the interviews and hired two girls who knew embroidery well. They had also experience in designing apparels, a perfect fit for the job at her boutique.
All set, she needed to call him about the status of the location. His friend was supposed to rent her his area. She bit her lip anxiously and selected his name from her telephone's contact list. Her fingers shivered with the action hovering on the call button.
Nervousness seeped through her nerves. But she needed to finish this job of calling him. She was not a timid woman, she was a bold and self dependent girl who knew to put people in their right place when the situation warranted. But this man was an exception challenging her nature. He caused strange feelings in her, the feelings she had never built for any male before.
She needed to put her shit together, keep her lust for him besides and focus on the job in hand. Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes sending a silent prayer to God and pressed the call button.
Busted, after all her efforts, the phone rang several times and went to his voicemail. She decided against leaving a message and called him once again. And to her relief this time he answered on the third ring in the briefest tone. "Speak"
Crap, was he this grumpy always? "Jacob?" She called him in an unsettled tone and there was a pause for a moment except the hearing of his dense breath.
"Um, I am Anastasia speaking to you." Should she say more to introduce herself to him or will he remember her? She prays he would surely have the idea on the purpose of her call.
"Bella?" He asked in a much softer tone than before or rather with a subtle affection if she wasn't wrong in guessing the intonation of his voice.
"I didn't want to disturb you on the weekend. It is your private time. So I am calling you on the morning of the weekday, Monday morning." Her voice slightly trembled as if she was giving her interview to the boss. He was always intimidating no matter how hard she tried to stay normal.
"Bella, using the terms weekdays and weekends are for lazy people and loafers. I work whenever there is work to be done and I indulge in sports whenever my work lends me a little bit of leisure time. It's not necessary for me to know what day of the week it is. Whenever I rise in the mornings, I thank God he had given me one more day to live and do the best I can do on that day. So next time, when you call you do not have to check if it is a weekday or a weekend. Especially if it's your case I am always available." Something triggered in her at his last sentence. His tone was tender like a touch of a flower petal and in a susurrus when he uttered her name or to be more apt his given name to her.
No doubt Ana loved the hardworking men who cared about their families but Mr Forbidden was...on a whole new level. He wasn't normal. Strange, the more she interacted with him he always left her in stronger waves of mystery. Each of his acts made her want him more and it baffled her.
"I will remember that next time when I call you." He chuckled to her surprise. God damn those chuckles….
"I have already spoken to my friend. I bought the place for you." The next words he spoke did not reach the ears of Ana. Her mouth left hanging and eyes as wide as saucers. Buying a 500 square yards of land and that too in South Street of Michigan was something a normal citizen like her could only imagine in her dream and he bought that for her?
"Bella?" His address brought her out of her thick reverie. "Did you buy….Ana shrieked and cursed her childish hormones. He was silent on the other end. "Yes," he dragged out, knowing what she implied as if put off by her excitement.
Not wanting to embarrass herself further, she tried her voice stoically. "Thank you so much."
"You’re most welcome, Bella." He said smoothly, and she could sense him smiling.
"Now l would like to know your plans for tomorrow?" He asked, still in the smiling tone.
"The unemployed don't usually have any plans. They take things as they flow." The ensuing silence indicated he didn't find her amusing.
"I have got a meeting to attend. You will come with me tomorrow to board the 7'o clock flight. Meanwhile the construction work of your boutique will go on here. You can tell your assistants to work on embroidery designs from the cloth you already bought. In the interval, there is someone you have to meet in New York." He said everything so fast and it was hard for Ana to decipher everything.
Finally she could start speaking. "But my mother...I cannot leave her here alone and travel…..Ana did not complete her sentence when he interceded. "Your visit to your mother is on Thursday and the operation is also on the same day. So do not worry you will be back before that."
Ana did not know the reason why he wanted to take her to Newyork but she could just not miss the lottery of meeting Mr Forbidden Hot again.
The next morning at 6'o o'clock, she was walking rather timidly towards the white Porsche parked outside her apartment. She purposely dressed in a dark outfit. A bottle green jeans, a navy blue silk shirt tucked in, and black snickers. After doing karate to tame her twenty-six inches of wild curls, she managed only to tie it back like a hanging bird's nest.
Jacob came out of his Porsche and walked composedly to the passenger side, holding the door open for her. He was engaged in deep conversation on his phone yet he didn't seem distracted in any way. He was in control, and seemed to excel at multitasking.
Ana couldn’t control that stupid smile on her face as she walked towards him, eyes locked on his. After all, she was meeting her handsome Eros after a really long time.
He gave her that sexy professional nod as if she was one of those business delegates he was shortly going to make a deal. Bloody foolish hormones of her lusting after this robot. Couldn't he come out of his entrepreneur role even for a few seconds?
She entered the vehicle. Closing the door, he rounded to the driver's side. "Uncle Aaron, I am honored by your offer. But I can't manage two businesses at two different places at the same time. Especially in a distant country like Australia. I think Aunty will recover shortly. The doctor has given you positive news. In the meantime you will meet your daughter too." He gave a turn to her and Ana thought her heart skipped a beat. He had so much of an effect on her. Just by the turn of his eyes to her he can make her come.
"Well, there's ample time to come up with ideas to conduct business from here. You can do it. I think it is better for Aunty to get her treatment from Michigan rather than shifting to Newyork just before the surgery." Regarding whom was he talking to? Ana felt something fishy going around.
"I can visit next month and we can explore our options...For the love of God, Uncle Aaron, you're not gonna die anytime soon. You are just going to meet up with your family after a very long time. Enjoy the bliss. I am bringing her, settling the matters and explaining to her your 'then' situation is the best solution at the present. I believe she will understand and excuse you for everything. This conversation of me taking over your businesses is irrelevant right now..." He informed whoever this man….uncle Aaron was. After that they exchanged pleasantries and he ended the call.