"Sir where to? ---the mansion?" the driver asked seconds after he started the car.
When Emil heard the driver's question, he frowned with his brows knitted in thinking. He had left the office immediately he received the message from his father and he hasn't thought of where to go.
The only thought he had at that moment was to just leave the office before his mother comes. He truly wanted to avoid his mother at all cost.
"To THE INN hotel" he mouthed out these four words after couple of seconds of thinking.
"Okay Sir" the driver said and made a swift U turn to the direction of the hotel.
" Give me your phone to make a call" Emil said as he extended his hand to take the phone.
The driver passed his phone over to Emil while his eyes was still fixed on the road.
Emil punched in some digits and dialled it. The phone was answered after the third ring.
"Hang out with me at THE INN" he simply said when the other person received the call.
"Now ?"
Daniel looked at the people sitting before him and felt his headache. ' What the hell is his brother up to ! THE INN at this time of day?'
" Yes, now ---Or you can find yourself another brother"
"..." 'why do I feel the urge to find another brother !'
" Okay, I will be there" Daniel said in resignation
Daniel looked at his assistant, "take over." he spoke these two words as he stood up to leave.
"Should I call for a driver?"
"No, forget it. I will drive" Daniel replied and left in a rush.
On his way to the hotel, he kept on wondering what had happened to make his busy brother go to THE INN at this time of day.
"Could something have happened between him and sister in-law ?" he shook his head right after he muttered out a possibility.
" Sir, we are here" the driver spoke after few minutes of packing in the hotel's garage. He felt something was wrong with his sir because after minutes of packing, he didn't see any reaction form his sir.
The truth is, Emil was lost in his thoughts. He was trying to understand as to why his mother was hell bent on getting him married to Louisa. ' Could there be something else beside her so call promise?'
He was also worried because he knew his mother very well. She wasn't someone to give up easily.
'What if his mother cause him to lose his precious?
Would Yvonne be bothered about his supposed betrothal?
Would she leave him if she finds out that he has a "fiancée"since his childhood?'
All these thoughts made Emil dazed out. He didn't even realise when the car came to a stop.
" Sir..?"
"?" The driver's consistent voice pulled him out of his thoughts.
He first looked at the driver, cleared his throat, "here, take your phone" he said and stretched his hand holding the phone to the driver.
The driver took the phone and quickly got out of the car to open the door for Emil.
" You can go back home ---- But not a word about my whereabouts to anyone" Emil warned and took steps to the nearest elevator.
"Yes sir" the driver replied although Emil was out of hear reach.
....
Meanwhile in the CEO's office, a certain assistant's legs were trembling as he thought of tangible answers to cover up for his boss.
" Emil's phone, to repairs?" Kathryn stared intimidatingly at the assistant. She didn't believe whatever he said. She just listened, feigning to believe his words.
"Yes Madam. Boss insisted he want the phone to be repaired, and that he won't use any other phone except that one. Besides it wasn't anything complicated" Ass. Luke calmly explained. But deep inside, he was nervous to death.
"Is that so?" Kathryn chuckled with her lips upturned
No one knew if she accepted what the assistant said or otherwise.
She turned and walked to the door. Ready to turn the doorknob, she made a slight turn. Her side profile facing the assistant, "For how long can you run from me? Tell that to your boss. And," she added as if an afterthought " Come up with better excuse the next time. Phone to repair ? Hah !" She advised, opened the door and left in her usually smart lady walk.
"..."
Ass. Luke was speechless. He couldn't believe what the Madam just said. ' So all along, she didn't believe any of his words ! Good, good ! She's very good at pretending and leading people on !'
All of a sudden, he chuckled in amazement. Indeed, his Boss was Madam's son. Blood is much much thicker than anything !.
Minutes later on, Daniel's red Ferrari car entered the hotel's garage. He got down and locked the car before taking hurried steps to the elevator.
While in the elevator, he pressed on the VIP floor. He felt unease as he stared at the numbers.
He knew his brother wouldn't call him to a hotel in the middle of the day just to chat. To top it up, he didn't even use his phone to call him.
" What could have happened? " he mumbled to himself.
" Do you think Mum already know about Yvonne?"
.....