Sometimes around 8:21pm on that fateful Thursday night, A man full of hopes hoped down from his Ferrari car in a famous hotel park, with a folder in a hand and wine in the other as a gift for his hosts.
He clicked the lock button on his car remote and proceeded to go into the hotel, he took a deep breath before walking into the cold air breezing hall and released it as she made for the receptionist
"Hi, I'm here to see Ms Mandela Angela, she said to get a key card from you"
She adjusted her reading glasses and looked up at him , making him she was scanning him like she hadn't seen him before
"Your name please?"
"Juni Cartel " he said with a slight smile on his lips
He saw her fixed expressionless face lit up with a bit of smile and said as she handed over a key card "Welcome to Marlex's Hotel."
"Thanks " he replied, taking the key card from her, he headed towards the elevator with a now wide smile on his face and soon enough, he was chuckling to himself , a few stares came his way but he didn't seem to mind.
Tonight, nothing could hold him back.
The elevator's humming sound was like music to his ears as he inputed the 9th floor digit then swiped his key card across it.
And soon enough, he was on his way up, up to the penthouse, up to a new position and more without a doubt
The elevator sound chimed indicating that he was here,he quickly adjusted his tie and straightened his sleeves right before the door open to reveal the big penthouse belonging to Angela Mandela but he was felt quite a frowning face belonging to Angela's manager.
"Hello,Good evening,I'm Juni ..-" he tried to say as he stepped into the apartment but was interrupted
"Yeah..yeah,I know who you are and obviously you know who I am too" Stephen said
Juni smiled awkwardly not knowing what to say but was quickly savedby the author himself
"Hey there, Mr Cartel, glad you could make it.." Angela said coming in between the two men and noticing her manager's expression, she added "and do not mind my manager, he's been having a really rough day right, Stephen" she asked glaring at her manager who seem intimidated by her and quickly smiled
" Yeah... Sorry" he muttered
The awkwardness of it was not lost on Juni as he offered the wine to Angela "here, I hope I am not overstepping than bringing wine "
" We already have .. -"Stephen tried to say but was interrupted by his boss
" No, No.. not at all, I wasn't even sure the wine I have is going to satisfy us so this will really do us some good, Thanks Mr Cartel"She said and took the wine from him
" I will take that then"Stephen stated and got the wine at of Angela's hand, sending a glare towards Juni, he moved away from them and headed to God knows where
"Really please, do not mind my manager, he's just a bit overprotective"Angela apologized again
Juni chuckled " no , no it's fine"
" Glad it is, please come with me, let's go dine "Angela finally said leading him towards an open wide space in the penthouse and sitted there chattering away was two other beautiful ladies while a middle aged lady set the table
"Nancy, you don't have to do that.."
The middle aged woman just smiled and continued
"Really though..." Angela was saying but was interrupted by the other ladies
"So who is this handsome msn?" one of the ladies questioned
Angela sighed before replying "Be careful, Annie, he's a married man plus he's here on business guys..."
"OH…"the other lady exclaimed
"Yes…remember the editor of Clements that I was telling you about?" Angela asked then quickly added
"please do sit down, Mr. Cartel" June sent a grateful smile her way as he took a seat opposite the ladies while Angela helped the middle aged woman set the door
"Good evening, ma'am's, I'm Juni Cartel, It's a pleasure to meet you" Juni greeted
"Nice…Do not use formal words though, makes me feel old. I'm Annie by the way "The blonde among the two said smiling
"And I'm Mikasa, it's quite the pleasure to meet the person who really intrigues our Angela" The brunette concluded chuckling and the blonde joined in just as soon as Angela arrived with middle aged woman whom Juni was now thinking is the nanny
"What are you guys laughing about?" THE YOUNG author INQUIRED joining them in chuckling oblivious
"Oh...nothing, babe...nothing at all "Annie said still chuckling
"Okay. If you say so" Angela stated then added "Nancy, this is Mr. Cartel, Mr. Cartel, this is Nancy, my son's nanny"
"Nice to meet you sir "The middle aged woman smiled at him warmly
"The pleasure is all mine "Juni replied
Just as Nancy made to get away, Angela stopped her saying "Really, Nancy, why not stay and have dinner with us, you are family, you know" the middle aged woman smiled but vehemently declined the invitation, all this however was only partly noted by Juni as his attention was divided between him and the ladies who kept trying to flirt with him
"So, is there a way that I can get a proposal from you, Juni...You don't mind me calling you that do you? I just thought since we are not formal partners like you are with Angela, I shouldn't use formal speech" Mikasa explained
He smiled "No, I don't mind, not at all and ofcourse,if you want to get signed by us, you can submit your novel which should be over 40,000 words to our email, our team will get back to you soonest"
She pouted and whined "But, I want to get signed by you…"
'What was he doing here for real? "He thought to himself
"Mikasa, do not trouble the poor man" Annie cautioned
Juni sent a grateful smile her way even though she didn't notice
Mikasa replied her and soon enough, they were chattering to each other, laughing at intervals while stealing glance at him.
"Speaking of which, where's Stephen?" Annie asked
This was right after Nancy left
"Oh right, he said he was going to put the wine Mr. Cartel bought away or something" Angela commented
Before adding suddenly while palming her face, "he's drinking the wine somewhere, isn't he?"
Juni frowned in confusion until Mikasa explained
"He has always had problem with drinking" She said
"OHH" Juni exclaimed deep inside of him
And they were so right, as there he was sprawled out drunk on the bed in the spare room, Angela sighed "I'm calling him an uber"
After they helped Stephen get in the taxi, they went back to the penthouse and proceeded to eat.
After which Angela and her friends cleared the table and went together to the kitchen leaving Juni
At his seat, he tried to help but they were having none of it
"Just sit down and adjust the documents, Mr. Cartel, will be back soon" Angela had said.
He heard them talking between themselves but he couldn't make out what, but whatever they
We're discussing, it sure as hell is funny, their laughter, that much he could make out
Minutes later, the ladies returned to the table but then led him to the balcony where they spent the night discussing ,cup after up of wine about practically everything "Lie, Politics, Lifestyles and sports then children"
There, he found out out Mikasa and Annie lived together with their dog "Spiff" and that Angela plays football
He was quite intrigued by the new information, the beautiful author never made it occur to him that she was the sport type, "well no wonder she got athletic legs" Juni thought to himself
After 30mins,the ladies decided it was time to go,they exchanged goodbyes with him and hoped to see more of him.soon while a drunk Mikasa tried to get his digits,however an almost drunk Angela quickly pulled her along to the elevator where she finally let her go.
When Angela came back to the dimly lit balcony the oversees the city ,she told him to come in
"Sorry about them also,I wanted you to meet Dallas but he was asleep by the time you arrived " She apologized and added "you can seat here" directing him to sit beside her on the two seater couch
" Oh na,nah it's cool.i can meet him some.other day"he replied then took out the folder on the coat jacket
" Here's the contract" he said and gave it to her,she collected it quite slowly smiling drunkingly from his hands but instead of opening it,she laid it on the table
"Are you okay, ma'am?" He asked
"So Juni…" She started ignoring his question ,inching closer to him on the couch with her hands grazing his knees
"Huhm..Ms Angela" He tried to bring some sense into the situation
"Aren't you as tipsy as I am?" She asked ,her hands now slowly caressing his knees as she stood up to kneel on the chair,her dress giving way to reveal a bit of her cleavage
"I'm not tipsy" he said ,his body frozen in.place as she tries to part his knees then straddle him
She chuckled leaning down to press her lips to his "too bad then,you will have to do it sober"
When their lips parted,Juni asked " do what?"
" Simply fuck me,it's just been too long…"she whined out
Maybe,it was the dirty word she used but that statement brought him back to his senses as she was already on her way to unbutton his second button
He pushed her off him tothe couch ,she whimpered but he didn't care to wait long enough to know whether she was in pain or anything,he grabbed the key card then bounded to the elevator ,leaving everything else.