The hour hand struck at seven. Calista looked at her reflection on the mirror for the nth time and she again fell in love with what she saw just like how she had fallen with the previous looks. She pressed her lips together to spread the lip gloss evenly. She was really not into fashion but she knew she had matched the colors just well.
A little makeup that added to her normally pale white skin,her brows were dark as normal so they needed not to be drawn,her lashes did not need mascara to lengthen out. She applied some eyes liner then some lip gloss on her cherry red lips.
The long black cotton skirt was tight against her lower body and it ran all the way from her belly button to her ankles. She matched it with a white short sleeved shirt that was a bit baggy and hardly covered her belly button but all thanks to the skirt that already did that.
She combed her waist long hair and let it to roam freely around her back. The white flipflop did a great work in exposing her slender toes and her nails that were covered with a colorless nail polish.
She turned and admired herself. She frowned when she wondered why she was putting all that effort. She was sure she was not trying to seduce him though.
"Actually I just wanna look good and treat myself like am on a dinner with my Izara!"she convinced herself. Her heart clenched immediately when the name sank deep into her.
She realized that no matter how she convinced herself that Izara had wronged her,she still missed her like never before.
Tears welled up in her eyes but she blinked to push them back.
"We cannot afford to ruin this make up now and Maverick must be here already. I hope he did not walk to the dinning yet!"she tried to cheer up and it worked at the moment.
She took her phone from the dressing table and left the room in a pace,not too fast but not slow either. She decided to use the elevator for the first time since she got into the mansion.
In some seconds,she was already at the dinning room on the second floor.
She found the maids and the butler standing there. The table was already set and the delicious smell of the foods filled the air.
They all kept their heads slightly bowed as she approached. Calista chuckled.
"You all can stop bowing around. Is Maverick home already?"she asked looking at Meshach.
"No ma'am. Boss is not here yet!"he responded and Calista smiled.
'That's much better!'she exclaimed silently.
She checked the table again and loved how lovely it looked but the foods were just too much for two people.
"Did you have your food set aside already? This food is alot!"she asked.
"Yes ma'am...we took ours already!" Meshach always did the talking unless one of the maids was being addressed directly.
"Are you sure it will be enough for all of you?"she asked looking at the rest since she already knew the answer Meshach would give.
"Yes ma'am!" Cindy, Millie and Rose spoke in unison.
Calista nodded after their words.
"Okay. You are free now. You can go to your rooms and have some rest,"she announced and they all looked up at her. They were not done for the day yet.
"It's fine.I can take care of the rest of the work after dinner so feel free to go to your rooms as well."
They were all relieved and glad that they had such a madam.They bowed in respect then left the room unhurriedly.
Calista walked to the living room and sat there while waiting to hear footsteps.
The maids walked to the kitchen,grabbed their foods and left for their rooms.
Calista looked at the wall clock. It was already eight o'clock.
"Why is he late today? Or is he ever late?"she wondered while shifting her position on the couch.
"I think I should call him and ask if he would be long or something! No he will think that am desperate. I will just wait,"Calista decided and made herself comfortable on the bed.
After a long while of boredom and waiting Calista fell asleep on the coach. She was tired after spending the rest of her evening cooking for Maverick.
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Maverick's Mansion, New York.
Maverick had been busy all day digging into Mr Thomas Hudson. He called the land owner whose land covered gold beneath it and he found out that as he had suspected,Mr Thomas had made the purchase five years ago,right after Fabian's death. He did not bother to claim it's ownership even after the purchase just to make sure he was not suspected.
He got too emotional thinking about the whole thing. Since he knew that Thomas Hudson was behind it all,he needed to know if there was someone who worked with him and who planted the bomb in Fabian's car.
He was sure it must be someone who worked for them that betrayed them. He could not find anyone at the time so he let it be for the time being as he thought on how to find who did that. It would take him sometime since none of his men and Fabian's looked like traitors.
Giving himself a break from that,he checked his email address and found some work sent by his secretary. He got to it and was done in an hour.
He checked his laptop. He had instilled CCTVs at the kitchen,living room,the outside of his house,the elevators and the lounge and connected them to his laptop to make sure that he was aware of what happened in his house anytime he was not home.
His eyes narrowed when he saw Calista cooking in the kitchen alongside the maids. He smiled seeing how cute she looked with the baggy short and the shirt and the ponytail and the glasses. She looked so cute while wiping sweats with the back of her hand.
He checked the living room and she saw her walking inside. That was around seven pm. She looked beautiful in the skirt and white top. She looked like a super model despite being so simple.
He played the dinning room cam and saw how the table was arranged. Candles were lighted and covered in glass. The place looked so romantic!
His eyes widened with realization when he played the living room cam and saw Calista sitted there all alone and looking so bored.
"She must have been waiting for me. That means all that arrangement was to give me a surprise dinner date!"he exclaimed.
He wondered why she would go through such when he actually was not in town.
"Shit! I did not tell her that I won't be home today!'he cursed himself for being such a forgetful freak. He was so busy that he forgot about informing her that he would be out of town for sometime.
He took his phone from his pocket and dialed her number. He could see her asleep on the cam video but she picked the phone after three rings.
Without checking who was calling, Calista swiped towards the green button and kept the phone on her ear.
"Yes?"she spoke when she received the phone. Maverick almost lost his voice when she heard her angelic soothing voice. How could one's voice sound so sweet to listen to?
He cleared his throat to get his attention and that made Calista jump to her feet.
Maverick was also alarmed when he saw her jump, through the cam.
"Are you okay?"he asked in a voice full of concern when he saw that she was safe,still alone in the room.
Calista did not know how she had been yearning to hear his voice until then. She realized how she had just missed hearing that sweet deep voice of his.
"Am fine Maverick. How are you? Where are you? Are you still coming home? It's late already! How can you stay outside upto this time Maverick? Don't you know that it's dangerous to be out there at this time of night? It's already ten o'clock!"she did not realize that she had said so much until.he chuckled when she was done blabbering.
She bit her lower lip and hit her forehead with her palm when she finally knew how crazy she just sounded.
'Why can you not just stop embarrassing me anytime I talk to him!"she pinched her mouth not knowing that Maverick was seeing everything she was doing.
"Being a paranoid sweet little wife? Huh?"he asked and Calista blushed hard hearing his words. She was glad that he was not there to see how pink her face had turned.
She crossed her arm under her breast then smiled deeply.
"Am I not permitted to?"her voice was warm,smooth and sweet as though she was talking to a lover. Maverick's heart warmed up and his heartbeat heightened just with how sweet she sounded.
He placed his hand on his chest wondering what was happening to him. He had never felt that before,not even before six years ago.
'I need a doctor to check me up after this. My heartbeat is so high and it's all of a sudden!'he thought still holding his chest.