Andre and Laura left the office together and travelled in Andre's car. Since it was already way past work hours, no one would see them. Laura tried talking Andre out of taking her home but he insisted so she agreed. It turned out that Laura's apartment was almost two hours away from her workplace so they had a lot of time to talk about things.
"So did you go to the optician two days ago?" Andre asked.
"Huh?.." Laura was confused.
"I know you have short-sightedness and you never use your glasses. Where are your glasses by the way?."
'Busted!' Laura thought in her mind before answering " I lost them a few weeks ago."
"Alright then, we're going to get new glasses for you tomorrow."
"Oh no no you don't need to...."
"Coz you wouldn't use them right?..." He asked with one of his eyebrows raised and his eyes on the road " Don't worry, we're getting married and we're gonna live together from then onwards, so I'll keep an eye on you."
Laura tore her eyes away from him and she started thinking about what he said ' That's true... we're gonna get married and live together and do it😳....' She shook her head to keep the nasty thoughts that were circling her head away. Andre's voice finally pulled her completely away and returned her attention back to him.
" Here..... It's for you." His eyes were still on the road but in one of his hands was a gift bag. His other hand was on the steering wheel.
She collected it from him but she didn't try opening it. She kept staring at the gift bag.
"Go on, open it." He said after noticing that if he didn't urge her to, she wouldn't open it anytime soon. Even after a few minutes, Laura still didn't open the gift bag. " You know what?, open it when you get to your place hmm?"
"O... Okay" She said and she shifted her gaze back to the lively city outside.
"I'm going to talk to my grandfather and mother about you tonight or tomorrow so you should so prepare yourself to talk to your father as well."
"Hmmm.." And then silence reigned in the car for a while and then Laura asked a question "When are you going to show me the contract... I mean there are rules to follow in this marriage right?"
"Yes, my assistant is working on that at the moment. I'm going to show you tomorrow before work hours end, it would have been done by then." He explained to her.
"Oh.. okay" she replied and everything went silent again.
Laura didn't know where the courage came from but she suddenly asked him another question.
"Tell me a few things about yourself please." She straightened up as Andre averted his gaze from the road to her for a split second, then she further explained herself.
" What I mean is that you already had someone conduct a research about me and now I believe that you know most if not everything about me. So I think it is fair that I should also know some things about you. After all I know nothing other that your name and the fact that you're my boss." She explained as her eyes kept roaming everywhere except his face.
He gave out a low chuckle "So you feel cheated."
"No no that's not what I mean" she replied nervously. 'Uggh, this man!' she rolled her eyes in her head.
"Hmmmm... okay. But not right now, it has to be later. I believe we're almost at your destination."
"Oh.... yes" She said as she returned her gaze to the busy street.
A few minutes later.
Andre's car parked in front of Laura's apartment. Laura decided to thank him before getting down.
"Thank you dropping me at my apartment Mr.Davis. And thank you for this as well." She said as she raised up the gift bag up.
"Andre" He said and he turned his body to her side so as to have a good look at her. Well he's not driving now so he can look all he wants.
"Huh?"
' Why is she always confused about everything?' he thought.
"Call me Andre... Common reconstruct your words."
"Th...thank you A..Andre." She stammered
"Much better."
"I'll take my leave now." She removed her seatbelt and stepped out of the car. She had only walked a few steps away from the car when she heard Andre call her name. She turned around to find him standing right behind her. They were only apart by a strand of hair's breadth. She gasped at the unexpected closeness.
"Sorry if I scared you, but your mind must have been so occupied to not have noticed that I have been walking behind you." His hot breath kept fanning her face as he kept talking.He brought the gift bag she left in the car to her face. " Here, you forgot this. Don't forget to check it as soon as you reach your apartment."
"o...okay" She finally struggled to speak and she collected the gift bag from him.
"By the way, on what floor is your apartment?"
"The seventh floor."
"Okay then . Goodnight. You go first."
"Okay. Goodnight." She turned around and walked into the building. Andre also walked back to his car after standing there for a while and then he drove off to his mother and grandfather's house.
After Laura reached her room, she saw that Andre was still standing in front of the building. Even though she couldn't see far objects clearly, she could tell that it was Andre. She was thinking about the reason why he was still standing there when she remembered what he said to her ' Don't forget to check it out as soon as you reach your apartment'. She quickly reached out to the gift bag and she opened it.
She emptied the gift bag's contents and found a phone package in it. it was then that she remembered that she told him a couple of days ago that she broke her phone. As she was checking out the contents of the package, a piece of paper that had been folded fell on the ground.
"Huh?... What is this?". She picked it up and read what Andre wrote in the piece of paper.
' You can't reject my gift. Start using it.
This is my phone number, call me as soon as possible.
*************.'
"He bought me a new phone?, this must be so expensive.' She thought before she card him and they talked for a while before he said he was call her later as he just arrived home. Andre got off his car and walked towards the house.