She acted like there was nothing wrong when she smiled as she saw Neegan. The bouquet he held in his hand as he tried to hug her brushing her hand.
It's like her brain had completely forgotten what had happened that morning but no. She had just forced herself to lock it and not talk about it.
Who was she going to talk to about it
How would she tell them that she had lost a child she had never wanted in the first place big nothing had hurt her like that loss.
How would she tell them that she wasn't mad that she had lost the baby? She was mad that it wasn't her that was having the baby for Vincenzo.
She couldn't fathom the idea that Briana was going to be the one who would give him a baby. For a second she had allowed herself to wonder how life would have been if she had indeed been pregnant and the baby survived.
Would have Vincenzo learned to love her? Would he have been a good father to their baby?
Those were questions she was not going to get answers to. She had locked the thought and was not going to let it ruin her day or work.
Maybe it had happened for the best. She didn't take care of a kid when she didn't even love herself.
"Are you okay ?", Neegan asked her the moment they reached his car and he opened the door for her.
"Yeah why do you ask ?", Anna asked him.
"You just look different compared to the last time I saw you. It's like something just happened to you and you're still processing it, you look pale ", Neegan said.
"No am fine I've just not eaten anything ", Anna said smiling but even the smile didn't reach her eyes.
Someone who knew her could tell that she wasn't okay. It was easy to tell that she was all faking it but she thought she was happy.
All she wanted to do was work and work until she couldn't anymore. She wanted the company to make so many deals while she was the CEO that everyone stopped seeing her as just a woman.
The people in her life wondered what it was that was happening to her. All of a sudden Vincenzo stopped being the priority.
She was up and down handling business that for a moment you'd forget that her husband was in the hospital nursing injuries.
She wanted to grow in the business and price to him that he was wrong. She wanted to talk to Neegan so that she could be the sole distributor for him.
"I had something I wanted to talk to you about ", she said as she turned to look at him.
"What is it ?", Neegan asked her.
"I want tow to be with you full-time. I want to supply all your products and I get a percentage out of it ", Anna said and Neegan chuckled.
"Well I don't know how you do your work you'll have to do one shipment for me so that I can know what I'm getting myself into. You need to understand that you're nig transporting apples this is contraband and you need to be precise about every move that you make ", Neegan said to her and she nodded her head.
"I know what this is, it's not a play in the par,k and am not playing, "Anna said and Neegan just chuckled and looked outside the window.
He wondered what had happened to her in the two days that he hadn't seen her. It was like she was a completely different person.
She was no longer the sweet woman that he had met. She wants that woman who smiled charmingly and made everything right.
There was now a coldness with her and a stern look as if she was always calculating something.
"Am not trying to be misogynistic but you know this is a business that is run by men right? It's not going to be easy as you think ", Neegan said wondering if she was going to change her mind
"If it was easy then it wouldn't be worth the trouble, I can handle it ", she said smiling, and this time round she was smiling genuinely.
"Okay if you say so I just don't want you to make any more messes than I already have ", Neegan said.
He knew what he was trying to do with his business was going to be hard. It was mostly for her. The men in the business were not going to care that she was a woman.
They were enjoy going to handle her carefully if anything they were going to be worse on her. They'd want to see she quit and he was just waiting to see what she was going to do.
"Suarez's funeral is tomorrow do you want to attend it?", he asked her.
"I don't know if I will be busy then I won't be able to make it ", she said turning to look at him as she took her phone out of her bag.
The updates she was getting from her secretary informed her that business was going perfectly as usual and she had nothing to worry about.
She checked the shipments that were being shipped and everything seemed to be doing okay, she had nothing to worry about.
"How are you going to ship my products if you have never done this before ?", Neegan asked her because he was curious.
She knew how hard it was going to be dealing with authorities and checkouts and she had already thought about that part.
"I have someone on that already ", she said as she dialed Dylan's number.
"Are you sure he is going to help you ", Neegan asked and wondered if it had been the right thing to do business with her.
"I will make sure your product reached its customers safely stop questioning everything I do and let me do my work ", she said as they reached the mansion and she was the one to leave the car.