Stella froze on the spot when she saw Adrian. She initially wanted to go over to him and scold him for getting her unnecessarily worked up. But the word that left Raphael's mouth made her brain go numb with fear and her heart almost leap out of her chest.
"Cousin! How? Where? Why? Oh God, I'm in trouble!"
Stella's unforgiving memory replayed all her encounters with Adrian and how she had addressed him like a nobody.
"Now I understand why Alfred almost passed out when I was talking to Adrian. He knew all this while who Adrian was and he didn't give me a signal to shut my mouth up. What am I going to do to correct my wrong first impression? I do not want to lose this job that took me months to learn and grow up the ladder."
From a reasonable distance, Adrian was perplexed and slightly disappointed to see his cousin and Stella together. It had not been up to forty minutes since he left her company and this made him wonder how Raphael had found her.
