Chapter 3 - She's back

After five years, Leela came back to Dallas from Houston, she graduated from University of Houston, Leela has always dreamt of becoming a musician and a ballerina, she came an orphan at the age of fifteen, she did lots of odd jobs, she trained, fed and clothed herself. She had no relative to call her own,her father was poisoned and her mom absconded with another guy after selling off her father's company. She lives in a small one bedroom apartment that has been used as family house even before she was born.

Leela got an email the night before she left the luxurious hotel, it was the scholarship she applied for since three months ago, she even lost hope of getting it since she did not get any message from them for the past three months. But that night changed it all. Throughout that night, all her thought was how to get out of the hotel without the stranger knowing. She thought of a plan, then smiled sheepishly. Leela looked at the other end of the room, the stranger was typing non-stop on his laptop, he looked focus and cute too. She silently drooled over him, admiring his chiselled nose, perfect jawbone and his green emerald eyes. She regained herself when she heard his soft chuckle. She turn her face away cos of embarrassment of being caught.

"You like what you see"? He teased.

"Go away, am off to bed, goodnight. She replied.

That was the first word Leela said to him that day.

Around 3am the next morning, Leela woke up to prepare for her journey, she looked at Hart sleeping on the couch, she knew it was quite discomforting for him, though she wanted to wake him up so that he can sleep comfortably on the bed but she knew that if she did, he would know what she was up to. She quickly washed up and wore a dress she picked in the wardrobe. The wardrobe was was filled with all kinds of cloth. Leela sneaked out but was stopped by the bodyguards, she simply told them that she was a prostitute and she's done with her job, when they still persisted, she threatened to tell their boss, they backed out and she made her move....

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Leela came back as a graduate, she was awarded a first class due to her excellent result. The next thing on her list was to get a job, she submitted her CV to different entertainment companies to work as a vocalist and and ballet instructor but no one was giving any feedback she was frustrated cos she was running low on cash.

One morning while she was cleaning up the house, one of her best friends rushed in, she was Amelia Johnson, the closest to Leela, she rushed in to tell Leela about a job interview in the biggest and richest company in Dallas. She explained further that the CEO just fired a receptionist for undoing her first three button, trying to seduce him and urgent replacement is needed.

Leela refused, claiming that she was trained as a ballerina and vocalist, not a receptionist. Amelia urged her to give it a try since it's better than being stuck at home doing nothing. Leela agreed, rushed into bathroom for a quick bath and she left for "Camp Corp World.  Getting there, only the numbers of people she saw at the company discouraged her, she knew she had little chance of getting the job but she didn't give up. When it was her turn, she got interviewed and a lady asked her to go and she will be given a feedback soon. Out of frustration and exhaustion she left the company, she wasn't even looking when she bumped into someone, he had a broad chest that felt comforting. Leela looked up, the face she saw seemed familiar but she wasn't in the right frame of mind to think of where she saw the person.....

Hart POV

I fired a girl this morning cos she tried to seduce me, the human resources department are really stressed cos they are interviewing over three hundred people for a post. After finishing a meeting that took an hour and thirty minutes, I went for a lunch date, while walking in, a lady bumped into me, I looked at her,  it's the lady that disappeared five years ago but she seemed not to recognize me, she quickly rushed out after apologizing before I could utter any world, I had Mark Davies, my personal assistant to investigate her. Everyone around were shocked cos if it was another lady that did  that, she would have been begging for her life by now. I don't like being another ladies, it's as if am allergic to women, the only lady I have around me is my mom and two twin sisters but ever since I had that encounter with the girl from that bar, I haven't been myself, I think am falling or have fallen for her. When she disappeared, I turned Dallas upside down, I combed in and out but seems she disappeared from the earth but now she just resurfaced....