"She's my... my girlfriend; marigold." Chardon lip's rose as he said those words."Huh?" The doctor seems could not believe his ears, what could he just heard? Or maybe he just misheard.In the nine years of their friendship, for the first time, henry has only seen this side of Chardon to appreciates a woman this much that he could even threathen him to withdraw his investment from his hospital. And as far as he knows with Chardon, this girlfriends should be a pass time for him and he shouldn't take them seriously, but this girlfriend seems to be weight much on his friend's heart now.Henry looked at the half-asleep and half-awake marigold on the sofa and checked her appearance."What are you looking at on her? Treat her now!" Chardon's cast a grim look on his friend when he saw his scrutinizing gaze to Marigold at the sofa."Well, sorry Mr. Ceo but i couldn't help myself from thinking; when was your taste in woman change? This one here look plain and-""Enough! If you don't wa
MARIGOLD: What is going on with these two? Why do I feel as if I was stucked between two rolling stones? And what's going on with Mr. Atanante? Why does he suddenly offered to take me home? Does he still feel guilty about what happened earlier?"No!" Jonas answered.Jonas and Mr. Atatante stared at each other, but Jonas was the first to withdraw when Mr. Atanante's face darkened. "I-I mean no because... because we haven't done chatting and I have something to say to her. Besides, I'll be the one to take her home."I looked at them alternately while they were still holding each of my arms."Fine." Mr. Atanante released my arms and sat down again.I looked at my arm that Mr. Atanante was holding just earlier and simply caressed it. Somehow, i felt his warmness lingers here."Anyway brother Chardon, what exactly are you doing here? I don't believe you came here just to dine, there are many restaurants around this area, and...." Jonas turned to me. "Why do you seem to be so
"Sir, this is the financial report from the last quarter that we're going to prepare for the investors....." While Mr. Javier doing his report, his boss seem to have his own world and was drifting somewhere else. His chin rested on his hand while tapping the table with his finger.He's not contented and not satisfied by his action, and he didn't seem to see the progression of his pursuit. In truth, chardon didn't know if he's on the right track and if what is he's doing's right. This is the first time he face this kind of situation and he didn't have idea what his next step would be.Before, women are the always one that approached him voluntarily, and he had never experienced courting even one of them."About the revenue, the company make a profit for at least...."Chardon didn't understand even one of his assistant's report, he just quietly planning what he would do next.He suddenly remembered when he saw Jonas and marigold at the restaurant. He thought, do they go out o
"That means... Mr. Atanante might be interested in you."My ears suddenly have ringings while my heart beating faster in my chest. I felt mixed emotions as I couldn't believe what she said and I don't know if I could ever believe that...... just what did she say? "Why are you became in daze? You're acting like stupid. It's hard to believe, isn't it?..... The fact that if it's related to work, it's up to Mrs. Valdez to mediate between us and the superiors..... " She sucked her cigarette again and blew the smoke out before she proceed. "......and moreover, the CEO does not interfere with the small employees like us, because he only meet those executives that directly reporting to him at the company, so no need to summon us, there's no reason for that."A sudden realization came to me. I remembered how Mr. Atanante treated me this passed few days, I even wondering why he suddenly seemed to be nice to me since I got fever and when I fell asleep in his office. If carla hadn't menti
Carla held her head high as she walked out of the office while her female officemates became restless on their seat thinking why their Ceo summoned her.They repeatedly telling on their selves that if only they could know, they would do the same as what Carla's did by passing her report in advance, though it said that it's not allowed on their joint team building.Although Carla looks calm, the truth is that, she's so excited to go to the CEO's office to see chardon. This is the first time she will be able to set foot in the exclusive suit-like office of their boss.Before, if there were any women who could enter that office, it was only Chardon's girlfriends and former secretary, but now she became one of them.While secretly celebrating, Carla suddenly remembered that marigold was ahead of her whom she thought is much more humble and lowly than her.Her eyes suddenly became cold. Chardon's interaction with marigold yesterday's still fresh to her, which drew envy from their fe
MARIGOLD: It's middle in the night and I'm still wide awake. I'm just tossing and turning in bed and I couldn't fall asleep no matter what position I make. It's all Mr. Atanante's fault, eh.I sat down and got some sip of water. While drinking, the image of Mr. Atanante, while he was holding my face and while telling me his confession earlier, popped in my mind.When he told me his confession at that moment, I couldn't look into his eyes so I looked into his mouth instead.Every movement and twitch of his lips seems was like a charm that attracted me and I seemed to forget that I was in a difficult situation in his office that time. "Pftt!" I accidentally spilled the water in my mouth,I immediately took a wipe and wipe it.How can I face Mr. Atanante? if only now that I think of him, my heart seems skipped beating. I don't want to see him for a while because I might pass out from nervousness. How come what Carla said to me became true?......."Ha ha ha ha! Why do you lo
CRASH!!The flowerpot fell on the floor and broke into pieces.Marigold did nothing to stop Carla, it happened so fast and she didn't think Carla would do that. She just stood and looked foolishly at the scattered pieces of pot, soil and flowers on the floor. Then that when the time the bewildered Jessy woke up to what had happened. They immediately stopped Carla who looked to Marigold with fierce eyes as if she was ready to attack her next.Marigold squatted to reached out and slowly picked up the flowers. She didn't care about the fuming Carla that resembles a lion that time, ready to eat her.As Marigold carefully picked the plant, she felt heavy in her heart. She felt as if the heart of the person who offered this flowerpot to her had been trampled and broken.Marigold felt a mixture of annoyance, sadness and regret. She angrily turned to Carla. "Why did you do this? Why‽"Jessy and their other friends astonished. This is the first time they had seen Marigold outburst."M-marigol
Chardon turned his seat at Marigold's direction at the front. "Tell us about the marketing report of your department. We need your enlightenment and lecture on this presentation."The nervousness and pressure marigold felt increased the moment she saw chardon near her. She calmed herself a little and remembered what Jonas told her earlier. That's when she thought why she's there.She bowed her head for a moment and composed herself. She suddenly remembered her promise to prove herself. "This is it! This is the the right I need to show my capability!"When marigold raised her head, there's no trace of nervousness anymore, only determination can be seen her. 'Okay....' then she start: "Hello everyone, I'm Marigold Magbanua from the marketing department. And as I stand here, I will explain every detail about the proposal report of our team." Marigold immediately caught everyone's attentions, specially, the executives. Chardon, on the other hand, was leaning forward on the swivel