"Miss Victoria, are you okay?" Dara who was beside me spoke to my still body, snapping me out of shock.I looked to her and nodded.I looked up at Michael and Amelia, hand-in-hand. They looked genuinely happy together. I wasn't going to ruin it by being bitter. The past was the past."Hi... What are you guys doing here?"I spoke to no one in particular. Asides both of them, I recognised other faces from my previous work place and few others I couldn't. Were they also here for a retreat."Oh... I thought Michael already told you we were getting married. Well, we booked a hall here." Amelia said, as chirpy as ever. My eyes narrowed unintentionally. She was okay with Michael telling me they were getting married? Did I dream up the events of our trio or I was actually going crazy?I forced a smile on my face."Oh, really? That's lovely. You made a really good choice." I hoped they wouldn't catch the double entendre.She hugged Michael's hand closer to her chest and smiled that lovey-dovey
His eyes hardened at my statement. I looked away from his peering eyes."What do you mean?""This isn't appropriate for a work environment. People will talk." I said, all of a sudden finding the brown carpet in the room interesting. Completely sidelining my earlier thoughts."You think I give a rat's ass about what other people think?" He grabbed my jaw to look directly into my eyes. There was a softness in them that I wasn't expecting and I found it hard to believe most times that someone practically hewn from granite had the ability to look soft sometimes. "Is this about them?" My eyes closed in pain as I moved back from his body and sat on my bed, bath-robed and all. I pondered for a long time if I should tell him.I felt all kinds of things when I was with him, I also trusted him so, why did it feel like I was standing in naked in front of him, instead of dressed in a robe?I was laying bare my insecurities before this man that I harboured insanely deep feelings for, of course I
By the time I woke around 5am, the space beside me was empty.I took a quick shower so I could start the day as early as possible. When I got out of the room fully prepared, I noticed Zach sneaking back to his room.I acted like I didn't see him, Kol had done the same in the earlier hours of the morning. 'We will have to talk about this later.' I said to myself.By 8, I had woken everybody up including Kol and his team. I had told one of his cyber colleagues to wake him, very carefully avoiding Geneva.The design guys were wondering why we were more than we were on the beach. The resort was built quite close to a beach so, it looked very close to an island with surrounding trees and cool morning breeze. There were also mountains a little far back of the resort making the area suitable for mountaineering.""Since the cyber team has decided to join us, I spent the early hours of this morning trying to fix our itinerary up to accommodate them." Everyone groaned in response, sizing up
My hands played with eachother as I tried to make it seem like I was desperate to have him with me."I don't want to be alone." I blurted out. I cringed inwardly at not finding a better lie. "Are you sure?" Was I sure that I wanted to be alone with him, in a room, naked?I nodded my head nervously. My teeth had found my lip and I chewed on, hoping he'd stop staring at me like I'd grown 3 heads.He took of his shirt without warning and I squeaked, quickly turning around."A warning would be fine, next time." My eyes had shut close even though he was behind me. I heard a shuffle of feet and knew he'd taken of his shorts.What had I gotten my self into? My heart had gotten to new heights of palpitation. It would be a shock if it didn't burst out running. My hands turned clammy from the new heat I was experiencing. I knew I shouldn't but I was very tempted to peek a look. For a very short while, I turned my face only to meet his directly on me. Like he'd been waiting for me to look at h
All day, I couldn't keep the smile off my face, even though we'd climbed up a mountain for one of our activities on the retreat itinerary and everyone groaned with tiredness. "How much farther do we have t... why is Miss Victoria smiling?" One of my team members had said, finding it extremely strange, and for good reason, that i was smiling even though we were a drenched with sweat and aching in places we didn’t think aches could exist in. "I have no idea." Kol brushed past me, turning me red in the face. He knew d*mn well why I was smiling.I scowled at him but he smirked in return, a promise of something dangerous in his eyes.The sun had started to go down and the air had turned very cold so, we settled in a cozy cabin at the foot of the mountain. Originally, we would've had a camp fire but it had started to snow so, we resorted to staying in the cabin.There was provision for warmth in the structure and even though it was a cabin, it was large enough to contain all of us thoug
There was a collective groan in the audience as many picked up their mugs to sip from.I knew if I took a sip, my team mates would ask who it was but I also knew if I didn't, I'd be lying about my feelings. 'Well, technically, Kol isn't my work mate. He is my boss' I reasoned to myself and stayed my hands.I noticed Dara drank from her cup beside me. I nudged her in the shoulders, a big smile on my face."Who?" I whispered, unable to contain myself. I hadn't noticed her pay attention to anyone. She barely looked people in the eye.She adjusted her glasses but said nothing. I nudged her again, this time earning a smile from her."His name is Kayden." She whispered back. Her eyes lit up at the sound of his name."Kayden?" I wondered."I don't know any Kayden.""He's not here actually." My lips formed an 'o' at the sudden thought that he might not know."Well, does he know?"She nodded her. I almost yelped. I had no idea why I was so happy for her, but I was."You've got to introduce me
Quickly, a hand slammed over my mouth before the scream could escape my throat. I fought hard, still muffled-screaming. I hit the person low and hard with my elbow, eliciting a grunt from the person. My Krav maga wasn't a waste. Thea had drilled me whenever she could. I raised my elbow above my head to hit their neck since I figured they were quite tall.The person grabbed my elbow and brought me closer to their chest."Stop it." The disgruntled voice said."Kol?"I stretched my free hand to find the switch so I could see his face, but he grabbed it instead and turned me around to face him."What are you doing?" I squinted my eyes in the dark to see him. The moonlight provided what little light it could, casting a shadow over half of his face. "More like what are you doing? You could've killed me." I suddenly remembered that I'd elbowed him hard in the stomach."Oh My God. I'm so sorry." My hands flew to his shirt to check if there were bruises."Let me turn on the light to see if
"What is your problem?""Nothing is my problem. You are the problem."I sighed as I moved towards another pair that was fighting."Guys... what's going on?" I rubbed my forehead as I could feel a headache coming along."She keeps hoarding the spoons like it's hers.""And why are you hoarding the spoons?" I looked at the lady in question who had a snarl on her face."He keeps licking them anytime we mix something." Her face scrunched up in disgust.Ugh. Some boys will just be boys."That's not proper. Don't lick the spoons. They're for mixing." I hurried along, feeling like a middle school teacher after scolding the guy.After a couple of minutes of looking around, I looked at the time. It was 10 minutes to the end of the contest."Okay. You have 10 minutes left. Dot your cake i's and cross your pastries t's." Everyone gave me a deadpanned look. I shrugged. I was beyond stressed and only wanted it to be over at this point.***The design team had done fairly well and I was now on the c