Chapter Forty Five

Ryan's POV:

"Mrs. Anderson called again and I said you are in a meeting." Mr. Baker said after he knocked the door.

"Thank you, Mr. Baker. Is there anything else?" I said in my business tone without looking up to him.

"You have an appointment with Mr. Salvador after lunch. That will be all, Sir." He informed me as he waited for me to dismiss him.

"I'll remember that. Let me know if Pearl calls again." Saying that I opened another file to check that after closing the one I had in my hands.

"Ok Sir, then I'll take me leave." in reply to that I just nodded my head.

Pearl had been calling me for weeks, but I didn’t want to contact her before I had confidence to face her, and there was my father who didn’t budge even a little bit, no matter how many times I asked him for forgiveness. So, when my own birth father wasn’t ready to forgive me, to expect that from Pearl was a luxury itself.

About Natalie, I offered to help her to get a job but she refused to take my help and said that she wasn’