Chapter 2: 100th Floor

“I have to prepare for work, while I am gone you have to think carefully of the choice you want to make” David said to her and then left the hotel room.

Hanan ran both her hands in her hair in frustration, what was she going to do now.

David has been looking for her all these years so that explains how he was able to know she came to Italy. She thought maybe he was going to move on from her after she left with her family 10 years ago but it seems that isn’t the case because he never forgot her.

He will never stop asking her the reason why she had left with her family and she will never be able to tell him the reason.

She picked up her bag and looked for her phone inside but couldn’t find it. She turned the bag upside down offloading everything inside the bag, checked every single thing inside but couldn’t find her phone.

Why can’t I find my phone” she murmured to herself. She tried to think back to last night if she had misplaced it but developed an headache.

She placed her hand on her forehead because of the pain as a result of her hangover. 

How would she be able to reach her crew who had come to Italy with her for the fashion show?

She tried to remember her assistant’s phone number and immediately got up to look for a telephone but couldn’t see any in the room.

“How come an hotel room doesn’t have a telephone?” She said, speaking to herself and sighed loudly, making the hair in her front move.

She concluded that David must have taken her phone and must have also told the hotel staff to remove the telephone in the room so she won’t be able to call anyone. He must have done this while she was sleeping

She looked at her self in the mirror and saw how messy her hair was. She couldn’t believe she was about to work out of this room with a scattered hair.

She packed her hair properly and straightened her dress.

She needed to reason with David one more time. So she sat on the bed and waited for him to come.

After about 30 minutes she heard the sound of the door and looked up to see David fully dressed. She roamed her eyes on him from head to toe.

She was not going to deny the fact that David was really attractive. He has become more handsome after 10 years, she could feel a heavy aura emanating from him. He didn’t just look drop dead handsome, but looked very arrogant, which made him hot.

She kept on staring even as he walked closer to her on the bed. 

“You can keep on drolling, I don’t mind”

Realizing what she was doing she blinked and looked away from him. She then heard him chulk.

“So what choice have you made”

“Both choices are still going to favor you so none”

“Fine then” David said “Don!” He called out and two huge guys walked into the room.

Hanan widened her eyes when she saw them and turned to David “What is this?"

David stetched out his hand “Let’s go”

“No”

“If you don’t come with me then I have no other choice but to tell them to bundle you out of here with me”

Hanan looked at the two huge guys who were huge and swallowed. It was better she took David’s hand than to allow this two angry looking guys to bundle her out of here.

“Good girl” He held her hand more firmly as they left the hotel room to the parking lot. They got close to a brown and black maybach and he opened the door for her to go in first before going to the other side, opened the door and got in.

“Where to sir” his bodyguard asked 

“Head to the company”

The car immediately started and they drove to the company.

Hanan turned to him “Seriously, David?”

David turned to her “yes”

“You are holding me against my wish David, just let me go already”

David stared closely at her but didn’t say anything to her and just went through his phone.

“Haaaa” she sighed and looked out of the window.

It has been 10 years since she last came to Italy and she could see how much it had changed. Although many of its ancestral buildings were standing, the roads and many other things had changed.

She arrived yesterday morning for the fashion show and they were almost late. She had focused her attention on preparing her models and didn’t really have time to look around.

After the fashion show ended yesterday, her and her crew decided to go to one of Italy’s famous night club to celebrate the sources. Her crew had raised a glass on her name to tossed for the job well done and as a result she had drank more than she was supposed to.

She got drunk and decide to go puke it all out of her system in the bathroom. On her way to the bathroom she felt a strong hand wrapped around her, she wanted to scream and struggle her way out of the person's strong hold on her, but the cologne of the person smelt familiar.

The moment it hit her nostril a cold chill run down her spine, she immediately knew who the person was. It was none other than David Salvatore, her teenage love.

Her heart drummed in her chest as she slowly raised her head to look at him. Although she was drunk but she cold still recognize him.

The man looked more handsome than ever and she couldn’t help but relieve those long lost memories she had with him, that she had tried to forget. 

She looked into his eyes and could see how cold they were.

She suddenly laughed at herself. Did she really think she was going to come to Italy and leave freely without David finding out? She was really kidding herself.

She laughed at herself as her head moved from left to right as a result of her drunken state. That’s all she could remember and the next time she regained consciousness was this morning when she found herself in his bed.

She knew the moment she woke that they had slept together, no clothes on them, nothing.

Hanan sighed as she kept looking outside the window. She had changed her name to Stephenie Quick, her family surname was now Quick.

After the event of 10 years ago her and her family had ran out of Italy and even Europe and had started a new life with a different name in the United States.

She has always wished to be a fashion designer and had pursued her dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Now she was one of Los Angeles best designers, everyone knew her name but not who she was.

Nobody knew the face of the famous designer of QuickFashion. Apart from her design crew, nobody else knew who she really was.

There are so many Stephanie quicks in the United States but no one knows who amongst them is the famous Stephanie quick.

She had hidden her real identity because she was afraid to be found. If she had revealed herself, David would have found her a long time ago, but she didn’t want him to find her, because if he does she and her family will be in big trouble.

She and her family are afraid of that person and there is no way she can let him know who that is.

She turned to glance at David with a sad look on her face.

Since ten years had passed already she had thought that by now he would have forgotten her and that she could easily reveal herself to the world as the fashion designer of QuickFashion.

She was not surprised as to how David was able to find her or knew she was in Italy because David is the youngest billionaire, most influential and most powerful man in the whole of Italy and one of the richest and powerful in the whole of Europe.

He has been able to take those titles within the 10 years that she had ran away with her family. She knew this because she always read news about him.

So it seems like the moment she stepped her foot into Italy, David knew.

She was so stupid to think she could do her fashion show immediately and leave before he found out. 

Now here she was sitting close to him in his car.

There is no way he will let her go, so all she has to do is wait for the right time to run away from him.

She looked through the car window and was awed at the skyscraper in front of her. This was a 100 floor building, it was none other than the Salvatore Group and David Salvatore is the CEO.

This is the only company in Italy that had 100 floors. 

Hanan couldn’t help but stare at it in awe till they got to the underground garage.

They stopped and she turned to look at David only to see him already looking at her with an expressionless look on his face.

“Did you bring me here to attend your meetings with you” She said sarcastically 

David didn’t respond to her and just got down from the car after his bodyguard opened the door for him.

The other bodyguard opened the other door for Hanan and she came out from it and leaned close to the door after it was closed.

David turned to his bodyguards and said “Take her to the penthouse” he said and walked towards the Elevator, got into it and the Elevator door closed without him even turning to look at her.

Hanan scratched her head in frustration “What!!” She screamed in anger, so he plans on locking her up in his penthouse? She puffed her lips in bewilderment.

“Madam shall we?” One of the bodyguards said calmly but with a stain look on his face as he pointed to another Elevator on the opposite side.

That must be the elevator that leads directly to the penthouse. If penthouse they mean the 100th floor.

Hanan widened eyes when she realized she was going to the 100th floor of this particular building.

“Madam” the bodyguard called to her and she turned sharply to look at him

“Shall we” he said as he directed his hand for her to move

She swallowed hard as she slowly walked towards the elevator. 

When she got to the Elevator, the bodyguard put his thumb and it registered his finger print before the elevator opened.

She stepped into the elevator and they stepped in too.

The bodyguard pressed the button that says “Top” meaning the 100th floor.

The elevator started moving up and finally they got to the penthouse that was in the 100th floor of the building.

The bodyguard used a keycard to open the door that leads into the penthouse and they stepped inside first.

She stood outside the door not wanting to get inside, if she is to get inside this place, will she ever come out from it?” She asked herself.

One of the bodyguard turned and looked at her “Get in madam” he said 

Hanan dragged her feet reluctantly and got inside the penthouse. The whole place was beautiful as a penthouse should.

She also owned penthouses and lived in one of the penthouses, but this is the first time she was getting side a penthouse built on the 100th floor of a building.

It was big, bigger than the one she lived in. While she was busy looking around, the bodyguard said, “We are going to leave you now, miss” they said and turned to leave but she stopped them.

“Can you please tell you boss that I need my cell phone to call my crew, they must be looking for me by now and will be greatly worried about me”

“We will let him know”

“And also I haven’t take my bath yet and I need new clothes, undies and toletries”

Bodyguards looked at each other, one coughed before saying “ We will tell the boss as well”

After they left, she sat on the couch and rested her head “David” she murmured tiredly.

She got up later and went to take a look around, she went upstairs and checked the first room on her right.

When she opened the door she saw it wasn’t a room but a library.

She went down the hall and checked the last room.

In her own penthouse, her room was the last room upstairs so she suspected David’s room would be the last room on her right. True to her thinking, it was indeed David's room.

It was way bigger than hers in the United’s states. She thought she had the biggest room ever but David’s room was way bigger.

His walking closet was spectacular, his bedroom was out of this world, his bed was wide and spacious.

He also had a study desk at the side, why have a study desk here when he could just have a whole office down stairs.

She decided to go back down stairs to check if he had a study room.

When she came down from the stairs she saw a door by her left and went towards it. When she opened the door, it revealed a very big study room.

“He has a study space in his bedroom and a big study room down stairs? That’s weird” she sad to herself as she got into the study room.

“But why will David leave on the 100th floor of his company building, doesn’t he have a separate home?” She asked herself but decided to find out later.

She went to his desk to check if she could find a spare phone or telephone she could make a call with. She needed to speak to her crew and tell them that she was okay if not they will worry so much about her.

And also she needed to look for a secret door in the penthouse that she could escape from. Her penthouse had a secret door, so definitely Davide's penthouse will also have one.