Many of the target entrepreneur participants already reached out to the Mercator Group for their confirmation to join its anniversary celebration. But there is only one shop that has not responded to the invitation yet. The other committee officials are persuading Oneil to drop the chances for that shop to join them."You know that they are the leading apparel shop. Do you really think that it is worth losing them?" Oneil challenged."But sir, we are the Mercator Group. It is disdain to our image if we will go down to their level just to drag them with us. They should be the one chasing our company.""No matter how great we are, we are still bound to wait for others. Just tell me if you don't want to wait for them. I will do it on your behalf." Oneil knows that they are getting idle on this important aspect of the anniversary. But none of them would respond to him. "Let's not waste our time. I will follow up our invitation to Leal Vêtement."The mee

Oneil committed himself to the tasks of supervising the progress of the anniversary preparation. All changes on the designs that he expected to be made throughout the week are visible. What he liked the most is the main entrance of the Grand Pavillon Mercator. The decorations are already set to enthrall and amaze the guests even just by passing through the halls of the conference dome. Walking past the halls, the large floor showcases the partner apparel shops that are almost on their completion stage of structuring their exhibition designs.Two weeks had already passed and Oneil couldn't deny expecting that Essi must have returned to help her friend. During these past few days, Oneil has placed his attention on nothing but to get the venue of the anniversary prepared more than ever. It is already on his priority list but his employees could notice how he wanted to accelerate the preparation. In their eyes, it must be because the chairman wanted Oneil to present how far he we

Coincidences are but a hair's width in rarity to happen within the cosmos. With only Geovensia asking if Essi intended to send her staff to be part of Leal Vêtement”, Essi is in a space of no escape to admit it."I was trying to check if he would be annoyed by it," Essi's reason was rather on playing the waters to see if any of her moves would still make Oneil annoyed. But upon receiving the news on how Oneil got strict towards Leal Vêtement, her calculations are right. Whether she did something to Oneil or not, Oneil will still show up with a lot of questions towards her. "I have no choice. Wherever I go, he still reacts like that. I might as well just become more cooperative in these remaining days before the opening of the celebration."Geovensia nodded knowingly while looking at how Essi paints her ideas for the clothes. It is just the two of them inside the exhibition booth. Rain is outside to buy coffee for them. They may seem idle today but it

The first four days of the celebration have gone really well. While everyone has their amazement on the level of preparation and management for the anniversary, Essi's sight is always on Oneil. Her eyes are observing him lovingly. In the image of him being a stern and authoritative managing director, she sees the traces of a sweet and caring man. Essi is glad to notice little things on Oneil. He is even wearing the duck brooch that should be seen as a cute ornament that delights the inner child. But as it rests on the suit of the managing director, it looks like a fowl in a ready hunt. It is still the same duck brooch and it's only Essi who could notice it."I can't clearly remember if that is the duck brooch he got from us," Geovensia is a master of design but she can deliberately forget the details of jewellery. "Maybe you just got it wrong because it's dark around us. We can't even see him clearly from afar."Essi cannot be fooled even by her night blindness. For wh

It is always the rain that has to stop Essi so that she cannot get away from Oneil. Her arms are getting drenched as she stays beneath the gate roof. She already pushed Oneil away. Isn’t it a pain to her esteem if she would return to the stone house because of the rain? Before she could answer that, Oneil already arrived and pulled her to his side. He used his hoodie to cover them and prompted Essi to run with him to the car.Their silence was a like a pause of an impending storm only to warn others that there would be a tumult to come. But this time, Essi and Oneil does not know what would it be. An argument? A range of questions to answer diligently? Or hesitance that had always reigned against them? Oneil answered the last question by giving the other hoodie to Essi.Essi muttered thanks. Her eyes averted Oneil. At least this will help her on enduring the intense silence between them. Ending up in Oneil’s car again a kind of prize that the event could af