“That’s good. Can I see a picture?”“Ahh..” the man said, bringing his phone out as he started scrolling on it.“She doesn’t send her pictures to me, but I can give you her number.You can both meet each other the way you youngsters do these days..”“Of course.” Niko replied, hurriedly bringing his phone out before Reyna could see anything.Reyna just stood at one side, watching how they made interactions without including her. And how Niko conversed with the man like she was not here and they were not just talking about him being her girlfriend and knowing what to do and not to do a few minutes back in his grandfather's house.“I’ll give her a call. Thank you sir.” Niko replied, pulling Reyna's hand.“Wait.” The man called out again.The both of them turned to face the man again, Reyna putting up a frown while Niko welcomed him with his smiley face.“What is it Sir?” He questioned.“I’ve seen you somewhere before. She looks like one of my friends..”. The man said, squinting his eyes a

“What’s she doing here?” He asked again as he glanced between James and his grandmother.“Do you know her?” His mother asked as she eyed Rebecca.“Leave this place now!”He snapped at her as she scurried her feets out of the room.“We’ll come back to that later.” He replied as he took his seat.All eyes went to him as his jaw hardened, his feet rapidly tapping the ground.“What’s that?”“That’s the rejection letter that Nirvana sent us today.” He said before his eyes went to James.James felt some part of him leave him as he heard that. He couldn’t be hearing it well, why…why would nirvana reject them after all he has done?“Are you serious?” His grandmother asked.“You can take it and read it. Coupled with the other shareholders deciding to pull out their funds from the company. Plan on it and tell us the plan we need to take if we don’t want to lose everything.” He hissed as he threw the documents to the table and stood up.Taking one more glance at James, he felt like going over and

Niko whipped his head to James after hearing what he said as he squinted his eyes at him.“What do you mean Nirvana ending? Do you have anything to do with them? What do you think you’re saying?” Niko asked him as James turned to look at him.“How would you know? you’re never at home and never in the company to discuss how it will grow. Do you even have any idea what’s happening to the company?”“Aside from the fact that we’ll be folding up soon? Please enlighten me more.”Niko retorted.James gulped down as he clenched his jaw,“You're more useless than I think.”“Anything that suits you and makes you feel better, little bro. What does that have to do with Nirvana?” He asked again.“Because they made us lose all our shareholders and even didn’t offer him the deal. And now we’re running low and losing shareholders, we need a lot of money to get back on our feet.”“Which is why you need your first son, the playboy.” Nicholas interfered as his eyes darted to Nikos' father.“And what is

Niko and Reyna drove in silence towards the house. Niko glanced at her at intervals as he noticed the lost look in her eyes.“What’s wrong?” He asked after a while.They were almost at home and he didn’t want her to enter the house with such a heavy feeling. Even if he hadn’t gotten the information to know who her real parents were and where she came from, he was sure the news was disturbing her greatly and was just doing her best to conceal it.“I’m fine. I’m fine.” He heard her say as she moved in her seat.She turned her head to the window, watching as all the cars and people moved outside, and for the first time in a long time, she felt sad, Worried, and lost. She thought she had figured out everything, living comfortably, not worrying about her brother again, and having enough money that could sustain her even after the deal, but yet, there was this void that she didn't know how to fill up.“I’m looking into it for you.” Niko raised ho again as he swerved towards the junction of

The both of them stared into each other’s eyes for a long time, no one saying anything, only their throat doing the gulping up and bobbing down. Reyna finally shrugged, averting her gaze from Nikos as she looked at somewhere else,“I don’t know..I..ca..don’t..can’t even say. Let’s just wait for that day right?” She replied, looking back into his eyes to divert it once again.Niko looked at her as his lips curled up, his eyes going down to her lips and looking back at her. Immediately he saw her shift, he pressed his lips to hers, placing a quick kiss on hers before leaning out again.“What? Do you want to have sex with me again?” He asked with a smile as he saw her staring at me.“You just kissed me without my permission.”“You’re my girlfriend, I can do that.” He refuted.Reyna opened her mouth to disagree but just sighed and turned to the ceiling back. He stirred up lots of emotions she didn’t know she had in her and she felt so comfortable with him.“Aren’t you going to the office