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Hi, guys! I know it's been a very long time since I posted a chapter. I had a lot of things to take care of lately, so I couldn't write as much as I wanted to. Anyway, here's the 7th chapter, hope you'll like it. Waiting for your comments! 703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBP7Fzab4XS
"So Leighton, what do you do for a living?" Cole questioned the freckled, blue-eyed woman after gulping down the last drop of white wine left in his glass.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZPctpEEDu0
"Well, I've been working as a banking lawyer for three years now,"703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0098tPekHQ
"Smart and beautiful," he deduced, "That's precisely Henry's style. As well as mine," he added teasingly, winking at his friend.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM5Xbs7xa9w
"Well, I guess you have to find another prey 'cause the beautiful woman beside me now is only and exclusively mine," Henry warned him pointing his cutlery at him threateningly before scooping up a spoonful of his Panna cotta.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzc2fDDgNGE
"Aww, come here sweet boy," Leighton exclaimed putting down her napkin and leaned toward her boyfriend for a quick affectionate kiss.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbVGVH2UnGG
Cole smiled of contentment at the sight of the loving couple, a genuine feeling of happiness warming up his heart. That however, wasn't enough for him to find a fresh hope in love that he judged as an insidious enemy of individuality. Suddenly, a light titter coming from the neighbouring table captured his attention. He looked on his side and remained motionless as his eyes fixed upon her, marvelled by her usually expressionless face now decked with a broad smile that let appear two charming concavities on each side of her cheeks. At this moment, for some reason, the man felt swindled, manipulated. After reading his friend's report and seeing her act in a completely different way tonight, Cole realised that some things that he assumed to know about his housekeeper were nothing but delusions. The woman right before him was far from the robotic goody-two-shoe employee who served his meals and cleaned up his house on weekends. In the end, Bexley Hamilton turned out in truth to be a total stranger to him but somehow that revelation didn't surprise him. In fact, it explained why he never really succeeded to grasp the coldness in her gesture while she had rising flames in her lively eyes and as he captured her every move now, he couldn't agree more to his own reasoning. She guffawed once more and he looked up at her face while she was stifling her laughter with her hand, tears glistening on the corner of her narrowed eyes. Slowly calming down from her outburst, she flapped her hands in the air to create some breeze near her face. She swiftly glanced around and caught his eyes for the umpteenth time this evening. Her beautiful, communicative smile gradually started fading away, yet she kept staring back at him for a moment, her cheeks coloured with a pale but patent shade of red. She soon looked away blinking as her boyfriend who happened to talk to himself animatedly for a while now, realised that she wasn't listening to him and shook his hand before her eyes to get her interest back, but as soon as he got it again, the young woman said a few words to him and stood up from her chair grabbing her wristlet along with her, and rushing to the back of the restaurant, she disappeared behind the double-leaf doors leading to the toilets. 703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR7naoxJUgr
"You're rather quiet tonight, mate. Is everything okay?" Henry suddenly asked, worried.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡppenAl7LWN
"I'll be right back," Cole merely replied and went after the young woman knowing that it was his only chance to lay down his last card.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrjq6zcj7rx
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"Come on, Bexley. Don't let this prick ruin your date," she cheered herself up in a mutter before looking up in the mirror to see her rosy jowls.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM2xkwIvEP6
"Gosh," she exclaimed spotting the rosiness on her face.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH2W5g7A2RA
She quickly turned the tap and passed her hands under the flow of cold water then brought them to her face, annoyingly surprised by her body flagrant response to the man's stare, a response that he might surely have noticed. Bexley closed her eyes as a wave of embarrassment submerged her. She feared that the man would take her blush as a sign of her being sensitive to him, which was not completely untrue since Cole was indubitably a very attractive man, but oh Bexley knew that his personality was far to be as much alluring as his looks, and for Bexley, that was something she couldn't give a miss. Suddenly, her bag started humming. She dried her moistened hands and opened it, grabbing the purring gadget inside. Looking at the screen, she saw a message coming from her sister asking about the progress of her date with Ezra. Bexley simply smiled at her sister's untamable curiosity but didn't reply yet, not ready to talk about that ongoing topic overshadowed by the disappointing presence of her boss, so she just checked her reflection in the mirror for the second time and breathed in, relieved at the sight of her complexion getting back its natural tint. She put her phone back in her bag and walked out of the restroom.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwxmC6KCss2
"I must say that you're very good at deceiving people, Ms. Hamilton," a voice she could recognise amongst ten suddenly spoke.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFq5hsS9OL8
Bexley immediately spotted him in the dully lit corridor, his figure leaning against the wall, arms crossed as if he had been waiting for her to come out.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiUsUAdTRTR
"I don't know what you're talking about," 703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydeMmwIEGt
He moved away from the wall and stepping closer, he came to a halt right in front of her, a fresh and rich whiff of musk pleasantly intoxicating her senses.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBP8cAmlQic
"Don't play dumb with me. You fooled me from the very beginning with your goody two shoes manners when in truth..." Cole left the end of his sentence pending for a second as he glanced at her dress, then staring back at her, he eventually said, "You're clearly not. Ah," he sighed looking up at the ceiling, "But you know, I still don't get why didn't you say that you had a boyfriend from the start instead of making up this ridiculuous excuse about marriage sacredness,"703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwQrXgXYJ7Y
"That wasn't an excuse, just one reason among others that justified why I don't wanna pretend to be your wife," she said taking up with Ezra's lie even though the fact that he was also one of her excuse was partially right, "I didn't tell you about my boyfriend 'cause with all due respect, my personal life does not concern you. Whatever the reasons I can give you sir, my answer will still be the same. I'm not gonna marry you. Ever,"703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFPjEKfXxbR
"I wouldn't be so sure if I were you, Ms. Hamilton," he uttered with a crooked smile drawn on his lips, "I can be very persuasive 'cause see, a little bird told me a very interesting thing about you and your sister. Well, actually, it concerns your sister more than it concerns you,"703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS7MYpklXip
"Goodbye, Mr. Ramsden," she said, annoyed by his rambling.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8emSJI1GFj
"I'll give you one last chance, Ms. Hamilton," he yelled after her, "Marry me otherwise I'll have no choice but to denounce your sister to the police,"703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMH6BV5LXI6
Bexley stopped dead on her tracks, furrowing her brows, not understanding his implication at first, but then disquietude and fear clouded over her blank face as she figured out what he was hinting at. 703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2mYEBhUWsm
"Being an illegal immigrant is one thing," he continued, "but added to forgery and falsification, the mix can be really really dangerous. You know what it will mean for her, don't you?"703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjtzgFtPqRb
She held a breath at his last statement as she heard him walking to her until she felt his presence in her back, afterwards, a warm blow caressed the skin of her neck and he talked softly, "Give me what I want and I'll regularise your sister's situation. You're maybe not interested in money, but I'm sure you can't refuse this offer especially that if you do...well, I guess your sister will pay for that. I leave you till tomorrow afternoon to think about it. Enjoy your date for me, Ms. Hamilton," he finished with sarcasm before walking away, whistling.703Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqmPdXkeduZ
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