Hello, lovely readers! I'm back with the new chapter for my story, hopefully, this chapter not be awful and I hope you like it.When I wrote the part of Mark POV I tried my hardest to use my feelings but I am not that sure if I excel it written about a sad feeling to lose our loved one. Sorry, if it lacks in many ways. I used to listen to the song of Shane Ward, "No Promise" when wrote Mark POV. Hope you like it, everyone .xoxo
I love to say thank you, Lizzie, for helping me and I hope she is better soon after being hospitalised. God Bless you. Xoxoxo
EL.JAMES own all the FSOG main characters, the imaginary characters and the plot of the story is mine. Thank you for reading this story and have a great weekend, lovely readers. Xoxoxo
CPOV
Last night I asked Welch to send me the background check of Ros's new PA, I can't believe it! She's a fresh graduate from WSUV with summa cum laude and 4.4 GPA.
Wow, that girl has a good brain in her head but it's sad that she is a little bit stingy and has a bad temper.
I cannot believe the girl I met last night is one of my executives PA, I can't say she doesn't have the criteria as PA for the COO of the company, she has a gorgeous face, I hope her work is as good as her GPA.
Taylor drives me to GEH right now. A faint smile played around my mouth, I can't wait to see Miss Anastasia Steele's reaction when she finally knows who I am. Earlier this morning I called Ros to send me the documents needed for me to sign for our meeting later. Instead of Ros sending them to me, I tell her to send someone else to bring me the files because I don't want to meet her ugly mug this morning before the meeting. She knows that I only joke with her and she said she will send her new PA to bring it for me. I chuckle absentmindedly when I remembered what she did last night and it caught Taylor's eye from the rear mirror. He looked at me with a curious gaze, ignoring him I turned my gaze towards the outside scenery passing by without explaining to him the reason I chuckled.
My great mood did not last for too long when I remembered our meeting with Elite Company today. Still can't get where the hell Mark Williams is right now? He is the one I trusted to handle the deal we have to take over the company I want to buy, but now he's MIA for weeks without any contact. I knew this man, after five years, he's worked for my company, and he is such a great employee and responsible for his job. Where the fuck are you now Mark?
Arriving at GEH, I used my private elevator to headed to the 20th floor when the elevator door opens I find Andrea already seated at her station, working on her computer.
"Good morning, Mr Grey." Andrea greet me.
"Good morning, Andrea. Tell Ros to send me the documents I need to sign to my office now, Please!" I tell her as I continue to walk to my office. I hear her say 'yes' as I walk toward my office.
I read through the paperwork on my desk, reading all the reports from other deals around GEH. Ten minutes later Andrea buzzes me to inform me that Miss Steele is outside with the files I need. I tell her to let her come to my office. I purposely turned my chair overlooking the window so that when she entered my office she could not see my face directly. I want to see her reaction when she looks at me for the first time, will she recognise me?
Knock..knock.
"Enter.," I tell her, and I can hear as she opens the door and walks towards my desk.
"Good morning, Mr Grey. Ms Bailey sent me here to give you these documents for you to sign." I hear Ms Steele talk to me, her voice is different from last night. If I can say the truth she has an angelic voice but after recalling the incident last night, I can't say if she is an angel. I scoff to myself angel my foot, she is a stingy girl.
Smirking, I turn my chair to face her, our eyes lock with each other and when she gets a look at my face clearly her eyes become big like saucers and her mouth opens due to her obvious shock. It looks like Ms Steele does remember me after all, gotcha, woman!! The man you called a thief last night, in fact, is your boss!.
"The files, Ms Steele," I ask her as I put my hand out for her to hand me said documents, but she doesn't move, she must be still in shock.
"Ms Steele, didn't you bring me the files from Ros which I need to sign?" I ask her again, a little bit louder so she can come around from her shock, I want to laugh at the look on her face right now, but I keep my composure and do not give any reaction to her surprised face.
"Huh. Oh, right. Here Sir. These are all the files you need to sign." She pulls herself together and masks her surprised face with more professional facial expressions. She hands me the files when our fingers grace each other I feel a jolt of electricity shooting through my body.
I think she can feel it too because she pulls her hand back instantly and acts as if nothing happened.
I signed all the files without looking at Anastasia Steele, from the corner of my eye, I can see her fidgeting uncomfortably. Is she feeling uncomfortable near me or she is nervous about what I will do to her because of her attitude last night? I don't know but I will get the answer in a minute.
"So, Ms Steele. How long have you been working at GEH?" I start the conversation and look at her.
"It's been a week since I started working as Ms Bailey's PA, Sir." She answers me.
"What do you think about working here? And how's your job treating you?" I ask her once again, I want her to give me a more detailed answer then the simple one-liner she just gave me.
"It's positively productive and I enjoy working for Ms Bailey, Andrea also helps me so much with everything I'm not yet familiar with. I'm so thankful for the opportunity to work at a company like GEH" good answer but it still does not give me what I want. I want her to apologize to me or at least try to explain that last nights mishap is her fault.
"So, what were you doing last night, staying in office until late?" I ask her nonchalantly, her face start blushing after I ask the question. I think she remembers last nights little accident. I smirk at her.
"Hmm. I finished my job and forgot to check the time until it was well passed the knock off for me to go home. Sometimes I like to stay longer to finish my work so I do not need to hurry to finish it the next day." She explained to me. Is she real? When all the other employees wanted the day to be over quickly, she is the opposite and wants to finish any work given to her in a day.
"Did Ros tell you that you need to finish your work or it's your own initiative?" I know Ros is not that crazy to tell her PA to work overtime.
"Oh no, Ros never told me to stay overtime. She is the great boss anyone would love to work with and I'm so lucky to have her as my boss for the very first job I had after graduating from University. And...
I am so sorry about last night, Mr Grey. I always become grumpy and short-tempered when I feel hungry and you ate my food without asking me first just made me more grumpy." Hah. She is brave, brave enough to say that I stole her food last night.
"Are you saying I'm stealing your food and I need to say sorry to you, Ms Steele?" I ask her unbelievingly.
"I'm not saying it like that, Sir. But I think you owe me that apology because it's true you did eat my lunch box without my permission. And because of you, I needed to cook again last night." She is complaining about the need to cook and wow. This girl is something else, she is not afraid of me although she knows I'm her CEO. And she did not show any fear when she called my bullshit. It is so refreshing and annoying at the same time.
"Ok, sorry I ate your food without permission and are you still sending your complaint to HR like you said you were last night?" She blushed pink remembering what she said to me, that she will send her complaint to the HR department today.
"Hmm, I think I'll cancel that thread because we don't want anyone to know that our CEO eats his employee's lunch box food without asking first right? So, I will spare you the embarrassment, Mr Grey. Now we are at a truce right, Sir? I need to go back to my office because Ms Bailey is waiting for me to bring these files back to her. Thank you for your time and have a nice day, Sir. Once more don't eat my food without permission from the owner or you will get stomach aches, who knows if that food already stayed inside the fridge more than a day. Be careful, Sir. Bye.. " What the fuck?? This girl really has a smart mouth, and she also does not have a fear of me. Now, she just walks out of my office and left me speechless. Ms Steele, you make me curious about you. Her smart mouth will be the death of me and I need to be careful around her.
But I think it's not that bad to have a sassy employee like her, my working days would be fun from now on.
My ten o'clock meeting Is already in the conference room waiting for me, I don't know if my staff have handled the problem of the missing document, only Mark knew where it is because he is the leader of this take over the project. I can't tell what the result from this meeting I'm sure would lose my patience if this meeting does not work as what I want. The new team leader of my staff will need to answer me about the fuck up today.
"Good morning gentleman." I shake the hand of Elite company COO, Mr Grant.
"Good morning, Mr Grey." He shakes my hand and we sit down to start the meeting.
"Mr Grey, I'll get to the point with our meeting today. We had read both of your proposals you had sent to our company but honestly, the last proposal is not as good as the first one you gave us before. The deal your team wrote in here says that you will fire almost half of our employees after the contract is signed. And making a change in the employee structures. " I'm taken back listening to what he said. What the fuck! I never said we will fire employees from their company after the finalization this deal.
"Sorry, have I heard that right? I never said that we will fire half of the employees from Elite. Where did you hear about that, Mr Grant?" I ask him.
His face shows surprise listening to what I just said.
Ros on the other hand already starts to laugh at hearing about this ridiculous information but hides it well.
"Mr Grey, according to the second proposal you sent to our company. You put that clause in the contract and that makes us concerned about selling our company to GEH because our CEO really loves his employees. All of them so loyal and hard-working, it's such an unfortunate circumstance that requires us to sell the company in the first place." He tells me all the reasons why they can't sell the company to us. I need to put a stop to this meeting before it falls out of hand.
"Mr Grant, I can say we never want to fire the loyal employees from your company and can you give us some extra time to review the contract once again? and don't worry we don't need a long time to look it over before our next meeting." I tell him sure, I can see he is not certain to decide to sell the company to us anymore, but I can't lose this opportunity to buy out this company. After another hard decision, he agreed to resume our meeting in two days from now. We say our goodbyes, after the meeting room's door closed. I throw away all the files on the table and glared at my MA teams. What is this idiot playing at to make this deal fuck up?
"What the fuck are you fucking idiots doing in your office? Why did you send a stupid transaction clause without inquiring it with me or Ms Bailey beforehand?" I shout at them, they shrink in their chairs and afraid to answer me.
"I'm sorry, Mr Grey. Our team is struggling a little bit with Mark being MIA. He is our team leader and all the important files about this deal were all with him." One of the stupid fuckers said. What an unbelievable fucking mess this has turned out.
"Fix it, or I swear it will be your head on a platter.", I want to fire all this team but I can't lose control here. I tell all of them to go away from my sight before I kick their ass out.
"Grey, we need to make it right with or without Mark. We can't lose this deal because we need Elite company to back up our plan for creating a new satellite." Ros tells me.
I think I will combust and in need to beat the fuck out of something. I walk out from the meeting room to my own office and need to find a way how to solve this fucked up mess and turn it into something right. I hate to lose or failed to rescue this good opportunity to take over this company in California.
Back to my own office, I pour myself a whiskey from my private bar. I need something stronger to help me think about making it right. I am so fucking pissed with Mark Williams right now and I want to kick him to the curb for running away from his responsibility. This deal is not the only important deal GEH has right now but this deal can help our company, with the successful new launch of our new GEH tech.
Throwing myself into working on the new contract offer we will use in the next meeting with Elite company, I am going to do it myself and not let anyone help me except Ros. I review the second contract, my acquisition team made before and felt my blood boiling and I want to fire all those stupid fuckers. How they are so stupid for making this rubbish proposal and sending it to the company without mine or Ros's approval? The offer they have made for Elite company really unacceptable and ridiculous, they are working for a big company but the way they draw the contract, not like a professional work instead like an amateur student. The last thing I need right now is incompetence. My concentration is disturbed by my office phone ringing.
"Grey, spare some time for an urgent meeting in your office later after office hours!" Ros's voice greets me from another line, like always she talks to the point without greeting me first.
"What kind of urgent meeting do you want to conduct, Ros?" I ask her feeling slightly curious.
" I can't tell you, Grey. But it is about Mark Williams, also Andrea needs to attend because this also concerns her!" I try to dig more info from her but she refuses to tell me, now I'm in even more of a bad mood. but I know it's better than hunting Ros down immediately. I need to wait until she comes here alone and tell me face to face. I continue on my work and wait until later to know what is it about by an unexpected urgent meeting.
APOV
Holy shit. The person in front of me is nothing like I expected. In my mind, I had imagined our CEO had a bald head or at least in his forty. Not this insanely handsome like the one in front of me right now.
God, what dream did I have last night? Why does it have to be him, the man I scolded for eating my food without permission, why he is the one that has to be the owner of this company? I didn't expect my first meeting with the owner of this company to be very embarrassing, and certainly not leaving a good impression.
. I tried hard to cover up my embarrassment in front of Mr Grey by being more professional, but inside I felt nervous and worried. What if he feels offended by what I said last night, he could have fired me without thinking twice. Oh God, this time please help me! Don't let me lose my dream job just because my mouth is losing its ability to speak with common sense. After Mr Grey signed all the files Ros had given me, I hurried to get out of his office before he remembered last night. but my strategy to leave as soon as I can vanish when he started talking about what happened last night.
"Ana, what's wrong with you? why do you look like you've met a ghost? You look pale and not as usual! "Andrea greeted me when she saw me coming out of Mr Grey's office.
"Andrea, meeting ghosts are better than now. I feel very stupid and silly." I said to Andrea, not knowing the meaning of my words. Andrea only looked at me with a confused look.
"Anastasia, can you speak in a language that can be easier for me to understand? Earlier when you entered Mr Grey's office, you were fine, now that you left his office. You look like someone who has lost the will to live. Is Mr Grey being rude to you, or did he yell at you just now? "Andrea asked me in a worried tone. If she knew what had happened, I was sure she would be like me right now. Confused and embarrassed, not knowing what to do.
"No, Andrea but I am the one who does stupid things." without telling her further, I just walking back to my boss's office. Inside my heart, I pray to the Almighty God, Let's hope Mr Grey not fire me after last night incident, finger cross lets just hope he can forgive me. What a wrong move to start known by our CEO. Oh, stupid Ana!
Knocking Ros office door, I walk in with the files in my hands and hand it back to her. Ros looks so busy this moment, she just tells me to put it on her desk without looking in my direction. Well, I remember what Mark told me last night, today we will have a meeting with the company GEH want to take over. But the problem is all the documents they need it's not in the place right now. What will be happening in today's meeting? Will disaster occurs today?
Walking back to my office room I found Mark already sit down on my desk waiting for me. He gives me a smirk, a sign he knows that I had met our CEO and he knows the man I shout as a thief is no one else are our big boss.
"Hai, new friend, your face looks so ugly right now! What's up, girl?" Oh great, he acts like he doesn't know what happens with me today. Jerk.
"You. How come you not tell me who is the man from last night? Are you trying to make me jobless?" I scold him but not in loudly because I don't want people thought I was crazy talking alone.
"Sorry, I have tried to tell you that he is our CEO, but you are so grumpy and not listen to me. So, I just let you be a grumpy girl, it was not that bad, right? Mr Grey won't fire you just because of last night's incident." He says while laughing at my face.
I ignored him and continue with my work and trying to stay positive thinking, our boss not will be petty and fire me just over the food misunderstand. Right? Right he would not fire me because I work for Ros, not for him, Ros not will let him fire me. Inside my brain, I talk to myself but I am not sure myself.
Huh. It is so frustrating.
"Chill, Ana. You will be fine and your job won't go anywhere. Mr Grey maybe a tyrant in this place or in business, but he is not that heartless boss who fire employees just because of food." Mark reassures me. I nod at him and focus more on my work right now.
I see Ros walk back from meeting to her office, from her aura I can see it that the meeting was a thud. Oh, Lord. What is it about to happen with the takeover process of the company in California?
"It's a messy situation right now in our company, Ana. The other side people almost reject the offer from our company and now the meeting being resume to the other day." Mark tell me with his face in forlorn.
"What happens, Mark? Why they reject the offer we had for them?" I ask him.
"The other team from MA send a ridiculous offer to them, which said if our company will fire half of their employees. When our boss never said anything like that, and it is not we have planned for this deal." He tells me with a tone of disappointment.
I can't say anything because I just work here for a week and this project is made before I joined.
That's why Ros look so disappointed and like she wants to kill people when she walked into her office.
"We need to tell them the truth about my situation, Ana." Mark suddenly say. I look at him need him to explain more clear to me.
"I mean, I want to tell them if I do not just vanish from this world, but I was killed by someone in this company, Ana. I want you to help me here to tell them the truth, please!" He pleading at me and I know that I can't reject his wishes for help. Andrea needs to know that he does not leave her alone because he wants but it all because of the jealousy of another employee which take her beloved one away from her.
"Let me think a way how to approach it to Ros, okay?" I tell Mark, he nodded his head and I work my brain to find a way to resolve his problem.
After thinking it over and over again, I know how to solve this problem. I hope this idea will succeed and Mark can rest in peace, but it will kill Andrea knowing the man she loves not in this world anymore and he went away in a tragic way.
I knocked on Ros office door, she tells me to enter. When I walked in she gives me a curious look, and I become nervous now. But I can't let my nervousness failed me.
"I'm sorry, Ros to disturb you right now, but I have something need to tell you and I need you to help with it," I tell her.
"Please, sit down and talk to me, Ana. What is it that you want to talk about? From your face and tone, it looks so serious." She gives me all of her attention.
I take a deep breath and start to say what I want her to know.
"Ros, I know where is Mark Williams right now. But I will tell you the details of the problem later after the office hour ended. I prefer to have you, Mr Grey and Andrea to involve when I tell everything that I know about him." I tell her clearly without a doubt in my voice. She so surprised with what I tell her but she nods her head understands.
"Ok, Ana. I will let Mr Grey know if we will have an urgent meeting after office hour end. I hope you have the information we need about Mark. He already MIA for a week without any news and it's not like him being away from his responsibility at work and leave Andrea alone." Her voices are full of concern.
"I can't tell you what to do after you know what happened to him, Ros. All of us will become hurt and Andrea will be devastated by learning the truth." I stand and say my leave, she was so stunned by the information and I see she can't wait to know the reason Mark disappeared.
It's seven o'clock and the executive floor already quiet because most of the employees already off from work. Ros and I now walking towards our boss's office, we meet with Andrea in her station and together we walk into Mr Grey,'s office.
Without knocking Ros just open the door and walk-in to sit down on the couch in front of Mr Grey desk.
"What do you want to say from this emergency meeting, Ros?" Mr Grey asked Ros and looked at me curiously.
"This is about Mark, Grey. Anastasia told me this afternoon that she knows where Mark is." Andrea and Mr Grey immediately looked at me after hearing Ros's explanation.
"Ana, do you know about Mark? Have you met him before? Why didn't you tell me?" Andrea asked me confused. I took a deep breath as I began to talk about what I knew about this situation. beside Andrea sit, I saw Mark sitting next to her.
"Before I start telling stories about everything I know, please don't cut off what I have to tell you, before I finish telling everything, if you have any questions, please ask after I finish. Can you do that?"
all in the room nodded their heads.
"Mr Grey, before I start talking. Do you have another employee who you trust and can act quickly when needed? "I asked Mr Grey. When this problem was revealed, I wasn't sure we all could think clearly, because after all, that happened from the misfortune that claimed Mark's life. Will only leave wounds for everyone close to him.
In minutes three big man enter the office and join us for this meeting. Let's start it, Ana, calm down everything will be okay. I mumble to myself.
"I met Mark the first time when I came to this office. Previously I did not know who he was, he just stood beside Andrea and looked at her with a look of affection and sadness. "After I said about when I saw Mark all the people who were here sighed their breath. From the look on their faces, they were surprised by my explanation.
"For a week I work at GEH, I always see Mark whether it's beside Andrea or in the break room. Yesterday afternoon, when Andrea told me about her lover who was also an employee here, disappeared without my explanation and there was not the slightest message from him either. at that time Mark was in front of Andrea said he did not leave because of his liking but this is all because of the tragedy that happened to him after work on the last day you all saw him in a week ago. I tell them the reality of what happened to Mark and tell them if he wasn't in this world anymore.
"Andrea cried when she realized that Mark was no longer in this world anymore. When Andrea cried the others looked at me with questions that were full of questions and full of curiosity.
" Anastasia, how?" It just the words Ros can utterly right now.
"You can call me a freak or crazy but what I tell you guys is the truth. I can see the spirit of people who die, but it is not the end of the story. Mark dies not by an accident but someone killed him that day." all the people in the room became quiet and all of them look so shocked to listen to what I had announced just now.
"What do you mean, Ms Steele with someone killed him?" Mr Grey ask me.
"One of your employees got jealous of Mark's job and he killed him," I say deadpan.
"Bullshit..dont you dare to make so stupid and impossible story Anastasia!" Grey shout. He makes me jump because of how loud he shouted.
"I'm not lying Mr Grey, what I said is the truth. Do you want to know where Mark right now, him right now sitting beside Andrea? He tried to hug her but he can't do that, do you know how frustrated him right now look at the love of his life crying her eyes out hearing what has happened to him. He is alone, cold without a soul in his body and no one finds him. You all can trust me or ignore me right now, but I tell you the truth." I fall on the floor crying out loud for poor Mark, I feel someone reach me and bring me to embrace. When I look at who is the body who wraps me, I find he is Mr Grey. He brings me to his embrace and put his hand on my back up and down trying to calm me.
"Mark, can you give us a lead, sign or clue on how to find you and tell us who the one do this to you, please!" I say absentmindedly.
The room suddenly becomes dark, the lamps off and the temperature becomes colder. I try to look around and can't see Mark. A moment later the lamps on again and we find one of the security men on the front of Andrea. He kneels looking at her longingly and from that, I know who he is. He Mark who borrowed the guy's body.
"Reynold, what are you doing now?" One of the other security asks the man who in front of Andrea now.
"Hello, Taylor. Sorry, I'm not Reynolds at the moment, I am Mark, I just borrow his body for a while." all the people become surprised and can not believe what they see right now.
"Hello, my queen bee. Do you miss me, I miss you so much, babe." He said to Andrea. He brushes the tears from her cheeks and it makes Andrea cry harder.
"Mark.. Is it you my Mark?" She shocked and asking for making sure she is not dreaming if the one in front of her is Mark.
"Yes, baby it is me your Mark but the body is not mine. I'm sorry for not back at you on time on our anniversary. Maybe, if I listen to you when you told me not to work overtime, and back home together with you. I will still be right here with you, love." He caresses Andrea's face, all the people in the room keep silent let him talk to Andrea first. Their face picturing confused and bewildered.
"Mark, why. Why you left me alone? Now you will never come back to me again. How I can live without you, Mark?" Andrea crying loudly now and it hurts so much to listen to her, she is so lost.
"I'm sorry, baby. this is not what I want to leave you alone. I don't want to be separated from you Andrea, but fate says otherwise I must leave you in such a cruel way. promise me baby if you will be tough to live this life without surprised listening, at least you have to be strong for our baby in your womb. "Everyone surprised listening to what Mark said. Andrea is pregnant at the moment.
" How? How do you know that we are pregnant? I never had the chance to tell you that you will become a father because you never come back home." She asks him.
"Although my body not beside you anymore, my soul still wandering around you, babe. Every night when you alone waiting for me to go back home and crying alone, you are never alone in our home baby. Because I always sit down or lie down next to you. I found the picture of our baby which you put in the desk and it was from your check-up two months before our anniversary." Mark look at Andrea and give her a small smile, inside his eyes, he has so much love for Andrea and the sadness clearly look in both their eyes.
"Mark, can you tell us how you died, please!" Ros the first one asking for the chronology his murder. All of us gasp listen to her, but she is right, we need to know the truth so we can hold the justice for him.
"I will tell you guys but before it, you all need to know I am so sorry today meeting got messed up. I hope before gone I have given the planning document to you to keep Ros and today's meeting will go smooth as we had it planned it before." Ros and Mr Grey shake their head no and tell Mark its not his fault.
"It's Friday evening around half-past seven when I closed my laptop and prepared to go home because that day was Andrea and my fourth anniversary day. I thought I was the last one who left the office that day, you and Mr Grey fly to London to visit GEH branch over there. When I already in the parking lot someone called my name from behind and when I turn my head to see who call me, suddenly I felt being hit from behind on my head.." Mark tell us all the chronology of the torture he got when he tells us who is the culprit, all of us gasp because we can't believe that the culprit is one of employee we always met in the office every day.
"What the fuck!! the one who killed you is your own team members Patrick Richardson?" Mr Grey shout beside me and it makes me jump because I'm so surprised by his sudden outburst. He realized that he was next to me, he reached for me and took me in his arms and apologies if he surprised me. I'm not aware that I'm off the floor right now because as soon as Mark told us about the detail of the murder chronology, Mr Grey put me on his lap and stroked my back to help calm me down when we listening how cruel Patrick was when he tortured Mark. He also buried Mark's body without confirmed if he died or not. Why this world can be so cruel?
"Where has he buried your body, Mark? Did you remember what kind of place he brings you before he killed you?" The man who I know calls Taylor asked Mark. Andrea flinched listen to it, Mark or Reynolds quickly bring her on his lap and hug her tightly.
"I still remember the place where he dumped my body, it was in the middle of the forest near Portland. He digs a hole and dumps me, then he drove my car and keep it in his brother's house in the same area Portland with reason if his friend sells it to him."
"Taylor, called your connection to help us find Mark's body, get all the help as much as you can, Taylor!" Mr Grey tells his security.
"Yes, Sir. But before it, we need to find a better explanation to get them to help us with this situation. We can't just say that one of the GEH employees can see the spirit of her work colleague who needs her help to find his murdered body. We need to give them solid information first." What Taylor says really make sense, we can not just tell the police if someone body now in the middle of the forest after being MIA for a while.
"Fuck, I'm forgetting about that reason. You're right we can't just tell the police about Anastasia ability, they will think that we are a bunch of crazy people." All of us work our brain to find a way to get help without making it more difficult to find Mark's body.
"We need to be careful, Sir. And not alert Patrick that we know what he did to Mark and the important must be careful not to make this news out and alerts the vultures and make it more complicated." Taylor adds.
I want to untangle my body from Mr Grey embrace but I can't do it he holds me so right and if I can say it honestly. In her arms, I feel safe and comfortable and it such a foreign feeling for me. The one who can make feel safe is my parents but oddly enough this gorgeous boss of mine makes me feel so comfortable with him.
Stop Anastasia! This time it's not the right time to thinking about your gorgeous CEO. You need to think clearly about how to help Mark! I chastised myself and back to working my brain harder.
God, give me a hint to help this poor man, please!
Mark/Reynold POV
Andrea still sobbing in my arms, no not my own arms but the arms of Reynolds which I posed for a while. My heart is broken looking at the woman I love so much, she is one strong girl I had ever met. She was an orphan when she only a young little girl and lived on the system until when she turned ten years old the Parker family adopted her and brought her under their wings but the perfect family not stayed for a long time when she was in her last year of University her adopted parents died from the accident.
I have fallen in love with her from the first time I see her in this company. We start to work in the same year and become closer day by day, I ask her to be my girlfriend after being friends for three months. Move-in together on the first anniversary of our relationship.Met her and falling in love with her are the greatest things in my life, I have so many plans for our future together until our hair becomes gray. but all those dreams vanished because I wouldn't be by her side anymore.
"Stop crying, my love. Your beautiful face would be ruined and my girl is the most beautiful women in this world ." I try to soothe her but it not working, she starts to cry even more. Shit, I hate it to know her this sad and broken but I can't do anything to make it better.
"Hey, baby. all this misfortune will end soon, the killer will be caught and all will return to normal like before. Andrea, you are one of the most strong women in this world, you can't keep up with this sadness for a long time. Will you promise me something, baby?" She slowly pulled her head from my chest and look at me. God, she looks so lost and it's killing me.
"What.." Was the only word she can say.
"promise me if you will be stay strong even though I am not next to you anymore! live this life with enthusiasm, maybe I am not in this world anymore but nine months from now you will welcome the baby that we both created. Our children need their mother to be strong and you are the only one she has when she was born so you have to be strong, dear. You may cry over my departure for a few days but after that, you must stop being sad, Andrea. Can you do what I just said to you? "
She starts crying then hug me tightly
"Mark, why this world so cruel to me? I lost my parents when I still needed them. I courageously live my life without parents beside me to support me. then you come to my life like the light shining into the darkness in my life, your presence makes my life so much more meaningful when you are beside me I am not afraid of failure because I know you will always be by my side to support me. But now you are gone forever, who will be supported or cheer me when I'm down and caught me when I fall, Mark? Why do you have to go this fast? How do I need to explain to our son or daughter when they ask me where their father? Why is God unfair to me, he always takes the people I care and love. Why? Why... "Andrea said while crying loudly, everyone in this room, too sad to see Andrea fragile as she does right now.
God, I don't know how to answer her, why this tragedy had to happen to me and Andrea?
When our baby is born they will never meet their father and I frightening that they won't know anything about me.
"I'm scared to be alone with you not beside me anymore, Mark. But if I cried for a long time, you won't be able to rest peacefully in heaven, right? So I need to be strong for you, for me and for our baby, right?" I choked out listening to Andrea broken voices and just nodded my head without knowing how to form any word to comfort her.
I feel like a failure, I fail to make Andrea happy and leave her alone with a big responsibility to nurture and protect our baby alone when they are born into this world.
Slowly by slowly I truly shrinking, fading, and disappearing like a leaf in autumn. Will I go brown and crinkled and then break apart altogether? I'm so terrified that I will vanish before I can say goodbye properly to the love of my life.Why does our love story need to be ending like this? What I'd done to deserve all this pain....
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Ntan.