Love’n’Lust

“Do you work here?” He asked the person behind Belle because he surely hadn’t seen him there before. Randy didn’t reply, he didn’t have to, he was just here to get Belle like he was ordered by his boss.

“No sir, he doesn’t,” Belle had to answer on his behalf.”He’s here for me.” Belle said before getting into the elevator with Randy. Nathan didn’t get a chance to ask anything else as Belle had already pressed the button to close the elevator door.

When they got to the ground floor, they got out of the elevator and went straight towards the front. Outside now, Belle didn’t know which car was Ben’s because he often used different cars so she turned to Randy for help.

“This way ma’am.” Randy crossed the road and Belle followed.

“Which?” Belle asked after they had crossed through to the other side and were opposite the Crisp-tv media house building. She was asking which of the cars was Ben’s so she could talk to him quickly and return upstairs.

“All.” She heard Randy.

“All?” Belle saw that they were three black cars of different make and sizes there, all parked after the other. She understood now that they were all Ben’s but she wanted to know which he was waiting for her in, she couldn’t tell, they all had tinted glasses.

“Yes ma’am, I drove this,” he went on to open the right door to the smallest car among the thee.”Mr Larkson’s waiting I’m this one.”

Belle looked into the car and Ben was actually there, a smile on his face the moment he saw her. She didn’t smile back, she was trying to feign anger for his coming to her office.

“Don’t just stand there, get into the car.” He asked of her.

“No.”

“No?”

“Why did you come?”

“I wanted to see you.”

“You have my number, there’s something called a video call.”

“I don’t just want to see you, I want to kiss you, you tell me if I can do that via a video call.”

“Well….” Belle didn’t know what to reply now.

“Get in.” Hr told her.

“No, I told my boss that I’ll be back in minutes, if I get in, I might spend more than minutes.”

Ben laughed when she said that, she could see his not so noticable dimples when he laughed lightly.

“It’s almost time when you go home, I’m sure your boss cam lease you off the thirty minutes left.”

“Oh, so you know I don’t leave the office till thirty minutes, why did you come before that time then?”

“…” Ben didn’t want to tell her why just yet. He wanted to surprise her and that was why he came so early to pick her up but she was being stubborn about getting into the car.

“You know what? I’m going back to Mrs Johnson, next time you plan to come pick me up, give me a call.” She said and closed the car door to Randy’s surprise.

‘Did she just do that? And to his boss? She just slammed the door on Mr Larkson!’ Randy couldn’t believe what he just witnessed.

Belle crossed the road on to the other side and into the building she went. Randy got into the driver’s seat and turned to his boss;

“Sir, do I go get her?” He asked Ben who understood his question clearly. He wanted to know if he had Ben’s permission to go bring Belle back to the car against her will this time but Ben didn’t want that.

“No. We will wait till she’s done.”

“Okay sir.” Randy said, not showing his surprise that Ben was going to let her go off with what she just did. His boss was really being different with her(Belle) and it was not the first time he was noticing.

THIRTY MINUTES LATER

After helping Mrs Johnson pack up some of the extended files they worked with for the day, Belle left the office since her boss wasn’t leaving yet. She was now officially set to leave work.

Getting out of the elevator and out the front door, she almost bumped into Nathan, she sighed indifferently because she was actually trying to avoid seeing him on her way out but now he was in front of her.

“Sorry.” She said and tried to still leave but he stopped her.

“Are you leaving already?” He asked her.

“Yes sir.”

“Come on, call me Nathan.” He smiled. Belle didn’t.

“I have to be somewhere right now, I’m in a hurry.” She wanted to leave again but he stopped her, holding her back by her arm this time. Shocked by what he just did, she turned to him and he quickly let go of her.

“Let me get my jacket from my office, maybe I can drop you off where you ate headed to?”

“I have to go now, I’m sorry I can’t wait.” She didn’t want to ride with him. She felt obnoxious the first time she let him drop her off, she didn’t want that happening again.

“It’s fine, I can leave without the jacket,” he really wanted to get to know her more and the only way for that to happen was by giving her rides so he was ready to leave his jacket behind.

Belle’s eyes suddenly captured Ben’s car still waiting. She smiled, a saving grace. She could get out of riding with Nathan by leaving with Ben. She thought he would have left out of anger after what she did just thirty minutes ago but he was still there, he was waiting for her.

“Someone’s actually waiting for me.” She told Nathan and just like a prayer answered, Randy got down from the car that she knew Ben was in and he started towards her, crossing the road and walking to where she stood with Nathan.

“Him?” Nathan remembered seeing Randy earlier so he asked if he was the one waiting for her.

“Yes.” Belle said, nodding happily.

“Is he your boyfriend?”Property © of NôvelDrama.Org.

“No.” Both Belle and Randy chorused.

“He is just a friend.” Belle clarified that to Nathan.