Chapter 48: Chapter 48

The picture of my perfect night with Precious kept replaying in my head, and I was all smile. It wasn't a night you forget in a hurry or even at all.

I had woken up before her the next morning, so it was only fair that I made her breakfast and the look on her face tells me what I needed to know, she didn't regret it, neither did I. It made me realize how crazy I am for her.

"It's a good thing I have other options for clothes huh? And please wipe that smile away from your face, it's making me imagine things." Noah said, as he entered the office.

"I have no idea what you're talking about." I said.

"Of course you don't."

"Whatever, what do you want?"

"Two things actually, Precious mentioned meeting Anna so I'm hoping you explained things to her."

"She didn't let me, trust me I tried."

"You're stupid sometimes….." He started before I cut him off.

"Hey…. I'm really smart you know? And what's the second thing?"

"You should talk to your dad, Daisy mentioned something about him stepping down and having a press conference." He said.

"What! When? Why didn't he tell me? This is so fucked up." I said.

I was starting to panic because I haven't told Precious anything yet, and telling her now would be bad, seeing that we both had the best time of our lives just the day before…..I don't want her thinking I just used her when it was far from it.

"Why are you not calling Precious?" Noah asked.

"She doesn't pick up her phone when she's at work." I said, and thinking about it now, I shouldn't have let her go to work especially with how funny she was walking when I dropped her in the morning but she insisted.

"You have to go meet her before anything crazy happens."

If only I knew what the day had in store for me…..

Picking my car key from the table, I rushed out ignoring Noah's call to drive carefully.

I knew calling my dad was a waste of time because once he plans on doing something, he goes through with them and I wouldn't be surprised if my mom had hand in his plans.

Getting to the restaurant, I could see lots of cars packed outside….. not that they're not there on a normal day, its just that it looks a little different today.

"I've been waiting for you." Daisy said, immediately she saw me.

"Why? I mean Dad didn't tell me."

"It was meant to be a surprise, that's why he sent me. Are you surprised?" She asked happily.

"More like shocked."

My Dad was saying things I didn't pay attention to and I tried using my eyes to look for Precious or even Comfort but they were nowhere to be found.

"Are you not happy, Dad is going to finally hand over everything to you and mom is going to announce your engagement to Annabelle?"

If it was before, I would be over the moon but in my present condition I didn't know exactly how I felt.

"You see Daisy, I have this girlfriend who works here, and doesn't know who I really am, so if mom announces any engagement she'll be heartbroken or if Dad hands over everything to me, she'll be disappointed that she didn't hear it from me. Do you understand?" I asked her.

"Yes, it'll be bad. What are you going to do?"

"Why don't you try……." I started, before flashes of light stopped.

"Michael! Come forward." My Dad called admist clapping from the little crowd.

Dragging myself slowly towards my dad with a fake smile on my face, I saw my mom smiling widely with Annabelle beside her.

"Mom don't do it, I'll explain later." I whispered to my mom who looked confused before nodded.

The paparazzi all had questions to ask and compliments to give. Some even asked if I was sure I was capable of taking over from my dad.

"If only you know what I really want to do right now." I thought.

After giving them answers that they seem pleased with, I rounded up with a speech and with look on my dad's face, he was proud and that only was rewarding.

Annabelle was starting to look confused when my mom didn't stand up to announce our do called engagement……I didn't even know we had gotten to that point. I have seen her a total of two or three times so I don't understand what she was on about.

The paparazzi finally left when they felt they've gotten enough information and pictures for the public.

"Dad, I need to see Precious, I'll talk to you but thank you for trusting me with your business."

"Michael, what's going on and you better start talking young man." My mom said.

"Do you mean the cook I always talk about?..... wait how do you know her name is Precious?" My Dad fired.

"She's his girlfriend, soon to be ex if you don't let him talk to her now." Daisy added.

Though I was grateful for that, but at the same time when she said ex girlfriend I felt my heart beat fast.

The look on my parents face was priceless especially my mom, but I wasn't saying anything.

"She's not here, I gave her the day off because she didn't look good yesterday." Dad said after recovering from the surprise.

Hopefully she haven't seen the news or anything relating to that.

So rushing out again, ignoring my mom's call to explain what was going on, I drove away to Precious house. I could hear my phone blowing up but I didn't bother checking who it was.

In no time, I was in front of the house. I left the door unlocked as I made my way inside.

I dreaded what would happen if she'd seen pictures so when I knocked and Comfort opened the door, with the look she gave me I knew things bhad gone wrong.