Chapter 74 - REFUSING HIS DINNER INVITATION
"Why are you still asking ? We've been eating dinner together for a month now. What's the difference tonight?"
"Uhm. I will have a eting later and I would be done by six or seven in the evening. If we take travel ti into consideration, I'd be ho late."
"So, you want to co to you and have dinner?"
"Yes."
"Can't we have dinner at ho? I'll wait for you no matter how late. I'm worried that soone might spot us again."
"Are you sure?"
"Hn. You can just wake up if I'm asleep by the ti you are ho."
"Okay."
Cayenne refused his offer of having dinner outside. She was getting paranoid already with the thought that soone might see them together.
They talked about other things before they finally decided to end the call. Cayenne was actually happy to receive another dinner invitation from him but she had to let it go.
Few minutes before her shift ended, a bouquet of tulips was delivered to her.
"Wow! Your boyfriend is really sweet." Celine comnted when she saw Cayenne holding a bouquet of flowers. "I thought you won't be going to have dinner with him."
"Well, let see the card." Cayenne flipped the card and found the printed ssage. "Can't find potted tulips for you. Hope you'll still like this." Cayenne looked towards Celine. "It didn't ntion anything related to dinner. I'm glad we have understood each other."
"I'm a bit curious of your boyfriend." Celine ntioned. "I am not really prying with your private life. I'm just wondering why you are hiding him?"
"I'm not really hiding him." Cayenned told her workmate. "We just want to make our relationship private. In that way, no one would be expressing their opinions about your partner. And no one will say if your partner is good enough for you or not."
"That makes sense." Celine retorted.
Cayenne slled the flowers and she liked it a lot. Tulips were her favorite flower and she always wanted to receive one. The first ti she received a bouquet of tulips was during her eighteenth birthday. Kyle and Luiz saved their allowance just to buy her a bouquet of her favorite flowers. And the second one's from Stefan.
Her heart beats so fast and she was happily hugging the flower close to her heart. Stefan had been making her happy and she didn't know how to repay him. She had so many things in mind but she was worried that he won't like them. The world of the rich and the world of the poor are polarly opposite and she's afraid of getting embarrassed if he won't like her idea.
"Sothing wrong?" Luna questioned when she ca inside to the employees' lounge. She just finished doing her work and was preparing to leave as well. She saw Cayenne holding the flower with a wide smile but her eyes weren't showing the sa happiness. She was staring into space while holding the bouquet.
Cayenne shook her head and faintly smiled as if to reassure them when her heart wasn't the least bit assured by soone. "I'm going ho now. See you guys tomorrow."
"See you."
Cayenne left under the envious gazes of other employees.
"Do you really believe that Cayenne has a boyfriend?" one of her colleagues gossiped when the subject of their conversation left.
"I believe she has a boyfriend." Another colleague responded. "And it should be soone rich. A man who can buy her the latest iPhone, send her lunch and give her flowers."
"Correct. And if she doesn't have one, she might have been buying those things for herself and just pretended that it was from her boyfriend."
Manager Kim saw this group of gossipmongers and she couldn't help rolling her eyes at them. "Instead of talking soone behind their back, why don't you go ho and look what kind of life you have. Stop talking about people when you couldn't even take a little ti to improve yourself."
"Sorry, Manager Kim." The ladies apologized.
Luna smirked at them before turning around and left. Celine just glared at them and also left the lounge. They don't have ti to deal with insecure and jealous people.
Manager was about to leave when she rembered sothing. "The boss hates people who gossips their own colleague. He might fire you if he knows about this."
"Sorry, Manager Kim. We won't do it again. Please don't tell the boss. We're begging you."
"Apologize to Cayenne, not ."
"But she doesn't even know that we are talking behind her back. Wouldn't that expose us?" one of the ladies responded.
"Do you want to co out with your own honesty or would you like her to know about your actions from soone else?" Manager Kim warned them. "I don't favor any of you here. As much as I possible, I want you to help each other. I don't want you to backstab your own colleague."
"We understood."
Getting their confirmation, she left the hotel since it was the end of her shift as well. Moreover, she didn't care if they really understood what she said or if they're going to repeat their negative behavior. If they get fired by Stefan, it will not be her fault anymore.
Manager Kim believed that Cayenne and their boss had a secret relationship and she was trying her best to avoid having the other employees ss up with Cayenne.
Cayenne had no idea that she had been taken as a food for gossips. She was busy dealing with her own thoughts and issue.
"Ma'am Cayenne we have arrived." Leon, the taxi driver, inford her.
"Thank you, Leon." Cayenne got out of the car but she was surprised to see that the lights were on. "Is he ho?" She pressed her thumb and typed the pin to get inside of the house.
What ca into view was Stefan holding a potted tulip flower while wearing a smile on his lips. "Welco ho, Ayen."
"I thought you'll be ho later."
"Having dinner with you is better than having a dinner eting."
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