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🌹CHAPTER EIGHT🌹

Going through my closet, trying to find something that might look good for this dinner tonight. I want to do this on my own, because Lena will most likely make me look like a hooker or worse, which I don't want. This is the first business dinner I'm going to and it's the first day working for Mr. Knight.

I ask don't want to wear the red dress I wore at the bar, there is actually no reason for it. For some reason I want to impress Mr. Knight. I don't know why I feel like that. I pick a dress that I like, and dress myself in it, after I had taken a shower, of course.

The dress is a black wavy dress that flows down to just below my knees. The neckline is jewel, but the dress is sleeveless. A golden ribbon goes around my waist, and a golden sparkly bow is tied to it, with two ribbon strings flowing down the dress.

I curl my hair and just let it be loose. To match with the gold in the dress, I put on a golden chain necklace with a one small fake diamond as the charm. I don't use earrings because they hurt my ears. I look beautiful, not trying too hard, but not trying enough. To me, I look perfect.

I put on some black mascara, a pink lip gloss and a hint of blush in my cheeks. I don't go much to detail with make-up as Lena does it, but I still make myself look pretty with it. Picking black gladiator high heels, I put them on and I'm ready for the night.

For ten minutes, I wait by the window, waiting for Mr. Knight to come and get me for the business dinner. A black car stops right in front of my apartment. A man steps out of the car, and once I see his face, I notice that it's Mr. Knight. He has arrived.

I feel really nervous at the moment. I don't know if I'm more nervous for the dinner or the fact that I'm having dinner with Mr. Knight, the guy who confuses me more than anyone has ever done. First he's so rude to me, then he actually kisses me, then he acts like it never happened.

The doorbell rings, all right, the night has begun. I push the button that buzzes the person in. I take my purse, with everything that I will be needing and just as I was about to open the door, someone knocks on the door. I open the door, revealing Mr. Knight.

He's wearing a suit, a black one, a formal black suit. He looks handsome. I smile at him, but he doesn't return it. "We're going, now!" He says. Does this ever say something nice to people? Or be nice in general, I don't think he can because from what I've seen, he doesn't even smile. He only smirks, which doesn't happen a lot, or he frowns or is normal and boring.

He leaves before I even have the time to respond. I close my door and follow him down the stairs and into the car. The car has a driver and we sit in the back. The driver starts the car, and neither one of us speaks anything, bringing an awkward silence.

I would like to say something, but I don't know what or how he will respond. In the car, I just look outside the blackened window, that makes me able to see outside but no one is able to see inside. I watch as the cars go by and the houses and the shops.

What felt like forever, the car finally stops in front of a restaurant. We go out of the car, and when I see the name of the restaurant, my jaw almost falls down to the ground. This is the finest restaurant in the city. It takes months to get a table here, and it costs a fortune. How did Mr. Knight get it so quickly?

Perhaps because he is rich and can do a lot of things that normal people can't, like this. "Hurry up!" He orders me. I'm not even allowed to look at this beauty. This restaurant is on top of the list for every restaurant, it has fiver stars, but so many people say that it should have more stars than five.

I follow behind him into the restaurant. Soft violin music plays in the restaurant and every table is occupied. People wearing their finest clothes sit and eat the finest food in the city. Romantic dinners all around me. Somehow, I feel like I don't fit in.

We wait in the line, that is rather short. Only one couple ahead of us. A waiter is talking to them, and then the all three of them walk into the restaurant and the waiter shows them a table. As soon as we are the first in line, another waiter comes.

"Evening, Mr. Knight. Let me show you to your table" The waiter speaks, it's a woman, and she knows him. Then again, who doesn't know him. Apparently everyone in the city knows and loves this guy. We follow the woman through the restaurant, until we reach a door that VIP is written on with golden glittery letters.

She opens the door for us and leads us inside. It's a large area, though not bigger than the normal restaurant place. I guess Mr. Knight always has the best of the best of everything. She then leads us to a table, it's a round table that has a red couch around half of it, then on the other half there are chairs, the same chairs as in the other normal people area.

Mr. Knight sits on the couch, and I sit beside him. But, I make sure that there is plenty of space between us. "We will order as soon as he comes, until then we wait" Mr. Knight tells me. The waiter leaves and closes the door behind her. The menus are on the table, as are forks and knives.

I don't know for how long we sat there, but the wait is horrible. The smell of food is so good and the fact that Mr. Knight doesn't want to speak to me, or speak at all really. Finally after what felt like eternity the door opens, the same waiter comes, this time behind her is a man.

Mr. Knight stands up. "Alexander Knight, good to see you again" The man speaks, greeting Mr. Knight. They handshake and then guy hug or whatever it was. "Happy to see you again, William" Mr. Knight speaks, and he actually laughed, he let out a laugh. That has never happened, it might never happen again.

"And who's this lovely lady?" The man, William says and turns to look at me. "This is my secretary. Rose Ace" Mr. Knight says, and then he sits down again. "Pleasure, Ms. Ace" He speaks and then sits down. I just give him a nice smile, not sure what to do or say.

The two of them open the menus in front of them, and I do the same. I look through the food and most of it, I've never even heard of. The names don't make any sense to me. It's like I'm reading a algebra math book. "So, how's business going? I heard you bought a new company" William asks Mr. Knight, both of them are still looking at the menu but are still talking together.

"It's good. I just needed a new company under my name, and it soon will be" Mr. Knight says. After those words were spoken, I tune in their talking. I focus on the menu, trying to find something there that I know what is and something that I can eat.

"Ms. Ace, having a bit of trouble, eh?" William asks me, breaking me from my concentration of the menu. "A bit, yes" I awkwardly say. A blush creeps up my cheeks. "I recommend the cheeseburger here, it's delicious. Unless you'd like to eat something light, like a salad" William tells me with a bit of a laugh.

I blush even more. "No, the cheeseburger is fine. I don't like salads very much. Thank you for helping me" I tell him. I don't even know what could be more embarrassing than this, no matter what I do, I keep embarrassing myself further.

"She's a keeper, Alexander" He says and winks at me. My eyes travel to Mr. Knight and I can't read his facial expression, it's something I've never seen before. This man keeps surprising me and I'm not sure for how much longer I can keep this up.

The waiter comes back. "Ready to order?" She asks. I just notice that she's looking at Mr. Knight with desire and lust. A pang hits me hard in the heart, and it's an uncomfortable feeling that I don't understand and it kind of hurts, I want to get rid of it.

"Yes, I would like a lamp stew" Mr. Williams says, she writes it down in a little notebook that she has. Then she turns to Mr. Knight again, signaling for him to speak. "I want the steak, cooked medium rare. The lady would like a cheeseburger. Make the order quick!" Mr. Knight orders. I look into his eyes and they harden when he spoke the last sentence.

"Anything else?" She asks, she definitely looks more afraid of him now. "No!" Mr. Knight coldly says. She nods her head and leaves, closing the door behind her. "Still the same old cruel man as you were before. Let me tell you something, Ms. Ace, ever since our childhood, he's been this horrible to everyone" William says.

I'm actually not shocked by that, I kind of figured that he has been like this since he was little. No one just turns cruel in one day, just like that. Though, I am a bit curious of what happened to make him turn out to be like that, like I said, no one is cruel for no reason.

"I would appreciate it, if you would not share the path down memory lane" Mr. Knight says, his voice darkening and sending a warning tone. "Oh, come on. Live a little Alex, let the lovely lady Ms. Ace get to know the man she works for. My secretary knows everything about me" William speaks.

William looks to be the same age as Mr. Knight, or perhaps a year or two older than him, though I know that they have known each other for a long time. "That's may be because you only ever talk about you" Mr. Knight fires back, that was a good one.

"Then you don't mind, if Ms. Ace and I get to know each other. You can listen. Ms. Ace, what compelled you to work as a secretary. Don't say to screw the boss, because I'm giving you a piece of advice, he breaks heart. I've seen it, I'm a happily married man, while Mr. Wicked face here enjoys nothing more than breaking a women's heart" Williams says.

Wicked face? I laugh inside my head at that one. "Don't worry, I have no plans of being in any intimate relationship with Mr. Knight. I'm actually working there for the money. I'm going to start my own business, I only need money to start it" I answer him, professionally.

The waiter comes back with the food for us, that didn't take that much time, and I can't say that I don't enjoy that. She sets the food down and we start eating, or at least I start eating because I'm hungry and this burger looks delicious. "Well, I suppose we got to be careful about you. I bet you will make a business that might become the rival" Williams says, I've never really thought about rival companies and everything related to that.