Anete Zeta Allard Point of View

Two pairs of eyes met.

Looking into each other's eyes, I couldn't help but want to drown in them with no chance of rescue.

Waves of soothing breeze lulled me into a state of relaxation but at the same time, crackles of invisible electricity was flowing around, creating an atmosphere that will force people into love.

"Miss Allard?" His voice is a mixture of wild baritone and gentle silliness which both pulled me into a deep hurricane of sweet dream and woke me up from my trance.

My God! He is a sin that sends people to a special place in heaven.

"Sir Cacao." I breathed out, collecting myself – at least trying to – to avoid embarrassing myself before him.

I mean, he is the very reason most girls in the world sleep more than needed just to dream about him.

He is the source of positive energy and he is God of love that not just ruled people but rule their hearts.

Heck, even I, who has always been a composed person behaves like a unfrozen jelly coming apart with one look at him.

"How are you doing? I hope everything is well and fine with your lot." He straightened himself and asked with one of his smiles that was reserved for acquaintances.

Well, we can be considered acquaintances since we already met once even for a very brief moment and the fact that my brother and his cousin are in love with each other is enough to say that we are friends.

"Good, Sir. How is your day? You are here this early?" I asked as I tried to control my pounding heart inwardly.

"Escorting aunt on a groceries shopping spree." He rolled his eyes towards the far end of the store on the other side where a lady was filling up the trolley to the brim.

I looked at the lady who was being obsessed with putting as many thing as possible in the trolley and had to press my lips and bite my cheek inside to stop myself from chuckling.

Now, that is a certified Almond there.

Observing his aunt for a second, I turned back to give my attention to the finest man in front of me when my view was blocked but something colorful and soft.

Taking a step back, I noticed it then that it was a small bunch of beautifully chosen and arranged bouquet of flowers. He held it in front of me; for me.

Although I was completely shy and jumping like an ostrich on a trampoline in the inside, I still put on a well composed, polite and a businesswoman aura on the outside.

"I thought hard but I don't think any flower present here can match your glow. Have a good day, Miss Allard." Kill me!

He knows how to kill people with words.

My knees wobbled when those words slowly traveled into my ears along with their scent to my nose.

This man should be locked up somewhere where he is not allowed to make people's hearts go wild and crazy with desire.

I took the flowers and took and whiff of their smell that casted my heart with Cacao spell.

Beside him, on the floor was basket of nearly ten or something bouquets that are so beautiful that each one of them is level of its own.

So many bouquets?

Who are they for?

He must've noticed me looking at the flowers with a frown, he picked the basket of bouquets and smiled brightly at me like he always does to everyone.

"What do you think? The ladies in my family with like them right?" Ah so they for his family!

That's right, it was a well known fact that Sir Cacao always pampers the elder ladies of his family with flowers, chocolates, desserts, cosmetics and what not.

Everybody knows he earns a lot, along with the commercials he does and products he endorse, his incomes is slightly higher than even the share of profits I get from my company.

And to say that Allard incorporation is one the top empire in the whole world, it is absolutely not an exaggeration.

This man is literally the hot bun that everyone wants to work with.

He is known as the celebrity of the celebrities for a good reason.

"They are absolutely beautiful. Your family will love them no doubt."

"As much as they love me?"

"No way." I gasped, letting him know how ridiculous his thought was.

"Unpossible right? I know." He grinned like a kid who is excited to get compliments from his elders.

How beautiful his family should be for him to be so pleasant at the mere thought of giving them flowers!

My brother, Zarion, did mention before that the Almond family is a huge one; enough to make a whole a town of them. But what was more amazing was how united and happy they all are.

"Too much knowledge can lead to insanity. The word is 'impossible'." Before I respond back, his walked in and immediately slapped the back of his head, giving him a look that a teacher gives to his disappointing student.

However, the mirth in her eyes is not lost on me.

Even blind can see how much this lady loves him.

"Aiyah, Aunt Owl, some things are a level higher than 'impossible'. I call them 'Unpossible'." He grinned like a child at his aunt as he rubbed the back of his head when he was slapped.

That's right. How did I forget something the whole world knows?

Sir Cacao designs a dictionary of his own with his absurd exaggeration and transformation of English words.

"Right, she is Miss Allard, fourteenth's boyfriend's sister." He bumped his aunt's shoulder with his like those hip youngsters do as a greeting.

Surprisingly, as if like ritual, his aunt accepted it with a full blown smile on her face. She turned to me and looked me up and down with an approving smile.

"And this gorgeous young girl here is my Aunt Owl."

"I was very nice to meet you, Mrs. Almond." I gave her my own polite yet a happy smile.

"Do you have a boyfriend?" She asked suddenly.

"No." I answered back without a hitch.

"Then you can call me Eldest Aunt Almond or Aunt Owl, like he calls." The smile on her face when I said I don't have a boyfriend is so damn elderly mainstream.

If I and my siblings had a good set of parents and alive at that, they would be giving the same expression to deserving single men and women too.

We Allard siblings are unlucky in that aspect.

We are so poor that except for money, we don't have anything much.

"Alright, Aunt Owl. Thanks for the flowers, Sir Cacao. I have a meeting in an hour and I have to be there soon." I gave them a polite and a small bow with a smile.

"Meeting this early, dear?" Aunt Owl frowned. "Did you even have your breakfast?"

"Not yet, aunty. I was here to pick some freshly baked bread and some juice."

"Where is your meeting?"

"Executive floor of Trevor's shopping mall on Roulette road." I told her to which she gave me a huge smile.

"That's only ten minutes drive from our house. Have your bread breakfast but after meeting, you are having lunch with us. You are our soon to be son-in-law's sister. It is duty of family to take care of each other." Now that is how family should be.

Her invitation for lunch does not have any ambition or conspiracy at all. All she wanted was to take care of their son-in-law's sister who was also a family to them.

The warmth that the woman extruded had my heart prick in pain.

However, I'm still happy to have the only two family members I have. My siblings are what I always need and have.

"Don't hesitate. Aunt Owl makes amazing Caucasian dishes and there's also my mom and other aunts who makes lots of yummy food. Also, you don't have to be shy before me, my charm is a constant thing that you have to get used to."

And there he is, the most self-centered man from whom the definition is derived from.

I chuckled and nodded seeing that I do not have any immediate appointment after the meeting.

Also – Being even remotely close to Sir Cacao the great is an every girl dream.

Bidding them goodbye, I glanced at them one last time before I bought my breakfast and left for the meeting.

If it wasn't for the alluring scent from the flowers section earlier, I wouldn't have stumbled on the embodiment of allure and have a small dramatic romantic encounter.

He looks so unreal from close up.

No, in his words, it should be dis-real. Something beyond unreal!

I chuckled at my silliness and couldn't help but display that joy on my face freely.

A lunch date with Sir Cacao's family!

Oh, Anete, who are you? When did you turn so silly?

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