"Hello,hello,hello. Sweetie are you still there?", Williams asked after the long silence on his daughter end.

Jasmine jolt on hearing her dad's voice on her phone. "Yes...yea..", she replied in haste.

"OK. You kept quiet for long,I thought the call dropped. Well, I'll leave you now to search around for him. Or have you seen him now?", he asked.

"Uhhh....yes." She answered abruptly.

"Very well then,I'll have to hang up so you could meet up with him. Have a safe trip my honey. Bye", he said and hanged up.

Jasmine dropped the her hand slowly after the call and rubbed her forehead looking perplexed. 'What did I just get my myself into? Why does it has to be him? I wish i could cancel this trip. Why can't it be....' Her thoughts were interrupted when his gaze met hers. Her jaw dropped as he walk towards her.

She freeze at her spot as he stood an inch in front of her.

"Hello,Jasmine. We met again." Raymond said curving a smile on his lips.

Jasmine's heart was about jumping off her chest at the closeness between them. She gulped while her gaze was still fixed on him.

Ray was still waiting for a reply but didn't any from her. In a blink of an eye,he closed the gap and pulled her to a hug.

Jasmine stood still in a gape looking dumbfounded.
'I feel like hugging him back,but I can't. His body is a warmth to me. How i feel like staying glued to his arms',her eyes widened at her thoughts. 

'Ha! I'm so stupid,what am i even thinking?What would he think of me if I should hug him back? He might think I miss him',  She thought and pulled away from him.

"How dare you hug me?". She questioned glaring at him.

"Uhhh. I'm sorry. I've missed you so much that's why I did that." He replied staring at her.

'He missed me? I miss.. C'mon Jasmine stop having lustful thoughts. Yeah that's right,those are lustful thoughts.' She reminded herself.

"So? What if you miss me? Does that give you the right to hug me?". She questioned him blankly with her hands placed on her waist.

Her reaction got him snorting. "Why are you being so dramatic? Is it a crime to give my friend a hug?". He asked.

"I'm being dramatic? Its you that is being dramatic here. Didn't you notice people were staring at us-you when you hugged me? And wait a minute, who told you I'm your friend?". She questioned.

"You aren't my friend? Then what are you? My partner? Acquaintances?". He asked with a smirk.

"Whatever. I guess a stranger or perhaps business partners." She replied pouting.

"Woa. You look cute when you do that." He said with a grin causing her to glare at him. Just then there was a departure announcement for their flight to take off.

She nudged him and carried her small bag and walked away from his sight. Raymond grin and followed her behind asking her to let him help her with her bag but she refused. He then let her be.
**********
They got the airport of Abuja 7.30pm. Raymond received a call and a guy in his mid 20's came up to them ten minutes later.

"Hi guys! I'm Michael, you can call me Mick. I was sent to pick you guys up to the hotel you'll be lodging." He said.

"Oh. OK. Thanks. I'm Raymond and here with me is Jasmine." He introduced placing arms around her shoulders. She glared at him causing him to take off his hand quickly.

"Alright. Nice meeting you both. Please get in let me drive you guys there." Michael said.

Both of them nodded an got in. Raymond sat at the passenger's seat while Jasmine sat at the back.

An hour later, they got to Sheraton hotel. Michael collected the room card and took them to their room. He opened the door with the card and led them in. The room was large enough to accommodate more than two persons. There was two beds in the room. One at the right hand side facing the window,another at the left hand side facing their wardrobe. Few inches away from the wardrobe closet, there was a bathroom.  A flat screen TV hung on the wall facing their bed. A small couch was by the side close to the door. Finally was a small fridge beside the dressing table. They both scanned the room with silence.

"So,here we are. How do you guys like it?". Mick asked breaking the silence.

"Its cool man, we-I like it." Raymond answered correcting himself.

"And what about you miss beautiful? Do you like it?". Mick asked turning to Jasmine.

'No way,how can both of us stay in the same room for three days? That is a death sentence to me. What if...' Her thoughts were interrupted.

"Miss?". Mick called reminding her he asked a question.

"Oh... Yeah. I do like it,but I can't share this room with him." She drawled  pointing at Raymond.

"But why not? I mean both of you are partners from what I gathered. My boss has already taken out time and money to arrange this place for you both so that you guys can feel more comfortable. He will feel so bad if you if all his efforts were trashed out." Mick reasoned with her making her to gape.

Jasmine felt a bit guilty when she heard this. She did a few seconds rethink and gave in.
"OK. I'll manage just because your boss had got great length to do this." She said numbly forcing a smile at Mick and Raymond snorted. She gave him a glare.

"Alright. That's very good. I'm glad you've put it into consideration. You guys can make your orders for dinner when you feel to do so. I'll be leaving now, see you guys tomorrow. I'll be coming to pick you guys up between the hours of 10-11am to the company." He said and waved them goodbyes before he headed out.

Raymond and Jasmine stood there in awkward silence. After what seems like forever, Jasmine carried her bag to the wardrobe,and Raymond did the same thing following her behind. She opened the wardrobe and placed her bag in there,she closed it and turned to walk out of there when she bumped into him. She got startled. She never knew he was at her back. They stood there staring at each other blankly.

"Er, Jasmy. Can we stop snubbing each other? I don't like been snubbed. Please, let's get along. Remember we are working as a team here." Raymond said rubbing his neck.

Jasmine snort and rolled her eyes giving him no response.

"Fine. I'll leave you to think about it. For the mean time go freshen up while I get our dinner." Ray said and walk out of the room.

Jasmine huff when he was out of sight. 'He's such a nice guy. What's with me that I'm treating him this way? I think he's right, we are a team and I have to get along with him in order for us to accomplish our mission here.' She muttered with a heavy sigh before heading to the bathroom

A couple of minutes later he was back with one of the waiters carrying their meal on a food truck. Ray ushered him in and he rolled the truck to the couch side and left off afterwards.

Ray stared at Jasmine who was putting on a pink pyjama and a grey tan-top. He sniffed at the fragrance he was perceiving with pleasure. He looked away when he almost got caught with her stares. He went straight to the bathroom to have a shower.

Few minutes later, Raymond was out having only his boxers on his waist. He looked at her direction and noticed she hasn't touched her food.
"Jasmy? Why haven't you eaten?". He asked.

Jasmine raised her head from her phone and gape when she saw he was shirtless. Her eyes widen while she checked him out. She was feeding her eyes with his body structure, from his biceps,to his broad chest which was having a small hair in the middle of it. She was still drooling at him when he called her name making her to jolt.

"Jasmy?"-he paused and check himself out,his eyes widened when the idea struck him that she has been staring at him that's why she didn't answer what he asked. "-what? Were you actually drooling at me?". He asked with an eyebrow furrow taking a step forward.

Jasmine open her mouth to speak but word weren't coming. She huffed and replied.
"My name is Jasmine not Jasmy". She said with a tutting trying to change the topic.

"Really? Is that all you'll say? First let me clear the part of your name. I know your name is Jasmine, but I prefer to call you Jasmy. So take it like that. Now,its time for you to answer my question. Were you really drooling at me or not?". He asked touching his chest when he said 'me'.

Jasmine tutted again. "I wasn't. What is there to drool at?". She lied her way out and return his question.

"A lot. I can show you more if you want to see." He said flexing his biceps in a show off manner.

Jasmine snort with a wide grin. "Enough with the show off and put on a shirt and even a short. And please hurry up because I'm starving already." She said laughing inwardly  waving him off.

Raymond smirk and did as he was told.

**************
The next day which was a Monday, Michael drove them to the company they had an appointment with. Nelly's & Co Ltd was boldly written on the company's building. Michael took them to the 8th floor which was the last of the floors and introduced them to the manager and he left afterwards.

The manager introduced himself as Mitchell and led them to the conference room. "Please you guys will have to wait for thirty more minutes because our CEO is not around and he has to be here before the presentation would commence. OK?". He asked and they nodded and he showed them where to sit.

Forty five minutes later the presentation commenced with the CEO being around with few of his guest he had come with. The presentation started with Jasmine explaining the content of the new website to them,and later Raymond rounded up showing them what the websites looked like. The website was about a new game launching.

After the presentation was rounded up, the CEO had a meeting with his board members together with Jasmine and Raymond. The CEO ended up scheduling another meeting for tomorrow to make a decision to sign the contract. When the meeting was dismissed, the CEO asked the manager to give Raymond and Jasmine a tour around the company facilities. The manager did as he was told and led them out to the company's game photo studio and from there,he showed them other places.

The touring lasted for an hour. When they were done,Raymond dialled Michael's line to inform him they were ready to go back to their lodge. Unfortunately it wasn't going through.
"Michael's line isn't going through. What are we to do now?". He asked staring at his partner.

"I don't know. I guess we should wait." She answered with a shrug.

"Yeah. You guys should wait up for him. You can wait him up in my office while I get you guys lunch." Mitchell suggested. Just then Jasmine stomach growled making the guys to chuckle. She stared down in embarrassment forcing a nervous smile.

"You sure need the food no doubt." Mitchell said with a grin and then he led them to his office that was on the  5th floor. He  ushered them in and offered them a three-in-one couch located at the corner of his office. After that he left them and went to get lunch for them.

Fifteen minutes later he was back with a nylon bag containing their food  looking all drenched with water. Raymond and Jasmine jolted from their seat when they saw him.

"What happened to you?". Both of them asked in unison. They stare at each other when they heard themselves and Jasmine shook her head and they returned their gaze on Mitchell.

"Its raining heavily out there and I don't think it will stop anytime soon." He said handing Raymond the nylon bag.

"Oh. So sorry we made you go out under the rain." Jasmine said given him a concern gaze.

"C'mon. Its not your fault. It only started raining when I got to the eatery. Go ahead and eat up,let me go change up to our company's shirt and also I'll look around if Michael is around now." He replied and both of them nodded lightly.

Two hours later,it was still raining. Jasmine had drifted into sleep and Raymond had joined thirty minutes later. Jasmine head was on Raymond's shoulder, while Raymond's chin was resting on her head.

Jasmine opened her eyes slowly and gave a tired yawn. She tried to raise her head but she felt a little weight on it. Her eyebrow furrowed. Why was her head a bit heavy? She wondered. She moved her hand and it touched someone. She then felt her head being placed on a soft like but suiting body. She looked above and saw her head was on his shoulder. And she looked again, his chin was rested on her head. His arms was around her shoulders. Her eyes widened in shock.

'How the hell did we get in this position?'. She asked herself.

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