“Welcome Miss Amanda. Please you are to wait in the living room. Mr. Wright will like to speak with Mr. Junior alone in his office.” A nice lady in her mid-fourties, dressed in  maids clothing told Amanda politely, ushering her into the living room.

“Thank you.” Amanda replied with a smile

“I’ll be out soon.” Junior assured her then, followed the nice lady out of the living room, he got in front of his dad’s office door, responded to the lady’s greetings then, watch her leave before venturing into his father's office.

Swinging open the door, he looked around to see if there were guest around but there weren't except his father who was standing by his window, watching the outside world.

Mr. Wright could sense his son’s anger as he walked into the room. He smiled and asked “How was the drive here?”

Ignoring his father's fair question,  he asked “How could you drag Amanda into this mess? What if something goes wrong, do you know what’s that’s going to do to her?” He was furious and as much as he never wanted his dad to see him get angry over a little something like this, but with Amanda involved, to him, nothing was a little something.

“Is this how you greet your old man now?” His father asked, pulling out the sit tugged under the desk in his room “Amanda was dragged into this mess the moment she started working in our company just as she dragged us into her mess with the paparazzi and reporter. But, trust me. Nothing will go wrong. I’ve grown fond of her just like you have.”
Junior sat on the other chair at his father’s table and said nothing.

“Everything is under control.” His father assured him.

Junior got very curious so, he chose to sit and listen to his father “What exactly do you mean?” He asked, ready for his father response

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Amanda still sat patiently in the living room waiting for Wright junior. She look around at the pictures hanging on the wall, her eyes caught sight of one peculiar framed photograph on the wall. She moved towards it and stared at it for a while before getting distracted by a familiar voice. Then she called out his name "Nelson!"  But he was talking to one of the maid.

“I guess I’ll wait for him to be out.” He said to a maid, and then turned his gaze towards his left on hearing his name.

“Nelson!” Amanda called again, waving.

“Excuse me.” He told the maid and quickly, he moved towards Amanda.

“What are you doing here?” She asked, happy to see a familiar face since all her waiting.

“I live here.” He replied, smiling.

The revelation shocked Amanda “You do? with the Chairman?” She asked surprised.

“Yes. When I’m in New York I stay here and someone needs to keep that old man company. He lives here alone with a lot of Maids attending to him." He giggled "I can see you accompanied your boss here.”

“Yes I did but he’s with the Chairman now.” She told him, sighing quite bored.

“Were you looking at this picture?” He asked joining in the stare.

“Yes, she’s very beautiful.” Amanda said, admiring the portrait of an elegant lady wearing a wide smile that raised her beautiful cheekbones which gave a definite highlights on her eyes that looked so much as Wright Junior's.

“Yes she was. She’s the late wife of the Chairman and the Mother of Justin Wright and Wright Junior.” He told her. Nelson turned to face Amanda. “Aren’t you tired waiting here? Come, let me show you around.” He offered.

She couldn’t refuse; truly she was tired of waiting in the living room alone. She followed Nelson out of the house to the Wright's Garden. It was a beautiful sight to behold under he night sky, there were light at strategic corners illuminating the garden excellently, the Grass were well taken care of and the fountain had a an exquisite statue on it, a statue of a wolf howling at the top of a mountain and the water flowed seemingly from its mouth and corners of the mountain down to the pool.

They sat at the lower pavement of the fountain and Amanda rested her back on the fountain walls, watching the sublime constellations in the night sky.

“What a unique watch you have on you.” Nelson's voice brought Amanda to earth.  “It looks old.” He said, admiring her wrist watch.

“Yes it is.” She said raising her hand up to her face “it was my mom’s, I’ve had it for a long time now after I lost my mom. It is the only important treasure I have.” She informed him, wiping the stubborn tears that dropped from her eyes “I’m sorry. You shouldn’t have seen me like this.” talking about her mom always made her so emotional and controlling it was always an impossible task.

“No, I’m sorry. Please can I take a look?” Nelson asked politely.

“Yes, sure.” She showed the watch to him “So, where are your parent?” She inquired

“They are in California. I only come here on visit, sometimes with my dad but this time is different. I’m working at the Wright Publishing as an Intern. And I go to work from here.” He said letting go of her hand “So, you’ll see more of me even when you'd be in LA.” He smiled.

“I look forward to that. ” She meant it.

“Amanda” Junior called when he approached the Garden “I was looking for you inside and Nelson, dad wants to see you.” He announced.

“I guess we’ll call it a night, I see you off to the car” Nelson offered after he rose to his feet, stretching his arm to help Amanda up which she took.

“Thank you Nelson” Amanda was now standing in-between the two. She moved her gaze to Junior and commented, “You have a very beautiful Garden.” sadly for her, Junior had turned away and was already walking ahead of them.

Amanda could swear she sensed a bit of Jealousy from Junior but she thought she was wrong because she couldn’t find any good reason for him to be jealous.

“I think he likes you, Amanda.” Nelson whispered and laughed a bit loud like a child.

“You thought wrong.” Amanda refused Nelson's assumptions but with the hope that he was right. She smiled as she envisioned, “Mr. Wright could be my Mr. right.” The girl in her head voiced dreamingly. Amanda immediately shook off the thought and replied to her, “You wish.”

Wright Junior held open the door to the passenger's seat for her to get in, which she did obediently after bidding Nelson  finally goodnight. And just as Junior was about moving to the other side of the car,  Nelson called his attention. Junior then closed Amanda's door and went over to meet Nelson in front of the car.

“I don’t know what you and dad are planning but whatever it is, it sure shouldn’t get Amanda into trouble.” Nelson warned loosing every evidence of smile on his face.

“I don’t understand, Nelson. What do you mean?” Junior asked quite confused.

“There is a small chip implanted in Amanda’s wrist watch as we speak. Someone is keeping her under watch.” Nelson explained but then he got a look on Junior’s face which told him that he was well aware of the situation. “You knew?” His angry eyes bulged, demanding  response from his god-brother.

“Not until this evening. Dad never needed my permission to carry on that plan; he planned it with the detectives. Trust me I was also furious when he told me but defended is action by saying that Tony will try to contact her soon and they only want to be ahead of him when he did. Dad also said it was best she doesn't know so as not to give any suspicions to Tony. He promised she won’t be in any kind of trouble but I still don’t feel good about it.” Junior finally explained dipping his arms into his trouser pocket

“Me too.” Nelson said sighing “If we can’t tell her, what can we do? We can’t just sit back and assume they will perfectly take care of her.” He expressed, trying to keep his composure not to make Amanda who was watching from the windshield think they were arguing.

“You are a Guru in things like this. Can you make it possible that we see what they see and hear what they hear?”

“That is brilliant. I’m on it right way.” Nelson agreed then hugged him “Drive safe.” He uttered and then waved good night to Amanda, in the car. Which she acknowledged by waving back.

Junior turned to the other side of the car; opened the door and got in.

“Is everything ok?” Amanda asked concern, witnessing the long inaudible conversation Junior had with Nelson.

“Everything is fine. I’m sorry I took much of your time.” Sitting comfortably and gazing at her.

“It's fine.” She replied, saying nothing else.

Junior had so much going on with him, everything was weighing so heavily on him and to top it was when he saw Amanda in the garden with Nelson. As much as he'd hate to admit, he was Jealous. Junior wanted so much to be the one sitting next to Amanda and now he was within the confines of his car.

He exhaled slowly while listening to the rhythmic beat of his heart then, he fixed his eyes on hers for a good amount of time fighting every impulse to kiss her again.

Amanda felt open as if he was looking into her soul. Everything in her was willing to surrender to his touch. She felt every nerve ending in her body tingle as his eyes burned up every desire in her. The connection she felt was so strong that she was ready to give up every common sense.

He leaned forward slowly, taking one hand to the side of her hair, giving a gentle touch as his hand slide down to her nape. She leaned forward a little and could feel her bottom lips trembling so she bit it to make it stop, she wished he would at least kiss her. She wanted him so badly to kiss her.

Her legs felt weak and hot as he leaned forward. She felt his touch on her thigh and just then he whispered close to her ear. “What did you do to me, Amanda?” He moved his hand gently; he took the seat belt on her side and locked it. He rested a few seconds to control himself and when he could catch his breath he started the car and drove off.

Amanda couldn’t decide if to be angry or not, she wanted him so bad it hurt. All she could do was to sit quietly as he drove.

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Amanda stood in front of her house watching Wright Junior's car zooming off her property. She sighed quite disappointed as she opened her door and walked into her apartment. A minute later she heard a light knock on her door; she rushed to get the door knowing already who was knocking.

Amanda swung open the door gleefully but to her surprise, “What are you doing here? How you do you get my house address?” She demanded, her surprise fading into an angry stare.

“You ask a lot of question. Won’t you let me in first?” Tony walked uninvited into Amanda’s apartment. She closed the door behind them and walked quickly and stood in front of him.

“I don’t remember inviting you in so, state your business and leave.” She ordered not leaving her standing position with her arms crossed under her bosom.

“I want you to get something for me.” He requested authoritatively. His mission was to get a new toy after getting rid of his old one and he taught Amanda was the best choice

She smirked “And why would I do that?” She asked rhetorically.

Ignoring her question, he continued “It’s a yellow file in your Boss’s office. I want you to get it and bring it to my office, tomorrow.”

“You must be out of your mind if you came all the way here to ask for the impossible.” She said demonstrating with her arms.

“How have you been fairing, since the scandal about you and Troy?” He inquired, his tongue hissing each words like a cunning snake

“What does that have to do with anything?”  Confused, but she was not giving up just yet.

“Everything Amanda. So, if you don’t want to add to that scandal, then do what I ask.” He warned her sternly.

“This is preposterous. Who gave you the temerity to threaten me?” she asked, letting out an annoying laugh.

“You have a lot to lose Amanda, don’t act stupid. I’ll be out for a meeting tomorrow but I’ll instruct my secretary to let you in. Don’t test me Amanda.” He had made his demands known so, he turned to the door, opened it and walked out.

Amanda, more confused than ever didn’t know what to do, she had a lot going on and Tony was about to test her bad side. Sides many people say it is her natural and true personality.

She went to her room and sat on her bed “How did he get my address? Could Nelson or Junior had given it to him?” She shook her head for the possibility of that was below zero.

She knew she couldn’t steal from her boss, not because she liked him but because she just couldn’t steal, it was not in her nature. But she had to think of something really quick “Is this a sign for me to leave Wright Publishing or to leave New York completely?” She wondered. A part of her knew it was time to leave but, she didn't want to yet.

In as much as Amanda could smell trouble in the air, her pride won’t let her give in “No, that’s what he wants. He never wanted me there in the first place so he’s trying everything to get rid of me. Oh Tony, you aren’t gonna win this one. I may be a lady but even the military accept women to join the force.” She said to the air then, she stood up and tied her hair roughly to the back

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