37 I Feel So Useless 1 (1/2)

”Come on, get up!”, Hannah pulled her best friend off from the sofa.

”Why? Where are we going?”

”Retail therapy. I don't like what you look like right now. You're ugly.” , Hannah didn't hold back with her words. She's been always straight forward to Samantha.

Samantha finds it hilarious when she does this, ”Am I really?”

”No, S! You're the most beautiful woman I've ever known but right now... forget it. Go change and we'll go shopping.”

The two friends spent the whole afternoon pampering themselves, well... it was Hannah forcing Samantha to 'pamper' themselves. Late in the afternoon when the sky started to darken, they were at the Busy Bean Cafe's rooftop garden talking.

”I have to go pee. Wait here, S.”, Hannah said before she stood up and ran downstairs.

Samantha walked over to the potted fruit garden where she saw a ripe red strawberry hanging outside the clay pot. She extended her hand to pick the fruit when she suddenly felt a very comfortable and warm presence behind her.

A pair of long and manly arms wrapped around her, trapping her in place. She smelled his familiar scent of the Versace perfume.

His head nuzzled at the crook of Samantha's neck and inhaled her peachy fragrance, his embrace tightened before he spoke, ”I missed you.”

Samantha's heart jumped when she realized that it was Daniel. The corner of her lips lifted and her expression brightened. ”I thought you weren't coming home until the next few days?”

Daniel Cho spun her around to see her face, ”Surprise.”

”So cheesy!”, Samantha exclaimed but she loved his surprise anyway.

He chuckled and tucked a loose hair behind her ear, ”How could I not come home? I have to have dinner with you tonight.”

”Dinner?”

Actually, when Daniel called Samantha earlier, he was already at the airport and was about to board the plane going back to City M. It's been almost two weeks and Daniel got grumpy for not being able to see Samantha especially when his business trip was dragging. When he checked his calendar, he noticed that today marked their first month since they agreed to date each other. He decided to go home for the night and fly back the next morning to City T just to have dinner with Samantha.

The couple had fun on their dinner date. And when Samantha heard Daniel's reason why he suddenly came home, she laughed at him. She couldn't believe that Daniel was this sentimental. Not at all fitting with his cold-CEO image. But she was touched nonetheless.

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Early the next morning, Daniel flew back to City T to finish a project. Samantha, on the other hand, went to work in a hurry when Alexander called her with a worried voice.

As soon as Samantha entered her office, ”What's the problem?”

”I've expected something like this to happen but not so soon, they're very resourceful.”

”Regardless, they used this issue to dirty our company. Whether it's true or not, people will only believe what they see.”