Laxton Hendrix continue to marched down the hallway---even though Billy repeatedly call his name---while their fingers are still intertwined together. He even have the guts to smile despite what happened in the board meeting.
He bumped into her mother's right shoulder but both of them didn't stop there nor greeted her.
Margarita flinched a little but when she haw her son holding a woman's hand while running towards the elevator, her intuition told her that something happened back to where they both came from. She sneakily smiled when she saw Billy running after them but Billy stopped in his tracks when he saw her.
"Hello, ma'am." He's breathless.
"Let them be. I'll make up for what happened. Brief me while were walking back to the meeting room. The board is still in there, right?" She ignored his worried face.
What's important to her is that his only heir started to do what he wants to do in his life without thinking of pleasing his father--that he did for more than two decades now.
******
Laxton Hendrix swerved before he stops in an empty establishment with a metal roll up bar in front of it. He press the car horn three times and a random guy open it up from the inside. 
There were two other cars that Czarielle didn't bother to name because those are expensive cars just like the Yellow Ferrari he drove and parked in the spacious garage.
In the first glance from the outside, the space looks like an abandoned or empty establishment that nobody wants to rent. There are high concrete walls all over the place without any paint on it but the inside was very elegant and minimalist but the furniture looks very expensive!
Czarielle was in an awe that she didn't even notice that Laxton stopped on his tracks and her face landed on his well-chiseled back.
"Ouch!" She grimaced in pain and glared at him when he turned around.
"Its not my fault that my house is as good as my looks. Haha!" He naughtily smiled.
"W-what?!" Cza was taken aback because its the first time he saw his face relaxed like this.
"Just kidding! Anyway, like I said, we'll spend the night here in my humble abode. You won't be able to leave me tonight 'cause I'll let my boys go home for two days in a row." He naughtily smiled again.
Czarielle shrugged her head and let herself smiled like him. His smile is contagious.
"After you, you're majesty." And he start to tour her around the house.
There's a white, L-shaped, feathery couch paired with rectangular glass table and its bottom stand looks like a music symbol cleft. A smart television is mounted on the wall and below it, there is a small hanging cabinet with three picture frames: A boy around four or five years old, smilling with his two missing teth in front; a highschool graduation picture of Laxton with his mom; and a picture of a white persian cat.
From the living room, Cza saw the black and white contemporary marbled kitchen table top with stainless steel high chair with black cushion. There are five drawers below the kitchen table and a you can see on the other kitchen top are electronic appliances like rice cooker, oven mounted below the gas stove, coffee maker, and another set of cabinets above it for the dinner wares, different size of pans and other baking tools.
While Cza continue to roam her eyes around, Laxton Hendrix open the double door refrigerator--which is almost the same as his five feet nine inches height.
"I'm famished. Do you still want me to cook or should we just order?" He sat in one of the chair in front of the kitchen top--that also serves as dinning table.
"We can order some snacks while you cook anything." She took oit her phone and open one of the fast food apps on her phone. "Do you want to eat anything in particular?"
Laxton just shrugged his head before he start to prepare their dinner.
*****
Czarielle busied herself eating french fries while watching him preparing a rib-eye steak paired with red wine reduction sauce and some baked crispy and crunchy potatoes and classic ceasar salad as the side dishes.
She didn't imagine that the Vanderveide sole heir looks so sexy and tempting with his plain blue apron on.
"Hey, close your mouth. A bee might enter it any time." He chuckled.
Cza just rolled her eyes and went back to the feathery couch and comfortably sit there. She wants to open the big television but there's no remote--to ease the awkwardness between them.
On the other hand, Laxton gather the steaks, put it in a square wooden plates and arranged it in a tray with the baked potatoes, a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon and wine glasses.
He carefully put it down in the glass table in front of Czarielle. After he removed his apron and put it aside, he got two black square cushions and tap his side for her to sit.
"Alexa, dim the lights." The smart device spoke and then lights got dimmed. "Alexa, open netflix with latest romantic movie release."
Czarielle's jaw dropped. She knew that gadgets are high-tech but its the first time she saw how this Alexa thing works!
She quickly sat beside him and she couldn't help her mouth watered by just looking at the aromatic steak!
She pierced a piece of sliced steak and eat it with gusto. "This is another level of cooking steak! Unlike the steak you let me eat with that blind date of yours." She snorted.
"Why do your tone sounds like a jealous wife? Unless you want to be my wife." Laxton Hendrix sheepishly smiled.
"Yeah, maybe I am. Famished." Her eyes widened after three seconds when she realize what he said. "Is that a proposal?"
Laxton chuckled again. "If you don't want to be my wife, then be my girl and let's start from there." He smirked.
"How sure of you that I'll said yes?" She put another piece of steak inside her mouth a d chewed.
"See it for yourself later." The sode of his left lips twitched.
Their laughter echoed the room as they eat and drink wine while watchjng the movie.
Czarielle is a little tipsy after they emptied the bottle of wine.
"You know what, brat? I think you're right. Maybe I like you. How would you convince me to believe this unknown feeling?" She snapped her necktie for them to face each other.
"I know how to seal our relationship. This will do." He hold her hand--which is holding his necktie-- and let himself go on with her pulling him more closely.
He saw how she anticipated the kiss because their face is still an inch away from each other when she close her eyes.
Laxton Hendrix smiled triumphantly before he let their kiss touched each other.