The Grand Mistress

Chapter 37 - Hot Mess

Simione was having a hard time with the dress Lucy had her wore. It's definitely not her size but she had no choice then but to wear it since her clothes were accidentally messed up by Lucy's personal assistant. 

It was the weekend, she had no class or work and so she decided to drop by at Lucy's photo shoot only to end up getting an errand for her. One of Lucy's glam team employees got sick and was not able to pick an important jewel she was to use in one of her shoots so she volunteered to pick it for her. Before she left, her dress was ruined and so she had no choice but to pick up something in Lucy's wardrobe on the photo shoot site.

When she arrived at the store, there was a close sign in the door. However, the store already informed Lucy that they would close the store that day but that she was welcome to send someone to pick up the parcel. So despite the close sign, Simione went inside especially because the door wasn't locked.

"Hello?" She called when she found no one at the front desk. The store was located in a high end mall in the city where security can be assured. Therefore the stores that rented there do not have security guards at the door and so no one was there to welcome the girl.

She looked around for a few minutes until one door suddenly opened and a man wearing a blue suite came out. He looked so put up that Simione thought he was the store's manager and so she approached him immediately.

"Hello Mister," She started but for some reasons Simione saw how the man openly scrutinized her from head to foot in a very surprised manner. She grimaced a bit as her confidence shuddered as she thought the man was disgusted by her dress. Didn't Lucy tell her she looked great in it? Seemed that Lucy, her Lucifer friend, played pranks on her again!

"Ahm," She tried to compose something but the man seemed to have not recovered from whatever caught him and so Simione waved a hand in front of eyes to wake him up. "Hello…"

"Cough.cough.cough," Lucas coughed as he tried to recover his fallen pride. Sh*t! Did he just drooled in front of her? He tried to wipe his mouth as if some sweat gathered in that side of his face and was thoroughly relieved he didn't feel any sticky wet saliva in it.  "I'm sorry Miss," He apologized immediately and threaded some words to help him recover in that shameless situation, "Well...ahmm.. This store is closed?....Yeah, it's closed. We are not open for customers,"

Lucas wasn't really in the place to answer any of her store's concerns as he was not an employee in it. However the situation calls for him to say something and that was the first thing that came to his mind. 

"Oh I know. It's obvious with the close sign on the front door," She replied pointing to the door, "But I'm just here to pick up a parcel. We made a call earlier and they said I could come here,"

"I see," Lucas replied, putting a hand on his stomach. Some butterflies were clearly flying in there and so with all his might, although he was thoroughly disturbed in a good way with the girl's enigma, he thought of a way to help her with her errand. "How about I call someone inside to help you,"

"That would be great," She smiled and Lucas' heart flew with it.

"Okay," He breathed a deep one, turned back on her then tracked back his steps earlier to the room where everyone was. 

The moment he entered the room, Hawk was able to capture Lucas' weird expression and so he raised a brow on him. He expected Lucas to say something to him but instead, Lucas called one salesperson's attention and whispered something to her. Although only a few salespeople were helping Feather with her jewelry shopping, all of the store's personnel were there standing at the sidelines waiting in case more help would be needed. The one that Lucas called was one of them and so she went out of the room to heed Lucas' request without much inconvenience.

When the saleslady went out, Lucas also tried to leave the room but when he caught Hawk's questioning eyes, he panicked. Only then did he realize how awkward the situation was for his boss as surely the presence of Hawk's mystery lady outside the room would cause a ruckus if not handled well. The first thing that crossed his mind was to make sure Hawk would not know about the lady outside and so he steadied at the door for a moment and flashed a fake smile at his boss as if nothing was wrong.

However, he and Hawk had been together enough for the latter to know that Lucas was up to something. The way his head immediately sweated and the way he was wearing such a pretentious smile at him, made him aware that his assistant had some shady business outside. He tried to look beyond Lucas to check what's going on outside but Lucas moved comically to block his view. The door was so open then and the only thing that hindered Hawk from not seeing the woman standing outside was Lucas.

Hawk grimaced at Lucas' actions. Outright, he signaled him to move and flashed daggers at him. Seeing it, the hair at Lucas back stood in fear! He certainly knew that look and that was something he dare not defy. So with a deep helpless sigh, Lucas moved away and the view of a woman in black dress emerged in front of him. She was talking to the saleslady that just left the room and was not in a good position to see him.

Seeing her again after last night definitely, if it didn't give him chills, turned Hawk into a hot mess!