Chapter One
Shamia was currently in the car on her way to the office when her friend Krystaleen called.
"Hello?"
"What Sham? Have you been to the agency I suggested to you?"
"Not yet, maybe later."
“Why? Go to the agency right now. I will accompany you if you want?"
Shamia took a deep sigh first then answered her naughty friend again.
"Later. I have many things to do in the office and I have pending meetings to attend to. " Then she quickly turned off the phone.
The agency she was saying is where she can hire a bodyguard that will do what she needs and watch over her every day she leaves the house.
Because when she's at home she is sure of her safety and she does not need a bodyguard because her house is heavily guarded. It has CCTVs and security guards roaming around.
"Mam, we are already here."
Shamia immediately got out of the car and went straight to the elevator where she's the only one using. She asks to build the elevator exclusively for her.
When she arrived at the office she was immediately greeted by her secretary, Pia Alvaro.
"Good morning Mam. Your 8:00 meeting is ready."
Shamia greeted the secretary then proceeded to the conference room. She didn't even bother to peek at her office because she might be late for the meeting.
She was a little upset this morning because she was looking for a security agency. And it was too late when a friend told her that she had an edible agency that knew where able to agree to her wishes.
The meeting immediately started when she entered.
A team reported progress when the magazine was going to released three months from now. And the CFO also reported on budgeting.
Shamia just listened throughout the meeting and occasionally comments on board opinions.
"That's all." The last reporter said.
Shamia glanced at her wristwatch and when she saw that it was already at noon she immediately got up and left the conference room.
"Buy me foods for lunch." She told the secretary next to her who immediately responded and then hurried to leave.
While Shamia is waiting for lunch, she reads and signs papers to reduce her workload once she goes to the agency.
And not too long her secretary arrived with her lunch.
"Did you eat Ms. Alvaro?" She stared at the woman as she ate at the dining table that was also just inside the office.
"Yes, mam."
She nodded and continued eating, while Pia left the office. But she was not even halfway through her meal when someone called her phone again.
She looked at who was calling and she wished she didn't just answer but they didn't stop from calling her.
"What?" She asks the one on the other line.
"What? Why don't you go there yet? You might run out of a handsome bodyguard.” The other line said who was giggling as someone is tickling them.
Shamia rolled her eyes as if it was seen on the other line.
"What do I care? Don't bother me, I'm eating."
"So what? Hurry up eating! We are going to the agency I'm saying. I'll wait for you there. Bye!"
Shamia's friend quickly turns off the call.
Shamia just sighed then resumed the spoiled meal and finished it quickly because she was sure that she would call again soon.
"LET'S go to the *** address," Shamia said to the driver of the car.
"Yes, mam."
The said agency is not far. It was only about 30 minutes and she reached her destination. She received a message from a friend when she got out of the car. She said she was waiting in the lobby.
She saw her friend there and she was not alone. Their two other friends, Lourine and Ysabella, were involved.
"Oh, I thought you're not coming. We have been here earlier than you. " Ysabella said while rolling her eyes.
She raised an eyebrow accompanied by a smirk. "Why are you blaming me? I'm not inviting you here."
"Taray as always," Lourine commented.
She confronted her friend Krystaleen who had been looking at her back as if watching someone.
"Let's go!! You look like a giraffe here. " And he headed for the elevator.
"Someone passed by and he's handsome and super hot as he is."
She ignored them.
All of them continued in the CEO's office. And because she is a VIP, the CEO's secretary did not resent.
They caught up the old CEO of the Agency who was almost stunned by reading the papers piled on the table in front of him.
"Hello Mr.CEO, I want the service of your agency."
"You may take seat ladies." The old man looks nice. "Lara bring us tea." The secretary immediately complied. "What can I do for you ladies?"
"I want to hire a bodyguard for my protection, Mr.Chua," she said.
"Oh Ms. Sandler, sure sure, we are pleasured to give our service to the Sandler Heiress. " She smiled after saying that.
"Our company is so unique when it comes to our service Ms. Sandler, you can choose whoever you want to be your bodyguard."
"I'm not the heiress Mr. Chua, I have an older brother to take care of our businesses. I have my own company so I don't need theirs. " Then Shamia sophisticatedly sit on the sofa in Mr. Chua's office.
"Oh, Is that so?"
"Now can we go where ever I can choose my bodyguard?"
Her friends who were just sitting quietly next to her were giggling because of the misfortune she had shown to the CEO of the agency she was talking to.
THEY arrived at the place where she can choose her bodyguard. She started to roam around the guys whose standing straight in line when they arrived.
She looked at each other in a row. Until she reached the end of the queue, she stopped because of the man standing at the last line.
He's standing straight just like the other guys but he has this aura that can intimidate and make you stop just to look at him.
He's tall, even if he's not looking at her, she sees his brown eye color, he's a Moreno and has a muscular physique that seems to be stretched in daily activities. And she feels very safe if she is confined to his sturdy arms.
Shamia was shaken by the thought. And she turned to her friends as they sneezed and were accompanied by a giggle that turned her cheek red so she turned again to the man she had caught looking at her as well.
She turned to Mr. Chua who was just smiling with her friends.
"I want him." She said that makes her friends giggle who ended up laughing.
Then she realized what she had said.
"I want him as my bodyguard." She continued. Then she stared at her friends who still did not stop laughing.
"Okay, Ms. Sandler he'll start working for you tomorrow morning."
She nodded for approval.
"I want his information now. I need to review it."
"Eh, why should it be reviewed? He will work for you tomorrow, right ?." Lourine said that makes her two other friends agreed.
She ignored her friends and look once again at the bodyguard she chooses. The man was also looking at her so she nodded and he also returned a small nod.
After their transaction with the agency, she immediately left to return to the office, she quickly left because she was sure that her friends would invite her to a party in some club or bar, which she always refused.
She arrived at the office 30 minutes before they went home in the afternoon. But she still decided to read the folder about the information about her newly hired bodyguard.
But the minute she opened the folder, the photo of the man greeted her as if staring at her with brown eyes. It feels like his eyes are piercing through her soul.
And to her surprise, her chest throbbed as if horses were chasing each other there. So she did close the folder and then hurried to get up and left the office.
Is it love at first sight? She was shaken by the thought. No no no.