1 The beginning

When people are enjoying their beautiful sleep, a young, fragile lady is waking up to see how to start writing stories that she will sell to the best bidder.

The only problem was that Emily Dark has no bidder apart from the Show magazine she writes their fashion column for and she gets a hundred dollar cheque whenever she turns ten interesting post. So waking up by 4am to write stories was her way of escaping her reality. 

With no college degree, no family and definitely no friend apart from Andrew a boy who has been her best friend from the first time in foster home, she was alone in the world.

As Emily Dark discovered that the only thing that made her safe from the laughter and mockery looks children gave her in foster home, to the pitiful looks from matrons, caregivers at the home as no parent wanted to adopt her.

She learnt to hid behind her walls of writing fantasies.

After the death of her parents, a once happy and excited Emily turn into a quite and invisible child.

As no family member came forward to take her responsibilities, the state had to place her in the system. This made her case worst as Emily avoided all humans contact as possible as she could.

So when she was never noticed by parents in need of a child, she was very okay with that.

Snapping out of her thoughts as she decided to add another line to her writing

"When Lily turned around to see her rescuers, she came face to face with the most handsome man alive. When a height of 6.5ft, he was taller than most men, a chiseled face, well built muscles that can leave any girl drooling, as Lily was already lost of words.

Her mouth was open in an O shape as she was captivated by the handsome good standing in front of her.

The young man noticing her shocked face, held her firmly but the shoulder and shook gently.

Quickly recovering, she blushed as embarrassment hit her and she buried her face down and spoke softly and quite low, thanks so much for saving me back there.

Antonio holding back his laughter said with a smirk on his face, it's okay beautiful, don't just go round teasing men with this your beautiful body, not all will be able to resist you. Noticing that her blush as deepened, he continued and a beautiful lady should not be left alone at night"....

Emily yawn as she realized that if she doesn't get ready for the office work, she will be late and her boss will make use of his last threat, and losing her job now would be so bad as she hates interview. Closing her laptop, and keeping it neatly, she rushes towards the bathroom.

Susan Faith walks into the first floor of a sixty three storey building, where her office is on the sixty third floor. As she walked fast into the building, every conversation in the lobby ceased, people started rushing towards the elevator, some recovered fast and started greeting her.

Good morning Ms Susan, came a voice from her side, she smiled while stepping into her private elevator. She pressed the button sixty three on the elevator.

Standing all tall in her 5.3ft, Susan Faith as she is known in the business world was no woman to joke with.

At the age of fifteen, she ran away from her abusive mother, who never failed to remind her of how useless she was, not being able to beg her father to come back, or to even try to follow him.

The sound of the elevator stopping from her out of her thoughts. She stepped out to her office, smiling to herself for all the achievements she has acquired the last fifteen years. Moving towards her office, her secretary rushed out to get her bag.

Good morning Ms Susan, good morning Belinda. How are you doing? Belinda: fine ma. So what are my schedule for the day?

Belinda drops her bag on the table and brought out her iPad to check. Ma you have a meeting with Sango group of companies by 9am, by 10 you have a meeting with  the engineers at the Brown and Golden coffee shop just three blocks from the main building. By 12pm, you have a lunch meeting with Antonio over the opening of a new chain of hotels in Greek, then the manager at Chanel outlet office called this morning, informing that your order will arrive this afternoon by 3pm.

Susan still reading reports looked up to Belinda, bring in my coffee. With that, Belinda knew she was dismissed, moving towards the coffee machine to make cappuccino, she smiled knowing today the boss was in a good mood and didn't complain as she usually does.

Emily Dark is sitting behind a computer in a rat hole she calls her office, barely enough for one person, the office was shared with two other persons, the nerdy George and the flirty John.

Although John was married with his wife expecting their first child, he runs after anything on skirt, making Emily's life unbearable as she hates the crappy little talk and sounds he always makes whenever she walks into the office.

While George on the other hand was just a plain nerd, always wearing that his big and old 👓 as if he can't see without it or either giving those his facial expressions as if a woman was the worst creation on head.

Emily just signs and continue typing on her computer when a happy face peeked into their office door, looking up to see the distraction, she smiled when Andrew's face appeared on the door frame.

Hello beautiful, how was your night? Emily blushing deeply even though she hears that compliment everyday, she couldn't stop herself from always blushing whenever he said that.

Okay beautiful, am sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the boss is looking for you and he seems angry. Emily got up from her seat with a frown, looking at her wrist watch spoke to Andrew, but I came into this office early, what did I do wrong this time?

Andrew just smiled and say he might just want to talk with you, stop panicking. Emily made inaudible sounds as she walked past her best friend into the corridor, heading straight to Mr Williams office.

For a quiet girl, getting into trouble was like a normal thing for Emily, because most times she lived in her fantasies than in the real world thereby making working with other people hard. As she approach the office, the confidence she had flee from her, as she is shaken, wondering how she will take the dismissal.

A knock on the door made Mr Williams very angry, come in and shut the door.  The look on Mr Williams face made Emily to shiver in fear as she knew she was in trouble.

Waiting for him to either sack her or mock her for being an idiot, Mr Williams got up from his chair and walked towards her, making her to take some steps backward. The more she moved backward, the more he followed her until her back hit the door.

Smiling mischievously, Mr Williams lend towards her, placing his two hands by the wall to block her from escaping, Emily wished the grounds would open and shallow her, because this fat pig smelled of tobacco, more like he has not had his bath in weeks, and she better not say that loud or else, she will loss her little precious pay cheque.

Stilling smiling, Mr Williams hank at her hair and pulled her face towards him, breathing in her scent said if you wanted a prince charming to rescue you, you should say so, his voice rising but there is still a smirk on his face, instead of writing that crab and sending it to me.  Realization hit Emily as she knew that when she closed her work that morning, maybe by mistake the job was sent to the boss.

Thinking of how best to save the situation, she went on her knees to beg, am so sorry sir, it will never happen again. Yes I know it won't happen, but there is no harm in me being your prince charming, he bent down to pick her up, caressing her cheeks with his tongue when Emily shivered and hit him hard on the balls before rushing out of the office.

While Mr Williams swore in foul language, causing her:

You tiny, dirty bitch,you should be grateful I was giving you such an offer, still holding his balls screamed into the quite corridor, you better leave before I reach that your office.

Running as if her life depended on it, she rushed past Andrew while heading to her little crappy office to pick her laptop and her bag as tears rushes down her face.

Andrew rushes after her, but a look at her face told him that all is not well. Hey pretty, what is wrong, but Emily just kept moving fast trying to exist the office.

Moving too fast that she did notice that Andrew had move past her and was blocking her path when she bumped into him, looking up to see who was on her path, she cried when she looked up to see Andrew, she felt relieved to see Andrew. Not asking any questions, he pulled her to himself, smoothing her hair, he kissed her head.

He knew that was the end of her working there. Cheer up beauty, you will soon get a new job, it is his lose not seeing such a kind and good person you are.

Emily smiled at him: you always know the best thing to say to a girl. I just envy your future wife.

Said that again and I will just put a ring on that finger, groaned Andrew. She signs as she knew that aside from being besties, no other friendship could work out between them. 

Andrew was handsome and he knew it, from the days of foster care, he was the outspoken one while she on the other side was an introvert from the fright of seeing her parents died.