Flowers

After witnessing such a horrendous act before them, the board of directors reached a decision to proceed with the planned construction. The directors and influential investors were all scared out of their wits after Luna's burst of anger. Not once has the supposedly dumb daughter of Arthur Walter ever dared to defy nor threaten them like that. She had been a very obedient CEO before. Though she had showed competence and strength with handling her job, most of them would agree that they wanted a more "sway-able" CEO.

Under the table deals were not uncommon throughout the business industry, but the Walter family never took part of them ever since their company was started. Arthur had once fired all his essential staff after being informed that they have took a bribe to pass a possible investor forward as a good candidate. Not only was they fired, they were blacklisted from Walter Inc. forever. Meaning they could never again apply for a job in any of Walter Inc.'s companies.

The same had also been done by Luna herself when she had came to know that her then assistant took a hefty bribe to give a pass on the construction when she knew the land would gobble the whole building down. Their competitors were all jealous with Walter Inc.'s project that they all tried to stop it. Bad luck to them, because Luna was still able to eventually construct that every building on their very land after she bought it when they all became bankrupt with no more costumers going to them after the deal they made with the Luna's PA was released to the press —no secret can stay hidden, as they say.

The very next day, as a sign of asking for forgiveness, Mr. Alvarez had personal given Luna a bouquet of flowers with his broken hand and all. Even his wife was there, profusely apologizing for her husband's poor decision of trying to over power Luna. Mr. Alvarez had even been scolded the whole night before by Mrs. Alvarez since she had picked him up the other day to bring him to the hospital. The poor man wasn't able to give an reasonable explanation without his wife bombarding him with a whole knew long talk—like a mother deeply scolding her unruly child. All Mr. Alvarez could do was shut up and silent to his wife's scolding because if he did not, he would have to pay her in a different way—he wouldn't want to be sleeping outside of the house, now would he?

The bouquet was quite big, containing every color rose there was. It was like Luna was being courted by the husband and wife pair. Dismissing the two, Luna looked at the bouquet like it was nothing to her. She then proceeded to give it to her PA, "Here you go, you can do what ever you want to do with it. I don't need it."

Looking at the huge pile of flowers her PA curiously asked Luna if she had a new courter or boyfriend, making Luna laugh. "They sure are from my courter, he wants to keep his job here. Even brought his wife." Hearing the whole situation, Miya couldn't help but laugh as well. 'Who brings his wife to apologize to his boss? And who brings flowers?'

The news of their Big Boss receiving flowers from Mr. Alvarez quickly spread throughout Walter Inc. Everybody was curious about it. "Wasn't Mr. Alvarez married? And why would he need to bring flowers to the Big Boss?" everybody thought.

As no one knew the current CEO of their company, the employees were just left to gossip about it. Even Rafael was curious about it. 'What would a man like their CEO do with a bunch of flowers? Was he gay?'

The news even was relied to Lorenzo by Dimitri silently watching Luna from a hidden spot. After hearing that his wife was given a bunch of flowers by a married was made Lorenzo enraged. Someone dared to make his wife a mere mistress?!

"Call the best flower shop in town, buy everything there and send it to your Mrs. Khan's office!"

'I just gave you space and another pest has suddenly appeared? Why do you have to be so attractive to men?!' Lorenzo held his forehead shaking his head. *breath in breath out* "Just wait for a little more Lorenzo, we will have her again and by that time no one will dare even look at her!" Lorenzo reassured himself.

Heaving a heavy sigh and looking out of the glass walls, into the distance. He was already missing his wife, the house was mostly cold and lonely. His bed was suddenly so big. If the problem with Alex didn't happen he would most likely still have his wife around his arms by now. Regret was eating him up, but Lorenzo couldn't deny his wife's request on having space. If being away from her was the way to get his long awaited complete forgiveness from her, then he would have to suffer a bit to get his wife back.

Checking his phone, Lorenzo sadly smiled at his wallpaper. Luna's stolen shot of her smiling face was what he missed the most. They had already been going relatively strong and yet this catastrophe had to happen! What kind of bad luck was given to him?!

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Another set of flowers was delivered to Luna's office making it look more like a flower shop than an office. The whole scene of delivery men entering again and again carrying in bouquets, bundles, and pots of flowers was such another shock to the office employees. Was their boss gay to have such flowers sent to him?! Now this surely wasn't Mr. Alvarez's doing—he wasn't that rich to do such a thing! Not one but two courters?! Their boss was surely a man magnet. As the flowers came flowing in the more the people in Walter Inc. discussed their boss's real identity.

"Why is there so many flowers? I didn't order anything..." Luna's mortified face told it all. She definitely wasn't happy. The flowers were nice but what would she do with it?!

One of the delivery boys brought out a clipboard making Luna sign as proof that they have really delivered the huge amount of flowers. "Looks like your lover is surely very eager to woo you Miss," the older man of the group of workers joked making Luna smile awkwardly. Who in their crazy mind would order and give her such amounts of flowers. She wasn't dead to be gifted such amounts of flowers.

"Can I know who ordered them for me?" Luna asked as she would personally give that certain person a long talk on how to properly woo her—if ever it was really to woo her in that case.

"Sorry Ma'am, we can't disclose that with you. It's our store policy," the older man scratch his head. Many people had already asked the same question to him on many occasions and all he could do was say the exact same line, because they were forbidden to say it unless the sender had specifically said to mention his or her name. That weird rule was made by the shop owner herself, rumors say that she had once gave flowers to her love interest with her name on the tag just to be rejected publicly by the man who turned out to be dating someone close to her, that is why she banned the saying of names when sending flowers so that no one would experience the same feeling she did.

Whether the rumors were true or not, the rule was already here and the delivery workers could not say anything even when the receivers beg them to tell them. Having a job is much better than telling a person who sent their flowers...

"Could I at least return them to the sender?" Luna worriedly looked at the old man still scratching his head. "I have no use to all these flowers here, you know...." she added.

"Sorry Ma'am there is also a no return policy, only the sender can cancel their order but the receiver cannot not accept it. You can always throw it away if you really don't want them." the old man suggested after looking at Luna's worried expression. The young miss did have a point, the man thought. What on Earth would one do with a sea of flowers if they didn't need them for an event? The sender must surely be rich but he wasn't a smart wooer. Being a proud married man for more than 40 years, the man was very happy with his wooing skills as he was able to easily woo his wife that she would never even think of leaving him. Speaking of which, the man suddenly missed his wife, so after the quick signing and questions their group immediately left the building. In the car, the man texted his wife.

(TO:) SWEETHEART: I'm going home now Sweetheart! Your husband is very hungry!

(FROM:) SWEETHEART: Very well! Come home quick! The food will run cold!

As the old man was busy flirting with his wife, his group mates were all currently being force fed dog food when they read the husband and wife's conversation.

Back at Luna's office, Luna was currently stuck on what to do with the amount of flowers when she was able to think of one very smart idea. Whispering her idea to Miya, Miya agreed nodding her head in agreement to Luna's very smart idea.

They began to bring the flowers out of Luna's office to the hallway going to the current floor's receptionist area. After getting help from Miya and the receptionist, Luna went back to her office as the two other ladies became busy giving every person in the building either a bouquet, a few flowers, or a pot of flowers.

Every flower was distributed to everyone with the obvious curtsy of the Big Boss which made the whole building smile. Who wouldn't want to receive free flowers? Luckily no know was allergic to flowers or that person would have felt outed. Women liked it as it was like a sweet gesture from the Big Boss, while the men either liked it for themselves or were happy that they didn't have to spend another dime on costly flowers for their love ones.

Even Rafael received 3 black roses, which was intentional given to him by Miya which was what he liked to give Luna when they were still in a relationship. Miya had long hated Rafael as she didn't think he was fit as her idol's lover, yet she didn't voice it out loud then as she wasn't in the position to do so.

Receiving the flowers, Rafael's cool and untouchable aura suddenly disappeared. A sudden memory flashed through his head making him shrink in his seat. The black roses had reminded him of something, his main goal, his mission, and his sole purpose of getting close with Luna.

Right on cue, Rafael's phone ringed making him immediately come back to his senses. Answering the phone, Rafael lowered his voice making sure there were no people who can accidentally overhear their conversation. "Hello?"

"Is there current progress there? It has already been so long, maybe I have to remind you why you are doing this, do I?" the deep voice from the other side made Rafael's blood run cold. Clenching his fists tightly, Rafael could only hold in his anger.

"I'm currently working on it, just a little bit more and I'll be able to get another promotion. The information I also have is sufficient enough to start the business. I just need a few more months." Rafael tried to reason out to the silent person on the other side of the call.

"Well then make sure I am able to see results in a few months Raf. You're already walking on very thin rope now my boy, we don't want you to fail, now do we?" the person's voice became deeper and deeper. "Are we clear?" the voice asked after hearing no response from the other line.

"Loud and clear," Rafael confirmed making the person on the other side smile.

"Make your father proud Raf," the voice said before the call was ended. Rafael's expression became darker than the bottom of a kettle. The grim look would make one run for the hills at the mere sight of Rafael's face. Every nerve in his body was about to explode in shear rage, but what could he do? This was the life he had chosen, what more can he do but continue it to the end...