13

Days turned not pages and pages into months. The months got blown away with a gust of wind and seven years passed just like that, Many things changed. Cities changed, towns changed, People changed and most importantly hearts changed… or they grew.

At a bus stop, numerous school girls stood with their phones glues to their faces and a wide smile plastered on their lips as they stared at a couple that was trending on the internet.

"Ahh!! They look so good togather!!" A girl whined as if she was about to cry.

"I know right, They are such a match made in heaven, I wish I find a guy like him. Natalia is so lucky to have a guy like him as her boyfriend." said another.

They were envious of the pair that had stirred the hearts of many youthful girls after publicizing their relationship. The news of them dating had been shared with the media by Natalia Carlisle, a young actress in her recent interview.

This news made many hearts break but when the lovely couple made an entry in public, no one could deny the fact that Oz Anderson Chase the chairman and the CEO of Anderson corporation, and Natalia Carlisle were made for each other.

Oz Anderson Chase, the name had become a phrase of motivation for the youth. He was known for his hard work and intelligence in the business world. Not only had he been building up his own company he managed to take over the companies that belonged to his mother and merged them into one huge corporation under the name Anderson Chase. His efforts were recognized by many and were thought to be one of the top businessmen in the country. But just like any other successful man, he didn't get it the easy way, he had to go through the times of darkness. Now he had gained everything he had ever wanted but at the expense of his kind and soft personality. The life of walking up the ladder of success needed him to be strong but after showing no weakness for so long he forgot to remember how being vulnerable was. He decided to become strong; he lost track of himself, leaving him with very few smiles and tears. The only time he would show those rare moments of joy or sorrow was when Natalia would be around him.

After the most eligible bachelor of the country got taken. Everyone seemed to have gotten interested in their love story and numerous reporters sought to find the answers causing almost all the phones of the Anderson corporation to ring one after another. The reporters had swarmed out of the office in the search of answers.

The highest floor of the AC corporation was dead silent. It felt as if no one was around there and that the floor was empty but that wasn't true as tens of employees worked in strict silence as even the slightest of sounds irritated Oz.

While everyone was dead silent the elevator doors opened with a ring and the sound of heels touching the floor echoed in the empty corridor. None of the employees looked up as they were well aware of who it was and why she was here so they paid attention to their work and didn't cause unnecessary drama on the prohibited floor.

A tall shadow followed the slender lady with pale white skin. Her short shoulder-length hair brushed her beauty bone gently while an expensive-looking necklace hugged her neck.

She walked towards Oz's office without any prior appointment with him, She simply stood out of the door and knocked on the door two times, and waited for Oz's voice.

"Come in," A gravelly calm voice spoke. Natalia's peachy pink lips formed onto a smile and she opened the door and walked into the spacious room, one side of which was a wide window. At the farthest end of the room was a desk and beside the wide window was a huge table where hundreds of papers were scattered. A guy with slightly messed up hair and rolled up sleeves had loomed over the table and was scribbling over the sheets intensely. He was no more wearing his coat that was resting on the stand while a waistcoat clung to his body as if they were made for each other.

Natalia placed her handbag on the chair beside the door and sauntered towards him, when she was just beside his back she lifted her hands and started kneading his shoulders.

"You are working overtime again?" She asked worriedly.

Oz looked around at her with his dark tired eyes and shook his head sideways and the hair on his forehead moved around when he did that. "No! I haven't." He lied. Natalia clicked her tongue and looked at him annoyedly.

"Don't lie to me, look, you are wearing the same clothes from yesterday. You haven't left the office at all." She pouted. Oz's face turned guilty and he looked down.

"The workload is too much, I can't rest like that, Especially not until the products are released successfully." He said. Natalia pursed her lips and continued kneading his shoulders. She nodded as she understood him and didn't say anything after that. Oz continued to work on the papers. After none of them spoke for a long time Oz let go of the pencil in his hand and slowly reached out to her hand that was still on his shoulder, he touched them gently and turned around to hold the other one as well. With his back towards the papers, he held onto her palm and slowly swung them around.

"Don't worry about me, I will take some rest just after I am done with this one design." HE said leniently with a slight smile on his face. Natalia smiled in return and took a deep breath.

"Wait…" He said and his hands paused as if he had remembered something. "Were you not supposed to be at the audition today? What are you doing here?" He asked with concern. Natalia snickered at his question which made Oz confused. "Did I get the date wrong?" He looked at the calendar on the table to confirm. "No, it was today." He turned back to her.

"Yes, it was today." SHe started to rock their hands around as she started to speak.

"So? What happened? How did it go?" HE asked with interest.

"It was good, I might get the role of the female lead." She gave a jump to her shoulder as she said that.

"That's great news!" he said. "You will be famous in no time." He teased her to which Natalia pouted.

"I am famous!!" She tapped her feet on the floor as she spoke.

"Yes, yes you are," he said, to which Natla pulled out her hands from his grasp and pulled out her phone, and showed him the trending news. "See!! Both of us are famous!!" She said to which Oz narrowed his eyes and looked at the screen with curiosity.

"Hm… the news has spread like wildfire." He muttered.

"Why is there a problem with that?" SHe asked.

"No! Nothing at all." He said with a jolt and looked away from the screen. "It's just people nowadays are way too interested in other people's lives." HE said.