Chapter 10 _ The New house

It's already morning but Laura was still lying on her bed she doesn't want to accept the reality of her, leaving today.

After work the other day Laura summited her resignation letter to Jason's office when he was out. She wondered how he felt when he saw her letter. And Kate, she cried all through the day. She didn't want to part with her best friend. They have been together since high school, so this was hard on her.

Pushing all the thoughts aside, Laura got out of bed. She entered the bathroom to take a shower. After a few minutes, she came out in a towel. After putting on body cream, she took the dress that was already placed on top of the bags to wear. She kept it out because she didn't want to go through her bags again after all the packing she had done.

When she was done, she took her bags downstairs. When she got to the living room she saw Noel already there with his luggage.

"Sorry I forget to tell you last night," Noel said walking towards Laura.

"Forgot what?" Laura asked.

"You are no longer coming with me. You can stay here" Noel said to Laura.

"What..? Why? Don't get me wrong I love to stay but, why the sudden change of mind?" Laura was surprised.

"Well zenith industry called me yesterday to tell me that you can stay here. They will provide accommodation and twenty-four hours security service at their employee's apartments. They said you can stay there until you're done with your training and school." Noel explained.

"Oh my God that's wonderful " Laura was happy.

"But the whole thing feels weird to me. I mean why would they go through all that stress." Noel was worried.

"Who cares. All that matters is I'm staying and that's enough for me " Laura said excitedly.

"Ok ok, that's enough. They will come and pick you up in the evening. While you are staying there I want you to come back straight home after work no more going out late with Kate and make sure you always eat on time." Noel said feeling worried about leaving her alone.

"Okay, sir. I've heard you" Laura said before hugging him.

"I will visit you whenever I'm free okay? Please take good care of yourself" Noel hugged her more tightly. This was the first time they were going to be apart after their parent's death and it scares him.

Laura walked him to the door. She watched him as he got into the car and drove away. Laura didn't realize she has been crying all this while.

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Back at the Hughes company, Jason was on the phone speaking to someone and he was pissed off.

"What do you mean by they've left?" Jason shouted at the person on the phone. "I gave you simple instructions and you couldn't do it. You know what? You are fired. If I ever see your face again I swear I will blow your brains out." Jason was very angry. He was about to cut the call when he heard the other person says something.

"What do you mean by, I was the one who gave the order for them to keep him? Who dares to use my name...?" Then someone came to his mind. "Don't worry "I will call you back some other time" he said before cutting the call.

"Mom what are you up to," he said picking up His phone to dial her number. It rang but she didn't pick up. He just sign. He knew she wasn't going to pick up his mother was a stubborn woman. So he dialed another number instead.

"Where's my mom?" He asked. Is she out shopping? Please keep an eye on her we are going to have a group meeting this weekend " he said before cutting the call. He sat on his chair feeling stressed out.

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At six on the dot in the evening on the door. Laura got up to open the door. She saw I man standing outside he looked young.

"Are you Miss Jones?" The man asked.

"Yes," Laura replied.

" I'm here to pick you up," the man said.

"Okay I'll be e back let me get my luggage. Laura e running back inside to get her things.

"We are here ma," the man said waking up Laura who fell asleep on their way.

"Huh," she said slowly opening her eyes. She realized It was already dark and she was feeling sleepy. She got out and was about to after her bags but, the man already beat her to it.

She followed him inside not bothering about her surroundings she just wanted to sleep. When she got to her room she just jumped on the bed and slept off.

The next morning Laura woke up to the sound of the alarm. She checked the time it was thirty minutes past seven.

"Shoot I'm late for work," she said while getting up. "But I've resigned. Well, I will just have to bag him to take me back" said with determination before going to the shower.

When she came out, she quickly got dressed. She took her bag and she ran to the door but she stopped. Because she just remembered that she had not eaten.

"Let me find something to eat before I collapse," she said before walking out.

When she got to the living room, she had this feeling that she had been there before. But she pushed that thought out of her head because she was very hungry.

On her way to the kitchen she bumped into someone and she almost fell but, someone held her. She was surprised when she looked up to see who held her.

"M... Mr. Hughes?" Laura was confused and the same was Jason.

"What are you doing here?". Jason asked her.

A/N: Hi guys thank you for reading and please let me in on your thought about this book.

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