The second wife

3. surprise

Zak pov.

I straightened the collar of my shirt. I am going on a date with my girlfriend. That sounds so right. She is my girlfriend now. I walked out of my mansion and got in my black Tesla. I am going to surprise her today. I haven’t shown any of my luxuries to her yet. But I think I should now. She has agreed to be mine not knowing what I own. She liked me for who I am. That is what I’m looking for.

I parked my car near her apartment building and walked towards her apartment. She opened the door and as expected she took my breath away. Tonight, she wore a black full length dress that had a low cut neckline revealing a little of her cleavage. There was a slit on the side of her dress which revealed her slender legs.

I cleared my throat. “You look amazing Hanna.” I managed to say. I took her hand to my lips and kissed it softly. This woman is mine. I thought.

When she saw my Tesla she was surprised. “Who’s car is this? Did you rent this one for tonight?”

I laughed. “We will see.”

We went to the same restaurant and the same waiter attended us. I watched as the waiter wink and smirked at her . I waited to see how she reacted to that. She just looked away.

“Does that bother you?” I asked when he left. She raised her eyebrows.

“That waiter trying to flirt with you right in front of me.” I explained.

She laughed. “I see people do that often. I just don’t take notice. Most of them will get bored and go away.” She said.

She is smart. I smiled.

“But I won’t let him get away with that this time.” I said.

She shook her head. “ Let it be. I think if you do anything it will cause more trouble.”

“But I don’t want my employee to do that during his work. I want them to treat my customers with respect.” Her jaw dropped open.

“What?!!!” she exclaimed. I saw that the waiter was coming back.

I smirked and looked at her. “Watch”

He came in. “And here is the bill.” He said. I reached for my wallet and I noticed from the corner of my eye that he was checking her out. I could sense that she had shifted in her seat uneasily.

“I believe it is unethical to flirt with your customer’s date.” I said.

That surprised him.

“Excuse me?” he said.

“I have been noticing you check her out, and send flirtatious gestures at her.” He shrugged.

“She is beautiful. It won’t hurt just to look at her will it?.”He replied.

I raised my eyebrows at him. “Just what did you say?”

“If she is going to dress like that she must like attention”

I pinched the bridge of my nose. Who in the world is this? I don’t appreciate this kind of behaviour. “I want to speak to the supervisor.” I said.

I can see that the blood drained from his face.

“If you don’t call him, I’ll call the supervisor myself.” I threatened.

He scurried out and came back with Matt the supervisor.

As soon as Matt saw that it was me, his eyes grew wide.

"Mr.miller!"

He turned towards the new waiter and said. “What did you do? This is our boss.”

The waiter now looked as if he would piss right then and there.

“Just tell all the new recruits that I don’t tolerate them flirting or passing inappropriate comments to your customers or their dates. I may overlook a lot of mistakes but if anyone disrespects another in my chain of restaurants I won’t forgive that.” I said sternly.

The supervisor silently nodded and left with the waiter in tow. I didn’t miss the glare he gave the now remorseful waiter.

I looked at Hanna. Her jaw had dropped open.

“What? You have a chain of restaurants?” she said.

“Who exactly are you?” she asked completely astonished.

“I’m Zak Miller. Owner and CEO of Miller group of companies”

Hanna pov

Miller group of companies. Of course. The richest family in our city. This is Zak Miller? I didn’t even try to hide my surprised face.

“You are Miller? The Zak Miller?” I asked stupefied.

He chuckled.

“Wait, that means that Tesla is yours?” I asked again.

He laughed a little. “I can show my mansion. Would you like to see?” I said.

“Mansion? No way. You cannot be in a mansion. No wait you can. You are a Miller. Oh my God.” I exclaimed, suddenly feeling ashamed of the crappy apartment we stayed in.

“I want to show you a lot of things if you will allow me.” He said.

“But why are you telling me this now? Why didn’t you say anything before.” I asked.

“Well, I don’t like to talk about my business. It is a good thing most people don’t recognise me. I try to stay out of media. Now that you are my girlfriend, I want you to know everything.” He explained.

“Come on. I’ll show you. “ he took my hand and led me towards his Tesla. I was shocked. I had made a boyfriend out of the richest man in this city.

We drove around and stopped at a huge mansion that was beautifully lit. “wow.” I said awestruck.

“That is the Miller mansion. Our main one.”

Then he drove off and pointed at a smaller but attractive mansion. “That is my personal one. I like to stay alone and out of drama so I bought one for myself. When I get married I plan to live here with my wife.” He said casually and then looked at me.

A tried to hide a small smile that started to form on my lips as he said wife. Had I found out about all this before we became a thing, I’ll be feeling like a gold digger.

“That looks so expensive.” I said with laugh.

“Anything for my wife” he said looking at me.

“I’m not your wife yet.” I said. “well why don’t you be my wife?”

I laughed. “Zak, we just started dating.”

“Yeah. I hope that you would soon want to upgrade to wife.” He said making me laugh again.

He then took me to Trisha’s apartment. “I’ll see you tomorrow babe.” He said pecking my lips. I smiled. He doesn’t force me to be too close to him. I am impressed that he didn’t ask for a kiss.

“Don’t you want a kiss?” I asked boldly.

He looked as if he didn’t expect that from me. He gulped and looked at my lips. He kept wetting his lips with his tongue.

I smirked. Maybe he needs one. I placed one hand on his cheek as I closed the distance between us. His eyes went going from my eyes to my lips. We were close enough when the door to our apartment swung open. We jumped away from each other. A man of about the same age as Zak came out of the apartment, buttoning his shirt. Behind him, a very flushed Tisha looked at us.

“Diem!” Zak exclaimed. “what are you doing here?” he said.

“Hey Zak my man.” Diem patted friendly on Zak’s back. Then he looked at me and asked. “Who is this?”

“This is my girlfriend Hanna. And Hanna this is Diem my best friend.” Zak introduced.

I smiled at him politely.

“Nice to meet you.” He said before turning to Zak. “Ill be going. See you around.” He mock saluted at Zak and walked away.

“I’ll be in my room ok?” Tisha said before closing the door.

Zak looked troubled. “Is everything ok?” I asked. He frowned and shook his head. “Diem is married. Why was he with Tisha?” Zak shared his concern.

My eyes grew wide. “What? I should tell her.”

“But what are you going to say? That I told you? She won’t believe you.” He tried to reason. He had a point. Maybe we should let her catch him red handed.

Just then my phone dinged. It was a message. I didn’t think twice before opening the message in front of Zak. As soon as I read it, I felt the blood from my face drain. Zak must have noticed the change in my demeanour. “what happened?” he asked. He took my phone from my hand and read the message that I received.

The text message read. I’M WATCHING YOU.