The Hot Mom

CHAPTER 9

Damien’s POV—

Neil kept looking at his watch every 15 mins post lunch. I have never seen him so restless. What am I missing?

“ Hey Boss! Have an appointment today?” I asked him straight with a slight smirk while he was busy on his laptop.

He looked up at me and said trying to hide his smile, “ Yeah, there is an invitation over Tea which I have to attend.”

He handed over a pendrive to me while getting up from his chair and took his coat and said, “ Please check on the test model details once again. We are launching it on January 20th. We have only a month now.”.

“ Okay, that will be done and I will prepare my report by EOD.” I said taking the pendrive.

“ Good. Well, I will leave now, call me after 8 if anything you need to know.” Saying this he left the office.

It was strange for Neil to behave like this. He is always so serious about work that I don’t remember him setting a timeline for important calls. He precisely meant not to be disturbed till 8 pm. What is so important about a Tea invitation, I wondered.

Neilson’s POV

It is ‘the’ Saturday, today and I drove out of my Office, after giving instructions about work to Damien. I didn’t take Steve with me this time. It is just 5 pm now and it will take hardly 40 minutes to reach the Lancers, which means that I will reach 20 minutes early. Usually I don’t leave office before 6.30 pm, even on a Saturday, but this Saturday is different. I thought to take something for the Lancers and specially Jul. I smiled to myself thinking of the nickname I have already given to her. I went to the florist at the corner of the square. Nishan’s flower boutique it was named. It is the best in the town and I always purchase flowers from him whenever I need to. I parked my car in front of his shop and went inside. Nishan was attending another customer, when he saw me, he asked another girl to attend the customer and walked towards me with a wide grin. I hugged him once he was near.

“Good afternoon Mr. Luna, after a long time.” He said.

“ Yeah.. didn’t need flowers recently. However I will need quite a lot for my sister’s Birthday party. I actually need you to take care of the floral decoration on her big day.” I told him.

“ Oh sure ! Thanks for giving me an opportunity to serve you again.” He said with a brotherly smile. “When is the date? I will just take a note of that.” He said quickly taking out a pen and a diary from the drawer of the Cash Counter.

“It is on 15th January.” I said while he noted down the date in his diary.

“ Also, there will be a launch on 20th January, basically our new test model. You need to take care of that as well. I will ask Tom, my secretary, to get in touch with you and brief you about both the events. He will process the advance as well.”

“ Oh No, you please don’t worry about the advance, p*****t by your company has always been in time. So am not worried at all.” He paused and then looked at me, “ May I help you with some flowers today?”

“ Yes, I need a special bouquet for one of my close acquaintance whose family had invited me for Tea. And also, ummm… a single rose, may be white?” I briefed him.

“ Is the friend a male or a female, and of what age?” Nishan enquired seriously.

“ He is around 48 or 50 and stays with his wife and daughter.” Nishan looked around after taking in the informations I provided. Then he gave a satisfied look and requested me to wait for 10 mins so that he can get the bouquet prepared.

I thought to take some chocolates and cookies from the adjacent bakery so I left the shop and went to the bakery just beside the florist.

I took some chocolates and cookies which were the best available and returned to Nishan’s. Once I returned, the bouquet was ready and he asked one boy to place it in my car nicely.

I took out my card to pay him but he refused. “ Please take this as compliment from us, for our long association.” I had to give up since he insisted hard. I thought I will add it to the Company p*****t later.

I thanked him and left the shop. After I was out of the shop, a sudden thought crossed my mind.

“What if I send her flowers? Flowers are always best to express feelings. There is hardly a girl who don’t like flowers. But what flower would she like? Will it be good to send her flowers in the Lancers Villa? How will she take the idea?” I pondered on these points for a minute and dropped the idea for now.

I got on the car, fastened my seatbelt and looked at my watch. It is just 5.50 pm and I will take another 10 minutes to reach the Lancers.

Damien’s POV—

I looked at the details of the test model on the pendrive and took notes. I have to check every small detail right from the engine, electricals, tyre, the lab reports and then there is an entire event to be planned and detailed to Tom, who will deal with the event organisers. I was engrossed in my work when the phone on Neil’s desk rang. I looked at the screen and it read Nishan’s Flower boutique.

I took the call, “ Hello !”

“ Yeah Hi! Am Nishan calling from Nishan’s Flower Boutique. May I speak to Mr. Luna please?” A male voice spoke.

“ Am sorry, Mr. Luna is right now not available. Is there something you need me to convey? I am Damien by the way his personal assistant.”

 “Actually Mr. Luna has forgotten to take the white rose when he took the bouquet from my shop few minutes back, so I called to apologise. It was completely my mistake and I should have reminded him. Will you kindly convey my apologies to him please? I tried to call him but my call didn’t get through.” The voice said pleading.

“ Oh Sure! Don’t worry. I am sure he will understand.” I replied.

“ Thank you and I promise I will make it up to him shortly. Thanks again.” He disconnected the call after thanking me again.

I sat back on my chair now speaking to myself, “ Interesting!”