Rose immediately took the opportunity to invite Brian to sit down in the nearby rest area and have a good talk. They walked side by side.
She had no idea that a pair of angry eyes was staring closely at her and Brian, Joseph almost crushing the cup in her hand.
The person next to him was shaken by Joseph's coldness and asked carefully, "Joseph, are you all right?"
Joseph pulls back his eyes from Rose, his face was back in its indifferent mask, and he replies, "Of course I am."
Rose brought out the contract and pen, and talked to Brian almost according to the requirements of the contract. He bent slightly and put his arm on the glass coffee table as he listened to her. Brian's eyes tilted and he looked at her neckline.
The longer he was looking at her, the more, he felt himself getting aroused by her.
"Brian, I'm done." Rose straightened up, stretched out her hand and pulled the hair falling on her face behind her ear. Her delicate and charming face became even more charming when she smiled at him. "If you think there is something wrong or you want to change something, you can say it. I can go back and talk to the boss."
Brian picks up the contract and looks through it, nodding as if it was good meanwhile his mind was elsewhere. Mostly on how he can get Rose to accept him as a suitor.
He nodded. "The conditions offered by M&R are really good, but you are almost bankrupt now. It is very risky to cooperate with you."
"You don't have to worry, M&R will never close down." Rose smiled, she was confident in that fact, not just because of the company prospect but also because Joseph was at the helm of activities, she had that much faith in her ex-husband.
"M&R has now been taken over by Joseph Woods and I believe you know that Joseph's ability will definitely make M&R surpass even Diamond Pictures in the future!"
Brian paused and joked, "You have confidence in your president."
"It's Joseph's ability. Everyone in our company believes in the ability of the president. As his chief secretary, I naturally believe in his ability more than others."
"Rose, you are a hardworking person, and Joseph have a good assistant in you." Brian said cheerfully, calling the waiter and asking him to bring some platters of food.
After three trays with different food selection were brought over, Brian pointed at them, but his eyes remained on Rose.
"As soon as you can finish these dishes, I will sign the contract." Brian smiled at Rose, he actually thought with the way she was slender, she was very careful of what she eats so she would not eat and then he could take the option he gave her in some other direction.
Rose's eyebrows were slightly wrinkled and that was the only sign of her unhappiness at the situation.
Brian has looking for a good contract for some time, but was he going to withhold signing the contract and force her to over eat before signing it? She didn’t like it but she was desperate.
When Rose didn't talk, Brian sighed and smiled apologetically. "Rose, it is fine if you cannot eat, you act more like my models than someone who is to manage them, how am I supposed to trust you to be firm with their diets and ensuring they eat if you yourself don’t? It has been almost twenty minutes. I have other things to do so I will leave first."
"No! Don’t go, I will eat." Biting her lip, Rose rushed her words out before she then picked up the plate closest to her. The food were some of her favorites and while she could eat that much, she just had a rule against eating in public. She wasn’t scared that she wouldn’t be able to finish the food.
In front of Brian, Rose polished off one dish after another. The scene of her stuffing her mouth especially in a hurry as if she was starving made everyone in the party to look at her in confusion, wondering if she woman was crazy, poor or just lack the normal societal code of conduct.
Even Joseph, who stood in the corner, frowned slightly as he looked at Rose.
In less than half an hour, Rose finished all the food.
In addition to a satisfied look on her face, she was not looking like she was on the verge of vomiting, she handed Brian the contract and pen. "I have eaten everything, it is now your turn Mr. Brian to keep up your own part of the agreement and sign the contract."
Brian's face changed slightly, as if he didn't expect the woman to go along with his request and then excel at it.
But Rose was right, an agreement was an agreement, he could only sign the contract helplessly.
When he finished signing, Brian shifted closer to Rose, wanting to say something in her ears when a tall figure suddenly stood in his front. He looked up to see Joseph Woods, Rose boss who was not wearing a friendly look on his face.
"Brian, long time no see."
Joseph's low voice made Rose body to tremble. She lowered her head, put away the contract in her bag. When she got up, she stumbled a little and then left in a hurry.
Seeing Rose leave, Brian was disappointed. He stood up from the sofa, raised his glass to Joseph and smiled, "Joseph, you have found a good secretary. She is beautiful and eloquent. I hope that we will have a happy cooperation in the future!"
"We will not cooperate." Joseph said indifferently while shrugging as if he couldn’t care less about the millions of dollars that would come from the cooperation.
Brian frowned and then forced to smile, this was Joseph Woods, he needs to be careful. He was one of the untouchables in the business world. "But your secretary just signed a contract with us at Lewis."
Joseph chuckled softly, took an oppressive step towards Brian and whispered in his ear "Not only M&R, but Woods Group as a whole will end all contracts with Lewis, the ones which we have now and planned for the future."
Joseph turned to leave and then paused after he had taken two steps. "By the way, that was my wife, only I can try and woo her, whoever tries it, will have me to contend with."
After this, Joseph left a confused man behind as he tried to understand Joseph words. No, he must have misheard him. Joseph was not married!
...
Rose has been putting up a brave face in front of Brian. When she left Brian, she ran to the bathroom, kneeled by the toilet and threw up.
After vomiting and hanging on to the toilet seat for some time, she still felt uncomfortable. Her whole body shook slightly as she held on to the wall with the tiny strength she had and tried to wash her face and mouth.
"Well, I ate too much..."
Rose pushed her hair out of the way, her eyes felt blurred, and she tried to walk to the door in vain. Her high heels were unstable and her body tilted to the side.
A big hand leaned over to land on her waist firmly.
"Hmm?"
Rose looked only to see her baby's face, magnified in front of her.
She reached out and pinched his face. "Baby, Mommy was gone for only one evening and you look so big!"
Joseph twisted his eyebrows. Did Rose think of he was her son? Was she delirious? He knew that her senses usually used to leave her anytime she vomited and after all she had ate, she would have vomited.
"Well, baby, why are you so much taller than me?" Rose muttered, her slender hands clasping his lean waist.
A pair of plump breasts brushed against Joseph's chest through her thin clothes, he couldn’t help but his eyes suddenly sank to where they had contact, his gaze darkened.
He turned and pressed Rose against the door panel and raised her face with his fingers on her chin. "Rose, look at me!"
"Who?" Rose looks up, she studied the man in front of her with her beautiful eyes, then laughed as she pulled his neck down towards her. "You are the annoying Joseph... aren't you?"
When he heard this, Joseph's eyes narrowed, while Rose kept muttering 'That annoying Joseph' repeatedly.
He couldn’t help himself about what happened next, just like it has always been with Rose, his defenses were down, they were destroyed, both by her and by his own mind. He couldn’t fight it anymore, h lowered his lips on her and kissed her.
Her lips are soft and gently even as she tangled her tongue with his and the kiss grew heated.
Joseph was dazed for a moment, his body pressed hers between the wall and himself, his hand supported the back of her head as he breathed heavily, Rose had kissed him like she was still in love with him. It was nothing like the other day in the car.
Joseph hugged Rose as his mind went to the fact that she still loved him, she couldn’t deny it after a kiss like that. Although she couldn’t walk steadily, with his arm around her waist, they left early, he drove them to his residence, his own separate house in the Woods estate.
They kissed from the living room to the bedroom, dropping their clothes as they went...