Cinderella And Her Beautiful Octuplets

Chapter 197

“Come in,” Brandon, whose attention was on the files on his table, said without raising his head and Isabella walked in.

“Hey, Brandon” Isabella muttered and Brandon sighed the moment he heard her voice. He raised his head and stared at her face which was plastered with lots of makeup.

“Hey, you didn’t tell me you were coming,” Brandon said and she smiled while trying to adjust her dress making herself almost naked but Brandon was not even paying attention to whatever she was wearing or doing.

He kept staring at her face which was looking funny from the makeup, he had wanted to laugh but he quickly held himself from laughing at her. Her face looked so funny from the make up.

“I tried calling you but you weren’t picking up, I heard about your father, I’m so sorry for your loss,” Isabella said as she moved closer to Brandon’s table.

Brandon sighed wondering how she heard about it but then he wasn’t surprised, news flies faster here in Atlanta.

“Thank you, what are you doing here?” Brandon asked and she rolled her eyes.

“Brandon, I know you and your father didn’t have a good relationship in the past and his death must have been traumatizing and I can’t begin to imagine how you feel right now, I’m so sorry,” Isabella said and Brandon placed his hands on his forehead.

He was already tired from her endless talk. He raised his head and suddenly he saw Isabella standing beside him.

It was then he noticed what she was wearing and how she was almost naked. She tried touching him but he held her hands and pulled them away then stood up.

He felt irritated with the way she was dressed.

“What do you think you are trying to do Isabella? You should go home and put on something decent. This doesn’t look good, on you” Brandon said in a brotherly tone and was about to walk past her when the lady suddenly hugged him from behind resting her make-up-filled face on his back which stained his dress without him noticing.

“Isabella….” He paused when the door opened revealing his secretary.

“Oh my god, I’m so sorry sir, I should have knocked, I didn’t mean to interrupt you, sir, I would come back,” His secretary said with his head bowed and was about to walk out when Brandon called him making him stop.

“Isabella, I have work to do, you should leave, I will call you when I’m less busy,” he said to Isabella who quickly pulled away from the hug with a frown on her face. She hated the fact that the secretary walked in.

She nodded and shot the secretary a deadly glare before walking out of the office.

The moment she walked out the frown on her face deepened. She stared at her dress and wondered if Brandon didn’t find her attractive at all.

“For goodness sake, I’m pretty and prettier than his god-forsaken wife but he wouldn’t even see me. Whatever move I try to make on him just doesn’t work, I’m I not good enough” she thought with a sad and angry look on her face.

Just then her phone rang, it was a call from her best friend.

“I’m on my way,” she said as she answered the phone call and hung up immediately, and then she left the company.

Meanwhile, Brandon, who was done attending to the secretary who had just left, sighed and continued the work he was doing before Isabella walked in.

He wondered what Isabella was trying to do with all of this. Brandon wasn’t the kind of man who gets attracted to any kind of woman.

All he’s always thought about was work work work and any random woman cannot get his attention, there was only one woman he’s been attracted to all his life and it was Hannah and nobody else.

He was so focused on his work and didn’t notice his phone was ringing and it was Hannah calling.

Meanwhile, Hannah is seen in her room trying to call Brandon but he isn’t picking up. She had gone to his study room and he wasn’t there and had asked the maid and they said he had left the house earlier on.

She wondered why he wasn’t answering his phone call, maybe he was in a meeting. She had wanted to tell him to help her get some fruits from the store downtown but now she had to go get them herself, she thought as she moved towards the wardrobe and changed her clothes.Copyright by Nôv/elDrama.Org.

She walked out of the room and went downstairs where she met Arianna sitting on the couch sipping coffee, looking lost.

“Mom” Hannah called but there was no response.

“Mom, are you alright?” She asked and tapped her and she jolted out of her thoughts at once.

“Hey,” Arianna muttered as she forced herself to smile.

“Mom, is everything alright? You looked lost just now. What’s wrong? What are you thinking about?” Hannah asked and Arianna smiled.

“I’m fine honey, I promise I am fine” Arianna insisted and Hannah sighed softly. She knows Arianna was lying to her and she wouldn’t say anything to her, because she would say she doesn’t want her to worry about her.

Even if she tried to pressure her, she wouldn’t say a word to her.

“Mom, whatever it is, it’s gonna be fine alright, everything is going to be alright,” Hannah said and Arianna smiled as she stared at her innocent face.

“You won’t understand my child, nothing is fine, nothing is gonna be fine,” she thought while smiling.

Hannah then stood up.

“I’m going to the grocery store to get some fruits, I will be back soon,” Hannah said and Arianna nodded.

She smiled at her before walking out of her house. She hopped in the car and zoomed off.

The moment she got to the grocery store, she alighted the car and walked in. She bought the fruits and other minor things needed at home and walked out of the store holding a nylon filled with the things she bought.

She had walked towards her car while operating her phone when she collided with someone making the nylon in her hand fall and tore. Everything she bought was on the ground..

“Shit!” She muttered as she bent and started picking them from the ground.

“Oh my goodness! I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to, it was a mistake ” a male voice spoke and Hannah raised her head and stared at the young man who had collided with her and was apologizing.

She stared at the young man for a few seconds as the sense of familiarity washed through her, she’s seen him before but couldn’t remember where she had seen him.

TBC