Married to the loveless CEO-Chapter 88: Invitation

Fi stared intensly at Logan who gazed back. Fi’s eyes began to travel downwards then back up. He looked dishevelled and he didn’t have his shoes on.

Did he spend the night here?

He decided to come see Sentencia since he was done with the major deal that preoccupied him and he had to come face to face with Logan in front of her door.

Fi gritted his teeth at him, "I should have known that you weren’t a man of your words or did you forget? Last I recall, you were to stay away from her,"

"I...I will. But I really don’t have any explanation to give to you right now," Logan glared at him and Fi returned the glare.

"I really don’t know what you guys are talking about," Sentencia butted in.

"Fi, Hi. But I am the only one who has the right to decide who should stay away from me," she added.

Fi’s eyes went to meet hers. She hasn’t seen him for a while.

"Why don’t we all just have breakfast together?" Sentencia suggested.

"Logan, there’s a restroom on this floor, just go straight then towards your left, you will see it- It’s not too hard to find. You may watch your face there and join us. Fi? Help me in setting the table," she added, not giving the men the chance to refuse.

Soon, they all sat on the dining table and ate breakfast. The men didn’t miss this chance to glare at each other. Cia could feel cold sweats because of the tension at the dining table.

She regrets this on a second thought, she then tried to start up random conversations at every opportunity.

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Olivia held the invitation card of the bookstore’s upcoming auction event as she walked towards Leo’s study.

Laura had mentioned that Olivia could invite anyone to grace the auction- So Olivia was thinking of also inviting Leo. It would check out one thing from her list if he agrees.

{7. Invite him to go to an event with you- N.B~Any event at all}

Though she has been to an event with Leo before but that was before her list and he was the one that made her go.

She got there and knocked because he was in the study with Zane as they were working on something. The door opened and Zane came into view.

"Ah, Olivia. Come in," he welcomed her.

She walked in and spotted Leo seated on an arm chair facing his laptop, he didn’t even spare her a glance.

"I didn’t mean to disturb you. I just wanted to drop something off," she started.

"It’s okay, Olivia," Zane was the one who replied.

"Zane how about increasing the durability of the products?" Leo continued with work.

"That would be fine but I don’t think it will help much with the situation," Zane replied.

"Uhm, are you guys referring to the new H-bots released by Yul’s tech sector?" Olivia couldn’t help but butt in.

"Yes, the decline of the demands for the products is quite alarming and it’s due to the various complaints," Zane responded.

"Uhm, well, I did some little research on the products. The critic reviews concerning the products are mostly based on same concepts.

"If it will help, why don’t you guys just work on making the H-bots more lighter and portable. And also reducing the price of the products to make it more affordable to everyone especially to the teens which seems to be the highest patronizers," Olivia elaborated.

"Well, we can’t just possibly do that. Our products are all made with quality materials which also needs great expertise and all these costs money," Leo finally spoke. Olivia huffed, of course it was to contradict her but she wasn’t giving up just yet.

She came prepared, also because it was part of her list too. {8. Help him out with work, or at least, help to relieve him from his stress of work}

"Then you still need to maintain the quality but what about offering a discount to attract more customers then?" she suggested.

"Wow, Olivia. I never knew you could be good at this, you should work for us," Zane teased. One of Leo’s brows raised up, he just couldn’t tell if this was her trying to help or part of her scheme to penetrate his company.

But all Olivia wants is to help, even apart from it being part of her list.

"We’ll put all these into consideration at the meetings with our production and marketing teams. Right Leo?" Zane continued.

Leo didn’t respond but Zane could tell he was considering the ideas. Leo finally stood up from the arm chair to get a drink from the whiskey bottles in the study.

"Why did you really come here Olivia?" he asked.

"Uhm, I just wanted to inform you that I will be going outside town for a book auction tomorrow with my superiors," she answered.

"Apart from concerning the baby, you really don’t have to inform me about everything going on in your life," he sipped from his drink.

She walked closer to him, "I also wanted to invite you to a book auction Mrs Laura will be hosting soon. This is the invitation,"

His eyes glanced at it, "Drop it over there," he nudged his head towards the table.

"Meaning you will attend? You will go?" she beamed, she didn’t give him the luxury to respond or to even try to refuse. Her arms wrapped around him as she hugs him not expecting him to hug her back.

She had been bracing herself just in case he had turned it down but he didn’t.

Leo wanted to say that ’telling her to drop the invitation on the table didn’t mean he was agreeing to go and even if he will, it will be because of Mrs Laura,’ but her one innocent and impulsive move to hug him suddenly, took the words out of his mouth.

He was so stiff once again not knowing how to react to this.

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