Twenty-eight

My phone buzzed with a communication from a new number. I was spooked to open it because I didn't want my mood to be ruined but I was curious to see what it said so I opened it.

-Hey Ellen this is Cole, are you going to make it?

. Another was from Edith which read

-I've no idea what's going on with you but please come to the moment's event and we can talk about it latterly.

“ Are you alright?” Dylan asked noticing i had been looking at my phone

“ Yes, it's my master and Edith checking up to see if I'll make it for a moment.”

Dylan reached for my hand and held it in is

“ Everything will be fine.” He smiled.

The hack made it before it was 910o'clock and I was still upset I might not be suitable to carry out my duties because I would be late.

“ So you carry on with your work, I'll just be around looking an eye for anything dubitation and will talk with Steph,” Dylan said before I got out of the auto.

“ Please be safe,” I said seesawing at him. I snappily rushed to find my way to Cole.

I decided to ask him if he was or if he could come up to where I was if his meeting hadn't started.

- Where are you?

He was quick with his reply and a communication popped up on my screen

-In the hall, just come in I'll be by the door area

. So I decided to walk into the hall. The structure was altitudinous, it looked ancient like utmost of the structures in New York. There were a lot of buses, people everyplace, and cameramen from different media houses trying to all cover as important content as they could for the day.

Entering the hall felt like I was in a movie as there were shooters and press people everyplace.

I could feel myself getting overwhelmed by all the people, all the cameras flashing."I am gonna get eyeless with all these lights coming from those stupid cameras! "I rumored in a low tone only I could hear amidst all the crowding that was passing.

"Ms.Miller!"I heard a familiar voice call for me. I tried looking back to see if it was someone I knew but saw the faces of men and women I didn't know.

Also I looked to where I was trying to go and recognized Cole's face. He was standing despite the people who were storming around him like notions ."I am glad you made it."He said, beaming

.He took my right hand and kissed the reverse of it. I didn't know what he was trying to get at for doing that looking at the fact that he was my master, I was his particular adjunct and we were in a public place. Cole was dressed in a cortege blue suit. He held my hand in his and I followed him out of the crowd to a hallway quieter with lower people.

“ The meeting is this way Ms . Miller, don't be scarified.” He said but I just still followed behind him soliciting that the day would end well.

We made our way to a large rustic door which Cole pushed open. The way the place looked reminded me of how palaces were shown in pictures and cartoons.

We walked into the room and to my surprise, there were two men each of them having a woman standing by his side. The men had what looked like black tablets.

“ This isn't a date Elle, the women are the men's particular sidekicks.” Cole rumored in my observance.

“ I didn't bring myself a table like them.” I rumored back at him

“ Don't worry, I brought one for you.”

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The first man was altitudinous and slim and was bald-headed. He wore a slate suit with a black tie over it. The lady to his side, his particular adjunct as Cole's side was were a burned flowy dress that covered her knees. She had tried her hair in a bun and had a really serious look plastered over her face. The alternate man also wore a slate suit but he'd a pooching belly, a beard that was slate. He held a glass of what looked to be wine in his left hand. The girl to his right had a black dress on, it black and didn't touch her body. It reached her knees and she wore black satin gloves over it. I also observed that two girls were in black heels.

“ Gentlemen, please shall we begin?” The short man asked while lifting his glass mug of wine.

“ Yes, of course, gentlemen sorry for making your stay but I would love for you to meet Ms.Miller, my particular adjunct.” Cole smiled at me and I tried to look back at the four people looking at me but plant my eyes looking down. This was inviting. Who has a meeting in a big burro room with no conference table, no chairpersons, and no whiteboard to put down points?

“ I'm Mr. Gonzalez, this is Ms.patt, my particular adjunct.” The short man with the big belly said. So this was Mr. Gonzalez whose name I saw on some of the lines Cole had given to me.

“ I'm Mr. Wolfbrown and this is Ms. Kate. As the name might suggest, I'm a dangerous man.” He sounded to be a serious man for sure and so was his serious-faced particular adjunct.

These people were damn weird and I was looking forward to leaving the room.

"I am just going to get the commodity to drink," Ms. Patt said.

"What do you want, beautiful?"Mr.Gonzalez asked, leaning into her observance. Also, she handed her his mug of wine which she finished in one quaff. I stammered back a bit, hitting Cole's shoulder. He turned to look at me and I smiled nervously at him. Inwardly, I was screaming at him for us to leave. I was screaming at him wondering who these weird-faced people were and what deal he was throwing on them.

There was an awkward silence as Cole and I just googled at the men and the two men while they inversely did the same.

“ There's a spot nearly in the Middle East, Africa.” The altitudinous man said. What the hell were they talking about?

“ How do we get a hold of the canvas? Any possible connections?” Cole fried them with a question.

“ We just make our way their youthful man, like we always have.” The short man laughed and the two particular sidekicks sounded to understand this and began to take down notes. I just stood there, watching the men while they also looked back at me. The whole setup and the vibe felt like some weird burro original form that I saw in many pictures and I just wanted to get out alive and whole.

******

We walked out of the room with Cole and left the four creepy people we had met.

“ What in the world was that?” I asked as we walked down the hall.

“ It was a sexy meeting.” he smiled. He'd better be joking because i was spooked as fuck for my own dear life while standing in there for like fifteen minutes

“ I was spooked we'd not walk out of that place alive.” I took in deep breaths to calm my nervous

“ I'm sorry it was uncomfortable for you Ms.Miller.” He said stopping in his tracks. I didn't want to get close to him for any reason. For all knew, Steph was around the corner.

“ What the hell were you doing with Dylan?” He asked to walk towards me.

“ How did you know I was with him?”

“ I saw you walk out of the same hack as him, I've eyes everyplace Ellen.” The last part spooked me, what the hell did he mean by that.

“ What do you, Cole?”

“ I don't know perhaps some joe who had a one-night stand with me and kept going back to.”

That was it, I didn't want to keep on with this discussion so I turned to walk down from him but he seized me by my left arm and pulled me back. He'd used so important force I was sure my hand was bruised from his action.

“ You can tell me the verity,” he said now, sounding further calm. I was scarifying i didn't want Cole to know about everything passing neither did i want him to know about me having coitus with Dylan.

“ He's just a friend, helping me out on a …”

. “ Ellen, what's going on then?” I saw Mark standing where we were in a black three-piece suit and a clean, neat hairstyle.

“ Mark!” My jaw dropped at how everything was passing presto. I hadn't heard him walk to where Cole and I were standing. My mind wondered if he heard what Cole had said about me having coitus with Dylan as one of the former guys i had hooked up with.

Cole released my hand and stepped back from where I was standing.

“ Mark, I, I “

. “ What are you doing with your master each alone then, far from everyone differently?” I tasted the disappointment in his voice. He was criminating me of cheating on him in broad daylight which he was veritably much right on.

“ Excuse Mark? What do you suppose I was doing?” I threw the question back at him. I knew one-day effects could conceivably back fair to me, but I didn't want it to be like that. I saw how it had hurt Dylan after he plants out about Cole. I could only imagine how Mark and Cole himself were going to feel if they plant out about each other. I was willing to do everything in my power to cover them from this, I had to.

“ I feel like I don't indeed know you, who the hell are you?” Mark yelled. After a whole time and he didn't know me? He didn't know the person he called his gal? He didn't know the person he introduced to his family? He did know the person he professed love to? The fuck with this life!

“ Mark, hear man, Ms.Miller and I were just talking it isn't what it looked like.” Cole chimed in walking towards Mark. The worst could be at this point, Mark could get angry and punch Cole also Cole would fight back. I would scream for them to stop without any strength to pull two well-abled men piecemeal from killing each other. Also, I imagined all the people with their cameras coming over to not only watch but to retake everything that was passing.

Mark jounced his head looking at Cole also looked at me. I saw the hurt in him as all studies ran in his mind, I could only imagine how hurt he felt. He also turned around and walked down.

Cole turned to look at me as well, he didn't say anything but walked off as well.