Chapter 2 He is my Ex
After kissing him passionately she turned back towards Essa and then acted as if she was embarrassed by her recent action and came back to her seat.
She stuttered "Oh I'm so sorry I was just, er actually he is my ex boyfriend and I, I - I just forgot myself. I’ve tried so hard to forget him but every time I see him I lose myself-control. After our breakup I went on so many blind dates but now I'm thinking that this may be my last date, because you are quite similar to him and I can forget about him with you"
While Liza was struggling to say this Essa interrupted her in mid sentence.
"Look I'm sorry to interrupt you but this isn't
working out and I have a meeting to prepare for, so I think it best if I go now"
As he stood up from his seat and before leaving he said firmly, “I do not think we will be arranging another meeting between us"
The tone of his voice and his body language spoke louder than his words. It said how can I be second best for a girl, after all I am so handsome and rich. He shook his head and left.
Looking at this figure as he stomped away, she burst out laughing “Haha I’ve just put him right off. Good because otherwise it could have been difficult to tell him I did not want to see him again without causing offence. This way I've saved myself any embarrassing explanations.
As she was congratulating herself on the success of her plan, her eyes fell on the man who she’d kissed just now. He was
staring at her coldly. There was another man sitting beside him. She walked over to them.
Putting on her best smile Liza said "Hey, I’m so sorry for what I did just now but as you may have seen, I was just trying to get away from that awful man. I’m so so sorry if I offended you."
Liza turned back without waiting for his response. Actually she was a bit intimidated by his cold unsmiling look. As she was leaving the restaurant, her gaze fell on the figure of Julie who was crossing the road
"Hey Julie.." Liza waved at her.
Julie came to Liza and said "Hey what are you doing here. You should be with your man. Didn't you guys have a Date?"
Liza told her. "Ahh, we were having a good time but his boss called him and he had to go.
“These bosses - what do they think?. They assume that they can call people at anytime bastards."
Liza laughed and said " Yeah you are right these managers nowadays are always like that."
"But why did he go so soon. How can your date be over so soon?" Asked Julie.
"Don't you know who that was?" Liza said, raising her eyebrows and laughing.
"What do you mean?" Asked Julie
"Don't say that you didn't know Who that person was that you set me up with?" Liza continued.
"Was he really ugly?” Julie said twisting her face. “I’m sorry I really didn't know anything about him. - One of my friends suggested him to me so I just set up the date. I didn't check on him" She apologized.
"Oh he was not ugly, in fact he was very handsome" Liza sighed.
"Then why are you pulling such a funny face. Tell me what happened then?” Asked Julie.
"I found out that he was David Essa, the CEO of the ELITE clothing group" Liza said nonchalantly.
"Er What - Really??" Julie was shocked.
Liza raised her eyebrows and said "As you know I have a personal rule that I will never date a rich man. I could never trust them. In fact I basically just hate rich people. In general, and he was a prick”
“I just wanna simple average man in my life- and yes of course he should be handsome too" Liza said and winked at Julie.
Julie sighed and they took a taxi to the Apartment they shared.
They didn't notice that someone had been watching them and listening to them
