Chapter 948 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“That doesn’t matter to me, Bryan. As long as Sonia is happy, I’m cool,” Celsie assured him.

“Well, since you’re the closest person she has to a family apart from your parents and brother, I wanted to assure you that I love Sonia and will do my best to make her happy for the rest of our lives,” Bryan said and Celsie giggled.

“I’m sure you will. And if you don’t, I trust Sonia to handle you,” Celsie said, and Bryan chuckled.

“Right. I’m also hoping we would both get along better. I mean, it’s not like we don’t get along. I just hope we will have a better relationship since apart from the fact that you’re Benne’s girlfriend, you’re also really important to Sonia. Maybe we could work on being friends?” Bryan asked, and Celsie smiled.

“Sure. Thanks,” Celsie said and they both turned when Jade used a piece of cutlery to tap lightly on her wineglass so she could get everyone’s attention.

“Alright, people! I know that so many of you are jobless here, but tomorrow is a work day and we need to leave here early,” Jade announced.

“That’s my role you’re filling! I’m Bryan’s best friend for crying out loud!” Matt complained loudly making everyone laugh as they took their seats around the table.

“I’m surprised you invited Alicia and Jasmine. I thought you didn’t like them,” Sonia asked as she looked at the couple who were busy capturing photos.

“I don’t dislike them. I just don’t like them nosing into my business. And I invited them because I wanted them to cover the engagement and release the news to the public. I didn’t want to invite any other reporter into our home,” Bryan explained and Sonia nodded.

“That was quite thoughtful of you,” she said with an approving smile.

“You don’t mind us spending the night here, do you?” Bryan asked quietly, and Sonia raised a brow.

“Where? We haven’t set up… Hold on, did you fix our bedroom without my knowledge?” Sonia asked with a glare and Bryan chuckled.

“Only a temporary fix. I wanted us to spend tonight here. It doesn’t change the fact that you’re in charge of fixing up the place. It’s your house after all,” Bryan said, and she relaxed.

“Our home,” Sonia corrected.

“The building is yours. I know you didn’t notice that I bought it in your name. Consider it my engagement gift to you,” Bryan said, and Sonia’s jaw dropped.

“Bryan!” she said softly not knowing what else to say.

“I love you,” Bryan said and raised her hand to his lips.

“That could be us, you know?” Matt whispered to Candace who was seated beside him, when he noticed the smile on her face as she stared at Bryan and Sonia.

“Really?” she asked as she turned her attention to him and Matt nodded.

“Yeah. I know it will be us someday. I’m counting on that,” Matt said and without waiting for her to say a word he deliberately turned away from her to talk to Jeff who was seated beside him.

He wanted her to have it in mind that he was only playing her game with her right now but still had every intention of building something serious with her someday when she was ready. He wasn’t going to let her forget it.

As they all dined together, everyone around the table had different thoughts running through their mind even as they conversed.

While Sonia and Bryan were filled with joy at the prospect of beginning the forever journey with each other, Celsie was joyful on Sonia’s behalf but couldn’t stop thinking about Benne’s question to her.

What would be a dream come true for her? It seemed like with each passing day she was getting more thought-provoking questions that she had no answers to.

Benne who was seated beside her, was wondering how he would propose to Celsie if ever she eventually decided to get married to him. He knew it was risky to have such hopeful thoughts, but he couldn’t help it.

Knowing how private Celsie could be, he doubted that she would want such an engagement party. She would most likely want a quiet proposal with just the both of them.

Benne’s lips twitched as he imagined proposing to her and making love to her after she accepted. He would rather do that himself than sit like this to eat with a bunch of people no matter what their relationship was. They could always dine together on their wedding day, it just didn’t have to be on their engagement hour.

Seated beside Benne, Harry was busy thinking about all that he needed to put in place so he could leave with Jade on their vacation.

It had been such a long time since the last time he had taken a leave from work, and even the while on the so-called leave, he had been busy working but not just from the office.

It didn’t matter that he had traveled to one of the best vacation spot in the world to spend his time away from work. He had almost been drive crazy by the idleness and boredom of not doing anything.

He had no doubt that with Jade it would be easy to laze around and do nothing but give his whole attention to her. Even with his busy schedule right now, she had no problem stealing his attention and thoughts. That had never been a problem with Jade. By simply being in the same space with him, she had his attention.

His lips twitched as his thoughts drifted to the image of her joining him naked in the bathroom the previous day. She was crazy. Crazier than he had thought, and as amusing as it was, it was cute.

Her annoyance at his reaction had actually amused him more even though he had actually thought she was mind-blowingly sexy, if there was such a word to qualify it.

If only she knew the number of women who had tried to seduce him over the years, then she would understand that his self-control was more about himself than it was about her.

Seated beside Harry, Jade was imagining Harry’s proposal to her. Even though she knew she was running ahead of herself she just could not help it.

“How do you intend to propose to me?” Jade asked as she turned to look at Harry and he chuckled.

“When it’s time I will figure it out, and you will know,” Harry said, and she scowled.

Harry leaned closer to her so he could whisper into her ears. “You shouldn’t scowl. You look better, smiling, laughing, blushing, or having an orgasm,” Harry said and Jade gasped in shock as color flooded her face and Harry chuckled as he returned his attention to his meal

Candace looked around the table as she ate and one again she was overwhelmed by the sort of people she had in her life now. Was she daydreaming or was she really a part of this cycle?

A couple of weeks ago she never would have imagined that her life would take such a turn, but thanks to Matt, it had.

If he hadn’t shown up in her life when he did and reunited her with Jade, she would probably still be in hiding by now or maybe something worse could have happened to her, after all Cassidy and Jero had managed to find them.

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