DON’S YEARN

“Everything is ready boss” Massimo said to Jacob reassuringly, his masculine voice echoing in the almost empty room.

“Have you checked that there is no other person in this restaurant that might interrupt us?” Jacob asked, facing  his new personal bodyguard.

“Yes sir, I have and news reaching me is that she just arrived and should join you soon.” Massimo placed two fingers on the device on his ear to get proper reception of the communication from the guards upfront.

“That is quite fast! She is being freaking official even when I made it clear this isn't a formal date.

Ten minutes extra wouldn't hurt anyone, Viviana” Jacob said out loud as he patted his hair to final perfection, touched his suit for the millionth time and looked around for anything that could be out of place.

He noticed a vase with flowers and he decided that its location wasn't normal.

As he tried to rearrange it, the unmistakable sound of heels clicking drew near. It distracted him as he knew who it was and the vase in his hold,  fell off his hands.

Being super alert, Massimo caught it a few seconds before it could hit the polished tiles.

A sweet voice filled the ambience as the lady thanked the doorman for opening the door for her. “Thank you.”

She was in a black dress that was a little distant from her knees and possessed no sleeves. The dress hugged her body, showcasing her neutral and natural curves.

Her jet black hair was gelled in a slick fashion and styled in a perfect high ponytail, her lips glossed a light red. Her neck spotted a tiny silver necklace with a tear-drop pendant and her silver heels with red bottoms matched her small chic silver purse.

Two men stood by the table she walked towards.

One of them is her boss, the main reason she is dressed up. He had emphatically pleaded on her choice of dress, even offering to get her a dress for a lunch date she termed as ‘randomly common’. Not that she would tell him.

She really didn't want to be with him but her best friend endeavoured to make sure she showed up.

The second of the two men is one who knows her…knows her almost too well and has turned the earth upside down in search of her. It has been five years, four months and six days.

The world seemed to be moving in slow motion as she kept her casual smile on and strutted towards the table.

Massimo could not believe his eyes were on her…his Viviana.

He thought he had lost her for good but here she was coming towards him…but not to him.

She wasn't the nineteen year old he had fallen in love with then. Now she looked everything gracious… beautiful, breathtaking.

Though her brown sparkly orbs still twinkled and her brightening smile still stayed unfazed, it was clear that she is almost like a different person in the way she carried herself.

The vase he had caught slipped as her name, fell from his lips softly.

”Viviana”

Jacob and Viviana's eyes that were about to meet turned to him immediately due to the noise from the breaking vase.

Jacob's face quickly turned into a mask of anger while hers filled with surprise at the sudden noise.

The only sound that was available some seconds ago was the soft music that a band at the farthest corner of the room played.

“What do you think you are doing?” Jacob's voice boomed and resonated within the walls of the hall.

He shouted for two reasons.

The minor reason was because the noise had taken Viviana's eyes from him and the other reason was to impress Viviana.

Massimo’s nostrils flared under the facial morphing synthetic mask he is wearing. This mask was created to alter his true facial identity and disguise him to look like Massimo, Jacob‘s contracted bodyguard. In truth, he is someone else.

He like torturing the person he had to address as his boss for shouting at him and majorly for having anything to do with someone like Viviana. Three vivid ways of making the shards on the floor have an unrecoverable impact on Jacob Bianchi's life flashed in his mind but he reined himself in. He had to.

Though he possesses the power and authority to make every Bianchi crawl on their knees, he is presently on a mission to acquire something very important and one mistake could shatter all the hard work and painstaking, excruciating sacrifices it took to get to where he is.

‘No, not now. You cannot act now.’ He reminded himself.

Quickly bowing his head slightly he said, “I'm sorry boss, I'll have this taken care of”.

Jacob scoffed as he shoved his hands into his pockets, his lips set in a warning straight line. Then he walked to Viviana who was already by the table.

Viviana wanted to roll her eyes at his gimmicks.

He had ordered one of his newly gotten Mercedes to come pick her. He had rented a seven star world class restaurant for the whole day and hired The Santiago Brothers - the highest paid band players in this part of the world. But she was not intrigued in the least and instead, she was already longing for the comfort of her bed, the same one which she just stood up from very few moments ago.

‘Here we go ’ She thought as she smiled harder at Jacob. But she also noticed that Jacob’s new bodyguard who was standing a few steps away and speaking to one of the staff members of the restaurant,  had his eyes on her.

His eyes were fixed, like they were imprinting on her skin. She blinked before she turned her focus on her date.