in the morning. He'll come straight to the head office."
"Ok, well we'll be there."
"I'll ask you nicely that you stay close to that man and try and help him with anything he needs."
"Of course." She agreed immediately.
"I really think that this won't be as bad as you thought it would be." He said, hoping that she would tell him once again that she will support him no matter what.
"Maybe I overreacted a bit." She said with a sly smile.
"A bit." He showed with fingers.
They both laughed in unison.
Chapter 6
William drove Nathan to the airport. The booked the cards, gave the attendants his baggage and decided to go to a nearby cafe and have some tea; since his flight wouldn't be for another hour.
"You never told me anything about Marie." William asked out of nowhere.
"I don't know much about her myself." He answered, a bit shook at the sudden question. "She's weird, hot headed, and confident." He tried to describe her as the image of her smiling face appeared in his mind. "Sometimes she's childish and unpredictable."
"Pretty?"
"Very. The first time I came to Texas for work, the people in her company often told me that she was the prettiest woman that they'd ever seen." He said with a smile as he remembered the look on his face the very first time he had seen her.
"I met her a week after I began working there, when I visited one of their larger farms. At that time, I didn't even know that it was her, O'Conner's daughter."
"The prettiest woman they have ever seen." William repeated.
"They never really mentioned that to her face, just to each other really because she hated being called that. I don't really know why, maybe she was self-conscious about being in the spotlight."
"Except you, of course." William smiled, assuming that his feeling was right.
"Except me, of course." Nathan smiled as well, though not as joyfully as William.
"Did anyone know about you two?" William asked openly.
Just as he finally convinced him to go to Texas, William already began to think about what happened to Nathan the last time he was there and how it would affect him this time; not only him, but his work too.
For the first time since he visited Nathan at his home, he thought that maybe he hadn't made the right choice after all. But, Nathan was the best employee that he had ever had and the one man who he had the utmost trust in to do the job right.
"Just her family." He answered as all the memories he had of her flashed before his eyes like a movie reel.
"What about her fiancé?"
"He spent most of his time in Miami on business. I didn't know about him and he didn't know about me, though I figure that he must have found out about me eventually."
"Odd how nobody told you that she had a fiancé in the first place." William said, truly baffled at how such a thing could just go unnoticed.
"Well I didn't spend much time on the farms or in the office. At the time, I worked a lot from home and the people I knew at the office, I didn't really talk to. She had her own office and she would rarely come out and mingle among other workers. She mostly would stay in her office or go into her father's office and do business there." He tried to explain.
"But Nathan, you spent a year there!"
"Yea, I spent nine