A Step Closer to Love

The sound of a cup hitting the ground made Kieran and Arabella pull their gaze away from each other to the door where the entire team was watching them.

Arabella was still in Kieran’s hand as he held her to himself. She struggled to get out of his grip when he reluctantly let her go.

“What’s going on here?” Aurora asked bursting through the door into the office.Belongs to © n0velDrama.Org.

“I was about to fall and he caught me” Arabella said quickly. She was not going to spark up any rumours. Their earlier position was not good for her and she keeping quiet and refusing to explain anything would only put her in more harm.

“Oh,” Aurora said. She had not been able to clearly see the position they were in. Arabella let out a sigh of relief as Aurora walked to her office.

Kieran turned away without any word. The office workers watched him get into his office with his packed food still in his hands. Chole bent down to take the cup from the ground. She was lucky the cup did not spill open when it fell.

Chole waited till Kieran was in his office and the door shut tightly before she ran to Arabella. She took her hand and pulled her to the kitchenette. The rest of the people just tried to pretend and erase the scene they had just seen. It would be better for them.

“What was that?”

“What was what?” Arabella wanted to play dumb even though she knew it was hard. They had seen everything. She in particular was the one who stood by the door so she saw the entire thing.

“That position you were in with Kieran, are you guys dating?” Chole got overly excited by the thought that she might have been in a relationship with Kieran. They seemed so intimate as they stared into each other’s eyes.

Arabella would have jerked out of his hand under normal circumstances but after hearing what he said earlier she could not help but study. She had never for once doubted that he was a beauty to behold but for some reason, he looked like a Greek god at that moment and she could not peel her eyes away from him.

‘Get to your senses Arabella, what is wrong with you’ her brain told her. Why was she so invested in him at that time? If she had acted rationally they would not have caught them in that position.

“Arabella” Chole said shaking her when she noticed she had not been listening to her all that while instead she stared into space.

“What?” Arabella asked turning to her

“Am I right? Are you two actually dating?”

“Of course not” Arabella jumped to defend herself. She cleared her throat and relaxed her shoulders.

“I know you would say that a strong denial is actually a yes but I want you to know that it is none of that, I have to deny so strongly so that no one gets a wrong idea of the situation” she explained quickly.

“That’s too bad” Chole said pushing the cup in her hand into Arabella’s hands. “I got this for you”

“Thanks”

Arabella needed her sister as soon as possible so she could barely sit through the rest of the day that by the time it was time to leave, she basically flew out of her seat to the door muttering some goodbyes before leaving the premises. She was usually the last to leave so everyone found it weird that she was going first.

“Hello Seraphina”

“To what do I owe the honour of your special presence?” Seraphina was sarcastic. Arabella knew the reason for this but she was not in the mood to go back and forth with her at that time.

“I am sorry for not calling but this is an emergency” she cut to the chase. She needed to figure out her situation and her sister was the only person she could call for anything.

“What’s up?”

“Well I do not know how this would sound Sera but I have to blame you for making me think about it”

“Hold your horses young lady, blame me for what?” Seraphina asked. She dropped the iPad in her hand to the table as she waited to hear what sudden accusations her sister would bring her way.

“You mentioned Kieran liking me and that’s all I could think about ever since then” Arabella.

“I only said that because of the signs I saw” Seraphina defended. She knew what someone like another person looked like.

“I hate to admit but you were correct about it,” Arabella told her sister before gulping while waiting to hear that I told you so but they never came.

“Sera?”

“That’s good news” Seraphina squealed. If anything she was genuinely pleased that someone liked her sister and was bold enough to look past the geekiness and tell her. Her sister was beautiful but it was strange to her how men avoided her so much, she was not really lucky in the love department.

“Good news?” Arabella was thrown aback. Why was that good news? That was the worst news ever because she would now be stuck as a rival of Aurora even when she did not intend it and Aurora was her immediate superior.

“Yes, you moved to a new city and now a guy? Your life is on a good track” Seraphina added.

“I am not sure the kind of affection he has towards me but I know that this is not good news at all” Arabella said nodding her head.

“What?”

“Remember Aurora?” Arabella hoped her sister had not forgotten all the tales she had told her about her work superior and how she was obsessed with the man she lived with.

“I do, so she is the problem here?”

“Of course”

“Then that’s the least of the problems,” Seraphina said dismissively. “Tell me what you think about him” she added.

“About him?”

“Yeah about Kieran”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean do you like him?”

“No, I don’t”

“You do, you definitely do”

“Sera, I don’t”

“Yes you do baby girl”

“What?”

“Let’s talk about him”