So, Shall We Get Married?
Chapter 2

Her shift was over, and it was time to go home. After saying goodbye to Leticia, Olivia took the road to the exit, she had to cross the entire center of the hotel to get there. As she walked, Olivia felt that she was being watched by everyone, she didn’t like to feel that everyone was looking at her.

She wondered if it was because of her attire, after work, female employees could leave work with their uniforms on. But she didn’t like to go out dressed like that, she liked to wear a nice dress, what was wrong with that, many women wore dresses, besides, she could always find them at good prices. She couldn’t let them go to waste.

Besides, it looked very nice on her, and she would rather wear a dress than jeans. Anyway, her outfits were not vulgar, she did not understand why they looked at her as if she had something strange on. Then she denied, maybe they were her own ideas and she was just being paranoid.

What was happening was that Olivia wasn’t interested in being the center of attention of anything, she preferred to go unnoticed than to be making a fuss.

She glanced at the time on her watch, noting that with any luck she would be able to catch the hotel shuttle that would take her home. If not, she’d have to take the bus from the bus stop. As she left the hotel, she noticed that the shuttle was pulling away from the building.

-Oh, no,” she exclaims, running towards it. Wait, please.” But it was no use. The bus was already far away. Damn, I’m going to have to walk to the bus stop.

Caleb witnessed the scene of that girl from inside his car, he wondered very curious why that young girl was running after the hotel bus, could she be an employee, but with that outfit he doubted it very much.

Most of the time when he observed the employees leaving the hotel, they were all wearing the uniform of their jobs. And a guest much less could she be, perhaps, the chauffeur was doing her a favor to take her somewhere. That theory made him frown.

Not that he was a grumpy boss, much less a selfish one, but his hotel transportation was not for servicing employee friendships. The CEO took a close look at the young woman, she seemed angry at being dumped, but he also detailed her very well and for a second it seemed…

Caleb got out of the car forgetting that detail about the girl from the transport, he would solve that matter. But first he needed to pick up a few things at the office, to go home before leaving for his date that night.

Olivia let out her breath as she watched her transport drive away, the young woman turns around, but as she does so she notices the guy who had entered the boutique. The man was getting out of an impressive car, he was wearing the same suit she had seen him in earlier that day. And there it was, again, her heart, going crazy with a complete stranger.

The young woman swallowed saliva as she saw him enter the hotel, she figured he had to be a guest, why, what else would he be doing in there? And without realizing it, she was watching him like an eavesdropper. When out of nowhere, he turns and gives her the eye. Immediately, Olivia turns her face and walks to her stop.

She reproaches herself as she walks straight ahead to the bus stop.

The last thing she wanted was to turn around and have to meet that man’s gaze. What an embarrassment that would be.

It wasn’t his idea, that girl had been staring at him since he got out of the car. Did she know him? He didn’t remember seeing her anywhere, although that had nothing to do with it. Many people were looking at them without any attention, but for some reason Caleb stood for a moment at the entrance of the building watching this woman. He frowns when he stops watching her as she crossed the street and was lost down the block.

He rings the car keys in his hands, and then denies and goes inside the building… It doesn’t take him ten minutes when he returns to his car and starts to drive home.

On the way, a small drizzle, not heavy, but the kind that gets you wet, began to fall. Caleb turns on the windshield, and just as the rubber blades wipe the windshield clean, he notices that the young woman he saw in the building a few minutes earlier is standing alone under the roof of the bus stop.

Caleb slowed the car down, he didn’t know why, but he did. He passed very slowly on the other side of the street, but without taking his eyes off that woman. She wasn’t getting completely wet, but the breeze was starting to hit her more insistently, it wouldn’t be long before she was soaked.

Suddenly she detailed it more closely, it was much closer than it had been a while ago. Who would think of going out in a dress at that time of night, surely, she would freeze in minutes.

The CEO frowned, why was he thinking about such things, and why did he find her intriguing, possibly it was because he had seen her try to get on the shuttle to his hotel. But try as he might to remember, no moment came to mind where she was present.

It was a strange feeling he was experiencing, but he couldn’t let himself get carried away by these senseless emotions. Since when did he feel that kind of impression for someone he had barely seen for a moment.

He looked back to the front and accelerated the car. He had to get home…

Shit, the rain was f*****g up his night. First she missed her ride, then that guy caught her spying on him and, on top of that, she ended up getting wet in the rain. Her day couldn’t get any worse.

And to top off her night, the bus was taking forever, while she kept getting wet in the breeze. Bad luck to have chosen a dress to go out in, but what the hell was she to know it would rain. She wasn’t a climatologist.

The young woman half looks up and notices a car approaching and starting to slow down as it neared the stop, this car looked a little familiar. It looked like the hotel guy’s car, but what could be the percentage chance of coincidence that it was the same car, and certainly the same driver.

Whatever it was, she didn’t want to find out. So she looks down, and prays to the heavens that the bus will arrive as soon as possible… but out of nowhere, the car speeds off down the avenue. Olivia frowns as she looks at the car’s taillights, and just then, the white lights of the bus are approaching.

-Nice time for you to show up! -he mumbles.

But his eyes were fixed on the faint red lights that could still be distinguished in the distance, it was impossible that it was the same guy’s car. He confirmed internally.