Almera's Gigolo

18. Call me Mike...

"whatt..!!"Let's say you're kidding, I said.

"we'll see Almer, Mr. Ronald is trying to catch up with you, he said with annoyance.

"there's no way Mr. Ronald has any feelings for me" I said reassuringly.

"whatever, if you don't believe me, he says from now on that you can't come see him, he's the one who's coming to see you".

"oh god, what else do I think, at this time I am quite dizzy to face Alex's behavior, why should be added with one more person that I am difficult to avoid.

Yes, I must have been hard pressed to resist meeting Mr. Ronald because we had a business relationship that made me have to meet him often,like this afternoon my secretary said that Mr. Ronald asked to meet and he was already in the lobby, I was forced to order him to come up to my office.

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Mike Ronald, a handsome 33-year-old man with a tall posture, blue eyes and brown hair, walked into the headquarters building owned by the Wijaya corp.

"good afternoon I can help you"

greet the receptionist in the lobby.

"we'd like to meet Miss Almera, if she exists"

"i asked his secretary for a while if he could meet you" the receptionist said, calling the director's office.

" please you two can ride on the 27th floor, he's waiting for you now".

"okay"

he answered, then went to take the elevator to the director's office on the 27th floor of the building.

tock...

"in"

a response from inside the room told the person who knocked on the door to enter .

"good afternoon, Miss Almera"

"Mr.Ronald please sit down"I'm friendly with him.

"yes thank you, sorry I was sassy to meet you here, I think we need to discuss about our cooperation plan which is coming personally".

"no problem" I replied being friendly to him

"You've eaten, it's lunch time, how about we talk about it over lunch" he offered.

"fine coincidence I haven't had lunch, let's go" I said politely to take her out of the office.

"preferably Miss Almera just one car with me"

"yes, fine" I replied as I stepped inside his white mercedes benz car.

He took me to lunch at a five-star restaurant.

A luxury restaurant with a minimalist classic design that is very private.

as we got out of the waiter's car, we were taken to a table that Mr. Ronald had ordered.

"please" he said as he pulled out a chair for me.

"thank you" I replied trying to be polite.

"what do you want" she asked when the waiter came to record our order.

"anything," I replied

"well, then he mentioned the order to be ordered to the servant.

"good restaurant" I said

"yes, this is only accepting vip guests"

I just nodded at his testimony.

"you've never been here"

I shook my head in response.

"wow.amazing" he said.

"i spent more time in Germany than in Jakarta even though I was born here" I said.

"in contrast to myself who spent more time in Indonesia than in the country where I came from"

"means you know this city very well, my friend.

"yes, you could say so, can we not speak formally, he asked.

"oh, I'm sorry, I feel a little awkward.

"how about we call each other names, you don't mind no.

"yes, okay,em...

"mike, just call me Mike to look more familiar, he replied.

"well mike, from now on we call by name without any other frills"

"yes it doesn't matter" I replied trying to be ordinary.

fortunately, not long after that the waiter came to bring us our order, two servings of steak that looked appetizing,

"it looks delicious" I said.

"this is one of the mainstay menus here"

I tried to cut and bite him.

"how,?"

"em, it's so delicious' I said sincerely praising him.

after lunch we started talking about work.

it turned out that mike was a very pleasant and warm type of man.

I was amazed by the way he delivered points about the project we are working on now.

it didn't feel like more than two hours we had been chatting at the restaurant.

"let's go back I told him.

"yes, I'll take you back now" he answered, opening the car door for me.

after driving for about half an hour we reached my office

"thank you for a delicious lunch today" I said sincerely

"let's meet again next time, he said

"we will definitely meet again because we have a job together, I replied.

"not to discuss work, but let's meet as a man and a woman to get to know each other better

I was stunned to hear his light.

"how, no problem"he asked.

"well.I don't know, I answered honestly.

"all right I don't want to pressure you, let's start slowly by getting to know each other.

I don't know how to respond to that statement.

"i go first, she said, then kissed my hand gently, before it passed from before me.

I exhaled loudly while looking at the car mike disappeared from before me.

******

I threw my body in my chair, I pressed the intercom button.

"The members are coming to my office right now"

it seems I have to concern myself to forget about those men.

tock...

"Almera you need something"

"yes what about the advertising model I asked to advertise our new hotel in Bali you already got the candidate" I asked

"already, you don't worry"

"you remember the criteria I asked for"

"yes, he has to be handsome, young and smart"

"good, if it could be an up-and-coming artist"

"because this is a hotel by the beach if he can he must have a pretty good body because later there will be fun when he has to take off his top clothes to make it more attractive.

"you take it easy, this model must fit your criteria"

"good, what about the female model you got too"

"yes, they've been around and they've done a couple of commercials together, and now they're being rumored to be close"

"that's good so their wives will show up more and more during filming later, when they can come here I need to meet them in person"

"didn't you say you didn't want to interfere with this ad, you wrote me the whole thing"

"yes, but I have to see the models first, before they shoot to Bali later, when they can come here"

"they're here right now trying to shoot a few scenes before they're really going to be set later".

"well, let's meet them now" I said as I walked into the room used for clean gladi.

"ehem, pay attention to everything, this buAlmera ceo in wijaya group, he wants to meet directly with male and female artists who will star in this ad later"

"good afternoon my Almera mom Alexis Grand will be her male advertising model"