Chapter 35 - Bonding Time

"Careful, you may be the next." He said smirking.

I shook my head giggling, "no thanks I pass. I had enough." I replied.

We continued to work for about one hour until it was already late enough for dinner.

He stood up and we put our jackets on then Cameron kept the door open for me as I walked out.

While we were on our way to pass the corridor the woman who laid her eyes on Cameron immediately reached us before we could go out.

"Cameron.." she said stretching for his arm.

He turned around and waited for her to continue so she offered a gentle smile. "It was a pleasure to meet you."

"Thank you," Cameron replied.

I wanted to go home, my sister was waiting for me to have dinner together and I didn't want to be late.

"Lily."

I heard Cameron's voice call for me and I turned around hoping he wouldn't ask me to eat dinner with him, I didn't want to refuse his invite but wither did I want to bring my sister down by canceling the dinner at the last minute.

"I was thinking maybe we could have dinner together." He asked me in front of Simon's assistant whose knitted her eyebrows down slightly disappointed he asked me and not her.

"I have dinner with my sister today," I said, curving my eyebrows down in a sorry facial expression.

"Have fun then, see you tomorrow," He replied right away but as I walked by him I heard the assistant ask him if he wanted to have dinner with her.

I walked into my car and a few minutes later I saw Cameron get in his car alone, so I deduced he refused the offer.

I smiled and started the car.

I drove back home and unlike usual I wasn't worn out by the tiring day of work, I was still tired but I felt like I enjoyed my entire time there so much that time passed by very fast.

I knew that was only thanks to Cameron.

I turned the remote on and the gate of my mansion opened.

I called my sister to make sure she was still up for dinner and check on her.

I was glad to hear she accepted my proposal so I changed my dress and fixed my make-up.

I was very nervous yet excited to see my sister, we didn't go out together in a very long time and I didn't even know what we could talk about.

We usually just talked about our boyfriends or work.

Evelyn complained I worked too much and I complained she put too little deduction in her career. We were two opposite poles of the same coin.

She liked to spend her nights out with her handsome French boyfriend. She changed her job every few months because she didn't like to settle and after a few months she started to ignore all the coworkers and found an excuse to leave.

I did envious her for not worrying about the consequences of her actions and trusting her guts so much to drop a job only because it says so.

I had always struggled to move on to the next page of my life without questioning too much if it was the right thing to do. Maybe If I was like her I wouldn't have been working in one of the greatest companies by now but maybe I would have prioritized interpersonal relationships.

I walked back to the car and drove to the restaurant.

Evelyn was waiting for me in front of the restaurant, smoking a cigarette and with her usual thick short dresses, which suited her so well that she looked effortlessly flawless.

She was long-limbed although she was short, all her features combined perfectly in a proportional body.

When her gaze fell on me she smiled hugely and dropped the cigarette to the trash, she waved at me and I smiled back.

I parked the car and then walked out.

"You look great!" She said as I reached her, she grabbed my hand and made me swirl around so that she could look better at my dress.

I knew my outfit wouldn't go unnoticed by her, it was different than my usual style, it was a burgundy one-shoulder strap dress.

"Did you get this from my closet?" She said and I smiled, that was probably the closest thing to a compliment she told me in years.

We walked in and after Evelyn gave him our name the waiter pointed at our table.

We sat down, she stroked her curtain bangs behind her ears and she leaned the elbows on the table.

"I am sorry if you got worried," I said and she sighed.

"It's fine, I got used to that. I thought it was because of Carl or your work but I guess this is just our current situation." She continued, she said it out calmly as if the words wouldn't affect me while they did.

I mentally pictured the last years of my life and she was indeed right, I had never informed her about anything in my life. Even for my marriage, I told only my mother and then sent her an invitation.

I felt a guilty feeling of regret.

She couldn't be more right but she also never did anything to try to bond with me. Maybe it was reciprocal or was I truly the one with the biggest fault?

Maybe telling her about Cameron and how I met him would temporarily soften the situation and prove to her I wanted to change the situation between us.

I took a deep breath, where shall I start?