Chapter 98 - Digging The Past

A few more minutes passed by and the painters knocked at the door, so I let them in and cheered them. I went to my office which was slowly shaping, into the office I always used to have. It was a small office with modern furniture and a few more plants next to my desk, a white keyboard placed on a solid pine desk.

I scrolled through internet sites to order more desks for the other offices and essential stuff.

Joanna called me when I was about to order a new printer, I answered the phone and a curious tone of voice rang through the phone as soon I took the call.

"How was the night with Mr. Ceo." 

"It was amazing Jo." I rested my hand on my chest, "the best night of my entire life and I am not nearly exaggerating." I said lowering my voice so that nobody could hear us.

"Did you have a spicy night?" She sounded amused, little did she know that she was right. My legs even hurt at the thought.

I let out a shy giggle not to have to answer that question, but she soon deciphered I was hiding something.

"Oh! The nervous laugh! She's hiding something."

I cleared my voice, "well... "

"Tell me everything and with everything I mean everything!"

I blushed even if I couldn't see her, where shall I start?

"All that I can tell you is that we're finally officially dating." I smiled happily.

"Wait what?" 

I giggled, "yes, he asked me to be his girlfriend with no rules involved!"

"Then you can finally invite him in and we can have a double date!" 

She sounded so joyfully.

"We will, Jo. I am so happy. Carl visited me this morning asking me if I was seeing someone. It felt so good telling him I was."

"Imagine his face when he finds out it's his boss." She laughed.

I was quite concerned about him finding out the mysterious man was Cameron - none other than his 'annoying strict' boss-

I didn't want Carl to get in the middle or to get himself fired because of his scenes and then throw the blame on me.

"I doubt he will figure out anytime soon since we only hang out in Cameron's places and Carl can't even afford to get past the threshold there."

I got another call on the line so I had to hang off on her, "I have to go now Joa, I have another call."

I replied to the second call, it was Simon who asked me how the restructuration was going. I told him what I had already done and what I wanted to achieve in the next months or so. We talked a little about the company and listened to some objectives I had to achieve in the first year to value how the company was going.

Since I was having my place and my own company I felt light-minded talking to Simon, less under pressure, and more easily to talk about what I wanted to do without the concern he may judge me or refuse my ideas.

After that call, I went to check on the painters to find they already had painted three entire walls and were going to do the remaining ones the next day.

I thanked them and tipped them for their hard work, telling them I waited for them the next day.

When I was left alone in the palace I used the laptop to search for Cameron Collins and see if I could find any more information about him.

The articles mainly were about his career, his job, his wealth, and some even about his past famous girlfriends he had.

No article mentioned his family making me wonder if he asked them not to write about his family or if the authors of the articles never found anything interesting about that matter.

I skimmed through the page when I found people commenting about an interview that had been brought down by the owner.

Many comments insult Cameron, calling him names, and even saying he didn't deserve his fame.

The title of the interview was "The multi-billionaire Cameron Collins speaks about his inability to love. His main goal is success and career."

My heart stopped for some instant to let the information hit enough deep to hurt me but not sharply enough to force me to close the page and shut down the site. 

I continued to read the comments to take in some more information, about the interview which wasn't available anymore, and found out through the comments that people even mentioned he was drunk during that interview and even judged him for that.

Maybe the alcohol affected the interview and pushed him to say things he never would have said.

I remembered he drank often but he never drank too much to even be slightly dizzy, he always had control of alcohol just like he had control of everything else in his life.

Maybe that interview was the first time he lost control publicly and had ruined his image.

I was even sure that Cameron probably paid the poster to take the video down.

Something must have happened to him to allow him to attend an interview drunk, I didn't need to see the interview to know that person wasn't the Cameron I knew.

I finally closed the page and turned off the pc, I didn't have any intention to ask Cameron since that wasn't my business. He probably already took into account the chance I may have seen it since it was on the internet.

I won't tell him unless he spoke about that himself.

I knew about Cameron's difficulty opening up with people, however, the video was a few years ago so probably he changed his mind since he met me. 

I just felt bad for the number of negative comments people can leave without even knowing the person.. They didn't know what he went through and why he was so reluctant about love.