Chapter 68 - Besties

Lucy checked her wristwatch impatiently for the third time as she waited for Tom to show up with her lunch. She thought about giving him a call to find out what was keeping him but remembered that she didn't even have his phone number. How could she call him her friend when she didn't have his number? She made a mental note to exchange numbers with him when he brings her lunch. 

It wasn't like she couldn't go down to get her own lunch, but somehow her mind was becoming programmed to expect him to deliver it. When he comes she would just tell him how she had caught a glimpse of the boss and tell him what she thought the CEO looks like. And then she would ask him to leave before the boss comes out. She still had no intention of allowing him to eat with her. Who knew if his madness comes only when they were eating together? 

Her thoughts were interrupted when a knock sounded on the door, and she looked up when the door was pushed open, expecting to see Tom, but her brows creased when her secretary walked in, instead of Tom. 

"Yes?" She asked as she looked at her secretary in confusion, wondering why she was in her office with a lunch pack. 

"Your driver asked me to bring this to you. He is having lunch with someone, so he couldn't bring it up himself," she explained, making Lucy's brow furrow. 

"He asked you to bring this to me?"

"Yes ma'am," the secretary said with a nod. 

"Who is he having lunch with? Male or female?" Lucy asked thoughtfully, thinking that he was probably having lunch with the lady he liked, and this might be her chance to find out who the lady was, and what she looked like. 

"Female."

"A staff?" Lucy asked making the secretary wonder if something was going on between Lucy and her driver, or perhaps Lucy was just upset that her driver had chosen not to deliver her lunch because be was busy with someone else.

"I don't know. I don't know all the staff in the company," she answered politely.

"Thank you. You can leave now," Lucy said dismissively and tried to stay calm long enough for the secretary to have left the hallway before picking up the lunch pack and rushing out of her office in the direction of the elevator. She needed to be fast before they would both leave the cafeteria.

Once she got out of the elevator she looked around, wondering where the cafeteria was, and then she noticed some of the staff coming from a particular direction, she decided the cafeteria had to be in that direction, so she walked in that direction, trying not to attract any attention to herself. 

She didn't need to spend a lot of time looking around before she spotted Tom at one end of the hall seated with a beautiful blonde lady. He was seated with his back to the entrance, while the lady was directly facing Lucy. Seeing the lady's bare legs which were crossed under the table, Lucy could tell she was wearing a pretty short skirt. Was this his taste in women? She wondered as she watched them converse from the distance. 

"I suppose you were coming here to have lunch? You should go and get something for yourself," Tom suggested, wanting to take his leave.

Anita raised a brow very slightly. The Tom she knew would have offered to help her get her lunch like the gentleman he was. It seemed like his physical appearance wasn't the only thing that had changed about him, "What about you? Don't you want to get something for yourself?" Anita asked with a curious smile. 

"No. I only came here to get lunch for my boss. And now that I've done that I need to attend to something else," Tom said, waiting for her to take the clue. 

His boss? So he worked here? "Let's talk for a bit before you leave, okay? It's not like we are enemies, even though you dumped me," she said with a small smile. Tom leaned back in his seat and looked at her without saying a word as he waited to hear what she wanted to talk about. 

Taking his silence as a go-ahead, she asked, "So what about you? What are you doing here?" 

"I'm one of the company's drivers," Tom said in a flat tone, making her wrinkle her nose in disapproval. She had been expecting something better.

'How Typical,' Tom thought in his head. He had noticed how her attitude towards him had changed from the moment he told her he was a handyman. She had taken their relationship for granted because she thought he was a mere handyman, and now she was going to be under his payroll? How funny. He wondered how she was going to react when she finally gets to know his true identity. 

"I don't suppose you are the CEO's driver, are you?" She asked hopefully, leaning forward to hear his response. 

"No. But I drive his personal assistant," Tom said, and Anita pursed her lips as though she was thinking about it. 

After a while, she shrugged, "Not bad. I guess you must have seen the CEO then?" Anita asked hopefully, making Tom narrow his eyes. 

"No. Why?" 

"Nothing. Just curious," she said, flashing him a smile. It wouldn't be a very wise idea to tell her supposed ex that she wanted to meet the CEO and seduce him. At least not yet. 

She looked at Tom with pursed lips as she tried to decide whether to stick to him until she found out all she could about the CEO from him, or offer to pay him a huge sum of money for him to help her meet the CEO. 

"Is the CEO's personal assistant a male or female?" She asked in a casual tone.

"A lady. A very beautiful young lady," Tom added as he watched her. Anita seemed like a pretty ambitious person, so he could guess that she was probably nursing ideas of meeting the CEO and getting involved with him. Well, if that was what she was thinking, he hoped she wouldn't waste too much time on her pipe dream.

Anita smiled at him. She had no problem with his personal assistant being beautiful or young. She was just as beautiful and young too, and as such couldn't be intimidated by that. If the CEO's personal assistant was anything like her, by now their marriage would have made the first page of the tabloids, but it seemed like the CEO's personal assistant wasn't interested in him, or she probably just wasn't his type. 

Anita decided she was just going to become best friends with the CEO's personal assistant, since all she wanted was an opportunity to meet the CEO. Hopefully, the lady would be her ticket to meeting Thomas Hanks. 

"How is Snow?" Tom asked for lack of anything else to say. 

Anita smiled at the mention of her pet, "He is very fine."

"That's good to know. It's nice seeing you again," Tom said as he started to pull back his seat from the table.

"Don't tell me you are leaving already?" Anita asked with a frown. 

"I am. Have a nice day," Tom said as politely as he could muster before standing up and walking away from the table without giving Anita the chance to say anything else. 

Once Lucy saw Tom getting out of his seat, she quickly hurried away so he wouldn't see her, and hid in a corner until he left.

Judging by the way the lady had been smiling while talking to Tom, Lucy couldn't tell if this was the lady he liked, or perhaps she was one of those ladies who wanted him, and he was using to mislead the lady he liked, as she had advised. 

Whoever the lady was, she was going to become friends with her and every other lady she sees around Tom. That way he would think twice before trying to initiate anything amorous between them. 

Once she was certain he had left for real, Lucy returned to the cafeteria. She was glad when she saw Anita heading for her seat with a tray of food.. She took a moment to think about the best way to approach Anita, and then decided to just do the natural thing since she was carrying her lunch pack. She took in a deep breath before approaching Anita's table, "Hi!"