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Chapitre 11: Spare Room

The next morning, Lana woke up early to get ready and report at Liam's office well in time. After giving careful thought and analysing things at hand, she decided to proceed and accept Liam's offer.

She did a thorough research on Liam the night before and came to a conclusion that Liam was a man of ethics and he was the type of person who would never back down from his words. If he took a person for his enemy he would relax only after completely destroying that person. So she decided that for her own advantage and safety, it would be best not to make him her nemesis, act according to his proposal and keep calm as much as possible.

As usual, it only took Lana less than an hour to get ready. She took a while to decide on what to wear, standing in front of her wardrobe. Until finally, she selected a piece that Keira gifted her. She loved every one of those because she received a lot from her. Keira had a great taste in fashion and she must say that everything did fit her perfectly and looked good on her.

Lana picked an elegant business formal, v-neck, bodycon sheath split, knee length blue dress. She looked like a classic, graceful professional who seemed poised to take on the entire world in her stride.

She inhaled a lot of air after parking her car in the basement and tried to calm down her racing heart. Then exhaled loudly before going out of her car. She went inside the building and was surprised that the guard did not question her and instead greeted her politely.

Bemused, Lana proceeded to the private elevator secretary Mian said that was usually used to go straight to Liam's office.

Her eyebrows raised with amazement when the guard posted at the elevator seemed to be expecting her.

"Good morning Miss Huang," he greeted and pressed the thirtieth floor without even waiting for her to ask for it. Lana greeted him back with a timid smile.

'Was he expecting me already?' she mused inside the elevator. Seemed Liam already endorsed her enough, or probably it was his secretary or assistant who did that.

As soon as the elevator stopped, Lana stepped out and was greeted and escorted by the receptionist to secretary Mian's area. Soon after she saw assistant Jorge coming out from his office.

"Hello Miss Huang. Let me formally introduce myself to you. I'm Jorge Grey, Liam's executive assistant." Jorge extended his hand and Lana accepted it with a smile.

"It's nice to meet you Sir." she answered, showing respect to her superior.

Jorge laughed and said, "You can call us with our names Lana. That's really fine. I feel like an old hag if I'm called sir."

'Besides I believe we'll be getting close enough very soon,' he mused sensing the positivity he felt about Lana entering their firm and into Liam's life.

Lana nodded in understanding.

"Mian, I will brief Lana while Liam is still in the meeting…" Jorge informed Mian who answered him with a nod.

"Lana, please follow me��" Jorge instructed and Lana did. He guided her to the room adjacent to Liam's office and said, "This will be your sitting area."

"You mean… I will sit inside his office?" she gasped in shock because in order to reach the adjacent room, she had to pass by Liam's office and there was no other way.

Jorge laughed and said, "Yes you will. It's a spare room in Liam's office. You will be trained under his strict supervision. You're lucky you know, because you're the first intern that Liam had ever considered to get trained directly under him."

Lana was shocked but was too overwhelmed with that. She felt too excited at the thought that the best lawyer in their country would be her mentor.

"Well maybe not that lucky also, since Liam can be tough most of the time. But he's a good guy though at times you may feel that he's a difficult man to get along with… It's all because he has…"

"Jorge!" Lana and Jorge were both startled by that yell, loud enough to echo in the entire office.

Jorge's face cringed hearing that voice, because Liam hated it whenever his past was brought in front of others, explaining the reasons of his aloofness.

Jorge quickly lifted his lips up and defended, "Oh I was just briefing Lana in here. I will quickly take my leave now…"

He immediately rushed through the doorway before he choked with Liam's deadly glare.

Liam looked at Lana and plainly said, "I hope you have already settled in. If you need anything just ask Mian or Jorge. From now on you will follow wherever I go if you want to learn well. You are free not to if you don't want though…"

Liam turned around and was about to leave when Lana called, "Excuse me sir…"

His ears enlarged at that and Liam immediately turned and said, "Call me Liam when we are not with other employees except those on this floor."

"Oh okay, noted. Can I just ask if there are also blinds here?" Lana directly asked because she was too uncomfortable with the transparent glass wall where Liam could see her every move.

Liam kneaded his brows and simply answered, "Unfortunately my office is the only one with blinds."

He quickly turned around, leaving Lana alone, with a smirk on his face.

"Seriously?" Lana mumbled as she settled her bag and sat on the chair. Her table was equipped with a laptop, printer, tablet and other things she could need and use in her work. She looked around and was impressed by how spacious her area was.

'Well it's a spare room in his office.' she thought. She was startled when the intercom buzzed and heard Liam's voice from his office.

"Come here and take these files from my table."

Lana stood up quickly to go to Liam's. She gulped seeing a pile of paper-works on his table.

'It was not there a while ago! When did he manage to get all those papers here.' Lana thought.

"Write an analysis on how we can win the case in each file… Give me five case within the day that will give me a hundred percent win." Liam instructed without looking at her.

Lana picked half of the files but paused when Liam said, "Get your own trolley from Mian so you can use it and get the files in one go."

"Alright," Lana murmured and put the files back.

'Own trolley?' she thought as she went outside.

When she went back inside Liam's office she was smiling already while pushing the trolley. She was too excited that she did not notice how Liam stared at her while she picked all the files from his table and put them on the trolley to go to her area directly.

Liam's gaze followed Lana until she was inside and mumbled, "Why was she smiling like that?"

He looked to his left and saw Jorge staring at him from his office. Jorge had a teasing smile on his face while signaling Liam to look at his phone.

Liam crinkled his face and pressed the remote to close his blinds from Jorge's office.

He felt his mobile phone vibrate.

[Wipe your mouth bro… You're drooling!]

Liam unconsciously touched his lips. "Darn!" he sulked upon realizing Jorge had played him again.

[Why close the blinds in my direction. You should close the ones on Lana's side or else she will catch you staring at her…]


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Liam could not help himself and he kept sneaking glances at Lana's direction every once in a while.

For some reason, he was amused to see different expressions come and go on Lana's face as she read each case file and typed something on her laptop.

'She seems to be enjoying her workload…' he thought as he again peeked at her but suddenly froze when Lana also looked in his direction and met his gaze.

Just as he broke his gaze from her, his intercom buzzed and he heard Lana's voice politely asking, "Do you need something? I noticed you are glancing towards my area every now and then. Please, can you close the blinds and just buzz me if you need anything from me. I hope you do not mind. Thanks."

Liam pursed his lips and defended, "I just wanted to make sure if you are doing your task and you're serious about it."

'If she noticed I'm glancing, that means she's also sneaking glances at me?' Liam thought.

"So did you find me playing around? I'm sure you have done enough sneaking since morning to tell that I'm focussed completely on the work and your gazes are distracting me to be honest." Lana was a bit irritated because she did not like being watched like that.

Liam disconnected the intercom with an embarrassed look on his face without any response but the blinds on Lana's direction closed. 

"Thank goodness," Lana whispered with a long sigh of satisfaction as soon as the blinds closed. She finally felt that she could normally breath. She grabbed another chair and rested her feet on it comfortably and then continued to read other cases.

She noticed that most of them were pro bono cases. She was aware that the Sy Law firm did accept such cases and were not greedy for money. Also for the name of justice, they did choose cases whereas the clients were innocent and were wrongly accused or were the victims. 

She felt satisfied after seeing the big heap of files were all such cases and her notion about the firm was right. She felt proud that she made the right choice in staying here because not all law firms were like Liam's.

How Lana wished, Liam would always bring her with him to the courtroom. She wouldn't mind acting like a fake girlfriend as long as she could see a lot of action in the courtroom being that.

'Just ignore the creepy man and focus on your learning Lana,' Lana encouraged herself. 

She was getting weird vibes from this person towards her. The day before, Liam was being a sniffer and now she felt like he was a typical prowl. 

Her instincts were very strong and ever since she went into the military she enhanced this skill as it was a part of her training. She had practically even counted the number of times Liam had sneaked a glance at her.

"Such a weird guy," she mumbled as she tried to focus on her reports at the expense of making it perfect so the weird sniffer would know that she was a worthy intern to be trained directly under him.

Meanwhile, Jorge visited Liam's office to check if his cold man was still sneaking at Lana's area and if he had already told the latter about meeting Liam's father this coming weekend.

"What do you want Jorge?" Liam dryly asked.

Jorge grinned and said, "You should tell her as early as now Liam, so she can clear up her schedule and be free."

Jorge tried his best to hide his excitement. "Oh by the way, it's almost lunch… Do you want to go out or should I just buy you something?" Jorge asked before heading back to his office.

Liam rarely went out of his office to eat except when he was going to court or was in an important meeting outside. But most often than not, he would ask Jorge to just buy him something to eat while he studied his case files in his office.

He wondered if it would be still the same with Lana being around him. It was Jorge's idea to put Lana in the same room with Liam.

Senior Sy was actually aware that the scandal was only a mistake and Liam was not in any relationship with Lana, but the old man was so overwhelmed when he saw him kissing in the viral video that he then tasked Jorge to play cupid between the two in the office while Senior Sy would do the rest.

Jorge shook his head as he waited for Liam's answer. Liam's father was too desperate. He could not accept the possibility for his only son to be a gay though Jorge already reassured that the rumor was not true at all.

Jorge unconsciously giggled recalling the worried face of the old man and his desperation in pairing Liam with Lana. Senior Sy couldn't risk any possibility at all so he wanted Liam to be with a woman as soon as possible.

"Eavesdropping and now laughing on your own. Are you going crazy Jorge?" Liam hissed before he added, "I will eat here…"

"Alright, how about Lana?" Jorge intentionally asked.

With a puckered forehead, Liam asked, "What, what about Lana?"

"I mean, will she not eat with you?" Jorge casually asked, trying hard to not sound as if he was teasing Liam.

"Do we have to act like in a relationship Jorge even when no one is around? Let her be on her own when she's in the office." Liam simply answered.

"Well you can at least ask her if she wants to join you for.." Jorge suggested.

"Jorge... leave... now…" Liam said with rounded eyes.

"Okay fine," Jorge hummed, disappointed as he went out from Liam's office.

But Jorge smirked as he passed by Mian's table. "Dial Lana's direct line," Jorge instructed to Mian as he picked the telephone.

"Yes Mian," Lana enthusiastically greeted, seeing Mian's name flashed at the telephone ID.

"It's me Jorge… I am going to buy Liam's lunch. Do you wanna eat inside the office? I think it would be best if you join Liam and you both can discuss the cases he had handed to you…" Jorge suggested.

"Thanks a lot Jorge, but no. I can just go to the canteen for lunch. I heard your canteen serves good food and I wanted to try that."

"Oh… Okay…that's alright. If you change your mind, well you have my mobile number. I heard the canteen has just changed chefs so I'm not sure if the food served now is as good as before…" Jorge informed, trying to convince Lana but seemed like Lana preferred the canteen over eating with Liam.

"Sir, why not ask us if we want lunch from outside?" Mian asked in a jest as soon as Jorge dropped the telephone. 

Jorge pointed his finger towards Mian and her assistant. "You two go out and socialize," he scorned and left the office with a sulky face since he failed in making them eat together.

Liam looked at the clock and then at Lana's door… He stood up to check what she was doing but her door opened before he could even knock.

"I will just have a quick lunch and come back." Lana informed and Liam nodded.

Lana passed by him and started to go out and Liam unconsciously followed but Lana paused and suddenly turned around. "I knew it…" Lana murmured.

"Knew what?" Liam asked innocently.

"You're following again and was about to sniff me!" Lana accused.

"What? What gives you the guts to think that? Don't think too ahead of yourself, and for your kind information I'm heading towards the restroom." Liam answered, pointing to the door not far from the exit door.

Lana followed and saw the door but she was not convinced by him, so she simply handed Liam a small paper. "That's the product I'm using. It's one of the best from our company. I am giving it to you because I thought you'll be curious. But let me mention that all these products are unscented so… What you're smelling is probably my natural scent," Lana nonchalantly explained before turning back to exit from Liam's office.

"Natural scent?" Liam murmured and with a flicker of sadness thought, 'So hers is a natural scent too?'


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