BXBX NOVEL Chapter 132 - Badmouthing Employee
Lucy wondered whether she was being unnecessarily anxious and wary of them or perhaps any other staff would also feel just as anxious as she was around them when seated with both men.
Harry turned to spare Lucy a glance and his lips twitched in amusement when he noticed how she sat still like a statue, looking straight ahead of her. He feared that she would faint soon if she continued to hold her breath for much longer so he decided to engage her in a discussion.
"I hope you are enjoying your stay in the City?" He asked, turning to look at her.
Was this man ever going to leave her alone? Why was he always trying to start a conversation with her? Lucy wondered as she gave him her fake smile, "Yes. There are lots of nice places around," she managed to say before looking out of the window.
"So, about your driver..." Harry started, making Lucy shift in her seat uncomfortably as she turned to look at him in once again, while Tom cleared his throat in a silent warning, making Harry grin at him through the rearview mirror, "I guess you get along with him now," Harry said, and Lucy couldn't help but wonder why he was so interested in her relationship with her driver. Why was he bringing it up again after she had already told him so earlier?
"Yes, sir."
"By the way, as I was driving in earlier I noticed that your car wasn't parked in the parking lot l. Did something happen to the car? Perhaps it has developed a fault?" Harry asked, ignoring Tom who he could see was glaring at him through the rearview mirror.
"The car is in perfect condition. I sent him on am errand after he dropped me off this morning," Lucy rushed to explain.
"Oh! I see. It's a good thing you are putting him to good use. He seems like a rascal to me, doesn't he?" Harry asked with a grin.
"I'm not sure about that," Lucy said with an awkward smile since she didn't know how else she could respond to his question. She remembered Tom complaining about him this morning. Did he have something against Tom? Or perhaps he was trying to make her say something that would make her look bad in the presence of the CEO?
"Of course you're not," Harry said with a small chuckle, as though he was enjoying himself. He risked a glance at the rearview mirror and chuckled some more when he noticed that Tom was still glaring at him.
"Do you make it a habit badmouthing the employees?" Tom asked with disapproval.
"We weren't badmouthing anyone, were we?" Harry asked Lucy.
What did he mean by 'Were we'? Who was the we? Why was he involving her in this when he had been the one badmouthing her boyfriend? Without saying a word Lucy gave him a stiff smile and shook her head. All she wanted was for them to get to their destination very quickly so that she would finally be able to breathe.
Lucy decided that she needed to keep herself busy until they got to their destination, so that Mr. Harry wouldn't talk to her anymore. She took out her phone from her handbag to send Sonia a text since she couldn't talk over the phone at the moment.
"Sup? Are you very busy?" She typed, and her eyes widened in surprise immediately she clicked on send and then realized that she had mistakenly sent the text to Tom instead of Sonia.
Oh God! Now he was going to think that she was a clingy girlfriend and was reaching out to him for the second time because she was missing him badly, Lucy thought, cringing with embarrassment. She started to type another text to let him know that the first text had been a mistake.
Tom who had just been sitting in the car thinking about the meeting they were about to attend, looked at his phone when it vibrated and then glanced at Lucy when he saw that the text was from her. Why was she texting him? He wondered as he placed his phone on silent so that she wouldn't hear the vibration of his phone each time he received her text.
"Not busy enough to ignore you. Want to talk?" He asked since he knew that Lucy wouldn't be able to receive a call from him in their presence.
Lucy who had just finished composing the text to tell him that her text to him was a mistake and he should ignore it, decided that it wasn't necessary and erased it when his text message came in. She quickly typed a response, "No, I can't talk right now. I'm in the car with Mr. Harry and the CEO," Lucy explained.
Harry glance at Lucy and when he noticed that she was busy on her phone, he looked at Tom through the rearview mirror and noticed that he also seemed busy. Were they both communicating with each other right now, while he was busy doing the job of a driver? Harry thought with a scowl as he returned his gaze to the road.
"Why can't you talk because you are with them? Are you scared of either of them?" Tom texted back curiously.
"Mr. Harry is very weird. I don't feel comfortable talking when I'm around him," Lucy texted back, and Tom burst out in laughter before he could stop himself, making Lucy turn to spare him a glance as she hadn't expected someone like the CEO to laugh that way.
Harry also looked at Tom through the rearview mirror and rolled his eyes at him, not knowing that he was the reason for Tom's laughter.
Tom didn't notice that either of them had turned to look at him as he was still busy chuckling to himself in amusement as the thought that Harry who had called him weird was the one being referred to as weird.
Harry sighed, "I guess everyone else is busy having fun with their phones while poor old Harry has to be the driver," Harry said pitifully so that Lucy would feel guilty and drop her phone, that way Tom would also have no one to text him.
"I also think he is weird." Tom texted back.
"Let's talk later, he is sulking already," Lucy texted back before returning her phone to her handbag making Tom chuckle. It was obvious that Lucy wasn't very fond of Harry.
"Well, we are here now," Harry announced, and both Tom and Lucy looked up to see that Harry had just driven through the gates of Ocean Airlines, and most of the staff were standing in front of the building as though they were waiting for them.