Andriana woke up to the sound of her phone ringing.
"Hello ", she yawned.
"What did you do ?" yelled Mira.
She flinched from her phone to protect her ear drums from Mira's yell which woke her up from her sleepy trance.
"Mira it's quite early for this , tell me what's wrong" When she tried to sit up a strong arm pulled her back down. She looked back to see Karlye still asleep with his arm tightened around her waist.
"Have you seen what is being spread online ?" asked Mira.
"No I haven't, you just woke me up " she groaned.
"Then check the link I sent you and then call me to explain what exactly happened ?" she asked.
Andriana sighed.
"What has you all hyped up Mira, let me check and call you back " she hung up.
She opened the link Mira had sent her and frowned upon reading it. She sprang up waking Karlye too.
"Andriana, are you okay ?" he looked up at her.
"No am not, someone saw us last night" she cried out showing him the article.
It had pictures of them as they arrived at the restaurant and when she ran away after he asked her to be his girlfriend.
The headline read, "Billionaire Karlye Lockhart rejected by his date after asking her to be his girlfriend".
"What the hell is this, Karlye. They know everything about me " she scrolled down reading more. They had posted everything about her.
He took the phone from her, "Don't read it anymore . Leave it to me " he said.
She cried, "I don't want to be in the news or public eyes ....I hate all that attention " Andriana leaned in and he held her.
"I know love, I will fix it " he kissed her temple.
She was in the kitchen with the maids making breakfast when she heard Karlye's raised voice from the study.
A bunch of people in suits had arrived early after he made a call. David had led the group towards the study.
Karlye had told her to go ahead and have breakfast he would join her soon.
.....
"So you're telling me I'm paying you hundreds of millions for nothing?" he let out. "I told you to keep any news about her away from the public, not even a whisper was supposed to be put out ...so explain how this happened ?"
David could see the angry cold look in his eyes so he remained silent.
"Can any of you fools explain how this happened ?" he barked.
"Well sir whoever did it was meticulous and used different means to get out the article, like they knew we kept track of anything that involved, Miss Davison"
"Don't even say her name , you all failed to protect her identity and personal information. Do you think I can trust anything you're saying right now " he sat back down.
"We apologise sir, this is truly our fault and we will fix it " another said.
Karlye glared back at him
"And how do you plan to do that, everything about her is already circulating everywhere, it's too late right now ".
....
Andriana heard her name being called.
"Andriana, where are you ?" Mira came in yelling.
"Mira, what is wrong ?" Andriana came out of the kitchen to see her friend walk into the house.
Mira rushed to her hugging her.
"How are you doing, you didn't call back ?" She asked.
"Oh ...I am okay " she let out.
Mira pulled away gazing at her, "Really?"
She nodded, "Will you join us for breakfast ?"
Mira noticed Andriana changing the topic and decided to go along with it.
"What did you make.... wait I just realised I miss your cooking " she giggled.
The two women sat down as the maids brought in the breakfast she had made.
Karlye who heard Mira arrive through her shouting stood back with David behind him. They had come out of the study to see what was going on.
Karlye watched them sit down at the table.
Andriana was laughing at something Mira said as they got ready to have breakfast.
"Let's go have breakfast " he muttered heading to the table.
David scoffed, "Go ahead I will join you after I send them off " and walked back to the study.
He closed the door and sat down.
"Did you find out who linked those photos or the one responsible for the article?" He asked.
"We did sir, but the problem is it's just a group of freelancers who claim they were just paid to do it" one said.
"Paid to do what, write the article or take the pictures?" He asked.
"None, the person who paid them provided everything. The pictures and all the information were provided to them "
David chuckled, "That is a clever one , did you find out who it was ?"
"We haven't found out yet "
David sighed, "Give all that to me our men will handle finding out who it was, as for the online problem fix it before things get worse" he ordered.
"Yes sir, they all said.
"And this time do your job right or the next time you're called here he won't use his mouth " he advised.
They rushed off.
Mira frowned when she saw David walk towards them.
"Why are you here ?" She muttered.
"Work ..but I saw this and decided to join " he sat down next to her.
"I am sorry I made you all come here so early in the morning. I don't think you had breakfast so have alot" said Andriana.
David smiled.
"It's an honour to try your cooking, and you don't need to worry this is my job "
"So you better do it right ,if anything happens to my friend I will hold you responsible" Mira pointed her fork at David.
David nodded with a light chuckle.
Mira then turned to Karlye and Andriana.
"So is what they said true?" She asked.
"Huh,?".Andriana blinked.
Karlye didn't react and went on sipping his coffee.
"Is it true that you rejected him ?" she let out.
Andriana froze dropping her fork while Karlye choked on his coffee.
"Mira ...." David murmured.