Ellison Taylor

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Change of plan." She shrugged.

"You should have told me!" I said as I scanned the living room.

"Well, we thought why not give you a surprise." She was amused.

"You can't leave your bags and clothes like this!" I was mad now, this is not what I wanted to do when I come home after a good evening.

"Well, our flight was cancelled for Sunday due to less people.. so we booked another one and it was cheaper because it was last moment." She said proudly.

"How did you get in here?"

"We just told your securities that we are your cousin." She shrugged. "Grandma has to pull some of her strings and we got the key."

"Did you tell Brent about this?" I asked.

"We were planning to surprise him." Edith said walking out of the room that was suppose to be Brent's!

"What are you doing in that room?"

"Well, I'm staying there so of course?"

"That's Brent's room."

"I'm sure he wouldn't mind." She brushed me off as she walked to the open kitchen to pour herself the wine that they opened without my permission.
They should be glad, I'm not a big fan of alcohol otherwise I would have thrown a fit for opening a bottle without my permission.

"I want the living space spotless before I wake up in the morning." I said. "It's a mess here."

"C'mon, you're spoiling our vacation." Edith said.

"Vacation does not mean you are entitled of doing these things at someone's place! You even graduated from grandma's mannerism class." I said rolling my eyes.

"You are jealous, ain't you?" Marilyn said and smirked.

"Jealous about what?" I asked.

"Grandma's treatment towards us." Edith said with a grinned.

I honestly don't care anymore, no matter how much I try it will still be the same- she will never like me.

"Doesn't really matter to me." I shrugged at them. "I want them spotless or tomorrow you can find yourself a hotel to stay in."

"You are so rude! I'm going to tell grandma." Edith snapped.

"Why not solve problems by yourself instead of looking for grandma?" I asked. "You are no longer a child."

Edith huffed.

"Very well." Marilyn said. "We will make it spotless." She give me a fake smile.

"It better be." I said as I walked to my room to take a shower.

By the time I was ready to go to bed I was tired. I got a text from Ian just right before I was about to go to bed.

"Have a good night."

And that simple text made me smile, I would have never imagined that I would be smiling again because of him. All these years I thought even when I will bump into him. I will be still mad at him, but I guess I was wrong. All I can hope is that this is not a dream. Ian has grown more than I had expected and I hope his growth will allow him to make much wiser decision in the future.

I fell asleep soon after that.. the next morning or might I correct.. hours later I woke up due to my alarm and I groaned. I hate working on weekend and I hate that I have to work on weekend because of the two ungrateful sisters who I will be showing around with Brent.

The living room was spotless when I walked out. As I was boiling hot water for my tea. Marilyn walked out looking like a mess. Her hair was in a messy pony, her eye mask pushed to her forehead and she yawned loudly. I have never seen her like this before and it may also have to do that we never spent time together since we were young.

"Where are you going?" She asked and opened the fridge.

"Work.There is foods around the house,you guys can cook for yourself." I said awkwardly.

"I'm not going to cook during my vacation." She scrunched her nose. "Edith and I will be meeting our friends from New York." She proudly said.

"Well, have fun?" I said as I put the hot water in my thermos flask.

"Will surely do.. we won't be home until late night."

"Sure." I said, they are not children. "Make sure you lock the door before you leave and please do not invite strangers to the apartment."

She waved me off and walked towards her room. I sighed as I made my way to the door to leave for work. Brent didn't read my text yet about how these two sisters were here already. I need his help!

There were quite a lot of people working today. Not sure what's going on.. Rosa was on her desk typing furiously on her computer with a frown.

"Rosa, I need to have a word with you." I said as I directed her to my office. She was startled by my sudden call and stood up quickly taking her iPad with her as she followed me.

"Please close the door." I requested and she quickly complied.

"I have a concerned about how you are sharing my privacy with people." I started. By people I mean Ian, even though him and I am are sort of friends- I still don't appreciate her sharing with anyone any details about me.

"I knew it." She muttered to herself and started apologizing quickly. "I'm sorry Ms.Taylor, but Mr.Collins was very persistent." She pleaded. "I don't usually share your details or any other things with anyone."

"Since I kind of trust Mr.Collins I will forgive you, but I don't want any more privacy concerning things happening again." I said.

"Noted." She said. "Anything else?"

"How is our negotiating going on with the designer?" I asked and she smiled, I think she is glad that I didn't say much more than I should have.

"Mrs. Zhang's manager would like to negotiate the profit price again next week."

I raised my eyebrow at her. "Still?"

"Our department has been trying to reach out a deal,but he keeps changing the terms and conditions and it's difficult to reach Mrs.Zhang personally."

"Well, if the next negotiation he is unwilling to take what we give. I would call it off." I said.

"What?" Rosa said surprised. I never ever do things like that, but it's been three month of negotiating and if the other party don't to bargain then that's fine.

"You heard me right. We will end the contract and give the chance to someone else."

"Mrs.Zhang has been our client for a very long time. She will be very upset."

"Well, then she needs to come forward during the negotiations."

"We will work it out." Rosa said.

"We better do." I said.

Author's Note: Thank you for reading this book. There will be another updates later in the evening. Thank you so much for all your support.