~THE BILLIONAIRE WHO LOVED ME 💘 💍👠 💄 💎 ~
~CHAPTER 10~
~KIMBERLY'S POV ~
After I got ready and set up for resting my head for the day, I decided to go online for some minutes before going to sleep.
I liked to post about my day on social media, let's say i liked sharing the good parts of my life with people.
Of course there would be creeps online who'd message me, and start saying creepy things but I knew how to handle them well.
After managing to reply to some of my chats, I went straight to sleep.
I needed to regain some energy for the next day.
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~THE NEXT MORNING 🌞~
My alarm clock beeped so loudly and I groaned.
It's too early to not like working. Can't I just become rich automatically without having to work?
I chuckled at the thought and jumped out of my bed, heading straight to my bathroom to get ready.
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Thankfully My aunt Judy was awake, she had to go to her place of work early too today.
She was working in a supermarket and did many other side jobs during her off shifts.
She's very hardworking.
My younger siblings were also working.
Yes they're in junior high school but they still had to work.
Everyone had to be doing something so the family would survive.
Although I didn't want any one of them to work. I just wanted them to focus on their studies and become top of their classes.
"Good morning aunt Judy." I said to her when I saw her making some sandwiches for us.
"Good morning my dear. Here, have some of this for yourself." She said to me and placed some of the sandwiches in a packaged paper bag for me.
"Thanks. I'll eat them immediately I get to the office." I say to her and she smiled.
"The office. Hmm I like the sound of that. Make sure you work hard and don't cause any trouble there." She said to me.
"When have I ever caused trouble. Don't worry, I'll always be at my best behavior there. You know me." I say to her and gave her a hug.
"Hmm, shall we leave the house together?" My aunt asked me and I nodded.
"Yeah if you're ready." I say to her.
She put aside the sandwiches for Bryan and Bailey in a container and wrote a note on a paper for them and placed it on the table.
"Okay. Let's go." She said to me and I nodded.
We both left the house together. We walked swiftly till we got to the bus station.
We got into the bus together and rode for some time before she had to get off.
"Okay it's my stop now. Have a good day at work dear. I'm off." She said to me.
"You too. Don't over work yourself today woman." I say to her and she smiled at me and quickly got off the bus.
The bus continued moving to the city.
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~AT THE COMPANY 🏛️~
I got to work a little bit late today. It was about 8: 45 AM when I got to the office, I quickly made my way to the office, Ashley and Jasper were already there.
"Hey pretty girl. Good morning." Jasper said to me and I smiled.
"Good morning Jasper." I greeted him.
"Ashley, Good morning as well." I say to her and sat down on my chair, dropping my bags on my desk.
"Are you okay? You're sweating, did you run here?." Ashley asked me.
"What? No I didn't. I just walked really fast on my way here." I say to her, bringing out my handkerchief and wiping the sweat off of my face.
"Wow. You don't even makeup on? You're incredible." Jasper said to me.
"Oh um... yeah. I don't usually wear makeup." I say shyly to them.
"You're beautiful without even any make-up on. No wonder you're the center of attention around here." Ashley said to me.
"Center of attention? Ummm...I don't think I am." I responded to her.
"Hmm, if you say so." She replied and chuckled.
I quickly ate the sandwich my aunt made for me before diving right into work
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After some hours of working had passed, it was finally time for lunch.
Everyone went to the cafeteria to get something to eat.
After we sat on our lunch table, I quickly digged into my plate, devouring the very delicious spicy pasta with the salad I ordered for myself.
I wish my family would join me in eating this delicious food, we never eat something like this at home. Only in special occasions which rarely happens.
When I was almost done with my lunch, a postman came to our table where we were all sitting at and asked, " A package for one Miss Kimberly Gilbert?"
All eyes were now on me. Including people who weren't even sitting with us.
"Miss Kimberly Gilbert?" He asked again looking at every female sitting at the table.
I mustered the courage to speak up.
"Uhm....Yes?" I answered with a shaky voice.
"There's a special package for you." He said to me.
"Okay?" I said unsure of what exactly to say.
He suddenly spoke into the mini microphone he had in his ears, and suddenly some other guys wearing a uniform matched into the cafeteria carrying somethings with them.
"But I didn't...I didn't order for anything. Where's all these things coming from?" I asked him panicking a bit and he smiled at me.
"Don't worry. They're all from your SPECIAL admirer." He replied.
I looked at both Ashley and Jasper but they both looked quite surprised like I was.
"Admirer? What admirer? I'm sorry but I think you have the wrong person." I say nervously to them.
"You are Miss Kimberly Gilbert, aren't you?" He asked.
"I am." I muttered.
"Then it's no mistake. Drop the packages on her table please." He said and the other men in uniform dropped off some flowers, two big white boxes and a smaller box.
"I hope you have a wonderful day today Miss." He said to me and left the cafeteria with his men.
I sat down looking at the gifts in front of me, not knowing what to do or how to react.
"So let me get this straight, someone sent you bunch of gifts and you have no idea who it's from?" Ashley asked me.
"I don't." I replied.
"Hmm. But Is there anyone you have in mind that could be behind this?" She asked me.
"Not a slightest idea." I say still eyeing the gifts in front of me.
"Well, if you're not going to open them, I will." Jasper said.
"Not now Jasper, everyone's looking." Ashley said to him.
I looked around and indeed saw everyone's curious gaze on our table.
I don't like this attention. It'll only make them hate me more or worse, jealous of me. And I can't handle it if the whole department hated me.
I didn't even have the appetite to complete my lunch so I had to leave the rest of it.
After the lunch break was over, everyone went back to work in the office.
Ashley helped me carry the flowers, while jasper and I carried the boxes with us to the office.
"Okay okay, can we open them up now?" Jasper asked immediately we sat down in the office.
"Calm down. It's Kimberly's choice to open them or not." She said and I smiled slightly at her.
"We should probably open them to check if there's a bomb in there or something." I said to them and they nodded in agreement.
"Finally!" Jasper said sounding too excited as he opened one of the boxes.
It was wrapped stylishly with a white silky fold. He gently unwrapped the fold to expose a beautiful White dress.
It was one of the most beautiful gowns I've ever seen.
It was designed with diamond looking sequence, so elegant and gorgeous.
It looked like a dress meant for a princess not me.
I frowned upon seeing how gorgeous it was.
"Wow. Just wow. You see this? This isn't your normal regular dress, it's from one of THE top designers in the world, just look at the tag. This dress, it worths thousands of dollars." Ashley said excitedly, taking the dress from Jasper and showing me the tag which I wasn't interested in.
Thousands of dollars?
What in the hell is happening?
"I have no words. Speechless." Jasper said with his eyes fixed on the dress.
"I'm going to open the other box." Ashley said excitedly and quickly opened the second box.
It was also wrapped up neatly, it turned out to be a pair of shoes.
A strapped Black shoe adorned with diamonds pearls.
"Oh my God!!!" Ashley exclaimed.
"Shut up! My sister has been trying to get that shoe for months now but couldn't afford it just yet." Jasper declared.
"Kimberly, we might know nothing of this admirer of yours but we know one thing for sure. He's loaded, like madddd loaded." Ashley said to me.
I didn't know what to think of that.
I don't feel comfortable with this.
I've been courted by a rich man once and it ended badly because I refused to date him.
He was an ugly, old, shameless and a married rich man.
I don't want such to repeat itself again.
"Now for the last box." Ashley said excitedly as she opened the box.
It was a diamond necklace and a pair of diamond earrings.
"Oh. My. God." Jasper gasped.
"Is this real diamond? It can't be real diamond, right?" Ashley asked, her eyes fixated on the box of jewelry.
"I think it's real." Jasper said, looking at the box in Ashley's hand in awe.
"It's definitely not real. It can't be." I said to them nervously.
They were both staring intently at the box of jewelry when Mr Williams walked in on us.
He looked furious.
"Excuse me! What is going on here? Miss Kimberly, what is all this about? I heard about the stunt you pulled in the cafeteria. You realize this is a place of work, not a place to display your love life." He said to me.
"Sir, I'm so sorry but I had nothing to do with it. Someone sent them to me without my knowledge, I wouldn't have allowed it if I had known about it. I'm sorry sir please don't fire me." I explained myself to him.
He wanted to say something but his eyes landed on the open box of jewelry Ashley had kept on my desk.
"What in the name of beauty is that? My wife wanted one of those last week but it was out of stock from the diamond market. How did you get ahold of one?" He suddenly asked enthusiastically.
"Ummm...I...ehh... It was... one of the gifts... someone sent to me." I said slowly to him.
"Someone sent to you? Someone from this company?" He asked me.
"I don't know who sir." I said to him.
"Well, I'm very certain that no one here but only a few, can afford to get one of those, and for them to gift it to just anyone, means they can afford even more of it and they must also be very very rich. I wonder how you did it Miss Gilbert." He said to me.
"Well let's not get distracted. We still have to maintain work etiquette. Now back to your computers. Those Trade markets won't sell and buy itself." He said to us and moved forward to inspect other people.
"See? Told you your admirer is Loaded." Ashley said to me and shrieked excitedly.
"Kimberly, I think you and I should be closer as friends, you know, become best of friends and promise never to forget each other, ever." Jasper said to me and gave me a wide grin.
I gave him a small smile before putting everything back into their boxes.
I let out a heavy breath and focused back on my computer.
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I quickly packed up my things once it was time to go home.
Ashley insisted on giving me a ride to the bus station and I didn't decline this time around.
Once I got down from her car, I waved her goodbye and entered inside the bus with all the things I was carrying.
Of course people were staring at me weirdly, probably because of all the load I was carrying.
Once I got to my front door, I kept wondering how I would explain to my aunt about all the gifts I was with, including the flowers.
They might think I'm dating someone already.
God help me.
I need to talk to my best friend, Serena, at once.
I luckily sneaked into the house and ran inside my room, locked my door and quickly made an SOS call to Serena.
(Hey Career woman! ) Serena said once she picked up the call.
(Hi Rena, I need you to come over the house. I need your advice. It's urgent. ) I said to her.
(How urgent? ) She asked.
(It's an SOS level of urgency. ) I said to her and she quickly hanged up the phone call.
I sat on my bed looking at the gifts I kept on the chair in my room.
Who could it be from?
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~TBC~