LIFE BEGINS AT 40

BRANDON

I do not know what is wrong with me when our eyes met. There is something wrong with my heart. This is the first time I felt meeting a woman that my heart is racing. I am not a teenager anymore for Christ's sake. Why I was having this kind of feelings in front of her? This is crazy.

I cleared my throat as I still looked at her. Still she is not blinking her eyes staring at me. I think we felt the same as our eyes met.

"Is that the foods Chef Bob prepared for me?" I asked then glanced at the food she was holding then back at her.

"Huh! Am, y-yes boss." She was stuttering her words without looking at me. I can see that she is nervous in front of me.

"Okay, can you put it on that table?" I said as I pointed the center table near the couch. She nodded then slightly bended her body down to put on it. She took it out from the tray then arranged properly. She straightens her body. 

"Boss, your foods are ready." She said. I walked towards the table and sat on the couch. "If there's nothing else boss I will go down now," she said still in a low voice as if I could not really hear.

"No, I mean take a sit in front of me." I said to her that her eyes wide open in shocked. I can see that she was uneasy with me. I saw her quickly bite her upper lip while slowly seated the other couch. I still looking at her that make her tenser. "Am I that scary that you are afraid to look at me?" I asked.

She looked at me in the eyes. "No, boss but… I… I honestly nervous right now and I.. I cannot deny that." She said without blinking. 

I saw her small smiled on her face. "Yeah, I know I am not a teenager but I cannot help it in front of you." She said frankly, as I saw her lips moving like biting inside her teeth.

"Are you thinking that I might do something bad on you now?" I asked her and she nodded. My instinct was right I know what she was thinking even in her age now. I know she is not some kind of person that always encounters this kind of job. 

Knowing that I am the owner of the club and she is alone with me. Maybe she is thinking that I am a bad person who takes advantage of their employees. The way she walked I knew that she is a decent person I think she do not know how to flirt a man in her whole life. The shyness in her that caught me, it was natural and never pretending.

I know different kinds of people as I reached this age and I know who were real or not. This woman in front of me is something I like to keep.

I smiled as I looked at her. "Do not think of anything I will not do something bad I just want to know my new employee that's all." I said and I saw she her small smiled. "Why don't you join me I won't take no for answer." I added as I grabbed the spoon and floor then gave it to her. She accepted my offer and we start eating.