Esmeralda's POV

Mr Stone freezes after I ask the question. The dazed part of me wants to ask why he's hesitating but the sane part of me that has decided to be as professional as possible keeps screaming at me to move away.

"What did you just call me?" He asks looking extremely puzzled.

What did I call him?

I then remember that I said Hunter instead of Mr. Stone. Way to go Esme, what a way to get fired. Calling your boss by his first name.

"I'm sorry Mr Stone, I didn't mean to...."

"No, I mean how did you know that my first name is Hunter?" He asks looking suspicious.

Does he think I'm a spy from another company?

"I'm really sorry" I apologize again.

"How. Did. You. Know?" He asks again his teeth gritting.

"I heard it from that girl that mistook me for Sunflower or Daisy or whatever her name is on the day of my interview" I answer not understanding his sudden curiosity about where I got his name from.

"Which girl?" He enquires again.

"Your girlfriend. The one that was complaining about you not telling her that you've found Sunflower" I reply my mind suddenly realizing that I was just getting a little too personal with someone's boyfriend. I frown at that thought.

"Her name is Daisy not Sunflower. And the girl complaining is my sister Lily" he says looking disappointed about something.

A strange part of me is happy that that girl is not his girlfriend.

Get yourself in check Esme, the fact that the girl is not his girlfriend doesn't mean he doesn't have other girls.

"I'll take my leave now" I say hurriedly standing up just as a knock sounds on the door.

The person opens the door without waiting for an answer.

"Hunter baby, Festus couldn't make it so I decided to bring it mysel......" The gorgeous lady who just walked in pauses when she sees me.

She eyes me from head to toe then ignores me completely. She continues moving forward and when she finally gets to Mr. Stone, she places a kiss right on the mouth. I look away and I grip my notepad in...anger? Jealousy?

Get over yourself, you've barely known him for two days.

But any lady would have to be blind not to want to be in her shoes. Mr Stone is perfection.

The girl who I'm guessing is his girlfriend or at least one of his many girlfriends according to the tablets an gossip magazines finally pulls away from him.

I finally did a little research and what I read about his love life wasn't pretty. He changes girls like he changes clothes. He's never seen with the same girl twice. And he has a thing for tall blondes with blue eyes.

She turns to give me a 'he's mine and you're dead if you go near me' look and I internally roll my eyes.

"Jennifer, what are you doing here?" Mr Stone asks pushing her away not so subtly.

"Festus was caught up in something else so I brought the dress myself. It's the perfect size for me, you ordered it for me to wear to the gala right? I chose the one I liked the most, it's so sexy, you're going to get so hard when you see me in it that you'l....." I clear my throat to remind them of my presence successfully halting her purring.

"You couldn't have sent any of the other drivers or don't you think it's strange having the manager of the fashion house making the delivery. What does Lily think about this?" He asks moving away from her to go back to his chair and she follows him.

"She doesn't have to know. Why haven't you called me since that night?" She asks her voice becoming sultry.

"Miss Griffin, please take that dress. That is for the charity gala tomorrow night" he says gesturing to the package Jennifer dropped on the table.

She turns sharply to glare at me as if it's my fault the dress was ordered for me not her. I ignore her and pick up the dress.

"Thank you Mr Stone" I say nodding curtly before moving our of the office and leaving them to to whatever it is they want to do.

I can't help but be angry about something. Mr Stone is such a jerk! How dare he get personal with another woman when he has a girlfriend.

Stupid Esme, why didn't you keep things professional.

After blaming myself for a few more minutes, I get to work and start sending the emails and messages Mr Stone asked me to send to some people.

It takes about half a hour before the girl finally comes out of Mr Stone's office smirking at me like she just won a lottery.

When the time to leave the office comes, I'm only too relieved. I pick up my bag make my way to the elevator. I can't wait to get home.

As I get to the elevator, it opens and two men step out. Not ordinary men, I mean two extremely good-looking men. I have to resist the urge to gawk at them like a love-struck teen.

They walk pass me without even noticing me and when they do, one bumps my shoulder. I wait for the apology that never came.

When I realize that they just kept walking away, I get angry. I can't stand rude people.

"Hey!" I call out but they don't answer me.

I turn back to walk ahead of them and then stop in front of them suddenly halting there movement.

"You just bumped into me and you had no courtesy to apologize" I spit out in anger.

"I have no time for this drama right now" The one that bumped into me mutters and makes a move to walk forward.

I block his way again and he sighs.

"What exactly do you want?" He asks exasperated not even sparing me a glance.

The second one was too busy staring at me curiously to interfere.

"Apologise" I state without hesitation.

He finally looks at me at the same time the second one's face lits up with what looks to be recognition.

"Daisy?" They ask at the same time looking shocked.

Okay, this is getting really old now. How many times do I have to say this? I am not Daisy!

Hunter's POV

I pause in signing the documents I'm currently working on when I hear a commotion going on outside. I wait for a few minutes and when the noise doesn't subside, I stand up to find out what's going on.

Those people making such ruckus better have a damn good excuse.

When I step out of the office into the corridor leading to the elevator, I see Blake and Tyler staring in shock at Miss Griffin.

Oh God, not this again.

"Where have you been all these years?" Blake asks.

"We've searched for you everywhere!" Tyler adds.

"This Daisy girl again? For the last time, I am not Daisy!" Miss Griffin says sounding frustrated.

I quickly step forward before things get out of hand.

"Blake,  Tyler, she isn't Daisy. Meet Miss Griffin my personal assistant. Miss Griffin, meet Doctor Blake the CEO of the Denovan's group of hospitals and medical schools and Tyler the CEO of the Grant's shipping company" I say; trying to make the introductions.

"Miss Griffin?...but...Daisy....I thought.... Never mind. Nice to meet you Miss Griffin. Sorry for the mix up, you really look like someone I knew" Tyler; always the gentleman says smiling and offers her a handshake.

Miss Griffin takes Tyler's hand but doesn't stop glaring at Blake.

What the hell did Blake do now?

Since the incident with him and Bloom in high school, he had turned into a complete jerk to women. And with the messy divorce he's going through right now with Stephanie trying to win the custody case of Sophie their daughter, he has been extra moody. So I wouldn't be surprised if he had done something asshole-like to Dais-Esmeralda.

I frown at that thought and frown more at the fact that I feel protective over Esmeralda.

"Yeah, nice to meet you too" she replies.

"I'll be on my way now" she says giving Blake one last glare before smiling at Tyler and walking towards the elevator.

"Thank God she's gone. My head is too occupied for her drama" Blake says in relief and  I can't help but get angry about the fact that he was talking that way about Esmeralda.

Before I can say anything, Tyler beats me to it.

"You could have prevented all this if you had just stopped being an asshole for once and apologized to her after bumping into her" Tyler says sounding angry.

Blake uses the heel of both his palms to rub his eyes.

"I'm sorry guys, I'm just so tired of everything and it doesn't help that she looks like Daisy, which automatically means she reminds me of Bloo-HER" he says and I feel bad for him.

He has been through more shit than any of us have and he still turned out great. I never would have thought Blake would turn out to be a doctor. A professional football player? Definitely. But a doctor? I did not see it coming.

We move inside my office and seat down. I then loosen my tie since working hours were over.

"So what's the latest news about Sophie? Does it look like the final verdict will favor you?" I ask Blake and he sighs.

"I don't know but I'll do everything in my power to have my baby with me. Stephanie is not mother material" he answers and Tyler who was sitting close to him pats him on the shoulder.

"If there's anything we can do to help, tell us and we'll do it" Tyler says and I nod in agreement.

Blake's phone vibrate indicating he has a message and he picks it up to read it. When he keeps staring at the phone with a sad expression, Tyler and I immediately know what he's staring at.

"Blake, you know you can't keep doing this to yourself. What do you gain from that except pain to see her with other men?" Tyler asks looking worried.

Tyler snatches Blake's phone and passes it to me after looking at whatever is on the screen. When I look at his phone, I see the headline 'BLOOM GATES; THE QUEEN OF MUSIC SPOTTED LAST NIGHT IN A NIGHT CLUB IN LAS VEGAS WITH F-RED THE NEW RAPPER THAT HAS BEEN BLOWING OUR MINDS' on top of the cover of the article.

Below the extremely long headline was a blurry picture of Bloom and a guy with a Mohawk that looks like a rainbow vomited on holding her around her waist.

"Why should you subscribe to getting news like this? I thought you.said you were over her! That you can't forgive her for what she did! You're only hurting yourself" I exclaim angry that he's adding to his burden by torturing himself with pictures of Bloom.

"So what if I'm not over her? At least she's alive unlike Daisy..." Before he finishes his statement, I stand up from my seat, move around the table swiftly and punch him in the face.

"She's alive and yet you can't have her, you can only watch other men have her. That's worse than her being dead" I spit and he gets angry and punch me in the face unaware.

I stumble backwards a bit with the force of his punch.

"Guys, you're adults now. Stop behaving like you're still in high school. The bitter truth is we all lost our girls in high school. Shit happens. Fighting about it won't change a thing. Blake, you lost Bloom. Hunter, you lost Daisy. And I lost Chloe; I never even got the chance to tell her I was in love with her. Do you think punching each other like kids will make them all come back. So put on your big man panties and deal with your shit" Tyler yells and Blake and I pause to stare at him for a second before exploding into fits of laughter.

"Did he just.....he just....he.." Blake tries to form a sentence between his guffaws but can't seem to complete it.

"You just said.....said.......big man panties" he finally succeeds before going into another feet of laughter while banging the table.

I hold on to Blake's shoulder to be able to catch my breath.

"I just mentioned extremely sad things and the only thing you got out of my words is 'big man panties'? Your physique and position in the society might have changed as you grew up but you guys never matured" Tyler says smiling softly and after a few more chuckles, Blake and I finally compose ourselves.

"I'm sorry man, I didn't mean any of the shit I said" Blake says to me offering me a handshake.

"Neither did I" I say taking his hand and going back to my seat.

"I thought you guys were all going to arrive in the city tomorrow evening for the charity gala, why are you here early?" I ask them both.

"We heard from your Dad that there is a lead as to where Daisy is. Do you think Daisy will finally be found?" Blake asks and I shrug casually even though I was feeling anything but casual about this situation.

"Do you know that the lead Dad was talking about is Miss Griffin? But the clues are not adding up so I won't get my hopes up like the other times in the past" I answer.

"But what if Miss Griffin is Dais....." Blake gets cut off by my phone ringing.

"You need to come here right now, I just found out something very important regarding Daisy" Mike says urgently.

Esmeralda's POV

I stomp my feet in anger as I walk to the front of the humongous building to hail a cab. I really needed to fix my car soon. I didn't wait for long before a taxi stopped to pick me up. I describe my address and the driver nods before going back to ignoring me.

When I get to my two bedroom apartment. I throw my bag on my couch with a little too much force. I blame asshole Blake for putting me in a bad mood. I go into my bedroom and change into a casual outfit before moving to the kitchen to microwave dinner for myself.

While waiting, I decide to search up who the infamous Daisy everyone is mistaking me for is. I type 'Daisy and Hunter Stone' into the computer since I didn't know her last name. The computer loaded various articles, gossip blogs and pictures. I click on the first article with the heading "Heiress of the Heart group of hotels gone missing".

The article was about how Daisy was supposedly kidnapped and murdered. This led to the terrible health condition of her father since she was his only living relative. The article reported that the details of the whole incident remain unknown to the general public.

I opened another article but it was only repeating what the previous one said only with different words. All these was really sad but I still didn't see the connection between Hunter and Daisy. Maybe she was a fling.

One article finally catches my attention and I click on it. It read 'Hunter Stone of the Stone Empire and Daisy Heart of the Heart group of hotels ENGAGED!!!'. So she was his fiancé. The first thing on the page was a picture of a younger Mr Stone and Daisy dancing at their engagement party looking so oblivious to their environment. The resemblance between Daisy and I strikes me so hard that I jerk a bit.

The girl is the one in the picture I accidentally broke today in Mr. Stone's office. They looked so enraptured in each other that it almost looked magical. A weird longing stirs up in me as I keep staring at the picture. I shake my head and close the tab. I suddenly remember that I have dinner in the microwave so I rush to the kitchen and I get there just as the timer beeps. I take out the spaghetti and eat silently.

After a while, I get ready to go to bed. I decide to open the box Mr. Stone gave me and check what kind of dress it contained. I pray that it will be something conservative. I'm not a prude but my parents are Catholic and they will blow a fuse if I ever wore something indecent. Besides, I won't feel comfortable in it.

My  jaw drops in shock when I remove the dress from the box. It's basically a mosquito net! I'm supposed to wear this!!! What exactly was the designer thinking when he/she made this? This isn't even worthy to be worn to bed!

I check the tag and gasp at the name of the brand. It's flipping Arianna Cade! Middle class people like me can only dream of wearing this brand.

I bring the dress against my body to see how it looks like and I cringe at my reflection. I can't wear this. The large scar on my back will be bare for everyone to see and I don't want anyone poking their nose into my business. Even I can't remember how I got the scar. My mum told me that it was from the car accident that made me lose part of my memory.

My phone rings and I drop the dress on the bed to pick it up. A shriek is delivered to my ear as soon as I press the answer button and I distance the phone from my  ear to save what's left of my hearing ability. I check the identity of the caller and see that it's my crazy best friend; Keesha.

"Chica, why the fuck didn't you tell me that you've gotten a fucking job? If I wasn't so happy for you, I would be offended right now!" She shrieks some more.

"K, turn down the volume and Jesus Keesha, mind your language"

"Babe, I had to hear the news from your Fucking mom. So....any hot hunk at work?" She asks and I could practically feel her wiggling her eyebrows from the other end of the phone.

I open my mouth to answer her question but she cuts me off.

"What's the name of the company? Your mother said you didn't tell her, why?" She asks again.

"It's not a company...well it is a company but it's the headquarters of all the companies under it's name. You know the Stone Empire, right? And I didn't tell my Mum because she would freak out about being the secretary for such a notorious womanizer" I reply and wait for a response that never came.

"Keesha?....K?..... Keesha? are you still ther...."

"You're working for the younger stone, are you shitting me right now?" She screams into the phone.

I'll never get used to Keesha's loudness.

"Yes, I'm his assistant" I reply picking up the dress again and willing it with my eyes to grow a few more inches.

"I never thought I'd say this because of how much I love my life but I wish I was you right now" she says and I can hear the awe in her voice.

"Just...." She starts in a calm tone.

Calm Keesha was never a good thing.

"What K?" I ask dreading what she was about to say.

"Just please be careful with him okay? I know you just got out of a terrible relationship and I don't want you getting your heart broken again" she concludes.

"I only said I was working for him not that I was sleeping with him. And I'll be fine, we barely even talk." I say.

'Yeah, because almost swapping spit is not close at all' my sarcastic sub conscious chips in.

"If I was you, trying to keep my hands away from him would be the real job" Keesha says already back to her normal self.

"You need help" I say rolling my eyes knowing that she can't see it. She hates it when people roll eyes at her.

"And talking about help, I have a situation here. There's a charity gala tomorrow night and Mr Stone got me a dress and let's just say that the dress isn't even worthy enough to be an underwear. Plus, it'll expose my scar, what do I do?" I whine.

"Well, send me the picture and I'll see if I can get something that looks like it only a bit more conservative" she says.

"That might be a little bit impossible. It's Arianna Cade's design. You can't find anything like it anywhere" I mutter.

The shriek that follow my words were expected so I quickly move my phone away from my ear.

"Oh my God, oh my God! I'm coming over right away. I guess we're going to have a girls night today" And without saying goodbye, she hangs up.

I shake my head, she's crazy but I love her all the same.

My phone rings again and I pick it up knowing it's Keesha. She probably forgot to say something.

"Ever heard of warning people before hanging up?" I chide her.

"I need you Daisy" I hear Mr Stone's broken sob from the end of the line.

What the hell happened to him?