Chapter 499 - Orion Enterprise annual meeting (12) (2/2)

Everyone was dazed, processing what happened. Felix's words were like oil on top of water, not sinking in, and not mixing with their knowledge of how things should be.

Felix gave microphone to a random person who was standing nearby, and walked with Sophia toward the middle of the dance area.

Announcer made few steps back and signaled DJ to start music previously picked for this dance. It was picked by Samantha from Venus team, a slow song.

Samantha regretted her song choice when she saw that she is not the one dancing.

Soft music started and Felix pulled Sophia in his embrace.

”How was that?”, his confident smile told her that he knows already.

”Perfect.” Sophia was not able to stop smiling. Now everyone in company knew that two of them are engaged, just like she wanted. And she was in his embrace. There is no other place she would rather be.

They started moving following the beat of the music.

At this time some people started clapping, and it didn't take much for others to join in. Soon, most of the people clapped and commented on what happened in last few minutes. Men admired such an open public display of affection, and women could not deny that it was very romantic. Number of women wished to swap with Sophia, but there is nothing they could do except to watch, and clap. After that they will go and get a drink, or two, to make themselves feel better.

Felix and Sophia gazed into each other's eyes while moving as one. They didn't notice anyone around them. It was just the two of them in the world.

They didn't notice three ladies from Venus team stumble off the stage. Defeated.

They didn't notice that Sarah and Aiden as well as JoAnna and Jeff joined them in dancing.

David was watching from the side. He admired his Boss. He had to admit that this was done in style.

On the second floor, Stella and Edward watched their daughters dancing on the big screen. Stella was pleasantly surprised when Edward extended his arm to her and asked for a dance.

Leah was happy that it all turned out well. The scavenger hunt was not canceled, so resources and effort were not wasted. Cheaters didn't win… and Sophia even got her dance with Felix.

Leah looked around and could not spot Isabella. She went to find her. It took her some time to locate the petite redhead.

When Leah's eyes landed on Isabella, she froze.

Isabella was sitting at the far away table with a young man. They had drinks in front of them, beer from the tap, it seems. Two of them looked friendly with each other.

Leah felt constriction in her chest while observing Isabella and that man smiling at each other. She turned around and headed back, regretting that she came to look for Isabella. 'What was I expecting?', she exhaled. Subconsciously, she frowned while trying to suppress the image of Isabella and that man from her mind.

Leah saw that Sophia is still dancing with Felix and estimated that this is third or maybe fourth song since they started dancing. 'It seems that everything is well on that side.'

She moved to make sure other events are progressing as expected.