Chapter 5
Kyle. Hello. "She said with a pleasant smile.
"Christina... Good to see you again. " Kyle replied ever so politely
  They walked down the stairs together....... In silence. Before he broke the awkward silence,
  "I never knew that your dad was a lawyer by profession."he asked quietly.
"Oh I got the inspiration for my profession from him. "She replied still holding her smile.
Some woman passed them on the wide staircase,  heading in the opposite direction. She grinned seeing them side by side, "Well, don't you two look so lovely together? "
"We are not together " Kyle and Christina said almost at the same time.
"Oh I'm sorry " The woman said as she hurried up the stairs looking very embarrassed.
  Christina smiled at him as she turned to the left to meet someone who was beckoning on her. He quickly turned left to the direction of the gardens. Having no one to talk to at the moment, he decided to go some light reconnaissance. While pretending to admire the gardens he found a vantage point that allowed him to watch Vanessa and her boyfriend but then he saw the glittering diamond on her finger that he hadn't noticed the last time he met her and he had no doubt that she wasengaged to the man smiling by her side. He had to be in love with her to have proposed to her.
                   Love.
It was something he knew he couldn't find, something he knew he didn't deserve. He had been foolish as a teenager to believe that Laura had loved him. But after their brutal break up he had sworn that no lady will ever make him feel so useless so helpless.
      By ten'oclock',  Kyle was ready to call it a night he'd pretty much exhausted his ability to make a good and polite chit chat with a bunch of people he didn't know.
      Tired  from all the conversation, he decided to grab something to drink before getting on the road. He made his way to the bar that had been set up on one end of the terrace and ordered a club soda.
Drink in hand, he leaned against the terrace while watching people. He was on his last sip when something caught his eye. A flash of blue and black caught his eye.
  Truth be told, this wasn't the first time this particular flash of blue and black had caught his eye. Christina had been everywhere at the party. Laughing, smiling, chatting  and mingling with almost everyone. It seemed she was very popular and always in his line of sight with her sleek long legs and that damn dress that fell of her shoulder. It made a man think things. Made a man think-
                Sin.
Things a man definitely had no business thinking about a woman who wasn't his wife, a woman he'd gone out of his way to avoid throughout the night.
  Brushing those thoughts aside, Kyle set his empty glass on the tray next to the bar. Just then, his ear caught the conversation of the group standing in front of him.
    "...... heard they have started planning the wedding."said a woman.
  "Wasn't that the time that Christina was supposed to get married to that young successful engineer?" asked the second woman standing beside her.
   "Yes. Probably she is cursed. I know she has always had a bad history with relationships. "the first woman snickered
A third woman jumped in, shushing the first two, "ssshh. Christina's standing right there, "She whispered.
  Kyle looked over his shoulder and saw Christina in a mid conversation with two men who if he recalled  correctly  from the whirlwind of introductions,were her colleagues. She stood closest to the gossiping  women, so it was certainly possible she'd heard their gossip about her. But her expression gave nothing away as she carried on, business as usual.
  He found himself consciously saying it was time to call it a night. He found Nessa and Zack and had every intention of a saying a quick goodbye. But unluckily for him, guy Zack seemed to like him alot knowing that he was a reporter and worked in the newspaper company thrilled him the more. Zack introduced him to yet more people -People who were as fascinated to hear that he was a reporter. They immediately hit him with a stand litany of questions. So you are a reporter? (Yes). How is that like? (Fun. So much fun)
   And so on.
Finally he made his getaway twenty minutes later. He decided to walk around the house instead of going back inside,thinking it will be his quickest escape route from his new fans. He immediately hung his jacket on his arm as he followed the paved walkway past the swimming pool and guest house and into a more secluded garden he hadn't noticed.
  Sitting on a bench tucked away from the rest of the party, was Christina.