The Secret Arrangement (3 page)

Over one week passed by and Laura began to get apprehensive if Ali would ever reach her again, she wondered if she should go back to the website to meet another man that could provide the same experience as Ali.

But when she thought Ali had forgotten her, surprisingly Laura received a call; he apologizes for his silence, but was traveling incessantly for business. He would be for four days in Dubai and asked her if she wanted to spend the time which was possible during the 4 days with him, because in between he had several business meetings.

Taking a deep and silent breath to hear from Ali again and proven once again her friends were wrong, Laura was genuinely glad to hear from Ali and when she heard his invitation she accepted immediately.

Ali was pleased to know that Laura was very easy going, that’s what he was looking for, someone who was always there for him, when he needed.

He ended the call saying he would send later an email with details. It took a few hours for Laura to receive the longed email. When she opens it, smiled satisfied, she would finally have some real excitement in her life and live the life she always wanted. As she was reading, Ali explained in the email that she should go in the next day to the city airport, and make herself announced in the private jet area, for his private jet for Dubai. At the Dubai airport she had a driver waiting for her to take her to the Burj al-Arab, which was the hotel where Ali was staying.

Laura read the email twice and confirmed to Ali she would be ready the next day, to meet him in Dubai.

Waking up excited about the trip, she packed her suitcase in a flash while she couldn’t stop thinking about the new experience she was going to have; she couldn’t help being excited to Ali again. She was certain that Ali will take her only to the best places in Dubai, without forgetting the financial part. She was curious to know how much he would give her this time for entire four days.

Upon arriving at the airport she went directly to the private jet area, and before she set foot on the first step of the small plane the flight attendant handles Laura a huge and beautiful bouquet of red roses with a card from Ali wishing a good trip. She loved the attention Ali could give to her when he had the time; she felt she was treated like a princess.

Inside the plane the treatment was not less like royalty, a real dream for Laura, she was literally in heaven.

Neither could she imagine what was about to come and what she was going to live.

During the flight Laura toke the opportunity to read everything about Dubai, curiosities and a brief history of the city, which she surprisingly discovered was a very recent city. Laura had the opportunity to appreciate a delicious meal as if she was in a Michelin star restaurant, drank champagne, seen movies that felt like it, she surfed on the Internet. A wonderful trip without the stress of having to carry suitcases, waiting in queues for check-in, it was just so easy going traveling this way and Laura was really pleased.

As soon as the plane landed there were people taking care once again all Laura’s luggage, and with a car at her disposal to drive her out the VIP area in a Rolls Royce.

She never had the pleasure sitting in a Rolls Royce in her life, it was so soft and comfortable, and it was impressive.

With the temperature literally scalding, the air conditioning car was turned on maximum and Laura was grateful to have fresh water and champagne available in the car.

Upon arrival at the hotel Burj Al-Arab, Laura entered the lobby and for her surprise she had four employees of the hotel waiting for her, one handed her with tweezers a small wrapped wet towel to wash hands. Laura thanked, a second employee handled bottle of fresh colony and drops a little bit in Laura’s hands. The following employee offered her a tray with dates and Laura took a date and finally the fourth and final employee offered her a small glass with mint tea.

After this unexpected and welcomed reception, Laura checked-in and was directed by the concierge to the suite where Ali was in.

Walking along the hotel, Laura was amazed with the lobby, with water dancing springs, while headed for the elevators next to the lobby, she took escalators and in the middle from bottom to the top of the escalators was a huge source of water falls.

The whole atmosphere was wonderful and swanky, where exquisite golden prevailed, accompanied with other vibrant colors like red or blue depending on the areas. The floor was marble as some walls, gold leaf railings.

Finally Laura managed to get inside the suite, it was huge with two floors all in gold and blue shades, but for huge disappointment Ali was not there and the suite was empty. Waiting for her was only strawberries involved in chocolate in a silver cup, a bottle of crystal champagne and in the next room there was a huge bouquet of red roses with a card:

"Please forgive me, for not being there waiting for you.

Let’s meet for dinner in one of my favorite restaurants in Dubai.

Inside the closet you will find a dress, shoes and a clutch, I hope you will like it.

Love, Ali”

Laura looked disappointed at the flowers, they look so beautiful. Went back to the other room and toke the silver plate with the strawberries, she could not resist temptation of tasting one. Going up to the room, she opens the closet and saw a beautiful long mermaid dress in emerald green and designer sandals. She looked at the shoes and remembered: Only the shoes he bought her were in the value of the entire month of her income when she used to work in the store, and now she won the effortlessly.

As there were still 5 hours to dinnertime, Laura took a relaxing bath in the most opulent bathroom she’d ever seen with all Hermes toiletries. Then she napped for an hour and then called for a hairdresser to the room to get her hair, manicure and her nails done. She was almost finished make-up and still in robe when Ali entered the room, Laura looked at him and they greeted enthusiastically with a long kiss and a hug.

"How nice to see you again. I'm so glad you came last minute, it means a lot to me."

"I loved the invitation, with you everything is a unique experience and I absolutely love it" said Laura with sincerity and enthusiasm, like an excited child telling a novelty. Ali laughed happy to be able to provide those experiences to Laura and he intended to continue to do so.

"My dear you haven’t seen anything yet, stay with me, and if get along, you will have many unique experiences, believe in me"

Hugging her at the same time, he added: "We have to hurry up, I booked the restaurant and we need to be there in 30 minutes"

"Where are we going?"

"We are not going anywhere really, we will go to one of the restaurants in the hotel"

Prepared, they went down in the elevator to the restaurant hand in hand. Laura loved that Ali treated her with kindness and like a real girlfriend and felt grateful that he did not treat her as a business.

As soon as Laura entered in the restaurant, she stopped, forcing Ali to stop as well. With and astonished face going with her eyes all over the restaurant, Ali looked at her and smiled hilarious and thought how she was always so enthusiastic about everything, he loved that she appreciate everything he had done so far to her.

Laura was admiring for a few moments the huge transparent walls of the restaurant where she could see through them the ocean, and every variety of fish.

To Laura, that restaurant was absolutely fantastic, she had read and seen pictures in the book she read during the flight, but being there and see with her own eyes was something she could not find the words to express herself, the restaurant was too incredible. Finally they sat and asked for typical Arabic food because Laura had never experienced.

They talked nonstop and after dinner they felt more relaxed, longing for each other, they went up and had a tenderness and loving night.

The next morning Laura imagined that Ali had to get up early, and she made an effort to be ready at the same time as he took breakfast in the suite. After, they went down together.

In the lobby Ali told her he has meetings all day long and come back only at dinnertime, Laura reassured him that he did not need to worry about her, she said she understood perfectly that he needed to work. Before leaving the main entrance, Ali handed her a credit card, smiling:

"Use and abuse from this card, buy real nice things for you, go shopping, pumper yourself"

Giving her a huge hug, kissing her, making Laura the luckiest woman in the world to have had the opportunity to have meet Ali. He feels it and says "I love to see you again and would love to make you happy"

She spends all day, following Ali’s advice, she had the driver at her disposal and the magnificent Rolls Royce went to Dubai Mall the largest shopping center in the world. On the way to the mall, Laura was once again impressed, she saw the massive new buildings, every building was larger than the other, fountains with dancing waters. Whether she looked, there was something wonderful just to look at it, she looked to one side of the road, she saw a car and when she thought there was nothing that could impress her today, she saw the car beside her, with an Arab driving with a cheetah next to the driver, sitting as a pet.

This was certainly the last display of wealth
- Thought Laura smiling and finding amazing what billionaires did to stand out from the rest of the humanity.

Strolling through the mall Laura felt the rich airy in the shopping center with the world's best shops concentrated where she could buy everything she wanted; she only needed money, which she had it. People who walked in the mall were mostly well groomed and it was well noticed the power of money in the air.

Her greatest desire was come true, having the liberty to choose and buy whatever she wanted, was a sense that made her feel on top of the world.

She didn’t lose time and bought a Prada bag, one beautiful night dress in Oscar De La Renta and one day dress at Chanel and lots of make-up, creams and two perfumes. She bought a coat at Burberry, white shirt and one pair of flats At Louboutin she bought one pair of heels and another one pair at Tom Ford. Lingerie she went crazy at La Perla, she wanted to surprise Ali and make him happy with the finest lingerie. And she bought in the only gold ATM machine in the world a gold bar to offer to Ali.

Already with too many bags, she hired a carry bag man to carry all her shopping and drops to the car for her. One of the most famous marinas was the place Laura chooses for lunch, which was another location with only new sky scrapers.

After lunch she did something she had always wanted to do, she hires a small hydra plane and over fly’s the city and surrounding area to see from everything the air. She saw the most famous islands in a palm tree shape and the islands forming the world map. Laura loved to see the contrast of the city, one side was the sea and the other side was the desert.

Returning in the evening to the hotel, and happy with a day filled with unique experiences.

Back to the suite, Ali had arrived as well, she had an infectious enthusiasm talking about all she had seen and purchased, offering him the small gold bar to him to use in his wallet if he wanted. He looked at the gold bar and smiled for her, because she remembered him and have bought something he likes.

Until dinner time, their focused on each other, Laura genuinely enjoyed being with him and Ali felt the same about Laura, he loved the simple way she appreciate everything he was able to give her. They matched up well and truly enjoyed each other's company.

But there was something about Ali that Laura is completely unaware, which is that Ali was already married to two women and had six children back in Iran.

Right now Ali was searching for his third wife, a young wife who could give him more children.

He intended to tell her when he thought Laura was ready for it, as he needed time to get to know her and know if she could be a wife for him to stay in London and raise their kids most of the time alone, although he would provide for all assistance she needed, he wouldn’t be there most of the time. Ali was hoping she would like to marry him willingly, before knowing the whole truth, and in exchange he didn’t mind to give Laura he knew she wanted, comfortable life and lots of money.

But what Ali was not counting with was that Laura had no agenda to get married, not with him for sure.

She aspired to live that life of luxury, but not as the wife of a billionaire, she just wants the door open to enter to the lavish life with Ali and from there she will do everything she can to stay in that world, with a boyfriend, sugar daddy or alone.

She still doesn’t know for now, because she was still studying the situation and would definitely try to approach more than one situation from here then Ali to understand how it worked for business, to be able to see if she could somehow build a business for her as well and be successful and not depending completely on a man, she would like to have something mean full to spend her time and earn money from it.

But she was still exploring possibilities and reading books on the subject.

As if the universe had heard Laura, they ended up changing dinner plans and went dinner at the last minute with Ali’s business partner. Laura took the opportunity to use her new clothes she had bought at the mall, and before leaving the room, Ali offered her a pair of earrings with 1 carat diamonds.