?THE ROMANTIC
CEO ?
{ un-der the rain of love…}
By melody.
Chapter 26.
Vixen pulled xan by his wrist and made him collide his back against the opposite wall with a ha-rd thud.
Xan stared at his brother like he had suddenly become tongue-tied.
Vixen held him pinned to the wall by his shoulder, grazing his eyes at him.
” Xan. You shouldn’t raise your arm to hit katrina. I’m saying this…its for a good reason.”
” What other good reason should i believe. She’s just too rude and she thinks she can control everyone in here?!. She needs to be taught to use some sense!” Xan yelled.
” I un-derstand that as well, xan. From the face of things, she needs help and concern because her situation is totally out of normal.”
” So what exactly do you mean??….” xan raised his thick brows up.
” I think we should learn to accept katrina. I know she behaves like a freak and i know she’s totally annoying, but…Not everyone you meet comes in with the type of standard you are expecting. Mn?”
Xan heaved a sighed and turned to look at her.
” I wouldn’t want to hit her and end up regretting it just the way i did to Amy.” He said, his haste spirit in dying down.
” Yeah.” Vixen scoffed.
” When you guys are done mummering about me, wake me up! ” Katrina yelled from the other end as she fell back on her chair.
Xan began to step up to her and then, his strong thick arms palmed her table, boring his gaze at her like a falling tree.
” Katrina! Or whatever your name is!. Like i said earlier, i give you just one week to change from this behaviour. If you can’t, I’ll drive you out myself. Do you hear me?”
” fairly well, Boss!!” She said in mimcry, doing like a scout student.
Xan heaved a tiresome sigh as he stepped aback, he stared at her for a while before leaving the office.
She leaned up on her table, cu-pping her cheeks with her full palm.
” So who do i choose among this two hot brothers of a kind now, mn?. Vixen has a stunning face and xan has a body i crave for.” She mumbled.
Suddenly, Vixen walked up to her holding up a tall mop with him.
He dropped it on her table.
” Take this. Clear up your office.” He told her.
Katrina stood up, having red eyeballs.
” Did you employ me here as a cleaner or a secretary, cus I’m sick and tired of getting confused?”
” The inks. You created the mess, so you will clean it off yourself!” He said to her sternly.
” Fine, fine..” she said sitting back on her chair. ” It seems both the mop and i will do a good job staring at eachother till we leave here.” She said, grinning inwardly.
” Anytime you feel to clean up the whole mess, kate. But I’m sure you can’t leave your office looking like this. No one will help you clean it, do it yourself.” He said and katrina yawned loudly.
He leaned on her table, coming close to her oval face.
” And one more thing, lady…” He muttered.
” Your jokes are no longer effective on me any more so i don’t know for how long you will continue in this. I just wish you could probably change.” He said.
After a while of silence, he stepped out of her office slamming the door.
Katrina threw back her heads, yawning loudly again. She rested her palm on her cheeks as she stared around her office.
He was right. She couldn’t manage to remain in this office that look like it was sculpted with a dangerous painting.
He even made it clear that her jokes were now off and boring to him. That made her whole active spirit drop to zero instantly.
She bent her backs tiredly as she walked up to the mop stick.
She pulled the mop into the soapy bucket, raking it ha-rd with anger before splashing it out on the floor.
” I hate men. I hate people so much!!. Nothing will make me change!. Absolutely nothing!” she yelled.
She scru-bbed the floor, pulling her anger into it. She bit her li-ps ha-rd as tears fell out.
She hadn’t clean up to a quarter of the mess when she the mop broke apart.
” Stupid mop!. That’s how useless it is, just like me.” she yelled throwing it to the floor.
She ran to bow her head on her table.
” i hate my life. I’m so horrible!. No one ever loves me so why should i ever love them too. fuc-k all the damn people here!. I_i..hate you all!”
***
AMY’S APARTMENT.
Amy was in her toilet. She stared at the pregnancy tube in her hand. Her eyes bulged out immediately.
It was showing….A big positive.
She fell her backs on the wall and threw her heads away as her breath became stiff and hard.
She was pregnant. She was_ for xan. This was suppose to be a goodnews for her but her heart felt heavy and very guilty.
Slow tears began to fall off her eyes and she quickly ru-bbed her cheeks.
” Alicia!!” She heard her mom’s voice and she quickly hid the test in her closet.
She turned on her tap, filling her palm with water before ru-b-bing her face.
She smiled at the mirror. Nothing was working for her…even her smile.
” Alicia dear!!” Her mom yelled her name for the seventh time.
” I’m coming, mom!” She screamed, slamming her door close as she ran down the stairs.
Her steps retarded the moment she saw who was in her livingroom with her mom.
Some guest, she supposed…
She stepped down the stairs, covering her cloth to hide her body. Her face turned blunt and dispersed.
” Alicia. Come over quickly.” Her mom probbed her with a smile.
She picked a can from the table before approaching her guest in the livingroom.
After sitting next to her mom, she raised her gaze to meet the guest eyes.
” Alicia. This is my best friend, Ummi. She came all the way from mersbug with her son here.” She introduced.
Amy looked at the young man who was sitting next to his mom. He looked Chinese.
” Well, Ummi. This is Alicia. My daughter.” Mrs qin started.
” Woah. She’s grown big and so beautiful.” Ummi said, nudging her son’s arm playfully.
” Yeah. The years pa-ssed on like a breeze, Ummi. She just turned 23 recently.” Her mom said and turned to Amy.
” Why are our two couples silent?”
” Two couples?” Amy asked, blinking her eyes at her mom.
” Yes, Alicia. I know my job is not to search for a man for you but I’m sure Ummi son is just a perfect match for you. Mind you, He’s also a CEO.” She said.
Amy heaved a sigh, looking away. She couldn’t her mom was doing this to her.
Xan should come quickly. He should come get her before someome else.
” Why don’t you go over and greet them, Alicia?” Her mom asked.
Amy smiled, shaking her heads.
” Sure” she said and stood up, walking up to the woman and her son.
She approached the son, slowly stretching out her arm for an handshake as the other hand brou-ght out her can.
she quickly brou-ght out her pepper spray Can and curled her li-ps, fleeting his face.
He screamed grabbing his cheek and she sprayed both of them. Mrs qin stood up and got into the scene as well.
She tried to stop her but Amy stubbornly fought her off. She sprayed every part of their body and made them run out of the house following themselves behind.
She dropped the spray Can and heaved a satisfied sigh.
That was so much better. Never would any one come for her again!. She was for xan. He was her’s.
She turned around to meet her mother who had been waiting for her patiently for her to come back, realising her mistake.
” Mom” Amy said, her eyes getting wide with fear.
Mrs qin slowly walked to her, her whole fragile bones almost felt like it would break down.
” Alicia.” she shaked her heads. Amy stared at her eyes and saw the painful tears trickle down her eyes.
” Who do you think you are, Alicia!. Answer me!!” Her mom yelled.
” I am Xan’s Wife!” She yelled back at her mom.
Her mom eyes got instantly soaked with de-eper red toxic, filled with anger and detest.
She grabbed her Amy’s hair.
” You Bastard!!” She screamed. Amy winced as her mom pulled her up the stairs towards her room.
She felt her whole body fall on top of the bed, causing a sharp pain on her belly.
Mrs qin picked her thick pillows.
” I want the best for you, yet you make all my effort like a basket!!” She yelled, hitting her hardly.
” Where was the Alicia i once knew. Where was that daughter that promised to make the future better!” She yelled, hitting her constantly.
She got tired and dropped the pillow aside, inhaling heavily.
” I’d prefer you stay single than to marry xan. That foolish kid will never be your husband!” She hissed and walked out of the room, slamming the door hardly.
Amy laid on the bed, arms spread. She shut her eyes close and finally broke into a sob.
****
TUESDAY.
COFFEE CAFÈ.
Katrina’s heel clic-ked on the tiles as she made way to the ‘Cafè Cafè’ where all the workers stayed to have lunch.
She walked over to the coffee’s dispenser and got her cu-p filled up with hot steaming coffee.
She turned around only to spill the drink on someone’s shirt.
She looked up and saw it was the one’s of vixen. Her face immediately turned sour.
” Gosh!. What was on your mind!. Where you that blin_” Her words cut short as vixen palmed her mouth ti-ghtly.
Her eyes were wide with detest as she stared at him. He looked away from her and to-re out a serviette from the table.
” Have it.” He said and folded it into her palm.
Then he held her wrist, looking up at her as he supported her hand to clean his shirt.
He stopped and left hold of her, making her lazy arm aimlessly fall.
” And then you apologise.That all you should have done, instead of yelling.” He told her.
He left hold of face and stared at her more closely. She threw the serviette away on the floor and poured more on his shirt.
Vixen shifted back in shock. The coffee was hot and it was burning him from inside.
” You totally deserved it! Do you hear me?. Idiot!!” She yelled and tried to step away.
Without turning around, vixen skillfully grabbed her wrist and made her reverse back to him.
She raised her watching him in so much wonder. What kind of man was this??
Vixen brou-ght up his own coffee cu-p and picked hers.
” Youve wasted your coffee on me. It’s quite smaller. Have some…” He said and poured a little for her
He sipped out of his cu-p and raised his cu-p in the halfway in the air.
” Good. Enjoy.” He told her and stepped away.
Katrina stared into her cu-p of coffee. What the damn hell did he just do?. Why was he suddenly nice even tho she was trying to make him feek bad.
She ended up being the one to feel bad. She turned around to look for him but he was gone.
” Hey, bitc-h!” Someone said from behind her and she turned around quickly.
Quincy collected her cu-p of coffee and overturned it over her head.
The hot coffee burned her head, making her shocking feeling on her scalp.
Katrina squinted her shoulders feeling extreme pain.
” How do you enjoy being treated this way, mn?” Quincy asked, holding her wai-st.
” Why did you ever do that!!” Katrina yelled, her shoulders still slightly raised.
” That’s for painting my face with ink yesterday!” She yelled and walked out of her.
Katrina wanted to grab her back by her hair but she her arms suddenly went halfway and stopped.
It was because she met Xan mightily tripping into the ‘cafe cafe’ as well.
He turned to her side and exchanged a warning glance at her and that eyes alone was good enough to give her some signal.
She quickly raised her ne-ck walking away back to her office.
She walked to her seat and met a single paper on her table.
” You pa-ssed your first test by resisting your anger against quincy” the paper wrote.
She knew someone was watching her. Someone definitely spying on her.
It would probably be among those useless two brothers, she guessed.
She sat down and picked up her ink to continue her work. The ink mistakenly spilled on the floor.
She quickly aimed for the mop that vixen had left with her
She stopped halfway and realised she had suddenly changed.
She was keeping her office clean as well. The lazy secretary was gone…
She was actually resisting her anger issues too. She shrugged her shoulder and returned back to her seat to continue her work.
” You are doing absolutely great.” Vixen voice rang out, startling her.
She instantly stood up, glaring at him.
” What the hell are you doing here!” She yelled.
” Not spying.” Vixen said, looking at his fingers playfully.
” Yes you are!. How come i got that paper message?!. You are such a useless widower!” She yelled.
Vixen smi-rked, pocketing his arm into his pocket.
” I’m sure you will improve. I’m only trying my best to keep you in the office so that my brother don’t have to sack you at the end” He said and left.
” Huh?” She blurted, looking lost.
She sat down aimlessly, looking like she was suddenly drentched.
****
XAN’S CAR.
Xan had stopped his car infront of Amy’s home. It was night already and it was slightly raining.
Xan knew Amy’s mother had warned him some days back not to visit them but here he was, not resisting the temptation to see his love.
Talking to her on the phone wasn’t good enough for him anymore. Sometimes, he had this feeling that she was not okay.
He picked the umbrella from the back seat and stepped out of the car heading to her balcony.
He stood there, stretching his arm to knock but he stopped halfway. He was scared of many consequences that might happen if Mrs qin was the one to come out.
He sighed abd made to knock, a gentle soft thud.
The door opened and Amy became visible. Her eyes bulged as she looked really shocked.
” Xan!” She said. She quickly stepped out of the house.
She was wearing a long purple gown that exp-osed her whole back and shoulder.
He quickly primped her to stay un-der his umbrella.
” Xan. What are you doing here?” She asked, ru-b-bing her arm as she stared at him.
” I just wanted to see you today. I couldn’t resist.” He said and looked away from her.
He stared above her head.
” It’s cold and it’s raining. We can’t stay un-der the rain to talk. Let’s go to my car.” He said.
” But..My mom…”
” Come with me.” He said and Amy aimlessly followed him as he pulled her along.
They into the car and they sat there in total silence until xan made a move to sigh.
” It was positive?” He was staring at the we-t gla-ss.
” Yes.” She said, turning to look at him.
” Your mom doesn’t know about it. Right?”
” I’m very scared of telling her. I want it to become visible first.” She said.
” I know.” He sighed.
He turned to face her and he leaned himself on the handrest. His strong arms palmed her face affectionately.
His gaze raised to meet hers.
” Sweetie. I know I’m not able to watch over you now that you need me most. But I just wished the preggy could just pop out quickly so i could claim you.” He said.
” And i just wished we could get married, xan. My mom almost sold me out today.” She said.
Xan eyes turned dark, like it was crowded with a pitch dark pit.
” What then happened?” He asked.
” I chased them out with a pepper spray!” She giggled and xan formed a soft smile.
” Come over here.” He said, picking her to straddle him on his seat.
He ru-bbed her slim body moulds gently as he stared at her.
” A kis-s?” She asked, wrapping her hands around his ne-ck.
He nodded gently and leaned foward to capture her li-ps.
Unknowingly, Mrs qin was watching them from the balcony.
She brou-ght out her phone and quickly informed them that he was here.
TBC.