On Our First Attempt

Chapter Six

Ariana quickly thought of what to say before turning to see him, but the sight of his bare body with only a towel covering his maleness as he was dripping wet from just having a shower made Ariana totally forget what she was planned to say.

"I....uhmmm.....I came to....Uhmm." she stuttered.

"You can't talk now right? What do you want in my room?" He asked again.

Ariana's knee suddenly felt numb so she decided to sit on Kyle's bed whilst still trying to remember why she came here, but Kyle's body wasn't helping matters.

"I Uhmm.....I-I....Can you just put on something, please?" Ariana requested.

"Why? You wanna order me around in my own room? Let me tell you this; It won't work." Kyle scolded.

"I think I should just leave for now. I will come back when I remember why I was here in the first place." Ariana said and quickly proceeded to leave before Kyle held her arm, tight enough that she could already feel some pain and then, he pulled her forcefully back.

"Don't ever come into my room in your life." Kyle scolded.

"Stop already, you're hurting me." Ariana cried out but Kyle wasn't bothered by Ariana's whining. She continued to struggle until she was finally able to release herself from Ariana's grip while Kyle just laughed at her.

"You're such an asshole." Ariana insulted him before sprinting out of his room.

"What a clumsy girl she is." Kyle muttered to himself, smiling as he did. He then decided to dress up before going to work.

Ariana angrily went to her room, banging her door behind her.

"What kind of a psychopath is he?" Ariana wondered. It's not his fault. I walked myself there." She lashed at herself.

"How on Earth am I going to reach Valeria today?" Ariana wondered before an idea stroke her. "Oh, I should have thought of this earlier." She muttered to herself and afterwards picked her phone to call Carlos to request for his address.

"Are you having any issues with my wife?" Carlos asked.

"Hmmm....kinda, that why I really need the address so I can sort things out with her." Ariana explained.

"Ok then. I will send it immediately after this call." Carlos said and afterwards ended the call.

Few seconds after the call, Ariana received a text message from Carl stating the exact location of Valeria's house. She was happy and finally fulfilled to have gotten the address.

"I can't believe I went through that when I could get it this easy." She said, staring at her arm which now has pinkish bruises from been held too tightly. She took her bath and got ready to leave for Valeria place.

As soon as she walked into the living room, she bumped into Kyle who was also just preparing to leave the house. He was astonished by how well Ariana was, that for a moment he lost his gaze and attention on her beautiful face and well adorned body.

"You look well dressed, where are you off to?" Kyle asked but to his biggest surprise, Ariana didn't respond to him as she just walked into the elevator.

Kyle quickly joined her before the elevator door closes and questioned her again.

"Am talking to you and you are just gonna walk out on me? Are you not supposed to be my staff?" He questioned.

"Is that all you have to say after what you did to me in your room?" Ariana asked angrily.

"Oh, now I get it. You are angry, you sneaked into my room without my permission and now you are angry at me for seeing you there. Tell me who is supposed to be angry here?" Kyle asked curiously.

"Just because I 'sneaked' into your room gave you the right to do this?" Ariana asked, showing off her bruised arm to him.

"How....oh when did I do......" Kyle wondered when exactly he hurt her before he remembered Ariana complaining she was hurt. Before he could utter anymore word, they arrived at the ground floor and Ariana dashed out of the elevator, leaving Kyle standing confused and guilty in the elevator.

Emily Tyler who was sitting on the empty chair in the ground floor while on a call, watched Ariana and Kyle leave the Palace and she immediately informed the person she was on the call with.

"He just left the Palace, with Ariana, I guess they are going out together because they both look it." Emily explained.

"I sure know Kyle is coming to work, because he has a meeting now." The call confirmed.

"Whatever, just make sure you grab him. You know there are so many eyes on him and I have eyes too." She said and afterwards ended the call.

"Who does that b***h think she is to even make Kyle warn us at the meeting." She wondered.

Ariana went outside Kings Palace and was about to board a cab when a clean Lexus stopped right in front of her.

"Which resident of Kings Palace boards a taxi?" Eduardo McMahon, an IT tycoon and also a resident of Kings Palace said as he stepped out of the back seat of the Lexus.

"Do I know you by any chance?" Ariana asked.

"Of course not, but I do know. I mean I've seen you a number of times admiring the Palace." Eduardo said.

"Oh, I must have been a nuisance, am sorry about that." Ariana apologized.

"You owe me no apologies beautiful. But I would really appreciate if you let me take you to wherever you'd headed." He requested.

"Oh, that would be too much of a stress. You shouldn't mind me." Ariana replied, but it's obvious Eduardo wouldn't take no for an answer. Ariana thought for a moment, Eduardo opened the door for her and she willingly entered the car.

Kyle who had prepared a Limousine to carry her to wherever she was going, ordered the driver to leave before anyone noticed. He quickly entered his car and left for work.

Eduardo stopped right in front of the address Ariana gave to him and helped her out of the car. She thanked him and was about leaving when Eduardo stopped her.

"You haven't paid for your ride." He said.

Ariana was dumbfounded and confused. "I thought....uhmmm ok how much do I pay?" Ariana asked.

"Just your eight digits would do." Eduardo said.

"What?" Ariana exclaimed. "You should have told me you where a scammer, how do you expect me to pay eight digits for just 30 minutes journey? Look just because I came out of the Kings Palace doesn't mean am rich you know." Ariana said angrily, making Eduardo to laugh whole heartedly.

"I didn't think you would be this funny. It's gonna be fun knowing more about you." He said.

"I don't think that would be possible because we might end up in the police cell today since I won't be giving you that kind of money." Ariana said, sounding even more serious.

"I meant your phone number. It's eight digits isn't it?" Eduardo said.

"Oh.....am sorry for..... what I....just said." Ariana apologized. "I didn't think it through." She said, feeling embarrassed.

"Can we save the apology. Are you gonna pay or not?" He asked jokingly causing Ariana to finally smile after much awkward moments.

"Guess I should." Ariana said as she collected Eduardo's phone to input her phone number.

"You look cutest when you wear a smile." He said.

"But my brother said it's when I frown." Ariana joked.

"Not too bad." He said as he collected his phone back from Ariana. "I didn't catch your name all along." He said.

"Ariana Lee." She replied.

"Ana for a short right?" He asked.

"Yeah." Ariana replied.

"Eduardo. Eduardo McMahon." He said.

"Is it the one I think it is?" Ariana asked curiously.

"Maybe. I was surprised you didn't recognize me. Alot of people do." He said.

"Maybe am not that vast in stuffs like that." She said.

"Ok then, guess I would be seeing more of you." Eduardo said and afterwards walked back to his car before his driver drove him off.

Ariana walked to the front gate of Val's place and rang the doorbell for sometimes with no response.

Valeria checked her video doorbell and was surprised to see Ariana in front of her house. She hesitated for sometimes before asking the securities to allow her in.

"What are you doing here?" Val asked crudely, immediately she entered into her living room.

"Can I at least sit down please?" Ariana asked politely. "Where are the boys?" She asked.

"You must be a very uncaring mother to not know that today is a week day and the children should be in school now." Valeria lashed at her.

"I have alot of things to do so you have to be quick about whatever you are here for." She added.

"I need help. And I can only get it from you." Ariana said with utmost seriousness, making Valeria to stop what she was doing.

"Are you been serious now? Have you finally agreed to see the doctor?" Valeria asked.

"Yes. I miss my family. I wanna see my son. And I can't go like this. I need your help." Ariana said.

"What changed your mind all of a sudden? You where so adamant about not being sick just few days ago." Valeria asked.

"You asked me to help him, I think he's the one helping me here. He made me miss them." Ariana explained.

"Really? That's a sign he is improving. Thanks for helping us all." Valeria said. "Let me inform Dr Hawkins incase he can set up a meeting with you today." She added and immediately she called Dr Hawkins and was lucky enough to be able to set up a session of her therapy with her today.

"What happened to your arm?" Valeria asked curiously as he saw Ariana's pinkish arm.

"Oh....uhmmm........I hit it accidentally." She lied.

"That's a lie and you know that. Did K do this? This is so absurd. When did he seriously become such a bully?" Valeria asked worriedly.

"No, no, it's not what you think. He didn't abuse me, this was unintentional. He seems to be a totally different person when he's angry and I can guarantee you he regrets it." Ariana defended causing Valeria to calm her nerves down. She then asked Ariana to wait for her while she get ready for them to go to the hospital together.

Few minutes later, Valeria got ready and they where driven to the hospital by their driver. When they got to the hospital, Dr Hawkins offered Ariana and Valeria a sit as he prepared for Ariana therapy.

"We will be making a video coverage of our conversations throughout your sessions with me." Dr Hawkins said.

"Is that necessary?" Ariana asked.

"Yeah. You might want this in the future and we can also detect the improvement in this. So let's begin our first session." He said, and immediately they began the therapy.

Kings Holding Enterprise

Kyle arrived at his office very angry and frustrated by what happened earlier in the morning. Immediately he got to the front of his office, Lucas was already awaiting him.

"She's here." Lucas said.

"What? Why did you let her in." He asked and dashed into his office angrily.

"What took you so long? The Kyle Kings I know is usually very prompt, what changed?" Jasmine Ethan, the CEO of PE holdings asked immediately Kyle entered his office.

"What are you doing in my office and what gave you the effrontery to sit on my desk?" Kyle asked angrily.

"You cancelled our dinner plans, what was that for? Haven't I tried enough? Do you hate me that much that you wouldn't even do business with me?" She asked curiously.

"Yes, I really hate you if that's what you wanna here so you should already start getting used to it now." Kyle replied.

"Let's see what Valeria has to say about that." She said.

"Jasmine, just get lost." He ordered.

Jasmine stood up and walk towards where Kyle was standing, she tried touching Kyle but he made sure it wasn't possible as he quickly pushed her hands off.

"You can be rough however you want but in the end Val wouldn't side with you." Jasmine said after getting rejected.

"Let's see about that." Kyle replied.

"And by the way, I would be dropping by the Penthouse whenever am free, just to say hi to your new live-in keep." She said as she walked out of his office.

"No you won't. I changed the password." He shouted after her.

"You say that often but it still remains the same." She replied before finally vanishing before Kyle's sight.

Lucas came into his office to have of feel of what transpired between them.

"What happened with your CGF." Lucas asked.

"Oh, she finally agreed to marry you. What do you think?" Kyle asked, smiling devilishly.

"Suit yourself K. And about Ariana, the person seemed to have been delayed by something am not sure of. Maybe in few days........." Lucas tried explaining when Kyle interrupted him.

"You can take your time with whatever you are finding out but just make sure you and that person don't end up making falce allegations." Kyle said.

"Really?" Lucas exclaimed. "Few days ago you where really agitated by her presence, and now all of a sudden, I can take my time. What changed?" Lucas asked.

"Didn't you say the meeting was starting in few minutes time? You know I hate being late so let's start moving now." He said, trying hard to change the topic. Lucas knew exactly what he wanted to he obliged in other to no make him feel uncomfortable.

After his meeting, Kyle dismissed Lucas and went back home as soon as he could and was surprised to not meet Ariana at home. He was even more infuriated by the fact that she was answering nor returning any of his call.

"How can a house help behave like this? She must really not find me worthy of being her boss." He muttered to himself. He decided to wait up for Ariana in the living room, and as he waited he fell asleep on the couch.

The creaking sound of the door woke him up from his slumber, and as he saw Ariana walk in drunkenly, his aggression was revived.

"What make you think you could come back to my house by this time of the night and drunk at that?" Kyle questioned angrily.