BILLIONAIRE IN THE DARK

Chapter 10: Nathan

I thought this morning I would be lucky because I had just got married. I get it that nobody knows who I am or have not seen my face in the night meetings. So unfortunately, it was busy as f**k.

After Gabriel and I arrived home and entered my room, he still went on to talk about something like what he noticed wrong about our client during the meeting. Sometimes I wonder if he does not like to rest because I have been really, really tired since yesterday from the wedding activities. I just let him talk while I changed my clothes to my pajamas because Gabriel is not someone you can stop once he has a point or something important to say. Luckily and surprisingly, he stopped after 30 minutes.

"So that's all sir. I will get going now" he said and bowed a little and started leaving. He actually has a house where he lives with his wife around here. He has been married for 1 year now to his girlfriend of 5 years.

"Thank you and off the light, please" I said not looking at him while holding my laugh.

"Ok sir" he said and went ahead to off the lights, then on and continued playing with the lights like 5 times and still left it on which made me laugh and he joined

"Cant you just help me" I said looking straight at him with puppy eyes and pouted my lips out but instead he gave me the middle finger and left the room still leaving the lights on.

I had to do it myself and finally went to bed. And I fell sleep immediately.

When I woke up by 10am feeling energized and not tired like yesterday.

On my way to the kitchen, I was expected Lara to already be eating or doing something but surprisingly, there was no one. So I took out my phone and called Alfred. And after two rings, he picked the call.

"Yes boss" he said with his usual voice. Sometimes the guy scares me with his voice and body

"Do you know where Lara is" I asked

"Yes. In her room. She hasn’t left it since yesterday" he said

"Oh ok. Thank you" I said and cut the call.

That's shocking, I thought she will be the first to wake up or maybe she is awake but just shy to leave the room and even though she is sleeping, I dont blame her, yesterday was stressful.

I immediately went to prepare a meal, Egg and bacon with some orange juice.

After my meal, I washed my dishes because there is one thing I hate the most and that is when my environment dirty and when I was done, it was 11:30am.

Why is time so slow?

So since there is nothing to do and I'm not sleepy so I can just want to lazy out. I decided to watch a movie, scary movie to be precise, I set the living room for it with popcorn & sodas. The perfect combination for a movie.

The movie was going great that I was so mesmerized in it until I heard someone hmmed at my side which brought my attention finally to my surrounding and I was shocked to see her there.

I asked how long she was here but since she said not too long and I think that means she needs something for me.

"What do you need" I said and stood up and starting walking closer to her.

As I was walking closer to her, she did not answer me instead just looked down, precisely I'm sure it is my shorts with her mouth open which made me smirk. This is what I normally wear before I got married her, but now she just made me realize that it is really short but sometimes I love being the show.

When I got a little close to her, she was still looking down so I had to bring her attention to reality.

"What do you need" I said again which brought her to reality and it made the smirk on my face grew wider.

She asked about Mr. Stephen and the other house helps. I forgot to tell her but if you think of it, we haven't even had time to discuss with each other or stay in one place for long. So that's why I could not tell her that Mr. Stephen doesn't really stay in the house for the whole day because he is tending to the other house, even though I can't tell her that now, so I just told her that they resume at 6 pm every day. And that's not the only reason they don't come in the morning. I like my privacy please.

After some back and forth, I found out she was hungry even though she refused it at first, her stomach cant lie, so I decided to make something for her. Without listening to her again, I started walking to the kitchen while she follows me at my back.

"Oh Lord, let me not die of food poisoning," I heard her whisper, which made me laugh and that seemed to shock her. I think she did not know she said it out loud.

I love when people underestimate me sometimes, it gives me that zeal to prove them wrong and that is what I am going to do.

When I got there, I mean 'we' because she is still at my back blabbing about why I should not cook for her.

"Lara," I said, turning around to face her and then hold her shoulders to put her still and bent a little to meet her face to face, I'm 6'3 and I think she should be 5'4 or 5'5 "Don't be afraid, I am actually a good cook. Who do you think cook for this morning?" I said smiling and still looking her face to face.

"And you expect me to believe," she said turning her face to her left to say it lowly which made me laugh while she looked at me with a angry face and I stopped immediately

"Ok ok" I said raising my both hands up while she crossed her hands on her chest "Let's agree. If my cooking isn't good, I promise I will order food for you" I said and her face change but before she can say what she wants to say, I continued "Wait, and the best part is you can pick whatever you want to order and the complete bill is on me" I said and her face expression changed back to normal but she still did not say anything at first then after some waiting, she talked

"And why do you really want to cook so badly for me. And what do you want it in return" I said giving me the suspecting eyes

"Nothing really" I said which did not reduce the suspense she has for me "I just feel like cooking for some reason and I dont want you to die of hunger" I said while smiling a little which made her a little angry

"Wait do you think I can't cook. I am not like you. I'm sure you just want to poison me that's why you are so eager" she said pointing her fingers at me which made me smile and raise my hands.

"Calm down, angry bird" I said

"Dont call me that" she said still angry and pointing at me

"Ok ok" I said pushing her hands down "I was just kidding, you can cook, I trust you. But just let me cook, please" I said flashing those my smiles that Gabriel hate the most and it seems to work on her because she went back to crossing her hands on her chest which gave me the go ahead and I went to the sink to rinse my hands to start prepping while she sat on one of the stools and grabbed an apple.

She will be surprised so much.