The Billionaires Gamble

CHAPTER 2: PLANNING

What was he thinking asking me for my opinion. He never asks for anyone’s opinion ever. It was actually pretty strange.

“Well? are you going to answer or you’re going to keep staring like you’ve seen a ghost?”

“Um…I’m sorry, I guess my idea of a responsible man, is one who takes accountabiity for his actions, is reliable, and makes thoughtful decisions that consider the well-being of others, especially one he loves”

He sat there staring at me as if he was thinking about what I had just said. He silently went back to his thought. He worked silently, he has always been like that, and only spoke when necessary. He had a sort of silent charm, which wasn’t a wonder as to how he always got his women. What I could never understand, is how they could stand his level of ego and arrogance around them.

At least I had been opportune to witness the way he spoke to the women that flocked around him. Many a times, he seemed almost uninterested, and would speak in a really cold tone, and was very dominant over them. Regardless of this they seemed to like him even more.

After some hours of working in his room, he asked that I order lunch while he goes ahead to take a shower. With that he stood up from the bed only half naked in some really tight shorts, as I tried to avert my gaze in annoyance. I really didn’t deserve this level of torture I muttered to myself. He came closer to the table I was, to drop his glasses, and the strong scent of his Arabian perfume hit my nostrils. He grabbed a towel from his closet and entered the bathroom.

I immediately let out a sigh of relief as he was no longer in sight. Then proceed to call the food delivery guy to order lunch.

Meanwhile Sebastian couldn’t get the thought of what his grandma had said out of his head. He really needed a plan if he was going to convince his father that he was capable of running the company, and keeping things stable. He ran the water over his head when he heard a notification from his phone, it was an invite from his father and two tickets inviting him and “Beth” to St. Barts in the Caribbean.

They had always held vacations there ever since his mom was alive, it was always the three of them with some of their uncles and members of the extended family. It was very serene, where the adults majorly talked about their lives and business, while he would mostly play on the beach with other kids who were there on vacation.

After his mom passed, and his father remarried, Amber who already had a son; Adrian demanded that the vacations should be more low key. Slowly these vacations seemed to be of no interest to him, and he started skipping a few of these. But this one seemed really important and he just couldn’t skip this one.

His grandmother who always had his back always boasted to his dad about how diligent he was with keeping his so called relationship with “Beth” going, which kind of kept his dad off his neck for a while, now that the vacation had come up, it had him wondering how he was going to avoid the chaos, especially now that they’ve sent two tickets.

He needed to get himself a girlfriend, someone brilliant and smart, with the name Beth. Majority of the girls he picked up were either strippers, dancers at the club, or college students.

He couldn’t imagine taking any of them to meet his father they were definitely going to blow the cover.

“What to do?”, he screamed out loud in the shower.

“Sir?!!!, did you call me?” Lily called out

“s**t she’s still here, I totally forgot” he muttered under his breath.

Sebastian had never really enjoyed having a PA, but his grandma insisted he employed one for himself, it was just one of her antics to getting him to settle down with someone. Especially because she was a secretary to her husband before she got married to him, but she had already made him employ Lily right before he told her he was dating this Beth girl, and he couldn’t exactly fire her, so he just did exactly what he would typically do to all the girls his grandmother would make him employ, and that is stress them and frustrate them with work and ridiculous orders at ridiculous work hours till they get frustrated and leave.

It was still a wonder to him how this one managed to stick around for this long. It annoyed him, she was just too diligent and smart, very sexy too, but definitely not his type, he always settled for the clueless girls, the ones he could dominate effortlessly.

“Sir?”

“No!” he yelled back.

Wait! Could she be-, but how do I convince her