The Billionaire's Deciet

Chapter8



Chapter 8

"No! I am coming with you!" Anna whipped around as soon as she heard him. "I want to see Daniel, he hadn't been picking up my calls.....I want to make sure that-"

"He's alright?" Eros completed, what she had been hesitating to say. "You will have plenty of time to do that matia mou, but you can't come with me right now! I need to talk to him alone. To make him see the what he had been doing with his life.....plus, we will also need to discuss the debt that owes me and the summer job I have arranged for him...."

He turned around and gave a heavy sigh, when he saw how tense and unhappy Anna looked. Almost, as if she would break at the slightest touch.

"Trust me on this Anna...." He looked into her eyes. "I know that you have never trusted me, but trust me on this! I have promised you that Daniel wouldn't be harmed and I intend to keep that promise. He's going to be alright. In the meanwhile though......" He had picked up his coat from the couch, that he had discarded there just a few moments ago. "Don't call him. Don't try to contact him and for a change try having a little faith in me."

With that and another deep sigh, when he saw that his wife was still as tensed as a coiled spring, standing there in the middle of the living room - he finally left the hotel suite to go and take care of this problem, amidst the numerous that remains yet to be dealt with.

Even though all that he had wanted to do at that moment was to grab her shoulders and pull her back against him, so that they could finish what had been started.

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Hours went by and yet there was no news of either from Eros or Daniel and on numerous occasions, Anna was tempted to pick up the phone and just call Daniel. 'Maybe he will pick up this time....and tell her what the hell was going on.' But she resisted that thought for more than one reason.

For one, she was really angry at her brother. She had never expected him to do something like this! Although, after he had started hanging out with some weird guys recently, she had been truly concerned. Specially after she had heard some rumours about drugs and gangs. But never in a thousand years had she expected him to steal from her.

She sighed. Maybe, a good scolding from a man like Eros will finally make him see the error of his ways. Because, Anna shudders to think what could have happened if indeed Eros had decided to prosecute her brother.

And secondly, his taunt about her not trusting Eros had rubbed raw against her skin. 'How could he say that she had never trusted him?' Of course she had trusted him when they had got married, but he had soon broken that trust after he had....

'No!' She refused to get into that hell hole yet again. She needed to focus and think and wait until this is over. And could finally breathe a sigh of relief after Daniel is home, safe and secure.

A few more hours passed by, and she was so sick of wandering around the suite with nothing else to do, that she called room service and ordered a five course meal for herself.

Because even though she wasn't hungry, she needed to do something with her time and food provided a sort of distraction.

Fifteen minutes later, right when the clock touched 1:00 pm at night, someone knocked at the door and Anna opened it, expecting it to be the room service, bringing her the food.

But instead found a bedraggled Eros leaning against the doorframe waiting for her to open the door. He looked harassed, his tie was hanging loose around his neck, while his shirt and pants were crinkled and twisted as if, he had slept in them.

As soon as she had opened the door though, he shot in like a bullet and started picking up things in the room at random.

"What are you doing?" She asked confused, once she saw him gathering his laptop, some official looking papers and his briefcase and making a beeline towards the bedroom.

"Packing - matia mou, we will have to leave tonight for Greece." She heard him say from the bedroom.

"Why?" She asked, even more confused now, when she saw him throwing clothes haphazardly into a bag.

"Mother is sick, she is having chest pains. Alex had driven her to the hospital but I need to get there as soon as possible." He spoke, while he rushed through the room picking things up and putting them randomly in different pockets of the bag.

"Oh!" Suddenly, though Anna was getting a very bad feeling about this. "When did you last talk to her?" She asked with a frown etched on her forehead.

"This afternoon." Eros replied with a shrug. "She was fine then."

"I see and when you talked to her, did you by any chance mention the fact that you were here to see me?" She asked, her throat dry like Sahara desert, as she waited for his reply anxiously.

"Yes, I told her." He said noncommittally as he threw the last of his things into the bag and zipped it, before rushing to the attached bathroom to check if he had missed something there.

While Anna stood there like a statue, with her arms tightly around twisted around herself. 'So, Despina Kozakis had just found out that her son was in the states to see Anna- the wretched slut.....and had therefore taken it upon herself to ruin any chances of reconciliation between Eros and her by making sure that he is back in Greece by tomorrow morning.'

"Why are you standing there glykia mou, go on pack your bags and once you are done, ring the reception downstairs and tell them to call us a taxi. My hired driver had left for the night. We need to be at the airport within an hour...."

But Anna didn't move from her spot. Despina Kozakis can manipulate her son as much as she likes, however she likes. Anna didn't care anymore. But never again is she going to let that scheming crazy woman manipulate her into doing anything!

"I am sorry Eros....but I won't be leaving with you. I still have a lot do before I could come to Greece. And most of all I need to see Daniel, make sure

he's alright....So, have a nice flight."

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