The billionaire I was forced to live with

CHAPTER 5

ARJUN’S POV

I need to throw something, anything as long as it costs less than a hundred dollars. I cannot believe her like has she completely lost it? If this is her plan to drive me insane it’s working.

I get back from work after a long day of meetings and what do I walk into? Two ladies siting on my living room floor wearing matching pink robes, some black stuff on their face and some silk rod tangled in their hair. I was horrified. When I entered, they all stopped to look at me like I was an alien invading their territory.

“Hello roommate.” She says coming out of the kitchen holding a board of strawberries and melted chocolate. I look between her and the two ladies; one was her attorney and the other the friend who was with her the first day we met.

“What is going on here?” I ask trying to process my surroundings.

“Were having a girls night silly.” She says giggling and going to join the circle. “Would you like to join us?”

Is she crazy? She’s definitely lost it. Would I like to join them? She just asked me if I’d like to sit in a circle, cover my face with black paint and eat chocolate coated strawberries.

I stare at her waiting for her to tell me it just a joke but she doesn’t so I just go straight to my room. As I shut my door I hear them laughing loudly and murmuring.

Are they laughing at me?

I am just so angry right now like what’s wrong with that woman. I calm myself down take a shower and go to bed. I’ll deal with it in the morning I’ve had a long day

I wake up at 6 am as usual and hear nothing but my own giggling. I go out to the living room to make sure that they are alive but the living room is empty and spotless. I nod and smile to myself.

At least they know how to clean up after themselves

I walk to the kitchen to make myself breakfast. I am so focused on my breakfast I don’t hear what’s going on around me.

“Good morning.” I hear a voice greet. I just nod towards the direction of the voice; I assume its Brie and don’t bother to turn. It is not until I hear a Spanish conversation behind me I turn around and realize that it is indeed ton Brie who walked in. I stare at the two women completely confuse. They aren’t old they look late twenties to early thirties. And they are identical twins

“Who are you guys?”

“I’m Maria, She’s Elena.” One of them states

“Why are you here?”

“I clean, she cooks” She turns to her sister and tells her something in Spanish. At her sister’s instruction she walks of towards the cabinets and starts searching through them bringing out pots.

It’s either their English is not that good or they don’t like talking. These women just broke into my house.

“How did you guys get in?”

“Look mister, we don’t answer to you. Our employer gave us our instructions if you have issues take them up with her.” Maria says.

Brie Shepherd what did you do?

I turn around and march to her room and bang on her door

“Are you crazy? It’s seven in the morning.” She yells opening the door

“Exactly so why are there two random women breaking into my house at seven in the morning?” she walks into the room and sits on her bed and I follow her in.

“First of all it is not your house. Secondly, quit over reacting they are my maids and they didn’t break in I gave them the code, they’re supposed to clean and cook.”

“The house is already clean.”

“Really? Wow they got here earlier than I thought. I need to pee” She gets and goes into her bathroom leaving me standing there in utter disbelief and shock

Is she being serious right now?

“What do you mean they got here earlier than you thought?” I ask when she gets of the bathroom

“They’re supposed to clean up before they start cooking, so if you woke up to a clean house then yes they got here pretty early.”

I woke up at six

“So you didn’t clean up after yourself last night?”

“No, why would i?” she scoffs

“Are you nuts? You know you don’t live here alone you can’t just do as you please.”

“If you don’t like how I live my life, feel free to move out.”

I swear I’m gonna kill her.

There’s a knock at the door and a lady pokes her head in. She looks 25, long blonde hair, looks like a bookworm.

“And who are you?”

“I’m Miss Shepherds’ assistant, Natalie Bradford.” She extends her hand for a hand shake but I just look between her hand and her face my expression cold as ice. She retracts her hand slowly and walks slowly towards Brie. I just stare at them not knowing what to say. I turn to walk away but then I realize that I didn’t hear the door bell.

You’ve got to be kidding me

“Let me guess, you also have the door code” I say turning to face them. They just stare at me, their facial expressions giving me my answer. “Unbelievable.” I slam the door shut then go to my own room to get ready for work, eager to leave the house before I murder someone.

“You’re not eating?” Elena asks as I’m about to leave the apartment. She’s sitting on the floor folding laundry and humming quietly.

“I’m not hungry anymore. Have a good day.” I’m trying to be as polite as I can because technically they did nothing wrong, Brie’s the villain in this story.

“Then let me pack it to go.”

“No that won’t be……..” She jumps up from the floor and sprints to the kitchen before I can finish getting the words out.

I follow her hoping to stop her but when I walk into the kitchen; I am left speechless by the beautiful feast these two women curated in less than two hours. Everything looked good and smelled amazing. There were waffles, toasts sausages fresh juice and fruits and there were croissants, my favorite pastry. Brie and her assistant already had mouthfuls of food, her assistant’s laptop open on the island, discussing her schedule for the day.

“Just join us there’s more than enough for everyone.” Brie says patting the stool beside her

I am tempted to indulge but the thought of how much it will hurt my pride made me reconsider. I take the lunch Elena packed and leave the kitchen without saying a word.

I go straight to the garage where my driver is already waiting for me.

“Here, enjoy.” I say handing the lunch bag to my driver and get settled in the car, He is a bit shocked but immediately comports himself, gets into the car and we hit the road.

I tried to respond to emails on the way but I just couldn’t focus.

How many more people has she given the code to? Shell probably have a stylist too, and those her friends? She’s going to be the death of me.

I remember over hearing her assistant listing her plans for the day. An 11 o’clock spa appointment, and the Dior store by 5 for a shopping spree or something.

Typical spoilt princess, blowing daddy’s money on material things. I can’t believe I agreed to live with her.

“Boss, we have a problem.” My driver says snapping me out of my thoughts.

“What?” he nods towards the window and I look outside and see a protest outside the factory. They’d chained themselves to the building so all my employees were standing outside.

I don’t wait for the car to come to a full stop before stepping out. “What’s going on?”

“This is a peaceful protest.” A lady in a blue sweater says through a megaphone

“I see that but why?”

“Because you claim to save the earth but all you do is destroy it. You dump your waste in our rivers, pollute our air. We’re done with your bullshit.” The crowd cheers. “Companies like this, especially this, need to go. We all know the earth would be greener without Greener earth Inc and…..”

“This isn’t Greener Earth Inc.” I state interrupting her

“What?” she asks her confidence breaking.

“Core waste solutions bought this building six months ago. I’m the CEO Arjun Raj.” I say handing her my card.

She takes the card with shaky hands. “So what happened to Greener Earth?”

“Do I look like I care? Now get off my property before I call the cops.” I yell

She turns to a guy behind her and asks for the key to unlock the chains but he’d swallowed it.

Incompetent fools

I am left we no choice but to call the police and get them arrested. We were already behind schedule for the grand opening we didn’t need any more setbacks.

“Mr. Raj.” My assistant calls out jogging towards me. The police are still cutting the chains and cuffing them so we’re still standing outside

“Tyrell, why do I bother paying you if you can’t handle the simplest of tasks?”

“Sir I tried to talk to them but they just kept yelling in my face and wouldn’t listen.”

“They seemed to listen to me just fine. Why do you think that is?” He just looks down at his shoes. “It’s not because I am wearing an expensive suit, It’s because I’ve learnt make my presence command respect and as my assistant you need to learn that too.”

“Yes sir.”

“Now. You needed to tell me something?”

“Mr. McCarthy isn’t selling to us anymore?”

“What?”

“When his lawyer didn’t get back to me I called him and told him that your time is precious and he needs to make up his mind or you’ll walk. But he laughed and said he doesn’t care, He’d already signed a deal with another company the moment you declined his offer. They paid him 20 million.” He says in one breath

I just stare at him blankly. I didn’t know what emotion to feel. I just nodded my head and started walking towards my car trying to make a new plan.

Protesters, I lost the deal and my roommate is airheaded billionaires who lives off her father’s large pocket and does nothing but make me want to commit murder. This day can’t get any worse.

“Arj?” A voice calls from behind me.

Shit

I slowly turn to face the voice. “Hi Mom.”