Chapter-18

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ᴡʜᴇɴ ɪ ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜ ʏᴏᴜ ᴛᴇʟʟ ᴍᴇ ʜᴏᴡ ɪᴛ ғᴇᴇʟ

.........

It's been a week since the dinner and life couldn't be more wonderful.

Note the sarcasm yeah? Chase has been ignoring me since then, This time I haven't made an effort to talk since he's not overworking me or making me do silly chores. He can take his ignorance and shove it up his ass.

"Thank you." I say to Luke as I get out of his car. He dropped me off today, I didn't feel like driving today.

"Give me a call when it's time to pick you up." He says, rolling the window down.

"Eh, I'll come back on my own. Don't worry." I say, waving at him.

I greet Layla as I walk towards the lift, she gives me a thumbs up looking at me. Now that I think about it, she is nice when she's not trying to ask me for Chase's number or how to make him fall in love with her.

I go to the cafeteria first to get the boss's coffee. "Lookin' nice." The lady who serves the order tells me.

"Thank you." I smile as he hands me the cup.

I met Melissa and Logan on the way and they both complimented me. Oh, did I tell you that I got a new haircut. I didn't cut them all, just got cresent bangs. They were looking nice yesterday, when I got the haircut. Now I feel like pushing them back every five minutes.

I knock on Chase's office door as I'm not barging in since he started ignoring me. I hear a low 'come in.' I kept the cup on his desk and surprise, surprise, he looked up then back at his coffee and then back at me.

"How's my haircut dude?" I ask before realising I was supposed to ignore him. He frowned before picking up the coffee and ignoring me.

The story of my life.

I quickly tell him his schedule and make my way out. It's not much, today is like a resting day, he has two meetings that are through video conferencing and one meeting here in the office and that's all.

I went through the e-mails before forwarding the important ones to him. There are so many spam e-mails he receives on daily basis or sometimes it's the fangirls who are attracted to his face and think they'll capture their attention and boom! Wedding bells. I think I can propose a guy better now that I've been reading those kinds of e-mails almost everyday.

It was after lunchtime when Caden burst into my office, shushing me.

"What the hell man?" I ask as he tried to hide himself from no one.

"Shh, drama is about to start." He whispers although no one is there other than me and him.

I sigh. "What did you do now?" I ask, closing the laptop.

"I did nothing." He said as if I offended him, "Beth is coming to the office, I heard mom talking to her and I wanted to witness it with my own eyes so here I am." He tells me.

I groan at the thought of her here. Bitch gave me a bruise on my foot, I still have marks to show what her heel did.

"Same bro." He says, looking at my expression.

He dragged a chair and took a seat beside me. Looks like we both are waiting for some drama now.

"Why are they even forcing him to marry?" I ask.

"I don't know, I mean they know he'll never agree, why bother? And that too with someone so much younger than him. He just wants to form a partnership with Wallace's. They think they can blackmail Chase into it. Dad warned him that he'll take all his clients from under him." He said, picking up my container of fruits and popping a berry in his mouth.

"Honestly, I feel embarrassed for Bitch-"

Goddamnit, these brothers are calling her Bitch like it's her actual name. "It's Beth." I correct him.

"Yeah right, I'm talking too much with Chase. So where was I? Yeah..I feel embarrassed for Beth, the amount of rejections she's getting but she's still coming back. Damn." He shakes his head.

"I feel bad for her but at the same time I don't."

"It's okay Cel, You don't need to hide from me. I know you have a massive crush on my brother." He says, keeping a hand over his heart.

"I do not. Fuck off."

"Keep telling yourself that."

I flip him off. "Is your father coming too?" I ask.

"He's not allowed to enter the building." He smirked looking at me.

"Oh." I look away.

"Don't worry about it. He had it coming." He shrugs.

"So you're not holding grudges against me right?" I ask.

"Ofcourse not-"

He cut himself off as we see a raven haired girl strutting in. Great, she changes her hair faster than I change my bedsheets.

"Do you think we should save him?" I ask Caden.

"Nah, you can give him a hug later." He says with a knowing grin.

"Oh for fuck's sake, I was just nervous and he was helping me." I tell him.

"And the second time?" He smirks.

"I didn't know he's cuddly when drunk. Last time he was angry." I throw a grape at him. He's still eating my fruits, fucker catches it in his mouth.

"Oh he turns into a sweet little Chase when he's drunk, he once hugged a tree for an hour when he was drunk." He said laughing at the memory.

"I can't picture him doing that." I say.

"You will." He says as he pulls out his phone and starts looking for the picture. It's a video, Chase is indeed hugging a tree while Alec is trying to pull him off it, I can hear Caden laughing while recording the video.

We both were laughing when we heard Chase arguing with Beth or more like just Chase yelling.

We went outside his office to hear properly. "What the fuck are you doing here?" That was Chase. I pressed my ear on the door, Caden doing the same above my head.

"I came to meet you." Beth said in her high-pitched voice.

"Why the hell is she speaking like that?" I whispered to Caden. "She speaks like that only." He replied.

"Get the fuck out." He said in that voice he uses in the boardroom.

"But baby-" She was cut off by the noise of me and Caden falling face first inside the office as the dumbass applied more pressure on the door.

"Caden you asshole, get the fuck off me you fat fucker." I groaned in pain.

"I'm not fat! These are muscles." He said in his butt-hurt tone, still not getting up. He's heavy as fuck. Muscles or fat.

He got off me and I sat up, rubbing my head as his chin hit my head when we fell.

"I think I have a concussion." I say.

"What is this prostitute doing here?" Beth asked, distaste clear in her voice.

"What the fuck did you just say?" Both the brothers asked at the same time. That was creepy.

I looked down at my knees. "Oh my god, I'm losing blood." Their heads snapped at me. Chase was the first one to roll his eyes but he offered me his hand to stand up.

"Thanks." I say, standing up. He dragged me to the chairs. "Oh that one." I point at his chair. He leaves my hand and I sit on his chair, spinning on it twice.

"Did you bring her here?" Chase asked Caden.

"What me? No? I was visiting Celly girl. I don't socialize with people like her." He said, giving Beth the stink eye.

"Take her away." He ordered Caden.

"What? Me? Why?" Caden whined, then looked at me. 'save me.' he mouthed.

"I'm not going anywhere. We're going ring shopping today." She clapped enthusiastically.

"Ofcourse you are. Now get the fuck out of my office and don't step back here again." Chase said to her. She opened her mouth to say something but stopped. "Get out." He said, pointing at the door.

"I-I'm your fiancee, I'm not going anywhere." She said.

"I'm not your fiance. I never will be. Get this shit out of your head. My father is feeding you shit, you're a grown up, act like one." Chase said, glaring at her.

She clenched her jaw but then contained herself again.

"You-"

"Caden, fucking take her away. She's giving me a headache." He yelled at Caden. This time he actually listened and took her out with him.

I stand up slowly as looking at his mood, I'm going to be the next victim. "Sit your ass down." He said, not looking at me. Well, okay.

He came and stood beside me, opening the drawer. He took out a mini first aid and knelt down.

Wooh, Are my insides okay?

"You have a first aid box in here?" I ask casually, but it didn't come out casual at all.

"You kept it here." He said flatly, pressing the cotton soaked with antiseptic on my knee.

"That was rude."

"Shut up."

Okay. I won't speak.

"Do you think I'll need blood? I've lost so much." I ask. Why can't I keep my mouth shut? Oh yeah, it's because of him. He's the problem.

He looked into my eyes. "You'll survive." He says in all seriousness.

"Okay." That came out in a high-pitched tone, well..what the fuck?

He picks up the band-aids, but I stop him. "No, no, no, no. I want those cute ones!" I point to the cute printed ones. He sighs before picking up a couple of band-aids that have cute bear faces printed on them and applying them to my knees.

One of the curls falls on his face. I brush it back without thinking, but he looks up at me. Why is he looking into my eyes? I'm shy.

He has beautiful eyes. I swear the color green is jealous of his green eyes. They're so deep, I can look into them forever but then again, he makes me nervous so I guess we're breaking the eye contact now or I'll kiss him.

I look away before standing up which he does too. We're standing too close. I clear my throat.

"Thanks." I say, looking anywhere but him, he hums in reply.

"So.." I start, looking up at him. Mistake.

He's already looking at me. Have you ever met someone you want to strangle to death but kiss the heck out of them at the same time? Because, same. I should not be having these thoughts about my boss but it's not my fault entirely, he should've been a little ugly and old and someone with a bad heart.

My traitor eyes fall on his lips. God-fucking-damn. It's like they're asking my lips to love them. They look so soft, Imagine how they'd feel.

I force myself to look back into his eyes. He's still looking into my eyes, not mentally thinking about the ways I can kiss him. I didn't realise when I leaned in, I quickly maintain some distance at the same time Caden walks in.

"I finally sent her away, it was exhausting." He says, not noticing us and sits down on the chair.

...........

"He used to call me baby too." Melissa sobbed while filling her mouth with popcorn, Logan wiped his non-existent tear.

I was sitting between them while some random movie played, Melissa is crying over her breakup.

"I saw a good looking girl a few days ago." Logan starts.

"She looked like a bitch." Melissa said, sniffing.

"When and where?" I ask, he sees a good looking girl every hour.

"In the office, she was talking to Mr. Black though." He said.

"She was arguing asshole and Caden Black, ahhh." Mel hugged my arm more tightly. "That fine ass." She said dreamily.

"Anyways, I have a date." Logan stated proudly. Melissa and I laughed. "I'm serious assholes." He frowned. Mel's head popped up from my shoulder.

"When? With who?" She asked, getting excited.

"Tomorrow, with Layla." He tells us, he seems really excited. "So she's over Chase huh?" I ask.

"Don't worry Celly, he's all yours." He said, trying to pat my head. I stood up so he fell on Melissa as his head was on my shoulder and he lost balance. Hah, take that.

"I do not like Chase." I announced loudly.

Both of them snorted, I chose to ignore them and picked up the pack of doritos from Melissa's table.

"Come back here." Mel said.

"Agree with me, I don't like Chase."

Mel frowned before voicing her thoughts, "But I do, have you looked at that man? That ass? That body? Those dimples that are so rare to see? Those eyes! Don't get me started. His voice is so sexy. And the way he walks? Hot. His body language screams hotness. The stare-"

I cut her off, rolling my eyes. "Okay I get it, you're in love with him. I was talking about myself." I say.

"That sentence is dripping with jealousy." Logan laughs.

"Oh no, I was giving you approval. You are free to have his babies." She raised one hand in approval.

I flip her off before going to sit again in between them. "I don't think your ass will fit." Logan says, looking at the space.

"I was sitting right there bitch." I remind him.

"Yeah, I was squeezed in the corner." He says, rubbing his thighs. I look at my bum, it's not that big. Better than being flat.

I shrug before plopping down. Melissa is quick to snatch the doritos. "So Layla, huh." I tease logan.

I swear I see his cheeks turning a little pink. "Yeah."

A phone rings, we all look at each other before lunging for the phone. It was my phone that rang. I wasn't too fast to grab the phone unfortunately, Logan was.

He looked at the caller ID before wiggling his eyebrows. "Who is asshole with a green heart?" He asked.

"Give that back to me." I say, going for the phone. Dickhead raises it out of my reach. He ignores me and answers the call. "Logan no you asshole." I try to snatch it but he stands up, attaching the phone to his ear.

"Hello." He says amusingly to the caller the looks at me. "He's not speaking!" He whispers to me.

I'm still trying to take my phone back but he's not done with his assholery. I tackle him to the ground and sit on him before snatching the phone finally.

"Hi." I say, almost breathless.

No one speaks from the other side for a second then someone just rushes to speak. "Celeste?" A voice that is definitely not Chase's asks.

"Um..yes?"

"Can you come here please? This is Caden by the way. We're at my parents house. He and dad kinda got into a fight and I don't want him driving in his condition. He'll probably speed or something, please?" He said in a hushed voice.

"Why can't you call Alec or his driver or something?" I suggested. It's Friday night and I was having a sleepover at Mel's.

"Alec's on a business trip and he won't let his driver drive his Bugatti!" He exclaimed in a whisper, that was funny.

"Funny you think he'll let me drive." I snorted.

"You drove his Mercedes!" He says. How did he know that? I thought we sneaked out? "I saw you." He says as if hearing my thoughts.

"Okay, I'll be there in 20." I sigh.

"20? No make it 10. They're arguing Celly!" He whisper-yells.

"Then go and solve the matter dude!" I huff.

"I'm waiting." He says before hanging up.

Logan whose ear was pressed to my phone asks, "So I'm dropping you off?" He was my ride. We both turn to a confused Mel. Logan tells her what he heard before pulling me up with him.

"I'll take a cab, you go to sleep." I say while yawning. It was pretty late. We were talking for so long.

"Nah, I'll drop you." He states.

"You're sleepy and you have a date tomorrow, we don't want you having dark circles now would we?" I ask. He's an early sleeper. Whenever we have sleepovers, he's the first one to doze off.

"Are you sure?" He asks.

"Yep." I say, picking up my jacket. "Use protection." Melissa yelled as I walked out of the door.

...

The cab ride to his parents' house was short, but I felt really bad not bothering to wear pants. My legs were freezing in the shorts I was wearing for bed.

As I walked closer to the gate of his parents' house, I saw Caden pulling Chase out of the door while grabbing his arm tightly. Chase was probably yelling at his father who stood on the entryway now, saying some shit. I was too far to hear them properly. The guard let me in as I came with Chase just last week.

Caden was the first to spot me as. "Oh thank god." He said in relief before shoving his brother in my direction. I held him by his arm. I looked at his face just to see blood running down his nose.

"I don't understand why he even bothers to talk to him when all he does is treats him like this. I would've hit the fucker back, dad or not." Caden grumbled angrily, looking at Chase.

"Are you okay?" I ask the angry dude whose chest was heaving up and down as he took angry breaths. I took out the soft hanky from my pocket, pressing it below his nose.

He didn't take notice as he was busy glaring at his father who was still standing at the threshold. Caden noticed that. "I'm going to give him a piece of mind. You'll take him home right, Cel?" He asks.

"Yeah.."

"Thanks alot. I owe you." He says before going back to his father. He dragged him inside and closed the door. I turn to Chase.

"C'mon, we need to treat that nose." I say before looking for his car. It wasn't hard to take notice which one was his. It stood up against others.

He didn't move. I grabbed his arm and pulled him with me. "I'm freezing here okay? Co-operate!" I yell at him. I know not a good idea, but he's being stubborn.

He didn't say anything but walked to the car. He was about to get into the driver's seat. "You're not driving." I tell him.

He looks at me with a bored expression on his face. The blood started trickling down again as I remove the handkerchief before trying to drag him.

"Give me the keys! I'm sacrificing my sleep for you. Don't make it harder." I say. He thinks a little before handing me the keys and settling in the passenger seat.

"Wear your seatbelt." I tell him but he's too busy glaring at the dashboard. "Chase.." I stop short when he storms out of the car, punching the window of the car infront of us. I hope it's his father's and not Caden's. I follow him out.

The glass doesn't breaks which seem to piss him off more resulting in another punch, cracking the glass into pieces. He goes for another window but I hold his hand before he can do it.

"What the fuck Chase?"

Good, now his hand is also bleeding with his nose. A piece of glass is stuck in his hand. I pull it out, he doesn't even react. My handkerchief is covered in blood. This insufferable man.

"Listen here, calm the fuck down. I don't know what happened in there but I'm not going to let you hurt yourself because of that asshole of a man you got as a father, he's not worth your blood. Now get your ass in that car before I kill you or your father." I warn him.

He clenched his jaw and then unclenched it before turning around and getting into the car, slamming the door.

The bleeding from his nose has stopped, I touch his nose. "Do you feel pain?" I ask as he swats my hand away.

"No."

"Hmm, it doesn't seem to be broken. We'll get your hand bandaged and I'll drop you at your house." I tell him before starting the car. Damn, I'm nervous about driving this.

....

I stop the car infront of the only clinic I found open at this time. The hanky wrapped around his hand looks like it'll drip blood.

"Come out." I say, hopping out of the car. He reluctantly follows.

Now that we're in the light, I notice his appearance. He's dressed in the same clothes he was wearing earlier today, just got rid of the tie and suit jacket.

There's only a nurse in there. "I'm sorry, the doctor is not available right now." She says, not even bothering to give me another look. She looks at Chase's hand before gasping and moving forward to touch his hand. "Oh my god, I'll bandage it. Take a seat please." She said as he jerked his hand back.

When he didn't make a move to take the seat she was offering him, she touched his arm to make him sit.

"Stop fucking touching me." He gritted out before storming out.

"Don't mind him." I say to her before following him. Everyone is annoying me right now. I didn't even get the chance to eat the damn doritos.

Wordlessly I drove to his house. I knew arguing with him won't get me anywhere. He isn't even replying to me.

Reaching his building, I park the car and walk into the elevator. He's behind me, I know but I don't glance at him. Punching the code aggressively, I walk straight to the bathroom to get the first aid box.

When I came out, he was removing his shoes.

He doesn't looks at me and takes a seat on the sofa and holds his hand out. This is giving me a sense of deja vu.

Cleaning his wounds, I wrap his hand and stand up to leave but he holds my wrist with his good hand. "Thank you." He says silently.

I don't reply, waiting for him to leave my wrist.

"You're an asshole, you know that?" I say after we both remain in silence for 2 minutes and he doesn't leave my wrist.

He stands up. "I'm sorry."

"No, a sorry doesn't cut it. I know your father is an asshole but you don't get to take out his anger on me. I hate the silent treatment you were giving me. I was worried and that smashing the window? That was so not needed-"

"I say shit when I open my mouth, I did last time. It's better to keep it shut Celeste, I haven't forgotten the shit I said." He yelled.

"Will you fucking forget about it? I forgave you a long time ago and I want you to forget it." I yell back.

We both haven't realised how we actually were getting into each other's faces until he tugged on my wrist.

"Come here." I say, wrapping my arms around his neck hesitantly. I'm scared he might push me away.

He surprises me by wrapping his arms around my waist and burying his face in the crook of my neck. I'm feeling tingly down there, damn. Not the time.

"Did he hit you?" I ask.

"Hmm." I felt the vibration as he hummed.

"I'll kill him one day."

"You will?" He asks softly. I've never heard him talking in that voice before.

"Umhmm, It won't be an easy death. I'll torture his fucking soul." I say, feeling nothing but hatred towards that man.

He inhales deeply. I pull back and clear my throat. Well, this is awkward now.

"I'll take my leave." I say before stepping back but his hold on me only tightens.

Chase Black, what are you doing to me?

"Chase.." It came out slower than I intended.

"Don't go." He says, pressing his forehead to mine. Hold the fuck up. What is happening?

He's looking into my eyes, how am I supposed to say no? "Okay." I feel myself saying before I can even think.

He straightens as he grabs my hand and walks towards the staircase. "Wait, isn't the guestrooms there?" I ask. He hums.

We stop infront of his room. "Look-"

"Shut up."

We enter his room, it's the same as it was before. He leaves my hand and walks into the closet. I stand there awkward and clueless.

He comes back after changing into a t-shirt and sweats. He takes my hand again before lying down on the bed.

"Chase, I..I don't think-"

"Come here." He says pulling me beside him.

"This is inappropriate, I should leave." I try to get up.

He looks at me and frowns. "Am I making you uncomfortable?" He asks, sitting up.

"No but-"

"There's no problem then. I like you and you like me too." He says.

"I'm not- I'mnothavingsexwithyou." I say quickly.

He chuckles softly. "I'm not asking you to." He says.

This makes me frown. What does he want then?

"I just want you to sleep, here." He says.

"I don't think it's a good idea." I say. I know it's not a good idea because tomorrow morning, he start ignoring me. Again. And I'm tired of it.

"You want to leave me." He says, his voice containing an emotion I can't decipher. He left the hand he was holding.

I can't fucking decide what I want to do. I end up removing my jacket and lying down. His face immediately morphs into an adorable smile as he lays beside me.

He comes closer and keeps one of his arms around me as if keeping me from going anywhere. With another hand, he removed the hairclip from my hair.

"Wha-"

"I like your hair." He tells me, smelling them.

"Uh, thanks I guess." I say, turning to him.

If it was possible, my heart probably would've come out of my ribcage judging by the way it was beating.

He's beautiful. So much beautiful than I've ever seen, he has light freckles on his nose. There's a mole near his lips, begging to be kissed. His eyes are the most beautiful feature of his. They're so deep and so green. His curly hair are falling on his forehead, looking so beautiful.

He smiles as he notices me looking, making the dimples pop, as Melissa said, they're a rare sight and I'm so freaking blessed to see them. He looks adorable.

He presses a lingering kiss on my cheek before saying, "Goodnight." and turns the lights off.

A few minutes later, I hear the soft snores. I cover ourselves with the duvet with my leg as he's having a death grip on my waist, refraining me from getting up.

I don't know when I doze off thinking about whatever the fuck that happened was real or am I in some weird kind of dream.

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