Chapter-28

ᴛʜᴇᴍ ʙᴜᴛᴛᴇʀғʟɪᴇs ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴀʟɪᴠᴇ ᴡʜᴇɴ ɪ'ᴍ ɴᴇxᴛ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜ

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When we woke up in the evening, we couldn't find Piccolo anywhere. Chase helped me look everywhere around the house but he was nowhere to be found. We checked outside too, I guess he just left.

Even though I knew him for hardly a couple of hours, but I cried. Chase offered to adopt another cat but I denied it. I couldn't keep one, how will I keep another one. The question is, how the hell did he manage to escape? That'll remain a mystery.

Meow.

What the fuck? We both snapped our heads to look at where it came from. There he was, on the sofa between the huge cushions, you couldn't see him if his bright blue eyes weren't open. His black fur mixed well with the black sofa.

I sighed in relief, picking him up as Chase dropped himself on the sofa. "Asshole." He mumbled, looking at Pico.

"Hello? It's not his fault that you have every thing black in your house." I defend my lil baby.

"He was hiding on purpose." Chase said.

"No he wasn't, you're just being mean." I glared before petting lil guy. "I need to buy him stuff." I realise. "Will you take care of him till I come back?" I ask.

"Me? No." He says, relaxing on the sofa.

"I wasn't really asking. Take care of him." I hand Pico in his arms.

"I'm coming with you, he can take care of himself." He said, setting him down on the floor.

"What? No. He's a baby!" I exclaim, looking at Piccolo who was now sitting on my foot.

"Not my baby." He shrugged in response. I'm so close to pulling his hair out of his head.

"Pick him up." I order.

"Nope. You didn't even bathed him." He says, crossing his arms in front of his face and scrunching his nose in disgust.

"I know, I'm going to get products to give him a bath idiot." I tell that idiot.

"Why does he get special products?" He asks with a frown.

"Because he's a cat and I looked up on the internet, you don't use human shampoo on them." I tell him about my research when he was sleeping.

"What if its owner wants him back? We should give him back. Let's go to the airport first." He says.

I gasp in shock. "How could you even say that?"

He sighs. "Fine, you can buy his things but I'm coming with you, You can take care of your cat." He says, walking away to get ready.

"I don't like you right now." I tell his back. He points to his ear and shakes his hand as if saying he's not able to hear me. I know he can hear perfectly fine.

I just picked up my wallet, not really needing to get ready like the diva upstairs. "If you don't come down in 2 minutes, I'm leaving." I yell.

Within two minutes he comes rushing down, the pajamas replaced with jeans but his hair is still all over the place.

"Good boy, let's go now." I pick Pico up and walk out.

He spent half of the time grumbling under his breath while I bought things. He's acting like he doesn't like Pico but he picked out the best products there were available, he also bought him a bed. It's really cute.

I was going to keep the bed in his room but he stopped me. "He's not going to enter our room." He says.

"Where will he stay then?" I ask, trying my best to ignore that he called his room ours.

"Anywhere but there." He replies.

"He'll get scared alone." I try to make him understand.

"He'll get used to it."

"You won't even notice his presence, he's so smol and your room is soooo big." I say, thinking about his big ass room.

"Nope."

"Please." I pleaded.

"No."

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"Come here Pico." I say as I set his bed near Chase's bed while Chase gave him the stink eye.

"Ignore him, you come here." I say, as Pico yawns again. I've clicked so many pictures already. I changed Chase's wallpaper too. Hehe.

After covering Pico with the little blanket, I laid down beside Chase keeping my head on his chest, I see him still scowling.

"Oh stop now." I say before pecking his lips, his expression softened.

"Again." He says but before I could do it again, he flipped me over and kissed me. His hand gripped my waist, squeezing it. Releasing my lips, he traced them with his tongue slowly before pressing his lips to mine again. I gripped his bare shoulders tightly as he bit my lower lip while pulling away.

I grinned as he kept touching his forehead with mine, breathing hard. Looking at me, I saw his lips pull up at the corner a little.

"I couldn't sleep without you." He tells me. What is this weird feeling in my stomach?

"You missed your daily dose of Celeste?" I ask, completely failing to keep the smile off my face.

"I'm feeling like an addict." He replies, closing his eyes and burying his face in the crook of my neck. I giggled feeling ticklish.

"What are you doing?" I ask, trying to move his away, I'm really ticklish. "Stop." I tell him, he didn't though. He licked my neck making me laugh then looked up with an adorable smile on his face.

"You're adorable." I tell him, bringing my hand up to touch his cheek.

"No, you." He says, pressing light kisses all over my face. "Good night." He says, turning off the lamp on the nightstand.

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I was talking to Lydia since I wasn't talking to Melissa or Logan for a while. They didn't have to do what they did. I'll forgive them but it'll take me some time to forget. Also, I was back at living with Chase. So much of staying away.

"Do you think.." My words died down in my throat when I saw a girl walking toward us.

She was gorgeous. Like, absolutely gorgeous. She had straight shiny blonde hair that reached to her shoulders. I couldn't figure out the color of her eyes, pretty sure they were blue though.

"Who is she?" I ask Lydia in a whisper.

"New assistant manager." She tells me.

"We were hiring a new assistant manager?" I ask.

"You didn't know?" She asks.

"Muted the mails." I shrug. "Does she know that she's on the wrong floor?" I ask Lydia.

"I don't think so, it's her first day." She replies.

"Go tell her then." I suggest. "Hang onnnnn." I stand straighter as Chase decides to step out of his office looking hot in the outfit I chose for him.

"Isn't my boyfriend the hottest?" I ask Lydia, forgetting about the gorgeous girl.

"That's the sixth time you're asking me today." She sighs.

"Look at him." I checked him out from head to toe.

The gorgeous girl I thought was coming our way wasn't coming our way actually, She went straight towards Chase and tripped on air. Chase being the gentleman he is, moved out of the way so she could fall without any obstacle in the way.

He stopped infront of me, I looked behind to see Lydia helping her up and maybe telling her about the wrong floor.

"Hii." I say.

"Lunch. You and I, let's go." He says.

"It's not lunch time yet." I say, looking at my watch.

"I'm the boss." He says.

"You are." I agree.

"Let's go then." He says, keeping his hand on my back.

"You're my bos-"

"Shut up." He walked towards the elevator and pressed the button at the same time it opened.

"Hello." There went my appetite.

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