#Book 2 Chapter 4
I looked at myself on my reflection in the mirror here in the bathroom while brushing my teeth.
Dark brown eyes were sharply looking back at me. Long eyelashes, and it’s almost four months since I had my haircut, so my hair was slightly longer with a few curl locks dangling.
Whereas I’m wearing one of Keian’s t-shirts with some cycling shorts.
He said he wanted to see me wear his clothes!
It’s like he makes me change my clothes every night.
Hmph.
I lowered my body to puke on the sink and wash my mouth with water.
I felt someone wrapped their arms around me from behind. So does the way he pressed his muscular chest against me.
I smiled while rinsing my face.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.
Keian held my growing belly.
” Goodmorning, baby” I’m not sure if he’s referring to me or at the baby inside, but even so, I still turned to him delightfully.
And our lips met each other.
” Goodmorning,” I greeted back.
He flashed a smile at me and also lowered his body to kiss my belly, then properly stood back up.
He grabbed a towel and gave it to me.
I used it to wipe my face then placed it on a counter here in the bathroom.
” Vous êstes si belle, mon amour( You are so beautiful, my love)” Keian cupped my cheeks together.
He rubbed my cheeks with his thumb while staring at me.
I raised an eyebrow at him as he suddenly spoke French.
” Je suis si contente de me réveiller tous les jours avec toi à mes côtés. Vous êtes ici, avec moi. Merci pour ça (I’m so glad I woke up every day with you by my side. You are here, with me. Thank you for that)” I pretended to look at him in a cruel way when in fact, I was already smiling so hard deep inside.
Seriously, why did he had to give me all these goosebumps early in the morning?
” Eh bien monsieur, Tito Andre attend en bas. Allons-y( Well, mister. Tito Andre is waiting downstairs. Let’s go)” I smirked after saying that and finally went out of the bathroom.
I saw him winced, and he followed me.
” Quelle? C’est la seule chose que tu me diras?( What? That’s the only thing you’ll say to me?).” I faced him, and he directly furrows his eyebrows at me.
” Qu’est-ce qui t’arrive et tu parles français si tôt( What’s with you and you’re speaking French this early?)” He stared blankly at me.
” Vous aussi. Parlent en français ( You too. Are speaking in French)” I pouted at his statement.
“But you started—”
” What’s odd is that you two are speaking French while you’re in the Philippines. Both of you can understand Tagalog, and both of you can also speak Tagalog. I can’t understand you guys.” I slightly jumped upon hearing Steven’s voice outside the room even though the door was closed.
Keian narrowed his eyes at the door. The poor sweet door…
” Why are you here, Steven? Can’t you see that we’re doing something?” My companion irritatedly complained
” Hey! What are you doing there? And I can’t totally see you. The door is clo—” Before Steven could even continue his statement, Keian turned the doorknob.
Steven smiled widely.
” What?!” Steven stretched his arms around me while smirking at Keian.
” Tito Andre has been looking for you all morning.” Keian clicked his tongue and pulled me away from Steven while pulling me down the stairs.
” Hey! Keian! Geez! He’s been looking for you! Aishh. He’s pissed. I’m serious.” Keian stopped pulling and coldly turned to the person in front of him.
” Yeah. Just give us a minute,” He said in a serious tone.
Steven pouted but eventually nodded and went down.
We returned back to Keian’s room to also change our attires.
He’s actually not wearing anything on top.
Keian grabbed the first thing he sees in his walk-in closet and wore it.
He held my hand for a while.
” Come downstairs” A nod was all I could respond to before he left the room.
So I proceeded to change into more appropriate clothes.
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” The company lost almost 1 billion euro because of your idiocy!” I was nearly holding my breath here by the wall while watching Keian and Tito Andre talk. Katie, Theo, Zeke, Steven, and Erick were also present.
Seeing Tito Andre mad really is frightening.
” It’s the employees’ fault!”
” Andrew!” Tito’s voice echoed through the whole mansion.
The way Tito Andre was speaking Keiranz’s name is alarming, as if he was warning him about something.
Keian clenched his fists as he avoided eye contact with his father.
Tito Andre sighed heavily and calmed himself down.
” I’ll take care of it” His father shot a vicious glare at Keian.
” I’ve already taken care of it. What I want you to do is talk to your employees” Keian nodded automatically.
” Yes, Dad”
” For that. I want you to get out of my house.”
.
.
.
There was a long moment of silence as if every one of us here is absorbing what just Tito Andre told him.
” What?” Keian asked, looking puzzled as ever.
” I don’t want to see your face in this house or any establishment that the Marques’ owned. Take the whole weekend” I blinked several times at what Tito just said.
Is this real???
” H-huh? But Tito, all of this is not totally Keian’s fault.” Steven intervenes in their conversation. Tito Andre turns to him.
” That’s right. You too” Steven’s jaw dropped.
“B-But”
” I know you did nothing terrible, but your employees are your responsibilities as a boss.”
“Then I should be the one whom you should ban from any establishments owned by the Marques. Besides, I’m the one who’s mainly assigned on the employees.” Keian took a step forward to Steven and shook his head.
” No. It’s alright. I’ll pack some things” Tito Andre glanced at Keian with a satisfied look as he walked away from us.
The rest of us glanced at each other in awe.
“I’ll also pack up. Huhu. This means I’ll get to see the kids in the house again.” Steven walks away in an emotional expression.
Tito Andre shook his head while Theo at Katie walks over to him to show respect.
” This will be interesting, Tito. Nice punishment” From wincing, he immediately smirked.
” I am really that good.” I can’t help but raise my brow at Tito.
Katie and Theo laughed then walked towards me.
” Hi, Nass. Please take care of Kei,” She said, smirking.
I shook my head at her and enveloped the girl into a hug.
” Oh geez. But of course, I will.” I also gave Theo a hug.
” Goodmorning,” He greeted. I returned the greetings till everyone left the room, which leaves Tito Andre and me.
He expectantly looked at me. As if he already knew why I was left alone with him.
I went over to the old man and hugged him.
” How’s your trip here?” He slightly chuckled as I sit at the space beside him on the couch.
” Good, hija. How is my apo?” He gently holds my belly and rubbed it.
” Making her mama fat,” I joked, which made Tito laugh.
” That’s what Karina also told me when she was pregnant with Kayden.” He looks at me and held one side of my cheek.
” Nass. I know that I’m being a disturbance, but could you accompany Kei when he leaves the mansion? I want to punish him, but I also care for him deeply” I gave him a reassuring smile.
” Of course, Tito. I’ll handle him very well. I’m used to living the non-luxurious life, anyway.” He laughed once again. We talked some more for a little while before I climbed back up to Keian’s room.
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Keian turned to glare at some random guy near our direction here in the jeepney.
I squeezed his hands harshly because of this.
He’s been behaving like this the whole trip!
It’s so embarrassing that manong driver might tell us to go down from here.
Like who wouldn’t be annoyed at Keian trying to scare everyone he sees in the jeepney.
The person beside me even scooted to get away from me.
” So why are we riding here exactly? And why can’t we just take a tricycle?” Keian asked in an irritated and low voice.
I rolled my eyes at him.
” Because riding here is much more cheaper.” Was all I managed to say.
He narrowed his eyes at me then looked outside the window from behind us.
” Ine. Are you going to run away with your boyfriend?” I smiled at the old woman who asked me out of the blue.
I shot a glance at the four bags that Keian brought along with him and shook my head in response to the old lady.
” Eh, not really. He’s just going to stay with us for a little while.” I scratched my nape in embarrassment.
Why did he even have to bring a lot of bags?! He’s just going to stay with us for two days.
“Oh, is that so?” The moment the old lady spoke, that’s where I noticed we’re getting closer to our destination.
I nudged Keian to get his attention.
” Para po! (Words said when asking the jeepney driver to stop.).” The jeepney stopped. Carrying the four loads with us, we went down in front of the house.
” That is kind of depressing.”
” Pffttt— hahaha!” I can’t help but laugh at Keian’s statement.
” Let’s just go.” I grabbed his hand and pulled him inside the house.
Tiya isn’t home here today since she went on a vacation with William in the other province.
As soon as I opened the door, we immediately went inside since it’s horribly hot outside at this time in the afternoon.
Keian dropped his bags by the door.
” Why did you had to bring a lot of bags, anyway?”
Like what Tito Andre said, he doesn’t want to see Keian in any property owned by their family, and he also asked me a favor to take care of this man in the most excellent way I can.
So I thought that he should stay here instead of checking it at any random hotel. Tito also confiscated all of Keian’s credit cards, so basically, all that was left with him was personal money.
As if it was a punishment for losing such great amount of money from their company.
Of course, I didn’t want to leave him on his own that’s why I came along since they technically left him in my hands.
Keian stared right into my eyes and snaked his arms around my waist while pressing our foreheads against each other.
” It’s because we are going somewhere else after this weekend. I have all the things we need” My eyebrows creased, and I pulled myself away from him.
I hit him on the chest playfully.
“After Tito had given you the taste of your own medicine, you’d still think about spending your money?! And why didn’t you tell me right away? ”
How dare this guy! Planning without even informing me anything! Hmph!
He pouted, then hugged me real tight.
” Don’t get mad, please. I’m sorryyy. I just want to spend a whole week alone with you,” He sweetly pointed out.
“One week!?” I shrieked.
His expression turned cold.
” You don’t want to?” My mouth formed a straight line.
” If you just told me that firsthand.” He nodded, but I saw a pinch of sadness on his face.
“But I didn’t say anything about not wanting to leave with you,” I said in a bossy way while my face was all flustered.
I saw a smile crept his face, and he immediately wrapped me around his arms again.
” Thank you” he pecked my lips then dragged all the bags towards Brylle and I’s room.
My hands found themselves rubbing my belly.
We won’t be going with Brylle since he went with Diego as they’re going on a trip.
Father to father bonding, as they call it.
I strode over to the kitchen to cook us some lunch since we haven’t eaten anything yet.