Chapter 11

“What?” He looked taken aback. “What did you just say?”

I almost laughed. “Are you surprised I know Cassian? Well, don’t be. I have been seeing you kiss her all over the house. You both have been sneaking around, huddled up together in your study, library and whatnot.”

I pointed at her.          

“I don’t care what you do with her. What I will not tolerate is you trying to control my life while you’re having a blast.” I walked closer to him.

“Stay out of my way, Cassian, or I swear you won’t like what I’m going to do.”

As I stormed up the staircase, Celeste hurriedly stepped aside.

I banged my room door and threw my purse on the bed. I screamed in frustration.

Who did he think he was? Telling me what to do while sleeping with Celeste under the same roof? The nerve!

I angrily got undressed and quickly called Noah. It went straight to voicemail. I groaned in frustration. I hope he didn’t get into some kind of trouble.

I can’t believe I just lost $13000 because of my narcissistic husband.

Damn it!

The next day, I walked out of the house to meet a car waiting.

I looked at it in confusion as a man dressed in a black suit stepped out.

“Good morning, ma’am.”

I raised a brow in confusion.

“Who are you?”

“Your driver and personal bodyguard, ma’am. My name is Tony.” He opened the backseat door. “Where are we headed to today?”

I snorted. Yeah, right. Now he got me a babysitter?

“Tell your boss I don’t need a babysitter.”

I ignored the man and began walking.

I had been walking just fine since I got to this house, and taxis were more than okay for me.

I began walking and tried as much as possible to ignore the man behind me. He was literally driving and following me.

Didn’t he know how to take a hint?

I was already on the main road, and he still hadn’t given up. It didn’t help that I had been waiting for almost half an hour for a cab and I had not been able to get one.

He rolled down the window.

“Ma’am, you’re going to end up late for work. Just get in.”

I groaned. This was just going to prove Cassian right, and that was exactly what I was trying to avoid. Ugh.

I finally got in since no cabs were forthcoming.

We drove in silence to the foundation, and I had to deal with the uncomfortable silence the whole way. It seemed Tony wasn’t much of a talker.

Tony definitely did not play with his job. He was hovering at my door throughout the whole day, and it was starting to creep everyone out.

“Who’s the hunk by your door?” She asked like he wasn’t standing right there.

Tony’s expression didn’t even shift.

“My bodyguard.”

She wiggled her eyebrows. “I guess yesterday went well. Maybe I can snag that ass for myself.”

“Beth!” Did she have no shame?

“Hey, a girl can dream, plus he does look fine.”

“Tony,” I sighed again. “You don’t have to stand by my door for the whole day.

“I am only doing my job, ma’am.” He responded like a programmed robot.

I rolled my eyes.

At that moment, Noah walked in, and Tony placed a hand to his chest to stop him.

“Tony! This is my friend.” I yelled, standing up as Noah gave him a strange look.

“Look, just wait outside. I’m sure you can also protect me from there.” He gave me a look.

I sighed. Since he wanted to be like that, “That is an order.”

He gave a curt nod before stepping out.

“I see you now have a babysitter.” Noah grinned as he sat.

“Don’t even start with me.” I groaned, collapsing into my chair.

“He literally just appeared at my door this morning telling me he was now my driver.”

“Isn’t that a good thing? It would save you the stress of commuting to work every day. I can only imagine you must be walking out of that huge ass house every single morning.”

“That is an advantage, yes, but he feels more like a babysitter than anything else. Plus, Cassian is only doing this to prove a point that I can’t take care of myself.”

“It might not necessarily mean that. He did seem pretty worried about you yesterday. Maybe he genuinely cares.”

Cassian? Care about me?

“You wouldn’t understand, Noah. I called you yesterday. I hope everything was alright. I’m sorry if I caused any trouble for you at the event.”

“Nah, you didn’t. I managed to explain the situation to the organizers so it’s not a big deal.”

He leaned forward. “Besides, I really think Cassian cares about you. I could sense jealousy yesterday.”

I laughed. “Jealous? You clearly don’t know him.” I bit my lip. “Cassian and I are in a very complicated relationship.”

“You’ve said something like that before. Care to share?”

“Well…” I hesitated. Was I really comfortable telling him everything about my life?

“Don’t tell me you don’t still trust me.” He said, faking a shot to the chest.

“No, it’s not that,” I said. “I just.. haven’t really spoken to anyone about it before.”

“Maybe that’s where the problem is. You need a second opinion.”

“Okay, fine. How does lunch sound? Then I can tell you all about it, plus it would give me a chance to make up.”

“That sounds great. Are you doing anything now? We can just go now.” He said, standing up.

“Okay, great.”

A knock sounded on my door.

“Come in.” I called out.

Beth came in with a very huge smile on her face.

“Beth, you look as if you won the lottery. What’s up?” I asked curiously.

She dropped an iPad on the desk.

“Elara! Guess what?”

“What?” I asked confused.

“We just received a donation of $300,000 to the foundation’s account. Damn, Elara, you didn’t tell me you had such an attractive personality that would get $300,000 in the bag.” She clapped excitedly.

I furrowed my eyebrows. Huh?

“I don’t understand.

“We’re $300000 richer bitch!”

“I heard that part, but it wasn’t me, Beth. My date was… well, interrupted.”

She paused.

“What do you mean by it wasn’t you? Then who the hell donated such a huge amount of money to us?!”