Control The CEO

Chapter 2

Control The CEO

Chapter 2

❝Ace's Palace❞

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When I was younger, I used to put on headphones and stare out into the world when in a car. I had no music on. And I barely even saw what was out there. In truth, I was lost in my mind. Overthinking is one part of my mental problems. It causes a lot of stress on my body as well as this negativity that I can't break away from. The same thing is everywhere and often I think about the very same thing for hours with no end. My mind gets trapped and I can't escape it.

Which is why I'm not allowed to drive. My brother has a couple of drivers for me that are alert all hours everyday. They all take shifts but there is always one driver that I can use to take me places. I don't know where I'm going and I barely even care about it. I have forgotten where I had planned to go. I keep thinking about this whole thing. About how my brother and Ace have made this sort of contract that I'm supposed to stay with Ace. None of that makes sense and I can't figure out why.

I think and think about it. None of it leaves my mind, and the conversation that I had with Ace doesn't make my thought train any shorter. If we're driving through the city or going somewhere outside of the city, I don't know. I don't remember where I had told the driver to go and frankly at this moment, I could go anywhere and not remember if that was the place that I wanted to go. Ace and I hate each other, at least every time that we are in the same look we're either arguing or being mean to each other.

It doesn't mean anything, we're not like cruel to each other. We just don't like each other that much, never have. Ever since we met, we just didn't like each other. I'm sure I have a different reason for not liking him than he has for not liking me. That doesn't change that fact that neither one of us can stand each other, I want nothing to do with him and I'm sure he wants nothing to do with me. Which is why I can't even understand why something like that would be in this contract.

My phone rings. My brother's name flashes on the screen which makes me look down. I stare at it for a moment. He wants me to answer. Leo will continue to call until I answer. But, all that I do is stare down at the screen. Until it goes black. Some seconds later it lights up again and once more I see his name. I don't answer him. "Want me to answer that?" The driver asks. It's a woman that is about ten years older than me. I think her name is Sarah. She doesn't speak much.

"Talking on the phone while driving isn't the ideal idea" I tell her and she chuckles. I don't know how she broke me out of my thoughts. "Having boy trouble?" She asks me. I smile a bit. "Something like that" I say. She smiles, I see that. Her eyes catch mine when we're at a red light in the mirror. "Do tell" She says with a smirking tone sort of. I sigh and turn my gaze towards the phone once more and turn it to silent, still not answering though. "I think my brother is being blackmailed by my worst enemy that I can't stop thinking about" I say.

I hadn't even thought about that option until I said it out loud and it is out of my head, even when it had been there all this time and still I never really thought about it. "That's tough, what are you doing about it?" She asks me. I think about this for a moment or two or maybe they were four or six or eight. I don't know. This woman knows who I am, she knows who my brother is. He's a powerful man, that I know and blackmailing someone that powerful is tough. Especially when it is your best friend.

How can I answer that? In truth, I don't think that this has anything to do with me, and I think it may have everything to do with me. Why Ace would want to be around me any more than we have to, I don't know. I don't answer her, I stare ahead at the seat of the car in front of me. Thinking about what I can do about this. By the time that I look up, I'm in front of some building and the car has stopped.

"What am I doing here?" I ask, her and me at the same time. Right where we have stopped is one of Ace's restaurants. It's even named after him. Ace's Palace. A really fancy restaurant. I stare at the sign and then at the driver. "I only go where I'm told" She says. I don't remember where I had told her to go. I remember very well that I did not tell her to come here. But, someone did. That is when I see him standing there. Ace is standing by the restaurant, leaning against it with his hands crossed over his chest.

Our eyes meet and stay like that. I don't understand any of it. I get out of the car and walk towards him. I feel angry at him and my brother. They can't decide for my life. Only I can. I might have problems and I can't be on my own, I'm not allowed to, but that doesn't mean that I can't have any decisions about my life and choices. I walk over to him and that smirking face. Our eyes never stray from each other and as I strand in front of him. For once I don't think before I do. I raise my hand and I slap him as hard as I possibly can.