Serum of Love: CEO x Model

7 // Seraphina 🏋️

"Tobias Park, huh? Do I have to fly over there to keep him in his place?" I'm in Milan to be away from you and your mistress. Is what I wanted to say, however the only thing I mustered was a scoff. Alaric Williams, my cheating fiance, always despised Tobias. Too often our arguments are because Tobias appears in advertisements, threatening to end it with me if I think about him. The most painful thing about being in my position was that he doesn't even try to hide his other woman, Nyla. His mistress giggled on the other end of the phone, kissing Alaric on occasion.
"Why does it matter to you if he's around me? I'm not a cheater unlike you, Alaric."
"He touched you, Seraphina. He clearly wants you back, clear as day."
"Tobias was protecting me from your friend Benett, who grabbed my ass and wouldn't leave me alone. So fuck you, Alaric." Both of them laughed at the other end of the phone, my fists turning white by my side.
"Now now, sweetheart. Remember, you don't get to end this relationship. I do. So I suggest that Tobias keeps his hands to himself, or he'll join the rest of them. Okay?" Alaric ended the call before I could say anything, I pressed my back against the cold wall of the alleyway. Frustrated tears began falling down my face, there was no possible way I could get myself out of this mess.
"Sera? Are you here?" Since the alleyway was poorly lit, I could barely tell who it was.
"Tobias, I'm fine, just go home." Afar, the footsteps sounded like loafers, however the closer they got, the more I realised they were heels.
"It's me, but Tobias did send me after you. Are you okay?" I nodded, embarrassed. Tobias sent Lottie after me, could he tell something was wrong? I apologised for the inconvenience I had caused to her night, which she brushed off.
"What matters most is that you're safe, Sera." She held up a rape whistle, which I gingerly took from her. "What? If you are ever in danger and neither Tobias and I can be there for you, just blow it." Stunned by her suddenness, I slowly nodded my head and dug it into the jacket that Tobias gave me. She noticed the jacket and began wriggling her eyebrows, I ignored it and began walking ahead of her. The both of us neared towards our hotel, beside me, Lottie was ecstatic. "SOOOO-"
"No."
"Then why, Sera? Why did he make Kyro call me in the middle of my dinner to get you? And why did he give you this expensive Burberry jacket?" I glanced over at Lottie, who looked perplexed. Suddenly I became curious too, why go through all that to make sure I'm ok? We arrived at the front of our hotel, Lottie made her way to her floor as I made my way to mine, thanking her for stopping her dinner to pick me up. Before Lottie got on the elevator, she turned to me. "Sera, if that were me, I'd take him to lunch or something." She smiled widely at me, stepping into the elevator. A beat. Lunch would sound good, if only I weren't so worried about Alaric and I's argument. Well fuck it, we are working together anyways, I sat on the plush chairs in the lobby and pulled out my phone.
[ 647-xxx-xxxx]
'Hey, want to have lunch tomorrow?'
'As workmates, of course.'
Oh for crying out loud, what am I doing? I glanced at my phone every minute, waiting like an impatient, lovestruck teenager. There was a good 5 minutes before I felt my phone buzz.
[416-xxx-xxxx] T.Park
'Sure. Meet me at Four Seasons Hotel. Goodnight, Sera.'
I threw my head against the backrest, tonight was going to be a long night. Preparations needed to be finished in 2 days, then again, that wasn't going to be a problem for me.
It was around 2 am when I finished prepping all my slides and notes. A yawn escaped from my body, but I didn't feel tired. Restless, I hopped out of bed and got myself dressed to go to the gym in the hotel. To my surprise, 2 am was a bit popular for a gym, so I headed out to the 24 hour gym nearby. There were less people around, most of them were locals. As I exited the women's locker room, I crashed into someone bulky, which almost sent me flying.
"Oh, mi dispiace tanto." A hand reached out to me, I glanced up and it's Tobias.
"Non si preoccupi, signorina. Sono felice che tu non sia ferito." The way he pronunciates Italian makes my heart flutter, he knows Italian. He helped me up and I swiftly adjusted my clothes, Tobias was eyeing me attentively as if I was going to run and hide from him. "You speak Italian? You never fail to amaze me." I threw him the nastiest look, offended.
"I was in Model UN, as Italy, I learned Italian insults just to mess with Germany." Tobias studied me, still confused as ever. "When did you ever have time to learn Italian?" Tobias was born in France, raised in France, had a Korean dad and French mom. It would make sense he knew French and Korean, but Italian? Not what I had pegged him to be.
"My maman brought home an Italian basics book when I was 8. Since then I've been learning it." I guffawed, this guy is full of surprises. Then I remembered what happened a couple hours earlier, an ache formed in my chest. I stopped myself and picked up my phone and water bottle from the ground.
"I'm going to go now. Thanks for helping me up, stronzo." Hurriedly, I made my way to the free weights, not bothering to peek at Tobias.
"Di nulla, principessa."