Arrogant Billionaire: Love vs Hate

Chap. 18

"Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."
- Thomas J. Watson
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I mentally cursed myself. Due to my stupidity I was going to face wrath of my mom. I knew she wouldn't let me off the hook this time. I hurriedly went out of the reading room towards the Mark's room.

Oh my heavens.

I stopped in my tracks as my eyes laid on Mark. I slapped my stupid mind for drooling secretly. He was standing near his cupboard taking out some towels, while his back was turned towards me. He was dressed only in a gym trouser while his muscular back was on the show. His sexy back eventually turned into an extremely sexy toned chest with defined abs. My goodness, Isn't he the hottest devil!

"You can close your mouth, you know" I was broken out of my hypnosis by Mark's amused voice.

Damn. I closed my mouth instantly and turned my now reddened face to the other side. I was flustered. I couldn't believe he caught me staring at him open-mouthed. God it was embarrassing.

"I-I'm going" I said picking up my bag looking at anything but him. Then I heard his deep laughter. It was the first time I heard him laugh. I was only used to his cold looks or evil smirks. God I'll die of embarrassment now, he is laughing at me.

"You never fail to amuse me nerd."

"I'm glad I can amuse you Mr. Winston" I said flashing him a sarcastic smile and went out of his room as fast as I could. He enjoyed annoying me too much. Stupid Jerk, Ugh.

I was extremely nervous as I reached my home. I mentally prepared myself for an angry outburst of my mom. I opened the front door and slowly went inside. I heard laughter and my baby brother's voice from the living room. Well that was strange, I was expecting an angry atmosphere. I went to living room and saw Clara and mom laughing as my baby brother Louis told them something animatedly.

"Hey honey. How was the renovation?" my mom asked chirply as she saw me.

What was she talking about? Why wasn't she angry at me? I was confused. I looked at Clara. She signalled me to play along. I realised and flashed her a thankful look.

"It was fine mom" I said kissing my baby brother's cheek and taking an empty sofa opposite to Clara.

"Andyyyy look Cara gave me Kumama" my baby brother said excitedly showing me a cute Naruto Nine Tailed Fox toy. I laughed at Clara's nick name.

"That's cute. Go play with it." I kissed his cheeks and ruffled his hairs. He jumped happily and went to his play room.

"Honey, why didn't you told me that you're going to be late due renovation at your store? I was getting anxious when you didn't picked up your call. Thankfully Clara arrived and told me about it."

"Sorry mom it slipped off my mind" I gave my mom an apologetic look and stood up to go to my room. "I'll go pack my bag for sleepover."

"I'll help you" Clara said standing up. From look on her face she was probably going to interrogate me, but I was thankful that she saved me from my mom's anger.

"Why didn't you answered my calls?" she asked as we went inside my room.

"Uh- It'll sound a bit silly. My employer had the novel 'Jane Eyre' with him, so I couldn't help myself from reading it and I kind of lost the track of time. After that I realised I had accidentally put my phone on the silent mode." I said picking up my clothes from the cupboard and placing them on my bed.

I was technically telling her the truth.

"Well that sounds more like you" she said laughing as she placed my clothes inside my overnight bag.