Restart (A Billionaire Story)

25: Pizza

Stefanie's P.O.V again

"You said you were jealous....why?" I asked Mr. Greenfield, trying to comprehend what he just told me. There were so many more questions floating around in my head but this one had stuck with me the most. I had no clue what would make Mr. Greenfield -a man who literally had everything- jealous when it came to me.

I was still waiting for an an answer as I looked at him expectantly. "I knew this was a stupid idea..." I mumbled and shook my head as I got up. "You should just leave now" I told Mr. Greenfield as I ran a hand through my hair. I didn't know what had gotten into me to even allow him to enter my flat after everything. I was internally cursing myself for once again letting him manipulate me to have his way.

"No. I'll explain. Please" Mr. Greenfield then broke his silence as he looked up at me with pleading eyes. I've never seen him with a vulnerable expression like this. His usually stern and cold eyes had something different in them I couldn't quite point out. Whatever it was, seemed to work on me though, since all my anger I just felt for him seconds ago, seemed to be disappearing again.

I frowned as I sat back down at the table, trying to figure out this man sitting in front of me.  "I can't believe I'm doing this" he muttered more to himself than to me, before looking up from his lap and into my eyes. "I might've been jealous of your friend, Luke" Mr. Greenfield admitted, sounding like it almost physically hurt him to admit that.

"Huh...jealous? Of Luke? Why?" I asked him, not sure what he meant.
"Yeah. You seem to be spending a lot of time with him and it's also not hard to see that you get along really well" he started to explain but I still couldn't fully follow. I guess he must've told by the confused look on my face as he sighed and continued. "As I said earlier, for whatever reason, I really wanted to get to know you more, Stefanie. I wanted to spend more time with you but I knew it wasn't a good idea, so I kept pushing you away and acting like a prick. Seeing Luke get along with you that well and you spending time with him again and again, made me jealous and dislike him. I don't even know if any of this is making any sense. It actually sounds even more stupid now, saying it out loud. But there you go. There's your explanation...." he told me with a frown.

"Oh....uhm okay" I mumbled, nodding, not knowing how to respond. If anything, his explanation confused me even more and made me want to ask more questions.

"Listen, this is torture for me. I usually don't do this...like, talk about my feelings and all that. I really hope that it helps making you understand my actions at least a little because I'm not gonna repeat what I just confessed again. I'm sorry. That's all I can say and I really hope that you can forgive me" Mr. Greenfield said, looking at me with a hopeful expression.

I was really conflicted and didn't know what to make out of this whole situation. I still had so many unanswered questions in my head. I was aware that Mr. Greenfield was probably just trying to work his charms on me and make me feel bad for him. For some reason though, I felt like I should just let it go and try to forgive him, so whatever he did seemed to be working.

"Well, this pizza isn't gonna eat itself...." I said as I opened the box and grabbed a slice. I felt Mr. Greenfield's eyes fixed on me, not saying or doing anything. "You're not expecting me to finish this all by myself, are you?" I asked him as he looked at me with a puzzled expression still. It seemed to take him a moment to comprehend what I meant, before a small smile formed on his lips.

"Thank you" he simply said and then grabbed a slice of pizza too. I just nodded, sending him a small smile as well, before taking another bite. My brain was pretty much screaming at me to tell Mr. Greenfield to leave and stay out of my life. I knew that I was probably making a big mistake and I was just gonna end up hurt once more, but I just pushed those thoughts out of my head, trusting my gut feeling instead and hoping it wouldn't disappoint me. 

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First of all, I wanna apologise to whoever waited for an update and didn't get one in so long.
I've just felt really uninspired for a while now and I'm also one of those people who had more work to do than ever with this Corona stuff, so that didn't help either. I'm gonna try to write more frequently now though!!
Thank you so much to everyone for reading and especially for voting and commenting. It's what keeps me going and stay motivated to update!!!! :)
Also, I know it's a short chapter but I just wanted to get something up today. There might be another one really soon though.

xx Steffi