A Billionaire In Disguise

Chapter Fourty-Four

Biting on her bottom lip, Chloe took a long look at Rome, and then she smirked and said, "There's no

need to be shy. It's just the two of us here."

When Rome didn't speak or look her way, Chloe got annoyed, but she suppressed her feelings as a

lopsided grin surfaced on her lips, and softly intoned, "I want you, Rome!"

There were so many thoughts running through Rome's head, and even though a lot of things didn't

make sense, he knew one thing for sure that he needed to get out of there.

"Can you at least look at me when I am talking to you?" Chloe softly cried, sniffing gently.

"Hell no!" Rome mumbled, furrowing his brows.

Then without thinking for a second, he turned around and started heading for the door.

As he was about to reach the handle, he felt a tender hand grab his wrist and hold onto it tightly.

"I know that in the past, I picked on you a lot and said all kinds of mean stuff to you, but I did it because

I liked you. I'm in love with you, and my body wants you, Rome." Chloe seductively whispered, slowly

tracing her index finger down his arm.

For a moment, Rome squeezed his eyes shut, pressing his lips in a firm line as he tried to get his anger

under control.

Then he raised his lashes, and there was nothing but coldness in his eyes as he forcefully yanked his

hand out of her grip.

"Ouch," Chloe softly cried.

"Touch me again, and I swear I will lay my hands on you, and not in a romantic way that you want!"

Rome coldly uttered, grabbing onto the knob.

Feeling a bit afraid, Chloe stood by and watched him open the door.

Then she shouted in frustration, "What does my cousin have that I don't have!!"

"Dignity!" Rome said before slamming the door shut behind him.

When he was further in the hallway, he pulled out his phone from his sweatpants pocket and scrolled

through his contact, stopping at Catherine's number.

Then he dialed it, and after it rang for a while, the call ended, and Rome slightly frowned as he tried it

again.

Devastated that she got rejected, Chloe grabbed her hair and screamed as tears ran down her face.

Then she hastily walked over to her clothes, picked her trouser off the floor, and took her phone out of

its pocket.

With trembling hands, she texted, "You said that it was going to work, that he's a man, and wouldn't

refuse a naked woman even if he was loyal to his wife! Well, newsflash, Rome did, and nothing

happened!"

A few seconds after she sent the text, a message popped up on her screen, "Oh, but something did

happen."

"Stop talking nonsense and get to the point!!" Chloe message back.

"Where's Rome now?"

"He just left the room!"

For a couple of seconds, Chloe eagerly waited for a response.

Then a message finally popped up on her screen, "Go into the bathroom, grab his robe, wear it, mess

up your hair, and follow him out. Then demand him to take responsibility for what he did to you."

Frowning, Chloe gave it a second thought and messaged back, "How would falsely accusing Rome get

him to fall in love with me!!"

"It wouldn't. But it will ruin Rome's relationship with your cousin. I mean, if you can't have Rome, why

should she?"

"But I want to have him!!"

"Let's get real here, Chloe. If a man refuses you after you naked yourself in front of him, do you think

there's any chance of him falling for you!"

Anger spiked in Chloe's eyes as reality settled in. Then she intensely gazed at her phone screen before

texting, "Were you just manipulating me for your benefit!!"

A couple of seconds when by quietly. Then Chloe's phone buzzed, and she stared at the message on

the screen, "I would never. I'm just being honest with you, Chloe. Catherine doesn't deserve to be

happy with Rome when it's because of her you can't have a chance with him."

"You know what, you are right! If Rome can't be mine, then I'm going to make sure that he wouldn't be

hers too. It's only fair that we both lose him." Chloe texted as a smirk crept on her lips.

After trying Catherine's number for the sixth time, Rome was less annoyed and more concerned that

she didn't answer her phone.

Finally, the elevator door opened, and he walked into the lobby, heading for the hotel restaurant.

When he reached the table that K and Brook were seated at, they both immediately stood to their feet.

"Boss, he hasn't arrived yet," Brook said, concerned by the look of stress on Rome's face.

"He's not coming. Tonight was a trap." Rome calmly uttered.

"What?" K asked in confusion.

There was a brief pause. Then Rome drew a deep breath and said, "Chloe is in my suite."

"What!!" Brook said out loud before getting a grip on his tongue.

"Yeah. Umm, I need you and Blaze to stay here and find out how she access my room. When I get

back home, I will have Scar trace the number. Hopefully, it will lead back to something."

"Yes, boss."

Swaying his gaze towards K, Rome drew a deep breath and said, "Let's go. We have a flight to catch."

"You are leaving tonight?" K asked in confusion.

Frustrated, Rome turned away from his men, shoved his hands into his pocket, and said, "Yeah.

Catherine isn't answering her calls."

Then he walked away with K following closely behind him. When the both of them reached the hotel

lobby, Rome froze as he locked eyes with Chloe.

Frowning with his eyes centered solely on her, K absentmindedly mumbled, "Boss, Chl…"

"I see her. Let's just get out of here first. I will handle her later." Rome said, walking off.

Seeing that he was leaving, Chloe tightened her fist, forced her eyes to get watery, and shouted,

"Rome Ford!"

Even though he heard her, Rome kept walking. But that didn't stop Chloe from yelling, "You jerk! Is it

okay to use a woman and leave without telling her!"

Those words immediately got people's attention, and some of them started taking out their phones.

Mumbling raised in the lobby, and K was getting concerned. So he approached Rome and whispered,

"Boss, people are recording you guys. Don't you want to clarify things before this becomes another

news?"

"What's the use. It will become a piece of news even if I intervene. Also, I don't owe any of these

people an explanation because they will just assume whatever they want to believe." Rome mumbled,

striving his best to control his anger.

Infuriated that Rome was ignoring her, Chloe tightened her fist. Then she shouted, "Just because your

father is powerful, you think a woman's body is just a toy! You are such a player!"

An older lady frowned as she stared at Rome's back. Then she shouted, "Young man, how could you

be so heartless to such an innocent woman!"

Following her comments, the were other ridiculing statements thrown at Rome.

Finally, he stopped in his tracks, turned around, and glared at Chloe.

Then he sighed and said, "Since we slept together, you should know my body, right?" Rome calmly

uttered without taking his eyes off her.

A look of nervousness across Chloe's face. Then when she realized that people were staring at her,

she forced a few more tears to drop from her eyes and mumbled, "Well, yes."

"Okay, can you tell these nosy people here who have nothing better to do than to listen to your rubbish

about the scars on my body and where I have each of them!" Rome harshly said, losing control of his

anger.

Mumbling aroused in the lobby, and Chloe began to feel a bit pressured by the intense stares that she

was getting, so she cleared her throat and boldly stated, "Well, umm… You had one scar on your

back!"

Frowning, Rome narrowed his eyes and firmly asked, "Is that all!"

"Yes!" Chloe hastily said without thinking because she was becoming nervous.

Staring at Rome pulling up his shirt, K raised a brow and asked, "Boss, what are you doing?"

"Intervening as you asked me to do," Rome said, taking off his shirt.

Then he frowned at Chloe and coldly uttered, "I have a stabbed wound on my side, and if I had slept

with you, there's no way you wouldn't know that."

Seeing the look of humiliation on her face, Rome turned his back to her and said, "Also, I got no scars

on my back!"

A couple of minutes went by silently as Rome wore his shirt.

After he got done, he looked at Chloe and loudly said, "How desperate can you be to want your

cousin's husband so badly that you will make up such an absurd lie? Don't you have the slightest bit of

shame since I'm your cousin-in-law!"

Everyone in the lobby's eyes was now on Chloe, and then a lady loudly uttered, "What a despicable

woman! It's so shameless of her to tell such a barefaced lie!"

Within that moment, Chloe desperately wished that the ground would just open and swallow her whole

as she listened to the insulting remarks about her.

Then she threw Rome a dirty look before running back into the elevator while shielding her face behind

her hand.

"Now that you all know that I didn't sleep with her, I hope you guys can delete those videos for the sake

of you not getting sue by me!" Rome said with a stiff smile as he glared at those in the lobby.

Then he turned around and walked away with K following him.

When he and Rome arrived outside, he stood closed by Rome and happily mumbled, "Boss, that was

Soo... smooth."

At that moment, a guy with a face cap and a black hoodie walked past them, and K intensely stared

after him.

"What is it?" Rome asked, following his gaze.

"Nothing," K mumbled, still having an awful gut feeling.

The fellow stopped at a black Chevrolet Camaro, got into the backseat, and took off his cap. Text © 2024 NôvelDrama.Org.

"Master, just like you anticipate, Chloe caused a scene, and I have it all on camera." He said, refusing

to take his gaze off the floor.

Then he silently smirked when he heard his master coldly say, "Good. Huh, Rome, your reputation is

mine to damage, and that's only the first step!"