The Were CEO’s Secret

Forty-Eight – Gold Digger.

Stephanie flickered her eyes open. Her head felt light and underneath her felt very soft.

How was she in her room? She lazily left her bed. Perhaps she never went out as she thought.

“Hey, Stephanie. How was yesterday?” Lacy walked downstairs with her. Stephanie noticed her tone and frowned.

“Oh, you don’t remember or you don’t want to remember?” Lacy flipped her head and hurried down the stairs.

Stephanie froze. What’s she saying? Events of last night replayed in her head. She had actually gone out. To play as Nathan’s girlfriend. Then… everything was blurry.

“Wait, I don’t remember walking to my room, don’t tell me Nathan carried me up again?” She bit her lips. Her cheeks heated up.

“Who else? Where you thinking superman carried you to your bed? Please leave the fantasies to me.” Macy chirped, coming out from the kitchen.

Stephanie rolled her eyes. “That’s embarrassing. I’m not a baby. I wasn’t even drunk. Why didn’t he just wake me up?!”

Lacy and Macy locked eyes and then smirked.

“Maybe he wanted to hold you?” Lacy danced around her dramatically.

“And fulfill his dream of carrying you in bridal style.” Macy added, and joined her sister in the dance.

Stephanie balled her fists. “You girls are crazy. Stop it.” She found her self thinking it was funny… and cute.

“Stephanie, I’m going to the doctor’s office to finalize business with your dad and that machine. Be back soon.” Mrs. Ernest shouted.

Stephanie ran to her but her mother left before she got there her. She turned to her sisters having breakfast. Does it mean she’d take them to school?

“Yeah, I guess you’d take us to school now.” Macy grinned, as if she read her mind.

“I detested that job since I was sixteen.” Stephanie threw her hands in the air.

It wasn’t just taking them to school but also being amongst their tiny circle of friends, gossiping about stupid things.

“You never seemed to run away from the job either. And soon, you’d have annoying twin kids like us.” Macy laughed like a maniac.

Stephanie glared at her. She’d never be having twin kids. Never. She prayed God honored that prayer. She left to get ready for work.

“Macy, you aren’t making her feel better. Don’t worry, Stephanie. We won’t run around on the road.” Lacy smiled.

Stephanie smiled back. “Thank you.” She walked inside.

“Here you are acting like the good twin.” Macy mocked.

Lacy sighed. “Dad would be home soon. We better be good or he’d have a bad image of us and hate us.”

Stephanie overheard her while coming out. Was that what she thought? “Lacy, your father would never hate you. You both, come let’s go now.”

They didn’t keep their promise. Stephanie ran to the road and dragged Lacy and her small friend out before they got crushed by a truck.

Why was it today of all days that Nathan said he couldn’t pick her up? It had never happened before and she was quite disappointed. She hoped it wasn’t about his earlier convulsion.

Luckily, a teacher at their school was driving and opted to take the kids. Stephanie had never felt so grateful. She rushed to the office.

“Hello!” she heard a worker knocking at her office, holding a gift bag.

“Oh, I’m here. I just arrived.” she waved at the lady with a smile.

The lady stared at her confused. “But I just saw someone walk in here?”

Stephanie’s eyes widened. She saw the lady’s hands. “Um, is that for me?”

The lady nodded. “Mr. Nathan sent it to you and he’s sorry for not picking you up. He had an emergency call from his doctor.”NôvelDrama.Org owns © this.

Stephanie collected the bag. “Thank you.” She peeked inside and it was a shoe, an expensive looking shoe. Was Nathan thinking she was his real girlfriend now?

She remembered the mysterious person that had entered her office. Was it the tuxedo man? She slowly opened it but her face dropped.

“What are you doing in my office, Garcia?” she folded her arms. Should she had said ‘long time, no seeing’ cos it had been long she’d seen her.

Garcia turned her chair and faced Stephanie. She saw the gift bag in her hand and smirked. “So you are dating Nathan?”

Stephanie realized her swollen face, possibly by crying for long. She folded her arms.

She wasn’t dating Nathan for real but if Garcia knew she could blow it up and the J-twins would know. She really wanted half of that money.

She admitted, “Yes, what about it?”

Garcia shook her head. “I knew you were a gold digging bitch but I still let you go cos Alpha said not to hurt you.” She spoke with so much regret.

Stephanie exhaled. She knew Garcia really liked Nathan so this would be hard to bear.

She knew Garcia was also trying her best not to throw hands at her so she moved away from her.

“Call me what you like.” She said casually, walking to her seat. But her heart was haunting her. She didn’t feel so happy with the prank.

If everyone knew that she was dating Nathan then how’d they feel if she told them it was a prank? Garcia would really throw hands then.

“I had thought you were messing with me about Nathan. So you got your eyes on him all this while? Such a bitch!” Garcia clicked her tongue.

Stephanie snapped. “Okay, shut up! Maybe if you didn’t act like a Barbie around Nathan, maybe he’d have asked you to play his girlfriend and not me!”

Garcia didn’t listen to the last part and only heard ‘shut up’. “You dare shut me up! How about I twist your mouth!” She came closer to Stephanie.

Stephanie screamed at the top of her lungs. “Garcia, get out of my office now! Or I’d charge you with assault and harassment and you’d lose your reputation and Nathan for ever.”

Garcia froze, she withdrew back. “Fine. I’d just send someone after you.” She left the door.

Stephanie melted to the ground, grasping for breathe. How did no one hear her panic scream and rush to help her?

And this had to happen when Nathan was away? Where had he gone to?

She stood up to get to work and saw lots of files on her table. Had he left all his work to her table?

She went down to business but couldn’t do much as Garcia was on her mind. She hadn’t had a serious crush on someone before but she knew rejection hurts.

It bothered her that Garcia would think she’s a gold digger.

If she realized the real idea of what happened, she’d still insist she did it for the money. That was true but also because Nathan asked her to.