Chapter-44

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ɪ ᴅᴏɴ'ᴛ ᴄᴀʀᴇ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴘᴇᴏᴘʟᴇ sᴀʏ ᴡʜᴇɴ ᴡᴇ'ʀᴇ ᴛᴏɢᴇᴛʜᴇʀ

ʏᴏᴜ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ɪ ᴡᴀɴɴᴀ ʙᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏɴᴇ ᴛᴏ ʜᴏʟᴅ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡʜᴇɴ ʏᴏᴜ sʟᴇᴇᴘ

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After trying and failing five times to persuade Celeste into ditching her 'friends' and having lunch somewhere else, I followed her to the booth that was the only empty one at the time and slid into the extreme corner. I saw the blonde girl was going to sit next to me but Celeste was closer.

"Savannah, come sit with me." Melissa said, who was sitting on the opposite side with Logan beside her. Celeste was sitting to my left and Caleb beside her.

"Order for me?" I asked Celeste. She hummed in reply.

"What would you like to eat?" The excited voice, which was actually annoying made us look at the blonde girl. Celeste asked me not to call any other girl blondie because according to her I will be disrespecting her wife, Taylor.

"Are you taking our orders Sierra?" Caleb asked.

"It's Savannah and no, I was trying to start a conversation." She growled. See? She's a bitch. Growling bitch. "Waiter." She called, raising her hand in the air.

"I think Chase would like to order for himself Celeste." Sienna said to Cel.

"It's Mr. Black to you Sienna, he's still your boss and you may call me Miss Reed, you're not my friend. All my fellow employees address me as mentioned." Cel said after placing the orders. I cannot wait for this lunch to be over already.

I took Celeste's hand in mine. Interlocking our fingers. Now it looks good. She has a new ring, I noticed. Taking it out of her thumb, I try to fit it in one of my fingers. It goes in my ring finger. We're married again. I turn to look at her but she's already looking at me. I think she read my mind because she called me idiot under her breath.

"How're you Cal?" She bumped her shoulder with his.

"I'm good. How are you and your little guy?" He asked wiggling his eyebrows, looking at us comically. So he knows.

"Oh we're good. Pico is getting naughtier day by day." She sighed.

"What do you mean we? And who's Pico? You have a kid?" Blonde hair asked frantically.

"Pico is our kitten and your friend didn't tell you about us? You seemed to know something secretive about me, didn't you?" Cel asked her, giving her the smile I hope is never directed at me in the future.

She didn't answer as our orders were served. Logan who was silent the whole time, digged in first.

"Since when are you left handed Celeste?" Melissa asked.

"I am not?" She frowned.

"You aren't using your right hand." She pointed out. It's in my hand.

"Oh." She replied, not bothering to give her any explanation. We finished our lunch in silence.

"So what Melissa was saying was true. You really are a gold digging bitch. As soon as you got a rich man you forgot to respect your friends!" Savannah said.

"Who are you calling a bitch you whore?" Caleb spat.

"Calling someone else a bitch when you yourself are the biggest one? Quite hypocritical, isn't it?" Logan asked.

"Miss Court, if you like to keep your job then I would suggest you to stop gossiping around the office and you, Sarah. You are fired. You'll receive your paycheck by evening. Collect your things after you're finished paying for your lunch and leave." I tell her, standing up. I paid the bill for us except Melissa and Sarah, we walked back to the office. I'm not going to pay for the bitches who disrespect my girl right in front of me.

"Mr. Black." Caleb called.

"Yes?"

"Here, the money for mine and Logan's lunch." He held out a few notes.

"Don't worry about it. You're her friends." I tell him and Logan, as I stepped into the elevator.

"I have only one female friend now." Celeste said, leaning on my shoulder. "Do you have any friends I could get acquainted with?" She asked. Did I not tell her she's the only woman in my life?

"No." I reply.

"Luke's girlfriends are shitty too." She said. Judging on the one I have seen, I can say they actually are.

"I can ask Caden to wear a wig?" I suggest.

"Shut up. That's so mean. He's your brother!" She hits my arm.

"What about Alec? We can call him Alexandra." I tell her. Alexandra sounds nice. Suits him.

"No, you've shit suggestions. Shut up and go work or something." She said, pushing me towards my office as the elevator doors opened.

Fine.

I have to talk to people again. Tiring.

The other half of my day was spent in finalising the deals and signing the papers. I rarely saw Celeste the rest of the day, I was cooped up in my office. It's hard to be the boss sometimes.

"I love your hair, did I tell you that?" Celeste asked as she massaged my head as she promised. She did, alot of times. "So soft." She said, running her fingers through my hair.

She pressed a kiss on my forehead after finishing with the massage. I removed my head from her lap and pulled her down to lay down on her.

I listened her heartbeat, trying not to drift off to sleep. "te quiero." I told her before letting the sleep overcome. (I love you.)

"Same to you, sweet dreams." She replied. She still thinks it means goodnight. I should tell her what it really means, but I'm too scared to. One day I will tell her how much she means to me, just not now.

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"Pico?" I call, shaking him. He's lying lifeless on the ground, not moving. Celeste will kill me if something happened to him. I have been shaking him since last five minutes. "You're scaring me little dude. Wake up." I poke his head. "I won't call you fat in my mind again, wake up asshole." I said, picking him up.

He yawns as if he wasn't acting dead a second ago. Fat motherfucker. Dropping him on the floor, I got up.

"Chase." I heard her yell from downstairs. She puts a mic to shame sometimes because these walls are thick as hell.

"Coming." I reply, locking Pico in because he's an attention seeking asshole. Stay in there dickhead.

"I found the movie!" She said excitedly as soon as she saw me coming down.

"You did?"

"Yeah, it's called Ratatouille." She tells me. Caden made me watch that movie alot of times. "I've never watched it. It's about a rat who becomes a chef! Can you believe that?" She asks, excitement dripping from her voice. I don't know how to feel when she gets excited over little things like animated movies or toys. I want to feel happy for the child in her but the sorrow for little Celeste who never had a normal childhood steals the happiness.

"You can start till I cook something for us?" I ask.

"No, we'll watch together." She said, rubbing her hands together. "Did Pico not wake up?" She asked.

"Nah. He's sleeping." I lied..or not. I'm sure that fatass went to sleep again.

"C'mon, I'm getting hungry." She said, pulling me into kitchen. "Veggie stir-fry." She answered the unasked question.

She was helping me chop the vegetables while talking excitedly about the movie trailer she watched so I took the carrots from her hands before she slices her finger or two in excitement.

Pulling her up on the counter, I told her to stay put while I finish with the vegetables.

"Do you want some cranberry juice?" She asked, clearly amused with her own question. Is she ever going to live that down?

"My intentions were pure!" I tell her for the hundredth time.

"Ofcourse they were. It's not like I pulled you to stand near me, right?" She asked innocently.

"I was worried about the juice going to waste." I say, pointing the knife at her.

"Riiiightttt. Liar. That was an excuse to kiss me." She said with a smug smile. I shook my head, taking the pan out. I kissed her chin, it was her who kissed me. Eediot.

"Stop reliving the kiss dumbass, I'm hungry." She said, sighing dramatically.

I don't think she can stay silent for longer because she started talking again after 5 minutes. "I think Melissa has a crush on you." She tells me. Ew.

"I didn't need to know that." I tell her.

"No I think she implied that when I and Logan-"

"Logan and I." I corrected her. I have lost count about how many times I have corrected her, she refuses to learn.

"Logan and I went to her house to ask for our clothes. Logan made me donate the clothes because he didn't want to wear the clothes after they touched the snake's skin. Melissa is the snake here, 'kay? Hisssss." She said, actually hissing in the end.

"Good idea." I told her. She took out her phone and started clicking pictures. Isn't her phone's memory full till now? She clicks a picture of me even if I am just breathing.

"You're so pretty." She tells me. Look at her, she calls that fat cat handsome and me pretty. Sometimes I think she bunked her english lectures.

"You're my pretty girl." I said to her, transferring our food to a plate. "You want some wine with this?" I asked her.

"Are you sure you can handle it?" She teased.

"Fuck off." I can have a glass of wine without getting drunk. Stupid girl.

"White or red?" She asked, jumping down from the counter and walking to the fridge.

"White?"

"I'll join you." She says, taking the glasses out.

She joined me on the couch, playing the movie before she started eating or she waited for me to feed her because she was too busy watching the tv screen than paying attention to food. She drank her wine like she was taking shots in the end because she forgot to drink while eating.

"Carefull love." I took the glass from her.

"Can we have a pet rat?" She asked. What am I gonna do with her?

"Celeste..we have a cat." Who'll waste no time in feeding himself..fa-

"We can teach him not to eat him, right?" She asked.

"No we can't, you taught him not to jump in the shower, did he learn?" I ask her.

"But he can be friends with the rat. We'll have cute little rats and kittens." She said, squinting her eyes and pinching her fingers.

"No. We're not having a rat in our house. End of discussion. You know rats can bite you, right?" I ask her.

"Hmm, what about-"

"Oh look!" I point at the screen, distracting her.

Surprisingly, she was awake during the whole film but fell asleep as soon as the credits rolled. Keeping the plate & glasses we had dinner from in the kitchen, I took her to our room. I pressed a kiss to her forehead, taking in her features.

She's so beautiful. And mine.

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