Chapter 2: Chapter one
Quick question:What's your favorite color?
Mine is purple💜
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"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and endure very much",William Hazlitt.
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Five year old Brie walked towards her usual bench in the park where she spotted a boy who looked older than her.His back was facing her but from the way he was tensed,she knew something was wrong with him.
"Hey",She said but the boy didn't even look up.His chin was placed in his open palms and he looked lost."That's my bench",
The ten year old boy looked down at the small girl talking to him and once his dark eyes met her green ones',he felt drowned in them.Was that even possible?
"Hey!",She waved her small hands in front of his face."Are you even listening to me?I said that's my bench",
"I'm pretty sure your dad didn't buy it for you,did he?",He asked and a pout formed on her lips while she tried to glare at him.She couldn't do that,not with the way his sad looking dark eyes were staring right into hers'."Quit trying to glare at me now",He murmured and she sat next to him.
"You can just ask to share the bench,you know?",She tilted her head to look at him and his eyes fell on her red hair.He loved it instantly and it was obvious in his eyes."You love my hair,don't you?Everyone does",She twirled the hair in her small fingers and none of her actions went unnoticed by him."My big brother loves it even more",When he didn't say anything,she extended her hand to him."I'm Brie,can we be friends?",
He stared at her outstretched hand for a while and back at her cute face as her eyes silently pleaded with him.He wasn't one to be among people or even male friends.He only had one friend and that was back in Italy where he spent all the ten years of his life before him and his mum returned back to New York.
"You want to say no to me?",She pouted."I know that look",
"I'm Oli",He shook her hand but didn't even smile one bit.
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"Grnnnn…grnnn",
Gabriella rolled from the bed at the blaring sound of her alarm clock before she landed right on her back on the ground.
"Ouch",She groaned and opened her eyes.She rubbed her back where she'd fallen on."I hope this doesn't leave a red mark on my skin",She murmured before slowly stretching her other hand to switch off the annoying alarm clock.
Slowly,she stood up and raked her hands through her already tangled red curls while a small smile touched her lips.It was rare for people with the type of her hair to exist and she was happy to be one of the people to have that type of hair.Everyone around her loved it.At first when she was still a kid,she found herself wierd for having that color of hair until her Mum and Dad told her that she'd gotten it along with her green eyes from her dad's late mum-her grandma.
Her dad,Eros Petrakis was a billionaire on his own.He had managed to grow his own empire when he was still at a very young age while her mum was a talented fashion designer.All Gabrielle wanted was to be like her dad.She didn't want to live off her parents' money so she stopped taking money from them once she graduated college at the age of twenty even though it was hard to convince them.It was even harder when she requested to move out of their family mansion.After all the hurdles and difficulties convincing her parents-especially her over protective dad and older brother-she finally moved out and rented a two bedroom apartment before she began working as the secretary for her dad's good friend,Nathan Rodriguez.She'd been living independently for two years of her life and didn't miss any opportunity to taunt her brother who would only snicker at her that she was independent woman.Though she knew her dad had a hand in her easily getting the job,she let it slide because if she complained,her dad would go back to his over protective mode and ask her to move back home.That was something she didn't want since she wanted to be independent and on her own.
Gabriella was snapped out of her thoughts when her ringtone reached her voice and she rushed to pick up the phone from the bedside table beside her alarm clock.She stared at the caller ID.
Nathan.
"Fuck",She mumbled,realizing that she must probably be late.Not for work though since it was a Saturday but one thing she knew was that her boss hated tardiness so she tried hard to keep up with time even though it was hard for her.Thay day,his son was going to be returning back to New York from Italy and she was meant to get him from the airport before proceeding to the Rodriguez mansion to help in the arrangements for the party Nathan was throwing for his son.Also that night,he was going to handover his empire and business to his son."Good morning,sir",She said,the moment she picked up the call.
"It's Nathan for you,Petrakis",She heard him say as always whenever she called him 'sir'."I hope you haven't forgotten that my beloved son is coming home today and you have to be at the airport at your earliest.Ethan is worse than I am when it comes to tardy people",
"I know,Nathan",She smiled as if he could see her."I'll quickly have my bath and dress up",
"Good.Bye then",He said and cut the call.
In hurried steps,Gabriella rushed to her bathroom to do her business.
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The sound of his ringing phone made Ethan stir in his sleep and with a groan his eyes flew open.
Who was disturbing his early morning sleep?That person knew better than to do that.
He stretched his arms to the bedside table and grabbed his phone before staring at the caller ID.
Dad.
"Cazzo",He mumbled,remembering that he had a flight to New York that morning before picking up the call.
(Fuck)
"Leave the naked blonde or brunette by your side on the bed and drag your ass back to New York.Your mother is about to pull off my ears because she's missing you",
A small chuckle escaped Ethan's lips and he looked at his other side on the bed where a naked blonde truly laid,asleep.
"No need to worry about that,dad.I'd definitely be home today",He said and stood up from the bed before walking towards the bathroom door.
"Whatever,Son.Just make sure you don't delay this for a blonde or brunette",
"Dad",He groaned and he could literally feel his dad smile at the other end before cutting the call.Ethan walked into the hotel bathroom to have a quick bath before leaving to go back to his house since he never slept with women in his house.
He stepped under the shower and allowed his mind to drift off.Funny how much he and his dad were close.He didn't think he'd even come to love his dad a lot after what the man did to his mum.
Fuck it.His parents,Nathan and Eva Rodriguez were madly in love with each other even though their marriage wasn't meant to end up like that.As long as his mum was happy,Ethan had no issue with it,so he just let everything that happened between his parents before he was born slide,though it was all a misunderstanding but still.
Ethan's thoughts were interrupted when he felt warm hands hug him from behind before stroking his naked torso as the owner placed her head on his back.He knew she was as naked as he was and instead of that slight thought turning him on,it felt more like a turn off for him and he quickly turned to see her blue eyes,laced with confusion staring right back at him.
"You know I don't fuck a woman twice",He sent an icy glare her way and her lips parted slowly."What?",
"I…I thought we…I thought we would keep it on…",
"Did you forget what I told you last night before bringing you here?",He asked with a scoff.
"I know you don't fuck women twice,neither do you take them to your home but I could be an exception",She said.
His mind drifted to the only exceptional girl in his life that he hadn't seen for seventeen years after he left her on the bench on the fateful day his dad sent him away from New York for his studies.
Brie.
He shook his head at her."No",He then turned off the shower."Look,I'm in no mood to start all this with you this morning.I have somewhere to be",He was a man of few words so he just left her there in the bathroom gaping at him.
On his way back to his house so he'd be able to get a proper bath and leave straight to the airport so that no one would disturb him,Ethan's mind drifted off to the same redhead girl he'd been best friends with since he was ten.When no one was there for him during the time his dad found him and his mum-when he was ten-Brie was there.She was always there to help with her sweet words and sometimes,he wondered why someone as young as she was could be that smart.
Unluckily for him,she wasn't alive again-or that was he was told.Even though she was alive,how would he have been able to find her when he knew nothing about her?only that her name was Brie and she was five then.Funny enough,Ethan and Brie never knew anything about each other's backgrounds that time so searching for her was literally futile but he still didn't forget her.
He glanced at the backseat of his car where he left the photograph the previous night.It was a photograph of the both of them,grinning at the camera.They had that photograph taken weeks before he left New York.
Ethan returned his attention back to the road as he tried to imagine what she'd look like by then.He was sure she'd be pretty,fierce,rebellious and stubborn.He could already imagine her throwing glares at people though that was something she couldn't do when they were kids.
A light chuckle left his lips when he remembered her failed attempt at glaring at him when they first met in the park.
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Eva glanced back and forth at the airport lobby as she held up a small signboard with the name 'Ethan Rodriguez' on it while the passengers that just alighted from the Italian plane searched for their family,friends and others that were there to pick them.
Her phone rang in her clutch and with a small sigh,she brought it out and picked it up.
"Brielle",Her mum's soft voice reached her ears.
"Hey mum",She replied,her eyes scanning for any twenty seven year old man resembling her boss.How crazy that she didn't even know what Ethan Rodriguez looked like.
"Oh!I'm so sorry,I'm sure you must be at the airport to pick up Eva's son",Isabelle said."I'll call you back later",
"What's it mum?",She asked,settling on a bench behind her."Is everything okay?",
"Yeah actually,I had a package arriving today at the boutique and I just wanted you to help me get it,then bring it home or I could collect it at the party in the Rodriguez'mansion.Your dad isn't letting me leave the house for reasons best known to him and you were the one I thought of to call",Isabelle sighed.
"It's okay mum,I'll d just that",
"And your boss' son?Wont't he get upset?",Isabelle asked.
"Let it be mum,I told you I'd help you get the package",She carried her hand bag and the signboard before stepping out of the hotel towards the car."Richard",She called the driver she'd gone with.He was Nathan's driver.
"Ma'am",He replied,looking behind her for any sign of Ethan before looking back into her green eyes."Where's the young master?",
"I didn't see him",She sighed out."I'm leaving this board with you to go in and check for him while I'll just call sir.Something came up at home and my mum needs my help so…I'm so sorry I'll be leaving you alone here",
"It's okay,ma'am.But how do you intend to go back?",
"I'll just take a cab,thanks",She flashed him her set of pearly white teeth before her eyes involuntarily fell on her ankle."Shit!",
"What's the issue ma'am?",He asked,staring at her ankle and down at her face.
"I think my anklet fell off back inside.I have to go and check for it",She pushed the signboard in his palms and rushed inside the hotel to search for the anklet Oli gave her before he left for Italy when they were still kids.
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"Yeah yeah,dad",Ethan mumbled to his dad through the phone as he walked towards the lobby of the hotel.
"I'll send you a photograph of her.She's my secretary and would be the one to pick you up.Her name is Gabriella Petrakis",
"Petrakis?Thats strange",Ethan said."Her dad has his own empire and she's working for you?",
"She wants to be an independent woman and I like her for that",Nathan said."We can talk about all this later though,after all-",Before Nathan could complete his statement,someone bumped into Ethan,making his hand mistakenly press the end button and dropping the phone on the floor.
"I'm so sorry",Ethan watched as the redhead bent down to pick up the phone in a hurry as she checked for any sign of a crack on it.She breathed out in relief when she saw none.
"Are you fucking blind?",He growled at her.
She stood up and passed him the phone,trying hard to ignore his earlier comment but she froze when her eyes locked with his dark ones.His eyes looked somewhat familiar and she was sure she'd never met someone so handsome like that.
Hell,who was he?
He had dark and silky locks with the same color of eyes.His nose was pointed and he had soft looking lips.Even though there was a stubble on his chin,she could make out how hard and defined that part of his face was.Her eyes trailed off towards his dressing.White shirt neatly tucked into his slacks,beneath his Armani suit which hugged his body in all the right places with a well knotted black tie.
"Now you're dumb",She heard him murmur and Gabriella blinked her eyes before returning them back to his dark ones which were glaring at her.
"I told you I'm sorry",She almost snapped.
"You're sorry for being blind or shamlelessly staring at me?",He cocked a brow and his cockiness along with his rudeness pissed her off."Or are you even sorry for being dumb?",
"That's it",She snapped returning his glare but was failing miserably at it.That action made him remember his Brie and he almost chuckled but he was quick to ignore that feeling."I apologized and it's not like the phone got broken or anything",She mumbled.
"I-",She didn't let him talk when she just walked past him as her eyes fell on something.He fisted his hands at his sides at her attitude.
No one ever behaved with him like that,so how dare she?
Gabriella quickly picked up her anklet and ignored the handsome glaring man before leaving there.
BILLIONAIRE'S FIESTY REDHEAD
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Ink_Heart3d Hello once again,here goes my first chapter and I hope you all love it.
With luv,
Yasmeenarh.
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