Chapter 258 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“It serves you right,” Bryan said as he lowered his lips to hers and kissed her slowly.

Meanwhile, inside the bedroom, Benne looked at Celsie with interest, “So can you tell me why you were upset over the phone?”

“Who said I was upset?” She asked without meeting his gaze, and Benne smiled as he watched her. Who knew she could be so childish and cute?

“Come here,” he ordered in a quiet voice since she was standing by the dressing table while he was seated on the bed.

Celsie looked at him and slowly walked over to join him on the bed. Once he was within arm’s reach, he grabbed her arm and pulled her down so that she fell on him.

“Sometimes you act like my girlfriend, and at other times you act like a stranger, why is that?” Benne asked in a husky voice as he raised his hand to her hair and removed the band which was holding the hair in a ponytail, causing it to fall in cascades around her shoulder.

“When did I act like a stranger?” She asked in a quiet voice as she met his gaze. Her heart skipped a beat when his eyes moved to her lips, and her tongue involuntarily snuck out of her mouth to wet her lips.

Benne lowered his head slowly and just as their lips touched, they heard the sound of the doorbell.

“Who is it this time?” Benne asked with a groan.

Once Benne opened the door, he was surprised to see Alicia standing there, “Good morning!” She greeted with a friendly smile, as she looked at him from head to toe, wondering why he was dressed that way so early on a Saturday morning.

“Good morning. How may I help you?” He asked without returning her smile or bothering to invite her in. Although Celsie was still in his bedroom, and both Sonia and Bryan had gone into the next bedroom when they heard the sound of the doorbell, he didn’t want Alicia inside his house.

Something about the way Alicia always followed him with her eyes like she was keeping tabs on him, made him wary of her, and he was yet to forgive her and Jasmine for what they did during dinner.

“I was hoping I could speak with you for a moment,” she said, and Benne raised a brow.

“Speak with me?” He asked, and when she gave him a nod, he reluctantly held the door open for her to go in.

Once she stepped inside, Alicia looked around the apartment curiously. She was tempted to ask about Celsie and Sonia since she had seen Sonia walk into the house earlier, and had also seen Celsie run out of her apartment like she was being chased a while ago, but she refrained from doing so. She could tell that he was wary of her, and she didn’t want to give him any more reason to feel that way. She was only trying to help after all.

“You can sit down. Excuse me for a moment,” Benne said, and she reasoned that he was probably going to tell both ladies to stay quiet since he had a visitor. What were they all up to?

“Sure,” she said with a nod and watched as Benne walked away.

Benne stopped by the other bedroom first to see Bryan and Sonia, “I have a guest. So you should remain here,” he informed them before walking over to his bedroom to meet Celsie.

“Alicia is in the living room,” he informed Celsie.

“Alicia? What is she doing here?” Celsie asked with a slight frown. Perhaps Alicia wanted to ask for his sperm now? She wondered.

“I don’t know. Do you want to see her? Or you would rather remain in here?” Benne asked, and Celsie pursed her lips as she thought of it.

“Why don’t we find out what she has to say before I make my presence known?” Celsie asked, and Benne gave her a nod before walking away.

Once he returned to the living room he sat down on the couch opposite Alicia, “Do you care for coffee?” Benne offered politely.

“Nah. I’m fine,” she said with a shake of her head, and then cleared her throat, “I wanted to talk to you about Celsie. You’re both in a relationship, am I right?” Alicia asked, and Benne sat back in his seat to look at her.

“Why do you ask?” Benne asked, his voice tone suddenly very cool. He hoped for her sake that she wasn’t here to speak ill of Celsie.

“Because I want to know what your relationship with her is before I say what I have to say,” Alicia said without letting his tone get to her.

Benne stared at her for a moment, and although he was tempted to tell her it wasn’t her business, he was curious to know what she had to say, “Yes.”

“I suppose she is aware that you’re the CEO of OmniGlobal?” Alicia asked, and Benne looked at her in surprise making Alicia smile.

“You don’t have to be surprised. I’m a very observant person by nature, so when something catches my interest I tend to give it my time,” Alicia said, and Benne’s brows pulled together.

“I’m not sure I follow what you’re trying to say.”

“Since you have admitted that you’re in a relationship with her, I will just open up to you. You caught my interest the very first time I saw you. I liked you, and I told Jasmine that I thought you would make a good father for our kid. Jas and I wanted you to be our sperm donor,” she said, and almost laughed out loud when Benne’s mouth hung open in surprise.

“Sperm donor?” He asked in horror, not knowing whether to feel flattered or insulted. He suddenly felt the urge to place his hands over his crotch protectively. But refrained from doing something so silly.

“I guess she didn’t tell you about it,” Alicia said in amusement.

“Jasmine?” Benne asked, wondering who she was referring to. This whole time he had thought both ladies were just sisters or friends. How come he hadn’t noticed it?

“No. Celsie.”

“Celsie? You told Celsie?” Benne asked in disbelief. Celsie knew all along that they wanted his sperm yet she didn’t say anything? Benne suddenly felt violated. Imagining how all three women must have sat down to discuss his sperm, his hands involuntarily moved to his crotch.

“Are you going to repeat everything I say?” Alicia asked in amusement.

“Hold on. How did you know that I’m the CEO of OmniGlobal? And how long have you known that?” Benne asked curiously. He had tried his best to cover his tracks, so how could she have known?

Now he was even more thankful that he had told everything to Celsie, else she would have found out right now since he was certain she was eavesdropping on their conversation at the moment.

“I started trying to connect the dots after you asked us not to tell Celsie that you just moved into the neighborhood. And then I became more suspicious of you when we had dinner together and Celsie mentioned how she met you at a club and you ended up becoming her next-door neighbor and driver.” Alicia said with a small smile as she remembered all the times she had stood by her window and sat outside watching Celsie’s apartment because she feared that Benne was an obsessed stalker and might harm her.

“I don’t believe much in coincidences. I felt she was very naive to have easily believed in the many coincidences. So I took a special interest in watching the both of you, just to make sure she was okay,” Alicia said with a shrug.

“You don’t have a job?” Benne asked. Although he appreciated her for looking out for Celsie, he couldn’t help feeling irritated with the fact that she had been watching him the whole time.

Alicia gave him an easy smile, “I’m a blogger. She didn’t tell you that I offered to let her share her side of the story on my YouTube channel?” She asked, and Benne raised a brow.

“Why do you seem so concerned about her?” Benne asked suspiciously.

“I don’t know. Do I need to have a specific reason? She just seems like a nice person, and she is also my neighbor, so I want to help her,” Alicia said with a shrug.

“You’re not doing this because you want my… My…” Benne stopped, unable to bring himself to say the word.

Alicia giggled, “No. I’m not doing this because we want you to father our child. As I said, it’s for Celsie,” she assured him.

Benne looked at her for a moment and then let out a sigh, “Alright. I will talk to her about it and…”

“I will do it. I want to do it,” Celsie said as she stepped out to join them, and then flashed Alicia an apologetic smile, “Sorry. I hope you don’t mind that I was eavesdropping on your conversation, do you?”

“I knew you were in there,” Alicia said with a wide smile.

“You seem to know everything,” Benne said with a scowl, and Alicia giggled.

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