Chapter 48 – Beginning with a Daring Encounter

“Yeah. Good thing your dress is befitting for a club,” Bryan said with a smirk, looking her over with an unreadable expression in his eyes before returning his gaze to the road.

Sonia smiled to herself as she took out her phone. She was glad to know that they at least had something in common. Sodom and Gomorrah just happened to be her favorite club too. What she most loved about the place was the hot strippers. From the smirk on his face, she could guess he thought she wasn’t going to like the place, so she decided not to tell him it was her favorite club. He was in for a lot of surprises.

“What about your family? Do they know about our relationship?” Bryan asked after driving in silence for some time.

“My only family is my best friend, and she knows about you,” Sonia said dismissively as she checked her message notifications on her Instagram and Twitter posts.

“Aww, they’re asking for our couple photos,” Sonia said as she took pictures of them both as he drove, and uploaded it on her Instagram page.

Bryan was very tempted to ask her if she would ever get tired of doing what she was doing, but he knew what her answer would be, so he focused on something more important, “What about your family? I mean your biological family aside from your best friend,”

“All dead.”

She said without emotion, making him turn to look at her with concern. He decided that her coldness had to be either because she hadn’t been very close to her family or because she was living in denial, “You weren’t very close to them?” Bryan asked, and Sonia looked up from her phone.

She cocked her head to one angle as she looked at him quizzically, “You seem awfully curious about me right now, ain’t you?”

“I figured I need to know the basic things about you since you’re playing the role of my fiancee,” Bryan said defensively, making sure she wasn’t thinking he was interested in her or anything.

“You seem to be forgetting something,” Sonia said with an amused smile as she played with the engagement ring on her finger.

“Which is?”

“This isn’t a movie, and I’m not an actress. I’m not playing the role of your fiancee. I AM your fiancee. You proposed remember?” She asked, flashing the ring in front of him with a smile on her face, “And I accepted.”

Bryan sighed. It seemed like she had mental problems. What if she had killed her family? She seemed like the type, Bryan thought. He would have to try and find out if she had any psychiatric condition. It would be an excuse to break off their engagement.. He was trying to gather as many valid excuses as he could.

Celsie’s heart fluttered at his words. What was going on? Why was she suddenly feeling this way? This was Benne, her driver. Why were butterflies fluttering in her belly at his words? She shouldn’t be reacting this way.

She cleared her throat, “Benne…”

“How else would you explain the fact that we ended up becoming next-door neighbors, and I’m your driver? It has to be fate, right?” Benne asked, cutting her off before she could say anything. All he wanted right now was to build the sexual tension between them and make her sexually aware of him. He wanted to make it clear to her that he wasn’t going to be just her friend, and he wanted to make her desire him. He had no intention of being friend-zoned.

“It’s just coincidence,” Celsie said, not wanting to relate the whole thing to fate or allow him to start having ideas.

Benne shook his head, “Unfortunately I’m not much of a believer in coincidence. So let’s put it this way, since I was supposed to be the lucky man to expose you to the sinful pleasures of this world, how about we keep it that way?” Benne asked, and Celsie almost swallowed her tongue in surprise.

Celsie blinked at him, “Wh…. what way?” She asked in a small voice as though she was scared to even hear his answer.

“When you’re ready to have sex again, I have to be the one. At least I should be compensated for having to sleep with a hard-on after satisfying your body,” Benne said with a lazy shrug.

What was happening between them right now? Was she dreaming? This had to be a dream. How had they made such a U-turn from being casual friends eating pizza to two adults talking about sex? “You are pulling my legs, right?” Celsie asked with a nervous smile, not knowing why she was reacting so slowly to everything he was saying.

“I’m not,” Benne and with a straight face.

“But we agreed to be friends…” She reminded him.

“Doesn’t change anything. We could always add benefits to the friendship. Plus don’t forget it’s my right. I was the one supposed to do it, anyway. So let’s just assume I postponed the date,” he reminded her.

“No, you didn’t postpone the date. You chose not to do it even when you knew you might not see me again after that day,” Celsie countered.

“Hence I said ‘assume’. Fine then, let’s just say I chose to leave it to fate because I believe in fate and violà! Here we are today!” Benne said with a satisfied smile that only deepened the crease on her brow.

“You are forgetting that you’re my driver now. You weren’t then,” she reminded him.

“And I’m sure you won’t be the first boss to be having sex with her driver,” Benne countered, making her heart flutter again. What was going on?

“You have someone you like,” She reminded him.

“Have you noticed something from all your responses so far?” Benne asked with a crooked smile.

“What?”

“You seem to be telling me all the reasons why we shouldn’t. You haven’t said you don’t want us to do it. Is that to say you want us to?” Benne asked with undisguised amusement in his smile.

“No!” Celsie answered too quickly making him cock his head to one side as he narrowed his eyes at her.

“No?” He asked.

“Yes. No. I mean No. I don’t want to have anything sexual with you,” Celsie replied. Her heart was beating so fast that she was sure he could hear it.

The right side of Benne’s lips curved in a crooked smile as he looked at her. He was oddly enjoying himself. He hadn’t planned to do any of this when he asked that they eat together. But seeing how flustered she looked right now, he was very impressed with himself. Who could have guessed that he had this in him?

“Are you sure about that? I can still remember how you begged me to kiss you the last time. So maybe you should think again before you answer, don’t you think?” Benne asked without taking his eyes off her.

The more he spoke the more light-headed Celsie became, and the more her heart raced. She wanted him to leave. She needed some space to be alone so she could organize her thoughts and compose herself. This person right now wasn’t her.

“I suppose you have forgotten all that happened between us… Perhaps I should rekindle your memory…”

“No!” Celsie half yelled as she quickly got up from her seat.

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