Resisting The Billionaire

21. Let's Just Go Back to New York

Diana gasped as she ran towards her aunt and bent down, gently touching her shoulder and turned her to face the ceiling and see her face.

Diana let out another gasp, as she noticed that her aunt’s eyes were closed and she feared that Adrian may have crushed the woman underneath his weight.

She bit her nail and waved her other hand in the air, panicking in anxiety.

“Oh my God! Aunt! Are you alright? please… please speak up. Say something.”

Diana whimpered lowly and Emily shifted her body only slightly, groaning in pain.

Adrian who stood by the wall, only looked down at Emily and then at Natalie, who held nothing but shook covering her entire face.

Just one look at that heavily pierced face of Natalie and Adrain could tell that the girl judged him hard for being not just oblivious and thick but also being extremely dumb.

“Ugh! Death would’ve been better than this…”

Emily grunted, still complaining as she finally spoke up, even though she suffered from excruciating pain.

Diana sighed in relief and bent down, helping her aunt get back up on her feet.

“I don’t think I can walk.” Emily told Diana, as she whimpered, trying to get her feet back on the ground and Diana also moaned, finding it hard to try and bear the weight of her Aunt.

“Let’s just take you to a good hospital.”

She told her Aunt, who limped on to her niece and the two walked out of the coffee shop.

Diana helped her aunt cross the street and sat her down in her car, driving her towards a nearby hospital.

“Wait! Which hospital are you taking me to?” Emily asked, rubbing on to her knees, that were quite bruised, all the while her left hand remained immobile.

“To the Grant Hospital.” Diana informed, as she buckled up her seatbelt and got ready to drive.

“No! my insurance doesn’t work there. Take me to the State Hospital, my insurance works there.”

Diana groaned lowly, irritated at the fact that Emily was always a miser person and made sure to never spend much even on her own health.

“Fine! if only you can bear pain for a thirty minutes’ drive… then!”

“Yeah! Yeah, I can bear the pain. Just take me there. Grant Hospital is very expensive.”

Diana simply shook her head and drove towards the hospital where Emily demanded to be taken.

Adrian also walked out of the coffee shop, keeping his head low and not daring to meet Natalie’s gaze. Not because he felt embarrassed but guilty, fearing that Natalie might become a witness of the fact that Adrian was guilty of involuntary manslaughter – or aunt s*******r? He didn’t know how exactly it was supposed to be put.

Right outside the coffee shop, a black, completely tinted Range Rover pulled up and the door of the passenger side of the car opened up.

Adrian immediately hopped inside the car and the car also sped away.

On the driver’s seat, handling the wheel was Jared, who looked over at his Boss’s burning red face and only wondered what had made his boss look so glum.

“So, what happened? Everything by the end was quiet and distorted.”

Jared asked and Adrian remembered something.

He placed his finger and thumb inside his ear and pulled out the small micro ear piece that Jared had asked him to place, from where Jared dictated Adrian to speak everything that he would ask him to, in order to impress Diana and make her believe that Adrian was genuine and his feelings were a true reflection of his words.

He tucked the ear piece out and threw it at Jared, taking him by complete surprise.

“What the…? What did I do?”

“You! you f*****g i***t! I did everything that you asked me and even said every stupid thing that you fed in to my ear.”

Jared shrugged at his boss, “You and I both know that we need that girl and you told me that you would not be able to come up with something convincing enough that would help us entrap her. and not just that when I wrote down lines for you to say, you stated that it seemed too much stages and stimulated and that you wouldn’t make the effort of memorizing so much stuff for her. so, for the sake of your own convenience, I parked my car by the corner of the street and spoke everything in your ear, even listening to everything that she said. I am handling men who are digging stuff up on her and her family on one end and then also feeding things in your ear, all the while eavesdropping on your conversations with her like a creep. I am doing the work of an FBI agent here and mind if I speak that I know that I don’t get paid enough for this s**t and not just that, the only raise I would be getting out of this is, if you become the CEO, that you wouldn’t become without her.”

Adrian listened to the whole tantrum that Jared threw and feeling even more stuck and agitated, he only threw his hands up in the air and moaned in agitation.

“I don’t want to do it! Let’s just go back to New York and find another way. I have never been this embarrassed and felt this stupid my entire life. Like come on man! she is nothing compared to me. Why am I doing so much?”

“You are not doing anything for her. you are doing it for your own self. She is not your competition. Remember that…”

“I know! I know!” Adrian sighed in agony but then began narrating his plans nonchalantly, “Zion is my competition! If he finds out about her, he would do anything to get his hands on her. hey! I was thinking, how about we kidnap her, force her to sign marriage papers and…”

“And? Then her aunt or somebody close to her or anybody goes to the media and reveals what you did and why you did so. and even though we can feed the media and shut their mouths up because it is that easy for us but you know what that would end up doing? It would only end up putting your position in trouble and you would end up losing your credibility. That’s why in order to keep her mouth shut, we need to find something on her or her family. And meanwhile, I don’t get my hands on anything at all, we need to pretend to be her friend and you need to pretend to be her lover.”

“Hey! What if she also says that she loves me and ends up getting romantic? How would I be able to do anything with her? I don’t feel anything at all.” Adrian complained again and Jared only shook his head, as he continued driving.

“Have you ever felt anything for any woman that you have slept with?” Jared retorted back, making Adrian go silent. “Listen! You have always worked hard for everything in your life. So just consider her as another challenge and just like you thought and had told me, she isn’t making it easy for you either. I heard what she said to you earlier. She sounds like, she wants to get rid of you and is not a huge fan of either you or her father.”

“Ugh!” Adrian couldn’t help but hold his head that hurt like hell, due to all the troubles that he had gone through, throughout the entire morning. He placed his elbow on the window and kept on rubbing the bridge of his nose.

“She is pretended to be tough to keep face.” he told Jared who shook his head in disagreement, not buying whatever Adrian was telling him.

“Hmm… doesn’t seem so to me. I think that she is actually tired of you and actually doesn’t want to do anything with you.”

Adrian couldn’t help but snap his neck at Jared, who looked at his boss with quite the confidence.

Adrian looked away, not wanting to see that look of confidence and surety on his assistant’s face.

“Where are we even going?” he asked Jared, noticing that he had been driving for quite a while by that point.

“Wherever they are going.” Jared pointed towards the Prius in front of him that he was following.

“And who the f**k are they?” Adrian inquired and Jared shrugged.

“Diana and her Aunt! By the way what happened by the end? I told you I couldn’t hear anything. Everything was silent and retorted. There was a crash and then some grunts. I saw her aunt walking in to the coffee shop and moments later, she walked out with Diana helping her and getting her inside the car. Did her Aunt have some sort of emergency?”

Jared investigated, trying to figure out what happened and Adrian only groaned in sheer embarrassment and guilt and threw his hands over his face, rubbing it vigorously.

“Hey! We can’t go after them.” He told Jared, who looked at Adrian with confusion.

“Why? We have to make sure to keep an eye on her every move so that we can find a good moment to slide in and swoop her away. But where the hell is she taking that old wench? Why are they driving far away?”

“Because I am pretty sure that they are going to a hospital.” Adrian told Jared, exhausting by that point, trying to dodge the sheer humiliation that was written in his fate.

“How do you know that?” Jared requested and Adrian simply shook his head back at Jared.

“Because I am the one who fell on to that lady and crushed her under my feet.”

Just as Adrian stated those words, Jared immediately hit the brakes, making move him and Adrian jerk forward and as Adrian looked at Jared, who saw nothing but horror covering his assistant’s face.

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