The Brat and his Bodyguard (BxB)

Chapter 8

Ethan quickly went downstairs to his room. He was flustered about what happened but seems to awaken a strange feeling within him. He locked the door as soon as he gets inside his bedroom and punches the wall.

“Why you’re so careless, Ethan.” He is panting, grabbing his hair, and sat on the floor. “aaahhh...” he shouts in almost whisper avoid not to get attention from other people in the house while he recalled why he end up calling on Zachary for dinner that turned out into a very embarrassing moment.

“Oh Ethan, we are waiting for Zach to come out from his room.” Zandro said to him as soon as he entered the living room after his quick shower and get ready for dinner.

“It’s fine uncle Zandro. I’m not that hungry yet,” he responds.

“By the way, why you’re drenched in wet just now? I know it’s raining but did something happened?” Zandro has been suspicious since the two of them came back seeing him drenched in wet and both of them in Zachary's car.

“Oh, it’s nothing uncle. My car broke while on our way home.” He lied. He doesn’t want to tell the butler what did happen.

“Okay!” Zandro then looks at his wristwatch. “what takes that kid so long?” he mumbled.

Ethan then volunteers to call on Zachary. “I will call him, uncle Zandro.”

“Are you sure? I can ask one of the helpers to call him.” Zandro asked.

“It’s fine. I can go and call him.” Ethan volunteers to climb up to the second floor where Zachary's room is. His intention why he volunteers is to speak to Zachary about what had happened earlier from school to the race track.

Ethan then climbs up the stairs. He knocked on the door to get Zachary's attention.

“Mr. Del Fierro?” Ethan called Zachary from outside the door.

A few minutes later still nobody answered him. He called on him again.

“Mr. Del Fierro, it’s dinner time.” He called him louder thinking that he might be in the bathroom and not able to hear him. He stands there waiting for Zachary to open the door but another few minutes pass and nobody answers. Being a well-trained investigator and as a spy agent, his suspicions arouse when he thought that the Mafia group might get Zachary. Mafia was known for their movements like the thief of the nights who will enter your house without traces. He opened the door abruptly to check the latter but to his surprised, he saw Zachary standing by his wardrobe completely naked.

“Sh*t! So sorry!” he stuttered as he panics and doesn’t know what to do and say. “I received no response so I am thinking that something happened to you.” In the end, he manages to explain and didn’t wait for Zachary to respond as he is also still shocked, mouth agape while standing naked facing the door.

Ethan left quickly in embarrassment closing the door abruptly leaving a loud bang that startled Zachary. He went downstairs to his room.

“Aaaaahhh, so st*pid of me.” He said but he was stunned as he felt something down there flinch. He looked down and he saw his bulge growing. “Crazy! Behave!” he scolded himself but thinks of how Zachary affects him that much. He didn’t experience such feelings even for women that he met. His brothers always introduced him to a few women, some from the business world, models, even popular actresses but he didn’t feel or show any interest in them. But Zachary seems different. His body reacted differently. “He is a man, i***t!” he slapped that thing created a lump under his casual shorts, lightly. He then gets himself ready to go outside as he thinks, Zandro might be wondering why it takes him so long to come back.

Ethan is right. Zandro’s brows furrowed while looking at his wristwatch.

“What makes them so long?” he thought as it is twenty minutes passed since Ethan went upstairs to call Zachary. He is about to go upstairs when he heard someone coming down on the stairs. He looked up and he saw Zachary walking down with his mouth pouted.

“Zach, where is Ethan?” he immediately asked because he expected the two guys to come together.

Zachary’s eyes shifted in another direction trying hard to avoid Zandro’s stares while waiting for his answer.

“Uhm! I told him to not wait for me,” he responds. He is about to say that Ethan might be in his room when he saw the latter came into the living room.

“I’m here, uncle Zandro. Sorry, I received a call from my brother.” Ethan said but his eyes landed on Zachary who is now walking quickly to the dining area.

Zandro shakes his head as he finds weird about the two guys.

“Hmmm...,” he thought while followed Zachary to the dining area. Ethan is behind him following him quietly.

The dining room is a quite huge area where a twelve-seater wooden table is placed in the middle. Ten wooden chairs are placed from both sides of the table, five on each side and two other chairs place on both ends of the table. On the right side of the room, a small cabinet in place aligned with the built-in where large vintage silver pieces and ironstones collections on display. On the small cabinet are two wooden candlesticks on top of the antique oil painting place them on the wall above it.

On the other side of the dining room is a huge antique mirror placed against the wall above the antique chest of drawers with a large marble urn on top of it.

Ethan who came in for the second time to dine is still stunned by the gorgeous dining room. He finds it relaxing and calming for every guest and enjoys their food. The lavender scent from the candelabra added the tempting aroma came from the sumptuous foods that is served for them.

“Ethan, why you’re still standing there?” Zandro's voice made Ethan gets back to his senses.

“Sorry, uncle. This room is so stunning.” He responds but averting his gaze to Zachary who is already sitting in front of his food. He then walked to the opposite where Zandro pulled the chair for him.

On the other hand, what happened earlier still lingering in Zachary's mind. He can't forget that Ethan saw him naked and how his body and mind reacted.

“So embarrassing!” he thought. He didn’t notice that he is staring at his food and cutting it differently made Zandro worried thinking that he doesn’t like the food.

“Zach, you don’t like the food?” Zandro asked.

“Huh!” he looked at Zandro then back to his foods. “tssshh..sorry, Uncle.” He pouted and continue eating. “It’s yummy! You know my favorite.”

“I thought you don’t like it.” Zandro smiled at him.

“Why don’t you join us, Uncle? There’s plenty of food here.” He invited Zandro as he felt uncomfortable eating with Ethan alone especially he knows that the latter is throwing glances at him.

“Thank you, Zach but I will have my dinner with the helpers later. Besides, I have to speak to them about the new rules that your Dad wanted me to implement in this house.” The butler responded.

“What?! What is going on with him?”

“Continue eating. Don’t mind what I said. You knew him,” Zandro said. “I'll go back to the kitchen. Call me if you need anything.” Zandro then left, after Zachary nodded to him.

Silence engulf them but they are sensing each other. No one dares to talk as they both felt the awkwardness because of what happened earlier. Only clicking of the utensils filled the whole dining room.

“Uhm...” both of them startled when they about to say a word at the same time and when their eyes met.

“You, first!” Ethan said.

“No! You, first.” Zachary refused.

“No! You!” Ethan insisted while continue munching his foods.

“Haist!” Zachary finds it disgusting and averted his stare away from Ethan. “Forget what you saw just now.” He said it in whispers because he doesn’t want others to hear it.

“Which one?” Ethan smiled and pretended that he forgot what had happened a while ago. He wanted to tease the guy in front of him.

“Do you want me to emphasize everything?” he gritted his teeth, tightened his grip on his fork like wanted to stab the guy in front of him when he saw him smirking.

“Which one? The down there or everything? I saw all of it.” Ethan said a bit loud that made Zachary, panicked.

“Stop! Continue eating your food. Grrrrr..” he poked the piece of meat on his plate, to vent his annoyance.

“Poor, piece of meat.” Ethan chuckled. He finds it cute when Zach is getting annoyed. When he hissed and shows his pearly white bunny teeth. “Anyways, I'm sorry about what happened. My mind went suspicious when you didn’t answer me. My thoughts went wild thinking that bad guys came and get you.” Ethan said apologetically.

“We are inside this house and there are a lot of securities outside, how can they get in? So shallow reason. Hmph!”

“Don’t underestimate those lawless groups of bad guys. They can infiltrate your surroundings or even get in your room like a thief in the night who doesn’t leave traces. You might wake up one day, you’re in a den of enemies. So don’t be too confident and be vigilant always.” Ethan said, firmly.

“And why I can sense that you know anything? Did my Dad told you?” Zachary asked looking at Ethan intensely. He wanted to intimidate Ethan so he will tell him what his Dad is going up to. Until this moment, he didn’t know everything why his Dad hired those bodyguards and even hired Ethan to personally guard him.

“It’s part of my job to know the nature of our duty to a certain situation, Mr. Del Fierro. It’s confidential and I must protect you. Mr. Raphael del Fierro has the right to tell you everything.”

“Okay! Duty, huh! Hope you can stay and not like the previous bodyguards who resigned immediately after I sneaked out for the only couple of times. Haha!” he laughed mischievously.

“Well, I will tell you, Mr. Zachary del Fierro. I am very much different from them. I always do my work diligently and always finish my job and met my client's expectations and received high recommendations.” Ethan said, proudly.

“Let’s see how far can you go to do your job.” Zach bluntly responds smirking. He didn’t know that Ethan seems read his mind.

“You don’t know me Zachary del Fierro.” Ethan thought while shaking his head as he finishes his dinner.