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I felt slight chill on my legs so I opened my eyes slowly and looked around, It was night already and I was in the bedroom alone, sitting on the bed confused at how I ended up here on the bed cause I was following my plan to seduce Xavier by acting all shy and girly, I cringed thinking about my acting while getting down from the bed and checking bathroom and closet for Xavier but he was nowhere.

I scoffed at my pathetic self. What was I expecting? him to be present here to comfort me, I decided that I was done with my horrible strategy to annoy him and picked up one of his sweats, adjusted them anyhow on my waist and folded it from both on my waist and ankles to make it shorter. I went inside the bathroom, washed my face and tied my hair in messy bun while buttoning the shirt properly.

A blush automatically covered my cheeks on thinking about what happened earlier in the living room, but way to ruin a moment Shana. I frowned at myself in the mirror and decided to head downstairs to the kitchen to grab something to eat.

Descending down the stairs with my airpods in my ears, blasting music through them...

On reaching the living room I made sure to displace every single couch cushion while dancing like a manaic, mixing every single dance form ever discovered starting with tango, salsa, freestyle to lap dance, Indian classical and everything in between.

I was dancing maniacally while twerking my way towards the kitchen, making sure to put my every single energy in it. I danced at my full capacity, tripping here and there in between but atlast I reached the kitchen.

I gasped for air with my hands on my knees and hair resting on my face, hair tie long gone. Catching up my breath I finally stood straight and opened my eyes to see....

Xavier?

He was standing there in his formal shirt and trousers with a apron on him, a spatula in his hand, overall he was looking smokin hot but I'm not in mood of hyping his already sky high ego.

"I thought you went out?" I said confused as to why was he here, forgetting that I was supposed to be embarrassed from my horrible dance. I stared at him for an answer but the spatula in his hand fell on the ground with a thud, his jaw hanging open.

Then I remembered that I was dancing like a possessed demon. I cringed hard inwardly but kept my poker face on the outside, ignoring him I went to the fridge, opened it and grabbed a bottle and drank from it.

I was feeling his eyes on me so I decided to play a little more, I poured a little water over my head and let some trail to my cleavage. Flicking my hair aside I turned around indifferently.

"What are you doing here?" I asked, even when I knew this is his mansion and his kitchen. Crossing my arms over my chest sternly, his eyes trailing down on their own, I smirked at how affected he was.

He cleared his throat to compose himself before looking at me smiling.

"I made dinner. Why don't we eat first? then we can talk." He suggested and I wanted to deny but what's the mistake of food here. Right? So I accepted the free food.

"Alright. I'm waiting at the dining table." I said coldly before exiting the kitchen, making sure to sway my ass a little extra, and sure enough I heard a low curse. Smirking I reached for the chair and dragged it causing a loud screeching noise, I opened the top two buttons of my shirt and let it loose while settling comfortably on my seat.

Soon enough he came back inside with some type of soup in a bowl and spaghetti on other plate. He placed them before me and expectantly stared at me with his shining eyes.

I stared at him before staring at the food infront, I was at a constant debate with myself whether to try it or not, but then I glanced at Xavier to see him expectantly waiting for me to taste it, I lifted the spoon and dipped it in soup in curiosity as to how it will taste.

Blowing on the spoon to cool it I asked him " what's soup is this?" while continuing the blowing.

"Chicken soup." He answered grinning at me and I nodded my head before tasting it.

And God I wish I hadn't.

I choked on the too salty no chicken soup and hastily drank the glass of water on the side to calm my salty taste buds, I shuddered at the horrible taste.

I saw the grin change into a frown on Xavier's face.

"Surely it isn't that bad!" He said before tasting it own his own, I waited for his reaction but suddenly he sprayed all of it on my face, all the horrible soup ended up on my face, my jaw gaped on it's own as I stared at myself in disbelief, tell me he didn't just spat all soup on my face!

"Yah!!?!" I yelled standing up from my seat furiously, I glared at him and the later just busy in gulping down the water. I tugged some napkins before cleaning my face.

"Sorry. I didn't mean-" he chugged more water down."-to spat on you." I huffed at him and yelled again.

"Are you trying to food poison me with this sea water you call chicken soup!!"

He picked up the bowl before dumping it in the basin, coming back to the dining table he sat down once again. I glared at him before sitting back down as well.

"Forget about it! Taste the spaghetti. I have asked the recipe from Mrs. Clinton." He said serving me some spaghetti, I hesitantly ate some and all I felt was raw taste. I smiled at him, his eyes shined in return.

"Is it good?!" He asked grinning. I smiled back before picking up the napkin and taking the horrible spaghetti out of my mouth. His smile dropped at my action.

I smiled at him. "Never. Ever. cook again. And if you do please let someone else devour it." I said before standing up from the dining table and going into the living room.

I sat on the couch. Traumatized.

God. What did I ate...

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I handed the freshly prepared poha that I prepared after freshening up to Xavier, he stared at the plate then at me. I rolled my eyes before sitting beside him on the couch with my plate, I started eating it while turning on the TV. "It's good. Try it out." I said to him while changing through the channels.

I heard the clinking of the spoon so I guess he was tasting it, that actually made me smile, I was just changing through channels when I noticed that none of the news channel were airing

even a single one of our news, frowning at the sudden stop of scandal I turned to see Xavier literally shoving the food into his mouth.

"Did you do this?" I said pointing the remote at the TV, he looked up from his plate and nodded.

"Yeah I just brought the star entertainment and told them to stop airing the scandal. This is delicious! Can I get some more?" He asked while pointing at his now empty plate, I chocked on my food at his words, coughing I hastily Google the hottest business news and fairly enough millions of articles were published within my napping time.

Xavier Damon king, CEO to KING INC. the biggest conglomerate ready to officially invest in entertainment industries.....

"Tell me you didn't." I said flabbergasted.

"I didn't." He said before standing up from the couch and heading in the direction of kitchen, soon enough he returned with his plate full of poha, mine was still untouched. I was hella shocked at how the f*ck did he even called anyone!? I had hid his phone after switching it off !

"This isn't some kind of joke Xavier!" I yelled in shock at him for taking such impulsive decision.

"Do I look like I'm joking?" He said indifferently while staring at me, I saw the determination blaze into his eyes and backed off immediately from the argument. I knew at the moment that he was actually serious. After sitting in silence for sometime I gathered enough courage to ask him the million questions that were going through my mind.

"Why did you do it?" I asked softly, he stared into my eyes with such intensity that I had to lower mine to save myself from being captivated.

"Shana it was never my intention to cause such scandal, I never thought of hurting you in any way, it killed me to see you cry, it made me feel helpless, I had to do something to make you feel better and the scandal was huge so the next most logical option was this. So...." he explained taking my hands in his and I melted immediately, he actually cared but it was a dumb decision to just buy the whole company, I didn't said it aloud considering his good intentions, I was just falling more everyday for this man and I knew I was in dipshit.

I nodded my head while trying to stop myself from crying "I-I'm sorry I p-pushed you away e-earlier, I didn't mean to h-hurt you, I was just trying to annoy you all this t-time but it went too far, I'm s-so sorry for r-rejecting you, trust m-me it took e-everything in me to pull b-back from you Xavier."

He pulled me towards him and made me sit on his lap, settling comfortably on him I placed my head on his chest listening to the steady beating of his heart, he placed a kiss on my head making me feel all fluttery on inside.

"I'm sorry too baby. I will never hurt you again ever." I hummed in return before snuggling more into him. After sometime I felt him move beneath me, looking up i saw him already staring at me, I smiled and snuggled more into him.

"Did you go out?" I asked cause he was dressed formally and he just bought a multi-billion company.

"No." my eyebrows scrunched in confusion. He didn't go out? Then why is he dressed up?

"Then why are you dressed up?" I asked eyeing his shirt.

"I had an online meeting." He answered and I nodded in understanding.

"Where's my phone?" He asked passing his fingers through my hairs making me sigh in contentment. Right. How did he even arranged an online meeting?

I stood up from his lap and pointed my finger towards him." How did you even called someone to arrange the meeting?" I made sure to hide his phone real good after switching it off cause it was blasting every other second with calls after the scandal and I was getting frustrated. On the other hand I only got calls from Diya, Noah, Mom, papa, Catherine, Samantha, Ruby,

Uncle Raj, Svetlana, Arman and some other close friends. Overall it only took me 4 to 5 hours to answer them all which was pretty fast.

"I used yours." He said pointing my phone on the couch, my phone? How come I didn't noticed? Snatching my phone from the couch I immediately went to the call log and fairly enough he had made a bunch of calls.

"Oh..." I mumbled involuntary to him.

"Yup. Now....did I lost my phone yesterday cause I can't find it anywhere. " he asked me.

"No. I hid it. Wait I will bring it for you." With that I sprinted out of the living room, and for some reason I heard Xavier chuckle behind me, what's so funny?

Ignoring him I hurriedly went through the hallway on the first floor and took out the phone from the flower vase there. Making sure it was working fine after switching on I rushed back into the living room with his phone in my stretched out hand.

"Here." I gave him his phone but he kept staring at me in amusement and adoration." What?" I asked.

"Are those mine?" He asked pointing towards the sweats I was wearing. I nodded my head, grinning at him I said cockily.

"What yours is mine and my are already mine." He eyed my sweats again before laughing at me, I pouted at him for laughing at me.

"What!? I look cute!" I said looking down at me.

"You sure look...." he grinned at me "......like Charlie Chaplin." finishing his sentence he rushed out of the living room, when my brain finally gripped the fact about what he said I sprinted behind him in attempt of catching him.

He was normally walking into bedroom with a panting me hot on his trail. When I successfully cornered him, I jumped on him causing me to hover over him with him laying on his bed.

"What are you gonna do now. Huh?" I said cockily while trying to entwine his hands over his head tightly, and I thought I did a pretty good job until I found myself twirling around and landing on the bed with him over me, a cocky smirk plastered on his lips.

"This." He said before I felt his hands under my shirt on my stomach tickling the heck out of me making me crack hard. I felt tears slipping from my eyes.

"PLEASE S-STOP!!" I cried over my laughing, my voice cracking due to my laughter. I twisted and turned around to break free but he was intact over me.

I could hear his laugh mixed with mine howling over the deadly silent mansion, I'm sure the bodyguards had heard us by now and I won't be surprised if they decided to check up on us just to make sure none of us were getting murdered. I was laughing like a dying hyena.

Suddenly I felt something vibrate under me and then I heard a faint sound from underneath me and I guess Xavier heard it too cause he had suddenly stopped torturing me.

I panted to catch my breath and leaned on my elbows to get up but he was still over me, I raised my eyebrow at him gesturing him to get off, he grinned before pecking me and getting off of me.

I sat and found Xavier's phone beneath me showing his mother calling, I smirked knowing that he's in for a good lecture, handing him the phone I settled comfortably on the bed. He eyed his phone hesitantly but received it anyway.

"Hey mom!" He said cheerily into the phone

"Don't hey me boy!!" A high pitch female voice boomed from the other side causing me to smirk widely and him to pull the phone away from his ear.

"You good for nothing son of mine what did you do to my daughter-in-law!?!" She yelled from the other side causing us to frown at her words. Then it sinked and my eyes widened followed by him.

"How did you know mom?" Xavier asked in confusion and shock mirroring my expressions.

"Don't forget you got your tenacious character from me son. What do you think who told me?" I could literally feel her intimidating aura through the phone which was very much similar to that of Xavier. Understanding started settling on Xavier's face but I was still confused as to how did she know.

"Aiden." Xavier said snickering and I understood that it was probably him who told Marissa. But this was the least of my worries as she was tend to know this news anyhow, my main concern was how she's going to react.

"Atleast you're in your senses now! How dare you embarrass Shana infront of everyone! I didn't raised you to be a drunkard Xavier." I was joking previously but he is really getting a good lecture, she's really sounding disappointed in him which made me somewhat sad for both of them.

"Sorry mom. I didn't mean to." He said guilty once again for his actions. But I really think there's something off with Xavier getting drunk out of nowhere, even if Angelina made him drink he isn't lightweight. So there's only one probability left and that is she spiked his drink.

What a b*tch?!

I was pulled out of my thoughts when I heard Marissa yelling once again.

"I don't care what you'd do, but I don't want that Ruth's name anywhere near you or my daughter-in-law or else I'll disown you! And Xavier I'm serious!"

Behind her I heard a much more husky male voice, " Don't worry son. It'll take my signs as well to disown you which is not happening anytime soon." I smiled when I saw Xavier smiling as well.

"Robert King! You can't cross cut my threat! I'm trying to sound threatening here!" Xavier was literally grinning now, knowing he was forgiven already.

"I love you too mom." He said into the phone and it went dead silent for a second but then again Marissa voice sounded.

"Don't try to sweet talk out of this Xavier! I'll think about forgiving you only when you bring Shana home as your girlfriend." She said but there was happiness prominent in her voice.

Xavier looked in my direction for my opinion, I stared into his eyes and I knew I was ready to do anything for him, I nodded which brought a heart stopping smile on his lips making me all fluttery inside.

"We'll visit you two soon mom. Don't worry! I will tell you about the day and time. Alright. " He said and I heard Marissa agree in return.

"Love you mom." And with that he ended the call.

He looked at me and I smiled at him but in return he smirked, advancing in my direction, throwing his phone somewhere on the bedside table.

"Where were we?" He said with a evil smirk.

"Please Xavier!! I would literally die this time I swear!!" I said keeping my hands up in defense.

"Don't worry I'll be gentle." He said getting on the bed while I backed away in defense.

"OH HECK NO!!" I yelled and sprinted off of the bed.

I knew he was going to tickle me again....

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