Charmed by the Billionaire CEO

Gwen watched Karl trembling on his seat with his palm covering his face. She could tell that he was damn scared of the movie and she found it quite funny.

But as time passed, she started feeling bad for him. If he had informed her already then she wouldn’t have asked him to buy a horror movie ticket. She thought the movie she selected he knew about it but who would’ve thought otherwise?

She was about to reach her hand to console him when another creepy roared echoed inside the theatre and this time Karl jumped hugging Gwen in return.

"G-Gwen... this is so scary. Shoo, shoo" Karl was so freaking out that he didn’t realize he was making a scene catching everyone’s attention towards them.

Finding the situation too embarrassing Gwen pulled Karl’s hand and dragged him out of the theater room.

****

Outside

Sitting on the bench, Karl kept his head low as he couldn’t face Gwen after whatever he did inside. He was so damn scared that he happened to behave out of his character and now he was too embarrassed to raise his head.

Gwen brought a bottle of water from the food counter and walked to Karl." Here, drink some water" she said passing him the bottle but the man didn’t look at him.

His eyes were fixed on his legs as he kept tapping them in anxiousness.

’Is he still scared’ she thought and sat next to him.

The Karl she knew was so confident that she never doubt he would come to get scared by a mere movie.

Karl on the other hand was cursing himself for acting childish. ’You stupid dumbass, it was just a movie. The ghost wasn’t going to come out from the screen’

While he was busy scolding himself mentally, he felt a hand rest on his shoulder and he again flinch," Mummy..." and this time Gwen couldn’t hold back her laughter and burst.

"Haha... Karl, you are so funny" she said laughing holding her stomach as she couldn’t contain her laughter. If only she would’ve known about his weakness, he would have used it against him at the time they fought or argue.

Karl stared back at her with a pitiful face. She so wanted to cry after his weakness was out in front of Gwen in an unexpected way.

Ignoring her laugh, Karl took the bottle from her hand and began sipping it. He knew there was no explanation for his behavior and this reaction from Gwen was obvious.

After some time, Gwen stopped laughing and wiped off the tears that surge up in the process. She then turned her head to look at Karl who had his eyes already fixed on her with his lips curled into a pleasant smile.

Blinking her eyes, she looked at him with confusion and heard him say," You look so pretty when you laugh" Karl mumbled staring at Gwen like a lovestruck puppy.

Initially, he was annoyed but when he noticed her soft giggles he started falling for it, and his irritation flew away replacing it with adoration.

She was laughing like a kid which seemed so delightful to his eyes. In these past two days, he didn’t see her smile but now he was happy that he was able to bring back her old self.

Gwen blushed at his remark and before she could say a word, Karl stood up holding her hand, and dragged her away from there.

****

After witnessing Noah’s historical cry, Tristan walked out of his apartment when he couldn’t hold on. His friend was crying like a naughty kid, begging and praying to God to help him now.

"Alice seems quite upset with Noah this time," Ashley said looking at Tristan.

"Huh!... Hmm yes, I agree with you" Tristan had his eyes on the road ahead, turned his head looking at her for a brief second before averting his eyes back on the road.

"I think, Alice shouldn’t doubt Noah. If he had to cheat on her then he wouldn’t have been going crazy thinking about her leaving him" Ashley nodded her head.

She has seen how Noah was committed to Alice and it was quite surprising to listen about him cheating on Alice.

"Tristan, don’t you think we should help them? I don’t like to see them fighting"

Ashley volunteered in helping the couple as she couldn’t see them fight. Though for a second she doubted Noah but now when Tristan agreed to her previous thought, she now felt bad for the couple.

"Do you think, we should check the club he visited that day?" Ashley’s words made Tristan snap his head at her in shock.

"C-club, why" he was now sensing something danger approaching.

"So we could prove Noah’s innocence. If he wasn’t there with any girl, then he had no reason to be scared of but if he is lying" she paused with her palm rounding into a fist and she continued," Then I will not leave him" she declared.

Ashley didn’t want to come to any conclusion without any proof. She wanted to give Noah a fair chance to prove his innocence to Alice and for that, he had to tell her the truth.

But the way he was hesitant to speak only made things worse between them and now if she wanted to save Alice’s relationship then they will have to find everything.

"Ahem... Ash. Don’t you think we shouldn’t meddle in their matter? They are mature enough to handle everything on their own" Tristan’s words made Ashley frown and she looked at him sharply.

"So you want Alice to get hurt?" she snapped.

"Huh, no no I didn’t mean that. It’s just why don’t you let them sort out the misunderstanding on their own? It doesn’t look nice to poke into their lives" Tristan didn’t want her to find the person behind Noah’s misery was him and now he just wanted his friend to handle this matter on his own.

Ashley looked at him for a second and nodded her head. She was still skeptical about the way Tristan was trying to keep her out of this matter. But then, she just couldn’t point out anything without any evidence.

Keeping her thoughts to herself, Ashley decided to keep her mouth shut. She will have to find everything just to save Alice from getting hurt. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

****

After Ashley left, Alice stepped into her room to rest. She was so tired of thinking of things turning different between Noah and her. If the lipstick mark had nothing to do with him then she expected him to be transparent with her.

She just wanted to know the truth so she would stop this odd feeling from dirtying her mind.

She lay on the bed hoping sleep would hit her soon but as time passed by she couldn’t find herself even closing her eyes.

Turning and tossing on the bed, Alice sighed frustratingly and sat up on the bed. She was so used to falling asleep in Noah’s arms that now she found it hard to sleep without him.

She didn’t want to admit but right now she want him to be next to her. She wanted to fall asleep so she could stop these thoughts from messing with her mind.

’Damn’ she cursed when she couldn’t hold any longer and like a shameless person, she climbed down from the bed and stepped out of her room.

She was still hesitant about whether to ask Noah to come and sleep with her but then his lie came to her mind but before she could stop herself, Alice found her standing in front of her door.

Sighing helplessly, Alice opened the door and stepped out only to find him sitting next to her door with his back resting on the wall. He had his head buried in his knees and it seem like he had been sleeping.

Alice’s heart pained to see him sitting on the floor. ’How long he had been sitting here’ she thought and squat down slowly next to him.

She didn’t want to be this harsh with him but his silence and hiding everything from her made her act cruel toward him. But now when she looked at him waiting next to her door, she realized she had been too cold with him.

"Noah" resting her hand on his shoulder she called his name softly.

Listening to a familiar sweet voice Noah raised his head and saw Alice stare at him with concern.

"Alice" he called her name and brushed his eyes to clear his vision. He had been standing outside her door for some time but didn’t have the nerve to knock on the door.

Noah knew, he was at fault but it was too hard for him to stay away from her. So he ended up sitting on the floor waiting for her to come to him and didn’t realize when he fell asleep.

The way he called her name made Alice drop her anger. She knew Noah loved her and his actions toward her were evident. But then why was he so adamant to hide the truth from her?

"You are cold, come get in," she said brushing her palm on his arm.