Married to the loveless CEO-Chapter 89: Auction

Olivia gazed up at him, she was still hugging him. She immediately let go, it was also part of her list but she didn’t mean to do it, she just did it subconsciously and spontaneously.

She was doing a lot of things from her list rapidly, some even reflexively- Without her conscious mind. She will slow down a bit because she couldn’t tell yet if they were cool now or not.

"Uh sorry, I got a little excited there. Uhm, I will leave now," she turned around immediately and left. Her cheeks and ears were burning red as the realization of what she had done hits her.

’Oh and Zane was in the room,’ she thought. This was so embarrassing for her, she never thought hugging him would make her this flustered.

She walked towards their room, she was going to take a nice warm bubble bath now that Leo was in his study, she was sure he is going to spend more time there.

She prepared it and was soon in the bathtub relaxing her nerves. Her mind started to drift towards her list. She has done a total of nine things out of her list, there were still eleven more. Some things will be a little hard to do, she might not even do those ones. Especially:-

{Initiate a kiss}

{Try to seduce him, hehe}

She shook her head to the thought. She washed up at the shower and was soon on her towel robe, a towel wrapped around her hair.

She walked out of the bathroom and sat on the bed. She removed the towel from her head and used it to wipe her hair. Once it had stopped dripping with water, she used her fingers to brush through her hair bringing it all backwards.

She used another towel to wipe her face first, then her legs. With the robe still on, she started applying lotion to her smooth long legs first, her fingers rubbed delicately on her flawless fair skin.

The door opened and Leo walked in. She turned her head towards the door and their eyes met as they both halted in their movements as if time had stopped.

This is the first time he was seeing her apply lotion on her skin, they both usually just get dressed at the dressing room. His eyes couldn’t help but screen through her, from her damp black hair to the oversized robe she chose to put on- The shoulder part was tilting towards inches after her left shoulder.

His eyes moved towards her legs where her fingers were massaging just a moment ago. If not for the innocent look on her face, he would have bet that she was trying to seduce him on purpose.

But again, what if she is feigning it? What if she was just acting innocent? But then again, he didn’t fail to notice the way she was flushing red right now, so it must be a coincidence.

A temptative coincidence, this woman was capable of seducing him with so little efforts. Just the sight of her like this right now, was enough to seduce him.

Olivia bit her lower lips, why wasn’t he saying anything? Why wasn’t he moving? Did she manage to seduce him without putting much attention towards it? She felt like scooting away to hide because of the way he was ogling at her right now without him even aware of it.

She stood up picking up the towels and her body products, "Uhm..." her eyes lingered on the floor before moving back to his eyes.

"Uhm, I will just come back," he said.

"No, it’s okay. I will just finish up at the dressing room," she thought that he wouldn’t be coming to the room for some while and that was why she decided to just apply her lotion at the room.

She walked away dashing into the dressing room. Gosh she was so embarrassed, she doesn’t know why she still feels so embarrassed in front of him.

She doesn’t also know if she had succeeded in seducing him but she was totally going to scrape it out of her list, she wasn’t even going to do it anyway. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

***

"Boss?" Logan’s right hand man walked into the patio of Logan’s house where Logan was.

He turned to face the man.

"Mrs Anita is here to see you," the man informed him.

"Bring her here," Logan responded.

Mrs Anita just walked in immediately as if she had been trailing behind the man.

"Hello Logan," she announced her presence. She walked towards him and they air pecked each other’s cheeks.

"What brings you here? Have a seat," Logan offered and they both sat on some chairs in the patio.

"Nothing much really, I just wanted to check on you. You know what you did to Mike has only agitated your other uncles more. You need to be even more wary of them than usual now," she advised.

"I’m quite aware of that," he responded.

"So jenny is coming back to town this weekend. I really hope you both could meet," she smiled, she doesn’t know if Logan was quite aware that she wants him for her daughter, though she hasn’t officially relayed it to him but it was very obvious.

"I see, okay," he replied. Jenny has been his childhood friend and she had left the country recently.

Meanwhile, Olivia, Laura and Claire had just arrived at the venue where the book auction will be taking place.

They were offered seats as they waited for the event to commence. It started soon and after some while of bidding off several works of renown authors, they finally started to bid off the book Laura came here for.

Olivia watched the whole event so keenly, though she wasn’t a newbie when it comes to auctions. Laura finally won the bidding as she had the highest price.

"Going once, going twice, sold at two hundred thousand," announced the man in charge of auctioning the masterpieces.

After getting what they had come for, the ladies headed back to Central City, Asteria. It was some few hours drive, they talked about their auction which would be taking place in just a matter of days time.

...Some few hours later...

Olivia stared at the ceiling of the room as she laid there on the bed. She was so tired she couldn’t-She just doesn’t feel like getting up and she was craving for some fruit salad.

This was the first time this cravings and laziness has been this strong. Her pregnancy hormones were becoming even more sensitive and pronounced, the more she gets closer to the second trimester.

"What is it? You have been twisting and turning since," she heard Leo say. Oh, she thought he had been sleeping or did she wake him up?

"I’m... I’m just really craving for some fruit salad," she expressed.

"Well then go get it, there are different varieties of fruits in the kitchen," he responded.

"Or use the intercoms to beckon on any of the staffs," he added.

"Well uhm...I...I really just don’t feel like getting up and it’s already late. The staffs must have retired to bed," or gone home, for those who didn’t leave at the workers quarters of the villa.

He sat up, she managed to do the same as well; "Don’t tell me you want me to get it for you?" he questioned but she just bit her lower lip, her eyes becoming teary all of a sudden like a puppy as she pleaded with her eyes, hoping he would agree.

He sighed.

He started to get off the bed, "I’ll be back,"

"Really? Okay uhm... Don’t include peaches, I don’t like them since I became pregnant. Add some apples, banana, strawberries and other berries, you can include grapes and anything that’s not peach. Thank you," she beamed at him and he just stared at her contemplating if he should retaliate.

But he changed his mind and walked out to get the fruit salad. It was the hormones and besides, it will be good for the baby- IT’S ALL FOR THE BABY!- He tried to calm his nerves as he took in a breath.

He got to the kitchen and got some couple of fruits. He began to prepare the salad after washing the ones that requires washing. He wasn’t good at this but he will try, he found himself spending so much time cutting the fruits than he had expected as he had resulted instinctively, in cutting it all in styles.

He brought it upstairs and met an impatient Olivia who remained in the same position as he had left her.

"Thank you," she appreciated when he sat in front of her at the edge of the bed and brought into view the tray containing the plate of the salad.

"Hmm, this is so refreshing," she shuts her eyes as she savoured the delight taste. His lips unexpectedly pulled up in a small smile as he watches her. She didn’t notice it as she continued to focus on devouring the heavenly masterpiece in front of her.

***

The day of Laura’s book auction finally came. The event was taking place at the bookstore as it was large enough to contain a good amount of people, which actually- A lot of people came.

Leo did attend the event, Olivia had thought he wouldn’t come until he actually really showed up with Zane, she didn’t realize it would make her this happy.

"Hey Olivia," she heard Silvia’s voice and so she turned to see Silvia and Davian. She had invited them too, not that the people she invited were ideal book lovers but because they gracing the event would mean a lot to her.

"Hey Silvia," Olivia responded as she breaks the hug she had engulfed Silvia in.

"Hi Davian," she waved at him.

"Hello Olivia," he replied.

"Thank you both for coming, I hope something catches your eyes," Olivia smiled at them.

"We’re glad to be here. Did you invite Cia?" Silvia asked.

"Yes, she must be on her way because she isn’t here yet," Olivia responded and Silvia nodded.

"I’ll just be at that corner for a sec," Davian excused himself.

"Oh okay," Silvia told before he left the ladies.

"-Oh sorry," Davian apologized to a lady he bumped into as he was walking away. His eyes opened as he realizes who she was.

"D-Davian?" she voiced, surprised to see him as well.

Never would they think they would see each other again, in an event like this and after so many years.

Leah...her name echoed in his head as they continued to hold each other’s gaze.

He felt someone wrapped an arm around his. It was Silvia. Leah’s eyes moved to hers.

"Do you know each other, Davian?" Silvia smiled turning her gaze to him.

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