Chapter 112 LEARNING FRENCH FOR ME?
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"Go and get ready. I will wait for you and Tessa at the breakfast table." Ann says and suddenly I remember Tessa's drunk state from last night. She isn't going to come down for the breakfast I am 100% sure about it.
"Ann, Tessa wasn't feeling well last night. I think she should sleep for more time." I suggest and Ann raised her brow in displeasure, Yeah, Ann always wants everything to go in order.
"She is still new to this routine," I add, and finally she nods her head, "Fine."
BOOM
She enters the bathroom and I release my breath, F**k, this would be the first and last time I am saving her next time I won't. I tell myself and then walk out. I reach my floor and spot Miss Celine who is all ready to storm into my new room to wake Tessa I guess.
"Miss Celine, she is sleeping in my room," I tell her and with an anxious nod she hurriedly walks over to my room but my words stops her abruptly.
"Don't wake her up, let her sleep for a while." I command and Miss Celine looks at me with wide eyes, "Sir Andrew but Miss Swan."
"That's not a problem, go and prepare the breakfast for me and Ann." I interrupt her and nodding her head respectfully, she leaves the floor.
DING
I take a shower and then start dressing up while Miss Tessa is still asleep on my bed, I feel a little furious at her as she is sleeping so peacefully in my bed and I am here wandering like an ant on a hot pan.
She shouldn't enter my bedroom next time, I don't like sharing my bed with her at all. But how? I start to think of a way and then giving her a last furious look I leave my room.
Downstairs, Ann had already been seated at her place and we both have our breakfast in silence. Ann stands up to leave while I stay behind. I need to check a few emails before going to the office, last night because of Cyril's birthday I was not able to check my laptop.
And I am sure Lillian had surely filled my schedule with ultimate meetings.
I walk back to my study and get busy with the emails. After an hour, I stretch my body and think of waking up that beauty queen, is she going to sleep for the whole day?
I walk towards my room and I hear the movements, I stop and then walk towards my new room waiting for her to arrive and she does.
"Good Morning," She greets me and I groan inwardly when I see her in a bathrobe and that is also my bathrobe. F**k.
"We need to talk," I tell her with a stern face I am already in a dark mood and her revealing figure isn't helping to make my mood any better.
"Yes…" She sits on the bed, looking nervous.
"What happened last night, I don't want you to repeat it," I tell her in a firm voice and tighten the grip of my hands behind me as I could notice her cleavage from my angle.
This woman is so seductive.
"What happened?" She asks with a blank face.
Okay, there are many things Miss Tessa but let me point out the root of your mistakes.
"Tessa Will, you think I didn't notice how much you drink last night?"
"You are clearly not capable of handling alcohol."
"That should not be your concern." She mumbles under her breath and I am able to catch it, F**k, this woman is testing my patience. I walk towards her and she flinches back in fear, my eyes caught her danger and I seem to get relax after noticing the fear of me in her eyes.
I smile triumphantly and leaning down I pull her chin up from my finger, "It is my concern because last night you invade my personal space. You were not even able to differentiate between your room and my room because of it."
I tell her clearly, I don't want her to keep dreaming about me as her husband, she should know that we both have a long line stretch between each other.
"You mean our room," Woah, she got her tongue back, and then she starts to give me some knowledge about husband and wife's relation on sharing a bed, oh darling, they share a lot of things, not just a bed.
"My room should be the one where my husband is staying." In our argument, she raise the point and I want to tell her that lady I am not your husband but just a d**k to fill your womb but alas, I couldn't.
"Husband?" But I couldn't help my sarcastic laugh, "You have no idea what have you got yourself into…" I blurt out accidentally.
"What… What do you mean?" She is stuttering now, great.
"First and last time, I am making it clear, you will not enter my room from now on and neither try to force me in becoming your husband. I am legally your husband but I won't give you any right over me." I threaten her because that is the only way she would listen to me.
She tries to argue when I stop her with my warning. "It would be better if you don't force me and interfere in my things. I am saying this nicely because it's the first time, next time, I won't be polite."
I storm out of the room, I know this woman is going to prolong the arguments and it will bring us nowhere. Before leaving for the office, I cautiously lock my door because I know that she is going to come back here to piss me off.
****
"Beautiful picture." I was lost in a daze while staring at the wedding picture that I had clicked on my mobile before when Lillian comes over and gives me a minor heart attack.
"God… Don't you know the manners of knocking at your boss's door?" I ask her, displeased, putting my phone back into my pocket.
"I did, twice. But you seem too lost in admiring your wife." She says with a teasing smile and I scowl at her.
"It's not like that."
"What do you mean?" Lillian looks at me worriedly and then she sighs, "Oh, so you love Mona, not her."
And I look up at her in surprise, isn't this the obvious thing?
"What do you mean?" I ask her, irritated.
"Nothing.." She tries to shrug away the topic but I am persistent to know.
"Spill…"
She takes a deep sigh and then speaks, "Your wife, Tessa, she looks very beautiful as compared to Mona and she is young too."
I raise my brows in disagreement, "So?"
"No, it's just I don't see Mona as a good choice, you should think yourself why Miss Swan didn't choose Mona for you but Tessa, and have you seen how much happy she looked at the wedding?"
She makes a fair point, Ann does like her a lot that is why she has chosen her but what about me, I don't like her.
"But, my happiness is more important." I tell her and she shrugs, "But you have always been happy in whatever Miss Swan chooses for you."
Again, fair point and now it's my time to shrug uncomfortably.
"I am already very pissed, don't piss me more." I tell her in annoyance and she is quick to apologize, "Oh my apologies, should we discuss this, or I should come after a while." She gestured to the file she is holding and I nod my head.
"Let's discuss."
****
After the office work, I was supposed to check on Mona but she told me she is at the shooting place so I dismiss the thought of visiting her.
I walk back to the mansion and in desperate need of smoke I go straight to the terrace but as I am walking towards the terrace I hear a feminine voice loudly repeating a sentence in French.
"Quel est ton nom?"
"Je m'appelle Tessa Andrew."
"Je m'appelle Mme Tessa Andrew."
Tessa Andrew??
I watch her walking and repeating the sentence in French, unaware of my presence at all. She turns and then drops her book.
THUD
I bend down and pick up her book, "So, you have been learning French?"
I pull out my cigarette and keep it between my teeth waiting for her to respond.
"Do you smoke?" She asks instead of answering me.
"Yes, but don't tell Ann." I light up my cigarette and then ask her again, "So, why did you start learning French, do you like it?"
"Oh French… Yeah… I thought you like it… I mean… You know French… So I thought maybe I should also know French… And it will make you happy too… Maybe I don't know…" After thinking for a while, she finally stutter her words.
"How will your French learning makes me happy?" I ask in amusement, she is learning French for me, to please me? That's unique.
"I… I thought that when we would go together out for any big gathering… I shouldn't disappoint you there from my less knowledge…" Her answers give me no shock, nor amusement as I reply plainly, "You think too much…"
I notice her withdrawing her stops when I stop her sharply and then beckon her to come over and sit beside me.
"Tessy…I didn't want to be rude to you… It's just… please stay in your place and don't invade my personal space without my permission next time…" I tell her, yeah I think in the morning I just got out of line.
Not because she entered my room but because now I don't have any reason to hate her and it is getting difficult for me to stay away from her as now I carry no hate and disgust for her in my heart.
I am afraid that this woman might be able to manipulate my feelings for Mona.
