Do a Favor

Lucien picks up his cell phone and walks to the other side of the room and picks up the call.

“Hey,Dad.”He began as he picked up.

“Where were you last night,Lucien?”Came a deeper voice at the end of the call.

“Home.”Lucien drawled.

“I sent someone to your house yesterday since you wouldn’t pick up your damn phone but you weren’t home.”

“Oh…I was at the company,I was working late on something.That deal with…”

“Stop lying.You weren’t at the company either.And don’t tell me you forgot about your blind date yesterday?”

Lucien winced.

Another one?

“I just…something came up.”

“This is the third time.The third time,Lucien.You keep standing up these ladies and making a fool of me”

“Then stop arranging these blind dates.”

“Are you going to stay single forever simply because Mia left you?!”His father thundered.”There are so many women in the world!”

He just had to bring up Mia.

Such a questioning left Lucien at a loss for an answer; he certainly knew what his father wanted.

"I can stop arranging it, then you'll bring a decent woman back yourself!" After saying that he still felt it wasn't enough and immediately added, "Otherwise you'll just wait for your cousin to inherit the company!" After saying that he directly hung up the phone, not giving Lucien time to retort.

Lucian swallowed hard.

His father had never sounded this furious.

Ever since Mia left him,his father had always understood that this was his way of dealing with the break up.

And being committed to another woman scares him shitless.But it seems he had pushed his father to his limits.

Give everything to his cousin?

Bullshit.

Lucien might be a playboy but he was passionate about work and he had done a lot for the company.

He couldn’t lose everything.

At the same time,he didn’t want his father to find him a woman.

He felt they would all be pretentious.

Acting all cute and lovely and just when he falls deeply in love with them, just when he falls head over heels in love with them,they would use him and they would leave…leave him struggling and trying to live without them.

He would not fall prey to any woman again.He would never let them make him that vulnerable again.

He turned around,swiftly to find Audrey sitting on the couch.

Realizing he had finish taking his call,she stood up and bit out.

“Can I have the cheque now?I really should get going.”

He cocked an eyebrow as he assessed her.

She was slightly pretty in his eyes.Plain and exactly not his type at all.

And again,he was paying 100,000 dollars from simply sleeping with her.

Perhaps,he could make her work for that money.

He just needed his father off his back for a while so the old man wouldn’t think of removing him from the family’s register.

He could make an agreement with this girl.He could set down some rules and that way,he wouldn’t have to worry about falling in love with a woman.

Audrey was feeling so uncomfortable with the way he kept staring at her.

She just wanted to get the cheque and head out of here.

His predatory look made her feel so uneasy.

“I still think 100,000 is too much for a night.”He finally let out.

Audrey tensed.

She thought he had already agreed to this.

Was he not as wealthy as he appears?

Oh God.

What do sex workers do when a customer suddenly backs out of their agreement?

Audrey’s heart was racing as she wondered what she was going to do now.

“But I…but you…”

“You’ve gotten so pale.Calm down.I’ll pay you but I just need a tiny favor from you.”

Audrey frowned.”A tiny favor?”

What was his definition of tiny?

“Yes.And then you’ll get the money in full.”

Audrey felt like punching him.

He was about signing the cheque just minute ago.

He didn’t say any about this suspicious “tiny favor”

But she really couldn’t force the money out of him and she couldn’t back out of this either.

She had already slept with him.

She had to make this worth it.

“What is this tiny favor?”Audrey probed.

“Go get dressed.”He ordered.

**********

And that was how Audrey found herself in Lucien’s car as he drove off to God-knows-where.

She kept looking out the window,wondering where he was driving to, wondering if she was getting kidnapped?

What if he was a psychopath?

Should she scream?

“I can see you fidgeting in your seat.Calm down,girl.I’m not a bad person.”

She stared at him as if trying to see through his soul and find out if he really wasn’t a bad person.

And then,she took her time to study his facial features.She knew he was good looking but now seeing him in broad daylight,he was practically glowing.

He was handsome.Rakishly handsome.He had the kind of look that would make you feel like a duck.And when she thought back to how he had been on top of her,a slight shiver went down her spine.

“I know I’m good looking but can you please stop staring?”He teased, playfully.