Semua Bab The Billionaire’s Cook: Bab 11 - Bab 20

Coraline“Was that your boss that dropped you off?” Ash asked the moment I stepped into our modest two-bedroom apartment, not even concerned about the way I was dripping from head to toe.“Yep,” I replied, popping the ‘p’ through my slightly chattering teeth.“Oh my gosh, for real?” she squealed.“He’s literally on his way to pick up a date as we speak so don’t be too excited.” I grabbed the hand towel she handed me and began drying off. “Why’s Marc here though?”“We planned a picnic date for today but the rain ruined it.”I shook my head at her. “Should have checked the weather forecast.”“Those things are never accurate, you know that.”I walked past her towards my room so I could take off my wet clothes, not bothering with a response. She was four years older than me and kind of like my polar opposite in appearance.Taking our dad’s features, she had brown hair and blue eyes while I took our mom’s with blonde hair and brown eyes. She had also taken his height while I had obviously

CoralineGrocery shopping was the only part of my current job I enjoyed. Solely because I didn’t have to be around Alessio or his things while I did it.I pushed my almost full cart down the frozen foods aisle, searching for the vegetables section.Just as I found it and began perusing the shelves while grabbing what I needed, I heard the click-clacking of heels coming my way.“Oh look. If it isn’t the bitch who is trying to steal my man.”At first, I doubted the words had been meant for me. But looking around, I realized no one else was in the aisle. So I turned back to the stranger only to realize it was Georgina, the woman who had pretended to be Alessio’s girlfriend.I still didn’t know why she had done that. Except Alessio was lying.Then her words registered and my brows furrowed in confusion. “I’m sorry, I’m not sure I understand what you’re talking about.”She let out a string of Spanish words that were no doubt insults by the way she was glaring at me as she said them.“That

CoralineI didn’t go in to work the Monday after the weekend. Or the day after that.I confided in Ash about everything that happened with Georgina and she told me to quit. It sounded insane to me because I hadn’t even been working for a full week, but it was the most sensible thing to do regardless of the money, seeing as I had been running into one trouble or the other ever since I started the job.I hadn’t yet worked up the courage to go back and hand in my resignation letter so I just cooped myself in my room, pretending if I didn’t think about my problems then they didn’t exist.Also, Alessio never tried to reach out since that day. The work phone he had given me was still in my possession. He could have called to ask why I hadn’t come back to work but he didn’t. And so I concluded that him telling me to get out meant he had fired me.So maybe I didn’t have to go back to hand in any letter after all. And I could mail his phone back to him when I was ready.It was a win-win.Excep

CoralineThat week passed without incident.It felt surreal that I could just come in, do my job and get out without having something or the other to argue about with Alessio, but that was what happened.He mostly pretended I wasn’t even there, and everything has been going smoothly since.When the weekend rolled by, I decided to take my book out to read in the park. I’d been holing myself up in my room for days now and I needed to go out to soak in the sun before I started being accused of being a vampire by my sister.She always thought it was funny whenever she did that. Cue eye roll.I found a suitable spot beneath a shade and parked my butt there to crack open my read for the day to the bookmarked page. I hadn’t been reading for five minutes when a rubber ball suddenly rolled by my feet. I looked up to see a dog running full speed in my direction, wet tongue lolling out in the air behind him.“Woah,” I exclaimed, a little freaked out.I raised my legs up on the bench to avoid be

Coraline“I was thinking since you have all these rules that I’m not meant to break, I should have mine too.” I presented to Alessio after his breakfast.He was dressed and ready for work, but I had to let him know about this before he left.I had to make sure what happened earlier never repeated itself.He turned to regard me, his features hard and implacable. It was such a vast difference from how he had looked just an hour ago pressed up against me that I almost had whiplash.Was this man suffering from bipolar personality disorder or something?He arched a brow. “Now you think you’re in a place to dictate orders to me?”“No,” I frowned. “That isn’t what I’m doing. I just think there’s too much power imbalance between us. We should even the scales a bit.”“I pay you, don’t I? Meaning I have the right to the upper hand in this arrangement.”“It’s just one rule. I don’t think you should be making too much of a fuss over one rule.”He sighed but ended up indulging me. “Let’s hear it.”