A NIGHT WITH THE CRAZY CEO

CHAPTER FIFTY-SIX

**ADRIAN**

I stared at Brianna as she walked down the steps of her not-so-pleasant house. She looked so damn beautiful in that dress, it hugged her killer figure and brought out her curves in the right places. The makeup artists did a good job, the makeup they did for her enhancing her facial features. To cut the long talk short, she looked like a goddess. I would have complimented her but she ruined the small moment of admiration with her obnoxious attitude. I was kind of wrong for just telling the driver to honk so that she could know that I was here already but I’m not going to admit it neither will I apologize for it.

“Took you long enough. I was going to come up there to drag your ass out.” I said when I saw her coming.

“Oh please, you didn’t have enough manners to come up to my doorsteps and knock on the door.” She snapped at me.

“Are you calling me mannerless?”

“Of course not, you just said that by yourself.” She uttered.

“Whatever, just get into the limo and don’t make me angrier than I already am.” I said tiredly and she got into the limo.

When we got into the car and I ordered the chauffeur to begin driving and silence fell between us, I didn’t realize when I blurted a statement.

“You look stunning by the way.” The moment I said that, her head snapped towards my direction and she stared at we wide-eyed. her face turned red when her brain seemed to have registered what I said and she whispered a small ‘thank you’.

“You look good too.” She whispered that I almost didn’t hear what she said.

“Good, eh? You’re telling me that I just look good?” I asked teasingly, not knowing what pushed me to tease her.

“Actually, you look so damn hot in that suit.” She said and I couldn’t almost believe my ears. This might as well be the first ever time Brianna will say something good about me and I felt sort of happy. That was the first time I would compliment her too so really; I don’t blame her.

“Oh really? I wear suits everyday so what’s so special about this one?” I quizzed, deciding to continue teasing her to keep the ride to the gala lively since it was an hour and thirty minutes’ drive.

“I don’t know, this looks better on you than the ones you wear to work every day.” She said with a shrug.

“Is that so?” I questioned with a small smile, yet again teasing her and wanting to know her answer at the same time.

“Yeah, that’s what I think.” She nodded and silence fell in the car for a few minutes before I broke the silence since I didn’t want the both of us to be bored so resorted to us having a light conversation.

“You know, I just realized that this is one of the few times we’re having a conversation without arguing. I think this is the first time even.” I uttered after thinking about it, every of our conversations always end with an argument. We even had an argument some minutes ago.

“Well, that’s right but it’s not my fault that we argue every freaking time.” She stated defensively.

“Whose fault is it then?” I asked, staring at her in amusement.

“Yours, obviously.” She said in a duh tone, as if it was very obvious that I am always the cause of our arguments.

“Me? In what way?” I asked.

“Promise that you won’t be angry if I say what’s on my mind.” She uttered.

“I won’t be angry. Let me know what you think of me and I’ll tell you what I think of you.” I spoke.

“Alright. The thing about you is that you’re bossy, arrogant, egocentric, act like you know it all, don’t answer greetings and to top it off, you’re crazy.” She said all of those and took in a breath before she bowed her head, looking at me from the corner of her eye. To say that I was surprised at was she thought about me was an understatement, I was shocked to the bones. So, these were how lowly she thought of me. I think I need to start working on my attitude. Normally, I don’t care what people think about me but Brianna’s opinion on my attitude made me feel somehow.

“Are you angry? You promised not to be angry.” Brianna said when she noticed how quiet I have been, just staring at her, unblinking.

I snapped out of my train of thoughts and said, “I’m not angry, I’m just surprised at how you think of me.”

“Well, there you have it,” she said awkwardly while fiddling with her fingers, “let me know what you think of me.”

“You really want to know?” I asked, with a raise of my eyebrow.

“Yeah…” She replied sounding slightly unsure and sucking on her bottom lip. I suddenly felt the urge to remove the lip and suck on it myself. What the heck is wrong with me tonight?

“You asked for it,” I paused for a while before I began talking, “you’re obnoxious, sassy, disobedient and you always like to argue with me, you don’t ever listen when I tell you to do something unless I threaten to fire you.”

“You’re right but I’m not always obnoxious and disobedient, you always make me act like that when you start being all arrogant and bossy.” She said looking sincere and I believed her.

“I noticed that you only act that way towards me. I see the way you behave around others guys at work, especially Lewis, the both of you seem really close.” I said with a hint of jealousy in my tone but I didn’t know if she noticed it.

“There’s nothing between me and Lewis, we’re just work friends.” She said nervelessly, waving her hand as if indicating that the topic was irrelevant but I pressed on.

“There might be nothing between the both of you now but Lewis wants something from you, I know him more than you do and inform me when he tries something with you.” I stated.

“Alright, Mr. Adrian.” She responded and I couldn’t tell if she was being sarcastic or serious.

“Oh, and Brianna?” I called.

“Yeah?”

“You can call me Adrian, ‘Mr.’ is not part of my names you know.” I said jokingly but I actually meant it.

“Really? What would people say at work when I call you by your name? They’ll think we have an affair going on.” She stated.

“They should think whatever they want to think, I don’t give a flying fuck. Just call me by my name.” I uttered.

“Okay, Mr. Adrian.” She spoke.

“What did I just tell you?” I raised a brow at her.

“Oh sorry, Adrian.” She said as if testing the name on her tongue and then smiled afterwards.

“That’s better, isn’t it?” I asked.

“It actually is.” She said with a smile.

Just then, the chauffeur informed us that we had arrived at the venue of the gala. That was when I looked around to see that we had indeed gotten there. The whole place was filled with reporters and cameras flashing here and there. I glanced at Brianna and saw that she was squirming.

“Are you nervous?” I asked even though the answer was very obvious.

“Yes, I am.” She answered lowly.

“There’s no need for you to be, I’ll be with you throughout.” I assured her and she relaxed slowly.

“You ready?” I quizzed when I saw that she had calmed down.

“Yes,” she nodded, “let’s get this gala started even though I don’t know what to expect in there.”© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

I laughed at that and said, “let’s go.”

TBC