Desirable CEO

by Andrew Davis

  I went into the room and Aunt Lucinda sat by his bed crying and my mum rubbing circles on her back, a few tears escaping. I walked over to where the boys were.

  "How you guys holding up?" I asked them in a soft tone.

  "Okay I guess, the doctor doesn't know why he still hasn't woke up." Sebastian said.

  "Let's give Helen sometime with him." My mother said and Aunt Lucinda nodded and left, the boys got up and went but just before Anthony could leave, I called out to him.

  "How did it happen?" I asked him.

  "After he went to see you, he went to a bar and when he was coming home, a van hit him from the side." Anthony said and I just stared at the ground. "Helen, I know you have feelings for him" He said in a soft voice.

  "How." I asked looPotter into his crystal blue eyes.

  "I know you Helen from the time we met you, you wouldn't come here that fast and plus at the party when you two danced, I could see that you had a sparkle in your eyes when you looked at him and you really enjoyed dancing with him, which was very unlike you that was if you had feelings for him." He said with a soft smile and I hugged him, he was taken back but he soon recovered and hugged me back.

  "You should tell him." He said.

  "If I do, his already big head will grow more." I said and he laughed and walked out of the room.

  I walked to the side of his bed and just looked at him. His dirty blonde hair was a mess with his bangs falling on his forehead, his lips looked more plump and even more kissable, he looked breathtaPotterly handsome. I sat down on the chair next to his bed.

  "What am I going to do with you, William" I said shaPotter my head, smiling softly while brushing his bangs back.

  "The first day we met, I couldn't stand to be in the same place as you and now... here I am, sitting here... having feelings for you." I confessed even though he probably couldn't hear me.

  "Tell me how did you do it?... drastically changing my feelings towards you in just a matter of months?" I asked, raising an eyebrow at him. "Well I guess I have to go." I said about a few minutes later, getting up but I couldn't resist the urge... so I leaned over his bed to peck his lips, when our lips touched and I was about to pull away... his arm went around me... pulling me closer and deepening the kiss.

  I pulled away quickly, realising what was going on and he looked at me with a smirk on his handsome face.

  "Don't you ever do that again!" I scolded him, slapping his arm and he replied with a ' "What did I do. I was just lying here, you the one who kissed me, so I just helped you out a bit." The devil smirked and I felt like slapping it right off his face.

  "You are a jackass." I glared at him. "A jackass that you happen to love." He said with a smug look and it just hit me that he was pretending to be asleep, while I just confessed my feelings. "You heard that, you devil of a man." I said glaring at him. "I woke up when you and Anthony were talPotter, so yeah... I heard

  "How I did it, well...lets just say I used my charms, good looks and had to be really patient with you." He answered my question with an arrogant smile and I slapped his arm again. "Ow! What was that for?!" He asked rubbing the arm that I just slapped. "For being the jackass and asshole that you always be." I huffed and crossed my arms. "Don't you know not to abuse an injured man." He said being the jackass that he is. "Not like you are dying." I rolled my eyes at him.

  "You should never become a nurse or doctor. You probably abuse or kill the patients." He said and I felt like hitting him again but I didn't.

  "Shut up you asshole." I said irritated by him. "I love you." He said after a few minutes looPotter at me with a dreamy look in his eyes and I didn't know what to say, especially since he was staring at me like that...waiting for an answer... then I knew what to say and it felt so right to say it.

  "I love you too." Those words just rolled off the tip of my tongue, like I was saying it to this man for ages. With David it took me a long while to say that I loved him but deep down I knew that I really didn't. Our relationship was a forced one.

  "Come here." He said and I went to him. He wrapped his arm around me and pulled me down so that our lips touched. The kiss was so perfect and passionate, that I didn't want it to stop but it did since we had to breathe.

  "God how I missed those lips." He said, his voice a bit husky, and I just smiled at him. "So does this mean you have given me that chance and you will be mine." He asked with an expectant look.

  "Yes but if you blow it, you lose it and there is no second." I said and he nodded before kissing me again. "So finally the great and powerful Helen Potter is mine and mine only." He said arrogantly and I chuckled.

  "But let me tell I have very high standards. Think you can keep up with them?"I smirked at him and he smirked in reply. "Baby, I know I can keep up with them." He stated arrogantly with his famous smirk in place. "So were you thinPotter of someone else when you kissed me like that?" He asked with a smug look on his face.

  "Well I was thinPotter of this one guy...he is about 6'3, has dirty blonde hair, icy blue eyes, face that could have been made by greek gods, very exasperating, loves to kiss me without permission. I could say more but it will only make you more jealous." I grinned wickedly in his direction.

  "I happen to know this guy very well, as if we were the same person." He smirked at me, pulling me down and kissing me again.

  "Now you are taPotter advantage ." I said after we pulled away.

  "As I said before I really missed the taste of your lips, I just can't get enough." He smiled at me and I smiled back.

  "Don't you think we should call everyone in, they want to see you." I said to him and he just shook his head.

  "They can wait, we are still busy here." He said grabbing my hand and kissing it.

  "No, I am pretty sure we are done here." I said pulling my hand away from him and he pouted which I just stuck my tongue out at him.

  I walked to door and just before I could open it, it opened and Anthony was standing there holding two cups of coffee. "He is awake." I said as he handed me a coffee.

  "Hey Will, anything different?" Anthony asked with a smirk.

  "Why don't you ask Helen?" He smirked as well and they both looked at me.

  "You asshole." I said narrowing my eyes at him.

  "Well judging by the looks of it... love is in the air." Anthony chuckled.

  "Yeah love is definetly in the air..." William said looPotter at me with admiration and I winked at him.

  "When is this going to be revealed, huh lovebirds?" Anthony asked just when Sebastian, Eric and Dylan walked in.

  "Love birds?" Sebastian asked looPotter between the three of us.

  "Our brother here and Miss Potter has something going for the last few minutes, while we were down at the cafe." Anthony answered and they jaw dropped. "What?!" Eric exclaimed.

  "Yep, these two have finally confessed the love that they share." Anthony said popping the 'p'.

  "So our soon-to-be sister-in-law, when have you started having feelings for our older brother?" Dylan smirked.

  "You are too far head for something that just started about 5 minutes ago." I said to him and his smirk just grew.

  "Just answer the question." Sebastian said impatiently like he really wants to know.

  "When we were changing dresses." I replied.

  "Is that all?" They all said in unison. It was so weird.

  "What your'll expect a love story?" I said my eyebrows creasing together.

  "No. Just details."Anthony shrugged.

  "Well lets just say as I was waiting for the girls to change, all the "events" that happened flashed through my mind and then... that's when I realised it." I confessed and they just stared at me. "I need to go." I said, this weird feeling creeping up my stomach. I just walked out of the room without saying any goodbyes even to William who I apparently began to have a romantic relationship with just 10 minutes ago.

  "Why did your'll have to ask her?!" I yelled at my brothers feeling angry yet sad in a way. Angry because t
hey just cayse Helen ti leave without even saying goodbye or even looPotter at us. Sad because I just got her and she left.

  "Sorry William, we just wanted know." Dylan said guilt evident on his face. "Well now look where your'lls curiosity gotten us. Helen left just like that and how do you think it feels, when a girl that you are so in love with just confessed to you and then leaves because you and your brothers hurt her." I said in an annoyed tone.

  He was about say something but then the door opened and our parents as wellas Helen's parents came in. As soon as my

  "Oh my baby!" My mother exclaimed and she practically ran, hugging me and burst out into tears. "Okay ma you can leave me now, you are hurting my shoulder." I winched at the pain that shot up my arm and she released me, saying sorry.

  "Where's Helen?" My father asked looPotter at my brothers and I.

  "She left." I murmered but I think he understood because he sighed. There was this tension in the room but I don't think anyone except my brothers, my dad and I noticed it.

  "Can I speak to dad alone?" I said and everyone left, leaving my dad and I in the room. "What is it son?" He asked with a somewhat worried look in his eyes but his face was emotionless. Our father always told us that showing any emotions or feelings, make us vulnerable and that we would not get any where in the harsh reality of the corporate world. So we learnt how to hide our emotions.

  "I.. I have feelings for Helen. To a point where they became to much for me to handle that I did something bad." I really didn't know how to tell my father.

  "I went to her office today and we had an arguement...I went to a bar to let out my frustration and got drunk. I drove and I didn't see the van...that's how I ended up here."

  "I don't understand you William." My father said taPotter a seat next to my bed.

  "Helen came and thinPotter that I was asleep, she told me that she had feelings for me and we...Er... kissed" It felt awkward telling my father that I made out with his bestfriend's daughter in a hospital. "And let me guess Anthony, Sebastian, Eric and Dylan probed her on details and she left." He said and I nodded.

  "Oh William, Helen is not like other women you have been with or fucked should I say. She is very different..." He said softly chuckling and looPotter at me with love of a father to his son. "She is a very independant woman, she is stubborn but she is good. She has changed from her break up with David Wright which only occured a year ago after 5 years of being together, how do you think she will feel when she starts having feelings for another man when she she just broke up with her ex. She just overwhelmed with her emotions and doesn't know what to do. She just needs time." My father's wise words makes feel somewhat hury becasue I just got after waiting and now I have to wait again but I do anything if it meant that Helen will be mine.

  After the talk with dad, I told my mother as well as Uncle J and Aunt Linda about my feelings towards Helen which my.mother and Aunt Linda started crying and Uncle J giving me the traditional threats but this time with me father also threatening me.

  Chapter 35: Her Fear...

  I have been gone for 2 weeks, trying so hard to sort out my feelings but it seemed as if was at work because everything at the company was runnung smoothly thanks to Minnie.

  I heard that William was discharged from hospital, so right now I am in the elevator, going up to his floor. I reached William's floor and walked down the hallway until I reached William's door. I pressed the doorbell and waited. I could hear shuffling from the otherside before the door opened, revealing a woman probably in her late forties, who maybe William's housekeeper.

  "Hi you must be Miss Helen Potter, I am Mrs Harrison, William's housekeeper." She greeted with a smile.

  "Yes I am. Is William home?" I asked her and she nodded.

  "Yes dear he is, you can go inside but I must take my leave now. So goodbye." She said after she let me in and walked out the door, closing it behind her. I walked inside the house, looPotter at my surroundings.

  "Who's at the door Mrs Harrison?" He asked and turned back, surprise evident on his face when he realised it was me...

  I was discharged from hospital yesterday and I have been stuck at home, due to my mother's strict orders to not go to work and that my brothers will handle the company until I am fully recovered. The doorbell rang and I was sure it must be either my brothers or my parents. Mrs Harrison my housekeeper went to answer the door, while I was watching tv. I could hear voices and then the front door closing. I could feel someone's presence behind me thinPotter it was Mrs Harrison...

  "Who's at door Mrs Harrison?" I asked and turned back but the woman standing there was someone who I wasn't expecting but my heart yearned for her attention.

  "Helen? What are you doing here?" I asked even though I didn't really care why she was here as long as I could see her, hold her and kiss her until she was breathless. "I wanted to talk to you..." She trailed off and I knew that I was not going to enjoy what she was about to say after all she did vanish into thin air for 2 weeks but when I visited her company it was like she wasn't even missing!

  "Uhh...okay, take a seat." I said a bit awkwardly. I never felt awkward and now I am feeling awkward infront of her.

  She never say anything else and took a seat on the far end of the couch. I got the impression that she doesn't want to be near me but I want to be near her. "William I have thought about everything that has been going on and..." She stopped and I was on the edge of my seat to know what she was going to say next. "I am not ready for anything that has to do with you." She said so blankly and I felt...broken and confused.

  "Why?" I mumbled but she heard me. "I just feel like it is too soon and I feel so independant to have someone else in my life. I mean ever since University, I was on my own and I have been through things that I thought I would never go through... maPotter me not want to have any romantic relationships with a guy." She said looPotter at me with an unreadable look in her eyes.

  I didn't reply, just letting the information to sink in while a million thoughts ran through my mind. "I have to go now." She said getting up, in a flash, I got up and grabbed her wrist maPotter her stop but when I took a step forward I tripped maPotter both of us to fall forward onto the carpet. "William your shoulder!" She said worried etched on her face. Even though she said all those things I know she still cares.

  "It is okay, it doesn't even hurt that much" I shrugged and she just shook her head. "Can you get off me now. If someone saw us now they would think differently." She said and I couldn't help but smile at the light blush that crept up her beautiful cheeks.

  "No, let them think what they want." I smirked at her and she just stared up at me. It was true someone might think that we are about to christen my living room floor, which I was totally fine with but I'd rather save Helen the embrassment.

  "You devil of a man." She narrowed her eyes at me. I couldn't help but stare into her beautiful brown eyes which seemed lighter due to the lighting, it was about 7 in the afternoon.

  As we stared into each other's eyes, I leaned down, finally claiming her lucious lips. It felt so good, now that she finally was willingly kissing back. It was more than amazing. It felt like years since I last kissed her even though it was only 2 weeks ago with me being in hospital and I think we kissed about 4 times within a 10 minute time period but it was sure as hell amazing...for me that is.

  We made out for I don't know how long on the floor before we went up to my room and continued our session but I was careful not to take it too far because I knew she was not ready. We broke the kiss and Helen said that she was tired, since I didn't want her to go, we ended up falling asleep with me holding her close which is the first time that I was sharing a bed with her and sleeping that close to her...

  I woke up to the sound of rain and looked towards the window to see that it was cloudy and raining heavily. I looked down at myself and noticed that I was in last night's jeans and nothing but my black lacy bra. I panicked and tried to get up, only to realise that there was an arm around my wa
ist, holding me down. I turned to my right to see the face of a sleeping William that was shritless and wearing jeans, but I must confess, he looked really handsome and so innocent in his sleep.

  It was a very weird position that we were in... his legs were tangled up with mine and his arm had a death grip on my poor waist, not to mention the lack of clothes we were in.

  He stirred until his gorgeous blue eyes were sleepily staring at me, when he was fully awake he lazily smiled at me.

  "Hey beautiful." He greeted and I couldn't help the light blush that crept up my face. "William did we...do anything last night." I said as I looked down at my bra and his bare chest. He followed my line sight and then shook his head lightly. "No we never... you woke up in the middle of the night saying that you were feeling hot and you took of your top after rejecting my offer to wear one of my shirts." He said giving me an asuring smile and I let out a sigh of relief.

  "William this means nothing." I said blankly after a moment of silence.

  "What?" He said a frown caressing his features.

  "Treat this as like you would for a one night stand." I said not wanting to fall for him any more than I already have. "Why do you fear my love for you, Helen?" He asked his eyes showing hurt in their blue depts. "It's...I- I can't explain it." I really don't know how to explain it, if he can just understand that and just let me be.

  "Look Helen, I'm not like him,We may be billionaire CEOs and maybe I am a playboy like him but that doesn't mean I am just like him. I know my limits when it comes to being with women. I have fallen hard for you Helen and knowing the fact that you are denying my love hurts like hell...I mean you haven't even given me the chance to prove that I am a way better man than that asshole will ever be." He said seriously but I just couldn't help the fear.

  "Please Helen just give me a chance." William said holding me close and I relaxed in his arms, finding safety and comfort in them. "William the fear of getting my heart broken and going through all that anger and frustration that I have went through is like going to hell and back... I don't want to go through what I went through with him but I know it will be a lot worst with you because...I have fallen for you."I unintentially said the last part and I wish I could take it back but it was too late.