Con Artist| 7

Before we arrived, at the parents' place, scratch that, I mean palace, Theo gave me an extensive list of rules that I'm allowed to do and not allowed to do.

Number one, speak only when spoken to.

Number two, my opinion doesn't mean shit.

Number three, don't touch anything I don't own, well there goes my pipe dream of maybe getting a few hundreds here and there.

Number four, sit still and be pretty.

They seemed easy enough to follow, the only problem with that was I had to do everything I wasn't used to doing, but I could try right.

We were all seated in the lounge area as we waited for dinner to be served, according to mama Theo, who had been giving me the stank eye since I arrived, dinner was being prepared by one of the best chefs in the world, five star Michelin chef, with a very complicated name that I shall not try to say.

Her husband on the other hand, well he was wild with the affection and wasn't even hiding it, his eyes had been trained on my cleavage the whole evening, and not to mention, my sexy leg that peeked out the dress, I wanted to scold him, I really did but due to rules, I'm a doll.

I sat quietly, with my head down counting the number of taps Theo's foot did on the floor while talking to his parents. There was a lot of tension in the room, like plenty of tension but somehow they cut through it.

"Dinner is served," a maid who looked to be around my age said and did a little curtsey before running away to wherever she ran to. Theo's parents got up and led the way to the dining room and we followed behind them.

Theo's father sat at the head of the table and his wife on his right, just like a perfectly happy couple, only if. Theo sat front opposite his mom, to his dad's left and I sat on Theo's left, yay!

Still, with my head down, the food was served and I frowned looking at the plate, what the fuck was this? Rich people eat some weird food. Swallowing my disgust, I waited patiently for them to tell us to proceed with eating, but all I heard was silence.

The family was staring at each other, like some kind of unspoken matter that needed to be solved was stopping them from eating but neither of them wanted to solve it.

"Let's eat," Theo's father ordered, and automatically everyone's hands grabbed their cutlery and started cutting through their foods and eating in complete silence.

I wasn't used to this kind of silence, it's either I eat with Zada or watch some Netflix series on my phone, but this kind of silence was deafening, who would've thought silence would make your ears deaf?

Once we were all done with the food, we were given refreshments, and still, we all sat around that ridiculously long expensive table, in silence and I sighed audibly, I'd rather be out stealing some stuff for sure.

"Okay, let's cut through the bullshit, Theodore, you will take over as the CEO of this company, there is no way around it!" his father said, giving Theo a stern look.

"I don't want it," Theo said calmly without even giving his father a glance, not even for a split second, his fingers playing with the rim of his glass, while his other hand was on my lap.

Holy fucking cow, his hand is on my lap! What the fuck!

"Theo, my dear son. You really have to stop this kind of lifestyle, sleeping around with these unrefined women, and this stupid empire you think you're building," his mother said calmly in a pleading manner and I was still at the part where she called me unrefined, basically pointing at me as if I was nothing.

I was about to open my mouth but I felt Theo squeeze my thigh and calmly raise his head, but if you paid attention, you could see his veins popping from his neck, oh he was angry, really angry, yet so calm.

"It's not stupid, having a vision so different from yours isn't stupid and who I sleep with isn't of your business, mother."

"Vision! You call what you're doing vision? Theodore, there is no vision in what you're trying to build, there is no win, on a dead end and the devil's asshole!"

Well, what is Theo trying to build and most importantly, he didn't adopt his calm manner from his father for sure, the looks yes but personality no.

"If that's all for tonight, I'd like to get going now. Can't wait to do this again next week," he said, getting up and offering me his hand. "Let's go love."

"Who are you?" his mother asked, well she finally had the decency to ask, after me sitting with them for almost an hour and eating with them and watching them fight with their son, she finally asks.

"I'm his, lady," I answered truthfully and gave out a sweet smile allowing myself to be pulled by him. His hand was huge against mine, and it felt really warm and rough, I think I could get used to this.

Suddenly, I was pushed inside a car and he slammed the door behind me. Well forget getting used to this, this guy is a dick.

He pulled his tie off and I thought it was the hottest thing I had ever seen, I mean just for that moment before he clenched his jaw, which was still hot, and started the car driving out his parent's driveway, but not before reversing and bumping the car behind his.

Mr and Mrs Walder came out running from the house and watched in horror as their son totalled a car that wasn't his. They yelled for him to stop but he responded with his middle finger and drove away.

"Why did you do that to your parents' car?" I asked shocked but a bit amused but mostly shocked, is that how he reacts when he's angry, he becomes violent?

"It wasn't my parents," he said calmly and turned left on the highway drumming his fingers on the steering wheel.

"Who's was it?" I asked, confused if it wasn't his parents then why?

"The chef's."

"Why did you do that to his car, he didn't do anything to you!" I screeched and he looked at me for a second before looking back at the road.

"The chicken wasn't fully cooked and the food was horrible, you thought so too."

He was right about that, the food was horrible, I didn't enjoy the taste at all.

"But was doing that to his car necessary?"

"No, my parents will buy him another one. I also need a new one," he said more to himself and every minute I spent with this guy I learnt something new.

He pulled up at a petrol station and parked his car by the fuel pump.

"Go stand by that wall and flirt with the guy that will come out of the store," Theo said pointing to the wall and I looked at him shocked.

"How do you know there is a-"

"Go."

Frightened by the change of tone in his voice, I scurried out of the car and walked over to the wall in my heels and I watched Theo from a distance. What was wrong with this guy?

As predicted, a guy in sweatpants and a hoodie came out of the store holding his phone and did a double-take at me. I guess this will be easy.

I looked away from him and I saw him walk over to me with a stupid grin on his face.

"What's a girl like you doing out here alone?" he had a southern accent and I smiled, shaking my head.

"I'm waiting for my boyfriend," I said, brushing my hair back and looking back down at my feet. I didn't know why I was flirting with this guy, I didn't know why I had to flirt with him.

"Honey, it's freezing out here, come wait for him in my car," the guy said pointing to what looked like a really expensive car, I giggled and shook my head no.

"No, my boyfriend wouldn't be too happy about that, I'd rather not."

"Come on, he'll understand," he said and I bit my nails and walked closer to him before taking a step back and shaking my head. "I swear I won't do anything to you, it's cold and I'm offering to keep you warm."

And that should work? I walked closer to the car and I touched it before giggling again and letting go. "It's a beautiful car," I said in a sweet voice and I saw him smirk before standing way too close to me. "What car is it?" I asked dumbly and he pushed my hair back before pressing his lips against my ear.

"It's a McLaren 570S," he whispered and I had to do my best not to be disgusted.

"I bet it goes fast, how fast does it go?" I said, turning my body to press his side and he chuckled, putting his hands on both my sides and caging me in. He had some really nice ocean eyes, it's a pity his breath stinks.

"I could give you a ride before your boyfriend arrives," he said and a smile took over my face because, at long last, Theo came and pulled him away from me, but within a split second, I was terrified.

Theo started beating on the man for no reason at all, the man tried to block his blows with his hands but Theo wasn't having it.

"Theo!" I screamed in horror and he let go of him, letting him fall on the ground. He grabbed the keys out of the man's pocket and I still stared at him in his bloody state frightened at what just happened.

"Go in my car and drive it back to my house," Theo said to me but I still stared at the guy who was bleeding out, I had to help him some way but Theo grabbed my face and looked me dead in the eye letting a cold shiver run down my spine.

"Go get in my car and drive it back to my house, now Xania!" he commanded and obediently, I did what he said I should do but I couldn't stop crying, and questions just kept on running through my mind, what the fuck just happened. What the fuck did I just do?

Who the fuck is Theo?