Chapter 4: New York, USA

Eliot Park’s POV

I was getting comfy by the time that we were about to land in New York. I don’t know about everybody else but I am dying to get some action tonight.

Albeit, if my mother let me off early before she gave me one of her speeches for me to behave better in the future.

‘You should not be doing this,’

‘You cannot behave like this, Eliot. What will the public say?’

‘Why can’t you be like your father and settle down right now?’

My mother always thought that I would be settling down like she did with my father when they were younger. I would not like to be tied up to one person when I can have every woman in the world every week.

‘Someday, you will understand that you will only want her and only her can fill the void inside you, in here,’ my mother told me as she laid her palm over my chest where my heart was. I was 21 at the time, barely knows a thing but right now, I think I know what she meant by that.

The stranger that I met at the party a few days ago, still linger in my mind.

I sighed before my private jet was descending to the ground as I was smiling charmingly at the flight attendant that was smiling seductively at me.

Alas, I don’t dabble with my employees for I know my father would not forgive me if I ever did. I thanked them before I was getting out of the plane as the merry summertime of New York was greeting me.

I put on my sunglasses before I was moving toward the car that was waiting for me. I nodded at the driver as I slid inside the car before he did as well.

“You know where to go,”

“Yes, sir. NYU, right?”

“You better know it,” I said before the driver shifted the gear into D and we were moving forward, making the distance smaller to the woman that have given birth to me and I cannot wait to see her after two years now.

*****

The driver parked outside the campus where the faculty that my mother worked for as I was telling him to get something to do before I summon him back. He nodded before he drove off as I was looking at the glass building that was supposed to be running on green technology.

I’ll be the judge of that.

I walked into the building before I was looking at the inventory for my mother’s floor. It changed every time I was here and thank goodness that this year it did not change like the last visit that I came here.

Never getting that moment back again when I was walking into a professor who was making out with his wife. I just said sorry before I went out and looked at the inventory before I was going to the right room where my mother was.

I pushed the sunglasses to the top of my head before I was starting to walk to the room where my mother was. I saw some students that were arguing and they were talking. One was sweet and the other was more unladylike, in my opinion. Not that I would be the judge of them as they walked passed by.

There was 2 other people, a man and a woman, who were indulged in their talking before they were getting inside room and I was walking ahead to the stairs that will lead to my mother’s room at the second floor. 

I turned on the right corner before I was looking at my mother who was getting out of the building outside. I was looking at them before I was cursing under my breath in Norwegian. I sighed before I was rubbing my mouth then I decided that I will catch on later I supposed. 

It’s time for me to get to know New York City after two years since my last visit.

I called for my driver before I was walking toward the room that I will be visiting in the future. I saw some other students that were talking out loud and I was trying not to smirk as I know some of them were looking my way.

Why would they not?

I am a hot blooded male with blonde hair and cobalt blue eyes. Surely, I was attractive enough for them to be staring at me as I was walking by. The car arrived before I was outside the building as I was walking toward it.

The driver greeted me before I was sliding inside the car as I was telling him to drive to the mansion that my father bought for my mother. It has been our house whenever we’re in New York and now that my mother was working in the States, it was put to good use.

“Let’s go home. I think I might want to get out and have some drinks tonight,” I said as I laid back and I was looking at the glorious city of New York with its skyscrapers and tall buildings around them.

I could get used to this.

*****

After the driver pulled over at the foyer of the mansion , I was looking at the mansion that was kept in good shape with the numerous staffs that will be helping my mother to keep this place clean and pristine. 

I sighed before I was climbing up the stairs before the huge oak doors were opening in front of me.

“Welcome home, young master,” the butler stated as I was patting his shoulder before I was making my way into the mansion.

“Is my mother not home yet?” I asked him before he shook his head as I was making my way to the bedroom that I usually used when I was staying here.

“Well, if she comes home, tell her I will be out and about in the city,” I said before I was smiling at him. “and please do not tell her that I will be getting down on for some business because I am,” I said before I shut the door and getting ready for my night in town.

Astrid Olsen’s POV

I was looking around the restaurant before I was looking at the old woman who would be my manager for the next weeks until I got the confirmation letter that I will be continuing my study in NYU in USA.

“So, are you telling me that you never done all this before?” she asked me as I was looking at her. I smiled before I was nodding at him.

“Well, I did not have much freedom to get some working experience as my father was strict so I hope that you would give me a chance to go over all of this,” I said as I was staring around the restaurant before the old woman smiled me. 

“I have to give to you, you are excited. Oh well, the job’s yours and you all got to do was to get the order and bring them back to the kitchen. You might as well have to carry some of the drinks and get whatever the customers want, within the legal procedure of course,” she said before she nodded at me.

“I will do my best ma’am,” I said before I was making my way to get around and learned on how to be a waitress. I must say, it wasn’t too bad and I started to get the hang of it. I am happy and I was ready to get into the action when I was supposed to serve the newlyweds that just came through.

The man looked like he could kill someone and his wife was a petite young woman with peculiar violet orbs.

I smiled at them before I was looking at the huge diamond rings that the wife was wearing before I tried to keep my eyes of the husband.

“Hi, two people?” I asked as I was trying to make sure that they would understand me. I know that I don’t speak Italian but I will try to make sure that they can understand my English as well. The husband nodded before I was showing them to their table.

“If you’re ready to order, I would be Astrid,” I said before I was leaving them to decide as I went to serve some of the others as well. they called for me before I was taking their orders and I went to put it to the cook so that he could start working on it.

I returned to the table as the wife was blushing hard for something that the husband was saying. I can see that their love was blossoming and I hoped that I would have this love as well.

But not in the nearest future, no. I have another Ph.D. to fulfill.

The day went on and I was exhausted by the time that I was finished. My manager said well done and I said goodbye as I walked back to the rental room that I was supposed to be staying with Taylor.

I wondered what she was up to right now.

Eliot Park’s POV

I was scanning the crowd as I was trying to make sure that I did not know anyone here. My eyes immediately went toward a woman that was dancing without the care in the world at the center of the bar before I joined her. I was putting my hands on her and she was eager to dance with me until I heard someone was shouting from afar.

“—what the fuck are you wearing and what are you doing here?” the familiar voice was filling my eardrum before I turned to look at the familiar face after all.

Cameron Hayes.

“Hey, it’s Cameron. What are you doing here?” the woman that was dancing with me was looking at him before I chuckled lowly.

“Please do not tell me the Great Cameron Hayes has come home,” I said as I was looking at him. His stare was dangerous and I think I know what was the cause of that.

“Eliot Park. I never thought that I would see you again,” he said before he was trying to pull the woman to his side. The woman that I was dancing with right now.

Interesting.

I grabbed her other hand and pulled her to my side as I was clashing my gaze with Cameron. He clenched his jaws before he was glaring murderously at me.

“Fancy seeing you here. I thought you have packed up and moved to Seattle,” I said before I was smirking at him. He gripped the woman’s wrist until she flinched from it.

“Let her go,” he said as I can see that this woman was uncomfortable with my touch. My, my, my, what I have discovered today?

Now this was one night to remember, if you asked me since I have found Cameron Hayes’s weakness right under my nose after all.