Chapter 3 - Happy Birthday

Matteo POV

“Happy birthday”, Amber says as she walks into my office without knocking on the door.

“How many times do I need to tell you to knock before you come in?”, I ask and she laughs. She walks to me and I push the chair away from the desk as she sits on my lap and wraps her arms around my neck.

“Happy birthday sis”, I whisper and she smiles looking at me.

“Are we going to celebrate?”, she asks and I shake my head. I can’t be fucked to go out one more night and have one more drunker mistake. I am not going to lie, I enjoy sex very much, but today I just want to stay home and be a normal person, watch a film in bed while I have hot coco and some popcorn.

“Come on, it’s my twenty first birthday. You can’t not go”, she says and I take a deep breath.

“I am getting old for the kind of parties you throw Amber”, I say and she starts pouting. I am not going to lie, when she was born I hated her with all of my heart. Mom and dad wanted a big family but they struggled to conceive and mom struggled to keep a pregnancy. They found out mom was pregnant with Amber when I was nine years old. She was supposed to be born one week after my birthday, but hey, she was born to make my life a living hell and she was born at two minutes pass midnight on my birthday. I remember that my tenth birthday party was cancelled because mom and dad were in the maternity and I spent that day alone with the servants in the House. They tried to cheer me up but I couldn’t care less. I was annoyed that she spoiled my 007 birthday party. I was looking foreword to it.

I shake my head pushing away those memories and focusing on my beautiful and strong willing sister. She has become the most important person in my life. Our parents died when I was eighteen and she was eight. I had to assume the leadership of our business and I was forced to grow faster than everyone else my age. I was already being trained to be the next leader but I had no idea how to do business. I was extremely grateful when my dad’s right hand Leo’s father taught us how to deal with everything.

Leo became my right hand as he was already my best friend. I know that Amber always had a massive crush on him but he always treated her like his little sister, I wouldn’t have it any other way anyway. She has always tried to impress him but he never gave too much thought about it.

“Come on Teo, I can finally drink legally”, she says and I can’t help but laugh.

“Since when has your age stopped from doing anything?”, I ask and she frowns slapping my shoulder as she stands up and crosses her arms in front of her chest.

“No more discussion, you are coming and I don’t care about your excuses”, she says turning around and leaving my office. I take a deep breath and grab my phone as it starts ringing.

“Hey, what’s up?”, I ask answering the phone.

“Happy birthday boss”, I hear Leo laughing on the other side of the phone. I take a deep breath and curse loudly as he keeps singing happy birthday on the other side.

“If you don’t stop being a dick I will hung up”, I say and he apologises still laughing. Leo quickly changes the subject and keeps me updated in the surveillance I asked on the Russian guys, they have gone awol and I don’t like it. I like my enemies where I can see them.

After discussing business I tell Leo we will be going out tonight and he starts cursing. He hates clubbing as much as I do but he knows when it comes to Amber there’s absolutely nothing I can do.

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I manage to convince Amber to throw her party in one of my nightclubs and like that I can control my surroundings and I won’t be feeding money to the competition, we will be spending our money on our own business. How it’s supposed to be. She wasn’t very happy with the arrangement but quickly accepted otherwise she wouldn’t be going anywhere.

After all it is my birthday as well.

I walk into the club and I am greeted by the staff, I arrived earlier than anyone but it gives me a chance to go into my office and check out the paperwork for the business. This is one of my legitimate business and I would like to keep it that way. A couple of hours later Leo barges in and starts cursing that my sister and her friends are driving him insane and he needs more male power. I laugh as my sister always manages to emasculate him. He is a massive guy, and my sister is a midget at only five foot two. He towers over her at six foot five.

We both walk downstairs as the music is playing loud and the dance floor is already packed, I didn’t notice it getting so busy but then again I wasn’t really paying attention. We walk to the bar and automatically two glasses of whiskey are poured for us. I take mine to my lips as I look around. Leo rests his elbow in the bar as he drinks his beverage and I give him a small nudge as I see the most beautiful girl ever.

He offers me a smile and tells me to go after her, well, why not. They never say no to me anyway. She is is tall, but not as tall as me, her long blonde hair falls down her back as she moves to the rhythm of the music playing. Without hesitation I walk behind her and put my hands on her hips as she starts to sway from side to side.

I start grinding behind her and she turns around slapping me across the face straight away. And when her eyes meet mine they go wide. She has the most amazing green eyes I have ever seen, they look like bright emeralds.

“Keep away from me you creep”, she shouts as she holds her friend by her hand and pulls her away leaving me in the middle of the dance floor with my hand on my face. I feel a hand resting on my shoulder and I look to find Leo holding his laughter as he goes bright red.

“That was brutal”, he says and he starts laughing his ass off.

“Fuck you”, I reply walking away from him. I walk to the bar and order myself a couple more drinks.

It was the first time ever a girl has rejected me, I am not used to this and I honestly don’t like it.