A Deal With The Billionaire

EPISODE TWENTY NINE

THEME: The perfect son in law

CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATE OF AMERICA

HARTFORD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

As they stepped out of the hospital, Benjamin was still in a perplexed state of mind. Getting into the car and igniting it, Christopher could feel his friend’s pair of eyes staring at him.

He turned to look at Benjamin. “Have I suddenly grown two or more heads?” He tapped his fingers against the steering wheels. “Ben, spill it out already! I don’t like it when you give me this look. And don’t burn me with your stares.”

Benjamin sat up and leaned against the car door before shooting his eyes out in emphasis. “I think I need to call the police and have you arrested. News flash: Christopher Crawford is an imposter!”

Christopher looked around wondering what Benjamin was yapping about at the moment. It was just the two of them in the car but Benjamin looked like he was reading a news to a larger audience. Was he going through a trance or something? Christopher mused.

“Are you okay, Benjamin?” He queried with a genuine worried look on his face.

Christopher remembered how unstable his friend could be if he doesn’t get his sleep at the needed time which he had deprived him of this morning.

All of a sudden, Benjamin snapped his finger. “Oh! Yeah! I am perfectly fine. But I should be asking you, Christopher Crawford. What the hell was all that drama between you and Eva? You looked so perfect pretending to be a loving and caring son in law. Some things you did in there weren’t even part of the script.” He stated.

“Oh you mean my perfect pretense?” Christopher chuckled. “Now this is it. I needed to get myself into the new life I would be living in now. And knowing how mothers can be I wasn’t too sure how convincing her daughter might have been so I came up with an idea. I only did something concrete by explaining why we need to get married as soon as possible and to prevent questions from being thrown out of the blue. So I did really well right?” He grinned widely.

“You did awfully well! For a moment I thought you were auditioning for a role in one big buster movie!” Benjamin applauded.

“Of course! This contract is like a role play. I am a fake, sweet, loving, business and family oriented husband.” He glanced at his friend for some seconds before focusing on the road ahead.

“When did you get all of this idea and you didn’t tell me about it? Because few hours ago you acted so clueless and you weren’t sure you still want to carry on with the deal.”

“How can I change my mind about the deal? I have to claim my possession man. And well the whole idea occurred to me as we drove to the hospital. The story to tell anyone always just in case clicked in right away and as fate would have it we ran into her mother and I just decided to get into the groove immediately. The perfect son in law picture.” Christopher replied.

“Oh.” Benjamin muttered.

“This must work out for me. I can’t afford to lose in any way again.” Christopher gripped the wheel as he recalled the face of the woman who had rejected his proposal.

Benjamin raised his eyebrows ready for a taunting session. “So, you kissing Raven out of the blue was also part of getting in the groove?”

Christopher’s face flushed at his friend’s words. “Come… come on, you can’t take too much meaning to my action. Don’t actor kiss all the time in movies and they don’t even have any sort of feeling or attachment with each other.”

Benjamin shook his head slowly. “Hmm. I don’t want to dwell on the kiss you shared with your fake bride or try to question you about your action. So… I will try to believe you from the actor’s perspective that you just claimed now.” He smirked and looked out of the window.

“Wow! My friend kissed his fake bride!” He screamed into the air.

“Ben! It is not what you are thinking!” Christopher snapped at him.

Benjamin turned to face him. “What am I thinking?” He questioned with a innocent look on his face.

“I am off women’s case in this life! But why is it so hard for you to believe and accept my words?” Christopher argued trying to make his friend reason with him.

But instead Benjamin’s smirk got wider as he watched him from the car window.

“To hell with you. Fuck you, Ben. Fuck you.” Christopher groaned.

Benjamin couldn’t help the chuckle that escaped his lips. “I will try to believe you… Christopher.” He yawned.

Christopher’s mind player back at the conversation with Eva. He didn’t expect that the woman would believe him so easily but his mind was a bit relaxed at the outcome. He tapped his fingers on the steering wheel slowly.Property © NôvelDrama.Org.

Christopher knew he was becoming more and more comfortable with throwing lies around with no guilt. He had always been a man of honesty and being truthful but he couldn’t help the situation he was in at the moment.

Glancing next to him quickly, Christopher realized Benjamin was fast asleep and snoring lightly. The poor man had been so stressed from work and still didn’t mind putting up with helping his best friend and his excesses.

Benjamin was his ride or die. A brother and best friend Christopher wouldn’t trade for anything in the world.

Christopher wondered how he would have been or what situation he would have found himself in if Benjamin wasn’t in his life to always proffer solutions. Benjamin always fished out ideas that would help one out of any situation.

For Christopher, he was only good at discovering and proffering business ideas and sell outs. But when it comes to dealing with women, he just wasn’t the go to person.

Once again, Christopher’s mind raced back to the night, he had proposed to Jessica. He had been elated by the beauty of it all himself. If Jessica had asked for his whole life in place of being his wife, he would have submitted it without having a second thought. That was how much he loved Jessica Campbell but now all he felt for her was disdain. He didn’t want to think about her anymore because she had dumped him when he needed her the most.

‘You are the one being selfish.’ A little voice nagged in his head.

‘How?’ He thought.

Christopher has never being selfish on matter that concerns Jessica Campbell. He would rather displease himself just to please her. He had even promised to let her work and travel as much as she wanted. All he asked for was for her to bear his name and be the mother of all his children. He wanted her to be his officially wedded wife and every other thing was meant to fall in place.

But Jessica was too obsessed with her job that she threw their relationship of carefully built years away and didn’t care about how he would feel.

Christopher knew if he wasn’t preoccupied about taking over his father’s company he would have acted stupid and went after her and could even go as far as begging on his knees. He would have made a fool of himself.

What most people don’t know was behind Christopher Crawford hard look and tough exteriors, he was a lover boy to the core. He was just like his father. But everyone knew how soft James Crawford was towards his wife and family and nothing beats it.

Christopher sighed shaking off the thought that was weighing a thousand tons on him as he drove down to Crawford Corporation premises.