Babysitter for the CEO

So her boss wasn’t really human? That explains his inhuman speed then. What was he turning into? A monster? Would he eat her up after he finished transforming? With these thoughts in mind, she wanted to leave.

“Don’t leave, Aarti if you want to survive.” Nelson managed to say before all his teeth fell out.

He quickly took off his bathrobe and she looked away.

In 20 minutes, his transformation was complete and a howl made her turn her head.

She saw a pink huge wolf. It looked very cute and harmless. It crouched down and whimpered. It looked like it wanted to be comforted.

Aarti carefully approached it and sat beside Nelson.

Then she touched his head.

“Sorry!” she said softly.

He had just gone through a very painful transformation after all.

Nelson rested his head on her laps to sleep.

Aarti sighed.

She secretly liked her boss for sometime now. Now she discovered he was a shape shifter, what should she do now? She decided to rest her back on the wall and sleep since he didn’t permit her to leave yet. Somehow, she trusted that her boss in wolf form won’t hurt her.

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An hour later, Aarti opened her eyes and saw that the wolf was gone. She got up and looked around.

Where was her boss? Where did he go? Oh right, he should be in wolf form now.

“Aarti!” she heard a hoarse voice call her and turned to face a very thick pillar in the basement, enough to hide a person.

“Boss, if that you?” she asked suspiciously while walking towards the pillar.

“Yeah!” Nelson revealed his head.

“Please don’t come any closer…” he managed to say.

“Sir, are you injured?” she asked in distress.

“No, I’m having a wardrobe challenge here.” he said.

“Eh? You’re naked?” she asked loudly.

“You… do you have to be so straight forward? Forget it, just get me my bathrobe over there.” he pointed at the extreme of the basement.

“I’m sorry for angering you, sir.” she apologized and took out her phone.

“Hey! What are you trying to do?” he asked in alarm. Even though only his head was shown, he was in a vulnerable state here and couldn’t use his super speed at the moment.

“I was texting my grandma goodnight. Sorry, sir!” she gave a lame excuse.

“Aarti, you are toast once I’ve recovered.” he muttered.

She soon came with his bathrobe and threw it at him.

“Thanks!” he said unhappily.

******

5 minutes later, he had just finished eating some straw berries stored in the basement.

They both sat opposite each other on the floor.

Nelson looked at her like she was a lab rat, causing her to feel uncomfortable. Recalling that he wasn’t human made her think that he wanted to eat her up.

“Tell me the truth, are you scared of me?” he asked.

“Boss, I… It’s my first time seeing something like this. I’m a little scared but not much now. Were you born with this curse, sir?” she asked.

“Well, I can’t talk about it. It’s a secret. But do you know why I let you witness me change?” he asked.

“No, sir!” she shook her head.

“Well, the thing is… I just discovered that you are my 7th chance mate. Like you are my future wife and if you’ll accept… It’s optional you know. You can reject me. It won’t hurt like they say in those novels. So what do you say?” he asked.

“Can you give me some time to process this, sir?”

“Sure! Give me an answer on the full moon before it turns dark. Don’t feel pressured, alright?” he said tiredly and took out his phone from the bathrobe.

“So… You mean that I can leave now?” she asked nervously.

“Yeah! I’m good. I just need 10 more minutes to recover my full strength and I’ll leave with my shadow bodyguard. You don’t have to worry.” he said with a smile.

“Alright then. I’ll think about it boss. Have a good sleep when you get home later.” she got up and waved before leaving through the trap door she came through earlier.

Seeing that she’d left, he coughed out blood.

“Tristan, you don’t have to react like this. I know it hurts to be rejected 6 times. But those girls were unworthy of us in the first place. Come on, cheer up. She’ll give her verdict on the full moon. Before then, you gotta be strong. Okay?” Nelson said. One of his eyes turned red and his voice deepened. Then he spoke.

“Fine. But if she rejects us like the others, I’ll just wipe her memory and send her into exile.”

The red eye returned to normal and Nelson spoke in his normal voice.

“You gotta calm down. I have this good feeling about Aarti.”

*******

Jack Reynolds home.

Lisa sat in her room, hugging her pink teddy bear tightly. She kept looking at a game console.

“I hate you, child of a bitch!” “Stop trying to appease me. I don’t wish to see you!” “Don’t you get it? I can’t stand your arrogance and stupidity. You clearly have a princess syndrome!” “Stop following me, Lisa. I don’t like hitting a girl. Get lost!”

These words kept ringing in her ears.

“Yeah! I’m indeed the child of a bitch.” she said as a tear slid down her left eye.

She recalled all those happy times and now, that first friend hates her with passion.

A knock on the door pulled her to reality. She immediately got up and wiped her tear stain. Then she hid the gaming console and headed to the door.

“Baby, are you in?” Vanessa’s voice was heard from outside.

“Yeah!” Lisa opened the door and jumped into her hands.

“Mummy!” she called and buried her face in her chest.

“Ooh my baby misses me that much, eh? Luckily, mummy misses you even more.” Vanessa teases the little girl for a while before entering the room.

She placed Lisa on the bed and took her teddy bear. She scanned it and touched a part of it. It was a little wet.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.

She frowned.

“Lisa, it’s wet. What happened?” she asked in worry.

“Mummy, I’m fine. Just a little water touched it accidentally.” said Lisa in a forced carefree manner.

“Oh! You swear with your healing staff that you are telling the truth? It’s ordinary water?” she asked with a raised eyebrow.

“It’s nothing big. Besides, accidents happen at any time.” Lisa looked uneasy.

“Relia, come here.” Vanessa said with her eyes already switched to orange.

“Mummy, I’m seriously fine. Stop making a tremendous deal out of nothing.” Lisa got irritated and stormed into the bathroom.

“Lisa? I can feel you aren’t happy. Sorry for trying to forcefully intrude on your privacy. I was being too cautious. Can you come out? I promise not to ask you about it again till you’re ready to speak.” Vanessa said while still sitting on the bed. Lisa could hear her clearly even though the bathroom was made sound proof.

After a minute, Lisa came out looking dejected.

“Baby!” Vanessa was shocked to see Lisa like that. She rushed to her and knelt in front of the girl.

She saw Lisa was crying and her heart ached.

The little bun finally burst out in a loud cry.

“I don’t know what to do. I know I was wrong, but is that enough for him to cut ties with me? He never replied to my messages, letters and he avoids me in school. When I tried to apologise with gifts, he throws them in my face or pushes me down. Mum, it hurts my heart so much. I really don’t want him to hate me.” she cried and hugged Vanessa tightly, her little body trembled.

Vanessa sighed and carried Lisa back to the bed and made her sit on her lap.

“Baby, please tell me what really happened between you two.”

Lisa took her phone from under her pillow and went to YouTube. She then played her last Livestream.