|| Aurora ||
“What?!” We all exclaimed simultaneously.
Then there’s a thick silence in the room,,,, everyone is processing what the General just said.
I’m the most shocked of all.
“G-girlfriend?!” I whisper.
He clearly heard me but chooses to ignore me,, and pull me even more closer.
“G-general,,,,”
Brandon shuts his mouth as the General sent him a harsh glare.
His mother points her perfectly manicured finger at me.
“Ian, you,,,, she,,,,”
She scoffs and crosses her arms around her chest.
“I don’t believe you!” She said.
The General frowns.
“Why do you say that, mom?!”
She walks round us and stops in front of me,,, she lifts my chin up with her thumb.
“If she’s your girlfriend as you claim,,, someone you are intimate with”
She leaves me and turn her attention to the General.
“If you two are so close,, why do you still have your mask on?”
Hmm, why do I feel like this woman is being a bit bitchy,,, I must speak up.
I put on my fake happy smile.
“Mrs Morgan, I asked him to put on the mask,, it’s for our role play!”
“Role play?!”
“Hmm-mmm!” I hummed and nod, but she shakes her head and scoffed.
“I know my son, for the past ten years,, he has wore masks only when someone he is not familiar with,,, or someone he doesn’t trust is around”.
I turn to the General,, he isn’t saying anything. He only gulped, I watch as his adam’s apple move.
I stomp on his feet and he hissed lowly, he faces his mother with a smile,,, a fake smile.
“Mom, breakfast is ready, why not let Brandon take you to the dinning room,,, my girlfriend and I will join you soon!” He said in a firm voice.
His mother looks at me for a few minutes before she nods and walks away with Brandon.
I peep out, I make sure his mother is out of earshot before I face him with a glare.
“Why did you stomp on my feet?!” He snarls at me.
“Why did you tell your mother I’m your girlfriend?! And besides my name is not Angel,,, it’s Aurora!”
“I did it to save your ass!”
“Did I tell you that my ass needed saving?!”
“Of course it does!”
“And what are you saving my ass from?”
“I can’t tell you,,, but since I have already told her that you are my girlfriend,, you will have to play along”
I smile, play a role with him,,, be his girlfriend,,, that’s a big role,, a very big role.
I’m gonna make so much money from this,,, I know I will become rich before I leave this mansion.
“How much are we talking about here?”
He frown.
“What do you mean?!”
“I need to know how much you are gonna pay me,,, I’ll scale the amount and then I will know how convincing you want my acting to be!”
“Aren’t I paying you enough money as my personal doctor?!”
I gap at him,,, boy you are loaded, so why are you being stingy.
“General, I’m a doctor, acting is not anyway part of my profession,,,, but for fact that I’m so soft hearted and I hate to see people suffer.
I decided to help you,,, of course you will pay me for my acting,,, you know it’s not easy to put on a show that can convince someone”
He stays silent for a few minutes before he shakes his head.
“No! I’m not paying you for that!” He said.
Hmm,,,, well two can play this game,,, after all you need me most.
I shake my head in disagreement.
“What do you mean by shaking your head?!”
“I ain’t doing it for free!”
He narrows his eyes.
We both did a staring contest,,, seeing I’m not ready to agree, he speaks.
“Fine! I’ll pay $1000!”
“No, that is too low,, I can only manage,,,,,” I raise my ten fingers. “$10, 000”
“$10, 000?!”
I nod.
“No! That’s way too much!”
“Come on, don’t be a stingy billionaire. If you don’t spend your money now, when you die who’s gonna inherit them”
“The highest I can pay is $5000! Take it or leave,,,, I can just tell my mom that we just broke up!”
$5000,,, that’s not bad right?
I smiled.
“Ok! I’ll take it”
“Good, now go freshen up, I’ll come get you and we will join my Mom at the dinning room”
“Do the transfer first”
“What do you mean? That I intend to cheat you?!”
“Nope! But money in my account first!”
He angrily reach for his phone and furiously typed on it, soon he hands it to me.
“Put in your bank details!”
“Gladly!”
I typed my bank details in and hands his phone back to me. Few seconds later, my phone beeped inside my panties.
The General look at me with hooded eyes and his gaze move to my lower body. I quickly cover it with my hands and chuckles nervously.
“I just received the alert” I told him.
I can already imagine my cheeks turned red.
“That is half the payment,,, when the job is done, I’m gonna transfer the balance”
I pout, but didn’t complain.
“Cool” I said.
“Now, go and freshen up!”
I nod and turn to leave, but I halt when I realized something.
I turn back to him and plaster my fake smile on my face.
“General,,,”
“Ian!” He cuts me off.
I frown in confusion.
“What?”
“Call me ian!” He said.
“Why would I do that? I mean,, I’m already used to addressing you as General”
“If we want my mom to believe our little show,,, then we should be more intimate,,, address me by my first name,,, Ian!”
“I can call you by your first name?”
He nods.
“You are not gonna punish me,?!”
He shakes his head.
I smiled and cleared my throat.
“Ian?” I tried.
His expression is blank but he doesn’t seem to be angry either.
“Ian! Ian! Ian!” I called his name multiple times, he still doesn’t react.
I giggled,,,
“Well, since we are on first name basis, I’d like you to call me by my first name too”
“What is your name?” He asked.
“Are you a dumb head?”
“How dare you! Such boldness!” He growled.
“I just told you my name few minutes ago, how can you forget it so easily if you aren’t a dumb head!”
“Don’t push my buttons,,, now tell me your name!”
I mimicked him and he glares at me.
“My name is Aurora! Aurora Grace Cox!”
“Aurora?!” He called my name.
Surprisingly, I love the way my name roll off his tongue.
My name sounds so sexy, sweet coming out of his mouth,,,, the way he said my name makes me swoon.
He shakes his head with a deep frown.
“I like the name I gave you best”
“What name?”
“Angel”
“I don’t like it”
“It’s not your call”
Whatever,,,, I’ll just let it be,, after all I’m not after the name, I’m after the money,,, it’s all about money.
“Now, Ian, we’ve talked about the payments, it’s time to talk about the first step to take,,,, to convince your mom that we are really dating and that you trust me!”
“And what’s the step?”
I went on tiptoe and reach for his mask, but he catches my hand before I can touch it.
“What are you trying to do?!!”
“Take your mask off”
“No! I never take it off in front of strangers!”
“See? That’s one of the reasons your mother won’t believe us. She knows you don’t take off your mask in front of strangers.
So, if you don’t take if off when I’m around, she’ll see through our acting”
“That shouldn’t be your problem!”
“Why are you so stupid?!”
“You. Said. What?!”
Oops! My filter mouth just can’t hold anything,,, why did I say that.
I giggle dramatically.
“I said,,,,, why are you so,,,, special! Right, special”
He glares at me and take my hand, he leads me to the door and push me out.
“Go freshen up!” Then he slams the door.
I huffed.
I don’t understand why he’s so adamant about removing his mask,,, I bet he’s so hideous and he’s ashame of facing my beautiful face with his hideous face.
I giggle, I can’t blame God for creating me so beautifully.
Anyway, I should head to my room now.