"I’ll drive." Jeremy said before he snatched the car keys from Amara.
Amara handed it over to him freely before looking at Chloe in amusent.
Since they left the hospital, Chloe hadn’t said a word. She was obviously still in shock from the unexpected hug earlier.
After unlocking the car, he opened the back seat’s door for the girls to get in before going over to the driver’s seat.
"Where am I driving to?" He asked while looking at the both of them though the rearview mirror.
Chloe was looking out the window while Amara gave him her full attention.
"Do you want to go ho?" Amara turned to ask Chloe who quickly shook her head.
"Let’s go over to my place then." Amara told Jeremy before giving him her address.
Without another word, he began to drive.
"Your heart is beating so fast. I can hear it." Amara said with a light giggle which made Chloe frown at her.
"It’s Jeremy right?" Amara turned her attention to him.
"Yea."
"I’m Amara Stark."
"Pleased to et you Amara." Jeremy said as he t her eyes through the rearview mirror.
"Sorry but could you please turn up the music a bit?" Amara asked with a polite smile.
Jeremy locked eyes with her through the rearview mirror and nodded before he did so. A hiphop music suddenly filled the car.
"What’s wrong with you? You look so uncomfortable." Amara asked Chloe. She was certain Jeremy wouldn’t he able to hear them because of the music.
"I’m fine."
"No, you’re not. Who is he? He said sothing about you paying him and I just noticed he is wearing the shirt from your mall. I’m not sure I believe you are having sothing to do with your employee. Your parents are going to kill you if they found out about—"
"He’s also my classmate." Chloe quickly cut in. She knew Amara wasn’t going to drop this topic anyti soon and she was beginning to get tired already.
"He has so nerves falling for soone like you... and it’s sooooo romantic. It’s like one of those office romance novels I read." Amara said excitedly.
"There is no romance here!"
"Of course there is... look at him... he’s in love with you while he thinks you dislike him which is very far from the truth and look at your face still very red from the hug earlier while your heartbeat is louder than the music... I am glad you’ve finally seen soone that can ta you. To be frank, I never really liked David."
"No one is taming , now stop talking nonsense before I throw you out of this car." Chloe snapped at her angrily.
"It’s my car darling... and we are going to my house. You need to rest and tell everything about this handso rockstar before I ask him myself."
Amara said before she resud watching Jeremy who was quietly driving like the girls hadn’t just been talking about him.
Chloe took out her phone and looked at Amara. "Ask him to turn down the music."
"Ask him yourself." Amara said before she began to dance to the music.
"Amara!" Chloe called in annoyance.
"Chloe!" Amara imitated her.
Chloe sighed, feeling very frustrated. "Jeremy..." She called him softly.
"Your voice is so quiet that even I didn’t hear you." Amara whispered to her followed by a light chuckle.
"Jeremy!" Chloe called loudly this ti and startled Jeremy who quickly stepped on the brake pedal and the force sent their bodies jolting forward.
"What’s wrong? Are you feeling sick?" He turned to ask her after turning off the music.
"You are really handso." Amara said to him with a smile as she looked at his face which was filled with concern.
Jeremy was slightly taken aback by the complint and blinked at her in confusion before turning to Chloe who was gripping her phone tightly.
"I need to make a call. Try not to turn on the music until I am done." Chloe instructed him and watched in confusion as Jeremy continued to look at her.
"That’s all?" He asked with a slight frown on his face.
"What? Were you expecting sothing else?" Chloe asked still looking confused.
"Fuck! You scared . We almost got into an accident. I thought you wanted to say sothing important!" He said sounding annoyed at how she had called out his na loudly.
Chloe’s eyes slowly widened.
"Are you... swearing and raising your voice at right now?" She asked in surprise.
anwhile, Amara was busy giggling as she watched them banter back and forth.
"You know what? Just get out! Amara will drive."
"No, I won’t." Amara quickly shook her head and received a glare from Chloe.
Jeremy gave Chloe the ’You just lost this round’ smirk before turning to resu his driving, this ti, without the music.
"Haha! I love him already." Amara said loud enough for Jeremy to hear.
Chloe was very annoyed so instead of continuing her banter with either Jeremy or Amara, she took out her phone and called her personal assistant at work.
"Miss Palr."
"Miss King, I hope you are feeling better?" Her PA asked imdiately.
"Yes. Have you placed a call to Mr Mark to let him know the reason I couldn’t make it to the eting on ti?"
"Yes. I did explain the situation to him and thankfully, he didn’t seem to mind that you missed it. He asked for you to take good care of your health. And welcod the idea of the eting being rescheduled."
Chloe closed her eyes as relief washed over her.
"Alright. That’s a relief. Thanks for your hard work." She was about to hang up when Miss Palr called reluctantly.
"Miss King?"
"Yes? What is it?" Chloe asked when she noticed the reluctance in her voice.
"The part tir... did he et you?" She asked.
Chloe looked at the front seat. She had been wondering how Jeremy knew to find her there and had deliberately not asked Miss Palr about it right now since Jeremy could hear her.
"Yes. How did...." She let the words trail off and hoped Miss Palr would understand that she didn’t want to be obvious with it in front of Jeremy.
Miss Palr recalled how she had been returning to her office after an inspection then she received a call to inform her that her boss wasn’t at the venue for the eting yet.
She had called Chloe and was surprised when another female took the call to tell her Miss King was involved in an accident.
Being the ever dramatic Amara, she had unintentionally made it sound like it was a fatal accident and told her Chloe was unconscious and asked for her not to ntion it to anyone at work or even her parents for now, since the doctor had told Amara that Chloe would wake up soon.
Miss Palr had panicked at the news and had mistakenly blurted it out not knowing Jeremy and another staff was behind her.
"What do you an by the boss was involved in an accident?" Jeremy asked in shock as the empty crate he was carrying fell from his hand.
Miss Palr was even more shocked when she turned around to see two people behind her and was reluctant to talk about it.
Jeremy reached for her phone and noticed the call was still on so he asked in fear..
"Where is the hospital?"
~~~
"You told him where I was?"
Chloe turned to whisper to Amara who looked at her innocently.
She couldn’t believe that all this while, Amara had been acting innocent.
"He sounded so desperate. I figured he liked you and wanted to see the guy and surprise you also but I couldn’t tell you cause I figured you may kill ." Amara confessed with an apologetic smile.
**********
"What are you doing in here? I asked you to leave!" Mira said in anger as her mother used a spare key to open her room’s door and entered inside.
Her mother had been knocking for a while but she had refused to let her in. The mistake she had made was removing her key from the door’s key hole if she hadn’t, her mother wouldn’t have been able to insert another key in.
"Honey, we need to talk. Please." Susan said as she approached Mira’s bed.
"There is nothing to talk about. You both want to get a divorce, then fine! Don’t start acting like you care about when you both do not."
"Mira—"
"Please... just leave be." She yelled before using the duvet to cover her body completely.
"Honey these things happen. A lot of couples who get married divorce eventually. It doesn’t an we all won’t hang out together as a family. We would. And we love you dearly."
Mira sat up imdiately.
"Do not give that crap! We’ve been together all these years yet we barely spend ti together. And you expect to believe we are going to after you both get a divorce? Couples are supposed to love each other. They are supposed to be there for each other and love themselves and also their kids."
"Sweethea—"
"Just do whatever you both want to do. I’m sure you’d be happy to see dad marrying a girl who is young enough to be your daughter? Maybe you also have a man who knows?"
"Mira!" Her mother called in a stern voice.
"I just have a question mum." Mira said in a pleading voice.
"Are you breaking up with dad because he is cheating on you or because you also want this?"
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