A NIGHT WITH THE CRAZY CEO

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

**MANUEL**

I took the beauty goddess over to where Adrian parked the car earlier and she started gawking at it. She looked as if she had just seen the most beautiful car ever.

“Is this your car?” She asked dumbly.

“No, it’s for my friend.” I replied.

“Wow, it looks so beautiful. That friend of yours must be super rich.” She said dreamily.

“Wait until you see mine, you’ll faint upon setting your eyes on it.” I boasted and she hissed.

“Whatever fool. Open this fucking car and let’s go buy my new phone. I have to go to work, I don’t have time for this.” She snapped while glancing at her wristwatch. Is this the same girl that was staring at the car dreamily? This goddess has really got some mood swing.

We got into Adrian’s car and I started the car before driving off. I’ll just take her to the store where I buy my phones and get this shit over with. There was silence in the car and it was beginning to get unbearable for me so I decided to break the silence.

“So… you haven’t told me your name yet.” I stated hoping to start a conversation with her.

“Why do you wanna know my name? It’s not as if we’re going to meet again after you buy my phone for me.” She said rudely.

“Well I have to know your name unless you want me to keep calling you ‘Goddess’ in my head.” I uttered and she glanced at me incredulously.

“Why would you call me GODDESS?” She questioned stressing the word ‘goddess’.

“Because you’re really gorgeous and you look like a goddess to me?” I stated more like a question.

“Thanks for the compliment but I’m still not telling you my name.” She said trying to look indifferent but I could tell she was a bit shaken by the compliment because she turned red a little. I’m shocked, she’s the first lady that seems a little unaffected by my compliments. She deserves some accolades for that.

“Please tell me your name, I want to know the name of the goddess beside me.” I pleaded and she sighed.This text is property of Nô/velD/rama.Org.

“Why do you want to know my name so bad? Are you planning to use my name for something?”

“Nope, I just want to know.”

“Fine, I’ll tell you my name if you promise to tell me yours and stop disturbing me.”

“Of course, no problem.” I said. It’s kinda surprising that she doesn’t know my name or who I am.

“Okay, my name is Cherry Easton.” She said as if she was forced to.

“Wow, nice name you got there.”

“Thanks, now tell me yours.” She demanded.

“Alright, my name is Emanuel Collins but I generally go by Manuel Collins. It’s only people who are very close to me that call me Emanuel. I prefer the nickname to the real name tho.” I prattled.

“Wait, so you mean to tell me that your name is Manuel Collins?”

“Yes, that’s what I just said.”

“So you THE Manuel Collins? The Manuel Collins that owns the most popular fashion industry ever?” She asked looking shocked.

“Yeah, that’s me.” I responded.

“This is awesome! I can’t believe I’m in the car with one of the most famous men on earth!” She gushed and I smirked. I was almost 50% sure that she knew me but didn’t recognize me.

“This is the most amazing thing ever! I can’t believe this!” She squealed.

“Now, just because you know who I am now doesn’t mean you should start acting differently towards me.” I said.

“Nah, that ain’t possible but hope I’m not in trouble because of the way I behaved in public earlier.” She asked.

“You’re safe unless someone recorded that display earlier but I hope it wasn’t recorded .” I stated.

“Alright.” She sighed and there was silence once again. A few minutes later, we arrived at the store and I stopped the car and we got down from the car. We walked inside and met the cashier at the desk. I nodded at her and Cherry and I went towards the aisles. Cherry browsed through the phones while I just followed her around. Lots of minutes later, she finally chose a phone and I sighed in relief. Fina-fucking-lly.

“Which type did you choose?” I asked.

“I chose this one.” She said showing me the phone and I gasped.

“You chose a fucking Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra?” I questioned gaping at her.

“I thought you said to choose any type of phone I like?” She asked innocently.

“But this is so expensive.” I said looking at the price and I gasped.

“1200 dollars? I can buy something more important than a phone with that amount of money.” I said.

“I thought you were filthy rich? Shouldn’t this amount of money because small to you?” She asked.

“Alright, fine then. Let’s go to the cashier.” I said calmly. We went over to the cashier and I handed my credit card to her and she returned it back some seconds later.

“Thanks for patronizing us. Do come back next time.” She said politely and we walked out of the store. I was about to enter the car when my phone began ringing out loud. I took it out of my trouser pocket and saw that it was Clarice calling then I accepted the call.

“Yes Clarice? What is it?” I asked immediately I answered the call.

“Mr. Johnson is here. He said he wanted to see you.” Clarice said.

“I thought he wasn’t supposed to come till tomorrow?”

“He said he said won’t be available tomorrow so he has to come today.” She replied and a sign escaped my mouth.

“Couldn’t hear call before coming?” I grumbled under my breath.

“Tell him that I’m coming. I’ll be there in a few minutes.” I told her and hung up. I turned to Cherry when I was done receiving the call.

“Uhm Cherry, I have to go back to work now so I won’t be able to drop you off. Duty calls.” I said to her and she nodded her head absentmindedly.

“Okay, that’s fine.” She responded.

“Use this money to take a cab to your destination.” I stated, taking a few dollar notes out of wallet and gave it to her. She counted the money and saw that it was more than the amount of money a cab driver would collect.

“I can’t accept this. It’s way too much.” She said shoving the money back towards me.

“No, don’t worry about it. Keep the change.” I replied.

“Okay then. Thanks for the phone and this money. I’ll be going now. Bye!” She stated.

“Yeah, bye! Hope we can meet again.” I said and she smiled slightly.

“Yeah, I hope so too.” She muttered and went to the side of the road while I got into the car and drove off to the direction of my company. Adrian is so gonna kill me when he doesn’t find his car and knows that I’m the one that took it. This is a kind of revenge tho for the way he treated me like I was some kid in the restaurant earlier.

TBC