The Billionaire’s Pretty Thief

Bassey getting up from his seat and arranging his coat as he smoked another round of cigarettes said,

“The options I want to suggest to you are very simple and you have to think about them carefully”, he said roaming around the office Max’s patience was slipping through his fingers as he waited for his friend to talk.

” It’s either you finally make up your mind to give your niece all of her inheritance which I know for sure that you are not ready to do that is why you have been making her do all sorts of things, or you do something else which is the second option”, Basset spoke out leaving his friend in suspense.

Max waiting to hear his second option as he was running out of patience from the first option which was not something he could ever do, he yelled out in outrage asking Bassey to say what he had in mind or keep it to himself.

Bassey pushing out a peal of devilish laughter seeing his friend in such a desperate situation asked him to calm down and let him finish.

“Now the second option will be for you to find a suitor for her so that she could take her mind off her infer with his business anymore”, he continued looking at the expression on Max’s face.

Max had not thought about giving her daughter away for marriage but now was time for him to do so.

” How will I achieve this goal Bassey when I have never seen my niece with any man before talk more of having a boyfriend”, he spoke up in total confusion.

Once he had heard this, he could not believe what his friend had just said as he stared at him in the face asking in surprise,

“So you mean to say that Crystal is a virgin?”.

His question fell on Max’s ears like lightning as he had never thought about it till his friend had asked him in his office.

Max opening his eyes and looking up at his friend in shock, said that it could be possible as Crystal never keeps late nights except when it has to do with her mission.

Bassey walked back to his seat, asking his friend if he could have Crystal instead, Max gave him a spiteful look telling him never to think about going for her.

He was worried as to what greed was giving rise to in his mind but he had always seen her as a woman and what her late father had left for her was to be controlled by him as he was the man.

“Moreover, I have sacrificed a lot for her since she was small and this is the only way she can repay me for all I have done for her”, he consoles himself with those words as he is lost in his thoughts.

His friend had realized that he was not with him again, so smacking his fingers in his face, woke Max from his slumber as he wiped off his face.

Asking his friend how he was going to make her get a man to get married, Bassey laughed out loud as he told Max not to behave like a child.

” You know how this game rolls Max thinks with your head”, he advised Max asking him if he had no bottle of whiskey in his office as he had been thirsty for a while now.

Max telling him to get it from the little wine bar at the back of the shelf, further asked,

“I can force her to bring a man home if she does not have one or if she does not feel ready yet”, he mumbled.

Bassey who had gotten the bottle of whiskey and a glass, came back to his seat opening the crock and pouring it out into the glass while he relaxed on his seat.

“I love how smart you are with more dangerous things but a little girl keeps on giving you so much headache”, he chuckles.

Max was already getting tired of Bassey’s mood as he got up as well and took his glass to get whiskey too.

” You do not honestly need her to bring you a man to introduce to you as you can do the deal for her. Take up any guy, pay him a good amount of money, and tell him just what he needs to do to make her fall madly in love with him”, he continued with his suggestion.

Max who had not thought of such a thing, was happy with the idea that his friend had just given to him as it was just what would make her forget all her little worries that she could not tell him.

Max took up his office phone and called his secretary telling her to come into his office immediately.

In less than 10 seconds, she was in his office,

“Yes, sir, you said you had new information to give out?”, she asked holding her notebook.

Max told her to put up a job offer as soon as conceivable and the offer ends in 3 days understood?

His secretary took that up and pointed out everything her boss had said.

Looking at Max, she asked if that was all that he wanted and he asserted that it was for now.

When his secretary had left his office, Max and Bassey looked at each other raising their brows in fulfillment and Bassey said,

” Let the search for a convenient suitor for our lovely Crystal Begin”.

They both took up their glasses toasting them as they drank up laughing but Mac was not too comfortable with hurting his niece as he was aware that Crystal takes him as a father.

“I have to select the best for her as I do not want anyone to make her suffer”, he mumbled in his mind as he slipped from his glass.

Blaze went into his office washroom, soaking a towel, and brought it out with him as he wiped Crystal’s face with it looking at how pretty and innocent she looked.

” Why did you have to choose this kind of life, when I hear you talk you sound so intelligent and you have all the potential to make an honest living, so why do this?”, Blaze asked as he placed the towel on her head and sat by her on the couch.

He admired her as she was unconscious and knowing that she would eventually get up, he went to his table and continued sorting out some documents that he had not finished.

His phone rang up and he picked up,

“Yes, I am listening”, he spoke up as it was his secretary calling up.

” Sir, the receptionist, and some security agents are here saying that a woman passed them downstairs as she was insisting that she wanted to meet with you, and she ran into the building”, she explained.

Blaze already knew the person they were talking about as he liked Crystal sleeping on the couch unconscious and he told her not to bother and to tell the receptionist and the security agents to go back to their different stations.

Crystal had coughed from where she was lying down and Blaze had turned immediately walking towards her.

“Are you okay?”, he asked trying to help her sit up.

Crystal looking around her, asked what had happened to her as she noticed that she was still inside Blaze’s office.

Blaze taking off the towel on her head and arranging her back on the chair, asked her not to move to do much as she had fallen.

Crystal was worried as to what had happened to her in Blaze’s office and with a sad face, she lowered her gaze not knowing what to say.

Blaze rose to his feet and went into. his privy soaking the towel again and coming out of the bathroom with it.

Crystal on seeing him come out with the wet towel tried to wake up as she searched for her bag, but Blaze rushed to her as she was still weak mad could fall again.

” You do not need to be nice to me Mr. Blaze as I can take very good care of myself”, she said forcing her way to her bag that was on the table.Text property © Nôvel(D)ra/ma.Org.

Blaze holding her both hands firmly, yelled out at her,

“Stop proving to be so stubborn young girl and let me help you”, he said sitting her down again.

Crystal’s eyes flared up open as she could feel Blaze’s Masculinity opposing her feminine character and making her succumb to his authority.

She sat down again on the couch and Blaze took up the sacked towel to her face, touching her head and noticing that she was burning with fever.

” You have a fever, let me take you to the doctor”, Blaze suggested waiting to see her reaction he knew that she was going to reject his offer.

“I am fine, I just need to go hike and have some rest”, she asserted dodging his stares every time he tried to make eye contact with her.

Crystal’s heart began to beat again but this time it was stronger than all the ones she had felt before as tears rolled down her eyes.

Blaze felt uncomfortable seeing her tears so he stood up and sat by her asking what the matter was but Crystal could not believe that a man like Blaze could be that caring towards anyone and talk more to someone like her who had tried to hurt him.

Crystal said she wanted to leave but Blaze stopped her saying,

” I know that you are a good person, I felt it in my heart the very first time I met you and spent the evening with you so if you are going through any difficulty, do let me know and I will help you out”, Blaze spoke out and his words were so touching as Crystal could feel them deep down in her heart.

She stood like a statue looking at Blaze and shedding tears as she did not trust him one bit but a part of her was saying the contrary.