The baby swap✓

Chapter 28: His only friend

Every gulp felt like torture. The aftertaste of spinach stayed in my mouth. It's like he chose the worst recipe just to prove a point.

I felt his face near as his breath fanned my shoulder. "I guess revenge is best served in green juice." He whispered.

He quickly moved away.

"Have I mentioned how much I hated you," I said over my shoulder.

"Two bad. You have to drink about three glasses per day." He said in a sardonic tone.

"Is this going to be your way of paying me back?"

"I told you before, I just want what's best for the baby." He said innocently.

"You should be careful, you might just find your clothes painted red," I warned.

He spun my chair around to face him. He then placed both his hands on either side of me trapping me in my seat.

"If you are in control of anything around here that's only because I let you," He whispered in a warning tone.

The tone in his voice told me to take him seriously, that I should be very afraid. But I somehow couldn't help but laugh at the seriousness of his face.

He just stared at me confused as he pulled away.

"You are quite odd," He muttered as I continued laughing.

From there, we had a quiet breakfast.  After that, we went our separate ways, I headed upstairs to shower and Alex to his study (just another one of his rooms with lots of books).

Seeing that the weather today was great, I headed to the pool (which unfortunately was directly opposite Alexander's study). I just had some bad Karma, I wasn't even trying to get close to him.

Like most rooms in the house, his study was made up of glass walls which gave a direct view of the pool. To avoid any contact with him I sat behind a brick wall, a few meters away from the pool which was just at the end of the study.

Although I was trying to avoid Alex, ironically I couldn't help but snoop. He seemed busy, reading through some folders. I suddenly started wondering what Alex must have been like at school. Was he geeky?  Was he always good-looking? He must have had a lot of girls after him or was he one of those people who got the good side of puberty in the last minutes?

A few minutes later after sunbathing in the shade (and spying on Alex), the front doorbell rang.

It was really strange considering I had never seen anyone come to visit.

I peeked at Alex and noticed him roll his eyes as he looked at his phone screen, he probably wasn't very happy about the visit.

Faint footsteps echoed through the house that got louder as they approached.

Soon a dark-haired man appeared in his study. It took me a few seconds of staring before I finally realized it was the same guy who saved me from Alexander the first time we met.

"Justin, you again," Alexander said in a low sarcastic voice.

"That's how you welcome your only friend after an entire week," Justin answered.

"I've been busy," Alexander answered wearily.

"You didn't show up to the club like we planned and you pretty much ignored all of my phone calls,"

"You sound just like your needy ex-girlfriends," Alex mocked with a laugh. "The day you have to worry about a billion-dollar business deal plus a pregnant woman, you'll understand."