Bought For A Baby, Kept For A Lifetime-Chapter 226: Proposal

Anne squirmed in his arms, but the movement only brought up a deep groan that rumbled out of his chest, she could feel the sound vibrate against her palm which was placed flatly on his chest.

He was stealing her breath away, he sealed her lips so thoroughly, nibbling, caressing and sucking with a fervent hunger. He didn’t even give her a chance to pull away, when Anne felt like the breath was leaving her, she maneuvered his kiss, biting down on his lower lip with a little bit of force and finally manged to release her lips from his heated kiss.

Anne thought he would be angry that she had cut off his kiss by biting him, but instead what she caught in his hypnotic dark eyes were a light of fascination dancing within them, his tongue peeked out of his full red lips, slowly licking over his lower lip which was slightly swollen from her bite.

"We’ve made some progress." He remarked, raising his finger to trace a line down her warm face as his mouth slowly quirked upwards, "You’re learning how to kiss just the way I like it."

Her eyes went wide. He had liked that she bit him? Anne was about to reply when the sudden sound of his door opening made her panic.

Someone was coming in!

Anne was seated so suggestively on his lap, if anyone were to see this she would definitely not escape gossips blowing up even more in the company.

Andrew had been right, she indeed was in a den of vipers in this company and one little wrong move could make people target her once again.

Without thinking Anne quickly moved, pushing herself off him but ended up slipping back down against him, in the end she couldn’t move fast enough and the door was about to be fully opened so she ducked, shoving herself right under his table speedily just at the moment two people walked into the office.

"I’m sorry director Sterling, the door was open so I thought you weren’t in right now." Cynthia, Andrew’s secretary was the one who walked in, along with another young woman who was dressed in casual attire.

Andrew’s expression was stoic, he glanced up with a face full of displeasure at his secretary.

"And you so conveniently walked right into my office without bothering to knock."

Cynthia was taken aback at the sudden annoyed tone of his voice.

Was he in a bad mood today?

His mood had seemed really good over the past few days that Cynthia had been quite enjoying coming to work rather than dreading her boss’s unpredictable temper. That look in his eyes just now made her feel like her constantly angry boss was back again.

"I’m... I’m sorry sir, it’s just that I..."

"Nevermind, what did you want?"

Andrew felt annoyed at the sudden interruption because he had planned to tease Anne a little bit more, he liked making that shy and flustered look appear on her face and the way she’d bitten him had only fuelled the need to kiss her even more inside him, and the way she’d moved on his lap trying to escape had only made him think of several dirty scenarios he shouldn’t entertain in his mind, the limit of what he could do was tease her and kiss her, thinking about going further was threading dangerous waters he couldn’t afford to cross.

For her health, he would have to keep his desire at bay.

Now seeing her squatted below his table in an effort to hide from whoever had walked into his office brought an amused light to his eyes.

"It’s about the private properties on Sera island you tasked me to look into, I found someone who can give you more information about the properties." Cynthia said looking towards the young woman who had come with her. She was wearing a pair of glasses that took over half of her face giving her a scholarly look, she looked simple yet somewhat refined. Evident from her nervous reaction, being in the presence of Andrew Sterling for the first time, she looked so nervous it felt like she wanted to sink into the ground. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

Andrew kept his chin rested on his knuckle which was propped against the arm rest of his seat.

"S-sera islands is very lucrative, it...it has two very popular resorts, on the island and some private properties, but...but those private properties can’t be sold or bought."

Andrew looked unimpressed as the girl stuttered repeatedly mid-speech, she looked genuinely intimidated by Andrew’s rigid presence that her words seemed to come out of her mouth with difficulty.

"I gave you a simple task Cynthia, the least you could have done is find me someone who can speak properly." He didn’t seem to care about whatever the nervous young woman had to say.

Anne who was still below the table wanted to pinch Andrew for what he had just said.

She had heard the young woman’s voice just now and the girl had sounded genuinely nervous, Anne understood because who wouldn’t be when they were suddenly faced with Andrew Sterling’s deadly intimidating eyes for the first time. But of course the first thing that came out of his mouth was something mean to the poor girl.

Anne poked his knee causing his eyes to lower towards her, she saw the smirk he sent her seeing her hiding like a cat who had stolen fish and didn’t want to be found. She shook her head at him hoping he would understand that she was telling him not to be mean to the girl, though she wanted the conversation to be done quickly so she could stop hiding already.

His eyes narrowed as if trying to understand why she was shaking her head.

"I’m sorry director Sterling, I’ll explain on miss Denise’s behalf." Cynthia said stepping up for the nervous young woman.

"Miss Denise here is the sister of Rick Santos who is the owner of the largest private property on Sera islands, Mr Santos unfortunately passed away about a year ago and as the only living relative to the deceased, Miss Denise currently has ownership of those properties, I contacted her with your proposals to purchase but she adamantly refused. Miss Denise volunteered to come see you personally to inform you about why she can’t sell." Cynthia explained in a controlled voice.

"Why see me if you won’t sell those properties? I’ll have you know that I’ll eventually gain ownership of those properties whether you choose to sell willingly or not, since you have made your decision you and I have no business. See her out Cynthia."

Andrew’s tone was harsh and dismissive, he was a decisive businessman who would get his hands on anything he wanted through several methods in the business world. In the end, he would have his people do thorough research and the seller would eventually cave one way or another without force or coercion, it was called the power of negotiation and it didn’t need too much effort.

The young woman called Denise glanced at Cynthia pleadingly as if they had spoken about something prior to coming here.

"Director Sterling, miss Denise has something to propose, if her demands are met she’ll be willing to sell. I even have the legal documents and deeds for the properties right here."

A light trace of interest seemed to appear on Andrew’s face as he heard this.

"What’s the proposal?"

Cynthia also looked a bit nervous as she walked forward and handed him a file.

Andrew took the file and a deliberately mischievous light seemed to swirl around his dark eyes as he suddenly dropped the file as if by accident.

Seeing this, Cynthia began to walk across the table.

"I’ll get that for you sir."

Anne hearing Cynthia come closer looked panicked, if Cynthia came to pick the file she would definitely see Anne there!

This darned giant tornado! He did that on purpose!