Avery's Game Of Revenge
Chapter 125: Nepo baby?

Chapter 125: Nepo baby?

"What did Donald say?"

Neil beamed.

"Meeting cancelled. He said there’s no need to waste my time coming over anymore," he replied. "My presumptions were right after all. There’s no way Arch would bother staying in a meeting he didn’t want to attend in the first place, not when his wife is present."

Jodi’s brow hiked up in surprise.

"He really does love her."

"I guess so." Neil shrugged, lowering his gaze to the watch in his hand, "Now that she’s there, I don’t think he’ll remember I should be arriving today. Even if he remembers, I’m not scared of anything since her visiting him already secured us the assurance that he’ll be in a good mood. At least until the end of today, he won’t be punishing or cutting anyone’s bonus."

In spite of herself, Jodi felt her lips curl up in a wistful smile.

"Ava really does have it good. You know... I want to say something, promise you won’t sell me out to your boss."

Turning to face her, Neil had a mischievous glint in his own eyes.

"Sell you out? And what would be my gain in doing that?"

"I don’t know. I don’t just want my career going down like Lilian Albert’s. Promise me, Neil."

"Ah... the woman who called Arch, Archie? You want to call him that too?"

Jodi rolled her eyes.

"Of course not. I want to do something worse than she did—"

"Worse than calling him Archie... you want to seduce him?!"

Jodi palmed her face in embarrassment.

"Will you just shut the fuck up, Neil?" she sighed in exasperation. "You still experience this short moments of dumb headedness after a long flight."

"You noticed?" Neil smiled, and instead of feeling insulted, a hint of pride flickered in his eyes. "I almost thought you wouldn’t remember how it was during those times."

"Why wouldn’t I? As your personal driver at the time, I used to pick you up from the airport after those flights. Just like that, I’d be the one subjected to the pure torture of reminding you things a 30 year old like you shouldn’t forget."

"Really? I was like that?" Neil asked, even though he didn’t need the answer to the question. He just needed her to keep talking, regardless of what words came out of her mouth. He simply needed her voice to fill his head and yank him out of his ’momentary dumb headedness’, in her words.

Jodi didn’t notice that and couldn’t tell what his motives were, of course. She sat up in her seat, totally excited to be the one reminding Neil of how funny he used to be at those times.

She started, "There was this day you had to take several long flights in the space of a week and you arrived back here on a Friday. I went to pick you up from the airport and the first thing you asked was when next you were expected to report to work. I wasn’t your secretary or anything so I had no idea what was in your schedule sheet."

"But you answered me?" Neil raised his brows.

Jodi nodded.

"I did. I just told you the nearest bet—which is Monday—because i didn’t want to go insane while trying to answer the rest of your stupid questions. But I should have known that was just a wild dream that was never meant to come true."

"Why? What do you mean?" Neil asked again, stifling his laughter. Of course he remembered what had happened that day. Everything he had asked, and everything she had answered with.

That was the first day she lost her patience and yelled angrily at him like a mother would, her child; it was also the first day he noticed her as a woman, not as his fucking driver with the native accent that he hired out of pity; and finally, it was the day all hell went down.

It was the same night he got drugged and had a one night stand with her; and the night she requested, no, demanded to be his girlfriend.

He had accepted. Because hell, who wouldn’t? He’d have married her if Jodi had asked him to that night? Not because he immediately liked her after their night together, but because of two other reasons.

One, he felt heavily guilty and two? Well, because Arch threatened to kill him if he ever saw Jodi unhappy after that night?

Arch’s words over the phone at the crack of dawn that day?

"Hey Neil, I heard you drank something you shouldn’t have last night—I will do my job and hunt the instigators down, by the way—but I also heard something else. Tell me if I’m wrong. Your driver... Did you use her to... to relieve yourself last night?"

"I did, and I’m—"

"Spare me the details, Neil. Just engrave in your skull that you aren’t sending that girl away or firing her, unless that’s what she wants. You are not to bribe her also except she demands for it. And lastly..."

"Lastly?" Neil had echoed, knowing there was no other acceptable answer to Archie’s orders than a yes.

"Any day I see her unhappy as a result of something you did. You’re gonna kiss the earth goodbye on that same day. Brother, or not."

Jodi was still talking when he snapped out of his reverie.

"As soon as we got in the car, you asked me why Monday is so close to Friday when Friday is so far from Monday. I tried reasoning it out with you but you got angry and yelled at me for not knowing something any adult should be able to explain. Like you weren’t an adult and much older than me at the time."

"And you?" Neil chuckled. "You got angry and yelled, no, you screamed back at me while calling me all kind of names I never thought I’d hear in my lifetime. Imagine, a nepo baby? Me?"

Jodi laughed too.

"Hey, forget about it! I just saw your surname then and thought you were Mr Donovan’s biological brother. I presumed you both got handed the jobs without having to work for it. I mean, your parents names on paper were Alexander Donovan and Vanessa Alonso, two people coming together from different old money families to get married. It was a given that their sons would be spoilt rotten. At least that was what I thought."

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