Charmed by the Billionaire CEO
Chapter 142: You love someone else

Chapter 142: You love someone else

Gwen stepped out of the building when she saw Luke standing next to his car. Her steps halted as she saw him look back at her with a broad smile on his face.

’What is he doing here?’ she thought and watched him approach her.

"Mr. Luke, what a pleasant surprise," Gwen asked, hesitating. She wasn’t expecting him here.

"Can you not call me that? It makes me feel old," Luke said, scratching the back of his neck and making her smile.

By this time, Gwen had understood that Luke was aware of her being a Knight. The way he asked her to drop the formality, she could tell it.

"Okay, I won’t," she said politely.

"By the way, you didn’t tell me why you are here at this hour. As far as I know, there wasn’t any meeting today with my brother then.. how come-" she couldn’t finish her words and heard him say.

"I came to see you," Luke said loudly, surprising her.

"Tristan told me that you agreed to give us a chance" his words shocked Gwen, and she pursed her lips, cursing Tristan mentally.

"So... do you mind if I take you home. In that way, we could get to know each other a little bit," Luke said as he watched Gwen, who had been quiet till now.

Gwen didn’t want to break Luke’s heart. When she told Tristan that she agreed to date Luke, it only made Karl realize what he was missing.

She only wanted to teach Karl a lesson and didn’t intend to date Luke seriously. But her brother was two steps ahead.

Gwen held her bag tightly in her hand. She didn’t want to give Luke false hope because she already had Karl in her heart. And it would be hard for her to let him go.

"Luke... I.." she was about to reject him when her eyes met Karl, who had just walked out of the building, and stopped as he watched them both in shock.

She saw him fist his palm in anger as he gawked at Luke with cold eyes. Even with his specs on, Gwen could tell that Karl was furious.

Gwen smirked internally as she watched him approach them, and before he could reach, she looked back to Luke and said," I will come with you" she smiled, making Karl halt his step.

Gwen smiled forcefully and turned around, stepping into Luke’s car and driving away.

Karl, who stood in the same spot, felt someone knock all the air out of his lungs and suddenly began to feel suffocated.

Even though he was hurt by Gwen’s words earlier, he still brushed it off, telling himself that he deserved it. With that, he followed her, but when he reached down, the sight he saw made him boil in anger.

Karl felt his eyes burn as tears formed in them, and without standing there for a second, he walked towards his car angrily and drove away from there.

****

Knight mansion

Ashley was reading some magazines when the door to her room opened, and Tristan walked in.

He expected her to raise her head and look his way, but all he got was a dull welcome.

Heaving a sigh, he walked towards the bed and pulled away the magazine from her hand, making her look at him in anger," Tristan, why do you have to do this? Can’t you be sensible for once" she glared at him, but he didn’t stop it there.

Tossing away the magazine, Tristan fell on the bed next to her, resting his head on her lap, which took her by surprise.

"Tristan.. you," she tried to speak, but he stopped her by pacing his index finger on her lip.

"Ash, why can’t you pay attention to your husband? Is this magazine more important than me" he looked at her with his puppy eyes, and she blinked, watching him act like a kid.

Tristan had been busy the entire day, and when he returned, he expected Ashley to greet him with a warm smile, but he got the opposite.

She was smiling while reading the magazine, which made him jealous of the thing in her hand.

Ashley felt her mood change listening to his words and dropped her anger. She had already sensed his presence when Tristan stepped inside the room but purposely ignored him.

But guess her husband got hurt too easily by her act and started complaining like a kid.

Ashley watched him scrunch a little, pinching the tip of his nose, and said," I was teasing you. I wanted to see how long you held my negligence."

Tristan’s eyes widen in surprise, and his look bursts Ashley into a peal of contagious laughter. His wife fooled him.

"Okay fine, you win" he accepted his defeat quickly. His patience wore out when it came to her, and she knew it, yet she purposely tested him.

Tristan scowled but watching her smile brought a smile on his lips, too, and he started laughing with her.

Once they both calmed down, Ashley patted his chest lightly, asking him to go and freshen up.

Tristan whined, holding her hands in his chest tightly, and shook his head in no." Just ten minutes. You don’t know how badly I missed this," he said, bringing her hand to his lips as he kissed it.

Ashley didn’t say a word and let him lay for some time when she remembered something and shook Tristan vigorously, waking him up from his nap.

"Tristan, why didn’t you tell me about mom and dad already being aware of Gwen’s relationship with Karl? Even Gavin knows about it" her question made him look at her calmly, which somewhat irked her.

"I don’t know about Gavin, but yes, I went to talk about it with mom and dad, but fortunately my genius parents had already guessed it even before I could utter a word"

Tristan wanted to discuss Karl and Gwen’s relationship with Grace and Trevor and tried to tell them how Karl was hesitating to accept Gwen entirely because he couldn’t upset them.

He still carried the baggage of their favor which bought a rift between him and Gwen.

Ashley was quiet for a while and looked at him nervously," Tristan do you think your plan would work? Didn’t you see how indifferent both Gwen and Karl were with each other? I doubt whether Karl would get jealous watching Gwen with someone else."

Tristan smirked, got up, and sat on the bed facing her," My wife, didn’t you notice the anger in Karl’s eyes when Gwen said she agreed to date Luke? I bet you haven’t."

Ashley looked at Tristan in confusion. Did she fail to notice it? Maybe she did.

"Karl and I have grown up together, and we both knew to conceal our emotions, never allowing anyone to see what’s going in our minds. But that didn’t mean I could fail to see it" Tristan was confident about what he saw that time.

"He might have hidden it from everyone, but from me, he couldn’t," he said.

"Then does it mean there are chances of him reaching his limits and coming out declaring his love for Gwen to everyone," Ashley asked as she could finally see a ray of hope.

"Yes, and I don’t think we don’t have to wait for too long," Tristan declared, passing her a look and making her frown in confusion.

****

Luke stopped the car once they reached the Knight mansion. On the way, he tried to talk with Gwen, but she seemed lost in her thoughts that she rarely talked back.

Gwen had been trying to find some excuse to reject Luke because she didn’t want to go on like this. Even though she had walked away from Karl a while ago, she could forget the hurtful look in his eyes.

She wanted to act strong but was slowly failing to keep up. Thinking about it for the whole ride, she finally decided.

Taking a deep breath, she turned to look at Luke, who was also staring at her. He had this calmness all over his face, making her feel nervous.

"Luke, I know you genuinely like me, but... I-" she wanted to speak, but he cut in instead of completing the sentence for her.

"You love someone else, and that someone is non-other than Karl" his word took her by surprise, and she gasped, covering her mouth with her palms.

Trying to keep calm, Luke burst into a laugh, confusing Gwen like hell.

"How did you know?" she asked, removing her hands from her mouth.

"I knew it from the beginning, Gwen. When you first signed the deal with Karl, Tristan had already told me about your feelings for Karl, and he asked me to help him by flirting with you in front of your love interest."

Gwen felt like a fool right now. Tristan knew every, but still, he purposely asked her to date Luke.

’Such a cunning fox,’ she said in her mind but then, when she listened further, his anger towards her brother slowly dissipated.

"Brother told you to do that?" she couldn’t believe her workaholic brother had changed entirely after marrying the love of his life.

"Yes, and that was why I kept getting close to you, just to make Karl jealous," he said, surprising her even more.

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