Charmed by the Billionaire CEO
Chapter 224: It tastes awful

Chapter 224: It tastes awful

Flicking the tip of his nose playfully, Alice jumped down from her chair and walked away to the dance floor.

Noah blinked his eyes trying to grasp her words and turned his head, to see her dance among the crowd.

His breath hitched when he saw her sway her hips seductively, gathering a lot of attention as she playfully winked at him.

Bringing the glass he had been holding in his hand, Noah gulped it down and placed another order. He thought he had almost won, in making Alice jealous but all his plans backfired on him and now, he was the one standing, getting triggered by her bold moves as she dance to the loud music.

On the couch far away from the crowd both Gwen and Karl were enjoying watching friends who have supposedly lost the game of making their partner jealous.

It looked like, the tables have turned and the one who wanted attention was them and not the other one.

"I had warned them. It wasn’t going to work" Karl’s distressed voice made Gwen look at him.

She had been sipping her orange juice for god knows how long but she watched Karl sip his drink, she got the urge to taste it.

Her eyes glittered in excitement and she pulled herself straight on the couch and fully turned towards him," How does it taste?" she asked like an excited kid.

Karl looked at her, trying to understand her and once he did he shook his head, "Really bad"

Gwen’s smile dropped and she blinked her eyes asking," Is that so, but I wanted to taste it" she expressed without understanding that he was lying.

Karl could tell that Gwen was again being naughty and she wanted to try the drink he was having, but he didn’t want her to sip it. He didn’t know what her alcohol tolerance was, and he didn’t want to take any risk.

"I said it tastes awful" he kept his face neutral and answered once again.

This time Gwen dropped her shoulder and leaned back bringing her glass close to her lips and quietly drank it.

Convince by her reaction, Karl averted his eyes from her and watched his boss following Ashley out of the club, while Alice returned to the dance floor and began dancing with some random guy.

Sigh... Karl could sense trouble in paradise but there was nothing he could do because they both got it to themselves.

Just when he was busy pondering his own thoughts, Gwen sneaked her hand carefully towards the table where Karl rested his glass of drink and slowly picked it up.

She was cautious about her actions, paid attention to Karl before she quickly gulped the drink.

"Yak... it tastes so bad" she complained making faces and looked at Karl who snapped his head as his eyes grew wider like the saucer.

"Why did you drink it?" Karl snapped out of a trance and pulled the glass from her before he cupped his face. His eyes wandered to her face as he tried to see any change. She gulped an entire glass of vodka and he knew soon it would start to kick into her system.

Worried, he let go of her face and stood up saying," Come let’s go. It’s not safe for us to stay here anymore" Karl wasn’t sure if she was able to handle the drink because she never had one before. The only thing he could do right now before the drink started to show its effect was to take her back to their room.

Gwen who heard his words frowned and shook her head when suddenly she started feeling dizzy. Trying to brush it off she tried to stand up but stumbled a little.

Karl quickly reached to hold her and helped her stand," Gwen," his voice came out with concern as he watched her look at him with an unfocused gaze and he realized it was too late.

The drink was showing his effect and as expected she was drunk with just one glass.

"I .. am not going anywhere" Gwen declared and holding his hand she climb up the couch and stood up with her hands on her waist.

"Do you get that..." she huffed looking at him.

Karl craned his neck, looking at his drunk girlfriends, and suddenly felt like crying. It was all his boss’s fault, if not for his stupid idea, he would have been spending time with Gwen inside their room rather than here in the club.

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After expressing her displeasure Ashley walked out of the club. She stumbled on her steps as she tried to walk aimlessly on the beach. She didn’t know why but her heart pained when she recalled that incident and her eyes welled up.

"Stupid... idiot" she mumbled, wiping off her tears, and kept walking.

Unknown to her Tristan was right behind her tailing watching her curse him with all her might and he smiled. He deserved it, he thought and fastened his footstep to reach her.

Once he was just a step away from her he watched her stumble once again and he quicken his step stopping her from falling.

"Careful," he said and helped her stand.

Even in her drunk state, Ashley was still able to recognize Tristan’s voice. She immediately stood straight and moved away from him.

"Why do you care, huh" she voiced scrunching her nose as she sniffed trying to stable her tears.

She then turned to face him, she watched him smile and that irked her even more. She thought she had been crying for nothing when on the other hand he was enjoying teasing her.

Tristan didn’t say a word and kept staring at her with a mischievous smile. Since they were alone with no one around on the empty beach, he didn’t care if they fought

Ashley felt her blood boil in anger and she marched at him and she started beating him. She used all her strength to vent her anger and show him how much she was upset.

"You are smiling... after hurting me," she said and kept hitting his chest using her fist.

"You are very bad Tristan," she said, and soon her eyes were well with tears and she started crying.

Tristan took her hit with any complaint but when he heard her voice crack, he could hold himself and the next thing he did was to pull by her neck and seal her lips.