Charmed by the Billionaire CEO
Chapter 410: Crashed

Chapter 410: Crashed

Dropping all her act, Ashley huffed like an angry child and looked away. "No, I won’t," she said as she crossed her hands.

Tristan was surprised to see how easily she got upset, but that didn’t stop him from teasing her.

He wanted to make her realize her mistake but he also knew prolonging it for too long would only make her angry.

"Why not?... Don’t you want to hear what our bean has to say" saying Tristan moved a little closer to her and wrapped his arm around the backrest of her seat, as he slowly inched closer to her ear.

Ashley gaped when she felt his hot breath fanning her face, but she didn’t dare to turn around.

Tristan had managed to make her still with his actions, accelerating her heartbeats rapidly.

She wanted to voice out what he was trying to do but couldn’t, knowing how it was impossible for her to even utter a word when he would use his charm.

"So, where were we" she heard him say as he brought his left palm closer to her stomach, resting it over.

Tristan’s actions were making her lose her self-control. His actions were cute but his intentions were bold and she could feel it with the way he started caressing her bump.

Ashley gulped at his gentle touch while his face was still close to her, making it hard for her to stay calm.

"O-on our bean... I told him how his dad is upset with me" She finally managed to muster the courage to speak.

Ashley was a confident lady but when it came to Tristan she would feel all her confidence wash away in a second.

"Ha... yes... so did he answer you back," Tristan asked moving his eyes from the side of her face to her stomach where he was gently caressing her belly.

"Y-yes..." she said eyeing him from the corner of her eyes.

Tristan turned his face around and watched her steal a glance at him. "What did he say?" this time he made his attention entirely focused on her.

Ashley couldn’t contain the scrutinizing gaze of his eyes and slowly turned her head to face him. She wanted to yelp scolding him for making it so hard for her to speak, but then wasn’t it always like this?

Whenever he would find her actions wrong he would make her accept it by making her go speechless.

Ashley wanted to look away as she found herself melting with the way he looked at her. She wanted to scream accepting her mistake of being wrong for doing a stunt even though it wasn’t harmful to her or her child but she couldn’t.

Just like her mind, even her body had come to a standstill as she bore back into his blue eyes, finding it hard to speak.

It took her a while to return to herself as she finally decided to answer him but with an annoyed tone. "Fine... I accept it was my mistake. I shouldn’t have done the stunt, putting both our lives at risk"

Using her palm she pushed him away and looked out of the window. Her heart was running a marathon inside her chest but she managed to remain composed.

Tristan smirked when she finally defeatedly accepted her mistake, but he also presumed she wasn’t happy with it.

Letting out a playful chuckle, Tristan reached his hand and grabbed her chin making her look at him.

"You know Ash.. you are becoming more like a kid. It was you who started. I just played along yet you are the one who is upset"

Tristan had his share of teasing because it was the only to make her accept her mistake. He didn’t like scolding her because he loved her way too much to make her cry, but that doesn’t mean he liked watching her upset face either.

"Then why do you have to go this extreme" she pouted, trying to free herself but couldn’t as her cheeks were quickly cupped between both his palms.

"Because you know, you can’t avoid them by saying it wasn’t that threatening"

Ashley remained quiet pondering his words and heaved out a defeated sigh. "Fine... I won’t do it again. I will also forbid from lifting a glass of water on my own" she snarled rolling her eyes skyward.

Tristan couldn’t help but chuckle at her cute reaction. "That would do. How about I appoint a person who would do all the work for you, in return all you have to do is sit"

"HAHA... very funny. And who is going to do the job? Did you forget I have a movie to finish? Sitting in one place wouldn’t help me complete my scenes" Ashely stated as she found herself slowly pulled closer by Tristan with his palm rubbing her arm gently.

"Then how about we let your body double get all the things done for you and in the final cut we would edit your face in every scene"

Ariana jerked back giving Tristan a weird look. "Have you hit your head somewhere? If yes, then we really need to show you to a doctor"

"..."

Ashley couldn’t help but want to check his mind for being this absurd with his word. Doesn’t he worry about the money he will lose if the movie doesn’t come out as it has to be?

"I just wanted to make things easy for you" she heard him say.

"Then don’t do it. I am fine with how things are going just the way they are. Please don’t make it more difficult for the director and team as you have already scared them enough" saying she return resting her head on his shoulder. ignoring his pouty face.

Watching his wife ignore him, Tristan didn’t bother to utter another word again and kept hugging her, as he slowly closed his eyes.

The couple was busy enjoying their peaceful moment in each other’s arms when suddenly a loud honk was heard from the side and within a split second a huge vehicle collided with their car.

"Boss.." they heard the driver yell but it was too late for them to react.

Their car rolled upside down until it hit the tree trunk on the other side of the road.

Tristan held Ashley closer to him preventing her from getting hurt, but the second the car hit the tree Tristan’s head slammed on the window until it cracked a little.

Even with such a tremendous impact, Tristan tried to remain cautious as he looked down at Ashley.

"Ash...hey... wake up" Tristan tried to speak keeping his vision clear, but the moment blood started to drip down from his temples it became hard for him to stay conscious.

Ashley had lost her continuous as she remained still in his arms without any movement and it was enough for Tristan to panic.

He tried to open the door but found it difficult as he had no strength left within his body. The excess loss of blood was making it hard for him to move and before he could realize everything around him turned dark as he lost his last bit of self-awareness, and slumped into a deep abyss.

*****

After leaving the company Karl drove to his place. He was busy typing a text to Gwen informing her that he reached home but the moment he opened the door his eyes widen in surprise.

"Gwen..." he yelped finding the girl he had been texting the entire walk was already standing in front of him.

"Yes, it’s me" came her dull reply as she turned around and walked further into the house.

Karl blinked his eyes in confusion as he was expecting a hug or at least a kiss from her end but he got neither any of the two of them.

Pouting he entered the house and his eyes widen in shock when he noticed the messed living room with multiple bottles of alcohol rolling over the floor.

"How much have you been drinking," Gwen asked as she turned to face him.

She wanted to give him a surprise, so instead of going back home she decided to head towards their cozy place but when she entered the house the weird smell of alcohol hit her senses so bad that she felt everything around her spin for a matter of second.

Karl shot his attention in her direction and watched her arch her brow at him. She looked so pissed with the way she was welcomed in her house that he ended up gulping a mouth full of saliva.

"I... will clean this mess" Karl muttered as he couldn’t fathom his thoughts and quickly kept his office bag off the couch before keeling on the floor and picking the empty bottles.

Karl was so ashamed that he didn’t even dare to look up and quickly finished cleaning the space.

After returning home from the hospital, he couldn’t articulate his life as he kept seeing and listening to Gwen’s voice everywhere inside the house.

For him, the entire world came to a standstill as he couldn’t function and to soothe the pain in his heart, he started to drink. Though his tolerance was still the same and it made him feel miserable when he couldn’t get her out of his mind.