Husband With Benefits
Chapter 144: Slave For The Day

Chapter 144: Slave For The Day

Looking at the grin on Nora’s face, Demetri wondered if he should fear for his life or his sanity. He’d totally lost all his intelligence when he had agreed to be her slave for the day in that bet. Or rather, all his brain cells had shifted to a different part of his body at the time, making him think that he would definitely win.

He’d barely gotten over his brothers setting up his ’horned’ image as their screen savers and snickering up at him and now he’d already set himself up once more.

With a resigned sigh, he shook his head and commented," I can’t believe I let you trick me into this ridiculous bet."

"Hey! I did not do any tricking! You cannot accuse me baselessly! And to think I was going to make it easy for you."

Demetri shrugged and waited for her to continue, knowing that no matter what she claimed, her mind was definitely going to conjure up something that would make his life difficult.

And he was right, he knew when her face showed her determined expression and she said," I want to learn how to drive."

Demetri almost spit the coffee out as he stared at her. "No. I am not teaching you. I will, however, hire a teacher."

Nora pouted and crossed her arms in front of her," Hey! It was not my fault that the previous teacher was a wuss."

Demetri sighed. It was not as simple as that. As part of her self-defence training, she had been initially supposed to learn how to drive. However, after a couple of classes, she had insisted that she was more comfortable riding her bicycle than driving and insisted that she did not want to learn. He had agreed but not before probing for the real cause.

It seemed Nora was a real magnet for traffic cones... the driver had actually told him that he would need insurance if he needed to continue training her.

Demetri made up his mind to refuse her, only for her to give him ’the look’ that made him forget how to say no. Sighing, he acknowledged," Fine. We can try to begin today..."

And that is how, Demetri found himself in the car with Nora in the driver’s seat. "Why can’t we use an automatic instead of a manual one?"

"Because you need to know both." Demetri answered her calmly. He noticed the way she settled into the car and adjusted the seat and the rearview mirror, nodding approvingly. Maybe the instructor had indeed been overreacting.

Barely had the thought crossed his mind when she almost pulled off the mirror making Demetri wince. Maybe it was too early to declare the driver as incompetent.

***

A little while later, Demetri gulped the water bottle in his hand and thought that Nora had judged him well. If it was not for his promise to spend the day as her slave, he would never have stayed after the first time Nora tried to drive.

And she seemed to have some personal grudge against the hand brake so that she was always trying to pull it out, making the car jerk every time.

Having finished her water, Nora looked up at him with shining eyes and spoke," See, I made good use of you as a slave, didn’t I? And it wasn’t that bad."

"Of course, it wasn’t," Demetri lied with a smile, vowing that he was going to get an F1 racer to teach her to drive, the moment they were out of here. He was a patient man, but he had almost been forced to scream that she needed to keep driving straight and not get on the pavement."

"Alright then, I know that I need to learn a lot but I was at least able to drive in a straight line today, thanks to you. So, we can go to our next thing now, slave."

"Next thing?"

"Hmm. The day is not yet over, so I am still your master for the day. And you have to follow me."

Demetri grimaced but followed the girl with a shake of his head. The silly girl did not know that he would follow her anywhere without losing any bet. Rolling his eyes internally at his own sappiness, Demetri followed her with a cold face, showing none of his real feelings on his face.

Next, the stood at the base of a small hill and Demetri shook his head. They were going up a trail for night hiking?

"And why are we doing this?"

"For fun of course. I want to hike and I don’t know anyone I can go with...Are you unwilling?"

Demetri shook his head," Of course not. I think it would be nice. And this hill has some beautiful flowers that bloom at night..."

"Really?" Nora asked the question with interest, pleased with herself. She’d known that Demetri would definitely know about the plants here and that is why she had planned this trip.

As they climbed up in silence, Demetri pausing to show her the beautiful moonflower and the ethereal Cereus, she could only look at him with shining eyes. He was totally a contradiction. Who would have thought that a ferocious businessman like him would be such a nerd at heart.

As they sat down near a particularly mesmerizing fragrant Cereus plant, she could not help but ask," How did you get into this hobby? I mean, I cannot imagine you as a young boy taking care of plants..."

"Well, that is because you did not know the young me. I wanted to be a botanist when I grew up. I was always pestering the gardener to tell me about things. It all started with a bet when my brother challenged me that I could not keep a plant alive..."

Nora heard the short story of how Demetri had actually gotten into a bet with his brother just to show him that he could keep a plant, and ended up falling in love with everything green. And then proceeded to scare his brothers by using carnivorous plants to scare them...

Giggling at the way he narrated the story, Nora asked how Ian had felt when he realized that he had challenged the wrong brother... when the mood suddenly changed. Demetri quietened down and looked away while Nora felt at a loss. What... had just happened?

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