A NIGHT WITH THE CRAZY CEO

CHAPTER SIXTY SIX

**BRIANNA**

Adrian led me up the short steps that led to the main door with his hand on the small of my back and I calmed down as I felt the heat of his body. He rang the doorbell and Stella appeared a few seconds later, a big smile forming on her face when she set her eyes on us.

“There is my favorite couple!” She exclaimed excitedly as she engulfed the both of us in a bear hug.

“Mom! I just styled that hair!” Adrian huffed as she roughed his styled hair and I giggled.

“What? I just can’t help myself.” She batted ber eyelashes at him innocently and I couldn’t stop myself from giggling.

“Hey Stella.” I waved at her with a smile and she grinned widely at me.

“Brianna! I thought you guys weren’t going to show up.” Stella uttered.

“Why would you think that? I promised to convince him to come and I did. I don’t break my promises.” I stated.

“Glad to see the both of you here. And I wonder how you got to convince Adrian, this dude is a stone!” She said and I chuckled.

“I don’t know… I guess I just convinced him.” I responded.

“Well, you have to tell me your secret so I can use it on him in the nearest future.” She said and we both laughed.

“You both realize that I’m still here right?” Adrian huffed out like a little boy.

“Whatever.” Stella rolled her eyes at her son. “Let’s go in, the rest are in the dinning room already.”

She practically dragged me inside, leaving Adrian to follow behind us and he did so with a displeased look on his face. We got to the dinning room where a man and a teenage girl were sitting.

The man was clearly an older version of Adrian, while the girl a younger version of Stella.

“Guys! Adrian and his girlfriend are here!” Stella announced once we entered the room and the people raised their heads. The teenage girl’s face lighted up when she set her gaze on Adrian.

“Adrian! I missed you!” She shouted as she got up from her seat and ran towards him. They hugged each other like they hadn’t seen each other in a long time, which was technically true since Adrian said that he hadn’t come home in a while.

“There is my favorite sibling!” Adrian said happily ad he roughed her hair and she hit his hand away as she glared at him and tried to arrange her hair. Seems like roughing hair is an habit here.

“I just straightened that! And besides, I’m your only sibling, so you don’t have a choice than to make me your favorite sibling.” She said smugly. She went from cute to smug in a second, I like her.

“If I had a choice, you wouldn’t be my sibling.” Adrian straightened up and said with a serious look but one good tell that he didn’t mean it. Typical sibling fights.

“Oh please.” She said, flipped her hair at him and turned to face me.

“Hi Brianna, I’ve heard so much about you. Nice to finally meet you, I’m Rachel.” She said and embraced me in a hug. The Carters are the “huggy” type of people. Nice.

“Hey Rachel.” I smiled at her.

“Okay guy, y’all come have your seats.” Stella called from her seat, she had gone back to sit.

We walked to the dining table for six. Me sitting with Adrian on one side, Stella sitting with Rachel on the other side and Mr. Carter sitting at the head of the table. He had been quiet ever since we came in and I wondered what was up with him.

“Good evening, Mr. Carter.” I greeted him with a slight bow which showed respect.

“Good evening, Brianna. How are you?” He said, the first thing I’d heard him say ever since I stepped foot into the house.

“I’m fine sir, thank you.” I replied politely.

“Hey Pops.” Adrian shook hands with him, as they were sitting beside each other.

“Son, I see you came with your girlfriend.” Mr. Carter said, his gaze on me as he seemed to be apprehending me.

“Uhm Pops, I won’t actually say that we’re a couple. We’re friends.” He said. Why did my chest ache a little when he said that? I think I was getting ahead of myself now. I wanted us to be just friends right? But friends don’t kiss and make sexual jokes.

“Friends you say?” Mr. Carter’s eyebrows quirked up in question.

“Yeah, friends.” Adrian bobbed his head.

“We’ll see.” Mr. Carter said and I wondered what he meant by that.

“Enough of that! We came here to have dinner didn’t we? Let’s get to the eating part.” Stella said loudly to get our attentions, a grin plastered on her face and I wondered if she ever got tired of smiling.

She began opening several plates of food that were laid out on the dinning table. There were so much meals, that it could feed my family for a month. It looked like someone was having a freaking feast, when it was just a dinner.

“As our guest, what do you want first Brianna?” Stella asked me.

“I want the Spaghetti Bolognese first please. It’s been long since I had that.” I said, my mouth almost watering as I stared at the delicious meal.

“As you wish.” She said and dished my portion in a plate before serving me.

“Thank you.” I said and dug in. Stella was a great cook. The Spaghetti Bolognese tasted delicious z as I’d anticipated.

We ate as we made small talk in the dinning room.

Some hours later, after eating, Adrian catching up with his family and his family getting to know me. We were finally ready to leave. Stella and Rachel escorted us to the car and each of them had hugged us before we got into the car. Adrian had waved them goodbye and promised that we would be coming back to pay them a visit soon. The time was far spent, as it was almost 12 a. m. and Stella had tried to convince us to spend the night but Adrian protested like the practical Adrian that he was and said that he had to drop me off at home and that we hadn’t prepared to spend the night.

After more than an hour of driving in silence, Brandon pulled over in front of my house. We had been silent because of how tired the both of us were, and we mostly basked in each other’s embrace. Now, as I got ready to go into the house, Adrian kissed me deeply before releasing me with slightly swollen lips.

“Good night, Brianna.” He whispered, his hand holding onto my cheeks.

“Good night, Adrian.” I replied, gazed into his eyes one last time before getting out of the car and walking into the quiet house.

TBC