Babysitting The Billionaire’s Adult Son

The car pulls to a halt inside the carport. Ben undid his seatbelt and step down from the car. He walks over to the passenger side of the car and opens the door for Kayla, letting her get off the car with his help.

Kayla got discharged from the hospital after confiding with the Doctor that she wouldn’t be staying in the hospital for the night. After several checkups on her, the Doctor agree to discharge her to go home, since the smoke didn’t affect her greatly.

Ben suggest he take her home since she can’t drive herself back home and he didn’t want her to board a cab.

Kayla had declined his help but Ben stood his ground, saying it was either she remains in the hospital or he takes her home.

Having no strength to bicker with him, she agreed that he should take her home since she was left with no choice.

She unlocks the door and they step inside her living room. She presses the switch and the light in the living room comes to life.

“You should go back now, I can take it from here.” Kayla groans, freeing her shoulders from his grip.

Ben shakes his head in disagreement. “No, I won’t leave here until I’m sure you are okay.” he chimes with a cute smile on his face.

Kayla sneers angrily. “What are you? My mother? Why would you care if I’m okay or not?” she glare hard at him, she pushes past him and walk straight to her room. Leaving Ben to decide if he’s coming with her, or leaving.

“You should always wait for a reply once you are done talking, don’t just walk away. That’s a bad habit.” Ben giggles behind her.Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

Kayla slaps her forehead in annoyance. “Haven’t I embarrassed myself enough before you? What else do you want?” she abruptly stops on her track, she turns around to face Ben, who has also stopped walking to hear what she has to say.

“You? Embarrassed? When?” he arched his eyebrows and then shrugs. “What are you talking about?” he yells after her as Kayla twists the door open and enters her room.

“Stop asking questions, you know what I’m implying, don’t ask questions.” she scoffs.

Upon getting to the room, she heads straight to her bed and plunges into it, she peeps at the door to see Ben sneaking his head inside.

“Enter inside and close my door.” she snorts when Ben wouldn’t enter, and keep on glancing inside from the door.

He strides in and closes the door behind him. “I still don’t understand what you meant.” he frets upon getting inside. “How did you embarrass yourself?” he asks, glancing around the room to see where he could rest his butt. Seeing there is no settee in the room, he proceeds to seat on the bed instead.

Kayla stands up on the bed and rests her head on the backrest. “You know it would have been a lot better if you take permission before sitting on my bed.” she glare at him, picking every slight opportunity to get mad at him.

“Since you don’t want me to sit on your bed why then did you usher me in when you have no sofa?” he glares back at her.

Kayla smiles dryly at him. “I never wish to let you in here, you were peeping, remember?” she grunts as he keeps on getting on her mind. “Why would I let you in when I don’t want to be around you anyway?” she rolls her eyes at him.

Upon hearing that Ben shifts uncontrollably on the bed, he gasps when it is down on him that she was truly avoiding him. He has been observing her and she confirmed it herself. “Why would you say that? Why did you not want to be around me? Are you mad at me? Or, wait, did I offend you?” he inquire, facing Kayla who stare back at him in anger.

Kayla open her mouth to speak but nothing come out of her mouth, instead, she started coughing loudly and she begin to gasp for breath.

Ben moves closer to her and grabs her palm worriedly, she groans and then shut her eyes with great force. “Get… Me… Water.” she stammered as she hit her chest with her fist.

Ben hastily stand up from the bed and rush up to the door. He turn back when he realised he didn’t know where he could find the water. “Where is the water?” he yells.

“Inside the kitchen, there is a refrigerator there.” she rubs her chest as she feels a little bit of relief from the cough. “Take your right turn in the living room.” she coughs, grabbing her neck with both hands.

“Okay,” that’s the only thing he could utter before dashing out of the room.

He gets back to the room with a bottle of water in his hand. He walks up to the bed and opens the lid before handing it over to Kayla.

She gulps down a large quantity before placing her palm on her chest to stop the cough. “Thanks, Ben!” she says, dropping the water on the nightstand table.

“Do you feel better now?” he asks, his brows knitted in worry.

“Of course, I feel much better.” she smiles brightly at him.

“Okay,” Ben says, standing up from the bed. “I will see you tomorrow then,” he added before walking up to the door.

“I heard that you were the one that took me to the hospital, thank you!” she mumbles, even though Ben heard what she said.

He chuckles then turns around to face her. “I didn’t take you to the hospital on my own, the store owner did,” he says, resting his back on the wall. “I called you to ask about the operation, and you picked up the call, but then I heard a voice shouting ‘somebody help’, without hearing your voice in the background. I rushed into my car and tried driving back to the headquarter to check what was happening. A few drives from where we were supposed to meet up, I met your car by the roadside with a man cuddling your head to his chest.” he gritted his teeth upon saying the last line.

Kayla raise her head to ask what happened. “Why did you stop?” she asks, staring at his face.

“I learnt that the man is the owner of the store, so together, we took you to the hospital.” he smiles.

Kayla nods her head, she feels indebted to him and the store owner. “I’m sorry for my attitude earlier, I was just mad at myself for spilling such an embarrassing moment to you, you know?” she lower her gaze to the floor.

Ben widen his eyes in shock. “Were you giving me attitude because of what you said that night at the bar?” he gasped, realising she has been fooling herself for thinking he put it to heart. “Come on everyone spills unnecessary things when they are drunk and yours isn’t exceptional.” he frets, his tone sounding so sincere.

Kayla sighs sadly. “I’m sorry, okay?” she groans inwardly.

“It’s okay, that’s fine, not like you were wrong though.” he shrugs his shoulders.

Kayla stare at him, wondering what he meant by ‘she wasn’t wrong’. “Why did you say that?” she asks, glaring at him from the corner of her eyes.

“If we look at it with latent chivalry, a car is in form of an ant. It also moves with four legs.” he teases with a faint chuckle.

“Will you stop already?” she yells, throwing a buffer at him.

Ben ducked and it hit the door. “Sorry.” he moves his palm to his mouth, suppressing himself from laughing any further.

“How’s Honey?” she asks, resting back on the backrest.

“She’s fine.” he smiles, checking the time on his wristwatch.

“Bring her with you, next time.” she wags her hand to him.

Ben nods, then waves back to her before walking out of the room.

Kayla hears his car screech to motion, she smiles shortly before closing her eyes for sleep. They had security by the entrance, so she didn’t bother to escort him outside.

It hasn’t been up to ten minutes since Ben left when she hears a faint knock on the door, jotting her out of her slumber. Kayla groans before standing up to check who the intruder is.

Upon getting to the door, she twists the doorknob to check who the hell is disturbing her rest. She opens the door widely to see Ben grinning hard by the door with his cat in his arm.

Kayla shut the door in his face. “What the heck is going on?” she whines, she pinches her cheeks to make sure she’s seeing right.

She exhales deeply before opening the door. “Why are you here, I thought you left?” she asks, glancing behind him to check if he’s here with anyone.

“It’s just me.” Ben chuckled, then brings his gaze to his arms. “I brought Honey as you requested.” he grins, shoving the cute little cat in her arm.

“I said next time you are coming. I didn’t say today.” she corrected with a faint grunt.

“Now is the ‘next time’, treat Honey with care, I will be here for her tomorrow.” he bid her goodbye and walked out of her house.

“Who the hell is this guy?” Kayla giggles as she brings Honey closer to her face.