Chapter 230 - True colors

"How can you be so casual about it Arthur? We need to—" 

Cutting her off, Arthur snapped, "This is not something that involves us or something that needs our attention. If Sebastian decided to date that girl then it means she is special in some way or the other, he will definitely not date just anyone. Who will know better than you how your son is. There is a reason why he never showed any kind of interest in any women you tried to hook him up with, Seb is different and he has always been like that." 

"But—"

"Now stop fussing over it and take some rest, you are thinking way too much these days," Arthur stated leaving no room for any kind of argument. 

Left with no other choice, Rebecca grumpily sat down on the edge of the bed without saying anything. She would definitely not let this matter off so easily, even if Arthur did not care about it, she did.

….

Seattle. 

Harry and Judith's place. 

Backyard. 

"What are you so grumpy about man? What happened?" Jeremy, Melissa's father inquired. 

"It's nothing, Ellie just brought her boyfriend home so—" 

"Oh yes, I heard about it and I was about to call you but I forgot." Looking around, Jeremy instructed, "Quick, open the door and let me in." 

Nodding his head, Harry made his way towards the fence door which connected the two houses. "Look, I know you will probably tell me that he is a good guy yada yada yada….but I don't wanna hear that." Unlocking the door, he added, "I am just very confused." 

"Why confused?"

Keeping quiet for quite some time, he sighed, "Ellie thinks he is the best guy she can ever be with and she also wants me to give that guy a chance which I want to, I really do but the thing is I need some kind of surety. I need to make sure that my daughter is safe with him." 

"Well, judging from the family he comes from, you can be sure that he isn't some kind of a rapist or drug dealer. He is a decent man with a really nice decent behaviour just like Noah." Helplessly shaking his head, Jeremy sighed, "You are my best friend Harry so I am not going to lie to you, I had similar thoughts about Noah when Mel first brought him home. She told me he is a nice guy but how am I supposed to convince the father inside me that he is really one, right? It wasn't easy." 

"Okay, what did you do then?" Harry curiously inquired. 

"I am coming to that." After making sure no one was around, Jeremy started explaining, "So what happened is, Melissa did not tell me about Noah at first—I mean, I knew he was the boss and she worked under him but I had no idea about the relationship. When she brought home and introduced him as her boyfriend, of course I was shocked and very reluctant to accept him but he was really very nice and sweet. Trust me mate, I thought he was just doing some kind of acting to impress me so in order to test him, I did the salted coffee experiment which I read online." 

Scrunching his brows, Harry curiously inquired, "What salted coffee experiment?" 

"Well, I made a very salted coffee for him to see if he gets mad or starts throwing a fit because he had a really awful coffee in the morning. Now you know how important morning coffee is for a lot of people so I wanted to see if his true colours would shine out if I did that," Jeremy further explained. 

"What happened after that? Did he throw a fit?" 

"Of course he didn't, in fact he kept drinking it like it was nothing and kept acting normal in front of Melissa. I felt bad and guilty later so I stopped him from finishing the whole thing." 

Thinking for a while, Harry inquired, "So are you suggesting that I should do the same thing? Make him a salted coffee?" 

Shaking his head, Jeremy answered, "No, I am just telling you what I did but you can always try something similar. But don't tell anyone that I told you this, okay?" 

"Of course not Jerry, why would I?" 

….

At night. 

11:00 pm.

Guest room. 

"Will you stop being such a baby? If I am okay with it, why are you so scared?" 

"But—" 

Placing her hand on her waist, Ellie narrowed her eyes, "So are you trying to tell me you don't want cuddles? You wanna sleep all by yourself and you don't need me anymore?" 

"What? When did I say that?" Sebastian frowned. 

Grabbing her pillow, she puffed her cheeks, "Fine, I will go in my room and you can take all the room you want. After we go back, I'll move back to my old apartment with Boji and Bojo." Without waiting for his reply, she started walking out of the room. 

Helplessly shaking his head, he quickly grabbed her hand. "You know I won't let you do that." 

"Let me do it?" Slapping his hand away, she snapped, "FYI Sebastian Stewart but I am the boss at home so your office bossiness is not gonna work here." 

"Firstly, I am never bossy with you even when we are in the office. In fact, you are the one who keeps scolding me—" 

Cutting him off, she retorted, "It's because you don't listen, like right now you are not listening to me." Raising her brows, she added, "Or maybe you like Minnie so much that you wanna spend some quality time with her." 

"Doesn't she already have a boyfriend?" he chuckled. 

Rolling her eyes at him, she grumpily made her way towards the bed. "If you don't wanna join me then go sleep in my room all by yourself." 

Lying beside her, he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer. "Why would I sleep there all alone?" 

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