My Crazy Housemate

Chapter 112: You like what?

Leo had never been this tempted in his entire life.

He remembered he had reminded himself some days back to not let Mia take alcohol again but he had let her and tonight’s case was on a whole different level.

She wanted to sleep inside his room? He thought he told her he didn’t really like others inside his room. She was really tempting him. Definitely tempting him!

"Go, hurry up! Run!!!!" Mia said passionately as she urged him to move since he was just standing there and looking at her.

He wanted to say something but when he opened his mouth, nothing came out. He sighed in defeat before carrying her towards his room. He didn’t have much choice anyway.

Carefully, he laid her on the bed and she shut her eyes when her back touched the bed. "It feels nice... and different." She moaned softly as she spread her arms to enjoy the comfort.

"Don’t you want to bathe first? You were sweating a lot earlier." He reminded her as he just stood there looking at her.

"I don’t want to. I’m cold. Your room is so cold." She said before she slowly opened her eyes to look at him.

It was true. He was even beginning to feel cold so he quickly reduced the AC.

"Why are you just standing there? Come and sleep." She said using a hand to call him over.

"I... guess I’ll sleep in the sitting room." He stammered before scratching his head.

"Don’t! I don’t want to sleep alone in here. Come to bed." She said before tapping the side beside her.

"Do you... do you seriously know what you are asking me?" He asked nervously.

Mia shook her head. "Come. I want to talk to you." She said and continued to tap the bed.

Leo reluctantly climbed into the bed and lay beside her.

This was weird! He had never had a girl come in here talk more of sleeping. The only girl who ever entered his room was his ex girlfriend, Cherry and she also didn’t spend the night in here. They spent it in the other room instead.

"What do you want to talk about?" He asked as he lay there awkwardly with his eyes on the ceiling and his hands beside him.

She turned to face him before poking his arm so he turned to look at her.

"What is it?"

"You said you are going to be uncomfortable if I danced with another man. Why?" She asked batting her eyes at him.

Leo frowned. She had a really good memory for someone who was drunk.

"I didn’t... say me. I said uncomfortable for you." He said as his eyes twitched.

"I clearly heard you say you are going to be uncomfortable before you mentioned me." She said as she narrowed her eyes to look at him.

"Well...."

"Well?" She asked drunkenly.

"It doesn’t matter. Just don’t do the dance."

"I already promised Mr B I was going to do it. He lent me some money and—"

"I’m going to pay him back." He quickly interjected.

"It’s not about paying him back." She said shaking her head.

"I needed money urgently and he gave me all he had just so I could help him with this dance. I can’t turn my back on him now just because I have an option B. It’s not in my nature to do so." She said and moved her body closer to his.

Leo still didn’t like the idea but he understood what she was trying to say and sighed deeply.

"You don’t like me inside your room right?" She asked changing the topic.

"That’s not it." He shook his head.

"Do I make you feel uncomfortable?" She asked again.

He didn’t know whether he preferred her crying and acting up to her asking a lot of questions.

Well, she did make him feel uncomfortable a lot but he shook his head. "No. It’s all good."

"Why are you smiling?" He asked curiously when he saw her smiling at him.

She reached for his hair with a hand and ran her hand through it which totally surprised him as he just kept staring at her.

"I’ve always wanted to touch your hair. But I was scared." She confessed as she fixed her gaze on his really black hair..

Okay, now he was surprised again and it was obvious in the way he looked at her.

"Really?" He asked.

"Yes." She nodded slowly.

"I like that it’s always so messy and sleek. It makes you look cool."

"Then why were you scared? I wouldn’t have stopped you from touching it." He told her as he just let her play with his hair.

"I don’t know. Probably because I didn’t want you to know I like—" She suddenly stopped talking and her eyes shone when she realised what she was saying. She sealed her lips and pulled back her hand before shutting her eyes.

"You like what? My hair?" He asked when she suddenly stopped talking.

"Yes. Your hair." She said with her eyes still closed and snuggled even closer to him until their bodies were pressed together.

"Thank you for doing this dance with me. I feel I can do this now." She said drowsily.

Leo looked down at her face and slowly reached for her hair to brush it away from her face.

Surprisingly, he wasn’t feeling as aroused as he had imagined he would be, even with her pressing her body to his like this.

He just wanted to hold her to sleep. He did just that and draped his hand around her waist before moving closer to her. He reached for a little remote by the head of the bed and turned the lights off.

"Good night Mia Lucas." He whispered to her thinking she was asleep but she stirred in his arms.

"I wanted to ask earlier.." She began to talk again.

"What?"

"Those lights.. how did you do it?" She asked in a whisper.

"Ohhhh.." He gave a long sigh and decided to just tell her.

"My ex girlfriend is also a dancer— a choreographer." He informed her.

"Really?" She asked in surprise.

"Yea. She asked to set up those lights when I was about moving in. I totally forgot about it until today."

Mia was quiet for a long time and he began to think she was asleep until she spoke again..

"So... did you dance with her just like we danced tonight?" She asked in a quiet voice.

"Well, once in a while." He admitted.

There was another round of silence before she said. "Good night."

And that was it for the night.

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Chloe stood by the window with her hands folded across her chest as she watched the rain pour down.

"I’m sorry." Jeremy who was sitting on the couch said apologetically.

"Why? For making the rain fall?" She asked before turning to look at him.

"For asking you to come here with me. Now you are stuck." He said.

"Don’t be silly. Were you supposed to leave Ellie in here all by herself?" She asked as she moved back to the couch to sit. "I guess it’s better being stuck in here than in the office.... I guess" She said with a shrug.

"Would you like another cup of tea? You look like you are still cold." He noted.

"I’m fine. I easily get cold but I’ll be okay."

"I don’t think it is ever going to stop raining." He said looking at the window.

"Well, I hope it stops soon. I have to go home." She said with a yawn.

"You parents are going to be worried right?" He asked looking at her.

"They are probably not aware I’m not at home. They should be at the hospital." She informed him before taking out her phone to check the time.

When she saw it was past 12, she sighed again. It was her first time being stuck in a man’s house by this time. She had dated David for years but had never spent the night with him.

They were both quiet and when the silence was becoming more awkward, Jeremy spoke.

"You should have seen the smile on the manager’s face the whole day. Thanks for not firing him." He said with a smile.

"Don’t think I did it because of you." She said with an indifference tone.

"I know. I didn’t think you did it because of me. You are naturally a nice person but why don’t you show it?" He asked with keen interest.

"Who said I was nice?" She asked giving him an amused look.

"I know you are nice Chloe. I’ve seen you do nice things a couple of times over the years and just tonight, you reminded me of how wonderful you are."

"Please stop it. It sounds creepy." She said before wrapping her arms around her.

Jeremy took note and excused himself to the room.

He returned a few minutes later with a blanket in hand and moved closer to her without breaking eye contact.

He carefully used it to cover her and smiled at her.

Chloe broke the eye contact and clutched the blanket tightly around her.

"Thanks." She said.

"Yea." He replied with a faint nod before he returned to his seat. free𝑤ebnovel.com

"You can sleep in my room tonight. Thankfully, tomorrow is Saturday so you can sleep in and—"

"Your room? Why?" She asked in alarm as she sat up.

"You also have naughty thoughts, don’t you?" He asked with a cheeky grin and saw her face flush a bit.

"You are going to be sleeping in there alone. No one’s been using the guestroom for a while now so I’m not sure it’s going to be conducive to sleep in. I’ll just sleep here while you use my room."

"In here?" She asked looking at the largest sofa which could barely contain her talk more of him.

"Yea. You are a guest so I want to treat you well so you would have a good impression of me." He said with a wink.