Chapter 3

Aleya's Pov

I just finished arranging my

clothes in the drawer when Carol knocked on the door of my room.

"Yes? Why, Carol?" I asked the maid who accompany me earlier.

"Sir Enrique is calling for you, Ma'am Aleya. He is in the swimming pool right now," she immediately answered me.

"Okay. Just a moment and I'll be out," I answered her with a smile. "By the way, Carol. Don't call me ma'am because I'm not one of your bosses. Just like you, I also work in this house and they pay me so we have the same status in this house."

"But it seems strange if I just call you by your name. You don't look like Sir Enrique's bodyguard. You look more like his girlfriend than a bodyguard. What if you seduce Sir so that you can be his girlfriend? He will surely stop being a playboy once you become his girlfriend."

I coughed softly when I heard what Carol said. Even in my greatest dreams I never wanted to be one of the women who chased after Enrique. I am allergic to men like him so I will never be his girlfriend.

"Don't joke like that, Carol. Go ahead, if Enrique hears you, he will surely flay you alive. You know he doesn't like me at all," I answered quickly then immediately closed the door while shaking my head. What Carol said will never happen. I quickly put on my house slippers and then without hurry, I went to the swimming pool where Enrique was bathing with only swimming trunks covering his body.

"Why are you late? My daddy pays you to watch over me and not inside of your room," he scolded me upon arriving at the pool. I only stood a meter away from the edge of the swimming pool because the tiles were wet and I might fall because it's slippery and I'm wearing rubber slippers.

"Why? Did an assassin break into your house and try to kill you?" I answered him while looking straight into his eyes. With the number of guards in their house and the strict guarding of the guards, a killer can't enter the house unless the killer is one of their guards.

"Your tongue is really sharp, isn't it?" he said shaking his head.

"Because the words that come out from your mouth are toxic," I answered him with a serious face but this time, I'm unable to look directly at his face. How could I look directly at him when his broad and plump chest was exposed to my innocent eyes? I will not wonder why his body is muscular and his muscles are in the right proportion because I think he is always working out.  Their house has a mini gym and I can use it whenever I want to work out too.

Even though I was disgusted with him, I couldn't stop myself from admiring his body. Maybe one of the things why women chase him is they liked his body. Because whether I admit it or not, his body is very attractive. And he's not wearing any clothes so I can see some bread swelling in her stomach. In my whole life, I have only now seen a naked man in front of me that's why I am uncomfortable talking with him.

"Give me my towel," he ordered me. Without complaint, I took the white towel that was hanging on the chair and handed it to him. He got up in the water and intentionally rubbed the towel over his face down to his naked body in a sensual way. It seems that he can see that I feel uncomfortable so he seduces me to make me feel uneasy even more.

"Have you finished diving? If you're done, I'll go into my room. You probably won't leave now, are you?" I wished that he would have finished diving so that I could leave in front of him. My eyes are becoming sinful because I can't help but stare at his smooth and broad chest.

"What do you think of my body, Aleya? Will my body pass your taste? Am I fit to be a model in your heart?" oh boy. Now he's obviously seducing me.

I secretly smile. He thought I couldn't read that he wanted to seduce me so that if I gave in to his seduction, he would have the opportunity to fire me. If he wants to play with me, I will play along with him. I smiled sweetly then I grabbed the towel from his hand and simply let it slide down to the wet tiles while not taking my eyes off his eyes.

"I think your body is perfect..." I deliberately hung up on what I was going to say next and then I ran my two palms from his neck down to his stomach. I could see Enrique's wide grin at me. A smile of victory. He probably thinks that he succeeded in seducing me.

What's the matter, Aleya?" he asked me in a seductive voice, urging me to say the words that I left hanging.

"Your body is perfect and suitable for water," I finished my words and then I looked at him with a mischievous smile. Suddenly, the smile on his lips disappeared when he realized what I was planning to do but it was too late. I already pushed him back into the swimming pool before he could stop me. "Your body is perfect for the water, Mr. Villareal. You are perfect for being a shokoy model," I laughed at him. I even shook my palms in front of him to make him even more annoyed with me.

"Damn you, lady! Someday, I will get even with you," Enrique said angrily after drinking water from the swimming pool.

I just walked away from the pool while laughing and entered the house. I almost ran into my room and locked the door then I quickly entered the bathroom and soaked my palms in water. I took a deep breath and then washed my face with water. I don't know what's the reason why I suddenly felt a strange heat while my palms are touching Enrique's bare chest earlier. My hands were shaking a little too and I was very thankful that he didn't notice that earlier. Or maybe I'm just a good actress. I acted as if I'm not affected by what he did.

"What is happening to me? Why did my body suddenly heat up and I shivered slightly? Did I feel scared of Enrique earlier?" I asked myself in confusion. Did I get carried away with the fire he started? I shook my head as if doing it would make this feeling I couldn't name disappear. I took a deep breath and composed myself. If Enrique sees how I look now he will surely laugh at me. He will think that he succeeded in seducing me. And that is what I will never allow happening. I am not attracted to him. Maybe it's only natural that I feel this way because he's a man. That's right. This is the explanation for why I feel this way.

ENRIQUE is silent in his seat inside the car. We are going to the bar that he told me about. I don't know if he immediately gave up thinking about how he could fire me as his bodyguard after I pushed him into the swimming pool the other day. He didn't bother to talk about it. He didn't leave either, so we stayed at their house for a day. But earlier, he told me that we were going to leave and we were going to a bar because it was one of his friend's birthdays. They are going to celebrate his friend's birthday in a private room inside a famous bar in Manila.

I parked Enrique's car on the side of the road then hurriedly got out of the car and opened the door for him. He just raised his eyebrows at what I did but didn't comment. I was just doing my job and as his bodyguard, it was my job to open the door for him every time he got in and out of the car.

My eyes scan every people and every corner inside that bar. I must be alert because there might be people around who are trying to take his life. I breathed a sigh of relief when we entered a private room without incident.

We saw five women and three men drinking inside the private room.

"Dude, it's good that you're finally here," a male friend greeted Enrique with a smile while bumping their fists. He did the same to his two other male friends while he gave a kiss on the cheek to the four women except for one woman who kissed Enrique's lips as if no one is around. I raised my eyebrows and shook my head slightly. She must be one of his countless women of him.

"Of course, I will come," Enrique said smiling at his friend after he sat down next to the woman who kissed him on the lips.

Enrique didn't introduce me to his friends but I didn't care. I don't like the way they look though they are decent looking.  I prefer to just stand by the door with my back turned on them.

"Enrique, won't you at least introduce us to the beautiful young woman with you? And why don't you at least ask her to sit next to us and have a drink?"  Enrique's friend asked with a smile. For me, his smile is not sincere. I think he knows who I am and just like Enrique he also looks down on me for being a female bodyguard.

"I'm his bodyguard. And I don't drink," I answered with a serious face to the man who spoke.

"Bodyguard?" asked the woman who did lips to lips with Enrique. It seems that she does not want Enrique to have a female bodyguard. Maybe she is scared that I might seduce her guy. Poor woman. She still likes him although she knows that Enrique will dump her after a week. "Maybe you applied to be Enrique's bodyguard so you can seduce him, right?"

"I didn't apply to be his bodyguard but I was forced to accept this job. And for your information, not all women are like you, Miss," I answered her firmly.

"What do you mean? That I'm only friends with Enrique so I can seduce him?" she asked me with her nostrils flared. She really didn't like my face. It seems that her blood is boiling upon seeing my face. Well, the feeling is mutual. I also don't like her.

"I didn't say that but you."

"What the—"

"C'mon, Trish. Don't ruin Dave's night. It's still his birthday," another male friend of Enrique scolded the girl whose name was Trish when she was about to speak. Enrique was just looking at me while I am exchanging words with the woman next to him. I couldn't read his facial expression because it was blank again.

"Hmph!" Trish answered and gives me a bad look then faced Enrique. And she acts like she was a cat, rubbing her arm against Enrique's arm. I just shakes my head again and turned my back. It's better to ignore them.

"Drink at least one glass, Babe," Dave stand up and talk to me. He looks like he had been hit by the alcohol he had consumed. He brought a glass of wine and forced me to drink it.

"I'm at work so I can't drink and don't like to drink, okay?" I answered him briefly.

"I'll take care of Enrique. He won't get angry even if you drink alcohol. And if he fires you, I'll take care of you," he insists and forcefully put the glass in my mouth.

I felt irritated by his insistence on me. I hold his hand and put it down but he still insists that I should drink even one glass. And when I couldn't stand his insistence anymore, I grabbed his hand that holding a glass of wine and suddenly wrapped his arm around his back.

"I told you that I don't drink because I'm at work, so why are you so stubborn?" I'm running out of patience with him. "Just go back to your seat and— shit" I cursed when I heard the loud closing of the door and when I looked at Enrique, he was no longer inside the room. Damn you, Enrique! You can't escape from me tonight, Enrique!