Building The Perfect Harem With My Heavenly Desire System-Chapter 44: A Towel, An Accident, and a Blushing Queenpin
Chapter 44
As soon as the towel hit the floor, there was a long awkward silence so much so that it felt as if time had really chosen to pause at that exact moment.
Alex stood there, completely naked and felt his brain suddenly go blank for a split second as he tried to process what had just happened. This was officially the most embarrassing moment of his life. Sure, Nyx had seen his exposed body and he had seen hers before, but that was back then when she was still affected by the aura of seduction and was hazy, so it was completely different from now.
Having her see him in all his glory while completely sober had broken all the possible scales of embarrassing moments ever created.
bracing himself, he turned toward Nyx expecting her to shout at him, with something like ’cover up your damn body, or I guess you’re really tired of living...’ you know? stuff like that. But Nyx remained completely frozen like a deer caught in headlight.
Her amber eyes which had been sharp and commanding just seconds ago, were completely frozen on his junior brother... Then the worst possible thing that could ever happen, happened. The idiot of a dick as if responding to her intense gaze, gave a defiant nod, causing heat to instantly spread all over Nyx’s face.
And for the first time in his life, Alex watched as the terrifying underworld queenpin blushed out of pure embarrassment. Meanwhile the culprit continued to nod its head with pride. God knows he tried to stop it, but he just couldn’t.
Nyx finally snapped out of the shock and hurriedly turned her face away.
"P-put it back on."
Alex blinked once, then twice, before quickly bending down and grabbing the fallen towel.
"Right. Yeah. That... that makes sense."
He wrapped it back around his waist, this time tying the insufferable towel even tighter than before, as if his life depended on it, though there was still a very noticeable bulge that refused to go down.
He tried thinking about other things to let his junior brother calm down, but sadly it was all for naught. The bastard continued to stand firm and proud. So he decided to let it be, with the thought that the bastard would surely calm down sooner or later and go back to its previous state.
Nyx kept her face turned away, but the damage had already been done. She couldn’t just unsee what she had just seen. Alex cleared his throat and tried to salvage whatever dignity he had left.
"So... Uh... You were saying something about a meeting? Could we maybe just... continue?"
Nyx didn’t respond, she just folded her arms tightly across her ample chest, making them strain across the silk fabric, as she tried to regain her composure.
"Just go and put on some damn clothes..." She snapped. "And make sure that thing is back to normal. If not, I’ll make sure it never rises again in this life."
Alex felt a chill run up his spine and instinctively clutched his little brother. It’s not like it was his fault that his rod happened to react to her okay? It was just because of her intense gaze... And maybe because of how hot she looked while sporting a body made for sin. ’Ahh!’ he was really a degenerate.
With a huff, he made a hasty retreat toward his room and headed straight for the wardrobe. After managing to make himself look presentable at the very least, he walked back toward Nyx who had already at some point returned back to her cool and indifferent demeanor.
He stopped a few steps away from her, with his hands buried deep inside his pocket, trying to pretend like the incident from earlier hadn’t bothered him one bit. Though the movement looked slightly comical and awkward it still worked.
Nyx, noticing his presence, lifted her head up, before speaking coldly.
"Next time make sure you’re properly dressed before answering the door. What if it had been another woman? she would have seen your shameless body. Though I doubt any woman has the guts to visit my man."
"Now as I was saying," she continued, her voice slowly regaining it’s usual authority. "There’s going to be a shareholders meeting tomorrow morning. And it is really important that you come, so I don’t want to hear any excuses tomorrow."
Alex raised a brow slightly.
"That serious?"
"Yes," she replied without hesitation. "There are decisions going to be made that will affect the company’s direction for the next quarter, like expanding our partnership with other companies, restructuring all internal matters of the company and ongoing development of our latest product. These are things you should be present for, considering how you are currently the largest shareholder in BluePeak Corporation."
He nodded slowly. Alex understood that these were things that urgently required his presence, so he couldn’t just pull away from them, plus tomorrow he would finally implement some certain ideas that he may or may not have borrowed from top tech giants in the future, especially their amazing ideas that could boost BluePeak Corporation all the way to the top of the world, making them a dominant force to be reckoned with.
"Alright, so what time should I be there? Should it be something early or late or something in between?"
"It would be ten a.m. sharp. So don’t be late. And make sure you dress decently, I want to use that opportunity to announce to the world that you are my man, so that no girl will get any funny ideas of stealing you. Plus with the announcement, it will halt all romantic advances from Renzo and some other powerful people, once they think I’m really serious about making you my man—"
"Wait, did you just say Renzo? So that entitled son of a bitch still hasn’t learned his lesson from last time?" Alex scoffed. "Damn, I knew I should have dissed him harder... But I do have to hand it to him. The bastard is really stubborn."
The system chirped into his mind.
[You keep talking like you can even do anything to him. The only reason you were able to insult him last time, was because you didn’t know he was from the Kade family]
’With how much I’ve grown do you think I’ll still be wa—"
Grrrr... Grrrr... Grrr
A loud rumble came from his stomach, completely shattering whatever atmosphere had been building between him and Nyx.
’Shit! I almost forgot all about that damn healing water’s effect. Now I have to go cook something fast. If not , I’m literally going to starve to death.’
So without another word, Alex hurriedly dashed into the kitchen with inhumane speed, leaving Nyx wondering whether the hunger was really that bad?
The moment he stepped into the kitchen, the confident air he had been so desperately trying to maintain completely collapsed. He opened the cabinet and stared at the lonely pack of slightly expired instant noodles sitting inside like it was mocking him.
With a loud sigh, though he would have preferred something fresh, Alex decided to make do with what he had and tore the packet open with more force than necessary, poured the noodles into a pot, and turned on the stove. Soon the faint sound of boiling water filled the quiet apartment.
From the living room, Nyx sat still for a moment with her arms still folded across each other. She was tempted to check on what the idiot was doing inside the kitchen since he had dashed off without a single word.
So finally giving in to her curiosity, she walked toward the kitchen, leaned lightly against the doorway and watched his clumsy yet fluid movements from behind. The sight of him trying to prepare something as simple as noodles was oddly amusing. She didn’t even know when a slight smile had graced her beautiful face, making it even more enchanting than normal.
Alex, meanwhile, didn’t even notice when she had come, he was too busy stirring the noodles impatiently. Its not like he didn’t know how to cook or anything, afterall he was kind of a great cook in his previous life, but the damn hunger had gotten to his mind, making his movements look... hasty and unrefined.
"I thought people like you were supposed to know how to cook since you don’t exactly have the luxury of ordering take out or going to a fancy restaurant."
Alex flinched from the sudden voice, before glancing over his shoulder.
"Gosh! You startled me... And what do you think I’m doing here? Performing magic? Let me tell you, this is how all the top chefs are cooking this season. It’s kinda like the latest thing..."
Nyx raised a brow slightly and swept her gaze over the pot, then back to him.
"Top chefs... Cooking instant noodles?"
Alex didn’t even bat an eyelid and continued shamelessly.
"Exactly, you’d be surprised by how many of them are secretly cooking it."
Nyx stared in amusement at his blatant display of shamelessness. But decided not to push it. After a minute or two, the noodles were finally done. Alex turned off the stove, grabbed a bowl and poured the steaming content into it. He paused for a second remembering about his unexpected guest and fought between giving her a portion or eating the whole thing.
