ANDRE HAD FEVER FOR ARIANNA

Entered her office and pulled her jacket off wearing only her bustier.

She typed some works and finally she was able to fall asleep until she heard a loud music echoing in the room.

At first she thought it was from the outside but when she entered the restroom, it was sounding much closer.

She had put her ear on the walls to be sure.

What if there’s a secret room, one brain cell whispered to her.

She turned her palm all over the wall and finally she got the main one.

A staircase leading to the music room.

She swallowed nervously and went up the stairs following the now deafening music sound.

She got to a room and found Andre in the room

Andre's eyebrow twitched, he eyed her dreadfully, his eyes rested on her bustier then he looked away, grabbed a champagne glass and poured a large volume of the wine and drank all down his throat in a fist gulp, dropping the glass to chatter on the floor.

"What are you doing here?"he grunted.

"I...heard the music s..."

"In the company"

He cuts in roughly.

"I had a lot to do so..I decided to stay back and ..."

"I don't want to hear about it anymore,just get out of here".

He mouthed, his brows arched tightly.

Arianna nodded slowly and turned to the door but then heard a mighty fall sound.

She turned and found Andre lying on the floor.

He had tried to get up but collapsed on the floor, Arianna's eyes widened at the sight.

"Are you alright? '' she gasped and quickly rushed to help him. She thought he was drunk but as soon as she touched his arm, she felt the scorching heat on her own skin, and immediately he jerked his hand away from her.

"Get your hands off me"he grunted.

“You are burning up Teddy”Arianna snapped, annoyed with his rudeness, she only wanted to help.

“Stop calling me that for christ's sake and get the hell out of here”.He grunted again as he snapped his head up, the fever was visible in his bloodshot eyes.

Arianna decided to ignore his arrogance.

"Your temperature is high, you have a fever".

“I am okay, I don't need you to leave now” He said coldly with his eyebrow arched.

Arianna ignored him again and offered her hand, but he shoved it off as he kept on struggling on his own to get up to his feet.

Arianna watched him struggle, the muscles in his arms bulged as he hauled himself upright.

She could see the huge effort it took him to stand upright as he braced his hands on a nearby furniture.

His face wet with sheens of sweat beads and his broad chest heave with ragged pants.

Arianna shifted closer to hold him.

“Are you deaf, I said get the hell out of here”.

Arianna frowned at his childishness and ego, yes they're not on good terms, but he is obviously very sick and needed help, the hell can’t he swallow his ego for once and let her help him.

“Why should I, when I am having so much fun watching you suffer you pigeon,I am only going to torment you not like I care?” She sneered and smiled broadly purposely to annoy him.

“Get lost will you?"he barked back,his voice feverish.

Arianna shook her head at his stubbornness and went ahead to put an arm around his waist, she could feel the heat, his fever was really high, his height made her look so small beside him.

“Let me get you to the bed first,"she offered.

“I can go to the bed myself ,if you need someone to help, my brother must be in need of a female bedroom mate right now you should go help”He coughed.

Arianna knew quite well he cannot get to the bedroom on his own accord, he was literally leaning on her to gain support to stand upright on his own feet, he looked really helpless and fragile but no he won't admit it.

“I bet you will drop like a bag of beans if I let you go, you can hardly stand, aren’t you ever tired of carrying that big ego of yours?”

“You are annoying, I swear you are annoying!"he yelled in frustration.

"Englissssssh please! I don't understand feverish".

Arianna snapped and smiled at him, he was really cute sounding so annoyed and even cuter leaning more to her to gain his support yet sounding as if he did rather die than ask for her help.

“I am annoying alright, I am going to annoy you, now I am taking you to that bed, with or without your permission Mr arrogant”.

To her surprise, he didn’t put up any more protests as she led him towards the bed, she gently eased him down on the large king size bed in the dim light, his skin was now slick with sweat.

He shivered uncontrollably and his teeth chattering as he spoke.

“Now you should let me be,"he mumbled.

Arianna walked out of the room but with a different purpose.

First I need to get his temperature down, let me try dousing him with cold water, she thought.

"Well she actually left"

Andre mumbled to himself and cursed.

"Not like I care anyway".

Few minutes later, she returned to the bedroom armed with a pocket of cold water and a small towel. She dropped them on his bed side and went ahead to open up the windows.

Andre on the other side, watched her beneath lowered temperature. It was so hot, yet his body was shivering uncontrollably, he couldn't even open his eyes widely.

"Damn you Arianna, one day without you I could hardly see"he cursed.

Arianna got closer to him, she could still feel the heat pumping off his body, and also he was sweating profusely, so much that his pants got soaked.