Taming A Billionaire

The third point of view:

Ailee slammed her locker door closed and turned around, almost bumping into someone. 

"Jesus christ!" She explained, taking a step back. 

"Hi," He waved then said immediately, "Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you," The boy apologized. 

"Well, nice to know that," Ailee said, then raised a questioning brow as if saying, "So... ?" 

"Ah, yeah," He immediately reached for his backpack and brought out a textbook - her textbook by the looks of it. 

"You lend me your textbook last week," He said to her with a friendly expression,"I'm kind of done with it," 

"I did?" Ailee kept up with her questions while receiving the book from him.. No wonder, she has been looking for that textbook for her assignment. 

"Yes, you did. Don't you remember?" he pressed his lips together, expecting a positive response from her. 

Oh boy, Ailee scratched the back of her head awkwardly. How and where did she know him? She didn't want to disappoint the poor boy, he looked kind of cute and humble. 

"Eh... The thing is that my mind sometimes comes and leaves -" 

"You don't remember me," He saw through her. 

"Yep," Ailee told the truth, it was useless lying to the poor boy when he seemed pretty smart. 

"It's no problem," He covered up the hurt in his eyes, "I was not expecting you to remember me anyway - I'm not in the league of people you communicate with. It's quite surprising you even lend me your textbook by the way," 

"Hey, don't say that," Ailee retorted, he was making her feel guilty. Who said she was unapproachable, she was not some fucking princess. 

"Don't say what?" 

"The way you say it, it almost seems like we're practicing a caste system," Ailee pointed out. 

"Isn't that the case? The powerful here are determined by the family they're born into -" 

"Or their ability," Ailee interrupted him, "If you don't come from a wealthy home, then make it up with your skills and knowledge. You claim we are already powerful from wealthy family, do you think the money is all that there is to us. We work twice as hard as the average human to keep up to that high expectations set for us. 

"Moreover, this is a dog eat dog world. The survival of the weakest and only the strongest would stand at the top of the food chain. So sorry, if I don't agree with your reasoning," 

The boy blinked, surpised at her response. Obviously, he had wanted to play the role of a victim but it backfired at him. 

"You're right, then," He chuckled awkwardly, "I shouldn't have said that," preparing to leave. 

"I'm not entirely blameless, it's wrong of me to forget who I lend my book to," Ailee said to him, "If you don't mind, I would love to know your name once again -"

"Austin," He introduced himself before Ailee was even through her words.

"Whoah, Austin, that's a nice name," She breathed, taking him in. The boy was innocently cute and she didn't need to consider his glasses to know that he's a nerd. 

Unfortunately, innocently cute guys weren't her type. Ailee needed a strong alpha male, one who was respectful yet took what he wanted. She bet one aggressive move from her and Austin would scramble away. So sorry, she doesn't date babies. 

"A-hem," Austin cleared his throat awkwardly, "So I eh.." He scratched the back of her head, "I marked some valuable pointers in in between the texts that would help you, not that you're not smart alresdy" He rambled on, "I just thought you might need them,"

"Aww," she complimented him, "That's nice of you," while flipping through the pages and confirming his hardwork.

"This must have taken quite some time," She noticed.

"No, no," Austin shook her hands at once, "It was nothing and I'm glad to do it,"

Ailee glanced up from her book, "I don't know how to thank you,"

He boomed at her, "It's nothing but if you really want to thank me, you can go that over a cup of coffee,"

"Over a cup of coffee?" Ailee's brows shut up.

"In that cafeteria," Austin intentionally lowered his expectation instantly when he saw the way her face changed. He was not confident enough to ask her out directly and had used the idea of coffee to try his luck but it seems a failure. 

Ailee did not frown, she was just surpised. But when he changed their setting to the cafeteria, a frown finally appeared. As she thought, he was not confident enough. But then, to honour her words, she said, 

"Sure, I would have coffee with you in the....." She trailed off as she saw Neon come to stand behind Austin. 

Wonderful, here they come again. She wondered, if they placed a camera on her or something because they seem to know the perfect moment to interrupt. 

Her gaze returned apologetically to Austin who began to perspire as he too sensed the presence of a certain terror.

"You brother is behind me, isn't he?" Austin asked nervously, his hands clammy from fright.

"Yes," Ailee answered, pinching the bridge of her nose.

"Which of them?" Austin was beginning to shake. 

Poor boy, Ailee thought. Another victim to her brothers bullying.

"The lesser evil," Was Ailee's reply. She mouthed, "I'm sorry," to him.

"Neon," Austin recognized that and was a bit grateful for that. Atleast, his life was guaranteed. 

He gave Ailee a wry smile before turning to the stoic faced Neon, he gulped.

"Get lost,"

It was just two words from Neon but Austin knew those words decided his fate and he hightailed it out of there. No little crush on Ailee was worth his life. He had heard of the cruelty of her brothers and didn't want to be a victim.

"Happy?" Ailee glared at her Neon. She was tired of their invasion. At this rate, she would die a virgin. Hopefully, she doesn't attend the same university with her brothers else she would hang herself. She can't take this shit anymore.

"Are you angry?" He tilted his head to the side inquiringly.

"No, I'm not," She faked a smile that barely lasted a seconds before increasing her glare as she asked him, "Do I look like I'm happy?!"

"Calm down," Neon told her, "This isn't worth getting worked up for,"

But that nonchalant attitude pissed her the more.

"I don't even interfere in your sex life!" She reminded him. 

"I don't have a sex life," Neon was not ashamed to admit that. 

"Of course, you don't. I won't even be surpised if you're gay," She retorted. 

Neon frowned at her, "I'm not gay," 

She scoffed, wrapping her hand across her chest, "Really?" 

"You want to confirm that?"

"What?" Ailee was confused by that ambiguous question. Why would she want to confirm that? 

"Do you want to know if I'm attracted to women or not?" Neon asked, stepping closer to her and used his finger to trail down her arm seductively. 

Ailee gulped, a shiver climbing down her spine. 

"Do you want to know?" His voice lowered sexily and was quite tempting, while his eyes darkened as his gaze held hers. 

Ailee wanted to take her eyes away but at the same time she was enticed by the emotion in there and for a moment, she was tempted to take up his offer. Her heart danced to a weird pitter patter tune and to her horror, she was turned on.

"Why would I want to know that?" She expressed disgust, "Gosh, I'm your sister, Neon!" 

At the mention of "sister" Neon's eyes turned icily dark and Ailee gulped, wondering what she had said wrong. His grip around her arm tightened to the point that Ailee had no choice but to cry out, "You're hurting me, Neon,"

At that comment, the coldness in his gaze lowered as he lossened his grip as well. 

"I'm not gay," He said, then looked to her arm, "And I'm sorry for that,"

"S-sure," Ailee muttered. She wasn't sure what was going on with him anymore. 

Then he reached out and tugged her hair behind her ear, "So beautiful," He muttered. 

Ailee's heart missed a beat and she scolded herself for it. This wasn't the first time Neon was being this loving with her, so why was she making it a big deal lately. God, what was wrong with her? She had to stop this madness soon and the only way to do so was to find a boyfriend. 

"Don't flirt with boys," Neon said, his gaze boring into hers as if he knew what she was thinking. 

Ailee rolled her eyes to heaven, this was simply ridiculous. At that moment, she made a decision never to give birth to boys if she ever got married - she didn't envision a life with any man at the rate of her brother's possessiveness. 

For a guy to be her boyfriend, he had to be stronger than Allen, slyer than Neon and smarter than her. Where would she find a guy like that?