He did not defend me...

"Why would I want to meet your mother?" I asked.

He did not give me an immediate answer. He stared at me for a while before he spoke. "just stop talking and come with me."

I shook my head. "with all due respect, sir. I don't want to come with you. You can not just keep tossing me around."

He raised his brows then inserted his hands in his pockets. "I have not been tossing you around." He denied.

I shook my head in disbelief. "yes you have and honestly, I don't think I have the strength to mince words with you."

He stared blankly at me before speaking. "you need to stop overeating."

"Stop telling me that because if I was overrating, I would not even be standing here talking to you right now! I am.beung very friendly so stop with that bill sh*t!" I argued, clearly agitated.

I could see that he was ready to leave me standing here but something was holding him back. The only reason he was tolerating me was because this was important to him for whichever reason. I knew that was the only reasonable explanation.

"If you were asked to explain why you are acting this way, do you have anything to say?" He asked after sometime.

"Of course I do! I have every right to act this way after how you left me that Adelia. You let her insult me while you stood there and watched! I'm sorry but I can't get over the fact that you, the reason I am here was ready to make me go through all that. It was embarrassing. For the first time in a long time, I felt genuinely embarrassed. No, that was not cool so don't expect me to smile and pretend that everything is okay because honestly, it us not." I was out if breath by the time I finished explaining myself but to me, it was genuinely worth it.

"I do not involve myself in female drama." He didn't said.

That was all he could articulate after the long speech I just gave? This man was genuinely a list cause.

I scoffed. "how convenient."

"You did not ask me to defend you." He added.

"I did not have to ask you. You were supposed to do it without being asked. It's common courtesy that you protect the person whose company you are in." I said disbelievingly.

I can not believe that I had to explain this to him before he understood what I was saying.

A lady of me believe that he was just doing this because he wanted to. I do not think there is a man with more courtesy than him.

He did not care about me. It was obvious in every single thing he did. I did not care about him too. But I expected more from the man who requested that I follow him here..

That was my only argument and I was ready to take the bull by it's horns anytime the need arises.

"Listen to me. We had a deal. S deal is a deal. I do not get why you are trying to make things difficult." He snapped.

It was the first time he raised his voice since we got here but the music was so loud that I was sure that no one could hear us at all.

"I agree that I made a deal..."

"Then stick by it." He said cutting me off. "Stop trying to be melodramatic. I chose you for this ball because I believed that you had no emotions attached and you could control yourself very well."

As he saying I was doing emotional. I glared at him. "yes, u can control my emotions..."

"Then act like you can. Stop trying to bring up stuff that are not necessary." He snapped once again, his tone rising with every single word he spoke.

"Since we got here, it's been one complain or the other from you. You always have something to say. Why just you just make my life difficult?" He growled.

Was he scolding me right now? What did I even do? I was just calling out the things that he did! How did that end up making me the bad person! Kindly make it make sense!

"According to you, you did not like the way Adelia was speaking to you. Why did you not speak back..."

"You clearly told me not to insert myself in situations that had nothing to do with me..."

He raised his hand, cutting me off abruptly. "if Adelia was being rude to you then it had everything to do with you. I would not stop you from giving her a reply. When you started speaking up for yourself, did I stop you? So why are you here being extra?"

I had a lot of answers to give him it I did not trust myself not to say the wrong things so I just kept quiet and listened to him speak. I also don't know why I kept something as simple as that get to me.

Maybe it's because I am currently tired and exhausted. That had to be the reason for my sudden overreaction.

"Listen to me. We are not in a relationship so I don't see why you have to point every single thing out as a problem. We made a deal and the deal states that you are to accompany me here. I do not remember talking about being your mouth piece. It's a platonic deal, let it be that." He explained carefully.

His words cut deep. Deeper than I would have liked but I was grateful. He was saying the truth. I did not want to hear it but he was saying the truth.

I'll be platonic from Joe henceforth. That seemed to be lesser trouble and more peace.

He cleared his throat. "Also bear in mind that if you do not follow me to my mother, this deal and the benefits you were promised are off."