CHAPTER 4

Anastasia couldn't believe who her eyes were seeing and also what her ears were hearing. She rubbed her eyes and pinched her skin just to confirm she wasn't hallucinating that Sebastian Blackwood the owner of Phoenix Empire wasn't standing in front of her looking handsome as ever

'my future husba..my boss is here?? No no no it has to be a misunderstanding no it's a dream' she thought to herself

"Boss, did you want to tell me something? I mean you could have just called oh wait you don't have my number" Ana sputtered out the first reasonable sentence she could come up with

"No" Sebastian said

"Then are you here for an apology because I called you mute? I am so sorry" Ana blubbered

"No" came his curt response again

Aunt Corazon quickly picked up on the tense atmosphere between the two youngsters and she couldn't help but acknowledge the fact whereby her little Ana had a really good taste in men but then why didn't she just directly ask him if he was being serious about moving in or not

Glancing at Ana who was still trying to formulate a new question, the older lady sighed and approached the handsome young man who reminded her of her favorite Korean actor Leeminho, as she got closer to him she quickly became conscious of her height as she had to resort to craning her neck in order to speak with him else she'd be on eye contact range with his chest

'Have I suddenly become too short or is this man ridiculously too tall?' Aunt Corazon asked herself

She offered the man a sweet smile "Hello dear, are you the one moving into flat six?"

Sebastian responded with a nod

And Anastasia's head almost exploded. Their apartment building had two floors and each floor had three flats. Aunt Corazon stayed in flat four, while Ana stayed in flat five, which meant her soon to be husband would be her neighbor

'Oh miss universe, I know I had asked for this but isn't this a bit too fast'

Aunt Corazon smiled as she nodded "oh how lovely, welcome dear, Welcome"

Anastasia wanted the ground to open up so she could be swallowed by it "Boss, I think there's a little mixup, this place isn't Banana island"

Banana island was literally a high class area where rich people and people who had nothing better to do with money aside showing it off lived.

Anastasia smiled at her intelligence as she felt that was the only justifiable reason why the man she was in love with was at her apartment building

Sebastian checked his watch "I have a few houses at Banana island, I'm not lost"

Aunt Corazon almost collapsed "what? A house at that area costs up to millions of dollars and you have a few houses" looking at Ana's wide eyed face "a few is more than one right?, I really do think you've got the wrong residential area"

"No l actually prefer here so I'm moving here" Sebastian answered while Aunt Corazon felt as if she was going to pass out

Anastasia asked "why would you prefer here over Banana island?"

Sebastian stared at Anastasia for a while before finally giving her a reply. "I don't know"

'what sorta answer is that, don't rich people usually know the reason why theydecide to move out of their houses' Ana wondered to herself

Staring back at him, Anastasia found it a bit difficult to understand him but who cared right? Her handsome prince charming was going to be her next door neighbor, the universe was working in her favor.

Aunt Corazon could clearly see the love shaped clouds floating out of Ana's head as she continued letting her imagination run wild.

"Ana dear, enough with the questions and let the young man rest"

Ana immediately snapped back to realityand offered him a cute smile "Yes Aunty, I hope you can forgive my manners Boss, welcome, I stay in flat five and since we are going to be neighbors feel free to ask me for help, and when you're less busy I could show you around the block also the best markets, and superstores to get groceries from"

Sebastian couldn't help him self from staring at her million dollar smile on her pretty shaped pinklips.

"Okay"

After his stuffs were properly arranged in his apartment, he received a call from Philip

"Boss it's not too late, we can stillmove your items back to Banana island"

Philip was shocked beyond reasonable doubts when Sebastian had asked him to get the address of Anastasia, and buy the house closest to her. He was more shocked and thrown off balance when Sebastian added that he wanted to move in next to Anastasia.

Sebastian didn't reply his assistant

Philip spoke again "what was the need to leave Banana island Sire"

"Cause I don't want to live there anymore, I want to live near Anastasia" Sebastian firmly answered as he made his way towards the toilet

Philip felt like he had been hit with athunderbolt "You want to what? But boss you just met this Anastasia of a girl, it hasn't even been up to twenty four hours and you want to live next to her??Why?"

Sebastian stopped dead in his tracks and thought of a good reason as to why actually wanted to live next to the girl but he couldn't come up with a reasonable excuse

"I don't know stop asking me questions" came his curt reply

Philip was dumbfounded at his bosses response to his innocent question

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Ana stared at her gas cooker for the umpteenth time contemplating whether to make a dish for her handsome prince charming or actually go have dinner with her Aunt Corazon

"'Ana it's good manners to offer him a dish as a welcome to the hood kind of offering I'm sure Aunt Corazon would understand" she said to herself

While Ana was still contemplating as to what to do, Aunt Corazon knocked on her door and opened it

"Ana dear, dinners ready come on"

Anastasia sheepishly grinned "Aunty..."

"Why are you looking at me like that" Aunt Corazon suspiciously asked

Ana smiled "oh Aunty, I was actually on my way to tell you that I had already eaten, I completely forgot about our dinner"

Aunt Corazon narrowed her eyes "how old do you think I am, you can't fool me. Iknow you're planning on making dinner for that handsome boss yours"

"OhAunty have you started reading minds cause you really are the best, what can I say? I want to wow him with my cooking skills, maybe then he'd love me enough to marry me, you know the way to a mans heart is through his stomach" Ana said with stars and sparkled in her eyes

Aunt Corazon raised her brow "That's a true saying for someone who actually knows how to cook, apart from instant noodles and tea what else can you make child?"

"Ouch Aunt... that was a big blow to my tiny heart and pride, just because I hardly cook doesn't mean I can't cook it means I enjoy your delicious meals" Ana countered

"Of course, just try not to burn the house okay?" came Aunt Corazon's sarcastic remark

Ana laughed "I'll try my best Aunt"

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As Sebastian entered his bathroom he couldn't help but sigh in frustration

Unlike his bathroom back at Banana island, this one was small, too small for him and as he glanced at the bathtub he knew there'd be a tiny little problem of being cramped up inside it

Sebastian stood still at the bathroom door for a while before he finally went in for a bath after some minutes he came outside with a towel tied on his waist and his silky black hair dripping water.

As he came out of the bathroom and towardshis room he immediately twitched his nose as he smelled something burning.

Sebastian quickly walked round his house and discovered that the smell wasn't coming from his flat, which meant only one thing

"Anastasia" he called out in panic