The Best Friend's Contract novel Chapter 16

''Good. I thought you were going to kill me,''

''I was,'' She replies, making me look up at her face as she remains smiling. Her lips are curved up into a wide grin before flipping her hair, ''I just changed my mind.''

Kenna's orders came, her usual apple pie and warm green tea being served in front of her which causes her to close her eyes and smell the aroma. My grin grows wider at the sight of her enjoyment when it comes to food, it's not an everyday thing to see someone has this much love for food. It's really, really, really mind-blowing.

''Here's the contract,'' I say before unlocking my phone and pushing it towards her, letting her look down at the screen. ''You just need to sign under your name and then, I will make another copy for you.'' I add.

Her blue eyes move up to meet mine, ''Is this one of your tactics to make me sign without reading the conditions that you have wrote?'' She raises an eyebrow.

''Is it working?'' I smirk, causing her to laugh.

She grabs my phone before scrolling up, reading the conditions that I have wrote. Her conditions are also in the contract which has been rewrote and stated, neatly with no alterations, whatsoever. ''Wait a minute, number two is kind of funny to me.'' She says, turning the phone.

She reads it, loud enough for me to hear. ''Kenna will not be allowed to see other men or go on dates except with Aidan. Once broken, there are consequences.'' She says in a confused tone, ''What are the consequences?'' She asks.

''I haven't thought about it yet but we can discuss them together to make it more fair,'' I reply. ''I know that you're not seeing anybody right now but since you've stated that I shall be faithful to you . . . might as well add that to my conditions. It does not consider fair if it's only for the other person, doesn't it?'' I question, taking a bite of her apple pie as she continues to read the conditions.

''Fair enough,'' She mutters. ''The marriage shall last for three hundred and sixty-five days. Never less and never more under any circumstances, at all—yet, can be further discussed in the future.'' She chuckles a little bit at the end as she nods, ''I like this one . . . it's discussable,''

''Only for certain situations. Serious situations,'' I nod and she continues to read, scrolling and scrolling as she takes a bite of her pie.

Her eyes widen as she bursts out into laughters which leaves me frowning, ''Either party are not allowed to fall in love with each other under any circumstances. What makes you think this is going to happen?'' She asks, her eyes piercing into mine as she chuckles, ''I can't believe I just read that,'' She adds.

Dimitri was the one who convinced me to add the precise condition. He told me, anything can happen and I needed to take precautions. A year is not a short amount of time, especially when spent together . . . under the same roof. There shall be moments where both of us might get lost or confused and in order to avoid those kind of things to happen, he assured me to add it into one of my conditions.

''Dimitri added that,'' I say after shrugging. ''You and I both know anything can happen and it's just a reminder so that it shall not happen,'' I point under her name for her to sign, in which she does before giving me back my phone.

She smiles, ''So, he was worried it might happen? Us, falling in love . . . it seems impossible, don't you think? We have known each other long enough and nothing has ever happened before. I don't think it's going to happen now,'' She continues to say with both of her eyes buried into mine in which I fairly agree; spoke the words out of my mouth.

''Exactly.'' I agree, ''I told him exactly that but he was being very stubborn about it,''

Both of her eyes roll as she continues to smile, letting me lean back on my seat. ''We've signed the contract. It's really going to happen and it's going to last for a year. Now, there is no more turning back . . . we just have to go on with it,'' I say, loud enough for her to hear.

To my surprise, I find my mother entering the café which causes me to immediately mutter curses under my breath as Kenna turns, her eyes meeting my mother's. Then, she looks back at me with wide eyes, matching my current expression. The two of us stare at one another for a few seconds until we hear our names being called.

''We're fucked,'' Kenna and I say, in unison.

''Thank god we ran into you guys here,'' My mother, says and I raise an eyebrow as she walks towards us. Both of her eyes are staring at me before turning to look at Kenna, smiling widely, ''I called but none of you answered your phones and I saw your car outside. I just had to come in,'' She continues to say.

''We? What do you mean, we?'' I ask, waiting for her to answer as she turns to point at Julia—Kenna's mother, standing near the entrance with Amelia, also known as Mia, my sister. My eyes roll in annoyance at the sight of my sister and my mother, knowing she won't stop bugging about the wedding.