The Billionaire's Secret Child.

Chapter 5 - Just a little chat...

Matteo's POV.

I walk into my office. It is 1:45pm. My mates/business partners/brothers-from-other-mothers are all in the conference room across the hall. Each one looks pissed, especially Clarke. Fucking Hell I really don't need this shit now. I decide to man up and deal with them.

"S'up fellas" I say as I enter the conference room, Jackson is smirking but ignores me and continues to type. Leo doesn't even acknowledge my presence. Giovanni nods at me before leaving the room and Anton isn't all that fussed either, probs absorbed in some finance report. However, Ottoman Clarke on the other hand, known to friends as Clarke, is fuming. He is my longest friend, since kindergarten, but today he is starting to get on my nerves?! Ok, so i was late. It isn't as if i am always late! If anything I'm always fucking early!

"What's wrong Otto?" He hates when I call him that and unless I piss him off he wont tell me what his problem is.

"What's wrong? WHAT'S WRONG?" He imitates me "YOU...YOU are what's wrong! I called and messaged you all night, til 6:00AM THIS MORNING! And you haven't even returned my calls!" Now Clarke is really beginning to get on my nerves?! Who the fuck does he think he is? My girlfriend?

"Fucking hell Clarke it isn't like your my fucking girlfriend! You can cope without me ffs! You didn't become a multi-millionaire by being fucking dependant! This isn't about me not returning your calls, you are mad about something else and my not-answering has tipped you over the edge. So... what is it? Is it Brooke?" He glares at me over the mention of her name. BINGO!

The tension in the room is so thick you could cut it with a knife. I move over to sit in the chair opposite Clarke.
"Dude, what happened?"
"Brooke left me..." he deadpans. I am shocked. Brooke and Clarke had been together since high school, she'd stuck with him through thick and thin; from getting through high school to establishing his multi million dollar company. Honestly I'm at a loss for words... but I ask the question we are all thinking.
"Why?"
"Be...because... I... slept with someone else." If I was shocked before now I am fucking blown away?! He DID WHAT?! OTTOMAN CLARKE CHEATED?!
"Shit, dude, that's rough. I'm sorry I wasn't around for a chat last night but honestly anything you need I'm here for you both; you and Brooke."
Brooke was always a friend of mine, well if the entire group of us to be fair. Then her and Clarke got together in high school and have been together ever since, I don't know all the details but I'll support them both even if I think Clarke played a dick move. I decide to tell him about Grace.

"Here you lot" I address the rest of my friends/brothers/business partners "clear off for a bit alright" they all leave so it is just me and Clarke.
"I met this girl..." I tell him, "Yeah, but we were both pretty drunk and I don't know how or why but I work up late this morning and when I woke up she was gone, and I felt so strange... like I wished we'd woken up together and shit... it was strange, really fucking strange" Clarke looks at me like I've grown an extra 2 heads.

"You had a one night stand and you are sad that she left you in the morning before you could leave her alone in your penthouse with some cab fare?!" He laughs at me and I smile because he knows my routine.

"It wasn't like that, she knew Javier and Harriet and she wasn't a slut or anything, she seemed a genuinely nice girl and something just clicked it..." I tell him. Clarke is probs the guy I trust most out of our little brotherhood, he is genuinely my closest friend.

***Author's Note***

Again, this is a short chapter in the hope I can speed up the story and get to the exciting parts! Enjoy!