Chapter 4

1 week later

JULIANA'S POV

About a week had passed since that man dropped by at the café I worked at and he had continued coming in ever day since.

However, a couple days ago, I was locking up when I saw my father approach the café, probably trying to make me come back home, afraid that I would go to the police about the endless abuse he inflicted on me and Estella.

I ran before he had the chance to talk to me and handed in my letter of resignation the next day, so my father would stop trying to contact me.

However, I was now jobless and had resulted to babysitting. A man had emailed me via the website I had set up, asking me to babysit his nephew for him. He had offered me a shït load of money so I obviously agreed.

I got out of the taxi with Estella in my arms. A couple hours ago, a man contacted me on my website asking me to babysit his nephew. He offered me the amount that I would normally make in a month so of course, I agreed.

'Holy shït' I thought as I laid my eyes on house. This guy was rich. I never knew these types of houses actually existed in real life. It was huge and it even had a pool at the front.

"Swimming" I heard Estella mumble as she reached out to the pool. I smiled
"Not today, baby" I said, watching her pout in return

I reached the front door and rang the doorbell, excited to see what the inside of the house looked like.

The door was angrily whipped open to reveal the last person I had expected.
"You're 15 minutes la-" the man began, only for his eyes to soften and jaw to unclench as he made eye contact with me.

"It's you again" I said shocked

"What are you doing here?" He frowned as he saw me.

"I- you asked me to babysit."

"You're not Julie." He said, confused.

"My full name is Juliana, some people like to call me Julie." I shrugged.

"I prefer Juliana" he said, his eyes never leaving mine.

"How did you know my name wasn't Julie, anyways?"

"Uh.. you just don't look like a Julie." He said. I didn't miss the light blush that was forming in his cheeks and I nodded.

"I went to the café and you weren't there so I asked and they said you stopped working there" he continued.

"You asked for me?" I blushed and he cleared his throat.

"Yeh because I liked the way you made my coffee" he said and looked away.

"Oh. It just wasn't paying enough so I decided to leave" I lied.

I felt Estella tug on my hair and I forgot that I hadn't even properly introduced her to the man yet.

"This is my sister as you probably already know, I hope you don't mind me bringing her, I had nowhere else to take her"

"No of course not, it's fine" he replied.

"I'm Tyberias and this is Luca," he said and turned around only to find what looked like a 5 year old boy biting a chair leg.
"That shit was expensive." I heard him mutter as he rushed over to stop him and picked him up.

Estella has been surprisingly quiet since we arrived. I looked down to see her staring at Tyberias with a shy smile and a deep blush on her face. I smiled knowing she probably has a crush on him. Honestly, who could blame her?

"I'll leave you to it, I've got some work that I need to do" he said, putting Luca down only for him to run onto the couch and start jumping up and down.
"I'll come down in a couple hours to serve diner"

"Your staying? Normally when you hire a babysitter, it's because you're going out and have no one to look after the kid."

"Let just say Luca isn't like normal kids, he's... different, and I don't exactly have the best patience when it comes to him." He said and turned to see Luca now chewing in a $100 bill from Tyberias' wallet.

"Noted" I nodded and Tyberias walked off without another word.

"You're so pretty" Luca said as I sat down next to him; an adorable smile was forming in his lips. I giggle at his cuteness.

TYBERIAS' POV

"You're so pretty" I heard the little shit say. Juliana's not pretty, she's beyond pretty. She's beautiful, gorgeous, stunning. I heard her giggle at Luca's cheesy comment. Hmm interesting. I might need to take a couple pages out of his book.