They say acceptance often occurs later in the grieving process, so it was considered the hardest stage of grief simply because it requires fully accepting that a loved one is really gone. It is not that we no longer feel the pain of loss. Instead, we are no longer resisting the reality of our situation, and we are not struggling to make it something different. More than a year later. . Sebastian rubbed his hands against each other but the coldness of the morning air still creeped inside his body. He was even wearing winter gloves but it can only warm him if his hands are inside his coat's pocket. Sebastian hissed when he suddenly noticed that he was so behind from following his boss. "Boss, wait for me!" Dionysus stopped walking just to wait for Sebastian. "Would you please walk faster? We still have a meeting before the actual meeting for the Californian investors. So, hurry up." "Why work so hard for the past months like a madman when you're already a fucking triollionaire? I
Whatever someone has done to us, is going to be attracted back to them at some point. We are not involved in this process anymore. It's a simple 'Law of Attraction'. Their bad deeds, their freaking lessons for life. "My treat, for today. Yey." Zoey came back with a tray full of food. There were two cups of coffee for Dionysus and Sebastian, a cup of mint tea for her and three slices of tiramisu cake for the three of them. "Your coffee, gentlemen. Just how I remembered them from before." Zoey muttered in a singsong voice while putting down the cups of coffee in front of Dionysus and Sebastian.Zoey feels so proud of herself to finally be able to treat Dionysus and Sebastian with her own money. After all, she doesn't really have any friends. The two gentlemen in front of her were the nearest to that category for her. "Your treat because you're successful now?" Sebastian teased as he helped Zoey to serve the cakes this time around. Zoey laughed before sitting down again. "That and bec
Courting a girl 101 guide: Drive her around. "See, boss? Zoey is safe and sound." Sebastian uttered as soon as he sat beside Dionysus on the couch, placed on the farthest corner of that hotel's waiting lounge. "Hang on. This is one of your five star hotels, right?" Dionysus sighed and blew a deep breath while watching how Zoey laughed and conversed with a lady near her age, in a table a few feet away from them. "She had laughed so much when she was with us a while ago, yet she can still laugh like that with other people. She's an introvert like me, remember?" Sebastian shook his head. "That's got nothing to do with her being an introvert, boss. Zoey can laugh as much as she can because she's happy." Sebastian's phone chimed again, but this time, it was one of the department heads who was tasked to supervise their meeting for that day. "Dio, I think we should really be going now." "Cancel it." Sebastian was too stunned and had to ask his boss again. "I said, cancel the meeting." "
Courting a girl 101 guide number two: Steal her mother's heart. Zoey bit her lower lip after she slid herself onto the passenger's seat. It was even Dionysus who closed the door beside Zoey. Zoey started fidgeting as she watched Dionysus walk back to the other side.Her husband looked so drop dead gorgeous in all regards. Everything about Dionysus was hollering absolute danger for her already healed heart. Sure, she managed to drag herself out of the quicksand that she fell into right after Dionysus parted ways with her.She managed to cure herself all the way because of her family and her faith in God. But, that doesn't mean she had absolutely made herself be immune to her husband's charms. Even the way Dionysus' eyelashes flutter with his every blink was enough to make Zoey swoon internally.Pinching and playing with the hem of her dress, Zoey slapped her cheek. "Woah, Zoey. What's wrong?" Sebastian immediately asked after witnessing what Zoey just did. Zoey stared at Sebastian th
Courting a girl 101 guide number three: Show her your sincerity. "Go inside, Zoey Veera." Mrs. Zenaida Lavigne instructed in a firm voice. Zoey hesitated and looked at Dionysus. "Mom. I think Dio is just joking. Just let me talk to him for a sec and. ." "I said, go inside, sweetheart. It's already ten in the evening." Zoey sighed and even if she wanted to protest and all, she also doesn't want to upset her mother. She loves her mother so much. Once Zoey had stepped inside their house, Mrs. Zenaida Lavigne slammed their front doors shut, right in front of Dionysus' face. Sebastian, Marco and some of Dionysus' men, who were watching the scene from afar, while standing near the cars, frowned and creased their foreheads. "Uh-oh. Our boss got rejected." Sebastian whistled playfully. "Who in their right mind would refuse lord Dio like that?" Marco asked out of nowhere. "Well. For one, Dio really fucked up." Sebastian answered Marco.Dionysus walked back towards where he had left Seba
Courting a girl 101 guide number four: Be honest. Zoey wanted to enjoy the view in front of her more. But, when she remembered and suddenly felt how cold it was out there, she trudged towards Dionysus, completely forgetting that she was almost undraped as well in her lacey nightgown and looking so ready to give her husband an earful. "What are you doing, Dio? It's so cold. And, you're only wearing a thin piece of clothing." Dionysus straightened his back and squinted his ocean blue eyes as soon as it landed on his wife. "Good morning, Zoey." Zoey blinked. It was just a mere greeting. A mere greeting but her freaking heart started booming loudly against her chest, she felt like it would jump out from her rib cage. It was painful, but deliciously painful. Zoey coughed. "Good morning."Right after that, Dionysus dropped his eyes on the piles of wood in front of him again. "I saw your mom struggling a while ago from chopping these woods. So, I offered to help." Dionysus answered the qu
Courting a girl 101 guide number five: Impress her. "I had confessed, Seb." Dionysus uttered while tying the shoelaces on his sneakers. He was seated on the bed and Sebastian was in front of him, sipping his newly brewed coffee.Sebastian almost choked on his coffee after hearing that. "What?" "I told her that I like her so much." Sebastian seemed like he just saw a miracle descend from the heavens above, right in front of him. "Really?" Sebastian placed his coffee on the table, stood up, turned his chair around before sitting again just to have a comfortable position interrogating his boss. They were inside Riley's room and that was where they had both spent the night, last night. Dionysus' other men slept on the couch outside, in the living area, including Riley. "So, how was it? Are you two back together now?" "No." "What? Why not?" Dionysus pulled a new, clean, white shirt from his duffel bag and wore it over his head. "I didn't ask." "Then, how about Zoey?" "She didn't as
Courting a girl 101 guide number six: Show her that you're jealous of other man. "Zamantha Rane Lavigne. You're being summoned to the dean's office." The speakers on the four corners of the room boomed loudly, compelling the subject professor to stop talking in front of her students. Every single one of Zamantha's classmates and block mates all looked over her. She was seated at the lowermost part of the elevated desks so everyone instantaneously spotted her. Haze nudged Zamantha on the elbow when the former noticed that Zamantha was too preoccupied on solving the statistics problem on her own notebook, absolutely unaware of the announcement on the speakers."Zam. Hey, you're needed at the dean's office. Didn't you hear?" Zamantha blinked and looked around. She turned towards their Statistics professor. The professor nodded at Zamantha. "You can go, Ms. Lavigne. I'll email the homework for today so you don't need to worry about it." "But, miss. Am I in trouble?" Zamantha gulped as