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Chapter 15: Compliments & Friend
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Darius sat in the booth waiting on everyone to arrive, he thought Xavier and William would already be here since they had left an hour before him, but they were nowhere to be found. He looked around seeing every table filled with couples and families, while his table was empty, he had been getting looks of pity from almost everyone, he was even starting to pity himself as he drank his glass of water.
"Sir, you've been here for 20 minutes and your friends haven't arrived I'm going to have to ask you to give up your table." The waiter, Paul told him he sighed expecting this, just as he was about to get up a familiar voice spoke.
"I'm sorry, I'm late." Paul turned to Amoy, shocked at how beautiful she looked, Darius was even shocked himself. She wore a long one-shoulder black dress that had a slit at the side, that stopped at her upper thigh. Her luscious black curls fell past her shoulders, the makeup she
-Chapter 16: Magazines & Case-A few days had passed since the whole restaurant situation, Amoy and Darius had barely seen or spoken to each other as Amoy buried herself in work and Darius stayed in his room for hours and hours. William and Xavier had run out of ideas because it was already a struggle to get the two to catch feelings for each other, but now they had to find out how to get both of them to talk to each other.Both the men watched Darius as he ate his breakfast, reading the newspaper catching up on the latest problems going on around the world, the biggest problem going on for him right now was trying to get Amoy out of his mind, but he couldn't. Her smile, her eyes, her smell, everything about her was stuck in his mind. "Darius, how are—" William didn't even get to finish his sentence before Amoy came storming downstairs, she placed a magazine in front of Darius. "Read it." That was all she said walking to the kitchen. He closed
- Chapter 17: Photoshoots & Confusing - Darius sat in the car listening to Amoy as she explained their schedule for today. "The photoshoot may last 2 or 3 hours after that we'll be doing a magazine interview where you'll be explaining that you and Emerald are just friends." She told him while answering her phone. "Hello? I'm going to the shoot right now. Bob push the meeting back 6 hours. Alright, then we'll do it tomorrow." He watched as she spoke, he loved how she worked hard for what she wanted, he admired how she never lets anyone stop her from achieving her goals. "We're here, I'll talk to you later, bye." She hung up, putting her phone back in her pants just as the car came to a stop. She turned to him, her eyes said everything 'Don't mess this up' They both exited the car going to the entrance of the building. He opened the door for her, she mumbled a thank you before stepping inside. Just as they were about to go up to
- Chapter 18: Dates & Heaven - It didn't take too long for them to arrive at the restaurant, they were seated out on the balcony just like last time. "Are we ordering the same thing?" He asked to which she shrugged. "Do you want to order the same thing?" He grinned softly realizing she was nervous, "Sure." "How are you?" She asked earning a small laugh from him, she raised her eyebrow. "What?" "I thought we were past the 'how are yous'." She smiled, he wondered if she knew how goddamn beautiful she looked when she smiled. "Then how do you suppose we start a conversation?" "Like this, what is your favourite colour?" "Aren't those questions you ask on a date?" She inquired meeting his eyes. "Maybe." The way they were looking at each other was intense, many different emotions swirling in their eyes but both held the same ones. Infatuation, admiration, Curiosity and Fear. "Answer the question." She cleared her throat.
- Chapter 19: Good & Morning - Darius laid in his bed replaying the kiss over and over like a lovesick teenager. He just couldn't believe she had kissed him, he felt happy but also nervous, he knew Amoy had a tendency to ignore him whenever something big happened between them. He heard her room door close which made his heartbeat triple its normal rate. Darius got up from his bed opening his door just as she was walking past it, their eyes immediately met, the kiss running through both minds, his eyes moved to her lips wishing to feel them on his once again. Amoy swallowed visibly she could never think straight when he was around as her mind was clouded with her emotions. "Good morning." She found herself saying with a forced smile, he frowned slightly knowing her smile was fake. He then began overthinking, was she regretting everything? Did she not like the kiss? "Good morning, are you going down for breakfast?" She nods continuin
- Chapter 20: Darius & Confidence - When Darius woke up, it wasn't because of an alarm or Xavier. It was Amoy, "Wake up, you need to get ready we can't be late." He sighed opening his eyes, he expected to meet her chocolate ones but instead, all he saw was her back as she sat on his bed slipping her feet into her heels. Her natural hair was hidden under her bonnet since she didn't want it to get messed up before she left for work. She wore a navy blue dress, along with a jacket that was slightly lighter than it. Her significant scent was stronger as she was just inches away from him. Even though he could only see her back, he could tell she looked amazing. "Get up, you have 20 minutes to get dress and eat breakfast." She informed him rising from the bed, turning to him as he got up, her eyes immediately took in his body while he stood, half-naked in front of her. "Ok?" She questioned taking her eyes off his body despite the urge she felt t
- Chapter 21: Truck & Food - The sound of the door opening broke them apart, he moved back to his chair while she leaned against the table. Zane entered but halted once he saw Darius sitting in Amoy's office, a look of surprise crossed his face but he quickly hid it as he faced Amoy. "Zane, what do you need?" She asked him walking back to her chair taking a seat. "I was going to walk you to your first meeting since I'll be there too." Darius couldn't tell if that was the truth or a clever lie to cover up what he really came here for. "No need, Darius will walk me." She told him wanting this conversation to be over fast, she could tell Darius wanted the same as he was shooting daggers at Zane which made her wonder, was he jealous? She quickly shook that thought away turning back to Zane. "Is that all?" She asked, he nodded not saying another word before he left. "I thought the meeting didn't start in a few hours," Darius stated, con
- Chapter 22: You & Us - Faith and Oscar looked through the photos of Darius and his wife eating at the food truck, "They're getting very close, I wonder if she's the reason he hasn't tried to take down the Tyler family." Oscar voiced. Faith shook her head disagreeing. "She'll be the reason he uses the information I gave him. Her family treats them both like nothing so not only will he want to protect himself, he'll want to protect her." Her husband grinned at her, loving her she thought. "You are amazing." He stated placing a quick kiss on her cheek. "Now all we need to do is wait for their next family gathering, which, lucky for us is 2 days from now." - Darius sat in Amoy's office drained from all the meetings he had to attend, Amoy on the other hand looked perfectly fine as she was still working. "I don't know how you do this every day." He spoke, taking her attention from the laptop and papers in front of her.
- Chapter 23: Space & Daniel - It was the next day, Darius was growing nervous about what today had in store for him...what she had in store for him. After the kitchen incident, they had both parted ways but Amoy had never left his mind. She was like a hangover after a party. He had already showered and gotten dressed but he still needed to go down for breakfast the task seemed almost impossible as his mind made up a thousand scenarios, before he could think about it further his phone began to hang. Darius took it from the bedside table reading the I.D caller, 'Emerald' He hadn't heard from her in days, he was a little worried but he knew she was alright and the call confirmed it. “Emerald, how are you?” He asked sitting up, on his bed