Chapter 23
Damon.
I gently pushed the door to Daphne’s office open and I slowly walked in, I saw her storm into her office earlier, Collin seemed to have made the situation a bit more worse.
She was seated on the couch in her office, her legs crossed in front of her and her hands folded across her chest.
She slowly turned to look at me across the room as I closed the door behind me,
“Are you okay, Daphne?” I asked softly as I walked up to her and took my seat beside her turning slightly to look at her.
Her face looked dull and swollen, she slowly unfolded her hands across her chest and turned to look at me,
“Damon, am I a bad person?” She asked, I reached forward immediately and took her hands in mine, placing our entwined hands on her laps,
“Ofcourse not, who said that to you” I asked calmly my grip around her hands getting tighter, she shook her head slowly and tears began to fall off her face again, she shut her eyes tightly and exhaled deeply as she slowly opened up her eyes and
turned to look at me.
“Isn’t it very obvious, of the both of us you’re the most loved, you have friends, I have none, you’re the only friend I have, even our staff scurry away at the sight of me, I must be a very bad person,” she muttered, I caressed the back of her hand carefully with my thumb.
“You’re not a bad person, you’re my sister and you’re very misunderstood, you’re the seeetest person I know,” I said to her, she sniffled deeply rolling her eyes at me, I could tell she was trying to not laugh, I gently let go of her hands and tucked her hair behind her ear, I wrapped my hands around her shoulder and pulled her into me, and I slowly raised her other hands and
wrapped it around her in an hug.
“I want to make conscious effort to change,” I heard her mutter in my arms, and it just occurred to me, Collin might have not particularly babied her, by her statement he seemed to have just gone straight to the point and hit the nail on the head.
“I want to go back into therapy,” she added, surprised, I gently pulled her away from her to look at her face, I wanted to be sure it was coming from her. Growing up when they suggested Therapy, Daphne threw all manner of tantrum just so she doesn’t attend and when she finally attended, she gave the therapist a hell of a tough time.
“I just realized that, I would remain this kind of person even after we avenge our parents death, I’ll still go around making people who come in contact with me have a bad day,”
“We both went through the same situation, that’s if it wasn’t even more difficult for you and you turned out very differently,”
she said, I shook my head slowly.
“You don’t have to compare yourself with me, you have every right to react the way you did,” I said to her, she sniffled in
deeply and nodded at me with a small dry smile.
“I know, but it’s been years, I want to let go but I don’t know how to, I don’t want to age older than my age because of anger, I
don’t want to ruin anybody’s life because of what I’ve been through,”
“I realized I’ve even been really ungrateful, because I have you and we have Mom also, what more could I want?” She said, my lips broke out in a genuine smile, I could almost feel tears at the corner of my eyes, I gathered her into my chest in an hug again, I’ve waited for the longest time for Daphne to say this. She has come a long way and I’m happy that she’s has gotten here now, I don’t know what it is that Collin said to her but I’m very glad that he said it.
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-I’m outside- I texted Harper, I slowly lowered my phone, my gaze fixed on the revolving glass door waiting for her to step
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out, I could not explain the rise and fall in my chest and the urge to just see her right now. Soon enough the doors went open and she walked out with Collin beside her, my features relaxed and I could feel a smile forming on my face.
She said some things to Collin, probably dishing out instruction, after that, she hugged him obviously saying goodbye and he
turned around and walked back inside, I had no idea she was that close with her assistant.
I gently pushed the door open and stepped out of my car,
“Hii,” I greeted enthusiastically, she responded to my greeting with a small smile, I wanted to round the car and open the door for her but she signalled me not to and for some reasons I decided to not push it.
We got into the car together and slammed the door shut and the next few minutes saw us out of the company. 1
“How are you?” I asked sparing her a short glance as we drove home, she exhaled deeply nodding slowly, she gently removed
her bags from her shoulders and placed it on her laps.
“You were right, my mom wanted to sweep the contract under the carpet, but we had luck on our side, you got the mail right,” she replied and I nodded with a thoughtful pout.
“Yeah, I got the mail, what I was asking about is you, how are you? How was your day?” I asked, I felt her slowly look up at me
with an almost dropped jaw, I could tell she was taken aback and in order to ease the tension I decided to talk first.
“Well I’ll tell you how my day went first,”
“It wasn’t a typical hectic day though, but it was eventful, first I got the DMW mail, I found myself trying to put our plans
together, I had an heart to heart conversation with my sister today, one that I’ve always longed to have so yeah, it was
eventful” I concluded, I quickly turned to her before turning back onto the road.
“What about you? How was your day?” I repeated.
“M–my h–huh, m–my my day went well!” She stuttered in reply, I could tell she wasn’t used to conversation like this and she
was having a quite hard time finding words to say.
