The Meeting 24

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Chapter 24

Harper.

Yeah, I got the mail, what I was asking about is you, how are you? How was your day?”

“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.. “I stared at his lips as I watched him speak, nobody has ever bothered or cared to ask how my went or in details like this for that matter.

I did not even know what to say, or how to go about telling someone about my day.

“What about you? How was your day?” I heard him ask again and I slowly turned to look at him..

“M–my h–huh, m–my my day went well!” I stuttered in reply, I looked in his face trying to read his facial expression but I could, I held my lips tightly together, I swallowed hard and looked away.

“Your fiancé visited me today though,” he said, immediately he said that my curiousity piqued and I turned to look at him.

“Novan?” I asked just to be sure.

“Any other fiancé I don’t know about?” He asked in reply, I rolled my eyes to the back of my head and leaned in the chair with my side, still facing him.

“Why did he come to you? What did he say?” I asked almost in a rush, he turned to me a small smile on his face as if he enjoyed seeing me worried, at this point I’m starting to become confused with this his always smiling face, on a normal day the smile would have started to irritate me but something about his just endeared to me.

“Relax, he’s nothing I can’t handle,” he said, I nodded slowly still not satisfied by his answer, I really don’t trust Novan, he can be very cunning and deceiving, now that he went to Damon, what exactly is he up to.

“What’s with him anyway, didn’t you already call off the wedding?” He asked, I exhaled deeply and slowly adjusted back in my

seat,

“Apparently he’s not taking it at all, but I have it under control,” I said to him he nodded slowly in reply, turned back on the road and stepped on the accelerator. The rest of the journey home was a quiet one.

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“Thank you for driving me home,” I said to Damon as he turned off the ignition, he flashed me a smile and nodded slowly.

“It’s nothing,” he replied undoing his seat belt and staring at me.

I shifted uncomfortably in my seat, the awkward silence growing even more awkward between us.

“Well, I should probably go in now,” I murmured, but I didn’t make a move to open the car door, I just sat there staring at him.

Damon glanced at the dashboard clock unnecessarily.

“Yeah, it’s getting late,” he agreed, his voice tinged with uncertainty and he didn’t make any move to come down also.

“Goodnight and thank you for today,” I whispered still seated and he nodded with a small chuckle,

After another moment of hesitation, I took a deep breath.

“Hey, um, would you like to come in? Probably for a drink and… I think it’d be nice to have some company.” I finally said absolutely shocking myself. These days I just could not understand my unexpected actions around Damon, it was definitely strange to do but i haven’t for once regretted doing it.

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Damon’s eyes widened slightly, surprise flickering across his face before a warm smile spread. “Sure, I’d love to,” he agreed, ! nodded firmly and with that we both stepped out of the car and headed upstairs towards my apartment.

“Welcome to my humble Abode,” I said softly as the door beeped open and we both walked in.

“This is actually a bit more than humble, quite befitting for DMW first daughter,” he said as he took off his shoes and jacket at the entrance, I shook my head slowly as I carefully dropped my hand bag on one of the sofa, this house was actually the only beautiful thing that I owned in my past life and it was because dad bought this unit for me himself when mom said I was old

enough to move out.

I lived in it until about three months to my wedding to Novan, he asked me to move out of the house and sell it and move in

with him.

Just so that his mother would train me on how to be a proper house wife and ofcouse as the love starved Harper that I was, I agreed. The days of my life of living with Novan were actually the worst days of my life which eventually led to my death.

I pulled out my jacket leaving me in my strapped tubed gown, I could feel his eyes on me as I walked into the kitchen took jout a bottle of wine and two glasses, immediately I stepped out of the kitchen, he flopped down on the floor in front of the

three seater couch resting his back on it, my eyes dimmed in confusion as to why he would sit on the floor, he simply tapped the space beside him and I had no choice but to sit on the floor beside him.

He gently took the wine from me, popped it open and poured us drinks,

“Thanks,” I whispered as I took the glass and took a sip from it.

“My plan is to take Michelle away from my sight first,” I began after few minutes of drinking in silence, he took a small sip

from his wine and nodded slowly.

“How do you intend to go about this?” He asked and then I went ahead to explain to him all of the plans I set in motion, how I

made Collin set up a risky venture and then lure her into using her shares as collateral incase the investments go south. And

I also told him how she has fallen victim and has actually signed her shares to be taken as collateral, he slowly turned to me

and shook his head,

“Your family must have hurt you real bad,” he said, I raised my glass to my lips and downed its content all in one go,

“Yes! Yes, they did,” I muttered as I picked up the bottle of wine and poured myself another full glass.

I took another drink from my glass my eyes fixed on him,

“I’m still curious as to why you’re doing all of these,” I said to him, he chuckled lightly and his fingers clenched around his

cup.

“My father used to work as a construction worker for DMW and my mother sold edibles on the construction site for the

workers,”

“On the day of Daphne and I Tenth birthday, armed men came into our house and killed our parents right in front of us,”

“That night seeing Daphne in shake in fear and every other night watching how that incident changed her life, I vowed to get get justice for my parent,”

“Turns out that those guys that attacked us were from DMW, every adult at the foster care whispered about it but nobody was bold enough to face DMW,”

“I found out that a major building collapse happened on the construction site, and many people died, just to make sure the case doesn’t get out, they killed stubborn people like my dad who wasn’t going to keep quiet about it.”

“I made up my mind, to get to the root of it once I have the ability and make sure my parent and every other person involved then gets justice for their death,”

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“So here I am,” he said raising his cup up and taking a sip from it.

“I’m sorry,” I whispered staring at him,now I could understand why Daphne took it personally when Collin approached her in the way that he did.

Even after everything that has happened to him, he still found a way to always have a pleasant smile on his face, he still made sure that he treated people good, I just knew that there was something special about this guy, and somehow I could see

us alike in a sense, even with the whole building collapse aside.

We both.sat in silence of our thoughts taking small sips of wine from our glass. Damon was being very open with me about everything and I won’t deny that I felt I was still lying and hiding things from him. But my case was quite peculiar, I cannot just open my mouth and tell him everything that is going on with me, it’s not even logical to say to begin with. 1

But I’m trying desperately to erase that moment of dying and resurrecting from my life.

I slowly turned to him and my eyes met his, I saw a flicker of something I couldn’t quite understand, something that made

my heart race.

I saw him leaning closer to me and I just sat still, I dropped my glass on the floor beside me but I didn’t make any effort to

move away.

Absentmindedly I also leaned in closer, my breath hitching, he slowly closed the distance between us, his lips capturing mine

in a tender, soft kiss.

My hands slowly found their way to Damon’s cheek, feeling the warmth of his skin, the slight stubble on his jaw. He

responded by wrapping his arms around me, pulling me closer as the kiss deepened.

I was expecting to get a restriction in my heart but I wasn’t getting any, we’ve only known each other for like what? Probably

three weeks and here we are already shoving our tongues down each other’s throat. Whether or not I was supposed to be

doing this right now I had no idea. But what I know is that I enjoyed how I felt.

It seemed as though this was my first kiss in my entire life, it was nothing like this kiss I’ve had with Novan before, it was

different.

The more I tried to weigh in my heart if this was something I should be doing or not, the deeper we kissed and suddenly like a cold bucket of water was dumped on my head, I suddenly pulled away from him.

I took my lips into my mouth my heart beating out of its place as I gently got up from the floor dusting imaginary dirt off my body. He cleared his throat also and stood up.