Silence.
There wasn't silence everywhere though, just in the table Chloe was in. Never in her life has she ever imagined that there will be a time when awkwardness will accompany her when she is with her father. It's a really disturbing feeling.
Currently she is in a restaurant, with her father, waiting for him to speak up about why he has called her here. He was the one who called when she was in office, planning a lunch date with Sebastian Domanco. Now only she realised why Sebastian was so casual about taking her to lunch, because he knew she would get that call.
So, what is it about?
"Uhh… the food is getting cold. I will start first." She said in an awkward tone while cringing a lot at how disturbing and strange she sounded. She went ahead to pick up the spoon without giving another look at her father who was still looking at her intently.
"Why do you l
"Mr Sebastian? What are you doing here? And what did you just say?" Chloe asked with a frown when she saw Sebastian standing in front of her. He was standing in front of him with his arms crossed and he was leaning on his expensive car."I guess you heard what I said very well, didn't you?" Sebastian asked with a raised eyebrow. She clenched her jaw and took a deep breath to calm herself down."I did. So pardon me and let me ask my question again. Why did you call me a brat?" She asked while almost glaring at him."You just created an unnecessary drama in front of your father over simply nothing. I don't know what else to call you other than that." He replied. She walked toward her and stood in front of him and crossed her arms too."You were eavesdropping on us?" She asked with a deep frown."You maybe didn't hear me well the first time. I said you create
"You have started to look like a creep now. Can you please stop gawking at that goddamn bag?!" Sebastian snapped in irritation. "No! You can't blame me! That bag is the goal! I have been waiting for that bag to come out for the past one month. It was a limited edition and I wanted to buy it the day it was released." Chloe looked away from the bag which was at the table beside them and looked at him with a pout. The lady beside their table has a Gucci limited handbag, at which she was gawking from the time they entered the restaurant. She looked at it as if it was the best thing in the world. At some point Sebastian was sure that she was hypnotizing the bag to come to her or the owner to give the bag to her. "And when was it released?" He asked with a raised eyebrow. "Nine days ago." She grumbled under breath while stealing another glance of the bag.
"How's work going?" Bella asked after getting inside Chloe's room and sat on the bed. Chloe, who was flatly laying on the bed, sat up after seeing Chloe. She let out a sigh after hearing the question. "Don't ask. It's really stressful." She answered and ran a hand through her red hair and let out another sigh. "I am sure it's not stressful because of the work pressure. Because I know how hardworking you are. So, what is it?" Bella asked with a small frown. "We haven't had a night talk like this for a long time. I guess it's the time now. So, get inside the duvet and get comfortable because it's going to take time." Chloe said with a small smile and scooted aside to make a room for Bella. "Okay!" Bella immediately agreed and got inside the duvet and gave her all attention to Chloe. "So, what's going on?" She asked in a serious tone. Chloe had a small frown of confusion after
"What the f-... Daniel?!" Katherine questioned with a frown as soon as she was faced with the person who just ruined her happy time. In front of her stood Daniel Domanco, her lovely fiancée who doesn't look too lovely at that moment. He looks as if he is going to burn down the whole place in a second. He was literally burning in anger. "I would like to hear you complete that sentence, Katherine." Daniel said while gritting his teeth. His eyes turned dark and he was literally shaking. Katherine just ignored his command and rolled her eyes at him which angered him more. "What are you doing here, Daniel? I don't understand why you are destroying my peace!" She exclaimed in irritation. "You are telling me that?! After ruining my peace?!" Daniel almost shouted at her which made her angry too. "Oh I ruined your peace? How?" She asked in a loud tone. Sh
"What do you want now, Miss Jones?" Sebastian asked and let out a sigh for the nth time that day. The whole day Chloe kept finding excuses to come into his office and irritate him by her unnecessary flirts. He was beyond pissed but he couldn't even say anything to her because she left him speechless every time before running into her office room. At the end of the day, they both were tired of her actions but had different feelings about it. For Sebastian, at first he was really irritated by her antics then but slowly as she continued to do this every opportunity she had, he stopped taking her seriously. The excuses she had to come in his room was amusing too. Sometimes it was in the pretext of the files he has given her or sometimes saying that she needed to see him to keep concentration. She was crazy! And slowly he started to enjoy her craziness. Not a lot but a little bit. On the other hand, Chloe fi
"I will be waiting for you. Come soon." He said and with one last goodbye, he kept the call. Just the moment he was going to put the phone inside his pocket and press on the elevator button, he heard the earth shattering scream. "HELP!" His eyes widened as he immediately recognised the voice. His heartbeat rose on it's own and he became a robot completely, he lost all his power of rational thinking and ran toward the stairs instead of taking the elevator. He remembered her saying that she was going to the pantry which was five floors down. Without thinking, he ran down all five pairs of stairs and reached the floor. The pantry was at the end corner of the floor. He could hear someone whimper even from there which made him run faster. He was scared. He was truly scared for her. A lot of negative thoughts ran in his head which really wasn't possible inside his office but still
"Thank you for taking me to the hospital and dropping me off." Chloe said in a low tone while trying not to look at him. It was already hard enough for her to have a tour from office to hospital and hospital to the apartment in his arms. Let's not mention the drama she caused in the hospital while the doctors took care of her wounds. Now she has a bandage wrapped around her hand and a patch on her legs. They will be fine within a few days. Now they were in the elevator of Chloe and Bella's apartment. Her pain has reduced so she was standing on her own. After they reached the building, Sebastian still picked her up and walked till the elevator with her in his arms. None of them said a single word between this. They were both lost in different thoughts. "Did the fall affect your head too?" He broke the long silence and looked at her with raised eyebrows. She looked up at
THE NEXT MORNING"Why do you have to go to the office today? You are not fully fine yet." Bella said in displeasure as she stopped the car and looked at Chloe."I am absolutely alright, Bella. The burn wasn't that deep. The burns are almost healed and I don't feel an ounce of pain in my leg." Chloe said with a smile while preparing her bag to get out of the bag."Still you could have taken the day off, Chloe." Bella said, still adamant to stay in her point."I can't take the day off, Bella. Only three weeks left and a lot of work is yet to be done under my name." Chloe tried to give a reason."Since when have you been so serious about work?! You were supposed to change Sebastian, not change yourself!" Bella exclaimed with a frown. Chloe frowned back after hearing her."I am not changing myself, Bella. I am the same. I am just becoming a litt
"All the participants did a really good job in this first round. I would like to welcome you all once again. And congratulations for coming this far." Mrs Latina said while looking at all the girls who participated in the contest and now standing on the stage, in front of them. They were all waiting patiently for the result which held their presence on the stage in future."It was nice meeting you all but it's really sad that we have to abide by the rules to choose the best one which means we have to say goodbye to some of the contestants today only. Hope we will meet again sometime in the future somewhere." Mr Johnson said while smiling at all of them."Coming to the results, we didn't select anyone in order. There isn't any position I'm this result which we are going to let out now. No one is first, second or anything in this around. We just selected the finalists for the next round, that's it." This time Mr Smith said with a smile b
"All the participants did a really good job in this first round. I would like to welcome you all once again. And congratulations for coming this far." Mrs Latina said while looking at all the girls who participated in the contest and now standing on the stage, in front of them. They were all waiting patiently for the result which held their presence on the stage in future."It was nice meeting you all but it's really sad that we have to abide by the rules to choose the best one which means we have to say goodbye to some of the contestants today only. Hope we will meet again sometime in the future somewhere." Mr Johnson said while smiling at all of them."Coming to the results, we didn't select anyone in order. There isn't any position I'm this result which we are going to let out now. No one is first, second or anything in this around. We just selected the finalists for the next round, that's it." This time Mr Smith said with a smile b
“Calm down, Chloe!” Sebastian said with a hidden smile as he hugged her tightly.“I can't calm down. I am so angry right now. Oh god! How dare she?” Chloe fumed while hugging him back tightly.“Don’t listen to her Chloe. Don’t you trust me? I am yours and will always be yours. No one can change that.” He said in an assuring tone.“I will not let that change as well. You are stuck with me forever and whoever will try that, I will kill them with my hands.” She said with gritted teeth.“Whenever you talk like this, I feel like…” He trailed off as he cupped her face and looked deep into her eyes. Her cheeks turned red when she saw the intensity in his eyes.“You feel like…?” She asked as her eyes dropped to his lips."Kissing you senselessly."
"You think you are so smart, huh?" Chloe turned around to look at the source of the irritating voice which definitely belonged to Samantha. Chloe let out a sigh and turned around to look at her with an irritated look on her face. "Think?! I know I am smart and now the world knows that as well." Chloe said with a smirk. Samantha didn't seem to like that part. She looked at Chloe with a devilish look on her face. "You think you did a great job by flaunting your husband and father back there, right?" She asked while closing the distance between them a little. "I didn't flaunt, Samantha. I never wanted to mention them in the first place, that's why I made them say that. Our introductions are clearly written in the participation form. They know everything about us but still want us to tell them because they want to see how we are. So, instead of telling the same thing they
One by one beautiful women started to walk in gracefully in their beautiful dresses and do a small cat walk before introducing themselves. There were thirty contestants. A lot of girls got rejected in the selection round after the registration. Now only thirty of them will compete with each other which will come down to twenty after the first round only. So, the competition is hard."Now we would like to call Miss Samantha in to introduce herself and impress our wonderful judges!" Arthur said and everyone clapped.Samantha was standing backstage, after her were two more girls and then Chloe. As Chloe was the last one to register for the contest, her serial was at the end.Samantha turned around and looked at Chloe with a smirk, which Chloe didn't pay heed to."Watch me. I am going to pass this round easily and I am sure you are going home from there only." She said in
"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen! Today I am Arthur. I welcome you all to the biggest beauty contest of the country, MISS NEW YORK BEAUTY CONTEST!" The host said and everyone clapped after him. "This year, the contest is going to be a little different than the past years. Because this year not only Miss but Mrs can join the contest as well! Because you are coming out of the stereotype of labelling women!" The host announced and everyone clapped again. "We have very beautiful ladies as participants today but before getting introduced to them, I would like to introduce our three honourable guests. They will follow the beautiful ladies throughout the journey and choose a perfect and deserved winner eventually." Everyone clapped once again. "Now, let's welcome Miss Latina, one of the best fashion designers around the world." He said and a beautiful woman, wearing a beautiful dress walked from the r
"Oh my god! You are looking beautiful!" Bella and Katherine squealed at the same time as soon as Chloe came out of the changing room wearing the dress."Thank you so much, girls! Do I look okay?" Chloe asked as she did a small twirl for them to see and they did a squeal again."You look more than perfect! Ahh! So beautiful!" Bella squealed with a hand on her heart."Wait, give me a pose! Let me click a picture and send it to Sebastian. He will be awestruck." Katherine said with a wink, making Chloe laugh."No, don't send him a full photo, let's tease him." Chloe said in a mischievous tone, making them chuckle at the plan."Okay, let's do this! Did he call you yet?" BKatherine asked as she and Katherine started to take half photos of her where her full face wasn't visible or only her hair or part of body was visible.
(Whoever is confused about the contents of this chapter, please go and read from the chapter 'With Friends' the chapter is after the chapter 'Breakfast and interruption'. I have edited all the short chapters and made it in satisfying length! It might not be available now but tomorrow. Please read them again tomorrow and make sense of this chapter! Thank you!)"Ohh! Look who's here!" Samantha said in an insulting tone, making Chloe roll her eyes at her. She was going to reply to her when Samantha spoke up again. "The homewrecker." She snapped at her, making Chloe frown. The other girls in the room laughed while hearing her."Whose home did I wreck by the way?" Chloe asked with a raised eyebrow as she crossed her arms and stood up with her chin held high. She was radiating confidence. Samantha's face became red in anger as she glared at Chloe."Mine! You destroyed my home! My relationship! My engagement with the love
NEXT MORNING Chloe winced as rays of morning sun tickled her eyes. When she opened them, the first thing she saw was Sebastian sleeping in front of her. At first a soft smile came up on his face as looked at his sleeping face. How breathtakingly handsome he was looking and the feeling that he was only his, gave her immense happiness. Her gaze darts on his face, and a soft smile tugs at her lips. She stared at his peaceful expression while he was sleeping. He was so beautiful and breathtakingly handsome that she felt the weight on her chest to even breathe. But the moment the sleep bid bye to her and she came into her full senses, her heart dropped. She held her breath still and looked at him with widened eyes. She found herself wrapped around his strong, possessive and determined arms, the blanket was covering the lower parts of their body. "What the actual