Dahlia Carrington~•~I didn’t want to leave the hotel. I finally had Damon all to myself and I wanted to lay there with him all day but we had promised my father we would show up at the party.“The party starts at nine, does it not?” Damon asked. It was still evening so we had like five hours before it started, but we had to get ready and we had nothing to wear in this hotel room. I’d been naked all day.“Why don’t we just ditch the party and stay here?” I groaned.“I made a promise to your father and I have to fulfill it if I want to take you with me back to New York.”I rolled my eyes. I didn’t care about promises with my father. He was a selfish man who only cared about himself. Before I could speak, the doorbell rang.“Room service,” Damon informed me as he covered himself with the robe and walked to the door. We had only eaten breakfast today, forgetting to eat lunch as we were too busy catching up with each other. Damon came back with a trolley. The hotel wasn’t very huge but t
Dahlia Carrington~•~The rest of the holiday went smoothly.Damon promised my father he was going to link him up with his brothers and my father didn’t care if I slept at home or with Damon in his hotel. I spent half of the week in the hotel with him and the other half was spent out with him. I was barely home but I managed to sleep in the house three nights out of the seven nights left. I didn’t want my parents to think I was obsessed with the man.When the time came for me to go back to school, my parents had completely opened up to the idea. As long as I was with Damon and Damon had connections that could bring them multimillion-dollar deals, they didn’t care.I was busy packing for school when my father came into my room. For a second, I wondered if he had changed his mind and wanted me to stay at home, but then he said, “You created a new bank account when you left, right? Send me your bank information.”I nodded. I was all about making my own money but no way in hell was I goin
Dahlia Carrington~•~“I haven’t seen this car here before,” Damon commented as we got out of the taxi we’d taken from the airport. He went around to the back of the car and retrieved my suitcases from the trunk before paying the driver.“My father bought it for me,” I told him.“I thought you weren’t on good terms with your parents?”I shrugged. “They suddenly love me because I’m dating you.” I’d accepted the fact that I was never going to be enough for my parents if I stayed single. They had grown up the the mindset that a woman’s value was attached to her partner and there was nothing I could do to eradicate it from them. It would have been a battle if I had fallen in love with a man who wasn’t wealthy and had no connections. They would have been strongly against it and I wouldn’t even be surprised.“Well, they love you now so I guess it’s a win-win situation for you.”I let out a short breathy laugh. “You could say that.”I knew nothing about cars except how to drive them, but the
Dahlia Carrington ~•~My second semester was going a lot smoother than my first. All rumors about me had died down and people would rather talk about what they did on their holiday than some random girl in psychology.I had seen Roman only once since I came back and it seemed like he had finally given up. He did tell me he had something to tell me about the rumors last year but I didn’t give him a listening ear. I wasn’t interested in anything he had to say when our last encounter ended up with him choking me right before my exams.It was a bummer not being able to see Damon at school anymore though, but it was a good thing since we didn’t have to be so secretive anymore. We could finally go on dates and not be scared about someone seeing us. We could finally stop tiptoeing in a city as large as New York. “Where are you guys going?” Aurelie asked me on a Friday afternoon. I had the whole day off from school and luckily, so did Damon. Since he was busy settling into the new college, w
Dahlia Carrington~•~“You guys look so good together,” Aurelie said in awe when she saw the pictures we took from our date the next week. “And he looks so hot holding a gun.”I’d sneaked a shot at him when he was teaching me what to do and how to hold the gun and I couldn’t even lie. Aurelie was right. He looked hot as fuck looking armed and dangerous. “Tell me the date ended in him blowing your back out.”My blush was the only answer she needed. We were busy talking when Prisha came out of her room. “Hey, Dahlia. Can you help me with your phone? I need to send an urgent text to my mom and mine just died.”“Is anything the matter?” I asked as I took my phone from Aurelie and handed it to her.“Nothing too serious. You know how dramatic my mom is if I don’t get back to her on time.”Prisha’s mother was the typical Asian who fussed about everything. If Prisha hadn’t replied to her immediately, she would think Prisha was lying somewhere dead in a ditch.There was electricity and I wond
Dahlia Carrington~•~I wasn’t stupid enough to keep this from Damon this time. The last time I did that, it resulted in us almost breaking up. It didn’t matter that we broke up after the issue was resolved. The point was that he was also in the picture and he deserved to know.My leg bounced on the ground impatiently. Any moment from now, Rowan’s brother would call us and tell us what he found out about the post and I was scared to find out the truth.Damon placed his hand on my knee to stop the bouncing, drawing my attention to him. “Don’t worry, we’ll find out who did this.”“I know,” I responded. “That is what scares me.”The truth didn’t care about how I felt because, in the next second, Damon’s phone rang. He answered the call and placed it on speaker. “My secretary said the IP address was traced to her house.” My breathing hitched at the revelation, confirming what I feared. “It was posted on an iPhone X.”I closed my eyes and sank my head on the couch. Only two people used an
Dahlia Carrington~•~I turned around to see that the newcomer was none other than Clementine. “Prisha started those rumors?” She asked me and I nodded. I’d wanted to keep it quiet so things wouldn’t get awkward, but Prisha wasn’t remorseful and I wasn’t going to stay quiet for her sake.“Why are you guys acting like I did something wrong?” She yelled which startled me and made me jump away from her. “You were fucking your professor, were you not? You were so lost in your little world that you even did things like that in the classroom like a cheap slut. I know Roman had evidence but you found a way to get rid of it. That must have been what you were crying about that night, right?”I knew I had said this a million times at this point but I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t know she hated me this much. How had I lived with her for months when she secretly hated me? I cried in their presence and I wondered what was going through her head whenever she consoled me, if she ever did that is.“
Dahlia Carrington~•~ When I was packing my stuff in fury and stomping out of the house, I never thought about where I’d go.I found myself in the private elevator that led to Damon’s penthouse. A suitcase was in my hand and I had a duffel flung on one shoulder with a backpack flung around the other. When the doors to the elevator opened in his house, I stepped out, only to see him already in the living room.As though he had been waiting for me, he stood up at my arrival. “Why didn’t you call me to come pick…” his words trailed off when he saw the things I’d come with. He cocked his head to the side. “What are these?”“Uh, my things?” I asked sheepishly.“I can see that, Dahlia. The question is what they’re doing here.”My lips formed an automatic pout. “You said the offer was there whenever I wanted it.”“Have you come to live with me, Dahlia?” I nodded slowly and a slow grin spread across his face. “You should have enjoyed your freedom a bit more. Do you know that we’ll live toget