Céline was too beautiful.
He couldn't remember the numbers of time he had said it in his head ever since he met her but he knew they were a lot. She was indeed beautiful.Damien was utterly charmed by her every action and he knew he was starting to fall. But he pushed that feeling away, it was too soon to start feeling that way.He remained quiet, more for his own sanity than her embarrassment. They soon got to the restaurant and he maneuvered around, trying to find a good spot to park his car. When he was done, he stepped out of the car and went to open the door for Céline, she was still blushing, but she could look him in the eye again.The restaurant he chose for the lunch was one of his many outlets, but he hardly ever visited it. He had the restaurant made for couples, like his friend Charles, since he had no one special to bring he never came, until now.It didn't mean that Céline was someone special to him. Well- she was special.After Céline and Damien got back from their lunch, she tried to focus on her work and pay less attention to Damien, but each time, she failed.Her body couldn't deny it. She felt attracted to him in every possible way a woman could be attracted to a man. Yet she had to stay in control.He was on her mind every second of the rest of the day. She couldn't concentrate on the files she was working on anymore. She couldn't fix her mind on something else other than him.His sharp brown eyes. The stubble on his jaw seem to call her fingers to touch them. His full eyebrow, his well sculptured nose, his lips...they were all too much for Céline to resist.It was even worst that the person in question was in the
Céline was not sure she could resist him this time, prank call or not.She hurriedly packed her aunt's laptop into her bag and neatly dropped the files she had worked on into one of the drawers behind her.By the time she was done packing, Damien held the door open for her. There was excitement and something else she couldn't place a finger on, on his face."Thank you," she whispered, walking ahead of him.Workers they passed on their way gave them strange stares but bowed respectfully when they saw it was Damien she was walking with.In no time they were at the parking lot and just like before, he opened the door for her and waited for her to settle into the seat, before going to the driver's side.It was an action he had been doing since the first time they met in that club. That time, she didn't think much of it. Now, it melted her heart so much to think that the rich and popular Damien Culhane treated her like a Queen. He literally waited on
The moment she stopped him from stepping out of the car and said she was tired, he thought his body would protest. He thought his balls would burst out of his pants and it will get bloody. He thought his erected cock would break his pant's fly and he would die from lack of relief.But none of that happened.When she said his name they way she did when they were alone, it eased out all of his sexual frustrations.His body became more concerned for her well being than its own relief.If she was tired, she needed to get rest. Even his cock became a soft sausage in his pants, refusing to think of getting any pleasure.The goodnight kiss that followed, reset his brain. Now he didn't know what to think.He wanted her so badly.He wanted to hold on to her and kiss her all his life. This was no longer about him. He wanted to make her feel the way he felt. He wanted her.Saying it a million times didn't even begin to make it less real. He wanted her. N
"Is that the young man you are throwing yourself at to get his money?" Elizabeth asked Céline the moment she got inside the house.She had heard the car parking in their porch and she scurried to the window and saw a Lamborghini Sian parked in front of their house.A Lamborghini Sian!It was obviously the rich young man from the papers, Damien Culhane."Aunt, you don't have to put it like that!" Céline defended walking to her room"How do you want me to put it?" Elizabeth asked her, but Céline remained quiet.It was hard enough for Céline to accept what she was doing, having her aunt say it out loud was making it harder for her."Is that the young man you are trying to cheat?" Elizabeth rephrased through clenched teeth. Her niece was being unreasonably stubborn."Aunt, please, stop." The words pricked Céline deep in her heart. She didn't think of what she was doing as cheating. All she wanted was the tw
Céline got to work in record time, thirty minutes after she had left her house. The traffic was low and she had no delays on the road at all. It was one of those days the heavens were on her side. Everything was going smoothly.She walked to the office she now officially shared with Damien and dropped her bag on her corner, the lounge. She brought out her aunt's laptop and placed it on the coffee table she had turned to her working table.Céline did plan to get a laptop for herself at the end of the month by all means, but her aunt's laptop would have to do for now.Her aunt hadn't complained about her constant use of the device, mostly because she was still at home awaiting the police to call off the investigation abou
Damien walked into the office and a smile of relief and happiness immediately appeared on his face.Saying he was happy to see her was an understatement. Damien was elated.Céline was on her chair, working on her laptop. The laptop was something he needed to change soon. It affected the perfect woman in front of him. Damien wanted everything Céline used to be of top notch quality and the most expensive in the markets. She deserved that and more."Somebody looks happy today." Céline sang as her eyes rose to meet Damien ogling at her from the door.Damien tried to cover the smile on his face but failed. "Where have you been all day?" He asked feigning anger.
Céline's heart was in her stomach for the rest of the day, it refused to return to its position in her chest.She questioned her actions over and over through out the day.Did she go too fast? Had she messed things up?Should she have mentioned that to him now?Damien hadn't said much after she told him over lunch that she was a virgin and would only sleep with a man she married. He wasn't cold towards her but he was lost in thought through out the meal and even when they got back to the office. He became withdrawn and more to himself.She tried to focus on work but it was useless. Her mind kept reminding her that she had messed up. She w
It was finally Saturday night. Damien and his friends found themselves in their usual strip club to catch up on their activities.They were seated at the VIP section as usual sipping their drinks over their conversations, enjoying the low lights and ambience of their favourite place."Damn! Can you guys see that hottie working the pole?" Lucas called his eyes fixed straight ahead to the dance floor below them.A brunette was at the pole. There was barely any piece of clothing covering her large breasts as she wiggled them against the pole. She turned, twisting her body, so that her big ass was now in the air.Damien looked at the stripper showing off her body and he snatched his eyes away from her, like the sight alone irritated him. She was not his dinner for tonight. Not because she didn't have the right assets but because he was not in the mood for women, not after the bomb Céline dropped on him.Ever since she dropped the news on him, he couldn't
Céline's phone dinged, notifying her of a message. She checked it and heart stopped."Céline, what is it?" Her aunt asked.Céline was unable to talk, she passed her phone over to her aunt to check for herself. Elizabeth took the phone and squinted over the device to check. She read the name but it didn't ring any bells."Abel? Do you know this person?" Elizabeth could not figure out what had gotten Céline so worked up over a simple name."Check again, aunt." Céline whispered as tears spilled from her eyes. She couldn't believe what was happening.Elizabeth furrowed her brows and checked the message again. "Is this message from John?"Céline only nodded, using her hands to muffle her cries. It seemed to her that her problems where never ending.Elizabeth checked the message again and gasped. Like a difficult puzzle, she had been able to put the pieces together in her head."Oh my God!""Abel
"His name is John Sherman. He dated Céline back in high school and they broke up when she had to leave for college." Lucas read from the file in his hands.They were in Damien's office going through reports they were able to get their hands on about Céline's caller."It says here, he was admitted for psychiatric care but vanished with no trace months ago." Damien said pacing the office.They were dealing with a psychopath here and it made the hairs at the back of Damien's neck stand erect. Céline must have been so scared, that was why she accepted to do it."Don't worry bro, we'll catch him. Brian has contacted the best hands in the police department. The best private investigators are searching
Céline was in deep thoughts. She would be a mother soon. She wouldn't want her child to think of her as the thief she was going to be after taking the money Damien had giving to her.Yes. He gifted it to her and that meant she could use it. Yet, her mind rejected the option. Where else could she find legit money to pay off John and within the hour; because John wasn't happy at all, making him wait would only get him riled up.She would just have to call that bank officer and make use of that money. But she would work hard and pay it back, somehow.Elizabeth returned shortly after Mrs Culhane and Damien had left the room. She brought a plate of baked rice and chicken for Céline with a fresh jug of water.
"What have you done!" Mrs Culhane's screeched."Mom, it is not as bad as you think... We just wanted to spend sometime at home-" Damien tried to explain to his mother but she was not having it."Do not give me that Damien Culhane! Do not even try it! Why would you call off your honeymoon! Didn't you think of your innocent wife?""Look at her! She is sick and pale because of you!" She barked pacing the room."Poor girl would be worried sick!"Somehow, Mrs Culhane had found out about Damien calling off his honeymoon and she got to the house when Céline had gone unconscious."Mom, she is sick b
The day after the conversation she had with Damien and even the weeks that followed, Céline remained in her room. She couldn't go to see her aunt as he had suggested. She had finally understood why he was acting coldly towards her. She had gotten the answers to all her questions.He knew.Damien somehow found out about her deal with John and just like she feared, he misunderstood her. He thought she was a gold-digger. A woman who only came after him for his money. A woman who had pretended to love him so she could get her hands on his wealth— and he was right.Whatever he was feeling or thinking about her was true. She was a gold-digger. A cheat, who deceived him. She was a woman without morals. She had seduced him to get his money.&nb
Céline was worried to the bones as she paced around the room that had somehow become her prison. What she had feared had finally happened.She knew the moment Damien brought in Sarah that whatever plans he had would go down the drain. Someone had to notice Sarah's movement in and out of the house and somebody eventually did! Lucas noticed.He came into the house unannounced and he had met her at a very vulnerable position.She had been thinking about her life and how she hadn't been able to see her own husband in almost two weeks, that was when he walked in on her. The shock and fear of seeing him in the house when Damien had wanted to stay hidden from all of them made her unable to control her panic.
"What do you mean by that?" Lucas asked, slowly moving to sit with Damien on the bed."I- I don't have any prove yet but I think she only married me for my money." Damien explained.Lucas stared up at Damien like he had grown a new pair of eyes. "You think?" He asked, laying emphasis on the last word with his eyes almost falling out of their sockets."All these..." Lucas said referring to Damien's marital situation."...you are doing is based on a fucking thought you have? Come on Damien, you are way smarter than this. Give me something concrete.""Well, I over heard her talking to her boyfriend on the phone about it!" Damien said kissing his teeth.
Torturing Céline proved to be even harder for Damien than he had initially thought.He had underestimated his love for her. His body couldn't watch her cry. His heart broke whenever he caught a glimpse of the sadness in her eyes. He couldn't do it.He had called Sarah in so she could handle his meals and maybe a few other things because he feared Céline might poison him. He had to be careful her character was questionable even if he loved her, he didn't trust her.His love for her made it impossible for him to do the things he planned to do to her. He couldn't handle seeing her break down again. Even if he knew she was only faking it, his own heart couldn't take her pain. If he kept seeing her, it wouldn't be long before he ran to her begging for forgiven
Damien helped her make a decision.He walked right pass her like she was a real statue. A monument and nothing more.Swallowing her pain, she went after him. At some point they would have to settle their differences. They couldn't continue like this. They were two adults and they had to come into some sort of arrangement at least.Damien headed to the room. Céline followed but stayed by the door watching him as he took out a bag from the closet. He started picking out his clothes from the neat pile of clothes folded in the cupboards and threw them into the bag.Maybe he was also packing for the honeymoon, Céline thought. Maybe there was a way of solving this problem of theirs all she had to do was star