Was she ready? She wanted to ….. But what exactly did she want? Darcy for a moment wanted to forget about everything and be with Gale as emotionally she had been drained out and Gale who was bossy and dominating was creeping into her life like a storm, shaking the entire wall she had built around herself. She knew that she would regret it later if she didn’t kiss him as his gaze roamed around her body leisurely seducing her but before she took the initiative Gale cupped her cheeks in his big warm hand and pulled her closer, she leaned across the gap and met him halfway. His mouth collided with hers, hot, hard and hungry. He was in full control as his tongue penetrated her lips and tangled with hers, stroking sucking and unravelling her mouth. She knew she was going overboard with what was happening and debated breaking away because no matter how she dissected it, after a few short hours, she did not like him at all and wanted to stay far away from him. And just a few days did n
Thankfully Darcy had moistened her lips before coming or they would have raised their eyebrows. Darcy was walking behind Gale not wanting to create more distraction but when they reached the living room and turned around to face her. Darcy raised her head and looked at him in confusion but before she could ask him anything he had caught hold of her hand and turned towards their parents. Everyone was looking at them very curiously as they walked with their joined hands. “Uncle Olli, I have to ask for your official permission as both Darcy and I got engaged without informing any of you secretly and I don’t want to delay any further or hide it from you. But would you accept me as a part of your family?” Gale asked with sincerity. For a second everyone was dumbfounded as to what was Gale trying to say but once it seeped in Rachel was the first one to rush forward and hug her breathless. “I am so happy for both of you Darcy,” Rachael whispered.Everyone came forward and started kissi
Darcy stepped out of her house to attend the conference which was going to be held at the company, Gale's assistant John had already arrived to escort her as Gale had instructed him. Darcy had received his call early in the morning stating that there was some trouble in the company late at night as someone had entered the factory secretly and tried to sabotage it. Although the person had not been caught he escaped. Gale wanted to make a public announcement on his successful takeover of the company and his position as the CEO and warn people not to mess around with him. Darcy had to stand beside him and show her support for the takeover so that people may know him and not make trouble. There were certain loopholes in the company which Darcy was aware of and she didn’t want Gale to face any problems because of them. The hiring process was going on and some of the oldest people had already been hired and a lot of them had been chucked out as they had caused numerous problems after the
As if a switch had been thrown, she was swamped by memories, some hot and sensuous enough that her breasts tightened and her belly contracted, so hurtful enough that her temper roared to life. Gale's gaze burned over the seductive display of her cleavage. "Keep still," he growled. But she noticed he didn't move his hand. She was not enjoying it. After the announcement the last thing she needed was to be clamped against all that hot, hard muscle, making her feel small and wimpy and tragically easy. Unfortunately, her body wasn't in sync with her mind. She couldn't control the heat flushing her skin or the automatic tightening of her nipples, and Gale knew it. The doors slid open. Before she could protest, they were moving again, this time through the lower bowels of the hotel. A door was shoved open and they walked towards the parking area where several vehicles, including a Bentley, were parked. Darcy was annoyed with everything that happened; hot, clammy air flowed around her as
Alberto Romano was invited by the judges. He had a high standard of reception, and Darcy followed him. He was not worried about being unfamiliar with the place and people, so he did not have to check into a hotel personally. A long time ago, someone had already arranged a room for them, and the reception staff had helped them send their luggage back to their rooms. It was afternoon already but as both of them had had lunch on the flight they were not hungry so they decided to retire to their rooms to rest to get out of the jetlag and Alberto had to go to meet one of his fellow designers so he informed Darcy that he won’t be available in the evening but they would go to the venue together the next day. Once inside her room, Darcy contemplated whether she should inform Gale or not because as bossy as he is he would give her a piece of his mind so she decided to text him instead. After doing that she somehow felt relaxed. She wanted to go out. And look for her brother. But the competi
Darcy walked back to the hotel the driver who was an acquaintance of Mr Russo left at at the parking. Darcy was called away by the Aberto before he entered the room. She came to Alberto's room. Alberto Romano just came back from the judge's committee and told her about the competition process. In advance, Darcy had heard Alberto Romano’s talk about the general process of the competition. This time, there were a hundred top designers in the world taking part in the competition. Everyone came with their own participating works. Therefore, there was no pre-match, nor was there any promotion. It was the final. The judging vote of the judges would decide out of a hundred designers, twenty-five works of the designer which would be recognised globally. The organisers hold the opening ceremony of the competition to welcome and encourage the participants and to tell them that the order of each participant's work would be decided based on how the designer showcased his or her work. And als
After the screening, Darcy entered the big hall all alone as Alberto was still surrounded by his fan followers and he did have a job to do after the designer's outfits were aligned. The other designers either brought their assistants or teams with them. Only Darcy came in front of them, with no one and people wondered if she was a superwoman and wont she needed any help but Darcy was just keeping a low profile and did not want to attract anyone's attention. She knew what she was doing. The hall was already full and people sitting in the venue were increasing at great speed. Darcy found her seat according to her name and the other designers' assistants and teams sat on both sides. The seats in the middle were all occupied by the designers and their assistants were given the side rows which Darcy found a bit funny. After Darcy sat down, she had nothing to do. When the opening ceremony began, she was bored and began to play on her mobile phone. The people around didn't know her, and sh
"Wow, such an auspicious number.” Darcy teased while squinting at Amy Whiteman. She wasn’t the one to bait others but the woman was Amy Whiteman she couldn’t help herself. Darcy and Amy Whiteman had a feud with each other for so many reasons and it was not going to be resolved that easily as she was the main reason for the bankruptcy of Fletcher Industries. During the mini lunch party in the afternoon, Darcy saw that Amy Whiteman was trying to get along well with the designers from other countries and tried to avoid Darcy as much as she could but Darcy had a surprise waiting for her so she wasn’t bothered with her at all. She found a few people to talk to but eventually, she found it very boring and decided that the party was too dull for her taste. But thankfully at that moment Alberto came over and surprised her and asked gently, "Are you getting bored or ignoring people?" Darcy did not care much about whether anyone was paying much attention to her so was not bothered but she w
"You once said.......,” she repeated determinedly, “that I would never admit love till it became the dominant emotion in my life, outgrowing everything else. She raised misty eyes to his and the shining quality behind her tears could be mistaken. “It’s like that now, Gale,” she said. “I love you. If you want to go back to Ireland or Paris wherever you go take me with you!”" “We can go to Ireland, Cannes, Paris or any part of the world but on our honeymoon,” he told her. She pressed her face hard against the roughness of his coat, ashamed of those days when her love had not been as sure as his. After all, Darcy lived in a happy dream where her family and her family business were still precious but not the centre of her universe. There had always been other interests in her life, of course, and her family might have been something of an obsession, but now she saw herself lucky enough to possess so many things the greatest of which was love. Gale wrapped his arms around her and captu
“Well the party was in full swing and I happened to take pictures of the beautiful gowns worn by the celebrities and models to show to my designers so that they could get some inspiration but all of a sudden an angry female who was wearing the most beautiful mask was looking at me angrily as I was about to click her picture and for a moment I was distracted by her beautiful sparkling eyes and forgot to take her picture. “You, what do you think you are doing?” She spoke angrily and she pointed her fingers at me. Darcy who was listening to his narrative was somehow shaken to the core and she tried to think about the time three years back when she had participated in the backstage party wearing her winning mask and said the same thing to the masked guy who was looking at her intently. She looked at Gale in confusion but Gale chose to ignore her and continued. “I was too busy looking at her and was amused at her outburst, she was so feisty and even with the mask she looked like a diva.
Rachael came to the office in search of Louis that afternoon and Darcy thought that she looked unhappy, in spite of the fact that her romance with Louis was spreading like wildfire all around Michigan. She was running after Louis like a woman head over heels for him and Louis being an extrovert was trying hard to give his best to the only women who would scold and love him at the same time but the most important part was she never judged him for what he had done in the past and accepted him with his flaws making it utterly impossible for Louis to resist her and fall madly in love with her. Darcy,” she exclaimed, “why are people so difficult? Especially the people one loves most!” “Because you can’t let go of loving them, I suppose. Other people don’t count so much. Can I help you with anything Rachael?” She thought that the trouble with her little brother was over ages ago and she had already decided that Rachael could manage Louis better than her and she had shown by her actions i
Darcy did not know what to think. “Louis,” she begged, “don’t say anything about this just now. It might only worry Mrs Harris needlessly. Let's leave it till Gale can deal with it himself." “Which I don’t think will be very long,” Louis said as the old guard came down the stairs. “He’s had a miraculous escape, hope he recovers fast.” Gale”s recovery took longer than they expected. It was two weeks before he was up and about again and a full month before he went back to the mill. In these days Louis became his constant companion, carrying his orders to the company and generally supervising the working of the factory during his absence. In the circumstances. Louis thought Darcy should stay at the office to help. It was a strange thing, but Louis never mentioned the break-in at the office again. The lock was repaired on the assumption that the CEO had forced the door, and that was that, but Darcy felt that there had been a note of satisfaction in her brother’s voice when he had info
“Dr James?” she asked when she finally got through. “Can you come to our company at once?” She was amazed at the calmness of her voice while her heart thumped so hard in the stillness. “There’s been an accident. It’s Mr Harris. He seems to have fallen down the stairs and can’t move his leg.” Her voice trailed off and no further words of explanation would come. She heard the doctor’s answer as if it came from some immeasurable distance, but she knew that he had assured her that he would be there as soon as he could with the ambulance. She did not think that Gale was going to die, nor did she tell herself that he might be seriously injured, crippled perhaps for life. She felt numbed, but conscious, too, of having achieved something, a kind of victory which love could accept. If it was even the victory over her old bitterness, she believed that it would be enough. When the doctor arrived she was waiting beside the curiously wrapped figure on the ground, and the doctor and his help gave
“The debt is high,” Victor growled. “You never be able to pay such a huge amount of debt after what your sister has done. If only you two had done more for the company, things might have been a lot different.” The remark was hardly justified and Melvin knew it. Victor had never really considered them and his generosity with money had been largely to satisfy his ego. A show of affluence had always pleased him and it raised his prestige in Michigan. He had been quite never satisfied with his Money and he firmly believed, money was the only power, and it had been a great shock to him to find himself virtually without it. Melvin knew all these things about his father and he also knew that Victor had realised that signing the contract to sell his company had been foolish of him. Melvin had tried to retrieve it by directly approaching Gale without any success, so there was only one other way for it. He knew enough about the factory and had laid his plans carefully, and when he walked down
And that's what happened, Amy Whiteman was just his girlfriend in name so no one questioned her after the incident and before the matter could be escalated any further she had already escaped abroad. When she found out that Louis had gone abroad, Amy wasn’t happy as she knew Louis was smart and would do something to stand on his feet. But Shelly was still in Michigan and as she met Darcy regularly she knew about Louis’ whereabouts through her. So when Darcy had told her one day that Louis was in Budapest, she hired an investigator to investigate his whereabouts but somehow Louis came to know about it and escaped. After that Louis was very secretive about his whereabouts and Darcy hardly knew where he was but finally, she was able to take out information from Darcy about his whereabouts and she informed Amy Whiteman about it. Amy told them that she loved money and she knew that Louis was earning well working in the sculpture factory so she found out his whereabouts and start
But as soon as I turned fifteen everything changed as I had a huge crush on Maria remember the girl who had come in between the semesters to our school. She was so innocent that I fell head over heels for her and I knew that I could not continue being with Shelly any more. Although Shelly pleasured my body very well. I couldn’t continue doing whatever I had with her as she was older than me and was dating a lot of guys behind my back. I felt cheated and disgusted so I had already decided to stay away from her but when I met Maria I fell in love with her and we started dating secretly I avoided Shelly for a year till I turned sixteen and lost my virginity to Maria. I was very happy to have a secret girlfriend as Maria had troubles at home and did not want anyone to know about our relationship. We continued to enjoy each other’s company and for the first time, I felt so comfortable with her. But soon Shelly caught us right-handed in the locker room and made it impossible for Maria
“All of you wait and watch I will sue you for harassing me without any proof.” She shouted angrily. “Oh …so pointing a gun at us wearing a mask and trying to kill us is not a crime? Right, that's what you think.” Rachel spoke confidently pointing her fingers at Shelly. “Shut up you little bitch, I was just playing around trying to make you scared. I wasn’t planning to kill you at all. Why are you assuming things? Gale your sister has gone mad.” Shelly tried to defend herself shamelessly by mocking Rachel. But Rachel wasn’t listening as she had seen the truth right in front of her, she was so angered by Shelley’s declaration that she came forward and gave her a tight slap. Gale knew her sister was short-tempered so he came forward and pulled Rachel back towards him.“It’s OK Rachel calm down. We know what she has done and nothing she says will prevent her from going to jail.” The police chief who was listening to all the conversation going on between them finally spok