“I am guessing you guys have already sorted things out for her to be moving in with you?”She asked him. “Sort of, we are going to have a baby, no make that two babies together,”He informed her. “Wait what? You guys were together?”she asked. It wasn’t like they had anything together so he couldn’t figure out how to explain their situation to her as he wasn’t sure Danielle wanted other people to know how the kids were conceived. “Sorry, it is not in my place to ask, what can I do to help?”She said and asked before he could answer her first question. “It is okay, Lydia, I just thought to let you know since she would be moving in and you guys might be seeing more of each other, I am sure she would let you know if she needs anything from you.”He told her. “Okay, you said this weekend? What room should I clean up for her to stay in or will she be using the room that she used before?”“About that, I want her to make a choice on her own,”He replied. There were plenty of rooms to ch
“Good to see all of you, I don’t know why I have so many secretaries,”He joked. They weren’t used to him joking, they stared at each other in awkward confusion. “Take your seats,”He told them and they obeyed immediately. “I called all of you because I wanted us to have a talk now that every one of you is back; well, except Danielle because she isn’t coming back,”He said. he still felt her absence in the office even though he told himself that he already got over her not working for him. Well, now she was going to live with him so he still won in the end. “I want you guys to please take working for me seriously, I know I can be very hard to work with but please, take me seriously, I pay you well, don’t I?”He asked, looking at them all. They nodded. “At least you know that, I have a lot going on in my personal life and won’t want to add being stressed at work to the mix so please, he did a good job while we were on our trip, Ella is finally back with us, there are six of you now
Dani held her breathe, her heart beating at an abnormal pace due to his nearness, his hands lifted her face up but she refused to meet his gaze because she knew if she did, she would lose the small sanity she had left and she didn’t want to lose it because it would only put her heart in danger.She shouldn’t have asked him to get the cake for her. It was her fault that he was in the house with her, she called it.“Look at me, Danielle,”He wasn’t making it easy for her to keep her sanity with the way he was whispering her name and trying to get her to meet his eyes. All she wanted was a strawberry cake, she had suddenly remembered her favorite strawberry cake that the cafe near Luciano’s company sold, she wanted to order online but they don’t do delivery so she called him half thinking he would tell her he was busy but he told her he would get it and came with it in less than an hour. She wanted the cake but she didn’t sign up for the delivery guy to come in with her asking if she wan
Dani felt his breath on her face and over her lips, she knew his lips were so close to touching hers and she lifted her face in anticipation wanting to have a taste of him again but the kiss never happened because the doorbell rang just when he was about to touch his lips with hers. Dani couldn’t help the disappointment that settled in her even though she tried to tell herself that she wasn’t disappointed. “Are you expecting someone?”Luciano asked. He sounded disappointed too. “No, no one, unless Keira decides to come home and check on me, she always does but it is not yet time for her to show up. or maybe she forgot something,”Dani responded. She expected him to let her go but he held her still. She couldn’t process any thoughts. Whoever was at the door rang the bell again, certainly wasn’t Keira because she knew the door lock code. Luciano finally let her go and she practically ran to the door to see who it was. “Hi, I am sorry but the car parked outside is making it impossible
“Is that hard to believe? I am not a Casanova or a playboy, Danielle, I dated a lot but I can’t be classified as a playboy,”“Yes, you can. You had different women photographed with you plenty of times and those women were never seen with you again. that’s what playboys do,”Dani accused. She sounded jealous to herself and she hoped he didn’t think she was talking because she was jealous. “Do you think I sleep with every woman I am seen with? I have been seen with you so many times, does that mean I am sleeping with you? I haven’t, right? At least not yet,”Dani chose to ignore the ‘at least not yet’ part of his sentence because the thought of it alone stimulated her. “I worked for you, everyone would know we weren’t sleeping together,”She pointed out. “That is correct but some of the ladies I hung out with were just escorts and dates,”“Please, don’t lie, I literally heard your gist at Keira’s salon a couple of times,”Dani didn’t know why she felt the need to tell him those deta
“Maybe, maybe not. Why is that a bad thing?”Oh, it was a bad thing for her. “It is a bad thing because I know myself, I would end up giving my heart too and you don’t do love,”she let out. “Love? Why would you fall in love with me? If we sleep together, it is just going to be sex,”“For you, yes, it might be but it can’t be the same for me,”Dani responded. “How so?” Usually, she would not answer his questions but he sounded genuinely confused by what she was saying. It was a foreign concept to him and a lot of other people but for her, it was something that was unavoidable, she tried it once before and it backfired on her in the end. “I don’t do casuals, Luci, I have never been that kind of girl, I wish I was but I can’t get into any kind of relationship without my heart getting involved. I can’t do just sex because I would end up regretting it when my heart gets involved and the other person doesn’t feel the same,”She explained, she felt the need to be completely honest with
“If you let me, then I want to come with you just like I want to be there for every one of your doctor visits from now on,”He was surprisingly more family-oriented than she had ever thought. To be honest, she never thought he was the family kind of guy. “Won’t you be busy with work?”She asked. He loved his company so much and she didn’t want him to ignore it just because of her. “Danielle, I own the company, I have a lot of people working under me who can do a good job, I can always delegate duties and do the ones I have to do by myself at home.”He responded. “So, you can delegate but you never did when I worked for you. You always did everything and dragged me along, “She accused him. “I can’t disagree,”He at least owned up to his shit so she decided to cut him some slack. “You will come with me for baby shopping and antenatal. Keira might tag along too because she also doesn’t want to be left out. you should know that Keira is a huge part of my life. If I am moving in with
The rest of the week went by pretty fast and soon it was Saturday which meant moving day. Dani woke up quite early because she wanted to be ready before Luciano arrived. He insisted on being the one to come pick her up from Keira’s place. She didn’t have much stuff that she needed to pack up because it wasn’t her apartment and she didn’t want to remove anything from her apartment aside from the baby stuff that she had already bought. She had already gone there yesterday to pack them up and Luciano had picked everything up at his mansion. So, it didn’t take her long to pack up and now her bags sat waiting in Keira’s living room. She spent the whole morning with Keira, they watched movies and made a list of things that they still needed to buy. They even made plans to go see Keira’s parents in the new week and Dani told Keira that she would ask Luciano to come with them as she wanted him to meet her parents. Luciano texted her that he would arrive in less than two hours so she went to