I heard a few knocks and groaned in annoyance as my sweet sleep was being disturbed, pulling the blanket over me while Jen mumbled politely behind the door, "Ms Valentine, sir has asked me to inform you that he is waiting for you downstairs."

My eyes had immediately shot up and I frowned in confusion. I sat up and leaned against the headboard then cleared my throat while replying to her with an agitated tone, "Tell your Majesty that I am coming!"

I heard her walking away and I sighed while checking the time on my phone. It was 1 pm now. I shrugged as I usually sleep till late on weekends and today was Saturday. I was kinda confused to why Clavicus wanted to meet me. After the little weird encounter I had with him, I directly went to my room and since that day he had been out of town. It had been 2 days and he came back maybe last night but I hadn't bothered to check on him, it wasn't like I was his mother and always have to check what he was up to.

I sighed and stretched my arms over my head then slowly got up while fixing my black loose tank top and yawning loudly like a proper lady, note the sarcasm.

I went to the bathroom, scratching my butt lightly over my sweatpants. After doing my morning rituals, I came out from the bathroom and stood in front the big mirror which was leaned on the corner of the room.

I took my comb and started to brush it through my tangled hair which resembled a nest perfectly. I softly and slowly brushed them, so that I didn't get much hurt while observing my appearance. I wasn't an outstanding beauty or a neither had a body like model. I had black messy hair which reached till my shoulder and same coloured eyes. To be honest, black eyes are underrated, all thanks to those cliche movies and books where having "blue orbs" was everything.

My face and body was more on the chubby side. But to be honest, I didn't care about that. I loved my body and face regardless everything. Just because some illiterate people had set a certain beauty stand in this world, doesn't mean I had to believe it too. I believed in diversity. Each and every one have unique looks and body, so who are we to decide which was perfect and which isn't?

I sighed in relief as I was finally able to tame my hair and tied it up in a tight bun. Then I made my way to downstairs. As I reached there, I saw Clavicus sitting on one of the couch in the living area, scrolling through his phone mindlessly. When he heard my footsteps, he switched off his phone and looked at me. Abruptly for a second his eyes widen and then quickly looked away from me, a light blush crept on his cheek while I raised my eyebrow at him.

He cleared his throat and muttered shyly, "Umm... fix y-your top properly."

I frowned at him in confusion then looked down to see my top and found my tank top neckline dangerously low, showing quite a bit of my cleavage. I rolled my eyes at him.

"What are you? A freaking 13 years old virgin teenager? Can't handle a little bit of cleavage?" I mocked, fixing my top with a light chuckle. It was quite amusing to see a 27 years old man to react this much shy on just a simple cleavage. He sighed, running his fingers lightly through his hair while mumbling shyly

"Well I am a virgin. I never had been intimate with any girl in my life," he blushed brighter and I shrugged, going to the dining table. I picked up an apple and took a bite while pouring myself some orange juice in a glass.

"I don't see it being any of my business to know if you are a virgin Mary or not. But thanks for the unnecessary inform anyway," I proclaimed and turned to see Clavicus staring at me with a shocked expression.

"Won't you mock for being a virgin at this age?" he gasped.

I rolled my eyes, sitting in one of the chair and retorted, "Why do I care if you fucked a chick or not? That's your personal matter!! Also sex is overrated anyway. Nowadays people think sex is everything and you have practically wasted your life if you haven't lose your virginity."

I sighed and took a sip from the glass while Clavicus smiled at me and shook his head.

"You are right but not everyone thinks like you, Lilith. I had quite a lot of insult and mocking during university for being a virgin Mary." He chuckled sadly while I tried my best not to yawn in the middle of his "sad story." I mean I wasn't his therapist, then why should I bother to listen it?

"Don't you think I couldn't care less about it?" I remarked and he let out a laugh, leaning his back against the couch.

"Oh Lilith, after working with for so many days, I can be rest assured that you couldn't care less about my rantings. Anyway enough about me! So are you a virgin Mary too?" he jokingly asked and wiggled his eyebrows while I froze on my spot. I could felt my breathing becoming slightly shaky as images from that night started to flash in my mind. But I kept a nonchalant expression and Clavicus must had noticed the hardening of my face.

He awkwardly cleared his throat and took another sip. I felt my throat getting dry while both of us kept silent and he kept looking here there out of awkwardness.

I took a deep breath, regaining my posture then looked at him with a calm expression and inquired, ignoring his previous question, "Jen had told me that you had called me, so what did you call me for?"

He muttered something under his breath but I really couldn't comprehend it. Then he politely mumbled, putting his hands inside his pockets, "There is a new project coming up. It's a villa and the client wants it to be quite enormous and luxurious. Since you're one of the finest architect in our company, I would love to hand you this one and if you want, you can make a team of your own choice and do it together."

I was quite shocked as for the first time he praised me ever since I started working in his company but I didn't show my shock to him and nodded while answering, "Sure!! I would love to do it and yeah, I definitely will need a team for it. So when do we get to see the property?"

He leaned forward and took out his phone then typed something, after a few minutes he looked up and mumbled nonchalantly, "We can go there on Monday and then we are going to have a meeting with the client to discuss further."

I could felt his old self kicking in. I think after the awkward moment we had, he was again trying to keep everything professional. I just nodded my head in agreement and got up as I really didn't want to waste more time on him then made my way to upstairs while I could felt his gaze on me.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Guess who finally decided to update? Meeeeee😌😌😌😌 I know I haven't updated since two months but I have been really busy with studies and online classes....... So yeah😅 Also I know the chapter is quite crappy but I really don't care. At this point I have stopped caring about reads or votes!! I write because I want to, not to impress others😄😄 so yeah, still I hope you will enjoy it and I don't know when I am gonna update again😅

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