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🌹CHAPTER TWENTY - SEVEN🌹

Half an hour after all tat thing with Mr. Knight my phone rings, not the office phone but my own cellphone. Forcing myself to break away from the work that I was so deep in, my eyes glance at the caller ID and I notice it's Damon. Even when I see his name, a blush makes its way over to my face.

I quickly pick up my phone and answer it. "Hello" I say, trying to sound casual and as normal as I possibly can, that isn't exactly working for my face, it's a good thing that he can't see my face right now. I'm blushing redder than a tomato right now.

"Hey, beautiful. Your voice sounds like an angel" He says and I blush even deeper, if that is even possible, which I'm not sure is. My knees are buckling and if I weren't sitting down, I would have fallen down to the floor because of my legs feel like jelly and my knees aren't strong enough at the moment to carry my weight.

"Thank you" I say giggling. "Now, is there any reason why you're calling?" I ask him, smiling. The smile that had been taken from me this morning, has returned to me. It feels good to smile again and I feel better. Damon doesn't know it, but he makes me feel better after I was brought down.

"I need no reason to call the most beautiful woman in the world" He says and I can already see the smirk before he even smirks, and I think he's smirking. "But?" I ask, don't get me wrong. I'm blushing like a madwoman right now and I don't think my blush will ever disappear, as long as I'm talking and thinking about him.

"But, I want to ask you out on date tonight, if you're up to it" He says. I gasp. "You got to be the best person in the whole world. I'm in desperate need to do something tonight. Of course, I'll go on a date with you tonight" I tell him. Maybe I don't need to be with Lena this evening, I can be on date with Damon.

Then I will have to find excuse to be with Damon tomorrow and I won't have to be with Mr. Knight on that date he wants to take me on, there is no way in hell that I will ever go on a date with him, not after what just happened this morning.

And how he has been playing me this whole time. Damon only laughs at my words. "You will have to tell me why you're so desperate for a date. I don't want to be the second choice in anything" He says, and I do sense a hint of pain in his voice, but he's good at hiding it.

"Don't worry, you're not the second choice in anything. You're the only choice" I tell him, assuring him that I'm only going out with him. Since I will never be going out with Mr. Knight again, he's the only one that I want to be with now. Somehow that idea doesn't seem that bad, however something deep inside me whispering that it's wrong.

I don't know what's so wrong about it, yet I can't help but feel that way. "Good, that puts a smile on my face" He says to me and I can't help but smile at that. "I'll see you tonight" I say to him and smile to myself when I think about it, think about him.

"Bye, beautiful" He says. "Bye" I say back and hang up on the phone and setting it down on my desk while I continue working. A meeting starts in a few minutes, which only reminds me that I have to see and be around Mr. Knight, the guy that I don't want to be around now or at any time.

Working beyond this point is harder to do because my mind keeps wandering off to think about Damon and how lovely our night will be. If it will be anything like the night we had the last time, and how we had amazing dinner and just watched a movie.

It was fun and its sort of a date that I enjoy, and I'd want to do again and I do like it when I'm on a date with Damon. After a few minutes, I go to the meeting room to meet Mr. Knight and the next client, it's the woman that had to reschedule her meeting.

I don't remember her name, but it is Friday and it's time for her meeting. Being around Mr. Knight is hard for me after I know what he did to me. And, the fact that he's trying to charm her into doing everything he wants, signing the contract that he comes up with, not that she came with.

It's like he's stabbing me into my heart, without even knowing it. Watching him flirt with her and using his charm to get what he wants hurts me so much. However, I refuse to let water form in my eyes, and I refuse to watch them. I don't stand up and leave the meeting, yet I don't do anything.

This is the first time I actually feel like I'm nothing and no one. Soon the meeting is over and Mr. Knight got what he wanted while I'm here battling my tears and my heart. I go back to my office and pack my stuff as the work day is over and I can't wait to be out of this building.

Not that long ago, this building used to be the only place where I felt like myself, I felt better, it was everything to me. Work used to be that to me, but now I can't wait to be out of that building. Now that I've been hurt so many times in there, the way that he treats me hurt me more than anything.

Getting out of that building is a relief to me and it feels amazing to step out of it, I don't notice Harry anywhere and a good thing too. As much as I would like to talk to him and tell him everything that has been going on, I don't want to spend a minute longer in that building.

I wait for a few minutes for Lena to pick me up, and as soon as I get into her car, I burst out talking about everything that happened today. Her effect on me is that great that she doesn't even have to force me to tell her anything, I just tell her on my own.

Because my story is so long, she came into my apartment and she continued to listen while I spoke, she was also helping me get ready for the date I had with Damon. She has officially stopped shipping me and Mr. Knight and will never believe us to be belong together, whatever that means.

She's now thinking of ship names for me and Damon and so far she has only come up with Roman, or Ramon who'd is so strange. I don't understand why she wants to have a ship name for us and one that doesn't even make sense. "What do you plan on wearing?" She asks.

I've been thinking about it for some time now, and I have no idea what I can wear to this date. The last time I was on a date with Damon, I was wearing normal clothes because he had taken me after work and I didn't need to change clothes, we had a inside date, where we didn't go anywhere.

"I have no idea, should I call him?" I ask her, but she's quick to take my phone out of my hands as I was in the process of unlocking the phone. "Hey!-" I say but before I could say anything else she begins to talk. "Calling him is not a good idea" She says and sighs.

"You're so new and innocent at this. Don't worry, I'll teach you everything you need to know about dates and how to impress the guys" She continues, I open my mouth to speak but like last time, I don't have a chance to. "Now that you've got another more honest man, I'm going to make sure that you actually get the guy and don't mess it up" She says in a warning tone.

I only give her a confused look. I have no idea what is happening here. She rolls her eyes at my. "If you mess this up, you will have lost two rich guys, and they're the best" Lena says, and of course she says something like this. This time, it's my time to roll my eyes.

"I come from a rich family, besides I will be rich as soon as I have my own business. I don't need a rich man. It's just happened to be so that a rich man likes me but I don't like him for his money" I tell her. Lena always forgets that I have a mother that is a business owner and a rich one by that.

Lena is also the type of girl to go for the rich guys for his money, I don't actually like that but I can't change her and she doesn't come from a rich background so she has to get money from a man. She works two jobs sometimes when she has a problem with the bills.

"Now, wait here. I have the perfect thing you need in my car" She says and goes outside to her car before I could even say anything more, completely ignoring my words that I had spoken and she doesn't care much about it. Having a friend like her is a lot of fun and she's the best but at times, she can get hard to handle, especially when it concerns men.

I sit on the couch while I wait for her, I know that I should be nervous about that date I'm going on with Damon, but I'm not. I feel comfortable around him and it doesn't make me that nervous. If I were going on a date with Mr. Knight, I would be so nervous and my nerves wouldn't even be able to be calm, not even for a second.

Why am I even thinking about him? My thoughts should only be on Damon tonight, besides it hurts me when I think about him. Lena runs inside with a dress in her hands. "I've had this for some time and I was cleaning in my closet and I found it, I thought it would be perfect for you, since you don't like the dresses I wear" She says and I'm a bit confused at her words.

The dress she's holding is something that she would wear since she owns it, then again I haven't gotten a very good look at the dress. I know it's red, hot red to be exact. Too red for my taste. "I can find a dress in my closet" I try but I don't think she's buying it.

"That will not happen, not on my watch. You will wear this dress and there's no getting out of this" She says with so much seriousness in her voice and she's demanding me. And, I already know that there is no way out of this, not when she gets like this.

"Remind me to take you shopping, for dresses that will make the men wild, well more specifically their little friends down there" She says, I roll my eyes. "You have a body to die for and women would kill to have legs like yours. You've got to show what you have, before it becomes too late" She says and hands me the dress. As soon as I get a good look at it, I gasp. I can't believe this. This dress is gorgeous.