The elevator tinged, and a woman came out of it. A man was standing outside the elevator. They glanced and passed by each other. Two people who be accomplices in the future just met for the first time.
Veronica walked onto Damon’s floor. She stopped by the head secretary’s table. The man behind recognized her and greeted her politely.
“I am here to deliver something to Damon. Aunt Amanda asked me to do so,” She said. Gabe, Damon’s head secretary, was quite reluctant. But knowing the relationship and
Veronica’s connection to the Castellanos he let her in while giving a heads-up to Damon too.
Damon received it and his brows furrowed. He does not know Veronica’s purpose in going here. Before he could think more, the door to his office opened, and a woman walked in. Veronica was wearing a daring and tight black dress. Her hair was curly and was down behind her back. She was wearing blood-red lipstick, her eyes hooded, and staring intensely at Damon.
He raised his eyebrows as he saw the woman’s appearance. Was her play of being an innocent white flower over? And now she opted for a seductress fox? But sadly, Damon was unaffected because he could clearly see through her intentions.
Veronica stopped in front of Damon’s table and smiled dazzlingly at the man.
“Hi, Damon.” She greeted curtly. Like they already have an intimate relationship. Damon only gave her a glance and responded shortly.
“How may I help you, Ms. Ambrosia?” A perfunctory reply.
Veronica was a little dissatisfied with his still uninterested reply. She personally and meticulously dressed up today just for him. She concluded that an innocent girl was not his type, so now she dressed up sexily to fit his taste. But this man was as hard as stone.
She stared fixedly at the man behind the table. He was lean and handsome. He had a wide shoulders and a strong body that could clearly be seen even behind that three-piece suit. His eyebrows contain nobleness and elegance. And his eyes were dark and cold. It was so cold that you wouldn’t be able to read what is on his mind. His face was aloof, not letting anyone get close to him.
As Veronica stared, she licked her lips, and her want was heightened once more. It gives her more of a challenge to take this man. Handsome, rich, and powerful. Who wouldn’t want him?
Only Damon Castellano was worthy of her.
“I have come here to invite you for lunch. I heard you have been working so hard these days from Aunt. I want to invite you to relax and unwind for a while.” She said as she approached his table and placed her hands on it. She leaned close to him, showing him her chest in full view.
“How about you let off some steam,” She whispered with a seductive and coquettish voice.
Damon was only quite irritated by her actions and finally lift up his head. He leaned away from her; on his swivel chair. The woman was offering her body directly to him. but he didn’t give it a second look. What does this woman take him? A slave for his libido?
Not all men would let their lower part take lead over their brain. This woman clearly underestimates him or she is just full of herself.
“If I would let out some steam, I wouldn’t need Ms. Ambrosia for it,” He smirked dangerously at her. The smile on Veronica’s face drooped down.
His words told her clearly. He had a lot of means, and he was not lacking in any way of recreation and enjoyment.
“I would politely decline your invitation. Right now, it is work hours. How could the leader be enjoying himself while his employees are working hard? My apologies, but I still have a lot of things on my plate.” Damon explained in a professional voice. He then pushed his intercom and sent a message to his secretary.
“My visitor is done with her business. Kindly send her out.”
Veronica’s face darkened as he left her no room to refute. She could only clench her hand and accept. She sighed.
“Then, we will meet some other time. I think Aunt will call me these days, then we will have many chances to see each other. Until then, Damon.” She said with a smile, pulling out her future mother-in-law's card. She strutted with her long legs and high heels across the room until she reached the door. When she opened it, Damon’s secretary was already outside waiting to escort her. She ignored him and went straight out.
When the door closed, Damon sighed and massaged his eyebrows. That cunning woman really has a lot of means to get close to him. He clicked his tongue and smirked dangerously at her last words. Using his mom, ey? Then he will use his means to avoid his family’s home.
When his secretary was done escorting Ms. Ambrosia out, Damon called him back to his office.
“Next time Ms. Ambrosia will come here, tell her I am not present.” He ordered, another way for him to avoid that woman. After that, he dismissed his secretary.
Damon shook his head at the woman’s nonsense invitation. He immediately brushed it off and went back to work.
When Veronica came out of the Castellano’s Group of Companies’ building, she entered her car and immediately drove off to the Castellano’s mansion. The big mansion sat on a big and vast lawn. This was only one of the many properties the Castellanos owned, yet, Veronica could already suck her breath at the magnificence of it.
Looking at this, it gave her more drive to have Damon on the palm of her hand. Soon, she would be the mistress of this place. Not only here but all of the Castellano’s property. She would be a queen, and no one would dare to offend her.
Veronica’s eyes glinted with a cunning and scheming look. She smiled evilly and looked around, surveying her future home. After she looked enough, she fixed her expression before entering the mansion.
When she arrived, she was greeted by Damon’s mother.
“Veronica, dear. Why are you here? How about your lunch with Damon?” Amanda inquired. Veronica gave her a pitiful and sad face. It was both of their plan to ask Damon out.
“Well, he rejected me.” She answered Amanda. The middle-aged woman saw Veronica’s countenance and immediately led her to sit on the sofa.
“What did he say? How could he reject you?” She asked Veronica. “He said he was busy.” Veronica sighed.
“You know, Aunt. I think Damon doesn’t like me.” She said to Amanda. Amanda heard this and immediately refuted it.
“How could that be? He doesn’t have anyone he fancies, and you are a perfect woman. Oh, dear, I am sure with more effort, he will change his mind.” He encouraged Veronica.
“But he always rejects me. I like him so much, what should I do for him to like me?” Veronica pitifully spoke as if she would cry. Amanda comforted her.
“Don’t worry, I will help you. There is no one worthy of my son than you. You got me, so don’t be sad now, okay.” She encouraged Veronica.
Amanda had already set her mind on Veronica. Anyone who blocks her plans will be eliminated by all means. She just needed to push and convince her son, and she is sure he would be enlightened soon.
Veronica smiled gently at her and leaned on Amanda's shoulder. Amanda then patted her to appease her. Where Amanda cannot see, Veronica shows a wicked smile.
Damon was going through a pile of documents when he received a call from his mother. He sighed as he felt a bad premonition about this. But as the phone kept ringing, he could only breathe out exasperatedly and picked up the call.
“Damon! How could you reject Veronica? A nice girl is asking you out politely! Is that how a gentleman would act? Treating her coldly and throwing her out?!” His mother greeted him.
“Hello to you too, Mom.” He said as he put on speaker and placed his phone on the table. He continued to work, treating the call as something trivial.
“I didn’t raise you that way! You will be meeting Veronica this Sunday! How could you make me lose face this way? I will not accept this. You need to make up with Veronica.” She ordered strictly. Damon smirked at his mother’s remarks. That woman is really a scheming fox. She immediately had done her move.
“I’ll check my schedule.” He said nonchalantly.
“What? Can’t you even make room for a short lunch? You are such a workaholic! Are you throwing your life away like this? You are not getting any younger! You need an heir soon, so how could you stay idle? All your hard work will be futile if you don’t have any successor.”
Damon stiffened when he heard these words. No one knows in his family about his son, not even his mother. He already had a successor, so he didn’t plan to marry anyone.
When you live in a world like his, where every move has greed and schemes, there will never be a place for love and family. He was brought up in an environment where every person he meets and associate with has cunningness and deceit. He has no plans on living with that kind of people under his own roof. Where he needs to be careful of his every action. He had grown up in that kind of way, he won’t let his son experience that too.
“Mom, I have work and responsibilities in my hands. Running a company is not a game, and I am not loitering around here doing trivial things. There is a heavy responsibility on my shoulder, so I can’t act and spend my time recklessly as what you want.” He said as his patience was running out.
Amanda heard this and was speechless. She doesn’t know anything about the business world. All she knows is how to spend and how to scheme her way up. So, she couldn’t refute her son’s words immediately.
“I am old, and I can handle my own matters now. Your concerns and thoughts, I have also thought about it long ago. You don’t need to worry. I can decide on my own now. So, if there is nothing else, I would say my goodbyes here.” He said as he hung up. He sighed and rubbed his temples.
Women are a headache, honestly. He was introduced to many women before, but all of them had the same trait. That is greed for money and power. He could see just from their eyes the deceit and scheme. A complete counterfeit. It makes him sick to see how they act innocent and righteous as they hide venom deep within.
But suddenly, a face popped out of his mind. The woman he was interested in and always got in tangled with. The mother of his child.
Anya.
She was the first woman he met with bright and clear eyes. Her blue eyes were so beautiful, it felt like they drowned you in. She looked like someone who had a big trust in the world. Even if everyone had shown her dark and horrible sides, she always gives the benefit of the doubt a chance to trust them. She had a big heart. A very dangerous thing to possess in this dirty and tainted world.
Her heart will be the one that puts her in danger. She needs someone who will protect and take care of her.
Damon pondered hard about this matter. He imagined how those clear eyes would someday lose their light and will gradually darken. When she realizes and get tired of the deceit and harshness of this world. And would slowly be eaten up in darkness.
He thought of this, and he once again felt that weird feeling. The need to protect that light and innocence.