A drunk Damon Castellano was escorted to his home. He was escorted by Gabe inside and was helped by the butler towards his bedroom.
He was immediately knocked out to sleep.
Damon was startled awake with the rustling of his clothes. He opened his hazy eyes and saw a shape of a woman.
Lucy was smiling gently at him. She was a maid that Amanda got for his grandson Allen, ever since Damon seldomly went to the Castellano’s mansion because of his annoyance with the two, his mom and Veronica. Amanda can’t help but be worried about Allen so she sent someone from her side to watch over her grandson.
Little did she know that the woman she said hid cunningness inside. Lucy was only supposed to take care of Allen’s affair, but the woman can’t help herself every time she laid her eyes on the imposing and admirable man. It was no other than the head of the Castellanos himself.
Lucy was often complimented by her good looks and she believed it herself too. So, she held a bit of confidence in winning any man’s heart. they only need a little tickle and coquettishness. So Lucy waited for the right time.
When she woke up early in dawn, the butler mentioned to prepare hang over soup. It was then she knew that the Master came home drunk last night.
A devastated and sorrowful man? This was easy. She smirked.
That is why aside from preparing soup, Lucy decided to attend to the Master personally. The reason why she is right now, on top of his bed, taking off his clothes, while sporting a gentle and alluring smile.
Damon immediately sobered up when he saw an intruder in his personal space. He harshly pushed the woman away.
“Who the heck are you?” He exclaimed in a harsh and hoarse voice. He had just woken up and had a hangover. So he can’t help but be crude and rash, opposite of his usual cold and refined self.
This only made Lucy excited more. She looked at the disheveled and other side of her Master. Looking sexy and unrefined man.
“Master, I am trying to help you to make you more comfortable,” Lucy’s voice was soft with a pinch higher than normal.
Damon looked at the emotion behind her eyes and he scoffed. Why was he surrounded by foolish women?
“Go out,”
He said in a low and dark voice. what Damon hated the most was someone entering his personally territory. He had this since he was young. Men trying to target him and bring
him down, as well as women who can readily jump on his bed to seduce him, were not a small number. So, experiencing this kind of situation while he had a hangover irritated him more.
“But, Master-“ Lucy tried to reason out but was immediately cut off.
“Leave!” Damon finally raised his voice as he sat up and swung his arm across the vase sitting in the bedside table. It immediately flew to the ground and broke in a loud crashing sound.
“Fuck!” Damon leaned back in a huff as he rubbed his temple.
Lucy was startled awake. She immediately rushed outside to leave with her heart almost pounding till her throat.
When she went out she bumped into the butler. He was giving her a icy-cold stare. Lucy could not help but curse. Looks like she would be kicked out in this house.
The Butler immediately headed to his master’s room when he heard a loud crashing sound. When he was on his way he saw the young maid assigned to the young master. He then knew what went wrong. He sighed as he looked at the hangover soup in his hand. Gladly he brought this with him, he needed to calm the upset boss.
He went inside the room and saw the broken pieces of the vase. He quietly went to hi master’s side and placed the soup on the bed side table.
Damon had heard the movement from the start but it was a familiar movement for him. He opened his eyes to glance at the man as he took the hangover soon.
“What was that woman doing in my room,” Damon said in a dark voice without looking at the butler.
The butler immediately hanged his head low and apologized.
“I’m sorry master, it was my negligence that caused this.” He could only say.
Damon looked at the man once again. This butler was with him since he was young, so he was one of the few people he trusted.
He looked away and brought the bowl to his lips and spoke after taking a sip.
“I don’t want this to happen again,” He said in a cold voice. The butler can be to at ease and scared of his Master’s reply. It means his Master still let his lapses pass because of their long master-and-servant relationship, but still he expressed his dissatisfaction and warning.
“I assure you, Master.” He said as he bowed. He needed to fix that woman as soon as possible.
Damon could only sigh as the throbbing of his head calmed down slightly with the hangover soup.
“How’s my son,” Damon did not forget to ask. He was not able to check up on him last night because of drunkenness. He might have been calling for him for a while.
The butler responded that was close but slightly different from his expectation.
“The little young master kept calling for his.. Mommy last night,” The butler uneasily said.
Damon can’t help but be taken a back. Calling his Mommy instead of him, that cheeky little brat.
Because of this, Damon went straight to his son’s room after he took a cold shower. The man came out of his room like there was no drunken madness yesterday. He stood as handsome and refined as ever.
When he slowly opened the door, he saw his son facing his tablet early in the morning. He was face timing somebody. Damon raised an eyebrow and stayed and leaned at the door frame, staring at his son happily chattering at the person in the screen. It was the very same woman who hardly made him sleep at night, Anya.
“Mommy, goodbye, you need to call me tonight again,” Allen pouted. Anya smiled gently.
“I will baby, so be good today, alright?” She answered. Allen then happily acquiesced. The mother and son pair stared and smiled at each other for a moment while the father stood watching him.
Until the two waved at each other. Allen was waving his hand with a mitten, and an identical mitten was waving on the other side of the screen. This made Damon straightened up immediately.
He tared at the mitten that Anya was holding until the screen went black. It was only then Damon woke up from his stupor. Allen noticed his father and called cheerfully.
“Daddy!”
Damon fixed his expression and smiled to his son as he approached him. “You were in a call?” He asked as he sat on his sons bed.
“Yes! With Mommy!” Allen happily said. Damon could not hardly keep his smile as he stared at the mitten in his son’s hand. He had assumed way back that this was made by his mother, and if the two of them was showing each other this mitten, then does that mean Anya knew?
This was on Damon’s mind the entire day, so he could not help but go to Anya went dinner came. He was angry last night, but he could not help it. Maybe it was jealousy?
Especially when he remembered the photo. Then what he saw when he came to the place was her together with Andrei. He can’t help but think of differently.
But when he heard what Veronica said, he finally noticed that everything was suspicious. Even if his hunch was wrong, he knew Anya was not that kind of woman. And she did not do anything wrong and she shouldn’t be blame. It was just his ego and jealousy talking.
After he thought of this last night, he sent his guard to Anya even if he still has a slight dissatisfaction in his heart. Despite that, he still wanted to make sure she’s safe.
And now, he was meeting her himself.
He pushed open the studio’s door and saw Anya alone, preparing to go out. Anya was taken a back when she saw Damon.
“Dinner?” Damon awkwardly invited.
Anya looked at the awkward and eve embarrassed face of the man. Anya’s heart stirred. She thought maybe he was here because of what happened last night. Her assistants told her his secretary came asking for her that night.
Anya could not help it, but she felt embarrassed. Whatever happened last night, it was something that could not be proud of. But still she acquiesced so that she could here whatever this man would say.
So when they were sitting at the restaurant’s table, Anya kept her head low. She just realized now how could she respond to the man if he did ask.
Damon stared at the uneasy woman in front of him. he was indeed planning to ask her about what happened, but he brushed it off, to save her from the uncomfortableness. Instead, he asked her something out of her expectation.
“Did you already know? About Allen?” Damon asked in a stiff but gentle tone.
Anya looked up immediately at the man. She did not foresee that he would be asking this. She stared intently at the man, something that she had never dared before. She already knew he was handsome and refined, but looking at him closely, she could tell he was someone who could take woman’s breath away. But right now, she was looking at him as someone not just an ordinary man, but the father of her child.
Various emotions filled her eyes and heart that she could hardly tell. “I do,” She said in a soft but firm voice.
She did. She knew.