Chapter 12: Conscious & Sorry

It was around 11 PM when Amoy and Darius came home, both very tired. She lets out a sigh as she took off her heels, he could only imagine how tiring it is to walk around in heels every day.

"Amoy, Darius should I bring your dinner to your rooms?" Xavier inquired making them both jump in surprise as they didn't see when he walked up to them.

"Xavier stop doing that, oh my god." Amoy scolded him holding her chest this made Darius laugh slightly but he immediately stopped, feeling her burning gaze on him. "And yes, bring my dinner to my room." She moved to go up the stairs but another voice stopped her.

"Amoy, why don't you join me for dinner? You too Darius." They both turned to her father who walked out the kitchen with a bottle of wine in his hand.

"Dad, what are you doing here?" She asked raising her eyebrow as lost as Darius. The man shrugged acting as if she and Darius weren't the reason for his arrival.

"I missed Xavier's cooking and you, I guess." Amoy couldn't help the look of amusement that appeared on her from his statement. "Don't just stand there, come." And they did soon they were all seated in the dining room, the table was already filled with food, water and wine.

"So Darius how was the party?" His son in law cleared his throat before speaking. "It was fine." William waited for an explanation for 'fine' but Darius continued eating.

"I was expecting that type of response from Amoy, are you feeling ok son?" Darius nods sending him a smile. "I'm just a little tired."

"The alcohol is finally catching up to you, isn't it," Amoy said in a matter of fact tone earning a chuckle from her husband.

"If I didn't know better I would say you wanted me to get drunk." She laughed slightly shocking everyone around her as it sounded so genuine and she actually looked happy.

"Maybe." He held her gaze for a few seconds it felt so electric he knew if he stared into those eyes any longer it would bring up buried feelings so he turned his attention to William who was watching them intently.

"Are you staying the night?" He nods but Amoy shook her head.

"You can't the guest rooms are currently under renovation and I don't want you sleeping on the couch with your bad back, s—"

"Not to worry, Liam is staying in Darius's room, so Darius you can stay in her room." Both Amoy and Darius stopped eating making sure they were hearing right.

"He can sleep on the couch." The butler shook his head.

"It took me hours to get those pillows right. It's not the first time you both slept in the same room." He was right, they had slept in the same bed multiply times why should this time be different?

"I'm fine with it as long as Amoy is comfortable." All their eyes went on her she gave them a nod drinking some of the white wine, Darius noticed that was the first time she had drank any form of alcohol, tonight was sleeping with him that bad?

Amoy on the other hand noticed how Xavier and her father were exchanging some suspicious glances, her first thought was, was her father gay? But she soon realized these looks weren't something lovers would pass on, it was when a plan was coming together but what was the plan?

Emerald took a seat in the office that only brought back memories she wanted to forget but she knew she couldn't,

"Thank you for coming, Emerald." Faith greeted her while Oscar stayed quiet letting his wife handle this situation.

"Why don't we just skip the formalities, Faith? And tell me why I'm here." It was more of a statement than a question.

"Fine, I want you to get closer to Darius, pretend to take interest in him."

"Why do you want me to do that?"

"His wife needs competition, she's has gonna far too comfortable with my son. She treats him like he's nothing." Emerald rolled her eyes, this whole family was filled with control freaks, only Daniel and Darius didn't inherit this trait, but their sisters didn't get lucky.

"Why would I be a pawn in your game?"

"Darling, don't you get it? You already are a pawn. You know I know some things about you my son, Daniel wouldn't be too happy to hear about when he wakes up. So will you do it?" That threat only sent her in a state of fear, if there was one thing the Atwoods were good at, it was manipulation.

"Fine, I'll do it. I hope you know how much Daniel hated being your personal puppet, what makes you think Darius will feel when he finds out about all you've done." Faith smiled unaffected.

"If that was supposed to scare me, it was a really pathetic attempt."

Amoy laid in bed on her laptop while Darius took a shower in her bathroom since her father had locked his room door.

She was still wondering what was his aim? What were he and Xavier planning? She didn't get the chance to brainstorm the different possibles as Darius came out of the bathroom in only his boxers, she tried her best to look him in the eye which she was found almost impossible, her eyes wanted to trail his body, to take in every single detail, even though she didn't see him as anything other than an acquaintance she was still human.

"Sorry, this is the only thing your father gave me before closing the door." He explained, hands covering his chest feeling a bit naked, Amoy found this amusing that's the first time she had seen a man with an amazing body be self-conscious.

"It's fine." She reassured him, looking back at her laptop pretending to type something but, in reality, she just couldn't focus and she had no clue why.

"Where do you keep your spare toothbrush?" She got out of the bed going to the bathroom, she didn't want him to look through her cabinets. It didn't take her long to find an extra toothbrush, which she handed to him. "Thank you." Amoy hummed in response, strolling back into her bed, taking up her laptop looking at the document she had to finish by tonight, all the ideas she had earlier were gone, she groaned staring at her screen for a good 4 minutes.

"Are you ok?" Darius asked her softly she had no clue when he got in bed since she was so distracted.

"Yeah, I just need to write up a presentation for tomorrow but I'm stuck." She admitted he sat up turning fully to her.

"What's it about?" The night continued for them after she explained the author's project she was working on, he took the laptop and wrote the whole presentation shocking her.

"How-"

"I was a writer remember." She had almost forgotten he had a job before her family, well her aunt ruined it.

"Thank you." He nods turning away from her the need to sleep hitting him like a ton of brick.

"No problem."

"I'm sorry." She told him immediately regretted saying that as she cringed in embarrassment.

"For what?" Amoy closed her eyes decided to be sincere for once in her life and speak from her heart.

"My aunt, she had no right to take away your dream. From what you just wrote for me, you're a good writer. I bet you were an amazing author." He smiled even though she couldn't see him.

"Thank you." He didn't really expect that from anyone, especially Amoy, she always acted so cold towards people, to him, sometimes he forgot she had a heart, but she was always focused on everything other than herself even she forgot she had one too.

End Of Chapter 12: Conscious & Sorry

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