Perfect disguise by Elizabeth A (speld decodable readers .txt) 📗

(Dominic POV)

"Your lips are very soft," I said, tracing my hands along her bottom lip. 

She smiled and shook her head. "Were you even listening to what I was saying?"

I shrugged. I heard a few of what she said, but I wasn't paying full attention.

" think a little," I confessed.

She crossed her hands and pouted. "That's not fair."

For some reason, I found that cute.

I dropped my hand from her waist and held it. "You know what, let's not talk about our work." I rubbed my hands tenderly. "Let's talk about us."

She arched up my brow, interested. "So what about us?"

I tilted a little and shrugged again. "I don't know." I brushed her hands and looked at her. "Anything."

She pressed her lips thinking about what she could ask me. "So, how many children do you want?" She asked out of the blue.

I blinked at her. I didn't expect her to ask that question. I dropped my hand and held the railings looking at the flowing body of water. 

Then, I took a deep breath. I had never thought about the answers to that  question. I only have vague memories of my actual parents and had been living with Liam's family since I was young so the idea of having my own children was something I held of high importance. I didn't want my children to live without their actual parents. 

 "I don't know, but the only thing I know is that I want as many children as we can have."

She couldn't stop the wide smile that came to her face. 

"What about having just twins?"

I smiled and slid my hand along the railings until it touched hers. "I like that and I want them to look like you if they are girls." 

She leaned closer to him and rested her head on his shoulder. "I also want them to look like you if they were boys."

We kept talking about the future until he fell asleep on the deck of the yacht under the starry sky.

When we woke up the next morning we walked side by side toward our cars. We had parked it at a distance far from the shore.  Diana looked at me as we reached the cars. 

She moved closer and embraced me. "Thanks for last night," she ran her hand down my back in a tender manner. "It was one of my best."

"So as mine," I said, still hugging her.

A smile tugged at her lips and she pulled back, her hands still cupped around my neck. "I'm so lucky to have you."

I brushed back some strands of her hair and smiled. "I'm more lucky."

 We didn't want to leave each other, but we had to since we needed to get back to our daily activities. I leaned on my car and watched her as she walked towards hers. She turned back again and looked at me. I smiled and waved at her, encouraging her to keep on going. 

She pouted and ran back to me. "Can't we just skip today and just stay together throughout today?"

I held her hand and shook my head. "We can't, Diana." he brushed his hands along my hand. "I need to get back to work."

I urged her back to her car and she reluctantly went after I kissed her goodbye. After watching her car swerve into the road, I entered mine and ignited the engine. 

The weekend went by in a blur and I stepped into my office on the first day of the week, feeling high lifted. The whole week was very stressful because we were programming new software and setting up plans for the new ones. 

Just when I finally discovered the issues with the second application that day, Adeline came into my office looking just as tired as I was. I took my eyes from the laptop and gazed at her. 

"What's wrong?"

"The director wants to have a word with you."

I stopped what I was doing and went to meet with the director. That was when I received the good news. I was finally promoted to the position of a project manager. I was elated. I had been applying for the position for a very long time and I couldn't believe I actually got it.

Diana was the first person to hear about the promotion. She promised to stop at my apartment at night with a bottle of champagne so that we could celebrate the promotion. 

It became a double celebration when her designs also got accepted and won the main design of their latest spring collection. I was so happy for her. She really put a lot of focus into creating those designs and I was glad it paid off.

After work, I went straight home and took a shower. I was still in the shower when I heard a knock on my door. I knew it was Diana so I wore my robe and came out of the bathroom. Kenneth had gone to the club with the boys so I was home alone.

I opened the door and Diana walked inside holding an expensive bottle of champagne in her hand, her clutch in the other.

She jumped on me the moment she saw me and wrapped her arms around me, smiling widely. "I'm so happy for you, Sweetie," she smiled at me, "you made it! You are finally the new Project Manager of Stevesoft!"

I grinned and grabbed her laps. She curled her legs around my waist. I closed the door with my elbow and finally looked at her. "I'm also happy for you." I pecked her lips and her eyes twinkled, "You put so much effort in creating those designs."

She shivered in delight, still holding her clutch and the champagne. "This means we have so much to celebrate!"

She jumped down and went to take wine glass in the kitchen. She strutted back into the living room and dropped it on the center tablet. I opened the champagne bottle to open it. Then, she poured some into the wine glass and passed one to me.

She faced me with her glass of champagne. "Let's toast to our newest promotion and achievement."

"Then cheer for more of everything." I said and we clicked our glass of champagne together.

We had bottled down three bottle of champagne that night. 

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