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Time went by fast.

My lips had carried the words of the chapters, speaking the endless words of the book.

Angel seemed to enjoy it, I had never seen him in such a vulnerable state.

Even though his face was kept motionless, his body seemed so relaxed and dignified.

It was like my voice was something that calmed him or even my mere presence.

Though, I could just be reading into it.

He played with my hair as I read the final line of chapter thirty.

My eyes had eventually started to get tired.

Angel had taken the book from my lap, he places a bookmark between the two pages and then places the book down on the table.

I snuggle my head in his chest and sigh.

"I love It here." I admit.

"This is my mothers." He says, referring towards the library.

"Does she still come here ?" I ask him.

He looks down at me and shakes his no.

"My father build it for her." He says.

"That's sweet of him." I say, completely forgetting who his father was.

He hums in response.

"Their marriage went down the drain when they had me." He says blankly.

I looked up at him giving him my utmost attention.

"What do you mean ?" I ask confused.

"My mother hated his lifestyle, always had and always will. When they found out my mother was pregnant, my father made it his mission to turn me into him. But just worse." He says emotionlessly.

"And your mother didn't want that for you, therefore they disagreed." I say adding everything together.

He hums and brushes his thumb over my cheekbone.

Our eyes bore into each other, It was like a sudden trance pulling us in.

Suddenly, our faces had gotten closer.

Inch by Inch our lips make their way to each other, it was like a string was attached and it was tugging us closer.

Soon enough we were now only inches apart.

Our breaths were mingling into one, and I found my eyes on his lips.

I moved my gaze from his lips to his eyes, only to see him already fixated on me.

Slowly, I moved my hand to cup his cheek, my face had gotten impossibly closer and now our lips were brushing over each other.

I had this certain desire ignite within me, I wanted, no, needed his lips against mine.

I closed my eyes and he did the same, as I tilted my head and made my way to push my lips against his.

"Sir."

A gruff voice broke us out of our trance.

I stop my actions midway, I open my eyes to see Angel angrily shut his as he clenched his jaw.

I remove myself from him and smile slightly to myself.

"What ?" Angel's voice booms angrily.

"You've got a visitor." The guy announced.

Angel signales him to leave and gets up.

"I've got some business to deal with. Wanna stay or come ?" He asks me.

"I'll come." I answer shrugging my shoulders.

He nods and takes his hand out for me to take.

Taking his hand we walk out of the room and head straight for a room that was placed just across the library.

Once we made it in, a tall man in a blue suit was in there already.

He turned around noticing our presence.

"Romano." He acknowledged.

"Peters." Angel says back.

Angel lead us to the long table that was placed in the middle of the room.

He motioned for me to sit down on the chair that was at the head of the table and I grinned seeing there was one of those wheely chairs.

Your such a child.

Angel sat down on the chair nearest to me and the man sat opposite Angel.

As the man was settling down, Angel's hand had come from under the table and laced it through mine.

I looked over at him but he wasn't looking at me.

His focus was on the paper in front of him.

"I don't think the girl should be here." The man complains.

"I don't think I asked for your commentary ?" Angel snaps back coldly.

The man cowers back and coughs covering up his scared movements.

The man had then begun to talk and I slowly drifted away from their conversation.

I lifted our entwined hands and observed the art that was engraved on his skin.

There was a snake tattoo, the head started from his middle finger and lined all the way around to his wrist.

There were other small tattoos on his hand that led all the way up to his now covered arms.

I traced the veins on his hands, as I listened to their conversation.

"I want eighty percent." The man announced confidently.

I watched Angel scoff and lean back in his chair.

"You've gotta' be downright stupid to think I'll give you eighty." Angel says.

The man closes his eyes and rubs his temples.

Angel glares at him, suddenly an idea came to my head.

I tap Angel's shoulder, his gaze went from me to the man, It still held a glare and I tried not to flinch at the intensity.

His eyes soften the slightest as he leans his head down so he could hear me.

"Give him sixty," I whisper softly.

I've seen this stuff in the movies, obviously, sixty was probably the best option since he didn't want half and half but wanted the slightest bit more. Reasonably, sixty was enough.

Angel doesn't answer nor does he look at me, he simply leans back up and looks over to the man.

"Sixty." Angel announces.

The man thinks for a moment before sending a stiff nod.

"I guess sixty is reasonable." He agrees.

"Good." Angel mumbled and stood up in his seat.

"I'll send the papers over tonight" He says to the man.

With a brief nod, the man walks out, two large bodyguards follow closely behind him.

Angel turned to me with a straight face.

"Smart." He says as he taps his temple.

I laugh and shrug my shoulders.

"I'm educated." I say tapping my temple as he did.

A small smirk graces his full lips, he holds his hand out for me to take to which I took.

I stood up, and Angel leads us out of the room.

We walked silently back down the spiral staircase.

As we made it down the stairs, there seemed to be more people than there was before.

A man comes up to Angel and starts talking to him in Italian.

I zone out as my eyes gaze around the scenery.

My eyes land on the familiar person I had seen coming in.

I move away from Angel and stride over to Kian.

I tap his shoulder, he turns around with wide eyes.

"Dai ?" He says answered surprised.

I grin and open my arms.

He gets up and wraps his arms around me.

I giggle as he squeezes me.

"I've missed you." He mumbles into my neck.

Kian Mattias is Tyson's best friend.

We all used to hang around each other from our childhood, Kian being Tyson's neighbour, and I practically lived at Tyson's house due to our parents always being together.

Kian and I had a small crush on each other, though I grew out of it once I hit high school and my view on him changed on more of a brotherly figure in my life.

"Me too. How come you're not around anymore ?" I ask pulling away.

He shrugs and pushes his hair away from his eyes.

"Been busy." He says casually.

"What are you doing here ?" he asked confused.

I look back over at Angel, only to see his gaze on Kian and me already as he spoke to the man in front of him.

"I'm here with a friend." I answer.

"Romano's your friend ?" He questions distasteful.

I nod my head in response.

"Daisy, be careful please." He says sternly.

I frown confused.

"He won't hurt me Kian." I say with the same tone he used.

He sighs and looks away from me.

"Moonlight ?" Angel's voice called from the door.

I look over at him and to see him leaned against the door frame, he motioned his head towards outside.

I give him a thumbs up and turn back to Kian.

"I'm going." I tell him.

He sighs and nods.

"I'm only looking out for you Dai." He mumbled as he pulled me to him.

"I know." I whisper and pat his back.

I wave him goodbye as we separate and I make my way back to Angel.

He looks up from his phone and puts it back into his pocket as he sees me.

He takes my hand in his as we walk out of the mansion.

"Friends with Mattias ?" He asked monotonously.

"Kian? Yeah, he's my cousins best friend." I tell him.

He nods his head slowly as he seemed to be deep in thought about something.

Just as we were walking out, my eyes had caught a familiar car coming through the gates.

I stop in my tracks and wait for the car to be parked.

As the person gets out, I realise who I thought I was imagining, turned out to be the actual person.

There stood my only cousin, Tyson.

*

Hi everyone :)

I apologise for the later update, I posted on my msg board the reason but in case you didn't see it or haven't followed me I'll tell you here.

I had written this whole chapter yesterday but for some reason, the chapter hadn't saved, even though I did save it.

I literally screamed the house down because of how mad I was lol.

Anyways hope you enjoyed this chapter, once again I apologise for the l8 one.

Also, I have made an Instagram account basically dedicated to my writing.

I will be posting updates, sneak peeks and more on the account. If any of you wanted to msg me and ask me questions about me, my writing or any of my work, I'll most likely get back to you on Instagram quicker then the Wattpad one, since the Wattpad DMS don't show up all the time for me.

The account name is

Anyways that's all, thank you for reading, and have a great night/day.

- Lei