Damien returned home that night still astonished that Carmila didn't tell him off and she wasn't the least bit upset with him. Could this be that she likes him too? Does she find him attractive too? If so then it was all worth it! Staying by her side and helping her recover from everything she's been through.
He walked up the staircase a little absentminded and didn't notice how he passed by his mother.
She stared at him going up the stairs mumbling to himself with different expressions appearing on his face, she even worried something must've happened for him to be in such a state and inquired "Son? Is something the matter that you've started talking to yourself?", Damien snapped out of his reverie and turned towards his mother saying unconsciously "And mother and what if I've fallen in love? What am I supposed to do to win the heart of a girl who lost her entire world?", he stared at his mother momentarily and continued "Never mind, I was just spouting nonsense. Good night mom", he stepped closer to his mother and give her a kiss on her cheek before heading to his room.
His mother stood there in utter confusion, not knowing what was going on with her son. She wandered "Did something happen between them?" She shook her head and proceeded towards the kitchen to grab a glass of milk for her husband.
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The next day, Carmila headed to the office seeing that she had loads of paperwork that needed signing and approval. She is the vice president of The Avoca Foundation, she is the one in charge of all the activities that the foundation handles.
She went straight to her office and found stacks of documents that needed her approval and attention. Sitting down on her black swivel office chair she took out some files that she had been working on from home, whilst reading the documents she received a unexpected call from Damien.
She picked the call calmly, "Good morning Damie, how are you?". To Damien's surprise she didn't sound upset or distant towards him, he was actually kind of happy that she called him Damie. Damien proceeded to respond "I'm well thanks and yourself?", Carmila said she was well and glad that he called. Damien was ecstatic to hear that and eventually came to the point that he had made the call in the first place, "I wanted to ask you if you could join me for dinner tonight, that's if you're aren't busy or have other plans?" He asked a little anxiously. Carmila smiled hearing him ask her out on a date and she certainly didn't disappoint, "I'd love too, are you picking me up or should we meet at the restaurant?"
Damien couldn't contain his happiness as he tried to sound not too excited "I'll pick you up at 7, is that alright?" She said yes and told him she needed to finish up with the paper work and will see him in the evening.
At the hospital
It was a busy day for Damien at the hospital too, he had three consecutive operations that day and also had to attend a board of directors meeting in the late afternoon just before his dinner date with Carmila in the evening.
By the time he'd finished it was already 6pm, which gave him enough time to get back to his place to freshen up and then head to Carmila's house to pick her up. She was still currently living with her family since the ordeal and hadn't moved back to her own apartment.
Damien headed to the parking lot to get his car, he put his briefcase in the trunk of the car and headed for the driver's door when suddenly a visiting doctor called him, "Dr Vaughn? Good evening, I apologise to keep you back seeing that you're already heading home but I wanted to quickly discuss with you a certain matter if you don't mind? I will only take 15 minutes of your time." Damien looked behind him to see the doctor who's name was Melissa Jenkins, she was 24 years old currently doing her internship in Vianden for 4 months and this was her last month before she headed back to Belgium for her graduation.
She had blonde hair, paired with hazel brown eyes and pretty facial features and a slender body.
She walked towards Damien and asked "I wanted to ask if you could help me with my thesis, as you may know that I'm preparing to graduate and I could really use a hand from a connoisseur of your calibre that's if you have time during the week to help me. Say over lunch or a dinner? My treat..." she spoke and it was all written over her face that she was an attention seeker.
Damien curtly responded, "I won't have much time during this week as I'm attending to important matters before I have to head abroad for a health conference. So I'm sorry that I won't be of help to you but I'll recommend a colleague of mine who can help you... I'm actually running late, so I'll get going" he turned to open his car door and didn't bother taking a second glance at her.
It was well known that he kept it all professional at work and only a few colleagues new his friendly side but that was it.
Melissa stood there stupefied that he didn't even wait for her response and she huffed in disappointment.