The resort's restaurant on the higher floor was famous for its seafood dishes and Nyx had ordered prawn and shrimp dishes knowing well that Ivy liked them and just as he predicted, Ivy savored every dish from the bottom of her stomach.
"This is the best dish I have had," she said as she ate up the cheesy prawn pasta.
*CLICK*
Unbeknownst to them, a young man sitting in a faraway corner took a photo of them eating.
Sitting in his office, Marcus's phone buzzed. Checking it, he saw his daughter eating with Nyx with a wonderful smile on her face.
'How long has it been since she looked so carefree and detached from the world and its worries.' He smiled softly while looking at the picture, it was so small one might not even be able to see it. he thought of sharing the photograph with Michael.
'It seems you hit the nail this time.' It was captioned.
'She is my granddaughter, after all.' Came a quick reply.
Back at the resort, the two lovebirds- in Michael's eyes, had finished the meal but were still seated as Ivy seemed to be captivated by the view from the height once again.
"How is it that you have never been here before?" Nyx questioned, curious to know why the daughter of such a wealthy family never visited this top-class resort.
Ivy turned to face him and sobered up, realizing she was a bit too open to him. Scolding herself in her head for acting so freely around him, she replied in a single word, "busy."
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Nyx immediately recognized the change of tone and lack of words from her end and concluded it was time to part, for now. Just as he was about to speak, Ivy's phone rang.
"Grandpa?" Ivy was surprised to see him call her at this time of day. He never called her during the day on weekdays. She glanced at Nyx who immediately turned his head to the view outside the large glass wall.
Michael had just received the photograph of Ivy going back to her usual cold self and it was captioned 'oof! You got your old girl back'
He couldn't stop himself from calling her to tell her to continue the flowery girl act.
'Just how unpredictable is this girl?! Can she not ever suppress her feelings and act less like stone and more human?!' he scolded her in his heart.
After all, how can he actually scold his lovely granddaughter. Hah! He would is he could but nothing ever bothers the stone-faced granddaughter of his except his tears and stress. It would be meaningless!
Picking up, she immediately heard her grandfather's distressed voice, "my dear granddaughter, please keep smiling and chatting away."
As much as the distress in his voice bothered her, the words he spoke overcame the feelings welling up in her heart and-
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Ivy snapped her head to the corner so fast that the waiter waiting for them to leave for the past thirty minutes was afraid she might break her neck.
The young man, who just clicked the photograph was busy on his phone and raised his head to glance at Ivy as his fingers' continued typing was startled to see Ivy looking at him.
Nyx could feel Ivy's murderous aura and Ivy's grandpa was stumped by the silence on the other hand. Michael slowly realized his mistake and cursed himself in his mind for being so careless.
Just he was about to speak to calm the tension which he knew was brewing in the resort, he heard the 'tut' sound indicating the end of the call.
He dared not call her again and the at her anger's receiving end. He stared at his phone with sorry eyes and just prayed for the young man's safety.
But the young man could see death at his doorstep. Those eyes filled with so much anger in them, the last time he saw them, he was admitted in the hospital for nearly a month.
Turning to Nyx, Ivy bid him farewell before turning to the young man who felt his heart jump to his throat. He wanted to get up and run but his legs refused to move no matter how much he tried.
Nyx watched Ivy walk to the young man at the corner table and wondered if they knew each other and if yes, then how well for her to go up to him. Before jealousy could get the best of him a voice in his head spoke.
'She doesn't like him. Did you forget how foul her mood became after spotting him.'
"What are you doing here?" she questioned while the young man while hissing.
"n-nothing. J-j-ust hav-having l-lunch." The young man stuttered.
"Last chance, Joey. What. Are. You. Doing. Here?" she spoke the words in whisper.
"Ihadjustcomehereforadateandsawyouwithamanandwantedtotellyourfamilywhohavealwayswantedtoseeyouwithaman." Joey spoke in a single breath.
"You came here on a date and saw me with a man and told my family since they have always wanted to see me with a man?"
the young man nodded at Ivy's toned-down voice which was clearly suppressing her anger.
"I don't see a date."
As if on cue, a woman walked up dressed in a too short and almost see-through dress.
"Hello, baby." The woman spoke flirtatiously ignoring Ivy blatantly as she leaned over the table to kiss Joey showing a good amount of her ass to the waiters and customers looking at them.
Both, Nyx and Ivy were disgusted at the sight and felt like puking.
"Good luck!" Ivy said out loud before walking away, leaving Joey to his misery.
As she turned and started walking, she came face to face with Nyx and was confused as to why he was still there when they were done.
Sensing her thoughts, he said, "you came with me, I will drop you since your car isn't here." As realization struck her, she chided herself for forgetting such a significant detail.
'When I become so forgetful?! What happening to me these days!' she scolded herself in her head as Nyx guided her down to his car.
Nyx kept glancing at her hands on their way to the car and wished he could hold them but didn't wanna move things fast when she has just started lowering her guard.
In all these years, never had she allowed anyone into her head. Those who did make it there, it was never a good thing but meant the death of them.
This was common knowledge of the underworld, and these whispers never left his head ever since he has seen her. With a face of an angel and mind of the devil, she is a beautiful nightmare- as she is known in the underworld.