THIRD POV:
Roman had reached his abode still thinking on Giulia's words, were they really from her heart?
He imagined how she would be by his side, encouraging him on his bad days, celebrating him on his good days and just staying by him on the days he can't understand anything…
However nice all of these sounded he knew it would up being futile, he couldn't trust himself to handle her…
She was way too fragile, he couldn't handle her, she deserved better, she deserved the love he couldn't give, and because of this he had to get himself under control.
He didn't need to start thinking of things he couldn't give and also wouldn't get. This is supposed to be business and so he needed to take it back to what it truly is, no sugar coating anything…
Giulia Davide is nothing more than a symbiotic partner, she was to help him get his deal and in return he would settle her with enough to keep her going…
They owed each other nothing after this.
So he'd taken his phone and made arrangements for his men to check after her apartment each day that she was doing ok, as going there in the midst of these new feelings is bad for him.
Giulia is the first woman to make him feel out of it, not in control, with her he longed for things that may destroy him…
He would only see her after he figures out how to turn off these feelings, business and pleasure never ended well…
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GIULIA'S POV:
I have not seen or heard from Roman since the night he dropped me off from the club.
I had a very serious hangover the next day and I expected he would come to check up on me, and so that I would apologize if I had said or done too much the previous night…
But he never showed up, rather I would get occasional checkups from the men now stationed around my house.
I had gone ahead to ask Marcus, the guy who usually came in to check on me if Roman was out of town, and his reply was rather annoying…
He said Roman was infact in town and very busy with The Casino…
I knew that was an excuse because Anton handled most part of the operation, he is the boss, he can make time to see me of he wanted…
Could it be that I had said too much that night? Or was there something I did? He should have called me out on it instead of avoiding me, we were supposed to bond if this thing is going to to work.
He was being childish if you ask me.
And those feelings of that night, I wasn't feeling like that again, maybe it was truly the drink, although I miss his teasing, and chuckling.
What if he found someone else?, maybe I wasn't good that night, he couldn't possibly take the contract from me, I wouldn't allow it, I'd already throw my life for this…
If I don't hear from him this week I swear I would go to him myself.
It was already past six p.m and I had just prepared lasagna with peppered chicken and fries, about to have the best time of my life when the door bell rang…
"Arrgh, why now?!!, it had better be important!"
It was Marcus and he was holding two big shopping bags.
"Marcus?, what's in those?"
"Miss Davide, Mr Vasslllev asked that these be delivered to you and also there's note inside of it"
Oh, so he is alive and infact breathing, and even remembers me… Good to know…
"OK, so i'll be taking these, is there any other thing I need to know?"
"That'll be all Ma'am, have a nice evening…"
It had better be all, I would hate to be distracted a second time from my meal.
I dumped the bags on the couch in the living room and went back to the kitchen, I would not look into the contents of those bags until I am done eating…
"Sono dannatamente bravo a cucinare, dannazione!!"
I'm damn good at cooking, dammit!!
Okayy, now that I'm done eating, over to Mr Vassllev's packages…
The first bag contained tons of…clothes…what's all these for?...
The second bag contained shoes, shoes that worth a lot of money, and there's the note.
I took the note out and it read…
Good evening Miss Davide, I apologize for not being able to visit…
Well according to our plan we need to go on tons of date, so I'm sending all of these for that purpose.
And we'll be going on one tonight so make your pick, I'll see you by 8pm, do have a lovely evening…
R. Vasslllev.
This was all?, he expects me to go on a date with him after ditching me for three weeks! Who is this man!!.
I know what we have is nothing close to real but this was outright disrespectful!
Maybe this is who he really is, all he did was a 'first impression mattered' thing... I thought we could become friends, guess I was wrong…
Still I was in no mood to go out and so I went to let Marcus know I won't be going to anywhere…
I had just stepped into my bedroom to get a nice steamed bath when my phone screen went on…
"Oh it's Anton". I swippd the screen to receive the call…
"So you finally miss me?"
"Ehi cupcake, non so cosa sia successo tra voi ragazzi, ma vi chiedo di perdonare e di lasciarvi andare...
Esci con lui, okay. È solo la cena, prima che tu te ne accorga, sarai a casa. Sarà finita prima che tu te ne accorga."
Hey cupcake, I don't know what happened between you guys, but I ask you to forgive and let go... Go out with him okay. It's just dinner, before you know it, you'll be home. It will be over before you know it.
Ohh, this is why he called… hmm, I would only consider going out because I love you Anton. But then I don't want him to think he got to me so easily…
"Is this the only reason you called?"
"No, no, no Mami, I also called to check up on you, How've you been?"
"Yeah, yeah, I've been good, you don't even come to see me, we live in the same city now Anton what could be your excuse now?"
"I'm so sorry Giulia, it's just that work has been hectic these past weeks that I barely have time to think of other things, I promise I'll make it up to you when I'm done with all of these.
Though I'm still asking you consider my plea, just go out with him okay, if he messes up again you can do whatever you like to him."
"I'm only doing this because I love you Anton… , I'll go…"
"Thank you so much, I'll let you go prepare now , it'll be alright OK…"
And with that there was silence again…
I was going to see him tonight afterall…
After having my steamed bath I moved over to the clothes he'd gotten me, I had less than an hour to get ready…
I decided to go with the neutral shade of dress, it's color matched my skin tone.
It had long net sleeves that looked almost invisible on my skin except for the little shiny diamond designs scattered on it, and hugged me in the right places, snatched at my waist and flowing after my hips …
I also noticed that he'd gotten only dresses with slits , guess he now has a thing for it…
I went for a black pencil heel, one that only spelt out 'dangerous'.
Looking at the time now I had just thirty minutes until 8, meaning I'll be arriving there late, this was going to be his punishment…
I moved over to my makeup, deciding to go for a dark look since I had a neutral dress on.
I was going to contrast tonight, when you'd expect me to be all minimal because of the dress, my makeup would bring the seductress in me, that is the vibe a blonde gives off…
If he'd thought he could make me feel all kinds of things that night and ghost on me then have me back again he had another thing coming…
I am dressed to turn heads tonight, and unless Mr Vasslllev is blind he is going to fall at my feet, I would make sure of it…
This would be his second punishment…