Daisy's POV
As the car stopped in the underground parking lot, I pull out the nose mask I had prepared earlier and put on my sunglasses.
Although I put in a lot of effort to finding this high end but very private restaurant, I couldn't be careless.
I enter through the side door and after a brief confirmation process, the waiter leads me to a private room where I see Declan seated with his back facing me.
He stands up and just the sight of him has be raging. Without thinking twice, I stalk up to him and slap a dirty slap on his face.
"You disgusting jerk!"
"How dare you?"
In just one day of meeting him, he was on his way to ruining my life like he did five years ago.
Declan's eyes darken as he glares at me.
"Daisy…"
"I don't want to hear any word from you, Declan."
I take a deep breath.
"I didn't think being a mistress would have taught you the skills to behaving like one."
My brows crinkle at his words but I hold my tongue back.
Before coming, I had made up my mind to select my words carefully. If Declan could release the news about our marriage, he could also play some other tricks here.
But even if he finds a way to leak our address, he couldn't get in because I already arranged matters with the restaurant.
"Mistress," I scoff. My eyes search the room briefly before I finally settle back on his face.
"I don't care what you think about me. All I know is, there is nothing between us anymore, Declan. I want nothing to do with you, why would you give the press misleading information?"
"You think I gave the news to the press" Declan asks as I sit down across him.
"Oh, then, do tell me why a day after we meet. Sorry, on the day we meet, few hours after, the press releases the news?"
Declan chuckles, the familiar sound stirring memrories that I have done so much to bury.
"You are still just as cute."
My anger flares at his words. "Declan…"
Before I can finish, he interrupts.
"Back then, I graduated top of my class and you were one of the most popular girls in your faculty. Do you really think that no one knows about our relationship?"
My fists clench at the smug smile on his face.
What I would do to wipe them off.
"Our marriage was private because your parents didn't want it. The family dinner after was even more private. And have you forgotten the demand of being an housewife that your mother made?"
"Apart from your family, who else knows about us being married."
Even if our old schoolmates knew, the most they could have said was us being exes.
When we dated, Declan's company was still growing and barely making a mark. Even though I had forced Stefan to use a private identity and invest, it was not enough to give him a lot of publicity or invitations to places.
We would spend nights together and barely had public outings. Regardless of how I thought about it, there were really very few people that know.
"Let's imagine that I released the news, why do you think I'd be so desperate to let the world know that I married a woman that can't even be faithful?"
It takes every bit of control within me to not hurl one of the vases in front of me at Declan.
He was so cruel.
So cruel that I would always hate that I had loved him the way I did.
"Fine, I'm the unfaithful ex. As the faithful one, the least you can should do is at least being honest."
"We are divorced. How shameless can you be to lie to the press about us being married."
Declan stands up and I don't think twice and stand up too.
"I gave no such news to the press, Daisy."
"Liar." I sneer while crossing my arms across my chest.
Clearly, I have to go to my plan B.
"What do you want, Declan?Why are you doing this?"
Declan doesn't reply, instead, he walks towards me, and I can feel the air in the room changing. I step back. Uncomfortable with the little distance between but up until my back hits the wall, Declan doesn't stop.
"You think I'm lying?" He finally says while standing right in front of me.
He leans in and I can feel his breath brushing against my face.
I take a deep breath, angry at the way my body felt with him being close to me and even more angry that I had allowed him to corner me to a wall.
His hands settle on my arms and he uses them to pin me against the wall.
"How about you, Daisy?"
"Didn't you say that as long as I was by your side, your life was perfect? Didn't you promise to always be beside me?"
Pain flashes in his eyes and my heart aches for a brief moment.
Yes, I has said all of those things.
But he broke his promises first.
"You chased me all those years, Daisy, was it all for this? To call me a liar and a disgusting jerk after you broke your promises?"
My words are stuck in my throat and I'm struggling to breathe.
I need him to be away… to move away…
Declan doesn't seem to notice my discomfort as he leans in even more.
"Don't be an hypocrite, Daisy."
"There are many terrible things that the press could say about you…" he pauses and his eyes locks with mine.
"Last I checked, being married to me is a much better scandal than you being exposed for being a mistress."
I can't help it. A tear drop from my eyes and my fists are clenched together.
Before I can say anything, the door to our private room is pushed open with a loud bang and my eyes go wide in shock.