Daisy’s Secret Crush

***Daisy’s POV.***

This scene was not what I expected someone to witness. Me in the robe holding our clothes. Theo, in the bed, barely covered in sheets. And both of us look like we spend half of our night having sex, which we did.

Lily looks shocked no less but is smiling like she won something. And the next second Ryan enters only to halt in his steps and puts a hand in front of Adam’s eyes, who he is holding in his arms.

“I won the bet.” Lily says and we come out of our stupor and I throw Theo’s pants at him to wear.

“I can not believe I lost one, for the first time.” Ryan says as Lily turns around to give Theo some privacy.

“You bet on us.” Theo asks and wears his shirt.

“Sorry, it was just a casual bet. Lily said she saw some spark between you guys at the wedding and I said that my brother would never pursue Wyatt’s daughter. Guess I was wrong. You are getting a bit gutsy nowadays.” Ryan says.

“Why do you guys always bring up my Dad?” I ask as I tighten my robe.

“Can we not have a discussion right now? Anybody could walk in. We will talk about this later.” Theo says.

“You should have thought about it before and locked the door.” Lily says.

“We were tired. We came late.” He says, “And what were you here for, anyway?”

“I was here to ask Daisy if she can keep an eye on Adam till we come back from our little date.” Lily says.

“Why didn’t you ask Noah?” Theo asks.

“Toby promised him a tour.” I say, “Of course I will. I am actually in no mood to go out today. I have to work too.”

“Thanks.” Lily says with a broad smile.

“You should go before Viola comes to check on her or worse, Wyatt.” Ryan warns.

“Mom knows.” I say.

“But your Dad doesn’t. I am leaving. Bye.” Theo says and after a kiss, leaves the room.

I blush and say to my audience, “I will be down after a quick shower.”

And I rushed to the bathroom. I take a quick shower and get ready in a white cable-knit drop-shoulder sweater and blue jeans. I put on a hairband and leave my room. I meet Theo at breakfast and Mom looks at us with mirth in her eyes while Dad smiles.

“You both must be tired from last night. I saw you both coming late.” Dad says.

“Yes.” I say with a smile and take a bite of my salad.

“Yes. They looked blissfully tired.” Ryan said, and I almost choked on my bite. But Theo literally coughs and glares at his brother.

“Yes, the party was such a success.” Lily said and elbowed Ryan.

After that, everything gets back to normal except for Lily and Mom smiling and teasing me. My Mom is cool that she doesn’t even realise sometimes that I am her daughter, not a friend. But I shake my head with a grin as I love her this side as she is very supportive towards me.

Everybody goes out to enjoy today’s beautiful day while I stay in with Adam and work with my team on the project we have. Theo is in the hotel looking after it as it is the first day, and Richard and Heather decide to join him and then go out. My parents are out for a date too, just like Ryan and Lily while Noah has gone to Olivia’s farmhouse to look at the horses which she talked about.

Adam is taking a nap beside me, and I just finished my work before lunch. I get up and suddenly feel dizzy, so I sit down again. I try to gather my senses and breathe through this sudden dizziness which came out of nowhere. I drink some water and lay my head back with my eyes closed.

I feel a brush of fingers against my cheek and open my eyes to see Theo. I blink and ask, “What are you doing here?”

“My parents left to tour around and I thought to have lunch with you.” He says with a smile as he brushes some hair away from my face, then he gestures towards Adam and asks, “How was he?”

“He was just fine.” I say.

“And you?” He asks.

“What would be wrong with me? I am fine.” I say as it is true for now.

Theo and I have lunch and he talks about the hotel hosting more people than he thought. The publicity is good too and they will soon have offers to open more Valentine hotels in the UK. I am happy to hear that and forget about my earlier dizziness altogether.

We get back home on Thursday and Theo has to go to this apartment and I have to mine as his parents are accompanying him. My parents, on the other hand, go straight home as they have to leave for one of their friend’s house as he is ill.

I enter my apartment and feel very tired. I already slept in the jet and still feel sleepy. After that dizzy spell, I didn’t get it again. But apparently, I hate the smell of perfumes. Theo teased me a lot about that but stopped wearing perfume after that.

Next morning when I woke up, I saw a reminder that today I was going to meet with the person who made all of this possible for me. My dream. I have been dying to know who that person is ever since Clara talked about how good that person is in this field.

I get up and another dizziness captures me and as soon as it goes away, a wave of nausea comes over and I run to the washroom and empty my stomach. After brushing my teeth, I sit down on the cool tile and drink some water.

Maybe all this sudden change of weather and travelling is making me a bit ill. But I have to get up and get ready as today is the big day for my firm. I take a hot shower and get ready in an apricot skirt set, which has a relaxed ripped tee and pencil skirt with a slight slit at the side. I tie some strands that had grown a little with a clip and take my bag.

I go to the office and only have some juice as I am neither in the mood for coffee nor breakfast. We will work on our presentation together as we are going to show it to our collaborated partner to finalize everything.

We get in my and one more person’s car and reach the place where we were told to meet them. The building is huge, and the architecture tells what a talented person the owner is. But something feels familiar with all this. I feel a stare at me and look around, only to find no one.

Maybe my mind is playing tricks. I look down at my phone to see a text from Theo that says we will have lunch together. I went to reply that we couldn’t as I would be busy, but the receptionist told us to follow her at that time and I forgot about it.

The next hour and two go with everything we plan to do and what my team is capable of. The few people present said that Clara’s firm would be working for professional structures like buildings used for business purposes and my firm would be working for people’s homes they would build like apartment buildings and villas, etc. unless the client demands otherwise.

We build a good trust between us, but I know they are not the main person. They said they would introduce themselves in the market from January but till then they are going to accept the clients and work for them and we would be working with them.

I sign the contract after my lawyer reads everything and my team looks happy with it and we shake hands with them.Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“So now can we meet the main head?” I ask with a smile.

“Sure. There he is.” A woman says and I turn around to look at the person whose footsteps I can hear and my eyes widen, “Mr. Theo Anderson.”

For a minute, I couldn’t process it, but then before I could take a step towards his smiling face, I started to fall and my last image was of him rushing towards me with a panicked look in his eyes.