Dakota Delaune
His apartment door opened by itself and I walked in slowly. His apartment was decorated with woods and a lot of black&white tiles and furniture. He loves modern designs and it shows.
"Angelo?" I called his name because he's not appearing anywhere on the first floor. I noticed that he has 3 floors in total and he has the best view of Italy judging by the beautiful nights lights from the window.
"I will let you stay for a day." I turned around to see him coming out from the dark with a glass of alcohol in his hand.
When I saw him in his white shirt unbuttoned and he still has his loosen up tie around his neck made me gulp nervously. He scoffed coldly and put his glass of alcohol on the table in front him. He put both of his hands into his pockets looking at me from head to toe.
"Tell me what you want, so we won't have this conversation and this meeting again and again in the future." He said in his husky voice making me nervous. He walked closer towards me slowly as I took steps backwards.
"Dakota.. Delaune, tell me what you want." He said as he looked straight into my eyes.
"Angelo, you're drunk."
"I have high tolerance for alcohol, I don't get drunk easily." He smirked as he suddenly pinned me to the glass window.
"Let me clarify this, Dakota." Why is he kept calling me like that? It's not that I like it, it made me have not so healthy thoughts.
"One, our friendship ended 10 years ago. Two, you.. ruined my life. Three, how many times do I have to tell you that I will never like you." I bit my lips nervously because he slowly leaned his face towards me.
"But.."
"But what? But what Dakota?"
"You're the one who came into my life again, I didn't-" His eyes started to burn with fire and that scares me a little bit. He stood up straight and crossed his arms in front of his chest.
"I already gave Silware to my trusted men. You will have Diaz working on the Silware in Paris and I'm preparing someone to take care of the Silware in Italy. I will be taking care of Silware for 3 years and I already have someone else to take over." He announced it to me.
"So you come and go however you like huh?" I was started to get pissed with his attitude. He might be the man that I love but his inconsistency kills me.
I might be too confident but it seems he doesn't know what he wants and I can play with his inconsistency to keep him around me.
"That's fair enough if you want to give Silware to another person or to make someone to do the work for you. I get it.. you're Valentino De Luca, the busy Italian Billionare." I said in a mocking tone making him raising his eyebrows with my sudden attitude change.
"We won't be seeing each other again after this." He said and he turned his body around.
"You asked me what I want right?" He stopped and I walked towards him and stood in front of him looking straight into that blue eyes. None of us say anything but the tension was slowly building up.
"If you grant my wish, I'll walk away from your life." I said as I tried not to choke on my own words. This is like gambling because I can't predict his inconsistency so this might be my last chance.
My last chance to be with the love of my life.
"What? What is it?"
"You know that I don't have a job beside working with my parents. I don't have a lot of money to runaway."
"Runaway?" He raised his eyebrows and I wanted to smirk so bad because that caught his attention.
"Yeah, runaway. I want to runaway from everyone, I've had enough of life already."
"You need money? How much?"
"I want to work, let me work in your company. You can put me anywhere and we don't have to see each other.. but I really do want a position where I can get pretty high salary." I said and he looked at me completely thinking that I'm nuts.
"Runaway? Why? You have everything in life." He asked in an angry tone.
"Everything in life? Tell me.. what do I have? What's the meaning behind that word 'everything' in your dictionary, Angelo?" I hissed as I crossed my arms in front of my chest looking at him ridiculously.
"Freedom? I don't have it! Money? I don't have it! Happiness? For fucking sure I don't have it! Love? That would only be a dream! You know that I have strict parents, they simply control everything that I do and what they want me to be in life. If that's what you mean by everything then yes.. I do have everything." I bursted angrily at him and he sighed.
"Runaway where?" He asked as he looked down to the ground for a second before he put his attention to me again.
"I don't want to tell you either. I have a place in mind and I want to start over. It won't be too late to start over at 28 right?" I asked him and put his hands into his pockets.
"How much do you need?"
"A lot. I want to work until it is enough for me to start a family."
"A family?"
"Yeah, I want to get married before 30 and have kids. I want a simple life with love and happiness since I never really get experience that before." Even though this is gambling to have Angelo back into my life but everywords that I said was true.
I did plan to runaway ever since this man suddenly disappeared after highschool.
"Tell me where and I can buy you a house and give you some money."
"You really want me to get lost huh?" I asked and he looked at me without answering the question.
"I'll take that as a yes but.. I don't like anything free especially when it's a big amount of money. Just let me work for you, you don't need to see me."
