STEEL CITY

Chapter 5

The next morning the media was in a frenzy, many top entertainment magazines and blogs had headlines along the lines of  "RISING ACTRESS OF STEEL CITY DAPHNE ROSS AND BILLIONAIRE QUINN CY RUMORED TO BE A RELATIONSHIP", "ARE THEY IN A RELATIONSHIP OR IS IT A ONE NIGHT STAND", featuring  pictures of Quinn carrying Daphne into his car, their accidental kiss and Quinn holding her closely.

 The two parties involved weren't aware that they were making headlines even on business channels.

 Daphne groaned as she woke up with a splitting headache, she searched for her phone on her bedside table but accidentally knocked down a lamp which shattered on the floor.

 She jerked at the loud crash and she shot out of her lying position staring at the broken lamp on the floor in confusion because she has a vase on her bedside table not a lamp. Then her eyes widened in realization as she recalled the events of last night, she jumped off the bed as she realized she was in an unfamiliar room.

 She sighed in relief as she recognized that this was a room in the Cy mansion, but was again startled as someone unexpectedly barged into the room, it was Mira and she had a huge smile on her face.

 "Good morning sister-in-law,"  she said with a huge grin on her face which made Daphne look at her in confusion.

 "What do you mean?" she asked.

 "After our last conversation, I was so sure you wouldn't give up on the donkey monkey Ethan but I'm so glad you came to your senses," Mira replied.

 "But girl how did you bag my brother, Mum is so excited that Quinn finally has a girlfriend and as a bonus it's my best friend. You're so lucky Ethan suggested keeping your relationship with him private because if not you would have had a cheating scandal. Now that I think of it he did it so when Imogen came out as his lover no one would question her and would think you were the villain trying to snatch your step-sister's man by going to all those business banquets with him. Those two really set you up Daph"

 "Either way, it worked in your favor, no one is going to accuse you of cheating except the Idiot himself, " Mira sneered

 "To think I went to banquets with him as a business partner, but that's by the way," Daphne said waving her hands animatedly.

 "I don't understand what you mean by saying I bagged your brother," Daphne said

 "Oh, you haven't seen the headlines, you and Quinn are trending," Mira said laughing showing Daphne an article on her phone.

 Daphne snatched the phone from Mira's hand and her eyes widened in shock. "No no no no no, this can't be happening," she whispered to herself.

 Mira noticing her disturbed expression asked, "What's wrong ?"

 "The news is fake Mira we met outside a bar and I was drunk and I lost my footing and fell on him. The kiss was also an accident and he only held me because he was protecting me from falling, I probably blacked out and he brought me here," she said almost crying.

 "Oh," Mira said in a slightly disappointed tone.

"Well it's not a big issue, if it gets out of hand my brother will handle it. Daphne if you're this worried because you think you've caused problems for my brother then don't be, he traveled to Walz Island this morning for some business by the time he comes back the news would have died down and the netizens will probably be talking about something new."

 "You should be worried about yourself right now, stay out of the media's eye for a while, and don't stay at your place either because Quinn's fan girls will probably find you. If you want you can stay here," Mira said with a hopeful smile but it soon fell at Daphne's response.

 "No, I'll have to go to the main house. Dad will be expecting me, he would have heard the news by now, but I will stay for breakfast, Anne makes the best pancakes," Daphne said smiling for the first time that morning.

 "I thought you'd have like a thousand messages from home, but your phone has been silent," Mira said.

 Daphne immediately looked around for her purse and saw it lying on the vanity, she searched for her phone and found it after some time. She tried turning it on but realized she had run out of battery.

 "Don't worry I'll get someone to charge it, just have your bath, I'll get some clothes ready for you and come down for breakfast," she said snatching the phone from Daphne and started walking towards the door but then suddenly stopped turning to her friend and said. "All this will pass and you're going to move on."

"If you decide to do it with Quinn I won't mind," she said winking while Daphne rolled her eyes . "But seriously though, you'll be alright," she added then walked out. Daphne immediately went into the bathroom and took a long hot bath, she felt so relaxed when she stepped back into the room. 

She saw a beautiful white dress already laid on the bed for her, she got dressed slowly as she dreaded facing her parents. She was having second thoughts on her decision to go to the main house but knew it was better to get it over with as soon as possible. 

As she made her way downstairs she felt a little nervous because she didn't know how to  face Mira's parents but luckily they weren't home. She had a harmonious breakfast with Mira and gobbled a stack of Anne's pancakes in record time, they were as delicious as she remembered.

 When she finally got  her phone she saw ten missed calls from her Dad, four from her stepmom, five from Imogen, and just two from Ethan, she sneered as she looked at his contacts saved on her phone with a heart emoji. She said her goodbyes to Mira and headed home in her car which was unsurprisingly parked outside.