Love or hate?( A difficult choice)

Chapter 17

Recap

Ava and Demona Darmen's sister bond and go for a shopping trip. Ava finds out a lot about Darmen. Then Ava and Darmen had a date planned by darmen's sister. Here they talk and Ava is adamant on getting answers but Darmen's mysterious response leads her to confusion. She wants something from him but before she can ask him he tells her about his trip to Chicago. She gets mad that he is leaving her but when she finds out Darmen is ready to take her with him, she is excited but scared. We see Darmen get jealous easily of Thomas, but he is too arrogant to accept it.

Present
Ava's PoV

We reach the airport and go straight to board the private jet owned by Darmen, why am I not surprised the prince has his own flying jet. The interiors were very elegant with seats and led screen in front. There was a bar at the back on the left side of the jet and a door just adjacent to the bar that led to a private room with a king sized bed and a bathroom. We took our seats in the front and the pilot came up to us, " good evening your highness, Madame ".

Darmen looked up at him and nodded, I rolled my eyes at his rudeness and politely replied with a good evening captain. He smiled at me informing us that we are ready to take off. He left us alone with a"have a nice flight".

I put my seat belt with shaky hands. I was very nervous it was the first time I am travelling on a plane. The jet started to move and I looked out of the window my hands gripping the arm rests tightly. As the plane started moving faster I squeezed my eyes shut. "Oh god, oh god please let me be alright". I kept saying in my head. Suddenly I felt a hand holding my fisted ones on the arm rest. "Ava" I heard a soft but strong voice. I opened my eyes and looked up at him and saw him directly looking at me. "Are you scared of flying"? He asked.

I gulped audibly and nodded my head. H cupped my cheek with his other hand keeping my face tilted towards him and kept staring into my eyes. "It's Ok Ava, it's alright nothing going to happen to you." He softly said. I could not move my gaze from his strong stare . this was the first time I noticed small brown freckles surrounding the gold in his eyes it was mesmerizing. We stayed like that for I don't know how long before he let me go. When I looked back in front we were already in the air flying smoothly towards our destination. "It's not so scary now". I heard him mutter. I looked at him once but then turned towards the window to see the clouds outside. I was so lost in his eyes that I forgot my fears. He actually comforted me for the fist time. I kept thinking his eyes held something I can't understand was it worry, career .....

I was brought out of my thoughts when a hostess came and asked if I would like to drink something, I simply asked for a coffee and sat quietly staring at the screen before me which was showing some kind of advertisement on it. Darmen had his laptop open and was typing furiously on it. This is boring I thought after sitting like that for almost an hour.

I took the belt off and got up from my seat, that was when Darmen looked up from his laptop for the first time. He raised an eyebrow at me asking where am I going. I just nodded my head towards the room where the bathroom was. He moved a bit letting me pass but went right back to his work. I rolled my eyes at his behaviour and made my way towards the room. I used the bathroom and then decided to lay myself in the bed for sometime.

When I woke up I realised I had a blanket around me, maybe one of the hostess's put it on me after I fell asleep. I yawned and went to get up when I heard his voice "we still have an hour before we reach go back to sleep I will wake you up when we arrive". I looked around to see Darmen sitting on the couch on the right with his laptop still open on his lap. "How long have I been sleeping".

He looked at his watch before replying "3 hours". That long "have you been working the whole time".he nodded.

"Why don't you take some rest, come sleep for an hour or so". He looked at me like I said something awful.