Chapter 12

It was midnight at Damian's mansion when Amelia suddenly woke up, feeling hungry.

"Hmm," she moaned. She was immediately surrounded by darkness when she opened her eyes.

She slowly stood up and walked without seeing anything until her foot hit the feet of a chair. "Ouch!" She reflexively touches her foot and massaged it.

"That hurt," she said to herself. Amelia continued to walk forward until she felt the switch of the lights in her hands and clicked it.

Now that the lights are opened, she was able to see her room clearly. 'I was too distracted earlier but now that I see this room clearly, it's too big' she thought and looked around the palace style bedroom that the butler prepared for her.

Amelia hears her stomach rumbling once again so she quietly leaves her room. 'Where is the kitchen?' she asked in her mind while walking. She didn't consider calling the maids since they should be sleeping this late at night and she would just be a bother to them.

Amelia looks around and saw a room at the end of the hallway that was emitting light with the door slightly opened. She walks towards it and decided to peek inside.

Amelia saw Damian sitting in his study with documents in front of him. 'He's still awake at this hour?' she asked in her mind as she stares at him whose hair was a bit disheveled as he kept rubbing it and his white shirt unbuttoned enough to see the top of his chiseled chest.

Damian felt the strong gaze of Amelia so he looked up and saw her staring at him with her clear, untainted, sunset eyes. Just like the first time they met, her eyes made him felt something he didn't felt before. An unknown emotion that slowly eats him away.

"Amelia" he called to her.

Amelia jolted from surprise and slowly walks to him. "What's wrong? Do you need anything?" Damian asks in his usual tone as he stops writing and puts down the document he's holding.

"I don't know where the kitchen is," Amelia says with her eyes looking down at her fidgeting hands.

"Are you hungry?" Damian asks.

Amelia turned pink and nodded. Just as Damian stood up, Amelia's stomach rumbled loudly. Damian looks at her slightly surprised at the sound and chuckled which made Amelia's cheeks turn red from embarrassment.

"The baby is really hungry," Damian said to lighten Amelia up.

'Embarrassing!' Amelia shouted in her mind.

Damian went ahead and Amelia followed him from behind while looking around and trying to remember the way. After a few minutes, Damian suddenly stopped which made Amelia bump into his back. 'Why did he suddenly stop?' she thought while holding her forehead.

"This is the kitchen,"  Damian said as he turns around and looks at Amelia.

'The kitchen is big too' she thought and walks towards the fridge to check if there is something she could eat.

"What do you want to eat?" Damian asked.

Amelia opens the fridge and sees a bucket of strawberry ice cream. "Ice cream!" She shouted, forgetting about Damian because of excitement.

"Ice cream?" Damian said.

Amelia pulls the ice cream from the fridge and puts it down on the counter. As she opens it, her eyes twinkle from excitement when she saw the pink-colored ice cream.

'She looks so excited' Damian thought when he notices the glimmer in her eyes.

Amelia opens the cabinets and drawers, looking for the eating utensils. Damian realizes it and pulls a drawer. He took a bowl and a spoon and placed it on the counter. "Here," he said.

"Thank you," Amelia said and puts ice cream on the bowl.

Amelia immediately started eating the ice cream after putting it on the bowl. "Hmmm" Amelia had a happy expression on her face right after tasting the ice cream.

'I want fries' she thought without realizing she said it out loud.

Damian who had sharp ears heard her whisper. "You want fries?" He asks.

Amelia looks up and stared at him. "How did you know?" She said, surprised.

Damian chuckles at her question, "My dear, you just said it" he said while smiling, amused by her.

"I did?" Amelia asked and gasped when she realizes she said it out loud.

"Hahaha" this time Damian laughs with his eyes. It wasn't his usual chuckles, he was really laughing this time. Amelia stares at him, mesmerized. It was the first time she saw him laughing.

"I'll call the chef," Damian said as he picks up his phone. Amelia stops him by touching his hand. "No, wait!"

Damian looks at her. "What?"

"Don't call. It's already midnight, the chef is probably sleeping already. It'll be an inconvenience for him" Amelia says.

Damian puts his phone down. "Okay," he said.

Amelia continued eating the ice cream. 'I'll just bear with this. I really wanted fries though' she thought. Amelia's gloomy expression was noticed by Damian. He picked his phone and dialed someone.

"Yes?" The man on the other side asked. It was his secretary who had just woken up to answer the call from his boss.

"Have someone deliver fries and two burgers to my house" Damian said.

"What? Right now?"

"Now"

"But-" before his secretary could complain, Damian hung up. Amelia looks at him with a questioning gaze as if asking who he called.

"That was my secretary," he said.

"I told you no need to bother," Amelia said as she ate a spoonful of ice cream.

"I was feeling hungry too," Damian said as an excuse to make her feel less burdened.

"He must have been sleeping," Amelia says, feeling sorry for his secretary.

"It's ok. I pay him for these things so he can't complain" Damian said and pocketed his phone.

"Let's go to the study. Bring the ice cream. You can eat there when the delivery man arrives"

After 30 minutes, his secretary arrived, holding two paper bags while making his way to the study of his boss.

He knocks the door three times before opening it. "Sir, this is just too much don-" he suddenly stopped talking when he sees Amelia sitting on the couch.

"What are you doing here? I thought I said just have it delivered by someone right?" Damian asked with annoyance in his voice.

"Sir, there are no fast-food chains that are willing to deliver this late at night," the secretary said as he places the paper bags on the table in front of Amelia.

'This must be her' the secretary thought as he looks at Amelia searching for her fries.

Damian felt a slight annoyance when his secretary stares at Amelia. "What are you doing? You can go now" he said with irritation.

The secretary walks away, dejected because of Damian's cold attitude towards him. 'Why is he always so mean to me. I wanna resign' he thought.