Chapter 12: Dinner with Damien

'Have dinner with me tonight', Damien said, on day about two weeks after he got back from his trip. The trip he was vague about. Violet had been giving him one excuse after the other for about two weeks now, since he got back and had been asking her to have dinner with him but she was running out of excuses and she did not think that she wanted to refuse him any more. He had been so very considerate and good to her and she had started seeing a new side to him. The truth was that she no longer felt antagonistic towards him anymore. She had started liking him, and not just a little. She had missed him all the time he had been away. She felt pangs of jealousy thinking that height have gone on a vacation with some woman but since the feeling was new to her, she did not want to investigate the cause further. But if it a woman then she had no business going out on a date with him but she really wanted to spend some time with him. 'I am...' 'Please don't say no', he pleaded smiling, 'I mean i