Chapter 149 - Nash's Darling

On the other side. 

"Why are you here?" Valencia asked with apparent frustration. She slapped the magazine that she was reading on the table and asked the cocky and shameless man who was occupying the seat beside her. 

"I'm trying to read, Mia Cara," Nash replied with a cocky grin. It was not a big deal for him to know her schedule. When he got to know that she was hanging out in the library section of this cafe she was very fond of, he came without wasting any time to give company to his darling. 

[Mia Cara-- My darling/dear] 

Nope, he wasn't stalkerish at all. 

He didn't pay someone to find her schedule daily at all. 

"With the upside-down book?" Valencia raised her indifferent brow. 

Nash lightly hissed before rightly picking the book. "Can you stop being so unromantic, darling? I'm just trying to give you company. This love that I have for you is not letting me leave you alone even for a moment." 

"Good for you," Valencia said and turned her head to immerse herself in the magazine again. She was wearing glasses and looking all beautiful and sexy to the man sitting before her. 

Nash was holding his chin on his palm and staring at her with a fond smile on his face. His darling was just too beautiful and lovely. How he wished to hide her from the world! But his ruthless darling didn't even glance at him! 

"Val?" Nash said her name. 

"Val," he called out her name once again. 

"Val!" Even this time she didn't call her name. 

"Valencia?!"

"Exactly," Valencia said with a smile. "That's my name." 

"How can you be so ruthless to me, doc?" Nash asked her dramatically. 

"I'm not ruthless to anyone. I'm just trying to ignore you and trust me, you are making it so hard with your silly antics to not ignore you," Valencia replied, indifferently. 

"Then, I will keep doing this," Nash grinned. 

Valencia placed the magazine on the table and looked at him. "Can you stop doing that? It hurts me every time saying the exact same thing to you. Nash, I'm not looking for a man. Even if I am, he can't be you! I have a son and a teenage brother to look after. I can't afford another kid in life. You should understand that you still behave like a kid." 

"Valencia, you clearly like me. I can see in your eyes," Nash said. He was not being narcissist at all. He just knew that she liked him but for the aforementioned reasons, she was not vocal about it. "If you disliked me as much as you say and show, you wouldn't have come to save me from the police. You should have ignored me. I know you more than you think. You never jump into trouble unnecessarily. I can't understand why you are ignoring what we have !" 

Valencia pursed her lips, refrained from making any comment. He was true to some extent. 

Nash sighed out. "How about you let me pursue you? Thirty days! If I still can't convince you that I am serious about you...I won't cling to you. I will stop there. Okay?"

Valencia was about to say no but seeing him so stubborn. She said yeah in the end. 

Finally, she met him somewhere. Even if it was halfway. It was enough for him. 

"Ah, who do we have here?" An amused voice was heard. 

Valencia and Nash saw a very gorgeous woman coming their way. Her one hand was wrapped in a bandage. Behind her, another young woman was following her with a toddler in tow. 

"Eli?" Valencia's eyes twinkled seeing her dear friend after so long. "How are you? And how is your hand? Percy told me how you got injured." 

Ellison's lips wobbled as it seemed like she was about to cry. "How could I be? I can't pick my favourite baby in my arms. I can't cuddle with her. I can't even feed her. Tell me how I would be good?" 

Valencia stood up to caress her back. She knew that Ellison was literally a kid stuck in an adult body. It was impossible for her to sit still. "You need not to cry," She told Ellison who was bawling her eyes out. She was really a baby sometimes. Even more than Emy. "You have to take care of yourself. Only then, you can take care of Emy." Looking at Emy, she sighed, "I am wondering how she is behaving today." Seeing Ellison glaring at her, she immediately corrected," I'm not saying Emy is not a good kid. But she always clings to you. It looked like she knew that she shouldn't cling to you now." 

Ellison agreed. "You are right. Ever since I got injured, Emy has stopped being fussy. She didn't cry for me to feed her. She and her nanny sleep together. These days...it's as if my little Emy is taking care of me. My daughter doesn't listen to me although she loves me a lot. However, she is more attached to my soon to be ex-husband." 

She didn't add the part that she had a suspicion that the man who dropped Emy and her nanny home that day had a hand in this whole fiasco. She had too many things to clear with Persephone. But unluckily, she was not here to answer all her questions. And that's why she came to Valencia to ask for Percy's number. 

"Soon to be ex-husband? Is it a new word?" Nash chuckled. He had been listening to these two mamas chatting without a care in the world. 

"And this is?" Ellison raised her brow at him. 

Before Valencia could say anything, Nash put forward his hand and said, "This beautiful lady's potential boyfriend." 

Valencia's jaw dropped hearing his reply. 

"Really?" Ellison asked him with an enthusiastic smile. "It seems we can be friends. I'm Ellison Salvatore." 

She was about to shake her uninjured hand but as her hand could touch his, Ace ( her bodyguard) shook his hand for her. 

Ellison threw glares at him but he kept looking at him with an icy expression. His usual reply, "I'm sorry, Mrs Salvatore but boss won't be happy."

"Screw you and your boss!" Ellison harrumphed. 

"Mama!" Emu wailed, sensing her mama cursing her dada again. "Dawda no bad!"

"Here comes Daddy's girl," Ellison snorted. "Baby Emy, have you ever taken your mommy's side? Look at your beautiful mommy, she didn't need that man back." 

"Ace?" Valencia murmured. 

"Yes, Ma'am?" Ace answered politely. 

"You have it bad buddy," Valencia sighed. 

Ace just nodded at her. Only he knew how bad both the boss and lady boss were. If not for the angel Emy to keep him sane, he would have left this job a long time ago. 

"Your friend is a lost case," Nash muttered and earned a punch in his stomach."Easy doc, I didn't know you were protective of her." 

"I'm very protective and possessive of my people," Valencia told him. 

"Me too, doc. Me too," Nash whispered, meeting her forehead with his. "Can I take you out for dinner? Please." 

A smile bloomed on his gorgeous face when she nodded. 

"Ah, I'm the happiest man in the world."