Perfect disguise by Elizabeth A (best books to read for teens .txt) 📖

Dominic's POV.

"I'm a step higher than you in everything, brother." Liam said.

I exhaled deeply, trying to resist the urge of punching him. He has always been like this since we were young. He considered me as his rival who he has to compete with in everything. No matter how much I tried to understand him and endured his anger, I just couldn't understand why he hated me despite the fact that we were brothers. If I had known Diana's Ex was my brother I wouldn't have even agreed to this disguise of acting as her boyfriend. Liam usually accused me of snatching what belonged to him and to make it worse I was pretending to date one of his exes. 

Why didn't I think of the possibility of her Ex being my brother? Maybe it was because she never told me his full name.

I looked at Diana, trying to know if she realized that we were actually siblings. Her brows were narrowed and her eyes smoldered as she glared at Liam.

"Stop it Liam, I won't let you talk to him like that." She defended me. 

It wasn't like I couldn't defend myself, but I liked the fact that she did so. It made me feel like despite the disguise, she actually cared about me. 

Liam chuckled. "Really? So you can be so supportive of your boyfriend."

She took a deep breath. "We are here for a meeting, so let's leave the past behind us and carry on with this meeting." 

He shook his head and leaned closer to Diana. "You do this all the time. You want everybody to do things in your own way." He said icily.

I clenched my hands. I didn't like the way he spoke to her. I wanted to butt in, but she cut in. "Don't be ridiculous. I'm only trying to be professional."

He nodded and leaned on his chair. "Alright,"

They started discussing the deal of supplying textiles for the Modern Mode upcoming spring collection. Throughout their discussion, my mind was on a certain thought. 

This disguise was wrong and I needed to end it. I didn't know if Diana was still in love with Liam, but I could tell he still wanted her back. Despite his anger and icy words, it was obvious he came back to LA to make up with her and I was ruining his plan.

I finally took a bite of the mouth-watering steak, its pleasant juice filled up my taste buds and I gradually chewed it, almost lost in its savor.

"Dominic."

I opened my eyes and saw Diana looking at me. 

She smiled and pointed at my lips. "You have something on your lips."

I touched my lips, trying to find the spot. "Where?"

"Don't worry, let me help you."

Slowly, she raised her hands towards my lips. My eyes focused on it as it got closer to my lips until she gently touched the side of my lip and swiped it. Her hands felt soft against my lips and I couldn't understand why my heart was beating very fast like I was lost of breath.

Then, my eyes flickered toward Liam. He was clenching his fork and glaring at me. I blinked due to the effect of the new strange sensation the simple touch of her thumb was doing to me.

She brought her thumb toward her lips and licked the piece of diced pepper she had swiped from my lips.

 I adjusted on my seat and my eyes traveled to her lips as she licked her bottom lips.

She chuckled. "You eat like a baby." she said and continued eating her meal.

Was I drugged?

If I wasn't drugged, then why was the simple act of her licking her thumb so memorizing?

I gulped, shoving down my needs to look at her and continued eating. Well, I tried to eat, but Liam glaring at me made it difficult.

"If you two are really dating. Then, how do you meet?" Liam asked me skeptically.

"Huh?" 

I didn't expect him to ask me a question like that. I fidgeted with my fork and resisted the wants of biting my thumb as I tried to come up with a story.

I gulped. "Em… We are. I mean, we met at…" I glanced at Diana for help.

It was like she understood my glance because she placed her hands on mine and looked at Liam. "We met at a fundraising event in New York."

"Hmm. That's strange." He remarked.

Definitely, he knew Diana had lied. I don't go to fundraising events.

"Now, I'm curious. Which of the fund raising events?"

"Why are you asking?" She challenged him.

He shrugged. "I just want to know if I was there."

"You weren't there, so there is no need to know."

He looked at her for a long time and nodded.  He stood up and picked up his jacket from the chair. "I think I am done here, see you soon Diana." He said and left before she could reply to him.

After eating, we went to the car park. Diana was searching for her car keg in her bag and I was leaning on the car. 

"Why did you lie about my job?"

That question has been bothering me since she lied to Liam about my job. I don't understand why she lied about it, it wasn't like my job was bad or illegal.

She paused, the car keg already inserted into its knob. She furrowed her brow at me. "What?"

I sighed. "You told Liam I'm the CEO of Stevesoft. Why?"

Her tensed shoulder relaxed and she chuckled. "Oh, that's not important." She dismissed my question, snapped the keg and opened the door.

She looked at me, obliviously. "Come on. Let's go."

She disregarded my feelings and it wasn't meant to hurt me, but it did. Badly. I didn't want to feel like she actually considered me as an indigent compared to her wealth yet the thought kept bothering me. And I didn't know how to tell her about it.

I straightened up for the car and shook my head. "Don't worry, I will call a taxi."

"Why? Your car is still in my garage, don't you want to drive it home?" She sounded concerned, but I couldn't help feeling she didn't care about me.

"My roommate will come and take it tomorrow."

She looked confused and lost of words. I knew she wanted me to escort her to her mansion, after all I was only a means of getting back at her Ex, my brother.